An educational tool for wireless sensor networks

Nowadays, there has been a real change in the traditional (Mexican) methodology for learning and teaching; the teaching of electronic sciences needs to identify the real necessities of students to avoid deficiencies in static classrooms. The benefits of the constructionist theory as a learning paradigm are widely recognized, because they support significant learning environments where students are actively related in implementing their own public artifacts; passing through passive to active learning states. Thus, the constructionist theory stresses the need to understand the student's thinking and to encourage them to reflect on their models as a means to improve them. This article aims to show the results derived from developing a constructionist platform for embedded systems and wireless communications education, using a dedicated methodology based on the constructionist theory. ß

Section: Learning Through the Action: A Brief Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing and implementing a constructionist approach for improving the teaching–learning process in the embedded systems and wireless communications areas

García

Cano

2011

“…They improve the theoretical knowledge, hand skills, and problem‐solving skills in real time Wi‐Fi systems. There are many proposed educational tools for digital and wireless communication topics using different techniques and platforms such as a Web‐based, LabVIEW, MATLAB, universal software radio peripheral (USRP), and field programmable gate array (FPGA) in the literature . Bayilmis designed and implemented a web‐based educational tool based on MATLAB for engineering students in remote laboratories .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

RTWiFi‐Lab: A real‐time Wi‐Fi laboratory platform on USRP and LabVIEW for wireless communications education and research

Küçük

2017

The paper presents the real-time education and research platform as an effective means for describing wireless and digital communications courses with Wi-Fi standards. To this end, a Real-Time Wi-Fi Laboratory platform, called RTWiFi-Lab is designed and implemented as part of these courses using NI USRP 2921 and LabVIEW. Laboratory experiments of these courses give benefits for utilizing a hardware platform since these experiments greatly facilitate the understanding of significant effects introduced by real-time receivers. Hence, this platform is presented with seven experiments that provide the various concepts of these courses for different state-of-the-art wireless and digital communications techniques such as signal detection, data modulation, frequency, phase offset estimation, etc. The RTWiFi-Lab has been considered to provide computer engineering undergraduate students and qualified graduate students with the basic introduction to wireless and digital communications concepts in a short time at

“…The most relevant Universities in different countries have included, in their engineering studies, this kind of subjects . Most of these courses are oriented to provide the student with technical knowledge about the radio access networks, from a theoretical point of view, with theoretical lectures, and some of them with a practical work, by means of systems simulations for a specific and close environment . However, very few of them try to provide a global view of the mobile network, showing the student the economical implications of the technological decisions, but the impact of economic issues is achieving a growing relevance and deserves to be considered .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

2G/3G connect: An educational software for teaching 2G/3G mobile communications to engineering students

Sánchez-García

Portilla-Figueras

Salcedo‐Sanz

et al. 2012

Mobile communications have become one of the key points in the development of Information Society. Therefore the market demands to qualify engineers with a good formation on this topic, and more specifically related with good knowledge about the design and deployment of mobile and wireless networks and services of different technologies. For this reason most of the graduate and post‐graduate programs in Electrical and Electronic engineering studies consider at least one specific subject focused on mobile communications. However, the large number of concepts and the different existing technologies could make this subject very difficult for the student. This article presents a software tool for the design of second and third generation radio access networks, which makes easier the understanding and application of theoretical concepts, giving the student a more practical and realistic view of the subject. Furthermore as this tool has been applied for the regulation on mobile communications in different countries, the students can get some practical knowledge about the work in mobile communications in real world applications. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 23:1–12, 2015; View this article online at http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae; DOI