Welcome to vLab
vLab is a Cloud-based Resource and Service Sharing Platform for Computer and Network
Security Education.
Project Description
- In vLab, we propose to develop a computer and network security
instructional laboratory (CNS-IL) to enhance undergraduate education in science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). CNS-IL is designed to be a cost-effective,
scalable, user-friendly, flexible, and remotely accessible virtual laboratory offering
significant enhancements to undergraduate education in information assurance. The
proposed CNS-IL utilizes highly advanced Cloud computing and Web 2.0 principles
to build a computer network environment for easy experimentation of various computer
and network security applications and attack scenarios. CNS-IL incorporates the
infrastructure/platform/software-as-a-service Cloud computing concept. These concepts
are based on virtualization and clustering technologies that will maximally utilize
existing computing and network resources for large-scale computer and network security
based experiments. In addition to its technical merits, CNS-IL accomplishes a broader
goal by introducing a number of versatile hands-on projects through a virtualized
environment for student learning. This approach in turn is expected to attract more
students into college computer science and engineering programs, thereby addressing
current problems in undergraduate recruitment and retention into STEM areas. The
CNS-IL will be used in colleges, where students, particularly, undergraduates will
work on fundamental security issues and technologies associated with computer and
network technologies.