This research focuses on creating a component based repository architecture for mobile commerce services called (e-TOCOR) with the emphasis on component storage and retrieval. To realize this framework three tasks were ...

Internet connectivity in most rural African areas has been viewed as a major challenge due to lack of reliable power, scarcity of network expertise, expensive installation of network equipment and the high cost of providing ...

Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is a group of wireless devices which can dynamically communicate with one another in multi-hop manner. Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are getting more attention and recognition as a scalable ...

As Service Oriented Computing becomes the prevalent methodology for engineering distributed applications, service composition remains a key challenge to the reality of on-the-fly application composition using available services ...

The aim of GUISET (Grid-based Utility Infrastructure for SMME Enabling Technology) architecture is to provide and deliver e-services to Small Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs), who are most of the time resource-constrained, ...

Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks are designed as a possible solution to provide Internet connectivity to the rural community. This is because of its architecture which possesses capabilities such as dynamic self-forming, ...

This research work focuses on the development of the Context-Aware Component Interfacing Pattern, CACIP, aimed at contributing to current developments in distributed communication and collaboration in mobile wireless ...

In an ad hoc network, nodes collaborate to allow communication without the presence of network infrastructure. Lack of manual management in ad hoc networks means that automatic configuration is highly desirable. The need ...

There are many instances where tourists become strangers in foreign countries and have no way of discovering available services in place they visit. These services, which are known as location based services, are normally ...

The dissertation presents the adoption of publish/subscribe pattern as the existing communication paradigm into the South African National Parks (SANPARKS) organization. It focuses on restructuring the existing SANPARKS ...