@techreport{Rademacher2015, author = {Rademacher, Michael}, title = {Performance estimation and optimization of the IEEE802.11 MAC layer for long distance point-to-point links}, isbn = {978-3-96043-020-9}, issn = {1869-5272}, doi = {10.18418/978-3-96043-020-9}, institution = {Fachbereich Informatik}, series = {Technical Report / Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. Department of Computer Science}, number = {01-2015}, pages = {118}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Rural areas often lack affordable broadband Internet connectivity, mainly due to the CAPEX and especially OPEX of traditional operator equipment [HEKN11]. This digital divide limits the access to knowledge, health care and other services for billions of people. Different approaches to close this gap were discussed in the last decade [SPNB08]. In most rural areas satellite bandwidth is expensive and cellular networks (3G,4G) as well as WiMAX suffer from the usually low population density making it hard to amortize the costs of a base station [SPNB08].}, language = {en} }