Amreesh Phokeer
Senka Hadzic
Melissa Densmore
ABSTRACT
This poster presents iNethi, a community wireless network deployed in a peri-urban township of Cape Town, South Africa. Initial usage clearly indicates a demand for Internet-based external services and, to a lesser extent, local services. We focus on the initial months of our deployment, and interaction with locally installed INethi services, as well as the impact of access to the Internet. We present data from our traffic logs, captured during a period of six months. We observed that a large proportion of data is being consumed by software or antivirus updates. The data collected and trends observed will allow iNethi operators to make necessary adjustment to the networks.
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- Amreesh Phokeer, Melissa Densmore, David Johnson, and Nick Feamster. A first look at mobile internet use in township communities in south africa. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, ACM DEV '16, pages 15:1--15:10, New York, NY, USA, 2016. ACM.Google ScholarDigital Library
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- Hadzic, Phokeer, and Johnson. Townshipnet: a localized hybrid tvws-wifi and cloud services network. In 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), pages 1--6, Oct 2016.Google Scholar
- Talal Ahmad, Yasir Zaki, Thomas Pötsh, Jay Chen, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian. Gaius: a new mobile content creation and diffusion ecosystem for emerging regions. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, pages 1--5, 2019.Google ScholarDigital Library
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- iNethi Community Network: A first look at local and Internet traffic usage
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