A Comparative Study of Rural Networking Solutions for Global Internet Access

Khalil, Mohsin; Shamsi, Zaheer; Shabbir, Akmal; Samad, Abdul

doi:10.1109/cisct.2019.8777422

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“…The local businesses should also be encouraged to use facilities offered by internet services, and enlightened with the benefits from being online. 4) Business models: The lack of innovative business models is the major challenge for rural connectivity [3], [7], [8], [70]. The traditional business models used for urban scenarios are not suitable for rural scenarios as those focus on high ARPU, high customer base, and long investment duration [5].…”

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A Survey on Rural Internet Connectivity in India

Kumar

Ihita

Chaudhari

et al. 2022

2022 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems &Amp; NETworkS (COMSNETS)

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Rural connectivity has been a widely researched topic for several years. In India, around 50% of the population have poor or no connectivity to access digital services. Numerous technological solutions are being tested around the world, as well as in India. The key driving factor for reducing the digital divide is to lower the cost of network deployments and improve service adoption rate by exploring different technological and economical solutions. This survey aims to study rural connectivity and create awareness about the use-cases, state of the art projects and initiatives, challenges, and technologies to improve digital connectivity in rural parts of India. The strengths and weaknesses of different technologies tested for rural connectivity are analysed. The study includes a brief discussion of rural connectivity trials performed in India and around the world. We also explore the rural use-case of the 6G communication system, which would suit the rural Indian scenario.

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Section: Challenges Specific To Indian Settingmentioning

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“…The scope of this research lies in exploring different technologies and understanding their suitability for different rural scenarios. The research in [70] presents different rural technologies with their viability in terms of network architecture, performance, key characteristics, and deployment concerns.…”

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A Survey on Rural Internet Connectivity in India

Kumar

Ihita

Chaudhari

et al. 2022

2022 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems &Amp; NETworkS (COMSNETS)

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“…In [9], for instance, an overview of the main smart and cost-aware fronthaul and backhaul solutions for rural connectivity has been provided for the most common scenarios. Similarly, authors in [10] compared relevant communication paradigms to evaluate their effectiveness in rural environments, based on their network architectures, performance parameters, and deployability. On the other hand, authors in [11] firstly developed a simplified model to evaluate the required subscription fees for users living in rural and low income environments in order to amortize the costs of a 5G architecture, eventually proving that the UAV-based solution would be effective.…”

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Coverage Analysis for UAV-Assisted Cellular Networks in Rural Areas

Matracia

Kishk

Alouini

2021

IEEE Open J. Veh. Technol.

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Despite coverage enhancement in rural areas is one of the main requirements in next generations of wireless networks (i.e., 5G and 6G), the low expected profit prevents telecommunication providers from investing in such sparsely populated areas. Hence, it is required to design and deploy cost efficient alternatives for extending the cellular infrastructure to these regions. A concrete mathematical model that characterizes and clearly captures the aforementioned problem might be a key-enabler for studying the efficiency of any potential solution. Unfortunately, the commonly used mathematical tools that model large scale wireless networks are not designed to capture the unfairness, in terms of cellular coverage, suffered by exurban and rural areas. In big cities, in fact, cellular deployment is essentially capacity driven and thus cellular base station densities are maximum in the town centers and decline when getting far from them. In this paper, a new stochastic geometry-based model is implemented in order to show the coverage spatial variation among urban, suburban, and exurban settlements. Indeed, by implementing inhomogeneous Poisson point processes (PPPs) it is possible to study the performance metrics in a realistic scenario where terrestrial base stations (TBSs) are clustered around the urban center while outer aerial base stations (ABSs) are uniformly distributed outside an urban exclusion zone. Based on this, our simulation results can quantify the improvement, in terms of coverage probability, that even a surprisingly low density of ABSs can bring to peripheral regions depending on the extension of the exclusion zone, enabling us to draw insightful considerations.

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Coverage Analysis for UAV-Assisted Cellular Networks in Rural Areas

Matracia,

Kishk,

Alouini

2021

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Despite coverage enhancement in rural areas is one of the main requirements in next generations of wireless networks (i.e., 5G and 6G), the low expected profit prevents telecommunication providers from investing in such sparsely populated areas. Hence, it is required to design and deploy cost efficient alternatives for extending the cellular infrastructure to these regions. A concrete mathematical model that characterizes and clearly captures the aforementioned problem might be a key-enabler for studying the efficiency of any potential solution.Unfortunately, the commonly used mathematical tools that model large scale wireless networks are not designed to capture the unfairness, in terms of cellular coverage, suffered by exurban and rural areas. In big cities, in fact, cellular deployment is essentially capacity driven and thus cellular base station densities are maximum in the town centers and decline when getting far from them. In this paper, a new stochastic geometry-based model is implemented in order to show the coverage spatial variation among urban, suburban, and exurban settlements. Indeed, by implementing inhomogeneous Poisson point processes (PPPs) it is possible to study the performance metrics in a realistic scenario where terrestrial base stations (TBSs) are clustered around the urban center while outer aerial base stations (ABSs) are uniformly distributed outside an urban exclusion zone. Based on this, our simulation results can quantify the improvement, in terms of coverage probability, that even a surprisingly low density of ABSs can bring to peripheral regions depending on the extension of the exclusion zone, enabling us to draw insightful considerations.

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A Comparative Study of Rural Networking Solutions for Global Internet Access

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

A Survey on Rural Internet Connectivity in India

A Survey on Rural Internet Connectivity in India

Coverage Analysis for UAV-Assisted Cellular Networks in Rural Areas

Coverage Analysis for UAV-Assisted Cellular Networks in Rural Areas

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