The System Resource Management in a Distributed Web-based E-learning Platform

• Main Authors: Chia-Wen Hsu, 許佳雯
• Other Authors: Meng-Huang Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91418152681156247436

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 資訊工程學系 === 90 === In this thesis, we propose and implement a system resource management mechanism on the distributed web-based e-learning platform, Asian-Mind, which caches the course content to a local site nearby the learners and conducts admission control for learner access to ensure the quality of the e-learning experience. Asian-Mind is a platform for both learning and course management. It offers a lot of distributed courses as well as a flexible architecture managing all sorts of multimedia materials such as videos, sounds, texts, flashes and so on. For quality concern of content accessing, the continuous course contents will be distributed over and cached to the course content servers nearby the learners according to the popularity of the contents. To ensure the learning quality, learning accesses are then admitted by the admission control mechanism equipped with Asian-Mind. Currently, Asian-Mind is successfully used as the network learning platform across the two campuses (Taipei campus and KaoHsiung campus) of Shih-Chien University, Fu-Jen University , and HiNet (the largest ISP in Taiwan). Twelve E-learning courses are now available.