Paper Info
Title
The challenge of deployment
Abstract
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 the problem, but we ignore these other contexts at our peril, because these ultimately determine whether the technical solution will be adopted. To have any hope of successful adoption, the solution needs to be tailored to the needs of the ultimate users. In this talk, I will first describe the `SoftBridge stack' model for technology. This stack extends the traditional network layers to the media, synchronization, user interface, and people layers and provides a useful approach to motivate networking researchers to think about the context of a given technological solution. Drawing on my many failures, I will then motivate an iterative process for the design, implementation, and deployment of real-world networks. I will reinforce ideas by sketching the history of KioskNet, a low-cost network for developing regions that I worked on from 2005 to 2009.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2502880.2502895
LCDNet@MobiCom
Keywords
Field
DocType
iterative process,technical solution,technological solution,low-cost network,networking researcher,technical aspect,technological challenge,real-world network,economic context,traditional network layer
Synchronization,Software deployment,Software engineering,Iterative and incremental development,Computer science,Knowledge management,Developing regions,User interface,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Srinivasan Keshav13778761.32