Broadband Internet Access via Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks: Design, Protocol and Experiments

Frank Y. Li, Paolo Bucciol, Lorenzo Vandoni, Nikos Fragoulis, Stefano Zanoli, Luca Leschiutta, Oscar Lázaro
2010 Wireless personal communications  
While bandwidth for Internet access in urban areas is steadily increasing in recent years, many rural areas are still suffering from the effect of the digital divide. This paper presents a broadband Internet access paradigm developed in the context of the ADHOC-SYS project, which was financed by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Program Information and Society Technologies, within the strategic objective of Broadband for All. Aiming at providing reliable Internet access in rural
more » ... d mountainous regions where xDSL connections are not available due to coverage limit, the ADHOCSYS network provides
doi:10.1007/s11277-009-9907-9 fatcat:gutrdmdzb5fgdmw7elyuauilti