• DocumentCode
    3435501
  • Title

    Bulid a laboratory cloud for computer network education

  • Author

    Chenyang Yan

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Comput. Sci., Ningbo City Coll. of Vocational Technol., Ningbo, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    3-5 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1013
  • Lastpage
    1018
  • Abstract
    Hands-on practical experience through lab work has long been recognized as an important part of the computer network education. Successful computer network hands-on activities require a full range of related devices with actively maintaining. This paper presents prototype architecture of a Xen-based Networks Laboratory Service Cloud (NLS-Cloud, original CLESP) that can provide an entire computer networks hands-on practical environment with uniformed deployment and management as an online service to learners and instructors. The prototype NLS-Cloud has been investigated by introducing a series of surveys. The instructor survey results showed that the prototype NLS-Cloud exerted a certain positive effect on the hands-on pedagogical activities while the learner survey results indicated that students had a favorable view of the NLS-Cloud and regarded it as a useful learning tool.
  • Keywords
    cloud computing; computer aided instruction; computer networks; computer science education; CLESP; NLS-Cloud; Xen-based networks laboratory service cloud; computer network education; computer network hands-on activities; hands-on pedagogical activity; laboratory cloud; learning tool; online service; prototype architecture; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Education; Hardware; Laboratories; Prototypes; Servers; Xen Cloud Platform; computer network education; hands-on practices; laboratory cloud;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), 2011 6th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Singapore
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-9717-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCSE.2011.6028808
  • Filename
    6028808