iminds' course: wi-fi throughput

Introduction to iminds testbeds

iMinds online course: Wi-Fi throughput 21 January 2016

dr. Daan PareitiMinds / Ghent University, Belgium

FORGEFORGE = Forging Online Education through FIRE

Course contextA 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

2-minute: fits good into ebook, acceptible attention span

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Course contextDifferent teaching settings

lab session style with parallel setups

ad-hoc based remote learning

Context & overview

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SIFSDIFS

dataACKwaiting time

otherstationsreceiversender

data

DIFS

contention

Show wlan course site

http://forge.test.iminds.be/wlan

Demo the course,Show iPadShow learning locker6

Deployment of the iMinds course

Experiment on wilab for actual wireless nodes + web interface also as an experiment on other facility to make it all dynamic7

Course implementation blocks

http://forge.test.iminds.be/wlan

nr.FORGE Project FP7-ICT-610889




Web first approach allows publishing to virtually any platformModern web browserFORGEBox.euAny LMS supporting iframesApple iBookEPUB3

Cross platform

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/forging-online-education-through/id1062612920



Reservation web interface (student)

Reservation web interface (teacher)

Learning Analytics

The exercise(s) helped me understand the subject of this course.

The exercise(s) helped me self-assess my progress during this course.

Open positive feedbackNot 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.

Deployed anytime ; taught anywhere21

AudienceStudents in Bachelor/Master in Computer Science Engineering

within the course Mobile & Broadband Access Networks Ghent University, Belgium 90 students

within the course Wireless Networks & Communication SystemsTrinity College, Ireland25 students

within the course Local Area NetworksUniversidade de Brasil, Brazil20 students

within the course Networks & SecurityUniversitat Politcnica de Valncia, Spain6 students

Similar course: LTE course

http://forge.test.iminds.be/lte

Hands-onhttp://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