In telecommunications, network service accessibility as a requirement is closely related to equitably serving the population residing at locations that can most appropriately be described as remote. Remote connectivity, however, would have benefited from a more inclusive consideration in the existing generations of mobile communications. To remedy this, sustainability and its social impact are being positioned as key drivers of sixth generation's (6G) research and standardization activities. In particular, there has been a conscious attempt to understand the demands of remote wireless connectivity, which has led to a better understanding of the challenges that lie ahead. In this perspective, this article overviews the key challenges associated with constraints on network design and deployment to be addressed for providing broadband connectivity to rural areas, and proposes novel approaches and solutions for bridging the digital divide in those regions.

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Abstract-Cognitive Radio (CR) networks are emerging as new paradigm of communication and channels sharing in multimedia and wireless networks. In this paper, we address the problem of video transmission over shared CR networks using progressive compression source coding associated to fountain codes. We consider a TDMA-based transmission where many subscribers share the same infrastructure. Each Secondary User (SU) is assigned one time slot where he transmits with a certain probability. The given model allows each SU to transmit opportunistically in the remaining slots. Therefore, packets are not only corrupted by reason of Primary traffic interruptions, but also we consider losses caused by collisions between several SUs due to the Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing. We use a redundancy-based model for link maintenance to compensate for the loss of spectrum resources caused by the primary traffic reclaims. Moreover, we setup up many Secondary User Links to mitigate the collision effects. Numerical simulations are performed to evaluate the proposed approaches in view of the average Goodput. We conduct a stability and performance analysis of the system and we highlight the achieved gains when using our transmission model.

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