TY - GEN
T1 - Rural Wireless Mesh Networking in Africa
T2 - 24th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications 2009, CATA 2009
AU - Backens, Jonathan
AU - Song, Min
AU - Engels, Lutz
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Connecting the rural communities of the developing world remains a huge task in both the areas of adequate technology and local implementation. With widely varying topography and demographics, rural communities provide a unique challenge in connectivity that wireless communication seems destined to meet. Specifically the ubiquitous nature of wireless mesh networks (WMN) presents a theoretically plausible solution to these varying difficulties. There has been a growing interest in these unique challenges with several recent research publications on long distance links in WMN, channel allocation schemes and performance. However the current analysis and simulation based research that is the focus in most technical literature lacks the proof of concept that comes from an actual implementation. Therefore a novel approach to rural wireless connectivity is presented from an actual test case in the rural village of Macha, Zambia. Its indoor to indoor mesh network follows a realistic deployment instead of planned logical deployment strategy yet is highly functional. Areas of research arising from an actual implementation are presented with performance results of the resulting network presented.
AB - Connecting the rural communities of the developing world remains a huge task in both the areas of adequate technology and local implementation. With widely varying topography and demographics, rural communities provide a unique challenge in connectivity that wireless communication seems destined to meet. Specifically the ubiquitous nature of wireless mesh networks (WMN) presents a theoretically plausible solution to these varying difficulties. There has been a growing interest in these unique challenges with several recent research publications on long distance links in WMN, channel allocation schemes and performance. However the current analysis and simulation based research that is the focus in most technical literature lacks the proof of concept that comes from an actual implementation. Therefore a novel approach to rural wireless connectivity is presented from an actual test case in the rural village of Macha, Zambia. Its indoor to indoor mesh network follows a realistic deployment instead of planned logical deployment strategy yet is highly functional. Areas of research arising from an actual implementation are presented with performance results of the resulting network presented.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883709112
SN - 9781615670147
T3 - 24th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications 2009, CATA 2009
SP - 128
EP - 133
BT - 24th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications 2009, CATA 2009
Y2 - 8 April 2009 through 10 April 2009
ER -