Browsing Research Articles (Computer Science) by Author "Om, Shree"

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    • Battery and data drain of over-the-top applications on low-end smartphones 

      Om, Shree; Tucker, William David (IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2018)
      Low-end smartphones with sub $50 price tags provide affordable device ownership to low-income populations. However, their limited capacity, when combined with the need for multimodal connectivity, raises usage concerns in ...

    • Evaluating energy consumption on low-end smartphones 

      Om, Shree; Tucker, William David; Rey-Moreno, Carlos; Erasmus, Zenville (2015)
      The relationship between battery consumption in smartphones and the usage statistics of a phone is direct. Modern smartphones, even low-end, are equipped with multiple wireless technologies, e.g. GSM, 3G, WiFi and ...

    • Investigating battery consumption in low- end smartphones: preliminary results 

      Om, Shree; Tucker, William David; Rey-Moreno, Carlos (International Information Management Corporation, 2017)
      Due to lack of electricity in the rural communities of Africa, users often have to incur extra expense on recharging their mobile phones. The limited battery capacities of low-end smartphones, therefore, present a barrier ...

    • Investigation of a dual-band dual radio indoor mesh testbed 

      Tucker, William David; Om, Shree (2018)
      Scalability of community wireless mesh networks in terms of mesh nodes and mobile end-users along with their anticipated usage profile remains unexplored territory. However, conducting such experiments on a live community ...

    • Towards a scalability model for wireless mesh networks 

      Om, Shree; Rey-Moreno, Carlos; Tucker, William David (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 ...