A portable wireless-based architecture for solving minimum digital divide problems.

Fenu, Gianni; Piras, Luca

Abstract

In today's society digital services have become the key to the success of anyone. Hence, for being competitive it is important that these services are available, employ the latest technology and are low cost. Unfortunately, it often happens that these good intentions do not correspond to reality. In this paper an information system is proposed, targeted at those small realities affected by the digital divide and at those companies that employ out of date, high cost technologies, that provides data and voice services in a unified manner using heterogeneous devices. The system utilizes innovative technologies, in particular wireless technology, to deliver low cost solutions. The distinctive feature is that it does not depend on the network hardware infrastructure and the underlying platform. Furthermore, it deals with the configuration, accounting, security, management, and monitoring aspects while maintaining its flexibility and simplicity of use both for the administrator and end user.

Citation

FENU, G. and PIRAS, L. 2008. A portable wireless-based architecture for solving minimum digital divide problems. In Reznik, L. and Popescu, M. (eds.) Proceedings of 4th International conference on wireless and mobile communications 2008 (ICWMC 2008), 27 July - 1 August 2008, Athens, Greece. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 130-136. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/icwmc.2008.21

• Conference Name: 4th International conference on wireless and mobile communications 2008 (ICWMC 2008)
• Conference Location: Athens, Greece
• Start Date: Jul 27, 2008
• End Date: Aug 1, 2008
• Acceptance Date: Apr 21, 2008
• Online Publication Date: Aug 8, 2008
• Publication Date: Aug 8, 2008
• Deposit Date: Mar 2, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 2, 2021
• Publisher: IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Pages: 130-136
• ISBN: 9780769532745
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/icwmc.2008.21
• Keywords: Computer network management; Software portability; Technology social factors; Wireless hotspot
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1239189