COIT 20246 Assignment Submission

COIT 20246 ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION
Due date: Thursday Week 11 (2PM AEST)
Part: Written Assessment
Weighting: 30% of total assessment.
Submission: Electronic (see unit website for details)
Instructions
It will be necessary to use literature/online resources to complete this
assignment, please ensure you cite and reference any such materials using
the Harvard format.
DO NOT copy content directly from either the text or Internet resources: this
assignment is to be in your own words. You will lose marks if you do not
use your own words!
Please complete your assignment using this submission template file,
inserting your responses where indicated.
DO NOT delete the marking criteria page – changes are permitted to the
formatting of other pages including the headers and footers.
Please fill in the following details:
Student Name
Student Number

Tasks
There are ten (10) tasks, one for each week: the tasks are detailed below. There
is a table to complete for each task. Please fill in the information required. An
example of a completed task is below. Note the first response is good – so aim
for something like this. The second response is not acceptable, so if you submit
anything like it, you won’t pass the assignment! The reasons? Poor resource
selection (Wikipedia), no Harvard reference and a block cut and paste from the
site (no citation, no original content).
Example
Task Find two resources that explain aspects of IT Service
Management.
(Good
Respons
e)
Title and Reference:
COBIT versus ITIL
Ibaraki, S 2014, online, COBIT versus ITIL, viewed 29/01/2015,
<http://blogs.technet.com/b/cdnitmanagers/archive/2014/04/06/cobit-
versus-itil.aspx>.
Summary:
This resource is a blog entry discussing the differences between
CoBIT and ITIL. I chose this resource as there is a lot of confusion
about the way in which ITSM is applied and the distinction between
the CoBIT and ITIL implementations is frequently unclear. Ibaraki
explains that CoBIT provides the governance and metric structures
while ITIL delivers on the actual mechanics and “how-to” processes.
The author makes an interesting observation that it is wrong to
simplify COBIT as providing the ‘why’ and ITIL providing the ‘how’
because both ITSM mechanisms have considerable overlap and
both need to be used at the same time. I found this article very
useful in explaining the differences and similarities between these
two aspects of ITSM.
(Bad
Respons
e)
Title and Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT_service_management
Summary:
This pages talks about ITSM. It says that IT service
management (ITSM) refers to the entirety of activities – directed
by policies, organized and structured in processes and
supporting procedures – that are performed by an organization or
part of an organization to plan, deliver, operate and control IT
services offered to customers. It is thus concerned with the
implementation of quality IT services that meet the needs of
customers, and is performed by the IT service provider through an
appropriate mix of people, process and information technology.

Note: Each resource summary should be around 200-300 words.
Week 1
Task The past decade has witnessed tremendous advances in
Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) design and
technology. Find and summarise ONE resource that
describes about the use of VLSI technology and its future.
Summary Title and Reference:
Boddupalli, A., 2017. Application of VLSI Technology in
Wireless Mobile Communications. International Journal for
Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology,
[online] 5(VIII). Available at:
https://www.ijraset.com/fileserve.php?FID=9684
Summary:
The selected resource is a journal which discusses about
the wireless mobile communication using the VLSI
technology. As per the author communication is one of the
most important phenomenon. Its technique and
applications has been proliferating from the early stages of
its development. In the context of the communications the
wireless mobile communication is one of the most
important concern as it provides the opportunity to the
users to travel freely within the range of the wireless
communication network. As the wireless communication is
one of the most important aspect of the modern
communication the author has integrated the VLSI
architecture for the development of the wireless mobile
communication and the signal processing algorithm for
improvement in the wireless communication. According to
the author as the architecture of the VLSI can improve the
overall performance of the wireless communications there
is an increased demand for the designs and
implementation methods of the VLSI designs for new
design methods, architecture and algorithms in the sector
of the wireless mobile communication. By implementing
some advanced VLSI designs the wireless communication
sector is looking for low power and high performance
communication systems. From this journal historical growth
of the integrated circuit computing has been assessed and
in this technology the VLSI technology has helped a lot.
From the historical trends there are various of
improvements in the in the integrated circuit for computing
which can be implemented by the VLSI technologies.
Though various of improvements can be done in the IC
computing it has been seen that the started to slowing
down. The main reason behind the slowing down of this

industry is the physical limitation of the silicon industry. Still
there will be improvements in the VLSI technology but the
process of the improvement will be very much slow.
Week 2
Task There has been much discussion on blockchain
technology. Find and summarise ONE resource that
describes about the future use of blockchain operating
systems.
Summary Title and Reference:
Androulaki, E., Barger, A., Bortnikov, V., Cachin, C.,
Christidis, K., De Caro, A., Enyeart, D., Ferris, C.,
Laventman, G., Manevich, Y. and Muralidharan, S., 2018,
April. Hyperledger fabric: a distributed operating system for
permissioned blockchains. In Proceedings of the
Thirteenth EuroSys Conference (p. 30). ACM.
Summary:
The selected resource on the Blockchain Operating
System is an article which mainly discusses about the
hyperledger fabric. This article has been chosen in this
case because this article extensively discusses about the
concept of the distributed operating system which includes
the blockchain operating system. As per the authors, the
fabric is the extensible open source system which is used
for operating and deploying the permissioned blockchain
and one of the project of Hyperledger that is hosted by the
Linux Foundation. The fabric is considered the first truly
extensible blockchain system which is capable of running
the distribute applications. The distributed operating
system which includes the blockchain operating system
faces various types of challenges such as flexibility and
security related issues. Flexibility is needed in such type of
distributed operating system and for that the fabric has
introduced an unique design of the blockchain and
revamped the way blockchain cope up with the resource
exhaustion, performance attacks and non-determinism. In
the discussion of the future use of the blockchain operating
system it has been assessed that it can help to greater
access to the transaction and new content for the users,
transaction security will be improved and will improve
cooperation and transparency between business,
governments and citizens. It has been also determined that
currently the blockchain operating system is facing various
of challenges and to mitigate the challenges future
improvements is needed in the fabric. The future
improvements in the fabric can mitigate those the
challenges regarding the blockchain operating system by