"Resource Pooling" for Wireless Networks: Solutions for the Developing World
Junaid Qadir, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Liang Wang, Jon Crowcroft

TL;DR
This paper explores how resource pooling in wireless networks can empower developing communities by providing resilient, efficient, and flexible connectivity solutions that leverage existing technologies and address open challenges.
Contribution
It highlights the unifying role of resource pooling in diverse wireless technologies and discusses its applications and open issues in the context of developing countries.
Findings
Resource pooling enhances resilience and utilization in wireless networks.
It underpins successful technologies like white space and community networks.
Open issues include scalability and equitable access.
Abstract
We live in a world in which there is a great disparity between the lives of the rich and the poor. Technology offers great promise in bridging this gap. In particular, wireless technology unfetters developing communities from the constraints of infrastructure providing a great opportunity to leapfrog years of neglect and technological waywardness. In this paper, we highlight the role of resource pooling for wireless networks in the developing world. Resource pooling involves: (i) abstracting a collection of networked resources to behave like a single unified resource pool and (ii) developing mechanisms for shifting load between the various parts of the unified resource pool. The popularity of resource pooling stems from its ability to provide resilience, high utilization, and flexibility at an acceptable cost. We show that "resource pooling", which is very popular in its various…
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Taxonomy
TopicsOpportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks · Wireless Networks and Protocols · ICT in Developing Communities
