A Wireless Network Infrastructure Architecture for Rural Communities

A Low-Cost Efficient Wireless Architecture for Rural Network

Many rural regions around the world, especially in developing regions, do not have good connectivity solutions which are economically viable. As a result, many of these regions remain disconnected from both the rest of the world and from progress in general. In this proposal, I will describe the design of WiFi-based Rural Extensions (WiRE), a new wireless network architecture that can provide c...

Agent-Based Network Infrastructure for E-Communities

IntroductIon Virtual communities represent the gathering of people, in an online " space " where they come, communicate, connect, and get to know each other better over time. Virtual communities can be created for different purposes moving from the simple socialization among people to the collaboration among remote people working on shared projects. Virtual communities are usually managed throu...

A Low Overhead Architecture for Infrastructure-based Wireless Mesh Networks

Infrastructure-based Wireless Mesh Networks are envisioned as a cheap, flexible and appropriate technology to expand the radio coverage of network service providers and to create community networks. In this paper we propose a low overhead architecture which offers Internet connectivity and efficient communications among the nodes inside the mesh. Our solution enhances the performance of the Dyn...

A Virtualization Architecture for Wireless Network Cards

A Radio over Fiber based Wireless Access Network Architecture for Rural Areas

Recently, “wireless last mile” has received considerable attention since it requires much less infrastructure compared to wireline alternatives such as xDSL and cable modem networks, resulting in a cost-effective solution to the Internet access. However, to date most of the considerations has been focused on densely populated urban areas although broadband service demand in sparsely populated r...