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MOBICOM
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Low-cost communication for rural internet kiosks using mechanical backhaul
Rural kiosks in developing countries provide a variety of services such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, electricity bill collection, land records, email services, and...
Aaditeshwar Seth, D. Kroeker, Matei A. Zaharia, Sh...
CCR
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Very low-cost internet access using KioskNet
Rural Internet kiosks in developing regions can cost-effectively provide communication and e-governance services to the poorest sections of society. A variety of technical and no...
Shimin Guo, Mohammad Hossein Falaki, Earl A. Olive...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Connecting the "bottom of the pyramid": an exploratory case study of india's rural communication environment
This paper is based on our exploratory study of a South Indian village in Chamrajanagar district of Karnataka. The study was to understand the rural communication environment and ...
Sarita Seshagiri, Sagar Aman, Dhaval Joshi
CONEXT
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Fair and efficient scheduling in data ferrying networks
Data-ferrying disconnection-tolerant networks allow remote rural areas to access the Internet at very low cost, making them viable alternatives to more expensive access technologi...
Shimin Guo, Srinivasan Keshav
ICNS
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Wireless Mesh Network-based System for Hotspots Deployment and Management
— In recent years Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) or hotspots, as they are commonly known, have emerged as a promising networking platform to extend network connectivity in ...
Jorge Hortelano, Juan-Carlos Cano, Carlos Miguel T...