ITR: On a Virtual Laboratory for Network Engineering Educational Programs

ITR：网络工程教育项目虚拟实验室

• 批准号: 0081761
• 负责人: Jyh-Charn Liu
• 金额: $ 34.38万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-01 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0081761&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; Virtual; Laboratory; Network; Engineering

EIA-0081761Zhao, WeiTexas Engineering Experiment StationITR: On a Virtual Laboratory for Network Engineering Educational ProgramsThe primary objective of this proposed research is to investigate issuesinvolved in building a virtual laboratory for network engineeringeducational programs. Different from a conventional teaching laboratory,the proposed virtual laboratory will not require students to physicallypresent in the laboratory rooms, rather they conduct their experiments viaremote network connections, such as the World Wide Web. The intent is todemonstrate that this kind of virtual laboratory facilitates the trainingof IT workers in a significant way: it will reduce the cost, increase thefacility utilization, and improve the quality of IT courses that areexperiment-oriented. This project will focus on addressing technicalchallenges that are critical for successful implementation and operation ofsuch a virtual laboratory. Configuration and scheduling techniques will bestudied that provide students with remote but real time access to theequipment during their experiments. These kinds of configurations must becarried out in an efficient and flexible manner so that a large number ofstudents can do their experiments simultaneously. Access control methodswill also be investigated that deal with the degree of control over networkcomponents given to the user. The efficacy of diverse access controlmethods will be examined over a range of implemented exercises. The aim isto build a virtual laboratory that allows an instructor to choose theinterplay of operating system support, experiment semantics, and networksupport to best suit the learning environment.

本研究的主要目的是探讨网络工程教育项目虚拟实验室的建设问题。 与传统的教学实验室不同，虚拟实验室将不要求学生亲自到实验室，而是通过远程网络连接（如万维网）进行实验。 其目的是证明这种虚拟实验室有利于培训的IT工人在一个显着的方式：它将降低成本，提高设备利用率，并提高IT课程的质量，是实验为导向。 该项目将侧重于解决对成功实施和运行这样一个虚拟实验室至关重要的技术挑战。 配置和调度技术将被研究，为学生提供远程，但真实的时间访问theequipment在他们的实验。 这种配置必须以一种有效和灵活的方式进行，以便大量的学生可以同时做他们的实验。 访问控制方法也将被调查，处理的程度控制网络组件给用户。 将在一系列实施的演习中检查各种访问控制方法的有效性。 其目的是建立一个虚拟实验室，允许教师选择操作系统支持，实验语义和网络支持的相互作用，以最适合的学习环境。