iMinds' course: Wi-Fi throughput
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This document describes an online course on Wi-Fi throughput developed using the FORGE platform. The course consists of interactive exercises that take 2 minutes or less to complete, allowing students to understand real-world Wi-Fi network performance. Exercises are deployed across wireless nodes and controlled by a single machine. The course is implemented as a web application for cross-platform access and uses learning analytics to collect student feedback. It has been used by over 135 students across several university computer science courses.
iMinds' course: Wi-Fi throughput
- 1. IMINDS ONLINE COURSE: WI-FI THROUGHPUT 21 January 2016 dr. Daan Pareit iMinds / Ghent University, Belgium
- 2. FORGE • FORGE = Forging Online Education through FIRE
- 3. Course context • A series of interactive exercises to obtain an understanding in the real-life performance of Wi-Fi networks • Bite-sized exercises of max 2 minutes per execution
- 4. Course context • Different teaching settings lab session style with parallel setups ad-hoc based remote learning
- 5. Context & overview t SIFS DIFS data ACK waiting time other stations receiver sender data DIFS contention
- 6. • Show wlan course site http://forge.test.iminds.be/wlan
- 7. Deployment of the iMinds course One machine controlling the experiments Three wireless nodes performing the experiments http://forge.test.iminds.be/wlan/ e-Learning: an interactive Wi-Fi course Automatic provisioning Graceful degradation IPv4 to IPv6 gateway
- 13. • Web first approach allows publishing to virtually any platform • Modern web browser • FORGEBox.eu • Any LMS supporting iframes • Apple iBook • EPUB3 Cross platform
- 16. Reservation web interface (student)
- 17. Reservation web interface (teacher)
- 19. “The exercise(s) helped me understand the subject of this course.”
- 20. “The exercise(s) helped me self-assess my progress during this course.”
- 21. Open positive feedback • “Not overly focussed on knowledge by heart, more on the understanding and practical use of theory” • “Everything was easy to execute, it was all about understanding” • “No configuration hassle, nice and easy graphs” • “No struggling with configuring systems. Because of this, the assistants had more time to extensively answer the questions that we had.”
- 22. Audience Students in Bachelor/Master in Computer Science Engineering a. within the course “Mobile & Broadband Access Networks” Ghent University, Belgium • 90 students b. within the course “Wireless Networks & Communication Systems” Trinity College, Ireland • 25 students c. within the course “Local Area Networks” Universidade de Brasil, Brazil • 20 students d. within the course “Networks & Security” Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain • 6 students
- 23. Similar course: LTE course http://forge.test.iminds.be/lte
- 24. Hands-on • http://forge.test.iminds.be/wlan • https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/forging-online-education- through/id1062612920 • http://forge.test.iminds.be/lte • http://ict-forge.eu • http://ict-fire.eu
Editor's Notes
- #4: 2-minute: fits good into ebook, acceptible attention span http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/wireless-network-1a.jpg http://simpleicon.com/wp-content/uploads/stopwatch-2.png
- #7: Demo the course, Show iPad Show learning locker
- #8: Experiment on wilab for actual wireless nodes + web interface also as an experiment on other facility to make it all dynamic
- #22: Deployed anytime ; taught anywhere