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Firmware

For Linksys WRT54G

Our customized Freifunk firmware with IPv6 packages. Download and check the README file

Tools

Useful Documents

Wireless Networking in the Developing World

Building a Rural Wireless Mesh Network A do-it-yourself guide to planning and building a Freifunk based mesh network. This is a step-by-step guide on converting a Linksys WRT54GL into a mesh node.

Meraka Research papers

David's research work

uClinux course presented to meraka staff

Day 1: D.L. Johnson, Survey of embedded operating systems - why uClinux, The uclinux environment - the directory structure

Day 2: D.L. Johnson, Using the configuration tools for the kernel and user applications, Adding user application to uClinux

Day 3: D.L. Johnson, The cross compiling tool chain (gcc, as, ld, objdump, objcopy), Memory architecture of the arm7tdmi processor - configuring uclinux for the arm

Day 4: D.L. Johnson, To "Boot loader" or not to "Boot loader, Hardware access and device drivers

Day 5: D.L. Johnson, Debugging applications with gdb, Downloading applications to the development kit using JTAG

2006

Conference paper: D.L. Johnson, Y. Kaka, J. Hay, 2006 Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) conference: A new grid based test bed environment for carrying out ad-hoc networking experiments

Conference poster: D.L. Johnson, Y. Kaka, J. Hay, 2006 Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) conference: A new grid based test bed environment for carrying out ad-hoc networking experiments

Workshop poster: D.L. Johnson, 2006 Association for Progressive Communication workshop in London sponsored by the IDRC: Wireless Africa - The quest to connect 450 million rural people in Africa

2007

Conference paper: D.L. Johnson, A. Lysko 2007 Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) conference: Overview of the Meraka wireless grid test bed for evaluation of ad-hoc routing protocols

Conference presentation: D.L. Johnson, A. Lysko 2007 Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) conference: Overview of the Meraka wireless grid test bed for evaluation of ad-hoc routing protocols

Journal paper: D.L. Johnson, A. Lysko, Special issue on "Advances in Wireless Mesh Networks" of the Journal of special issues on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing, Springer US, "Comparison Of MANET Routing Protocols Using A New Grid Based Test Bed Environment"

Conference paper: D.L. Johnson, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2007), Evaluation of a single radio rural mesh network in South Africa

Conference poster: D.L. Johnson, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2007), Evaluation of a single radio rural mesh network in South Africa

2008

Journal paper: D.L. Johnson, G.P. Hancke, Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier, Comparison of two routing metrics in OLSR on a grid based mesh network

Masters thesis: Performance analysis of mesh networks in indoor and outdoor wireless testbeds

Conference paper - draft: D.L. Johnson, C. Aichele, N.Ntlatlapa, 2nd IFIP International Symposium on Wireless Communications and Information Technology in Developing Countries (WCITD’2008): A simple pragmatic approach to mesh routing using BATMAN

Conference paper - draft: D.L. Johnson, K. Roux 2007, Wireless Networks and Systems for Developing Regions (WiNS-DR) : Building rural wireless networks: Lessons learnt and future directions

Conference paper - draft: ALBERT A. LYSKO, DAVID L. JOHNSON, The 6th WSEAS Int. Conf. on APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETICS, WIRELESS and OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS (ELECTROSCIENCE '08) : Building A Numerical Study of Propagation Effects in a Wireless Mesh Test Bed

Karel's research work

Bringing connectivity to rural Zambia using a collaborative approach

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