On February 18, 2021, project Co-PI Marisa Duarte spoke speak on a panel along with Shannon Mattern and Rahul Mukherjee for Roundtable: The New Ethereality (https://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock-events/new-ethereality/) on the topic of wireless infrastructures—from TVWS technologies to 5G investments–and social imagination in diverse contexts. The event was hosted by the UCSB Carsey-Wolf Center.
Ph.D. student Beatriz Palacios Abad (Georgia Tech), together with PuebloConnect PIs Belding, Vigil-Hayes and Zegura, had her paper “Measuring and Improving Underserved Community Access” accepted for presentation at the NSF WOMBIR’21 workshop. The goals of the workshop were to identify critical research questions that require network measurement, and to identify Read more…
Our team recently had a paper titled “Tribal Mobility and COVID-19: An Urban-Rural Analysis in New Mexico” accepted into ACM HotMobile’21. Through a partnership with Skyhook, which provided us with extensive cellular device mobility data, we examined COVID-19 case growth in proximity to significant tribal presence by providing a novel Read more…
In March of 2020, like many people around the world, our team began making major life adjustments in response to COVID-19. Our universities deterred travel, and many tribes enforced closures, turning away all people who do not live or work on the reservation. By late March, our friends and family Read more…
To expand Internet access on the Santa Clara pueblo, our team has installed a 6Harmonics TVWS base station. First trialed as a stationary link, the team is now working on installing a TVWS receiver on a truck to provide a mobile WiFi hotspot to reservation residents. This is in response Read more…
In January 2020, team member Prof. Morgan Vigil-Hayes presented a “Wireless 101” talk at the NSF Technical Workshop titled “Wireless and Network Performance Measurement, Protocol Tuning, and Design Improvement for Small Campuses / Tribal Colleges / Universities / Community Colleges” at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
From May 25th to June 3rd. 2019 our team of four Ph.D students from the University of California Santa Barbara and professor Morgan Vigil-Hayes from Northern Arizona University traveled to the region around Santa Fe, New Mexico, to conduct quantitative measurements of cellular and TV White Space (TVWS) in tribal and non Read more…
Team member Prof. Morgan Vigil-Hayes presented “Community Networks for Challenged Environments” to the Computer Science Department at University of New Mexico, November 2018.
Team member Prof. Elizabeth Belding presented a talk titled “Wireless Network Innovations to Address Internet Access Inequalities” at the GHC conference in 2018.
Team member and Indigenous studies scholar Prof. Marisa Duarte joined Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross to talk about her new book – Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country. Listen on: Apple.com Sound Cloud