Toward enabling broadband for a billion plus population with TV white spaces
| Autor: | Gaurang Naik, Meghna Khaturia, Abhay Karandikar, Animesh Kumar, Shubham Saha, Jaspreet Singh, Mahak Arora |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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FOS: Computer and information sciences
Computer Networks and Communications Computer science Middle mile Computer Science - Information Theory Population 02 engineering and technology Computer Science - Networking and Internet Architecture 0203 mechanical engineering White spaces Broadband 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Wireless Backhaul (broadcasting) Electrical and Electronic Engineering education Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) education.field_of_study business.industry Information Theory (cs.IT) Testbed 020302 automobile design & engineering 020206 networking & telecommunications Computer Science Applications Backhaul (telecommunications) The Internet Telecommunications business Computer network |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Communications Magazine. 54:28-34 |
| ISSN: | 0163-6804 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/mcom.2016.7509375 |
| Popis: | One of the major impediments to providing broadband connectivity in semi-urban and rural India is the lack of robust and affordable backhaul. Fiber connectivity in terms of backhaul that is being planned (or provided) by the Government of India would reach only till rural offices (named Gram Panchayat) in the Indian rural areas. In this exposition, we articulate how TV white space can address the challenge in providing broadband connectivity to a billion plus population within India. The villages can form local Wi-Fi clusters. The problem of connecting the Wi-Fi clusters to the optical fiber points can be addressed using a TV white space based backhaul (middle-mile) network. The amount of TV white space present in India is very large when compared with the developed world. Therefore, we discuss a backhaul architecture for rural India, which utilizes TV white spaces. We also showcase results from our TV white space testbed, which support the effectiveness of backhaul by using TV white spaces. Our testbed provides a broadband access network to rural population in thirteen villages. The testbed is deployed over an area of $25$km$^2$, and extends seamless broadband connectivity from optical fiber locations or Internet gateways to remote (difficult to connect) rural regions. We also discuss standards and TV white space regulations, which are pertinent to the backhaul architecture mentioned above. Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to IEEE Communications Magazine |
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