Virtualizing testbed resources to enable remote experimentation in online telecommunications education

In this paper we present an approach towards empowering online telecommunications engineering education by enabling hands-on remote experimentation over Trinity College Dublin´s wireless testbed. Moreover, in order to offer a flexible testbed, capable of fulfilling the different and particular requirements of experimenters, we have created a framework that allows the virtualization of our testbed resources to create experimentation units to be used by remote experimenters/learners. Furthermore, we present the FORGEBox framework that offers an environment and resources to create online material capable to access the virtualized and physical testbed resources for incorporating experimentation into HTML-based online educational material.