Title :
A routing strategy for a semi-available rural network
Author :
Isaac, SJ ; Hanrahan, HE
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Abstract :
A scenario is presented for rural telecommunication provisioning in which the main links and nodes consist of a mix of highly reliable, highly available types as well as low availability types. A call-by-call `source´ routing strategy for this scenario is presented
Keywords :
telecommunication links; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication network routing; availability; links; network reliability; network routing; nodes; rural telecommunication provisioning; semiavailable rural network; source routing; Availability; Business communication; Costs; Educational institutions; Helium; Optical fiber communication; Routing; Space technology; Telecommunication network reliability; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
AFRICON, 1996., IEEE AFRICON 4th
Conference_Location :
Stellenbosch
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3019-6
DOI :
10.1109/AFRCON.1996.563021
