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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 ...
Performance Evaluation of a Wireless Network using a VoIP Traffic Generator on a Mobile Device
(ACM, 2014)
The problem of generating different patterns of traffic to emulate real user behaviour is receiving considerable attention with the construction of new and more complex network architectures. The theoretical modelling of ...
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 ...
Rural Wireless Mesh Network Analysis on Mobile Devices
(Telkom SA, 2014)
The aim of this research effort is to build an efficient and accurate mobile traffic generator based on open source computer-based traffic generator software. A high performance mobile traffic generator would make the ...
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 ...
Agent-based context-aware healthcare information retrieval using DROPT approach
(International Science Press, 2012)
As the volume of information available on the Web information systems is growing continuously, browsing
this content becomes a tedious task given the presentation of data that does meet user's aims and needs. In this
paper, ...
SignSupport: a limited communication domain mobile aid for a Deaf patient at the pharmacy
(Telkom, 2013)
This paper discusses a prototype for a communication aid on a mobile phone to support a Deaf1 person visiting a public hospital pharmacy. The aim is to prevent problems of non-compliance to treatment due to poor communication ...
Internet protocol-based push to talk
(Telkom, 2010)
This paper discusses a way of offering voice instant messaging based on Internet Protocol using Session Initiation Protocol. The purpose of this investigation is to enhance the modern social communication amongst the people ...
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 ...
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 ...