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

该项目将特别网络领域的最新研究进展纳入主流计算机科学和电气工程课程。它向学生介绍这类新兴系统带来的挑战，通过开发真实世界的特别网络试验台和部署平台，改善学生对未来基础设施的暴露，并允许其他美国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。具体地说，该项目改变了几门本科和研究生水平的计算机系统课程，以应对无线、移动和嵌入式计算机网络带来的挑战，这些网络在特别网络中形成了暂时的联盟。该项目对网络、数据库、操作系统、自适应系统中的类进行转换，以集成无处不在、无处不在、自组织网络和传感器网络。三层方法既有利于当前的课堂教学，也有利于正在进行的自组织网络研究，涉及：1)开发必要的软件和课件基础设施，以在课堂环境中构建、使用和评估自组织网络的系统服务。2)部署临界质量的设备以部署大型物理试验台。这个网络由移动计算机组成，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用途传感器(如摄像头)，提供了一个真正的物理测试平台，在此平台上评估自组织网络的系统服务。3)从部署的试验台收集关于应用通信模式、移动性模型和观察到的链路特征的信息。该信息可用于执行更好地了解自组织网络的模拟。这笔拨款影响了美国面临的计算机挑战，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，并定义了基础设施，使该项目能够在该国其他地方重复实施

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