Community network (CN) initiatives have been around for roughly two decades,
evangelizing a distinctly different paradigm for building, maintaining, and sharing network …

Self-organizing Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) based on Delay Tolerant Networking
(DTN), are powerful tools for maintaining or reestablishing telecommunications following …

Serval is an open-source, delay-tolerant wireless ad-hoc networking system designed to
allow communications anywhere and anytime, despite the total loss of supporting …

Participatory resilience of disaster-struck communities requires reliable communication for
self-organized rescue, as conventional communication infrastructure is damaged. Disasters …

Information-centric disruption-tolerant networks (ICN-DTNs) are useful to re-establish mobile
communication in disaster scenarios when telecommunication infrastructures are partially or …

The Servai Mesh and new Serval Mesh Extender 2.0 low-cost, weather-proof, open-source,
infrastructure-communications device is being piloted in Vanuatu during 2017 with the …

Communications play a vital role in the response to disasters and crises. However, existing
communications infrastructure is often impaired, destroyed or overwhelmed during such …

The Servai Mesh Extender is a low-cost open-source infrastructure-independent
telecommunications relay device developed to support telecommunications during and …

Smart-phones are useful in disaster response. However, they have limited battery life, and
during disaster situations, there may be fewer opportunities to recharge them. The result is …

Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) realize client-server interactions via a request-response
message-passing protocol. They simplify distributed application programming by eliminating …