International Journal of Engineering and Management Research (IJEMR)
Year : 2017, Volume : 7, Issue : 4
First page : ( 105) Last page : ( 109)
Print ISSN : 2394-6962. Online ISSN : 2250-0758.

Supporting BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in an Educational Campus through MANET

Dr. Aggarwal Deepshikha

Department of Information Technology, Jagan Institute of Management Studies, Delhi, India

Online published on 31 October, 2017.

Abstract

The “bring your own device ”(BYOD) is the concept of encouraging people for bringing their own devices to work or study and is gaining popularity in both corporate and educational environments. The concept of BYOD is beneficial for the education sector due to its cost saving ability for the institutes and providing the comfort of using personal devices. The rapid and accelerating move towards the adoption and use of mobile devices has increasingly provided students and teachers the ability to study on the move. The colleges and universities have been adapting their networks and policies to accommodate personal mobile computing devices for quite some time. Since the time laptops became affordable and smartphones and tabs are a common possession, undergraduate and graduate students have been bringing their own devices to campus. Wireless and mobile technologies influence the evolution of the teaching and learning and press forward the development of new mode of education enabling anytime, anywhere and anyhow learning. New wireless technologies can be used to boost interactivity, thus helping people to remain online even while on the move. The institutions need to develop a learning platform suitable to support Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Institutions that are proactive in their approach towards BYOD will stand a chance to gain critical benefits from its implementation. A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is defined as a collection of two or more nodes connected with each other through some kind of wireless communications and networking capability that enables them to communicate with each other without the need of any centralized server. This enables the wireless nodes to dynamically form a network to exchange information without using any existing fixed network infrastructure. The main advantages of MANET are robustness, flexibility and mobility. In this paper we have explored the possibility of implementing BYOD in a university set up through MANETs.

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Keywords

BYOD, MANET, Learning systems, adhoc networks.

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