Low cost data access system for rural and under-served areas

Author

Mailula, N.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tshwane Univ. of Technol., Pretoria

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

17-17 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

107

Abstract

In this paper, attention is focused on the challenges that rural and under-served areas in South Africa pose in the provision of telecommunication services. The aim is to provide access to information (data e.g., Internet) to rural and under-served areas at an efficient and affordable cost. Available technologies and integration of currently emerging wireless local area networks (WLAN) that support IEEE 802.11b standard with the Internet are investigated. Configuration issues are discussed and technology set-up demonstrated. Measurements and simulation are performed to validate the suitability of deploying the technology in those areas

Keywords

Internet; multi-access systems; telecommunication services; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11b standard; Internet; WLAN; Wi-Fi; information services; low cost data access system; multiuser access; rural areas; telecommunication services provision; under-served areas; wireless fidelity; wireless local area networks; Costs; Frequency; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Peer to peer computing; Personal communication networks; Spread spectrum communication; Standardization; Wide area networks; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AFRICON, 2004. 7th AFRICON Conference in Africa

Conference_Location

Gaborone

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8605-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AFRICON.2004.1406642

Filename

1406642