Beyond pilots: keeping rural wireless networks alive
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Optimal scheduling and power control for tdma based point to multipoint wireless networks
Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
A radio multiplexing architecture for high throughput point to multipoint wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Wireless networks and systems for developing regions
Cross-layer design and performance analysis of TDMA-based backhaul network
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on COMMUNICATIONS
IEEE Communications Letters
Properties and performance of the IEEE 802.11b complementary-code-key signal sets
IEEE Transactions on Communications
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The needs of Indian rural telecom, and the economics of currently available broadband access technologies, motivate a new system for rural broadband access, which we call WiFiRe (WiFi rural extension). The system leverages the widely available, and highly cost-reduced, WiFi chipsets. We, however, retain only the PHY from these chipsets and propose a single-channel, multisector, TDD MAC using directional antennas. The proposed WiFiRe MAC is similar to the WiMAX MAC in several respects. In this article we motivate our approach, describe the system architecture and the MAC, analyse the spatial reuse, and then, using a simple scheduler, provide an assessment of the voice and data capacity of a WiFiRe system