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An Evaluation of IEEE 802.11 <endeca_term>Community Networks</endeca_term> Deployments

An Evaluation of IEEE 802.11 Community Networks Deployments

...802.11 environment, the quality of link, and the potential of these community networks in the city of Rennes, France. They aim at determining if... Read more

1 July, 2011
On Link-Level Starvation in Dense 802.11 Wireless <endeca_term>Community Networks</endeca_term>

On Link-Level Starvation in Dense 802.11 Wireless Community Networks

...characterize the throughput of individual links in dense IEEE 802.11 wireless community networks that accounts for heterogeneous transmission power levels and CS thresholds, as... Read more

16 June, 2010
Efficient Bandwidth Allocation in Wireless <endeca_term>Community Networks</endeca_term>

Efficient Bandwidth Allocation in Wireless Community Networks

The network coverage and the number of residential users that a network operator may serve through a Wireless Mesh... Read more

11 September, 2011
Bandwidth Management and Monitoring for <endeca_term>Community Networks</endeca_term>

Bandwidth Management and Monitoring for Community Networks

This paper describes a custom-built system to replace existing routing solutions within an identified community network.... Read more

20 July, 2010
On Wireless Social Community Network Routers the Design and Cost-Sharing Problem for Better Deployment

On Wireless Social Community Network Routers the Design and Cost-Sharing Problem for Better Deployment

Wireless Social Community Networks (WSCNs) are the emerging technology that operate in the unlicensed spectrum... Read more

1 June, 2010

Government aims to build in-house IT skills

...training and development; workforce planning and talent management at senior levels; establishing community networks; a communications programme; and developing a model and terminology for the... Read more

1 November, 2011 by Mark Say
Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocol and Congestion Control Protocol in Wireless Multi-hop Networks

Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocol and Congestion Control Protocol in Wireless Multi-hop Networks

...Mesh Networks), or a self-organized community network connecting houses together (Wireless Community Networks Read more

1 December, 2010
Selective Jamming/Dropping Insider Attacks in Wireless Mesh Networks

Selective Jamming/Dropping Insider Attacks in Wireless Mesh Networks

...on network throughput and connectivity. WMN applications include stationary deployments (e.g., community networks, hierarchal sensor networks) as well as mobile ones (e.g., intelligent... Read more

4 November, 2010
Incentivizing the Global Wireless Village

Incentivizing the Global Wireless Village

...In this paper, the authors investigate the economic interactions in global wireless community networks with regard to users, ISPs and community providers (called mediators) with... Read more

19 October, 2010
Easy WiFi 4.2.18

Easy WiFi 4.2.18

...and you'll be logged in automatically everywhere. Over 2000 commercial and community networks are supported, including: Major commercial networks at airports and hotels Small... Read more

27 August, 2010
Vulnerability Analysis of the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol Version 2 (OLSRv2)

Vulnerability Analysis of the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol Version 2 (OLSRv2)

...place in real-world deployments. Outside specialized domains (military, vehicular, etc.), citywide community-networks are emerging, connecting regular Internet users with each other, and with... Read more

10 June, 2010
An IEEE 802.21-Based Approach to Integrate Unidirectional Wireless Technologies Into QoS-Constrained Broadband Wireless Mesh Access Networks

An IEEE 802.21-Based Approach to Integrate Unidirectional Wireless Technologies Into QoS-Constrained Broadband Wireless Mesh Access Networks

...peers via multiple hops when no direct physical connectivity exists. This allows community networks such as Freifunk to provide affordable Internet access to their communities... Read more

1 June, 2010
Digital Economy law will shut down <endeca_term>community networks</endeca_term>

Digital Economy law will shut down community networks

...piracy provisions in the Digital Economy legislation will end up closing down community networks, says Malcolm Corbett. Normally I write about the need to speed... Read more

7 April, 2010 by Malcolm Corbett

Mobile networks could boost rural broadband

...go back into the community network," Nuttall explained. Invisible Networks currently has community networks operating at two locations near Cambridge, with a third expected to... Read more

29 November, 2002 by Graeme Wearden
An Open Architecture for Monitoring and Measuring QoS Indicators in Wireless <endeca_term>Community Networks</endeca_term>

An Open Architecture for Monitoring and Measuring QoS Indicators in Wireless Community Networks

Wireless Community Networks (WCNs) are wide-area wireless networks whose nodes are owned and... Read more

26 April, 2010

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