Decoding the divide: Analyzing disparities in broadband plans offered by major US ISPs

U Paul, V Gunasekaran, J Liu, TN Narechania… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Digital equity in Internet access is often measured along three axes: availability, affordability,
and adoption. Most prior work focuses on availability; the other two aspects have received …

PASTO: enabling secure and efficient task offloading in trustZone-enabled edge clouds

Y Li, D Zeng, L Gu, A Zhu, Q Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Offloading tasks to edge servers has been regarded as a potential way to solve the
computation resource poverty problem of the end devices like autonomous vehicles …

The efficacy of the connect America fund in addressing US internet access inequities

H Manda, V Srinivasavaradhan, L Koduru… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Residential fixed broadband internet access in the US remains inequitable, despite
significant taxpayer investment. This paper evaluates the efficacy of the Connect America …

Mending the Fabric: the Contentious, Collaborative Work of Repairing Broadband Maps

B Palacios Abad, E Belding, M Vigil-Hayes… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In 2011, the United Nations declared Internet access to be a basic human right. Achieving
universal Internet access has been a longstanding goal of governments around the world. In …

Bridging the digital divide in the US

A Espín, C Rojas - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2024 - Elsevier
The internet plays a vital role in everyday life across the world. The US, however, has seen a
slowdown in household broadband adoption since 2010, creating a gap between connected …

Internet inequity in Chicago: Adoption, affordability, and availability

T Mangla, U Paul, A Gupta, NP Marwell… - … Availability (August 5 …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Lack of access to high-quality Internet connectivity affects how people participate in all
aspects of life, from education to work to recreation; disparities in Internet access thus carry …

Co-Designing Location-based Games for Broadband Data Collection

J Duval, S Hagemann, TA Ikwunne… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Crowdsourced data collection is a scalable approach to collecting mobile broadband
performance data across space. However, existing platforms for crowdsourced mobile …

Red is Sus: Automated Identification of Low-Quality Service Availability Claims in the US National Broadband Map

ST Nabi, Z Wen, B Ritter, S Hasan - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The FCC's National Broadband Map aspires to provide an unprecedented view into
broadband availability in the US. However, this map, which also determines eligibility for …

Woes, Workarounds, and Wishes of Users Living in a Multinetwork Reality

MN Hossain, M Vigil-Hayes - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Despite efforts towards pervasive, high-speed broadband connectivity, users worldwide
continue to experience a persistent multinetwork reality–a reality of intermittent Internet …

Map** Cellular Network Evolution and Infrastructure Criticality: A Nationwide Analysis

V Srinivasavaradhan, O Park… - Available at SSRN …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
The introduction of 5G technology has changed the mobile broadband landscape, yielding
faster speeds, lower latencies, and potentially more widespread coverage. In this paper, we …