Abstract:
Wide rural areas are often short of basic
communication facilities and suffer from harsh geographic and
climatic environments. Wireless networks which offer ease of
operation and low maintenance cost appears to be a fast and
feasible choice for service operators to install their individual
networks.
We first propose a refined wireless networking method to
foster communication construction in rural areas. A one-pipe four-
layer wireless simulation model, called Service Model, is
highlighted in the paper to implement the network planning
method. The Service Model collects raw data from given rural
areas and abstracts these data by Bowing them through four
technical layers to form the predicted technical wireless network.
Thereafter, a software simulation environment, BrwsLi, is coded
in freeware Scilab to realize the Service Model for the sake of
instantiation. This simulation environment is able to set up a
specified rural network by constructing topology for the network
on the depicted areas, simulate the network traffic, and evaluate
network performance and economic efficiency. The Newcastle
region in Kwazulu-Natal of South Africa is chosen as the sample
of real-world cases to demonstrate how to practically apply
Service Model and present how to operate BrwsLi properly.
