How can Apache help to teach and learn automatic control?

Author

Alvarez, Teresa ; Herrero, David ; Francisco, Jesús ; Madrigal, David

Author_Institution

Dept. Autom. Control, Univ. of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

14-16 April 2010

Firstpage

1539

Lastpage

1546

Abstract

Searching for examples to encourage and motivate students in a subject is not a trivial task. Future Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineers tend to look at Automatic Control reluctantly. They do not relate their working life to it. But, if we blend examples from two areas: telecommunications and control, maybe we can change their minds. These engineers work with web servers: systems that deal with a lot of requests and must give fast and reliable service to users. CPU and memory usage could improve their performance if automatic control techniques are applied. Apache is one of the most well known web servers and it is at this point where Apache can help us.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; computer science education; control engineering computing; control engineering education; file servers; telecommunication computing; telecommunication engineering education; Apache; automatic control techniques; computer science; memory usage; telecommunications engineers; web servers; Automatic control; Bandwidth; Electronic mail; Frequency conversion; Interference; Large-scale systems; Long Term Evolution; Radio propagation; Radio spectrum management; Throughput; Apache; Automatic Control; Internet server; PID; Web server; predictive control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Education Engineering (EDUCON), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6568-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6570-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492345

Filename

5492345