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Socio-economic aspects of voice-over-IP technology in rural SA
(Telkom, 2012)
This paper describes work in progress towards developing a business case and preliminary design for an 802.11-based mesh network in the remote rural community of Mankosi in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Aside ...
Communicating in designing an oral repository for rural African villages
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2012)
We describe designing an asynchronous, oral repository and sharing system that we intend to suit the needs and practices of rural residents in South Africa. We aim to enable users without access to personal computers to ...
FHMIPv6-based handover for wireless mesh networks
(Telkom, 2012)
This paper shows that mobility management protocols for infrastructure Internet may be used in a wireless mesh network environment. Mesh topology tends to be an unplanned graph and routes change dynamically and in this ...
Mobile Communication Tools for a South African Deaf patient in a pharmacy context
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2012)
This paper presents a case for iterative community-based co-design to facilitate the emergence of an innovative mobile system to address a potentially life-threatening scenario for Deaf people in South Africa. For Deaf ...
Towards a sustainable business model for rural telephony
(Telkom, 2012)
This paper presents the work done thus far towards designing a sustainable business model for rural telephony in the community of Mankosi, located in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The pillars of the model are ...
Situation-aware routing for wireless mesh networks with mobile nodes
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2012)
This paper describes a situation-aware algorithm based on the current situation of a mesh network with mobile nodes that improves quality of service. After running laboratory performance tests, we concluded that a ...