Bandwidth management and monitoring for community networks

Irwin, Barry V W; Siebörger, Ingrid; Wells, Daniel

Title: Bandwidth management and monitoring for community networks
Creator: Irwin, Barry V W
Creator: Siebörger, Ingrid
Creator: Wells, Daniel
Date Issued: 2010
Date: 2010
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428040
Identifier: vital:72482
Identifier: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ingrid-Sieboerger/publication/265121154_Bandwidth_management_and_monitoring_for_community_networks/links/5e538b85458515072db7a686/Bandwidth-management-and-monitoring-for-community-networks.pdf
Description: This paper describes a custom-built system to replace existing routing solutions within an identified community network. The community net-work in question shares a VSAT Internet connection to provide Internet access to a number of schools and their surrounding communities. This connection provides a limited resource which needs to be managed in order to ensure equitable use by members of the community. The community network originally lacked any form of bandwidth manage-ment or monitoring which often resulted in unfair use and abuse. The solution implemented is based on a client-server architecture. The Community Access Points (CAPs) are the client components which are located at each school; providing the computers and servers with ac-cess to the rest of the community network and the Internet. These nodes also perform a number of monitoring tasks for the computers at the schools. The server component is the Access Concentrator (AC) and connects the CAPs together using encrypted and authenticated PPPoE tunnels. The AC performs several additional monitoring func-tions, both on the individual links and on the upstream Internet connec-tion. The AC provides a means of effectively and centrally managing and allocating Internet bandwidth between the schools. The system that was developed has a number of features, including Quality of Service adjustments limiting network usage and fairly billing each school for their Internet use. The system provides an effective means for sharing bandwidth between users in a community network.
Format: 5 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Proceedings of Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC)
Relation: Irwin, B., Siebörger, I. and Wells, D., 2010, September. Bandwidth management and monitoring for community networks. In The Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC), Spier Estate, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Relation: Proceedings of Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) volume 2010 number 1 1 5 2010 Conference
Rights: Publisher
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SA TNAC) Statement (https://www.satnac.org.za/)

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