Internet for the developing world: Offline internet access at modem-speed dialup connections

Users in the developing-world are typically forced to access the Internet at a fraction of the speed achievable by a standard v.90 modem. In this paper we present an architecture to enable offline access to the Internet at the maximum possible speed achievable by a standard modem. Our proposed archi...

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Published in2007 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development pp. 1 - 13
Main Authors Saif, U., Chudhary, A.L., Butt, S., Butt, N.F., Murtaza, G.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2007
Subjects
Africa
Communications technology
Costs
Disruption tolerant networking
Feedback
Gender equity
Humans
Internet
Prototypes
Radio broadcasting
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ISBN9781424419906
1424419905
DOI10.1109/ICTD.2007.4937394

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Summary:Users in the developing-world are typically forced to access the Internet at a fraction of the speed achievable by a standard v.90 modem. In this paper we present an architecture to enable offline access to the Internet at the maximum possible speed achievable by a standard modem. Our proposed architecture provides a mechanism for multiplexing the scarce and expensive international Internet bandwidth over higher bandwidth p2p dialup connections within a developing country. Our system combines a number of architectural components, such as incentive-driven p2p data transfer, intelligent connection interleaving and content-prefetching. This paper presents a detailed design, implementation and evaluation of our dialup p2p data transfer architecture inspired by Bittorrent.
ISBN:9781424419906
1424419905
DOI:10.1109/ICTD.2007.4937394