A cost-effective distributed architecture to enable distance education over emerging wireless technologies

Authors:
Khondkar R. Islam;Charles Snow
Affiliations:
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA;George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on SIG-information technology education
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Opportunities in education are lacking in many parts of the developed nations and are missing in most parts of the developing nations. This is, in part, due to shortages of classroom instructional resources. Distance education has proved to be a successful teaching methodology and overcomes some of the barriers imposed by classroom instruction. Many distance learning software tools have been developed that are in use today. They require high network capacity, which is not supported by common long distance wireless network infrastructures. This paper highlights our research for the design and development of a cost-effective distributed architecture to enable distance education over emerging terrestrial wireless technologies. The design of this proposed novel architecture will include an overlay network supporting distributed peer-to-peer multicasting functionality to operate over emerging wireless technologies.