Community networks emerged in North America during the late 1970s and early 1980s. During the past three decades, paradigms for networked information, services, and collaboration ...
This paper describes BarterRoam: a new novel mobile and wireless roaming settlement model and clearance methodology, based on the concept of sharing and bartering excess capacities...
Eng Keong Lua, Alex Lin, Jon Crowcroft, Valerie Ta...
As programmable mobile devices (such as high-end cellular phones and Personal Digital Assistants) became widely adopted, users ask for Internet access on-the-road. While upcoming ...
Davide Carboni, Andrea Piras, Stefano Sanna, Sylva...
Mobile devices will become an important platform for Internet access. Due to size constraints, in many circumstances speech is the most desirable mode of input. We have developed ...
—Wireless Community Networks (WCNs) are wide-area wireless networks whose nodes are owned and managed by volunteers. We focus on the provision of Internet access to mobile users ...
Elias C. Efstathiou, Pantelis A. Frangoudis, Georg...