CRCD: The Ad Hoc Classroom: Integrating Emerging Wireless Communications and Networking Technologies into Mainstream Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Curricula

该项目将最近在特设netorks搜索的发展纳入主流计算机科学和电气工程课程。 它探讨了学生对这一新兴的系统类所带来的挑战，通过开发真实的世界特设网络测试床和部署平台，提高学生对未来基础设施的接触，并允许美国其他机构的教育工作者通过共享为该项目开发的系统基础设施和教育材料来做同样的事情。 具体而言，该项目将几个本科生和研究生水平的课程，计算机系统，以解决所带来的挑战，由无障碍，移动的和嵌入式网络的计算机，形成临时联盟在特设网络。 该项目将网络、数据库、操作系统、自适应系统中的类转换为普适、普适、自组织网络和传感器网络。 一个三层的方法既有利于当前的课堂教学，以及正在进行的研究ad hoc网络，并涉及：1）必要的软件和课件基础设施的开发，建立，使用和评估系统服务ad hoc networkss在教室设置。2)部署临界质量的设备，以现场大型物理试验台。 这个网络由移动的计算机组成，从传感器到袖珍信息设备，从手持设备到笔记本电脑。 这些机器配备了无线网卡和多功能传感器（如摄像头），提供了一个真实的物理测试平台，可在此平台上对ad hoc网络的系统服务进行评估。3)从已部署的测试平台收集有关应用程序通信模式、移动模型和观察到的链路特征的信息。 这些信息可以用来进行更好地了解ad hoc网络的模拟。 这项赠款影响了国家面临的计算机挑战，它导致了对操作系统、数据库和电信的创新研究，它产生了课程材料，并确定了基础设施，使该项目能够在该国其他地方重复。

This project integrates recent search developments in ad hoc netorks into mainstream computer science and electrical engineering curricula. It explores students to challenges posed by this emerging class of systems, improving studets' exposure to future infrastructures by developming real world ad hoc networking test-beds and deployment platforms, and permits educators at other U.S. institutions to do the same by sharing the system infrastructure and educational materils developed for this project. Specifically, the project transforms several undergraduate and graduate level courses in computer systems to address the challenges posed by wirless, mobile and embedded networks of computers that form transient alliances in ad hoc networks. This project transforms classes in networking, databases, operations systems, adaptive systems to integrate pervaive, ubiquitous, ad hoc networking and sensor networks. A three-tiered approach benefits both current classsroom instructions as well as ongoing research on ad hoc network, and involves: 1) The development of software and courseware infrastructure necessary to build, use and evaluate system services for ad hoc networkss in a classroom setting. 2) Deployment of the critical mass of equipment to field a large, physical test-bed. This network consists of mobile computers, ranging form sensors and pocket-sized information appliance through hand-helds to laptops. Equipped with a wireless networking card, and multi-purpose sensors such as camera, these machine provide a real physical test-bed on which system services are evaluated for ad hoc networks. 3) Collection of information from the deployed test-bed on application communication pattersn, mobility models, and observed link characteristics. This information can be used to carry out better-informed simulations of ad hoc networks. This grant impacts computer challenges the nation is facing, it results in innovative research on operating systems, database and telecommunications, and it generates course materials and define infrastructure that will allow the project to be repeated elsewhere in the country