[PDF][PDF] Computing for Rural Empowerment: Enabled by Last-Mile Telecommunications (Extended Version)

S Thota, A Nag, S Divyasukhananda, P Goswami… - 2013 - networks.cs.ucdavis.edu
The goal to increase economic and educational exposure, and to promote global health and
wellness, can be achieved through the power of sharing knowledge, technology, and …

Scaling Community Cellular Networks with {CommunityCellularManager}

S Hasan, MC Barela, M Johnson, E Brewer… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2019 - usenix.org
Hundreds of millions of people still live beyond the coverage of basic mobile connectivity,
primarily in rural areas with low population density. Mobile-network operators (MNOs) …

Arctic Connectivity

MS Abildgaard, C Ren, I Leyva-Mayorga, C Stefanovic… - Arctic, 2022 - JSTOR
As the Arctic is heating up, so are efforts to strengthen connectivity within the region,
enhance the connections from remote settlements to the global networks of trade, and …

GreenCoMP: Energy-aware cooperation for green cellular networks

PH Huang, SS Sun, W Liao - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Switching off base stations (BSs) is an effective and efficient energy-saving solution for
green cellular networks. The previous works focus mainly on when to switch off BSs without …

Technology use among Indigenous adolescents in remote regions of Australia

GM Johnson - International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Twenty-four Indigenous adolescents (mean age 16.4 years) attending a boarding school in
a remote region of Western Australia participated in individual structured interviews that …

OpenBTS: a step forward in the cognitive direction

P Pace, V Loscri - 2012 21st International Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper proposes the integration of new cognitive capabilities within the well known
OpenBTS architecture in order to make the system able to react in a smart way to the …

A LoRa enabled sustainable messaging system for isolated communities

AM Cardenas, MKN Pinto, E Pietrosemoli… - Proceedings of the 4th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
More that one billion people worldwide cannot take advantage of even the most basic
connectivity services, most of them living in isolated communities. Even simple messaging …

Solar vs diesel: Where to draw the line for cell towers?

T Ahmad, S Kalyanaraman, F Amjad… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Cellular networks in developing regions continue to rely heavily on diesel for energy to
provide network coverage due to the paucity of reliable grid power which directly impacts the …

Development of an open-source GSM femtocell and integrated core infrastructure

T Tsou, T Cooper, R McGwier… - MILCOM 2012-2012 …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Open source development applied to cellular GSM technology is a fairly recent, but growing,
concept. Another trend is the continually growing capability of low-power embedded …

Experimental emergency communication systems using USRP and GNU radio platform

SM Cheng, WR Huang, RG Cheng… - 2015 11th International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One lesson learned from recent large-scale disasters is that the destroyed communication
infrastructure severely burdens the relief operation and the recovery mission. How to …