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6 Conclusions and Future Work
Within the paper we have presented the architecture of our remote laboratory and intro-
duced available experiments. We have made good experience with the daily operation
in teaching and research, regarding availability and safety of our infrastructure. We
make use of source code analysis, runtime observation and dynamic reconfiguration to
prevent malicious code from disturbing the integrity of our lab.
We have explained the usability of simulation techniques to cope with high-load
situations. We utilize grid computing technologies for out-sourcing computing inten-
sive tasks. Currently we have already used this approach within two experiments: the
simulation of robot movement and the graphical rendering of simulation result.
In the future we plan to extented our lab with new experiments, as well as new front-
end applications. We are going to integrated experiment from geographically distributed
locations. In addition we will apply latest web service standards, such as WS-Security,
to improve the interoperability of our frontend interfaces.
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