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Wireless community networks are emerging as a better alternative to bridge the digital divide in underserved areas. As such, they can stimulate a proximity economy and allow the emergence of local digital service operators like wireless service providers (WISPs). To achieve this goal, we propose in this paper, an entity-based black-box specification approach to formally describe: (1) the concept of wireless community network service (WCNS), (2) the mechanisms of interaction with the latter through the authentication-authorization-accounting (AAA) model, and (3) the profitability mechanisms that complement the AAA model which are: pricing, billing and payment (PBP). Our case study is a campus-type WCN. We have defined an abstract representation of the network service concept through characteristics common to all services. The access control and profitability functions are described through well-defined and justified formalisms. These functions are also well illustrated by practical cases.
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Special gratitude respectively goes to Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; GIZ-CIM Organisation; the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg and the CETIC Project of the University of Yaounde 1 for their various supports.
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Ndié, T.D. (2019). An Entity-Based Black-Box Specification Approach for Modeling Wireless Community Network Services. In: Arai, K., Bhatia, R., Kapoor, S. (eds) Intelligent Computing. CompCom 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 998. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22868-2_24
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