While many tools and methodologies for assessing social impact exist and are used in the
social science and global development fields, there is a lack of standard methods for …

Researching and designing Internet infrastructure solutions in rural and tribal contexts
requires reciprocal relationships between researchers and community partners …

Globally, 43% of households lack Internet access, primarily in regions where deployment
and/or service costs are prohibitive, including in the least developed countries, rural …

Regulators are in the process of framing regulations to allow secondary use of vacant TV
channels while protecting TV broadcast services from harmful interference. While the US …

Television white spaces (TVWS) refers to vacant channels in the ultra-high frequency (UHF)
band between 470 and 690 MHz assigned for television broadcast and can be used …

The lack of sufficient fixed-line communication infrastructure in African rural areas has
resulted in wireless communication being the only cost effective alternative solution for …

Broadband penetration in rural areas of the develo** countries is significantly low. The
unique challenges in enabling rural connectivity are sparsity of population locations and …

Even at the current age of sophisticated communication systems, remote rural communities
with low user density throughout the world lack broadband Internet service of good quality …

Our society is increasingly reliant on embedded systems for many critical day-to-day
activities. Nowadays, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are widely used almost everywhere …

Access to the television white space by white space devices comes with a major technical
challenge: white space devices can interfere with existing television signals. Two methods …