Low-cost wireless network architecture for developing countries
Yvon Gourhant, Elena Lukashova, Malla Reddy Sama, Sherif Abdel Wahed, Djamal‐Eddine Meddour, Daniel Philip Venmani · 2014
The emergence of Internet access and advanced wireless technologies has its limitations across the globe, i.e. today there exist several rural regions, especially in developing countries, that do not afford Internet connectivity. In this paper, we present a design of a cost-effective wireless network architecture that aims at providing Internet in fix-usage within those countries. We claim that with few design changes to the 3GPP architecture, it is possible to extend Internet connectivity within suburban and rural areas by deploying numerous hotspots based on sharing tasks and revenues with local actors.