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Network and Service Performance Case Study in a High School Equipped in the Scope of the Pilot Project e-Schools

The Croatian Academic and Research Network (CARNet) is currently coordinating a program referred to as e-Schools, aimed to strengthen the capacities of elementary and secondary education by introducing ICT into the school system. The aim of this paper is to analyze the network infrastructure deployed in the e-Schools pilot project, focusing on one target high school in the city of Varaždin as a case study to help develop an insightful methodology in the future performance analysis of the infrastructure deployed in schools. A small-scale analysis of the school network infrastructure was carried out, with an additional examination of Quality of Experience (QoE) across three scenarios that simulate the usual behavior of students and teachers, while also observing the behavior of the network infrastructure through Meraki dashboard system. Based on our findings, we concluded that students are generally satisfied with the installed network infrastructure. However, there are some problems that occur (e.g., speed problems and Internet connection problems), which need to be investigated in more detail and resolved, so as to maximize end user QoE. The presented lessons learned will help develop appropriate test methodology to be applied to schools taking part in the e-Schools program for detailed performance evaluation purposes.

network performance ; network services ; project e-Schools ; Quality of Experience

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