Design and implementation of partial mesh community wireless network in Himalayan region
Dambar Raj Paudel, Kazuhiko Sato, Bishnu Prasad Gautam, Dibesh Shrestha · 2012
Infrastructure-based CWN (Community Wireless Networks) are emerging as an affordable, robust, flexible, scalable and spreading technology in difficult terrain land distribution focusing in low income regions and communities having less or no density of wired networks. This paper studies how wireless broadband networks fill the void of network services in rural area. In order to address the proper implementation mechanism, we have deployed a CWN in the rural village of Kaski District of Nepal providing the community with Internet and related services as extra contribution. This research provides researchers a real-world test-bed for exploring the technical and social issues entailed in deploying CWNs in the heart of a small community of Himalayan region in Nepal. The model is used to analyze the tangible and intangible contribution of community and contributors that support the establishment of community networks. Also the result from the research is used to measure the problem in network design, sustainable network management and proper utilization.