Rhizomatica GSM

This is the Rhizomatica Public wiki.

WIKI OVERVIEW:

ABOUT RHIZOMATICA

Our mission is to increase access to mobile telecommunications to the over 2 billion people without affordable coverage and the 700 million with none at all. read more here

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.

Troubleshooting Information for Admins

• Manual for network admins
• Troubleshooting
• Contacts at Rhizomatica

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

Tools

Apps

Testing

RF Planning

Reading

• Wireless Networking in the Developing World - good book intro on wireless networking[1]

Similar projects & other items of interest

GSM

• Endaga - Rural small scale GSM company.[2]
• RZ_GSM - A german academic GSM project [3]
• Open BTS - Open source BTS software we used in our first experiments [4]

Mesh Networking

• Libre Mesh - mesh firmware based on OpenWRT[5]
• Guifi.net - a massively huge spanish mesh network [6]
• Serval Mesh - Android phone mesh networks [7]

Categories

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.