Undergraduate Telecommunication Network Laboratory

本项目将整合本科电话、数据、光通信教学。图形面向对象软件CANeT将用于促进对困难的网络概念和分析的直观和实验性理解。实验将在由SUN SPARC II GX工作站提供服务的9个SUN IPX工作站上进行。工作站将通过以太网网络和光纤FDDI网络联网。以太网网络将在工作站之间提供基本的低速通信，而FDDI网络将用于演示流量测量和用于传输图形、数据和视频的高速网络。网络既是实验的工具，也是实验的对象。通过使用UNIX套接字实现和测试基本网络协议，学生将获得在真实网络中的实践经验。课程后的特别项目将训练学生处理实际的网络问题。本课程强调将复杂系统分析成其组成部分，解决组成部分的问题，然后综合组成部分的解决方案以满足系统目标的技能。工程迭代是CANeT工具满足系统目标的一个关键特性。系统建模也被强调，而复杂的数学分析是由CANeT促进。编程练习允许学生通过实验来学习通信协议，而不是通过破译标准的缩写。本项目将建立一个现代化的网络实验室，有大量的练习和项目，并纳入了实验室软件的推广计划。将完成基于新框架而不是通常的OSI 7层框架的本科教科书。

This project will integrate the teaching of telephony, data, and optical communication for undergraduates. The graphical object-oriented software CANeT will be used to facilitate an intuitive and experimental understanding of difficult networking concepts and analysis. The experiments will be performed on nine SUN IPX workstations served by a SUN SPARC II GX workstation. The workstations will be networked by an ethernet network and an optical FDDI network. The ethernet network will provide basic low-speed communication among the workstations, while the FDDI network will serve to demonstrate traffic measurements and high-speed networks for transporting graphics, data, and video. The network, besides being the Tool for experimentation, also is the Object of experimentation. Students will acquire hands-on experience on a real network by implementing and testing elementary network protocols using UNIX sockets. Special projects following the course will train students to handle real network problems.The course emphasizes the skill of analyzing a complex system into its components, solving the component problems, and then synthesizing the component solutions to meet system objectives. Engineering iterates is a key feature of the CANeT tool for meeting system objectives. System modeling is also emphasized, whereas sophisticated mathematical analysis is facilitated by CANeT. Programming exercises allow students to learn communication protocol by experimentation, rather than by deciphering acronyms of standards.This project will establish a modern network laboratory, with numerous exercises and projects, and plans for disseminating the laboratory software are incorporated. An undergraduate textbook based on a new framework rather than the usual OSI 7 layer framework will be completed.