Author:Kinabo, ABD; Mwangama, JB; Lysko, Albert ADate:Mar 2021In industry, mission-critical assignments require special characteristics for their networks. Chief among these requirements is reliability – proven to be even more desired than other characteristics such as low latency. IEEE 802.1 Time ...Read more
Author:Ngcama, Lwando; Mostert, NDate:Nov 2021With the rapid increase in social media use in higher education institutions, social media policies and guidelines have generally been implemented by those institutions as a means to monitor and manage their staff and students’ social media ...Read more
Author:Afachao, K; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jun 2023The Internet of Things (IoT) is the cutting edge of computing technology that connects things and integrate them into large ecosystem. Recently, the Edge Computing architecture is driving the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT). ...Read more
Author:Mamushiane, Lusani; Lysko, Albert A; Mwangama, J; Kobo, Hlabishi I; Otieno, HODate:Aug 2023The adoption of 5G technology in Africa has been increasing steadily, with initial emphasis on non-standalone (NSA) architecture to leverage existing 4G investments and accelerate return on investment. The uptake of standalone (SA) 5G has ...Read more
Author:Chetty, Brenton L; Isaac, Sherrin J; Walingo, TDate:Sep 2023There are many challenges associated with developing a feasible wireless communication system for the harsh underground mining environment. Radio signals suffer from strong attenuations due to the excessive reflections, diffractions, scatterings, ...Read more
Author:Marais, Laurette; Pretorius, LDate:Feb 2021AwezaMed Covid-19 is a multilingual speech-to-speech translation application for screening patients for Covid-19. It enables Englishspeaking health care providers (HCPs) to conduct screenings by asking questions to patients in all other ...Read more
Author:Marais, Laurette; Pretorius, LDate:Jan 2023The African languages Wordnet (AfWN) for Zulu (ZWN) was built using the expand approach, which relies on the translation of concepts in the Princeton WordNet (PWN), while retaining their PWN lexical categories. In this paper the focus is on ...Read more
Author:Botha, Adèle; Ruyobeza, B; Grobbelaar, SSDate:Jun 2023Objective: To enhance the predictive power of the Fit between Individuals, Task and Technology (FITT) framework in mobile, individual consumer settings by restructuring the individual-task fit to prominently emphasize the task-skills fit. ...Read more
Author:Maarsingh, B; Grobbelaar, Sarah S; Herselman, Martha, EDate:Aug 2023Innovation is an essential factor in stimulating economic growth. However, despite the positive effect of innovation, it is often focused on high-income groups, excluding marginalized individuals and groups, possibly worsening inequality as ...Read more
Author:Sefara, Tshephisho J; Mokgonyane, TBDate:Aug 2021Gender identification is the task of identifying the gender of the speaker from the audio signal. Most gender identification systems are developed using datasets belonging to well-resourced languages. There has been little focus on creating ...Read more
Author:Moustafa, N; Choo, K-K R; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Mar 2022Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems are increasingly found in settings such as factories, smart cities/nations, and healthcare institutions. These systems facilitate the interconnection of automation and data analytics across different ...Read more
Author:Ruyobeza, B; Grobbelaar, SS; Botha, AdèleDate:Aug 2022Despite all the excitement and hype generated regarding the expected transformative impact of digital technology on the healthcare industry, traditional healthcare systems around the world have largely remained unchanged and resultant ...Read more
Author:Kufakunesu, Rachel; Hancke, Gerhard P; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Aug 2022The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) has increased in prominence as the demand for device interconnectedness increases worldwide. Numerous technologies have been proposed to provide the required technology and network infrastructure. Low ...Read more
Author:Mzyece, M; Mfupe, Luzango P; Mekuria, FissehaDate:Nov 2018Television white space (TVWS) networks based on geo-location spectrum databases (GLSDs) present an excellent opportunity to provide affordable broadband to underserved rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we explore potential ...Read more
Author:Nwachukwu, SE; Chepkoech, M; Lysko, Albert A; Awodele, K; Mwangama, J; Burger, Chris RDate:Aug 2022The steady increase in data traffic rates and systems’ complexity have contributed to the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector’s increased energy consumption and CO 2 emissions. These pose a significant challenge to the ...Read more
Author:Nwachukwu, SE; Chepkoech, M; Lysko, Albert A; Awodele, K; Mwangama, J; Burger, Chris RDate:Aug 2022The steady increase in data traffic rates and systems’ complexity have contributed to the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector’s increased energy consumption and CO 2 emissions. These pose a significant challenge to the ...Read more
Author:Rasheed, J; Waziry, S; Alsubai, S; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jul 2022In the world of chaos, the pandemic has driven individuals around the globe to wear face masks for preventing the virus’s transmission, however, this has made it difficult to determine the gender of the person wearing a mask. Gender information ...Read more
Author:Hussien, HM; Katzis, K; Mfupe, Luzango PDate:Dec 2022Aiming at the problem of downlink power allocation in cognitive high-altitude platform wireless networks exploiting TV white space spectrum, it is mathematically formulated as a constrained optimization problem, and then an improved immune ...Read more