{"id":28392,"date":"2014-10-14T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T22:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=28392"},"modified":"2021-10-25T10:59:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:59:03","slug":"uh-working-to-bring-wireless-communication-to-remote-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/14\/uh-working-to-bring-wireless-communication-to-remote-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> working to bring wireless communication to remote areas"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Communication technology software is tested in rough terrain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Advanced communications technology could bring broadband wireless service to remote and rural areas in the Hawaiian Islands, under a new research grant funded by the National Science Foundation<\/a> (NSF<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n

The Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Center for Advanced Communications<\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa’s College of Engineering<\/a> received $500,000 to pursue an innovative solution based on improving the efficiency of radio spectrum utilization.<\/p>\n

And it’s not just wireless for folks living off the grid in Hāna. Across the United States, more than 19 million people, or 6 percent of the population, do not have access to reliable broadband communications coverage. Availability of such coverage is essential to education, jobs, healthcare and economic development, yet many people living in rural or otherwise inaccessible areas have only low-speed dial-up access or no data service at all.<\/p>\n

Rough terrain and large undeveloped areas often present challenges to the implementation of cost-effective and reliable broadband wireless service.<\/p>\n

The Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Center for Advanced Communications is proposing a new solution based on the use of smart networking with high-performance directional antennas, propagation modeling applications and spectrum-sensing resources.<\/p>\n

“New network access protocols need to be developed, so that these advances may be achieved without affecting available communications standards and systems,” said Magdy F. Iskander<\/strong>, director of the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Center for Advanced Communications. “Our solution represents a bold new concept for integrating these new capabilities to support customers in low-density regions.”<\/p>\n

The program director for the NSF<\/abbr> electrical, communications and cyber systems division who recommended the grant described the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Center for Advanced Communications proposal as “an excellent proposal which will make a major impact on wireless communications for rural areas…[It] will have a transformative impact on rural communities.”<\/p>\n

The new NSF<\/abbr> funding will support three years of research and development activity, during which time Iskander and the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Center for Advanced Communications team will develop a prototype of their new broadband technology and test it in rural areas in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n

—A Kaunānā story<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

—By Talia Ogliore<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A $500,000 grant to the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Center for Advanced Communications will help bring broadband wireless service to remote areas in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[179,415,402,1044,9],"class_list":["post-28392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-electronics-technology","tag-hawaii-center-for-advanced-communications","tag-kaunana","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28392"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150416,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28392\/revisions\/150416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}