A laboratory for teaching computer networks

Dewar, William J.; Sethi, SS

doi:10.1109/13.387216

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“…While students learn various concepts in networking courses, they do not have enough hands-on experience with real networks or in-depth understanding of how things work in practice [1]. Realizing such shortcoming, many universities have developed complementary lab-based networking courses [1]- [3]; while some other labs are built with vendor specific devices [15].Although physical lab courses are very useful in such perspective, they cannot cover as much material as in traditional courses due to time limitation, continual consumption of the resources, and high running cost.…”

Section: A Teaching Computer Networking Using Physical Labsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Designing an Innovative Computer Networking Course Using Junosphere

Salama

Shaikh

2014

2014 UKSim-AMSS 16th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation

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Designing a professional Computer Networking course aligned with the up-to-date intended learning outcomes is one of the most important goals for educational institutes working in this field. The particular nature of knowledge, intellectual and professional skills of this dynamic course impose a group of challenges and sophisticated settlement requirements that should be met. The current teaching methodologies depend on advanced, well-equipped physical labs that may be only affordable for few institutes. Even though, those labs are not yet able to cover all the required skills as it should be. The theoretical-based approaches based on simulators, on the other hand, suffer from the lack of huge necessary practical skills and experience. This paper addresses all of such challenges and promises to deliver a professional networking course using the Junosphere solution, developed by Juniper Networks. The paper discusses the tool and goes through its features, purposes, and functionalities; as well as showing how network planning, modeling, designing, testing could be conducted in a risk free environment. It also presents a case study from the Queen Mary University of London in addition to a comprehensive comparison between the current approaches and the Junosphere to show how the former one is providing a cost-efficient, scalable and flexible educational solution.

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Section: A Teaching Computer Networking Using Physical Labsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Realizing such shortcomings of traditional networking courses, many universities are currently employing classical physical networking labs [1]- [3]. Although such labs look very useful in teaching various networking concepts, they are bundled with a group of burdens.…”

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confidence: 99%