Rural Connectivity

High Altitude Platform-Based Caching and Multicasting for Rural Connectivity

2 min read · Sun, Aug 30 2026

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Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a framework to reduce the power cost of delivering digital content across underserved rural areas. The work was conducted by Yongqiang Zhang during his doctoral research at KAUST with Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini and Prof. Mustafa A. Kishk of Maynooth University. Yongqiang Zhang is now a Postdoctoral Associate at New York University Abu Dhabi. Providing reliable communications across sparsely populated regions remains difficult because terrestrial infrastructure can be expensive or impractical to deploy