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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 ...
Challenges for the adoption of ICT for diabetes selfmanagement in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The increasing disease burden in developing countries inhibits the provision of quality
care to citizens. However, the increased availability of information communication
and technology (ICT) tools makes this a viable ...
Investigation of a dual-band dual radio indoor mesh testbed
(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 ...
Managing information in education: a view from South Africa
(Emerald, 2017)
PURPOSE – A three-year study of information technology and information systems management in South
Africa has delivered (amongst other things) a bibliography and a new reference model. The paper aims to
discuss this ...
Granny gets smarter but junior hardly notices
(College of Communication and Information, 2016)
To ensure that university computing students are sensitized to the needs of
diverse user groups, a course project was designed to allow students to get a
realistic understanding of the needs and abilities of the older ...
Improving usability and correctness of a mobile tool to help a Deaf person with pharmaceutical instruction
(ACM, 2013)
The computing for development community knows how to build user interfaces using qualitative methods for text il- literate users, especially on mobile devices. However, lit- tle work has been done speci cally targeting ...
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 ...
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 ...
Designing mobile phone interfaces for age diversity in South Africa: “One-World” versus diverse “Islands”
(Springer, 2013)
Designing for diversity is a laudable aim. How to achieve this, in the
context of mobile phone usage by South African seniors, is a moot point. We
considered this question from two possible perspectives: universal ...