Introducing networking and distributed systems concepts in an undergraduate-accessible wireless sensor networks course

Rollins, Sami

doi:10.1145/1953163.1953284

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“…There is significant variability across DS courses regarding the content being taught. However, this diversity is expected for a subject deemed elective or advanced [27,41], as well as given the significant breadth of important problems and solutions in this [27] and the topics in Table 4.…”

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Have We Reached Consensus? An Analysis of Distributed Systems Syllabi

Abad

Ortiz-Holguin

Boza

2021

Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Correctly applying distributed systems concepts is important for software that seeks to be scalable, reliable and fast. For this reason, Distributed Systems is a course included in many Computer Science programs. To both describe current trends in teaching distributed systems and as a reference for educators that seek to improve the quality of their syllabi, we present a review of 51 syllabi of distributed systems courses from top Computer Science programs around the world. We manually curated the syllabi and extracted data that allowed us to identify approaches used in teaching this subject, including choice of topics, book, and paper reading list. We present our results and a discussion on whether what is being taught matches the guidelines of two important curriculum initiatives. CCS CONCEPTS• Social and professional topics → Computer science education; Model curricula.

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“…Similarly too old is Andrianoff's [4] module on DS for an operating systems course. Rollins [41] describes an experience introducing networking and DS concepts in a wireless sensor networks course.…”

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Have We Reached Consensus? An Analysis of Distributed Systems Syllabi

Abad

Ortiz-Holguin

Boza

2021

Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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“…In supporting high education using cloud computing or emulation, Xu et al (2012), Rollins (2011), Berman et al (2014, Collicutt (2014) and Huang et al (2014) have made contribution from various perspective using different approaches. Similar to our work, Xu et al (2012) provides a virtual laboratory platform to support networking courses.…”

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Using cloud computing to support higher education in networks and systems

Liu

Martin

2016

IJCC

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Virtual machine (VM) technology is widely used in higher education to support pedagogy and research. However, without a standard platform for managing VM technology, VM-based infrastructure is likely to be acquired and deployed in an ad-hoc manner. The virtual computing lab (VCL) system is an open source cloud computing platform developed specifically to support higher education. The main goal of VCL is to make available dedicated, custom compute environments to users. We built a small VCL cloud and trialed its use to support several networking courses offered in the School of Computing at Clemson University during the 2013/2014 academic year. In this paper, we summarise the trial and provide results and conclusions. We found that well provisioned PCs might support up to ten VMs however when subject to peak loads, the system is not able to support accurate and reproducible network experiments.

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“…A working group on mobile computing courses noted that mobile devices provide opportunities for learning about sensors. Mobile and wearable sensors have been the key platform for teaching many sensordriven application development undergraduate classes (e.g., [4,6,10]). From this prior work, it is clear the importance of sensor issues related to the reliability, lag, threading, and more, and as smartwatches become more sensor-rich, we expect they will be platforms to explore these issues.…”

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Augmenting Undergraduate Computer Science Education With Programmable Smartwatches

Esakia

Niu

McCrickard

2015

Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Smartwatches are emerging as wrist-based computers capable of complex calculation and communication, and the computer science curriculum should reflect the challenges and opportunities that they provide in the education domain. This paper puts forth an experience report focused on efforts to incorporate smartwatches in an upper-level undergraduate mobile application development class during two academic terms. Lectures, in-class activities, homeworks, and projects were tailored toward providing rich design and implementation experiences for the students that engaged them in developing for the smartwatch and a paired mobile device. Our experiences highlighted how incorporating smartwatches into a mobile app development class adds a valuable dimension in terms of design and implementation challenges and allowed students to exercise some of the fundamental computer science topics.

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Introducing networking and distributed systems concepts in an undergraduate-accessible wireless sensor networks course

Cited by 7 publications

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Have We Reached Consensus? An Analysis of Distributed Systems Syllabi

Have We Reached Consensus? An Analysis of Distributed Systems Syllabi

Using cloud computing to support higher education in networks and systems

Augmenting Undergraduate Computer Science Education With Programmable Smartwatches

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