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TIWDC 2017: Digital Communication. Towards a Smart and Secure Future Internet pp 183–196Cite as

A Network-Assisted Platform for Multipoint Remote Learning

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Abstract

In the last few years, Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) have been introduced in the telecommunications world as a new way to design, deploy and manage networking services. Working together, they are able to consolidate and deliver networking components using standard IT virtualization technologies making, in such a way, Telco infrastructures more flexible and adaptive in respect to the needs of both end-users, Telco operators and service providers.

In this context, this paper presents a softwarized architecture for a multipoint remote learning service, allowing network and application functions deployment simplification and management cost reduction. In such a way, the proposed architecture enables even small/medium learning service providers to organize tele-teaching courses without the need of adopting a dedicated and expensive data delivery infrastructure. Unlike an over-the-top approach, in-network platform implementation provides flexibility and allows users, that is, students and teachers, to meet in virtual classrooms wherever they are, automatically arranging and adapting multipoint communications links at run-time according to the time-variant conditions of the underlying network and the overlay user behavior.

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This work was partially supported by the EU INPUT project.

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    Alfio Lombardo, Corrado Rametta & Christian Grasso

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Lombardo, A., Rametta, C., Grasso, C. (2017). A Network-Assisted Platform for Multipoint Remote Learning. In: Piva, A., Tinnirello, I., Morosi, S. (eds) Digital Communication. Towards a Smart and Secure Future Internet. TIWDC 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 766. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67639-5_14

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