Work in Progress: Programmable Online Experiment Platform for Intelligent Information Network Courses: A Case Study

Engineering practice education for college students is very important in the higher education system. It requires students to carry out practical and innovative learning except for knowledge. However, the traditional offline education cannot provide enough practice opportunities for students, which limits students’ in-depth concept understanding and restricts their practical ability and innovative thinking. During the period of COVID-19 spreading, the course can be taken online; but it will be quite difficult for conducting experiments, especially for the courses in the electronic and telecommunication systems, which usually requires expensive equipment. In this paper, taking the course “Intelligent Information Network” as example, we designed and implemented an online experiment platform, including optical switching equipment and data packet network equipment. Using remote programmable techniques and separated Algorithm Center, this platform allows students to deploy their own algorithm into the physical telecommunication equipment in web-based approach, and validate the network performance.