Internet Predictions

More than a dozen leading experts give their opinions on where the Internet is headed and where it will be in the next decade in terms of technology, policy, and applications. They cover topics ranging from the Internet of Things to climate change to the digital storage of the future. A summary of the articles is available in the Web extras section

A Network Design Optimization For Small Sized Institute Of Higher Learning : A Feasibility Study At Cosmopoint College Melaka

This project is intended to address research to find the network design optimization for small sized category Institute of Higher Learning (IHL). The IHLs in Malaysia is categorized based on the number of student that actively registered. The Ministry Of Higher Education (MOHE) through its MyQuest evaluation standard state that the small sized Institute of Higher Learning (IHL) is refer to IHL that consist the number of student below 600 (MOHE, 2015). Most private IHL and some of Polytechnic College come under this category. When referring to the network design for this category of IHL, most of the network implementation or computer network setup for these IHLs was done by vendors and all information on network design blueprint is not kept by the college or the institution itself which arise problem or a hard work when any expansion and maintenance needed. The research depicts from the idea that small IHL need a guidance in optimizing and developing the best suited network design in order to improve the network performance. Generally, Network manager faces plenty of challenges in the form of retaining raised availability, excellent performance, and protection. Present educational institution give a lot more consideration to information technology facilities to improve their students learning experience. Student is an asset to education work of area. Performance Analysis in the network have many metrics such as throughput, delay, and bandwidth. The throughput, network failure, delay and latency is measure on current network and survey is taken to find any weakness relative to the network. The analysis is made to current network layout to find foe any improvement. Once the layout is redesign, the test for the same variable is made to find an enhancement and to ascertain that current network layout need an optimization for the performance to increase

An investigation into internetworking education

Computer network technology and the Internet grew rapidly in recent years. Their growth created a large demand from industry for the development of IT and internetworking professionals. These professionals need to be equipped with both technical hands-on skills and non-technical or soft skills. In order to supply new professionals to the industry, educational institutions need to address these skills training in their curricula. Technical hands-on skills in internetworking education can be emphasised through the practical use of equipment in classrooms. The provision of the networking equipment to the internetworking students is a challenge. Particularly, university students in developing countries may find that this equipment is ineffectively provided by their teaching institutions, because of the expense. Modern online learning tools, such as remote access laboratories, may be used to address this need. However, the provision of such tools will also need to concentrate upon the pedagogical values. In addition, traditional remote access laboratories provide only text-based access, which was originally designed for highly professional use. Novice students may struggle with learning in these virtual environments, especially when the physical equipment is not available locally. Furthermore, non-technical skills or soft skills are social skills that should not be neglected in graduates’ future workplaces. A traditional model of developing soft skills that was used in face-to-face classroom may not be as effective when applied in an online classroom. Research on students’ opinions about their soft skills development during attending internetworking courses is needed to be conducted. In order to address both research needs, this study was focused on two research aspects related to online learning in internetworking education. The first focus was on research into providing a suitable technical learning environment to distance internetworking students. The second focus was on the students’ opinions about their non-technical skills development. To provide a close equivalent of a face-to-face internetworking learning environment to remote students in Thailand, a transformation of a local internetworking laboratory was conducted. A new multimedia online learning environment integrated pedagogically-rich tools such as state model diagrams (SMDs), a real-time video streaming of equipment and a voice communication tool. Mixed research data were gathered from remote online and local student participants. The remote online participants were invited to use the new learning environment developed in this study. Qualitative research data were collected from twelve remote online students after their trial usage. Concurrently, another set of research data were collected from local students asking their opinion about the development of soft skills in the internetworking course. There were sixty six participants in this second set of research data. Although the research data was limited, restricting the researcher’s ability to generalise, it can be concluded that the provision of multimedia tools in an online internetworking learning environment was beneficial to distant students. The superiority of the traditional physical internetworking laboratory cannot be overlooked; however, the remote laboratory could be used as a supplementary self-practice tool. A concrete learning element such as a real-time video stream and diagrams simplified students learning processes in the virtual environment. Faster communication with the remote instructors and the equipment are also critical factors for a remote access network to be successful. However, unlike the face-to-face laboratory, the future challenge of the online laboratory will creating materials which will encourage students to build soft skills in their laboratory sessions

On relational learning and discovery in social networks: a survey

The social networking scene has evolved tremendously over the years. It has grown in relational complexities that extend a vast presence onto popular social media platforms on the internet. With the advance of sentimental computing and social complexity, relationships which were once thought to be simple have now become multi-dimensional and widespread in the online scene. This explosion in the online social scene has attracted much research attention. The main aims of this work revolve around the knowledge discovery and datamining processes of these feature-rich relations. In this paper, we provide a survey of relational learning and discovery through popular social analysis of different structure types which are integral to applications within the emerging field of sentimental and affective computing. It is hoped that this contribution will add to the clarity of how social networks are analyzed with the latest groundbreaking methods and provide certain directions for future improvements

Broadband Residential Multimedia Systems as a Training and Learning Tool

This research proposes the use of emerging interactive multimedia residential networks as a training and learning delivery tool. Such a system is currently being built to create a national information infrastructure. However there are many technical and social problems that need to be addressed before this becomes a reality. We specifically show that using such a network can be effective, convenient and cut costs tremendously over other traditional methods of training delivery

Undergraduate Courses in Network Communications and Web Information Retrieval

In this paper we provide the result of an investigation on the teaching of computer networks courses and web information retrieval courses in undergraduate IT curriculum. The paper consists of two parts. First part of the paper surveys the undergraduate courses in two curriculum areas, computer networks and web information retrieval. The content of the survey includes the topics covered, the textbooks used, and major projects in these courses. The second part of the paper describes the authors’ experiences in teaching such courses to undergraduate students in various discipline areas including computer science majors, IT majors, and non-technical majors