HopScotch-a low-power renewable energy base station network for rural broadband access

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  McGuire, Colin ^a   Brew, Malcolm R ^b   Darbari, Faisal ^a   Bolton, Gregour ^a   McMahon, Anthony ^b   Crawford, David H ^a   Weiss, Stephan ^a   Stewart, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b Steepest Ascent Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 GHZ BAND; BROADBAND ACCESS; COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP; LARGE DATA RATE; LOW COSTS; LOW POWER; RADIO TECHNOLOGIES; RELAY NETWORK; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE SOURCES; RUNNING-IN; RURAL BROADBAND; SCALABLE SOLUTION; STATION NETWORK; TRANSMISSION POWER; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY; WHITE SPACE; WIRELESS BROADBAND ACCESS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; FREQUENCY BANDS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; RURAL AREAS;

BASE STATIONS;

EID: 84872873199     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1687-1499-2012-112     Document Type: Review

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