Virtual Cellular ISPs

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects Pub Date : 2017-10-16 DOI:10.1145/3127502.3127515

Talal Ahmad, L. Subramanian

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Achieving reliable cellular connectivity in rural areas is a challenge for several reasons: lack of economic incentives for telecom providers; high deployment and maintenance costs; low purchasing power; poor and unreliable power infrastructures; poor backhaul support; and lack of ground expertise. This paper proposes the design, implementation and deployment of the Virtual Cellular ISPs (VC-ISP), a ground-up cellular network architecture that enables third-party vendors to offer cellular coverage and mobile services to rural areas in an extensible manner. Unlike conventional monolithic cellular network architecture, the VC-ISP model enables a distributed (and potentially disjointed) collection of open, programmable cellular base stations to communicate using a novel intermittency-aware naming and addressing mechanism. This system enables VC-ISPs to provide reliable service with graceful recovery from failures under harsh network conditions. VC-ISP offers support for deploying local applications. Here, we demonstrate the technical viability of the VC-ISP model using a real-world 3-node VC-ISP deployment, including installation of a solar-powered cell tower in rural Ghana and additional emulation experiments in controlled environments.

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虚拟蜂窝isp

在农村地区实现可靠的蜂窝连接是一项挑战，原因如下:电信提供商缺乏经济激励;部署和维护成本高;购买力低;电力基础设施差且不可靠;回程支持能力差;以及缺乏地面专业知识。本文提出了虚拟蜂窝isp (VC-ISP)的设计、实现和部署，这是一种底层蜂窝网络架构，使第三方供应商能够以可扩展的方式向农村地区提供蜂窝覆盖和移动服务。与传统的单片蜂窝网络架构不同，VC-ISP模型支持分布式(可能脱节的)开放可编程蜂窝基站集合，使用新颖的间歇性感知命名和寻址机制进行通信。该系统使vc - isp能够在恶劣的网络条件下提供可靠的故障恢复服务。VC-ISP提供部署本地应用程序的支持。在这里，我们使用现实世界的3节点VC-ISP部署来证明VC-ISP模型的技术可行性，包括在加纳农村安装太阳能蜂窝塔和在受控环境中进行额外的仿真实验。

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