Management Model for Wireless Broadband Networks

Abstract

Currently, due to questions of financial order, the Internet Service Providers do not invest in rural areas, because the investment does not pay. This fact originates, more and more, the appearance of the so called WBN (Wireless Broadband Networks), that are going to supply Internet access to the populations, discriminated by this circumstance. The aspects related to the management of these networks are normally forgotten and today there is a lack of economically and technical viable solutions, that can efficiently help with this function, without use an enterprise solution. After an intensive research of commercial and opensource solutions of wireless networks management, it was checked an absence of an economically viable solution as well as an absence of a model of management for the WBN. This article contributes to the definition of a management model of these networks, using opensource tools. The proposal model is based on a centralized solution that congregates several modules of opensource tools, which can be able to respond to a wide range of features identified in the model. The simulation shows how the model presented, can be practicable and able to cover several functions in WBN management.