Title: Towards cyber-physical system technologies over Apache VCL

Authors: Imre Kocsis; Áron Tóth; Zoltán Szatmári; Tamás Dabóczi; András Pataricza; Gábor Guta

Addresses: Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary ' Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary ' Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary ' Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary ' Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary ' Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

Abstract: The paper presents an extension of the Apache virtual computing lab (VCL) facilitating the education of cloud technologies and cyber-physical systems (CPSs). On the one hand, a 'cloud on cloud' solution serves as a teaching platform for IT professionals and cloud application designers. On the other hand, introducing remote access to physical devices as part of virtual lab sessions conducted through VCL supports CPS education. CPS-enabled academic clouds and teaching CPS with academic clouds are both effectively uncharted territories from the didactic point of view - thus we also present an analysis of their potential from the aspect of learning facilitation.

Keywords: cyber-physical systems; CPSs; cloud computing; Apache VCL; higher education; Virtual Computing Laboratory; learning facilitation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCC.2016.075101

International Journal of Cloud Computing, 2016 Vol.5 No.1/2, pp.91 - 111

Received: 08 Oct 2014
Accepted: 02 Apr 2015

Published online: 03 Mar 2016 *

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