Team Placement in Crowd-Resourcing Virtual Laboratory for IT Security e-Learning

A crowd-resourcing virtual laboratory is a virtual laboratory in which some of the resources are obtained from the crowd. The virtual laboratory is for IT Security e-Learning, where a trainee needs an isolated laboratory environment to do the practical exercises. The isolated laboratory environment, which is called as a Team, consists of virtual machines (VMs) or containers and virtual network devices. The crowd contributes their resources such as virtual machines or physical machines, to the virtual laboratory. The virtual laboratory automatically occupies the contributed resources and uses them to create a Team. The team that consists of containers, will be run in a VM. Since there could be a lot of VMs available, the system needs to select the best VM to run a Team. We present CTPlace, an approach for Team Placement in crowd-resourcing virtual laboratory.