EAGER: Collaborative Research: A Multi-Network Architecture for Expanding Internet Participation and Community-Building on Native American Reservations

EAGER：协作研究：用于扩大美洲原住民保留地的互联网参与和社区建设的多网络架构

• 批准号: 1637265
• 负责人: Elizabeth Belding
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-15 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1637265&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Collaborative; Research; Multi; Network

Tribal communities represent the final frontiers of Internet access in the U.S., with fast (broadband) Internet access available to fewer than 10% of Native Americans on tribal reservation lands. The lack of broadband access is caused by a collection of challenges, including remote terrain, inadequate funding, and complex telecommunication policies. Yet Native Americans need reliable avenues for participation and contribution to Internet content to strengthen their communities. The work investigates technologies that will increase Internet availability on reservation lands using capacity that has been allocated to TV stations but is unused, so called ?white spaces?. Through the trial of our solutions within Southern California tribal communities, the work has the potential to reach over 2,700 homes and 60 community anchor institutions. While the immediate goal of the project is to benefit Native Americans throughout the U.S., the work has broad applicability beyond this context. Other indigenous groups, as well as low-income rural communities in the U.S. and elsewhere, face similar problems. Course material will be integrated from this project demonstrating the positive humanitarian impact of computer science in order to increase the appeal of computer science to female and minority groups. The goal of the research is to develop technologies to support Native American community building through broadening Internet accessibility and supporting social media content production and dissemination across the reservation. The work outlined in this proposal will make critical inroads to addressing the lack of Internet access on tribal reservations, to increase the number of Native American reservation residents who are able to engage with, create, and disseminate Internet and on-line social network content. The goal will be achieve through three related elements: (1) Development of an architecture suitable for a multi-network setting comprised of cellular, wireless ISP and whitespace networks, where coverage, cost and network speed varies. (2) Partnering with the community to pilot a next generation whitespace network on reservation lands, demonstrating geographic reach beyond current pilots and supporting quantitative measurements of changes in network use before and after deployment. (3) Using the initial lessons learned from the pilot to develop approaches to network management that span the socio-technical including, as appropriate, spectrum management, access management, caching policies and scheduled and on-demand content.

部落社区代表了美国互联网访问的最终边界，在部落预订土地上，不到10％的美洲原住民可以使用快速（宽带）互联网访问。缺乏宽带访问是由挑战，包括远程地形，资金不足和复杂的电信政策引起的。然而，美洲原住民需要可靠的途径来参与和对互联网内容的贡献，以加强其社区。这项工作调查了将使用已分配给电视台但未使用的能力来增加预订土地上的互联网可用性的技术，但被称为“白色空间？”。通过我们在南加州部落社区内的解决方案的审判，这项工作有可能吸引2700多个家庭和60个社区主持机构。该项目的直接目标是使美国各地的美洲原住民受益，但这项工作在这种情况下具有广泛的适用性。其他土著群体以及美国和其他地方的低收入农村社区都遇到了类似的问题。该项目将整合课程材料，以表明计算机科学对人道主义的积极影响，以提高计算机科学对女性和少数群体的吸引力。该研究的目的是开发技术，以扩大互联网可访问性并支持社交媒体内容的生产和整个保留地的传播，以支持美国原住民社区的建设。该提案中概述的工作将使在部落预订中缺乏互联网访问，以增加能够与能够参与，创建和传播互联网并在线社交网络内容的美国原住民预订居民的数量。该目标将通过三个相关元素实现：（1）开发适用于由蜂窝，无线ISP和Whitespace网络组成的多网络设置的架构，其中覆盖范围，成本和网络速度会有所不同。 （2）与社区合作，在保留土地上驾驶下一代Whitespace网络，证明地理位置超出了当前的飞行员，并支持部署前后网络使用变化的定量测量。 （3）使用从飞行员那里学到的初始课程来开发跨越社会技术的网络管理方法，包括适当的频谱管理，访问管理，缓存策略以及计划的和按需内容。