[PDF][PDF] Computing for Rural Empowerment: Enabled by Last-Mile Telecommunications (Extended Version)

S Thota, A Nag, S Divyasukhananda, P Goswami… - 2013 - networks.cs.ucdavis.edu
The goal to increase economic and educational exposure, and to promote global health and
wellness, can be achieved through the power of sharing knowledge, technology, and …

VillageShare: Facilitating content generation and sharing in rural networks

DL Johnson, V Pejovic, EM Belding… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
While broadband Internet connectivity has reached a significant part of the world's
population, those living in rural areas of the develo** world suffer from poor Internet …

Exploring {Cross-Application} Cellular Traffic Optimization with Baidu {TrafficGuard}

Z Li, W Wang, T Xu, X Zhong, XY Li, Y Liu… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2016 - usenix.org
As mobile cellular devices and traffic continue their rapid growth, providers are taking larger
steps to optimize traffic, with the hopes of improving user experiences while reducing …

The increased bandwidth fallacy: performance and usage in rural zambia

M Zheleva, P Schmitt, M Vigil, E Belding - Proceedings of the 4th Annual …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Broadband Internet access has become a critical part of socio-economic prosperity;
however, only 6 in 100 inhabitants have access to broadband in develo** countries. This …

Offline downloading in China: A comparative study

Z Li, C Wilson, T Xu, Y Liu, Z Lu, Y Wang - Proceedings of the 2015 …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Although Internet access has become more ubiquitous in recent years, most users in China
still suffer from low-quality connections, especially when downloading large files. To address …

Interactive web caching for slow or intermittent networks

J Chen, L Subramanian - Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
We explore the limitations of existing caching mechanisms in slow networks and propose a
new model of web caching designed for develo** regions called interactive caching …

Disseminating multilayer multimedia content over challenged networks

HJ Hong, T El-Ganainy, CH Hsu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile devices are getting increasingly popular all over the world. Mobile users in
develo** countries however rarely have Internet access which puts them at economic and …

Chale, how much it cost to browse? results from a mobile data price transparency trial in Ghana

N Sambasivan, P Lee, G Hecht, PM Aoki… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Mobile data usage is on the rise globally. In emerging regions, mobile data is particularly
expensive and suffers from the lack of price and data usage transparency needed to make …

Internet bandwidth upgrade: implications on performance and usage in rural zambia

M Zheleva, P Schmitt, M Vigil, E Belding - Information Technologies & …, 2015 - itidjournal.org
Broadband Internet access has become a critical part of socioeconomic prosperity; however,
only six in 100 inhabitants have access to broadband in develo** countries. This limited …