Community network (CN) initiatives have been around for roughly two decades,
evangelizing a distinctly different paradigm for building, maintaining, and sharing network …

As Web sites move from relatively static displays of simple pages to rich media applications
with heavy client-side interaction, the nature of the resulting Web traffic changes as well …

Mobile telephony brings clear economic and social benefits to its users. As handsets have
become more affordable, ownership has reached staggering numbers, even in the most …

In this paper we introduce CoLTE, a solution for LTE-based community networks. CoLTE is a
lightweight, Internet-only LTE core network (EPC) designed to facilitate the deployment and …

While Internet connectivity has reached a significant part of the world's population, those
living in rural areas of the developing world are still largely disconnected. Recent efforts …

Computing research today is fixated on high performance and large scale, but computing
can be tremendously powerful even at low power and small scale. In this article we present …

In this work, we design a relay caching mechanism to improve the energy efficiency in
cellular networks, especially for multimedia applications. We consider a single cell with one …

One of the most difficult, yet undocumented, aspects of information and communications
technologies and development (ICTD) projects is that of establishing partnerships around …

The Internet is evolving from a system of connections between humans and machines to a
new paradigm of social connection. However, it is still dominated by a hub and spoke …

One of the Internet's greatest strengths is the degree to which it facilitates access to any of its
resources from users anywhere in the world. However, users in the developing world have …