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Co-designing a billing system for voice services in rural South Africa: Lessons learned
(ACM, 2014)
Access to information and communication technologies re- mains una ordable for many in rural areas despite recent progress in providing voice services to remote communities. The sustainability of alternative technical ...
A participatory design for a billing system: A South African case study of a community based telephony system
(ACM, 2014)
This paper describes the role participatory design can play in developing and implementing an information and communication technology for development project in a rural area. It shows how the process of co-designing an ...
Optimisation of SlotTime for a single-radio Mid-Range Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Network
(Telkom SA, 2014)
This paper presents the business context and results of an optimisation exercise for a single-radio mid-range multi-hop wireless mesh network for the provision of VoIP services. This WiFi mesh network physically covers 30 ...
Local ownership, exercise of ownership and moving from passive to active entitlement: a practice-led inquiry on a rural community network
(CCIRDT, 2015)
In this paper, we aim to shed light on local ownership from a double practical and
theoretical perspective, and examine its meaning as well as the factors that are bound to
influence its development in community based ...
A mobile platform traffic generator for network performance evaluation
(Telkom, 2013)
This work in progress paper presents an overview of the development of an efficient and accurate mobile traffic generator based on an open source computer-based traffic generator software. A high performance mobile traffic ...
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 ...
Making a community network legal within the South African regulatory framework
(ACM, 2015)
Community networks often operate at the fringe of legality with respect to spectrum, network infrastructure and providing services. We have been involved with such a network in a rural community, and together with them, ...
Clustered Multi-layer Multi-protocol Wireless Mesh Networks
(Telkom, 2015)
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have emerged as an alternative option to the wired networks in areas where wired deployment is unfeasible and/or costly. They have been widely adopted in community networks as these networks ...
Towards a scalability model for wireless mesh networks
(Telkom, 2015)
Zenzeleni mesh network is a wireless ad-hoc mesh network that provides voice services using public analogue telephones to the Mankosi community in the Eastern Cape
Province. We would like to improve on the network ...
Community-based solar power revenue alternative to improve sustainability of a rural wireless mesh network
(ACM, 2013)
Given the needs for a clean and easy way to maintain and secure powering wireless networks in rural areas and to gen- erate revenue to guarantee the sustainability of its intended goals, an innovative approach to leverage ...