Advances in wireless community networks with the community-lab testbed
| Autor: | Felix Freitag, Ivan Vilata-i-Balaguer, Leandro Navarro, Bart Braem, Christoph Barz, Roger Baig Viñas, Joseph Bonicioli |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Publica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CNDS - Xarxes de Computadors i Sistemes Distribuïts |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Routing protocol
Computer Networks and Communications Computer science Mesh networking Wireless communications systems Wireless LAN 02 engineering and technology Community networks 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Optical fibre communication Routing protocols GSM Wireless lan 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Wireless Comunicacions òptiques Electrical and Electronic Engineering Digital divide Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] Computer. Automation business.industry Wireless network Optical communications Testbed Local area network 020206 networking & telecommunications Computer Science Applications Sustainable community Comunicació sense fil Sistemes de Wireless channels The Internet business Telecommunications Cellular radio 030215 immunology Radio links |
| Zdroj: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya instname UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) IEEE communications magazine |
| ISSN: | 0163-6804 |
| Popis: | Beyond traditional telecom providers, citizens and organizations pool their own resources and coordinate in order to build local network infrastructures to address the digital divide in many parts of the world. These crowdsourced network infrastructures can be self-organized and shared by a community for the collective benefit of its members. Several of these networks have developed open, free, and neutral agreements, and are governed as a common-pool resource: community networks. These are built using a variety of commodity wireless hardware (e.g., Wi-Fi long-range point-to-point links, Wi-Fi and GSM access points, and mesh networks), sometimes optical fiber links, heterogeneous nodes, routing protocols, and applications. A group of researchers, developers, and community networks developed the Community-Lab testbed, and for the last five years have worked together to overcome obstacles, improve the technologies, tools, and operational models being used, as well as model best practices for more effective and sustainable community networks. This article presents the challenges for experimentation, the testbeds built, results, lessons learned, and the impact of that work to place wireless community networks as one sustainable way toward an Internet accessible to all. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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