B/S implementation of internetbased electrical engineering lab based on MVC architecture

ZHANG Huan, ZHU Shanan
（College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China）

Abstract: Aiming at solving the problems of traditional experimental teaching in insufficient equipment resources and limited experiment room, the Browser/Server(B/S) mode of internetbased electrical engineering lab(iEELab) was proposed in distance education with the form of remote network laboratory. The remote experiment platform was provided for users to login through various browsers and make remote experiments freely. Frontend, using Adobe Flex technique and managing network communication from browser to server based on MVC architecture was elaborated. A middle layer called data exchange layer was extracted from the frontend, which took responsibility for data sending and receiving, while the server only managed to transmit data package. The results indicate that the whole system has good expansibility, maintainability and secondary development interface. New experiment modules can easily be added to the lab.
Key words: B/S; remote laboratory; iEELab; MVC; Flex; data exchange layer