Deployments made easy: Essentials of managing a (rural) wireless mesh network

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gabale, Vijay ^a   Mehta, Rupesh ^b   Patani, Jeet ^c   Ramakrishnan, K ^b   Raman, Bhaskaran ^d  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b TCS ^*  (India)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

15.4; TDMA based multi hop MAC; Voice applications

Indexed keywords

15.4; FAULT TOLERANCE MECHANISMS; MULTI-HOP MACS; NETWORK STATISTICS; OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES; OPERATIONAL NETWORK; RURAL DEPLOYMENTS; VOICE APPLICATIONS;

FAULT TOLERANCE; MESH NETWORKING; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; RURAL AREAS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84874890506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2442882.2442896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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