Communication Network Systems for White Spot Areas

Systèmes de réseau de communication pour les zones blanches

Madoune Robert Seye (1, 2) , Moussa Diallo (3) , Bamba Gueye (1) , Christophe Cambier (2)

1 UCAD - Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar [Sénégal]
2 SU - Sorbonne Université
3 ESP - École Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar

White spot areas depict geographic locations which are not covered by mobile network operators. In Senegal, the Sylvo-pastoral hosted by Ferlo's region has a prominent role according to livestock transhumance. Nevertheless, this region is roughly covered by white spot areas. The lack of cellular network infrastructure is a pitfall for vital information dissemination for agro-pastoralists. Therefore, this paper describes the deployment and testbed performance evaluation in rural and urban environment of a LoRa-based COWShED communication architecture. By leveraging a mesh-based prof-of-concept, tangible results are obtained and thus promote several applications which overcome white spot areas limitations such as stakeholders geolocation, transhumance management, milk collection, etc.

Mots clés: LPWAN; experimentaion; testbed; white spot areas

Domaines: Modélisation et simulation; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Madoune Robert Seye, Moussa Diallo, Bamba Gueye, Christophe Cambier. Communication Network Systems for White Spot Areas. 2021. ⟨hal-03102190v1⟩