ANU-MIMO: A Community Wireless Network Infrastructure for Remote Populations

Large-scale, scalable, distributed, decentralised MIMO (SDD-MIMO) [1] can be deployed to extend existing broadband infrastructure to remote communities. The network complements existing back-haul networks by providing an omnidirectional broadband service to a large and scalable number of distant users distributed over a very large area. The Indonesian archipelago poses some challenging scenarios with its mountainous landscapes and some 18000 islands, often trans-oceanic and separated beyond horizon. In this paper, we propose SDD-MIMO as a solution for many of these difficult scenarios and present simulations for two representative examples.