Daknet

THE VILLAGE AREA NETWORK

Challenges to rural connectivity
 Lack of sensitization on the use and benefits of ICT in rural
areas.
 Most Rural areas don’t have infrastructure to support cheap
and good connectivity.
 Poor internet access
 Availability of power is also a challenge.
Introduction

 DakNet, is an ad hoc network and an internet

service planted on the applied science, which
uses wireless technology to provide an
asynchronous digital connectivity, it is the
intermediate of wireless and asynchronous
service that is the beginning of a technical way
to universal broadband connectivity.
 DakNet, is a network which uses wireless
technology serves the digital connectivity
and also the ad-hoc connectivity
 DakNet takes advantages of the existing
transportation and communication
infrastructure to provide digital connectivity.
 It was developed by MIT Media Lab
researchers.
 DakNet whose name derives from the Hindi
word "Dak" for postal combines a physical
means of transportation with wireless data
transfer to extend the internet connectivity
that an uplink, a cyber cafe or post office
provides.
MOBILE AD-HOC CONNECTIVITY
 The Ad-hoc wireless network acts as advantage of the existing
communications and transmitting infrastructure to distribute digital
connectivity to outlying villages lacking a digital communications
infrastructure.
 DakNet transmits data over short point to-point links between kiosks
and portable storage devices, called mobile access points (MAPs).
 An ad hoc network is a collection of autonomous nodes or
terminals that communicate with each other by forming a multi-
hop radio network and maintaining connectivity in a decentralized
manner.
DAKNET ARCHITECTURE.
 It is a unique and proprietary network software that distributes bandwidth
from Internet connection.
 Existing backbones become wireless uplinks for Mobile Access Points that
are mounted on vehicles to provide broadband "drive-by Wi-Fi" access as
they pass through rural areas.
 Main parts of DakNet architecture are
Mobile access point
Hub
Kiosk
IMPLEMENTATION OF DAKNET
 DakNet is a wireless package with the base stations. It establishes a cost-effective
network for data connectivity in regions lacking communications infrastructure.
Instead of trying to relay data over long distances, which is expensive, DakNet
transmits data over short point-to point links between kiosks and portable storage
devices called Mobile Access Points (MAP).
 Mounted and powered on a bus or motorcycle with a small generator MAP
physically transports data between public kiosks and private communications
devices and between kiosks and a hub (for non-real time internet access).
 Low-cost Wi-Fi radio transceivers transfer data stored in MAP at high bandwidth for
each point-to-point connection.
 The implementation process starts with configuring the Hub uplink and server, then
to connecting real-time nodes directly or through repeaters, then to installing
Mobile Access Points and store-and-forward nodes, and finally to network testing,
troubleshooting and training.
DAKNET WIRELESS PROCESS
 DakNet allows rural villages to exchange messages and video through a
mobile ISP.
 By mounting a wireless card on a vehicle that travels around to remote
villages and exchanges updated information with each kiosk it encounters
through WiFi.
 Villagers are able to send message and record videos through these kiosks.
That data is stored in the outbox of the kiosk.
 When the mobile vehicle comes around it exchanges the data in the outbox
and the inbox. Those awaiting messages are able to check the inbox for any
messages or videos.
 All information is downloaded to the central system at the office station.
DAKNET SERVICES
Daknet Client Services
 The DakNet Client Services software enables users to send and receive
emails using standard email client software programs (i.e. Outlook, Eudora)
as well as a multi-user email client akin to a Webmail interface, which
incorporates built-in support for multiple languages.
 The software includes an Administrator interface that allows the local person
in charge of the kiosk computer to manage the user accounts for that village
or remote site.
 Thus, each villager can have own private full-featured account, and First Mile
Solutions provides each village user a digital identity on the Web.
Voicemail over IP (VMOIP)
 It enables users to create Voicemail boxes through which they can send
and receive Voicemails to and from cellular and wireline phones.
 Using the simple numeric interface of a standard telephone handset users
can communicate in their mother tongue with everyone they know who
has a phone number.
 It does not require a PC interface, the VMOIP system reduces the user
literacy requirements for digital communications while plugging users into
traditional phone networks.
 VMOIP users can have phone numbers in multiple locations where First Mile
Solutions provides servers that are closer to the people with whom they
want to communicate.
 Global Village with real-time broadband uplinks can also support standard
VOIP communications
BENEFITS OF DAKNET
Daknet provides one of the low cost accessibility solution to the digital world. Whereas,
it also provide some of the major features and the benefits within and they are
described
Easy to implement on widespread basis
Lower uplink costs and maintenance requirements
Bandwidth does not decrease with distance
Seed infrastructure that is scalable with demand
Cost efficient when compared to wireless broadband and digital storage.
WEAKNESS
The network cannot support potentially important applications such as VoIP.
The context- aware, customized web pages found on advanced web sites cannot be
viewed optimally.
It is difficult and cumbersome to make use of e- commerce web sites and fill out forms.
As DakNet uses Asynchronous web surfing it is neither effective nor enjoyable.
It consumes High power.
Range of network is limited in Daknet.
It uses Token Ring to handle collision. But if lower tier goes down all the process will shut
down.
Experts are needed to guide the users at villages. So they can operate kiosk by
themselves.
Limited storage capacity of kiosks.
Sometimes, connection establishment problem arises between Hub and Mobile access
point vehicle.
FUTURE SCOPE
 Extending Internet connectivity to rural areas in the developing world
involves a delicate cost-benefit balance.
 While affordable access must be provided (and in some cases strongly
subsidized), the social and economic returns must be high enough to
enable long-term sustainability.
 The costs and deployment models associated with wired access
technologies have often proved inadequate to strike this balance.
 Current applications not only download explicitly requested web pages, but
also the pages that are linked by the requested page.
 FMS is currently evaluating the possibility of caching a large number of
Internet web pages at each remote location.
CONCLUSION
 DakNet provides an endless method of upgrading to always on broadband
connectivity.
 It provides low deployment cost and enthusiastic reception by rural users
has motivated dozens of inquiries for further deployments.
 This provides millions of people their first possibility for digital connectivity.
 Increasing connectivity is the most reliable way to encourage economic
growth.
 This technology wider makes the world to enter into a digital world
connectivity.