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Making a community network legal within the South African regulatory framework
(ACM, 2015)
Community networks often operate at the fringe of legality with respect to spectrum, network infrastructure and providing services. We have been involved with such a network in a rural community, and together with them, ...
Clustered Multi-layer Multi-protocol Wireless Mesh Networks
(Telkom, 2015)
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have emerged as an alternative option to the wired networks in areas where wired deployment is unfeasible and/or costly. They have been widely adopted in community networks as these networks ...
Towards a scalability model for wireless mesh networks
(Telkom, 2015)
Zenzeleni mesh network is a wireless ad-hoc mesh network that provides voice services using public analogue telephones to the Mankosi community in the Eastern Cape
Province. We would like to improve on the network ...
Community-based solar power revenue alternative to improve sustainability of a rural wireless mesh network
(ACM, 2013)
Given the needs for a clean and easy way to maintain and secure powering wireless networks in rural areas and to gen- erate revenue to guarantee the sustainability of its intended goals, an innovative approach to leverage ...
Towards a sustainable business model for rural telephony
(Telkom, 2012)
This paper presents the work done thus far towards designing a sustainable business model for rural telephony in the community of Mankosi, located in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The pillars of the model are ...
Tuning a mid-range rural WiFi-based mesh network
(ACM, 2013)
Little is known about how mid-range, or several km, dis- tances a ect multipoint-to-multipoint links when single ra- dio nodes with omnidirectional antennas are used. In this poster, a real network with these characteristics ...
Unmasking community trust issues in rural field work
(ACM, 2013)
The principal objective of this paper is to describe the au thor's fieldwork and research in a remote rural area of South Africa, where a Village Telco is deployed to provide Voice over Internet Protocol on a wireless mesh ...
Experiences, challenges and lessons from rolling out a rural WiFi mesh network
(ACM, 2013)
The DEV community knows that technology interventions involve consideration of social and environmental factors as much as technical ones. This is particularly true for the introduction of communications infrastructure in ...