9 papers
Towards Decentralised Resilient Community Cloud Infrastructures
Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Mennan Selimi, Carlos Molina +5
Recent years have seen a trend towards decentralisation - from initiatives on decentralized web to decentralized network infrastructures (e.g community networks). In this position…
Cloudrone: Micro Clouds in the Sky
Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Adisorn Lertsinsrubtavee, Adarsh Jagan S +2
Recent years have witnessed several initiatives on enabling Internet access to the next three billion people. Access to the Internet necessarily translates to access to its service…
Will 5G See its Blind Side? Evolving 5G for Universal Internet Access
Oluwakayode Onireti, Muhammad Ali Imran, Junaid Qadir +1
Internet has shown itself to be a catalyst for economic growth and social equity but its potency is thwarted by the fact that the Internet is off limits for the vast majority of hu…
Bandwidth-aware Service Placement in Community Network Clouds
Mennan Selimi, Llorenc Cerda-Alabern, Liang Wang +3
Seamless computing and service sharing in community networks have been gaining momentum due to the emerging technology of community network micro-clouds (CNMCs). However, running s…
Approximate Networking for Global Access to the Internet for All (GAIA)
Junaid Qadir, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Liang Wang +1
Decades of experience have shown that there is no single one-size-fits-all solution that can be used to provision Internet globally and that invariably there are tradeoffs in the d…
Crisis Analytics: Big Data Driven Crisis Response
Junaid Qadir, Anwaar Ali, Raihan ur Rasool +3
Disasters have long been a scourge for humanity. With the advances in technology (in terms of computing, communications, and the ability to process and analyze big data), our abili…