Building an IPv6 Virtual Lab with the Multi-level Training Mechanism

The rapid development of Internet application leads to the problem of the IPv4 address exhaustion. How to efficiently promote the IPv6 upgrade to foster the development of IP network and relevant industries becomes an important issue. Therefore, in this paper, we construct an IPv6 virtual lab with the Multi-level Training Mechanism (MTM). It consists of three levels, the basic training, the simulation-based training, and the virtual-machine-based hands-on training, to provide the web courseware and its related quizzes, the Web-based Assessment Virtual Experiment (WAVE), and the Virtual-Machine-Based Hands-on Experiment, respectively. Our idea not only can minimize the face-to-face training effort, but also can provide the personalized diagnosis for the student. Furthermore, we have successfully used our prototype of the IPv6 virtual lab to provide the practical IPv6 upgrade training courses. We have held 60 IPv6 training courses, where more than 2,000 trainees attended in 2013. According to the participant satisfaction survey, the satisfaction rate of the participant is 4.3 on the Likert scale.