(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-05)
Abler, Randal T.; Owen, Henry L., III; Riley, George F.
An undergraduate engineering internetworking
learning environment that presents both internetworking principles
and laboratory experimentation is described. The learning
environment uses the source code availability of the Linux operating
system as a case study of the implementation issues and
ramifications of internet networking infrastructures. Laboratory
use of experimentation with internetworking equipment and
software allows interaction with internetworking principles and
fundamentals as well as implementation and performance issues.
The objectives of this environment include providing a comprehensive
mechanism whereby students are exposed to fundamentals
and principles that may readily be applied to experimental-based
internetwork research and internetwork product development. A follow-on capstone design environment is also briefly described.