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Connecting the World of Embedded Mobiles: The RIOT Approach to Ubiquitous Networking for the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly evolving based on low-power comp...
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Bluetooth Mesh under the Microscope: How much ICN is Inside?
Bluetooth (BT) mesh is a new mode of BT operation for low-energy devices...
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Towards Blockchain-enabled Wireless Mesh Networks
Recently, mesh networking and blockchain are two of the hottest technolo...
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Blockchain for Economically Sustainable Wireless Mesh Networks
Decentralization, in the form mesh networking and blockchain, two promis...
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Saving Lives at Sea with UAV-assisted Wireless Networks
In this paper, we investigate traits and trade-offs of a system combinin...
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Advances and Open Problems in Backscatter Networking
Despite significant research in backscatter communication over the past ...
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Design Considerations for Low Power Internet Protocols
The 6lowpan Internet Standard opens sensor networks up to Internet conne...
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WiMesh: Leveraging Mesh Networking For Disaster Communication in Poor Regions of the World
This paper discusses the design, implementation and field trials of WiMesh - a resilient Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) based disaster communication system purpose-built for underdeveloped and rural parts of the world. Mesh networking is a mature area, and the focus of this paper is not on proposing novel models, protocols or other mesh solutions. Instead, the paper focuses on the identification of important design considerations and justifications for several design trade offs in the context of mesh networking for disaster communication in developing countries with very limited resources. These trade-offs are discussed in the context of key desirable traits including security, low cost, low power, size, availability, customization, portability, ease of installation and deployment, and coverage area among others. We discuss at length the design, implementation, and field trial results of the WiMesh system which enables users spread over large geographical regions, to communicate with each other despite the lack of cellular coverage, power, and other communication infrastructure by leveraging multi-hop mesh networking and Wi-Fi equipped handheld devices. Lessons learned along with real-world results are shared for WiMesh deployment in a remote rural mountainous village of Pakistan, and the source code is shared with the research community.
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