Weaving a New 'Net
A Mesh-Based Solution for Democratizing Networked Communications
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11373511 |
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| Authors | Aram Sinnreich (0000-0003-0499-9109, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author), Nathan Graham (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), Aaron Trammell (0000-0003-2631-7420, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey) |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
Although the Internet is largely decentralized in its communication and social patterns, its technical and regulatory apparatuses are highly centralized and hierarchical. Consequently, digital communications are vulnerable to a degree of surveillance and censorship that would be unthinkable in traditional social arenas, threatening “Internet freedom” and cyberliberties in both democratic and politically repressed societies. We believe a new architecture is required in order to protect the continuance of civil liberties in networked society. In this article, we propose 10 “social specifications” describing the requirements of such a network, and outline an architecture called MondoNet that meets these specifications using ad hoc, wireless mesh networking technologies. We also address the legal and technical challenges facing the MondoNet project, and anticipate future developments in this field
Computer security · Internet privacy · License · Telecommunications · The Internet · Wireless · Wireless mesh network · Wireless network · World Wide Web · Cognitive Radio Networks and Spectrum Sensing · Computer Science · Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Architecture
| Highly cited | No |
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