DakNet: rethinking connectivity in developing nations

By Alex Pentland, R. Fletcher, A. Hasson. Computer, 2004

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

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Opportunistic networking: data forwarding in disconnected mobile ad hoc networks (2006, background): “One such example is the DakNet Project [5] aimed at realizing a very low-cost asynchronous ICT infrastructure to provide connectivity to rural villages in India, where it is not cost-effective to deploy standard Internet access.”
Serendipity: enabling remote computing among intermittently connected mobile devices (2012, background): “These networks have been studied extensively in a variety of settings, from military [26] to disasters [15] to the developing world [27].”
SenCar: An Energy-Efficient Data Gathering Mechanism for Large-Scale Multihop Sensor Networks (2006, background): “IN recent years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) havebeen playing an increasingly important role in a wide range of applications, such as medical treatment, outer space exploration, battlefield surveillance, emergency response, and so forth [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].”
A Key 6G Challenge and Opportunity—Connecting the Base of the Pyramid: A Survey on Rural Connectivity (2020, background): “Pioneering work using buses as “data mules” to carry data in rural areas of developing countries was performed in [170].”
Imagined Connectivities: Synthesized Conceptions of Public Wi-Fi in Urban India (2017, background): “Users invest significant effort in improvising workarounds for low costs; examples of which include side-loading, piracy, and delayed access [51, 54, 66, 74].”
MaxProp: Routing for Vehicle-Based Disruption-Tolerant Networks (2006, background): “The assumptions we make are based on our existing DTN network (see Section IV) composed of buses and desktop computing hardware.”
How Small Labels Create Big Improvements (2006, background): “networking using buses following predictable routes [5], interplanetary networking [1], interfacing with sensor networks, and using mobile nodes to bridge data between remote village networks and the Internet [6].”
The human infrastructure of ICTD (2010, background): “DakNet [11] human transport networks (busses, motorcycles, ox carts)”
Performance analysis of mobility-assisted routing (2006, background): “Alternatively, operation over disconnected networks may be desirable for economic reasons, as for example in the case of low-cost Internet provision in remote communities [13] or third-world countries [21,27].”
GeOpps: Geographical Opportunistic Routing for Vehicular Networks (2007, background): “There are a number of existing delay tolerant routing protocols ( [18, 20, 17], etc) These protocols exploit different mechanisms to route a message to the destination such as statistics of previous encounters, or precise mobility schedules to find the best routes.”
Routing in a delay tolerant network (2004, background): “While many rural connectivity projects involve attempts to provide conventional Internet access to remote areas, a small number of projects are taking an alternative approach which focuses on asynchronous messaging in order to greatly reduce the cost of connectivity [25, 20, 23].”
Disruption-Tolerant Networking: A Comprehensive Survey on Recent Developments and Persisting Challenges (2012, background): “Researchers presented DakNet [24] , a project that aims at providing connectivity to remote villages where a few basic connection-enabled computer systems are installed in small booths with access points in order to serve villagers that require access to E-mail, online banking services, governmental”
Practical Routing in Delay-Tolerant Networks (2005, methodology): “Current DTN-like networks have been built using static routing [11, 14].”
Directional routing and scheduling for green vehicular delay tolerant networks (2012, methodology): “The application examples include the use of vehicular DTN that provides low cost digital communication for remote villages [4] and vehicular sensing platforms for urban monitoring such as CarTel [5].”
Routing in Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks: A Taxonomy, Survey and Challenges (2013, background): “Networks (ANs) [12] and suburb networks for developing region [13].”
Prioritized epidemic routing for opportunistic networks (2007, background): “Applications of DTNs include military communications [14], inter-planetary networks [6], networks in under-developed areas [15, 1], or data exfiltration [5].”
Intelligent fluid infrastructure for embedded networks (2004, background): “Our system can be considered as a new class of delay tolerant networks aimed at embedded devices where battery resources are scarce.”