- Program Chairs:
- Arjuna Sathiaseelan,
- Jon Crowcroft,
- Emmanuel Lochin
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2013 ACM MobiCom Workshop on Lowest Cost Denominator Networking -- LCDNet 2013.
Internet has crossed new frontiers with access getting faster and cheaper. The Internet Society's recent global Internet survey reveals that the Internet should be considered as a basic human birthright. On one end, we have the developed world where access is getting faster and services being developed to utilize faster access. On the other end, there are people who do not have access to the Internet at all. Some may not be able to get it due to lack of infrastructure support (which accounts to the notion of digital divide problem faced by most people in developed countries). There have been significant initiatives to solve the problem of affordable infrastructure. Crucially, most of these approaches address infrastructural barriers without addressing economic ones. Leaving connectivity for all to be governed by market economics is a major impediment to achieving the full benefits of the Internet, and that basic Internet access should be made freely available to all due to its societal benefits. The current Internet access model governed by market economics makes it practically infeasible for enabling universal access especially for those with socio-economic barriers.
There are both research and policy challenges to the realization of a future Internet capability that will offer appropriate access to all parts of society. The goal of the ACM LCDNet 2013 workshop is to address a range of research challenges (feasibility, scalability, security, new privacy challenges, robustness, resource allocation, sustainability, performance etc.) that are needed to overcome to enable universal Internet access.
The call for papers attracted several submissions on a wide range of networking topics. The papers were peer reviewed by a minimum of three reviewers and were extremely selective. The program committee finally accepted 9 papers (including posters). We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for both academic and industry researchers.
We also encourage attendees to attend the keynote presentations. These valuable and insightful talks can and will guide us to a better understanding of the challenges in enabling Universal Internet access:
The Challenge of Deployment, Prof Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Nanosatellites for Universal Network Access, Scott Burleigh (JPL, NASA)
Proceeding Downloads
The challenge of deployment
Deploying a low-cost network in the field is not just a technological challenge, but an exercise in the introduction of technology in a particular social, cultural, and economic context. As designers, we are all too focussed on the technical aspects of ...
Binder: a system to aggregate multiple internet gateways in community networks
We present a novel system termed Binder that seamlessly aggregates multiple geographically distributed Internet gateways in community networks. The proxy based approach taken in Binder allows for applications on end-user devices to enjoy the benefits ...
How much can we carry?: a capacity analysis of delay tolerant networking in developing countries
In developing countries, where infrastructure data networks often provide only limited services, are too expensive, or are not available in wide parts, Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) provide a valuable complement for communications. Store-carry-forward ...
Raabta: low-cost video conferencing for the developing world
We present Raabta, a video conferencing system for the developing world, which is designed specifically to cater to the technological, social, and economic condition of its target audience. Specifically, to minimize the cost and the energy footprint of ...
CARPOOL: extending free internet access over DTN in urban environment
In order to address the challenge of digital exclusion, we introduce an access method based on message ferrying that enables free delay-tolerant Internet access to all. Targeting an urban scenario, where means of public transport, such as buses and ...
SocialDTN: a DTN implementation for digital and social inclusion
Despite of the importance of access to computers and to the Internet for the development of people and their inclusion in society, there are people that still suffer with digital divide and social exclusion. Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) ...
Providing security for wireless community networks
- Milena Radenkovic,
- Heidi Howard,
- Jon Crowcroft,
- Murray Goulden,
- Christian Greiffenhagen,
- Derek McAuley,
- Richard Mortier
This paper describes a new Internet access paradigm based on Lowest Cost Denominator Networking - the Public Access WiFi Service (PAWS) - that utilises the unused capacity of home broadband connections and provides users who are unable to afford paying ...
Filling the gaps of unused capacity through a fountain coded dissemination of information
Lowest Cost Denominator Networking (LCDnet) envisions "breaking the mould of thinking that law of economics should govern connectivity to all". It brings together a multi-layer resource pooling of Internet technologies at several levels to support ...
Traffic shaping for enabling less-than-best effort services at the edges of broadband connections
Broadband connection sharing constitutes a network resource pooling technique that could evolve toward supporting the establishment of the "Free Internet for All" notion. This technique could be implemented through the User-Provided Network model in ...
On the trade-off between spectrum efficiency with dedicated access and short end-to-end transmission delays with random access in DVB-RCS2
This paper analyses the performance of TCP over random and dedicated access methods in the context of DVB-RCS2. Random access methods introduce a lower connection delay compared to dedicated methods. We investigate the potential to improve the ...
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Acceptance Rates
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| LCDNet '13 | 13 | 9 | 69% |
| Overall | 13 | 9 | 69% |