A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
Title : Community Networks. Definition and taxonomy
Authors : Jose Saldana
Andres Arcia-Moret
Bart Braem
Leandro Navarro
Ermanno Pietrosemoli
Carlos Rey-Moreno
Arjuna Sathiaseelan
Marco Zennaro
Filename : draft-manyfolks-gaia-community-networks-00.txt
Pages : 23
Date : 2014-06-18
Abstract:
Several communities have developed initiatives to build large scale,
self-organized and decentralized community wireless networks that use
wireless technologies (including long distance) due to the reduced
cost of using the unlicensed spectrum. This can be motivated by
different causes: Sometimes the reluctance, or the impossibility, of
network operators to provide wired and cellular infrastructures to
rural/remote areas has motivated the rise of these networks. Some
other times, they are built as a complement and an alternative to
wired Internet access.
These community wireless networks have self sustainable business
models that provide more localised communication services as well as
providing Internet backhaul support through peering agreements with
traditional network operators who see such community led networks as
a way to extend their reach to rural/remote areas at lower cost.
This document defines these networks, summarizes their technological
characteristics and classifies them, also talking about their socio-
economic sustainability models.
There exist other networks, also based on sharing wireless resources
of the users, but not built upon the initiative of the users
themselves, nor owned by them. The characterization of these
networks is not the objective of this document.
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