The pilot deployment of a low cost, low power gateway to extend cellular coverage in developing regions

MobiSys'11 - Compilation Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services and Co-located Workshops - NSDR 2011 Workshop, NSDR'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 21-26

  Gabale, Vijay ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Ramesh ^a   Raman, Bhaskaran ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

802.15.4 gateway; voice applications

Indexed keywords

802.15.4 GATEWAY; CELLULAR COVERAGE; DEVELOPING REGIONS; DEVELOPING WORLD; GATEWAY NODES; LOW COSTS; LOW POWER; LOW-POWER SYSTEMS; MESH NETWORK; MUMBAI , INDIA; PHONE CALLS; REAL-TIME VOICE; TELEDENSITY; VOICE APPLICATIONS; VOICE CALLS;

COSTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; RURAL AREAS; TELEPHONE SETS;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

EID: 79961035839     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1999927.1999935     Document Type: Conference Paper

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