JaldiMAC - Taking the distance further

Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, NSDR '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ben David, Yahel ^a,b   Vallentin, Matthias ^a   Fowler, Seth ^a   Brewer, Eric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AirJaldiOrg ^*  (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND INTERNET; DESIGN GOAL; INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS; INTERNET TRAFFIC; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; POINT TO MULTIPOINT; QUALITY OF SERVICE GUARANTEES; RURAL VILLAGES; RURAL WIRELESS; TDMA MAC PROTOCOLS;

INTERNET; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; JITTER; PROFITABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RURAL AREAS; SCHEDULING; TOWERS; WI-FI; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 77956037481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1836001.1836003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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