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grid is assumed to be not present or unreliable. The main tory to serve a set of users in a rural area. Finally, we plan
issue in this scenario will be to deploy efficient solutions to also to analyse the proposed solutions in terms of CAPEX
limit the amount of required power in the uplink. Finally, and OPEX, as well as properly dimensioning the solar pan-
we foresee the exploitation of direct optical connections and els needed to run the networks and services.
dedicated radio links to selected locations (e.g., places where
the bandwidth requirements are higher).
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Looking then at the other network solutions, we foresee the
exploitation of flexible, efficient, low-cost, low-power nodes
This work has received funding from the project EU Hori-
(SP-Nodes in the figure). Such devices, which will be solar
zon 2020 Superfluidity (grant agreement No. 671566)
powered, will virtualize different functionalities, including
and the Polish National Science Center (decision DEC-
radio, computing, and transport ones. Each functionality can
2014/12/S/ST7/00415). We would like to thank the anony-
be activated/deactivated depending on where the node is lo-
mous reviewers for their suggestions.
cated (in the transport part of the network or in the access
one) and when it is needed. Moreover, the interconnection
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