Rhizomatica GSM

Rhizomatica has 16 villages (map) up and running with our own flavour of community controlled mobile wireless network.The technical aspects of making this happen was not trivial and this wiki contains information from the general to specific technical details not appropriate for the faint of heart.

You may find the Lexicon to be of use to decode acronymns and jargon.

System Overview

• System Architecture
• Legal and social considerations
• Site selection
• RF planning
• Materials for installation
  • Installation checklist
  • Part information
• Setting up the BTS
• Setting up the BSC
• Setting up WIFI links
• Setting up Administration computer
• Tower installation
• Hardware installation

Tools

• Apps
• Testing
• RF Planning

Troubleshooting Information for Admins

• Manual for network admins
• Troubleshooting

Rhizomatica Presentations

• File:Rhizomatica Presentation IS4CWN2013.pdf
• File:GSM introduction.pdf
• File:SIP introduction.pdf
• File:OpenBSC Introduction.pdf
• File:FreeSWITCH introduction.pdf
• File:GSM Software Installation.pdf

Reading

• Wireless Networking in the Developing World - good book intro on wireless networking[1]
• Freeswitch - Build robust, high-performance telephony systems using FreeSWITCH [2]
• FreeSWITCH Cookbook - recipes for FreeSWITCH [3]

Similar projects & other items of interest

GSM

• Endaga - Rural small scale GSM company.[4]
• RZ_GSM - A german academic GSM project [5]
• Open BTS - Open source BTS software we used in our first experiments [6]
• SayCel - A community cell network on Little Corn Island, Nicaragua [7]

Mesh Networking

• Libre Mesh - mesh firmware based on OpenWRT[8]
• Guifi.net - a massively huge spanish mesh network [9]
• Serval Mesh - Android phone mesh networks [10]