Middle East Journal of Applied Science & Technology (MEJAST)

(Peer Reviewed International Journal) Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 45-49, July-September 2019

Wireless Requirements and Benefits in the Academics Domain

Nayyar Ahmed Khan
Department of Computer Science and IT, Shaqra University, Shaqra City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Article Received: 12 February 2019 Article Accepted: 09 July 2019 Article Published: 11 August 2019

ABSTRACT

The scope of the WIFI project is not limited to a specific realm of the participants in the university. As part of a five-year strategic plan of the IT
deanship, the project aims to create a consistent user experience across the various building of University, including the provision of wireless network
access. The access to the network on the go can be a really great endeavor for the information exchange and the information fetch at instances when
needed. This last issue became critical in the summer of 2014, when the more number of extra access point of the network are needed, which require
civil work and extra time to get ready. This was a very typical scenario in which wiring and cabling was a burden and an overhead for the entire
vicinity of the employees including the implementation team and the stakeholders. Moreover there are various issues that are known to everyone
regarding the cable LAN and its maintenance. We had already traditionally viewed wired as good enough for everybody, however over the past times
the scenario is changing and it is becoming a very drastic problem where the more the expansion of the network is done the more are the chances of
the faults in the network and the system designs. Thus it becomes a very needful situation where a solution is to be figured out for the networks and
its maintenance.
Keywords: Security, Wireless, WIFI, Domain, Server.

1. INTRODUCTION

Wireless services had become a new era in communication for the entire education vicinity, and this new concept of
mobility have a major impact on student learning and educator community. Personal digital assistants (PDA), tablet
computers, notebooks (laptop), computers, wireless networking and the cellular IP-telephone are liberating faculty,
staff and students out of the old restricted constraints for the traditional classroom. The need and emergence of
Wi-Fi technology is evident in many ways: (1) Campus learning resources available, (2) Online Module for student
registration, (3) Used to facilitate online courses, (4) Use of e-mail for communications for all stakeholders, (5) Fast
growth of distance learning via “www”, (6) Video conferencing & (7) Satellite television.

Information Technology (IT) continues to facilitate the education into a real time (Anytime /anywhere) experience.
Wireless technology enabled devices gives new modes for students to access information and interact with the
peers and teachers. For the faculty members the concept of classroom is altered. The stakeholders for the project are
Students/Educators/Administrators who can act accordingly with the help of the Information Exchange process to
create and manage the organized data for meaningful and originating system development and growth. This
becomes the main reason for implementation of the WIFI project at the university premises [1].

2. SCOPE OF WIRELESS PROJECT IN ACADEMICS

The suggested technology for achieving the above ambitions of the students and the staff members was none other
than Wi-Fi ( Wireless Fidelity) is licensed by the Wi-Fi Alliance to better understand the use of wireless local area
networks (WLAN) which is being given on the IEEE 802.11 wireless specifications [2]. Amongst the various
aspects due to which the mobility of the networks are in the market now a days includes the following:

Increased mobility and collaboration of information and files

• Roam without losing your connection in the entire campus wherever you need to.

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• Work together more effectively and collaborate with various modes for information sharing and
management.

Improved responsiveness from the Network

• Connect to the information whenever you need the information.

• Provide better Information Sharing methodologies.

Enhanced guest access for various internet needs at the time of provisioning at the campus

• Give secure network access to customers and business partners during visits and meetings

• Offer a value-added service to the customers where the need of internet is the basic requirement in IoT era.

Better access to information which is stored in the network

• Connect hard-to-reach areas and fetch information as and when needed.

• Improve your processes for various Web Application based tasks.

Easier network expansion

• Add users quickly on the go.

• Improve the user experience.

Grow your network cost-effectively

• Avoid the cumbersome process of the working with wires and cables.

• Improve the user experience with the look and feel of the on the go networks.

3. ADVANTAGES OF WIRELESS PROJECT IN ACADEMICS

Wireless Fidelity gave a Win-Win solution stakeholders of the university. It supports more traffic now and it also
delivers much faster transmission speeds as compared to the traditional modes of communication. Networks of the
past in university have been far more mobile experience than other universities offer. The employees are
empowered with the new digital revolution and can manage and plan the best for the lecture session and schedules.
Students Mind Set towards the Wi-Fi Project: The more open we are the better responsive our students shall be. We
have to create a flexible and open framework while working within financial reality [3]. This can be achieved by the
students in the coming time with the help of the on the go networks at their fingertips. In a competitive education
market, students demand a better teaching experience. Students wish to get all information and the lectures on the
go at the campus site wherever they want to. The will handle the same with the hand held or the laptops in their
hands and the power of IoT Era. This project has produced intense results that yields in the uplifting of the students
as well as the teacher community to give them a real taste and feel for a modern university. It isn’t intended just
about proper providing access, it’s about giving the right service and providing it with a relevant service context
[4]. Amongst the many hidden and non-exploited advantages and deliverables of the project some of them are listed

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below as which are self-verdict for the need and project analysis at the academia level. The deliverables include the
following elements:

 Mobility at its best: Wireless technology gives the primary benefit of mobility as to the traditional class
activities.

 Network and Resources on the go: Students and teachers can now move in the local area and still access
resources on the University server.

 Eradication for many ancient practices to avoid time consumption and yield value added results [5]: Many
applications track each student’s progress for grading and collect data to be analyzed for reports.

 Student Participation increased in academic activities: Students can continue to collaborate on a class
project with other students on one to one basis and send the results to their instructors from anywhere they
find the wireless access.

 Cost Efficacy for the networks: many academic organization find it difficult to create and maintain the
burden of the network design and deployment as when a lab session is needed. To avoid this, Wireless
solutions are the best possible results.

 Availability of Information in IoT Era: With the use of reliable, high-capacity and secure wireless
connectivity to online educational resources and services many new and modified updates can be done at
the campus by the students and the educators.

 Global information at finger tips: Scientific data can be collected to the appropriate researcher from remote
locations and used for useful purposes.

 Smart Methods of teaching including Smart Classes: Many time and location constraints of traditional
educational structures can be overcome. Educators can now use improved methods for teaching in the class
that can yield good results for the student’s evaluation.

 Use of Digital Libraries for studies: All the students are able to access educational courses using the
wireless technology wherever they wish, teacher community also find it very helpful for the use of vast and
infinite resources available at the fingertips [6].

 Applications at Intranet level for decision Making at administration level: With the help of the wireless
resources the administrator and the teacher along with the students can make use of the various web based
applications and the internet applications at the university level in order to facilitate the use for the decision
making and various other organizational level data and information sharing.

 Use of e-Learning and digital modes for communication: Instructors increasingly will compete with the
Internet, e-mail and instant messaging for the attention of students.

 Changing face of education by students: Most college students now bring a computer and a cell phone with
them. They don’t see these technologies as a luxury but as a necessity that should be seamlessly integrated
into their everyday environment [7]

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4. CONCLUSION

At the university we have facilitated the students and the staff members with the wireless services and have proved
that the induction done by the project to facilitate the life of all stake holders is done in a very smooth and
sophisticated manner. We have always tried to give the best to the community and the results are self-evident. Just
sharing few of the benefits from the existing entire range of goodies that the project bought to the university viz.

1. The system of wireless is indeed highly flexible and it had led to the increase in productivity of the fraternity.
2. The wireless technology can be readily used for the survey and the data collection after workshops and
conferences. We can now collect lot of data using online survey during the events that are held on the
university site as well.
3. The major issue for the File sharing and distribution of large files over network is readily overcome with the
help of the wireless fidelity.
4. A major use of the Wireless Technology is the Network printing which helps us to do all printing at a
centralized location using the Wi-Fi and facilitating the use of printing services at the university campus.
5. The modern era of tablets is the key resource area where we can as the students to appear in the small online
examination at their locations and appear for the tests and online assessments process. Thus it makes us
realize the work to be done with the person in a real manner. It also helps the teachers to have an in depth
evaluation of the students and provide proven results that cannot be altered or modified.
6. The staff member can now use various software or normal Excel sheets to take attendance of student using
his device and directly connect it to the online registration system where the entire range of student
information is maintained and helps to assess the student work evaluation.
7. A very important outcome of the wireless technology can be adjudged by the Activation of IP Telephony
services using the wireless network that had proved to be a very affective mode of cost management system
for communicating with many of the different persons and handled with very good results. The IP Telephony
makes it possible to handle the details for telephone calls and video calls made with the help of which we can
monitor the usage of the entire bandwidth of the university system.
8. The digital revolution across the globe had been a desire of all the nations and a major portion of the same is
the concept of the E-Office where all the communications are effectively hold on with the help of E-Office
and E-Mailers and can be handled in the smartest way one can think about.
9. As a part of the digital revolution almost all new applications are accessed using mobile device such as
E-learning and Archiving system and for the same reason we are taking care of the need of the hour. Wireless
Technology had given a drastic way to handle such system and making the availability of resources on the
go. No we have overcome the traditional file system approach in which searching a small document was a
big time tedious task to perform. It had facilitated the system of university to search any small document and
system resources on the go at fingertips making the life of the employees as well as the students happy.
10. Students have now got the maximum resources as desired by them to make the ideas in their brain grow to
the maximum. Now they try to make use of university resources such as the online library and quiz for the

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students to enrich their knowledge online. This had been a tremendous change over the system of learning
that was followed in the past and had changed the entire phase of living for the students thereby facilitating
the growth of the university at a very fast rate.
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