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African countries, which are in the process of economic emergence, are placing increasing emphasis on hybrid education systems that promote socioconstructivism between members of distance education. To support this dynamic, we have set up an E-learning platform based on WebRTC technology. This platform operates in an intranet, and allows users to communicate in real time. The purpose of this paper is to test the scalability and performance of said platform for the “authentication” scenario, in order to ensure its functional capacity, stability, availability and latency.
To achieve our goal, we installed JMeter Apache, which is an open source Java application designed as a graphical interface. It allows to measure and analyze the functional capabilities and performance of a web application. The results of the various tests show that our application is efficient because it reacts to a scalability with a number of users much higher than that which should contain minimally a virtual class. In addition, multiple users authenticate simultaneously to reach the virtual classroom without server connection failure.
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Seyed, C., Bilong, J.R.N., Ouya, S., Nanne, M.F., Niang, I. (2020). Scalability and Performance Testing of an E-Learning Platform Integrating the WebRTC Technology: Scenario “Authentication”. In: Auer, M., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) The Challenges of the Digital Transformation in Education. ICL 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 916. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11932-4_19
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