Dear Jose, I would like to take this opportunity to present some of the work we are doing here at Cambridge -
We are trying to solve the universal service problem in urban areas (where people cannot afford to access the Internet) using existing home broadband networks - home owners who have Internet connections share their Internet connection for free with those who dont have. We are currently doing deployments in a deprived area in Nottingham ( see www.publicaccesswifi.org ) More on the LCDNet initiative is here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~as2330/lcd/index.html There are interesting possibilities to do multi-path TCP between aggregating multiple access points and we are exploring that option too. The TIER group in berkeley have done quite a lot of nice work with wireless for developing countries: tier.cs.berkeley.edu/ Happy to discuss more :) Regards Arjuna On 8 October 2013 10:24, Jose Saldana <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > > > I have recently “discovered” the concept of Community Networks. They are > “large scale, self-organized and decentralized networks, built and operated > by citizens for citizens.” They are “also self-owned and self-managed by > community members, self-growing in links, capacity and services provided.” > > > > A paper explaining them can be found here: > http://www.sigcomm.org/ccr/papers/2013/July/2500098.2500108 > > > > Some examples: > > http://funkfeuer.at/ > > https://wlan-si.net/ > > http://www.bogota-mesh.org/en > > > > I would like to know your opinion about this: > > > > do you think this is a good idea? > > > > Can they be a good place for developing experiments? > > > > I think this can be a good solution for developing countries. > > > > In addition, regarding TCM-TF, can they be a new scenario where traffic > optimization could be interesting? I mean, they do not have too much > bandwidth, and they connect to the Internet through a single link in many > cases (a bottleneck). One of the services considered is VoIP. > > > > Thanks a lot! > > > > Jose > >
