Throughput-coverage tradeoff in a scalable wireless mesh network
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Wireless network coding in slotted ALOHA with two-hop unbalanced traffic
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on network coding for wireless communication networks
DR-OSGi: hardening distributed components with network volatility resiliency
Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware
DR-OSGi: hardening distributed components with network volatility resiliency
Middleware'09 Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th international conference on Middleware
Planning of efficient wireless access with IEEE 802.16 for connecting home network to the internet
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on advances in quality and performance assessment for future wireless communication services
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The use of wireless, DSL, and cable for broadband access has become increasingly prevalent in metropolitan areas. While these technologies are being successfully utilized in terms of both service quality and economics in densely populated areas, there are still vast geographic regions where broadband services are either prohibitively expensive or simply unavailable at any price. The article examines several alternatives for using 2.4 GHz 802.11b (WiFi) technology to provide fixed broadband access in rural areas consisting of towns, smaller remote communities, clusters of subscribers separated by large intercluster distances, as well as widely scattered users. Our approach is to model a network based on realistic demographics, equipment and operations costs, service revenues, and customer demand and usage, and calculate the lifecycle economics in terms of capital investment and profitability. We consider the cost benefits of several emerging technologies and architectures, including high gain antennas, dynamically steerable beamforming antennas, and multihop routing. Our results show that cost-effective affordable high-speed wireless Internet access can be provided in rural and remote areas using nontraditional and innovative approaches, bridging the so-called digital divide.