ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Analysis of multimedia workloads with implications for internet streaming
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ExOR: opportunistic multi-hop routing for wireless networks
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Analysis of WWW traffic in Cambodia and Ghana
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Beyond pilots: keeping rural wireless networks alive
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
MeshMon: a multi-tiered framework for wireless mesh networkmonitoring
Proceedings of the 2009 MobiHoc S3 workshop on MobiHoc S3
Analyzing and accelerating web access in a school in peri-urban India
Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web
Traffic characterization and internet usage in rural Africa
Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web
Towards improved web acceleration: leveraging the personal web
NSDR '11 Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Towards understanding modern web traffic
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
VillageCell: cost effective cellular connectivity in rural areas
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
Network traffic locality in a rural African village
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
A global local modeling of internet usage in large mobile societies
Proceedings of the 7th ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
The increased bandwidth fallacy: performance and usage in rural Zambia
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development
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There have been a number of rural wireless networks providing Internet access over the last decade but little is known about how the Internet is being used, how these networks perform and whether they follow similar trends when compared with Internet usage patterns in developed regions. We analyse a set of network traces from the Linknet wireless network in Zambia, which provides Internet access to approximately 300 residents of a rural village using a satellite link and a combination of point-to-point links, hotspots and wireless mesh networks. Our analysis reveals largely web-based traffic as opposed to the peer-to-peer traffic dominance that one finds in urban areas. Social networking sites receive the most hits, and large file downloads from operating system repositories contribute the most to the bandwidth consumption. A number of network pathologies in the gateway as well as the wireless mesh network are also analysed and a set of recommendations conclude the work.