A Key 6G Challenge and Opportunity -- Connecting the Remaining 4 Billions: A Survey on Rural Connectivity

June 27, 2019 · The Cartographer · 🏛 arXiv.org

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"Title-pattern auto-detect: A Key 6G Challenge and Opportunity -- Connecting the Remaining 4 Billions: A Survey on Rural Connect"

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Authors Elias Yaacoub, Mohamed-Slim Alouini arXiv ID 1906.11541 Category cs.NI: Networking & Internet Cross-listed cs.IT Citations 38 Venue arXiv.org Last Checked 2 days ago

Abstract

Providing connectivity to around half of the World population living in rural or underprivileged areas is a tremendous challenge, but also a unique opportunity. In this paper, a survey of technologies for providing connectivity to rural areas, and that can help address this challenge, is provided. Fronthaul and backhaul techniques are discussed. In addition, energy and cost efficiency of the studied technologies are analyzed. Typical application scenarios in rural areas are discussed, and several country-specific use cases are surveyed. Directions for future evolution of rural connectivity are outlined.