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2G/3G network measurements in rural areas of India

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ACM DEV '13: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2442882.2442938

Published: 11 January 2013 Publication History

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Recent years have seen rapid cellular expansion in urban and rural India [1], providing an avenue to bridge the digital divide. However there is little understanding of the performance of cellular data connectivity in different geographies. We take a first step towards this. We are planning to characterize the performance of cellular data networks available across different locations, rural and urban, in India through a large scale experimental setup consisting of more than 50 measurement points across the country. We hope our findings will reveal capacity provisioning and network design characteristics that telecom operators follow in deploying 2G/3G connectivity in different areas.

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2G/3G network measurements in rural areas of India
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
2. Networks
  1. Network types
    1. Mobile networks
    2. Wireless access networks

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ACM DEV '13: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development

January 2013

233 pages

ISBN:9781450318563

DOI:10.1145/2442882

Conference Chairs:
Bill Thies
Microsoft Research India
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Amit Nanavati
IBM India Research Labs

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January 11 - 12, 2013

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