Why Simulate When you can Experience?

Speaker: Guillaume Jourjon

Affiliation: National ICT Australia

Time: Monday 26/09/2011 from 14:00 to 15:00

Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).

Abstract: We will discuss in this presentation the advantages of using real experiments in networking lectures as opposed to simulation and tcpdump labs. Indeed, we claim that with the inclusion of networking to numerous curriculum the way to illustrate and assess in these courses need to evolve to better take advantage of the on-going research without limiting the top of the class students. In particular we identified five key challenges that needed to be addressed to improve networking education and bring it closer to reality. For that we present the Internet Remote Emulation Experiment Laboratory (IREEL) an e-learning platform designed and developed for the last 5 years. This platform allows the student to configure real network and application characteristics in order to illustrate key concepts of the lecture. In this context, we allow many improvements for labs or assignment in networking courses. IREEL has been previously used in introductory courses to networking and received very good rating by the student for the understanding of general and specific concept of the lecture. We also present this evaluation by the students accomplished during the Semester 2 2010 at the UNSW. Finally, we give insights and open a discussion on how to extend this platform for non-networking courses.

Biography: Guillaume Jourjon received his PhD from the University of New South Wales and the Toulouse University of Science in 2008, his Engineering degree from the ENSICA, a French aeronautical engineering school in Toulouse and his Master of Research in Telecommunications and Networking in 2004. He is currently a Researcher at NICTA in the Network Research Group. His research interests are in the optimisation of distributed systems (i.e. energetic aspect and QoE), the management and control of experimentation (testbed), measurement architectures and live analysis, and e-learning platform.