Virtual Laboratories - Use of Public Testbeds in Education

Niky Riga, Vicraj Thomas, Vasilis Maglaris, Mary Grammatikou, Evangelos Anifantis

2015

Abstract

Experimentation is an invaluable part of learning in all sciences. However, building and maintaining laboratories is expensive, time and space consuming. Moreover, in computer science advances in technology can quickly make the infrastructure obsolete. In this paper we advocate the use of recently deployed public testbeds as remote labs for computer science education. As an example we describe the successful use of the GENI testbed in graduate and undergraduate courses and present a specific case study of GENI being used in an undergraduate class on Network Management and Intelligent Networks.

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Riga N., Thomas V., Maglaris V., Grammatikou M. and Anifantis E. (2015). Virtual Laboratories - Use of Public Testbeds in Education . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-107-6, pages 516-521. DOI: 10.5220/0005496105160521


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@conference{csedu15,
author={Niky Riga and Vicraj Thomas and Vasilis Maglaris and Mary Grammatikou and Evangelos Anifantis},
title={Virtual Laboratories - Use of Public Testbeds in Education},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2015},
pages={516-521},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005496105160521},
isbn={978-989-758-107-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Virtual Laboratories - Use of Public Testbeds in Education
SN - 978-989-758-107-6
AU - Riga N.
AU - Thomas V.
AU - Maglaris V.
AU - Grammatikou M.
AU - Anifantis E.
PY - 2015
SP - 516
EP - 521
DO - 10.5220/0005496105160521