IMPLEMENTATION OF REMOTE ACCESS TO WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS LABORATORY IN E-LEARNING COURSE

This paper presents our comprehensive approach to e-learning for wireless communications course. Here we describe our experience in design and development phases of remote laboratory environment on radio communications. The proposed approach integrates a traditional Learning Management System (LMS) with the remote access to real instrumentation located in wireless communication laboratory, without requiring specific software components on the client side. The remote laboratory system relying on virtual instruments (VIs) is described in RIPLECS, NI2011 FFOO5 and PAC projects. As being the first attempt in establishing of such a remote laboratory on radio communications, it enables access to high technology RF equipment and setups through the Internet. This paper presents our performance support approach to the design of the wireless communications course in DIPSEIL system (env.dipseil.net/v3). There are listed the tasks and their educational objectives. Here we describe our experience in creating a remote access to the laboratory equipment by External antenna-switching controller board (EASCB).