Architecture for remote laboratories based on REST web services

Author

Ngolo, M. ; Palma, L. Brito ; Coito, F. ; Gomes, L. ; Costa, A.

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

35

Abstract

In this paper, a new architecture for remote laboratories based on REST (Representational State Transfer) web services is proposed. The proposed platform use languages such as HTML, AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML) and Labview. A web browser is the client interface and on the server side runs an application based on Labview 8.6 with REST web resources. The main contributions are: (a) the proposed architecture; (b) a "thin client" based on a browser requiring a low bandwidth. Experimental tests, using an analog process simulator, were done and the obtained results show a good performance.

Keywords

Java; Web services; XML; computer aided instruction; hypermedia markup languages; laboratories; virtual instrumentation; AJAX language; HTML language; LabVIEW language; REST Web services; XML; asynchronous Javascript; remote laboratories; representational state transfer; Application software; Electronic learning; HTML; Internet; Java; Open source software; Remote laboratories; Service oriented architecture; Web server; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

E-Learning in Industrial Electronics, 2009. ICELIE '09. 3rd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Porto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4653-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4655-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICELIE.2009.5413216

Filename

5413216