Internet islands
Abdullahi Kutiriko Abubakar, Nishanth Sastry, Mohamed M. Kassem · 2021
For disconnected communities, the associated cost of backhaul network infrastructure is seen as one of the most significant challenges of accessing connectivity services. To help mitigate this challenge, we propose the Internet Island Architecture. The Architecture provides room for a large class of so-called ``sharing economy'' applications such as temporary labour, dating service, market services and transport services supported by local connectivity alone. We show the feasibility of the system and discuss the advantages of the proposed architecture