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Using wearable sensors for remote healthcare monitoring system
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2011)
Recent technological advances in wireless communications and wireless sensor networks have enabled the design of low-cost, intelligent, tiny, and lightweight medical sensor nodes that can be strategically placed on human ...
Relevant computing curricula in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2011)
The principle objective of this research was to establish what computing curricula are required for the Sub-Saharan Africa region. Input from academics, businessmen and the analyses of curricula from several African ...
Mobile vertical handover between infrastructure and ad hoc Wi-Fi networks
(Telkom, 2011)
This paper addresses mobility management issues in an environment with both wireless LAN and wireless mesh networks. We first examine wireless mesh network client side transparency within mesh mobility management protocols ...
A novel document ranking algorithm that supports mobile healthcare information access effectiveness
(Academic Journals Inc., 2011)
This study presented DROPT; an acronym for Document ranking Optmization algorithm approach, a new idea for the effectiveness of meaningful retrieval results from the information source. Proposed method extracted the frequency ...
Situation-aware routing based on link quality for static mesh networks with mobile nodes
(Telkom, 2011)
Situation-aware routing seeks to improve quality of service on hybrid wireless mesh networks by making routing decisions based on the current situation of the network. BATMAN-adv is a mesh routing protocol that counts ...
Engaging ICTs as a “Tool” for eHealth prioritization on human development and poverty reduction in the African region
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Inc., 2011)
The association connecting information and communication technologies (ICTs) and well-being
or poverty remains vague and research today has resulted to divergent conclusions. This paper
defines ICTs as “tools” that facilitate ...
A query-based SMS translation in information access system
(Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication Pvt. Ltd., 2011)
Mobile technology has contributed to the evolution
of several media of communication such as chats, emails and
short message service (SMS) text. This has significantly
influenced the traditional standard way of expressing ...
UDCA: Energy optimization in wireless sensor networks using uniform distributed clustering algorithms
(Academic Journals Inc., 2011)
Transceivers are the major energy consumption in a Wireless Sensor Network which is made of low-power, small in size, low cost and multi-functional nodes. These sensor nodes are operated by batteries which put significant ...
Peer-to-Peer Computing and Grid Computing: towards a better understanding
(Akamai University, 2011)
Currently, both Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P) and Grid Computing have remained the most vibrant and useful forms of distributed computing all over the world. Their applications are such that they cut across both academia ...
Comparative study of admissions criteria of a selection of South African universities
(Stellenbosch University, 2011)
Summary:
The new school-leaving certificate, the National Senior Certificate (NSC), was awarded for the first time in 2008. This necessitated a relook at the entrance requirements for university, as the school subjects ...