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Applying Data-Mining Techniques in Honeypot Analysis
March 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
Very little is known about the exact actions executed by a hacker entering a system. Much insight can be gained from following and understanding a hacker's behaviour. It is believed that the more...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Affordable Mobile Broadband Services: Models & the Way Forward
March 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It is becoming more and more apparent that the vast majority of subscribers in developing countries will be receiving wireless broadband information services through mobile terminals. To make the...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Design Challenges for Quality of Service Aware Communication Protocol for Sensor Grid
August 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) was originally used by military applications such as battlefield surveillance. Though, now it finds application in many industrial and civilian application areas...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
A Simple Pragmatic Approach to Mesh Routing Using BATMAN
May 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Development and performance analysis of ad hoc networking protocols has typically been performed by making use of software based simulation tools. However when running a routing protocol such as...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
An Intelligent Wireless Forensic Model (IWFM) for Moving Devices Between Wireless Networks
June 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There are currently many different types of wireless crime investigation tools designed for different purposes in order to track down intruders of wireless crime, like Intrusion Detection Systems...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Broadband Provision to Underprivileged Rural Communities
August 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Providing access to remote rural areas presents a unique set of technical and non-technical challenges. These challenges are key issues that arise when deploying wireless networks to remote rural...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Enabling Mobile/Wireless Broadband Technologies and Services for the Next Billion Users
September 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As wireless devices and the useful services they can deliver become more pervasive and affordable; the need for wireless broadband technologies meeting the demands of emerging market countries is...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Network Preservation Through a Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Mesh Networks
June 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) is becoming a promising new technology for extending coverage to far-flung rural areas. This it achieves by linking the various Wireless LANS (WLANs) in distant...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Building Rural Wireless Networks: Lessons Learnt and Future Directions
September 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Providing connectivity to under-serviced rural areas comes with a unique set of challenges such as the high cost of installing equipment, lack of reliable power, skill shortages and high cost of...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
An Energy Saving Scheme for Internet Provision in Rural Africa: LESS
March 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the past decade, the access to telephone services has increased drastically due to the deployment of wireless technologies and liberalization of telecommunications markets. But Internet access...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
How Do We Make Community Owned Information Networks Work for the Poor?
May 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
ICTs have been identified as the catalyst to assist developing countries bridge the development chasm thus alleviating the effects of poverty. However, Africa is littered with ICT projects that...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Transmission Probability-based Dynamic Power Control for Multi-Radio Mesh Networks
July 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an analytical model for the selection of the transmission power based on the bi-directional medium access information. Most of dynamic transmission power control algorithms are...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Overview of the Meraka Wireless Grid Test Bed for Evaluation of Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols
July 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Predicting the performance of ad-hoc networking protocols has typically been performed by making use of software based simulation tools. Experimental study and validation of such predictions is...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
AziSA: An Architecture for Underground Measurement and Control Networks
August 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
AziSA is an architecture for measurement and control networks that can be used to collect, store and facilitate the analysis of data from challenging underground environments. AziSA defines four...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Interference-Aware Power Control for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
September 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Multi-Radio Multi-Channel (MRMC) systems are key to power control problems in WMNs. In this paper, the authors present a dynamic power control for MRMC WMNs. First, WMN is represented as a set of...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
First Mile, First Inch
December 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) remains one of the biggest challenges to Africa in leapfrogging the development chasm. The African digital divide can be in part...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Improving the Capacity, Reliability & Life of Mobile Devices With Cloud Computing
September 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Mobile devices are being considered as service platforms for mobile health information delivery, access and communication. However they face challenges with regard to delivering secure multimedia...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Outcome Mapping as Methodology to Monitor and Evaluate Community Informatics Projects: A Case Study
November 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
The purpose of this paper is to indicate how Outcome Mapping (OM) can be used as a methodology to monitor and evaluate a specific developmental informatics project currently under way in the...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
A Robot Miner for Low Grade Narrow Tabular Ore Bodies: The Potential and the Challenge
October 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
For the past hundred years, mining methods in South African deep level gold and platinum mines have remained relatively unchanged. Recently. mechanisation has made some impact in how it is done,...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Kinematics and Dynamics Modelling of a Mecanum Wheeled Mobile Platform
October 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Omni-directional mobile platforms have the ability to move instantaneously in any direction from any configuration. As such, it is important to have a mathematical model of the platform,...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
The Impact of the Increase in Broadband Access on South African National Security and the Average Citizen
February 7, 2011, 12:00am PST
South Africa is the entry point to the African continent and with the impending increase in broadband access from 120 Gbps to 12 Tbps over the next 2 years, it could in future be used as a hub for...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Secure Cloud Computing Benefits, Risks and Controls
August 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing presents a new model for IT service delivery and it typically involves over-a-network, on-demand, self-service access, which is dynamically scalable and elastic, utilising pools of...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
System Description of the Mobile LIDAR of the CSIR, South Africa
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
South Africa's first mobile LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) system is being developed at the National Laser Centre (NLC) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Taking Advantage of the Mobicents Platform in the Design of the SINGA Environment
March 7, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper describes an architecture that was designed to enable access to the scenarios/challenges on the SINGA platform. SINGA is a virtual platform that enables children facing barriers of...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Establishing an Infrared Measurement and Modelling Capability
March 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The protection of own aircraft assets against infrared missile threats requires a deep understanding of the vulnerability of these assets with regard to specific threats and specific environments...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Signature Modelling and Radiometric Rendering Equations in Infrared Scene Simulation Systems
August 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The development and optimisation of modern infrared systems necessitates the use of simulation systems to create radiometrically realistic representations (e.g. images) of infrared scenes. Such...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
A Novel Fingerprint Re-Alignment Solution That Uses the TFCP as a Reference
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Fingerprint re-alignment is an important aspect in the subject of fingerprint biometrics because a fingerprint recognition system that does not attempt to re-align an involuntarily rotated...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
A Fraud Detection Approach in Telecommunication Using Cluster GA
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In trend mobile is one of the important devices in public sector. In mobile community there are N numbers of vendors, manufacturers available. The telecommunications industry was first to adopt...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
A Fraud Detection Approach in Telecommunication Using Cluster GA
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In trend mobile is one of the important devices in public sector. In mobile community there are N numbers of vendors, manufacturers available. The telecommunications industry was first to adopt...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
A Novel Fingerprint Re-Alignment Solution That Uses the TFCP as a Reference
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Fingerprint re-alignment is an important aspect in the subject of fingerprint biometrics because a fingerprint recognition system that does not attempt to re-align an involuntarily rotated...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Signature Modelling and Radiometric Rendering Equations in Infrared Scene Simulation Systems
August 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The development and optimisation of modern infrared systems necessitates the use of simulation systems to create radiometrically realistic representations (e.g. images) of infrared scenes. Such...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
Establishing an Infrared Measurement and Modelling Capability
March 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The protection of own aircraft assets against infrared missile threats requires a deep understanding of the vulnerability of these assets with regard to specific threats and specific environments...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Taking Advantage of the Mobicents Platform in the Design of the SINGA Environment
March 7, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper describes an architecture that was designed to enable access to the scenarios/challenges on the SINGA platform. SINGA is a virtual platform that enables children facing barriers of...
Provided by CSIR
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White Papers
System Description of the Mobile LIDAR of the CSIR, South Africa
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
South Africa's first mobile LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) system is being developed at the National Laser Centre (NLC) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Secure Cloud Computing Benefits, Risks and Controls
August 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing presents a new model for IT service delivery and it typically involves over-a-network, on-demand, self-service access, which is dynamically scalable and elastic, utilising pools of...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
The Impact of the Increase in Broadband Access on South African National Security and the Average Citizen
February 7, 2011, 12:00am PST
South Africa is the entry point to the African continent and with the impending increase in broadband access from 120 Gbps to 12 Tbps over the next 2 years, it could in future be used as a hub for...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Kinematics and Dynamics Modelling of a Mecanum Wheeled Mobile Platform
October 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Omni-directional mobile platforms have the ability to move instantaneously in any direction from any configuration. As such, it is important to have a mathematical model of the platform,...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
A Robot Miner for Low Grade Narrow Tabular Ore Bodies: The Potential and the Challenge
October 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
For the past hundred years, mining methods in South African deep level gold and platinum mines have remained relatively unchanged. Recently. mechanisation has made some impact in how it is done,...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Outcome Mapping as Methodology to Monitor and Evaluate Community Informatics Projects: A Case Study
November 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
The purpose of this paper is to indicate how Outcome Mapping (OM) can be used as a methodology to monitor and evaluate a specific developmental informatics project currently under way in the...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Improving the Capacity, Reliability & Life of Mobile Devices With Cloud Computing
September 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Mobile devices are being considered as service platforms for mobile health information delivery, access and communication. However they face challenges with regard to delivering secure multimedia...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
First Mile, First Inch
December 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) remains one of the biggest challenges to Africa in leapfrogging the development chasm. The African digital divide can be in part...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Interference-Aware Power Control for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
September 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Multi-Radio Multi-Channel (MRMC) systems are key to power control problems in WMNs. In this paper, the authors present a dynamic power control for MRMC WMNs. First, WMN is represented as a set of...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
AziSA: An Architecture for Underground Measurement and Control Networks
August 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
AziSA is an architecture for measurement and control networks that can be used to collect, store and facilitate the analysis of data from challenging underground environments. AziSA defines four...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Overview of the Meraka Wireless Grid Test Bed for Evaluation of Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols
July 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Predicting the performance of ad-hoc networking protocols has typically been performed by making use of software based simulation tools. Experimental study and validation of such predictions is...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Transmission Probability-based Dynamic Power Control for Multi-Radio Mesh Networks
July 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an analytical model for the selection of the transmission power based on the bi-directional medium access information. Most of dynamic transmission power control algorithms are...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
How Do We Make Community Owned Information Networks Work for the Poor?
May 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
ICTs have been identified as the catalyst to assist developing countries bridge the development chasm thus alleviating the effects of poverty. However, Africa is littered with ICT projects that...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
An Energy Saving Scheme for Internet Provision in Rural Africa: LESS
March 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the past decade, the access to telephone services has increased drastically due to the deployment of wireless technologies and liberalization of telecommunications markets. But Internet access...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Building Rural Wireless Networks: Lessons Learnt and Future Directions
September 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Providing connectivity to under-serviced rural areas comes with a unique set of challenges such as the high cost of installing equipment, lack of reliable power, skill shortages and high cost of...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Network Preservation Through a Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Mesh Networks
June 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) is becoming a promising new technology for extending coverage to far-flung rural areas. This it achieves by linking the various Wireless LANS (WLANs) in distant...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Enabling Mobile/Wireless Broadband Technologies and Services for the Next Billion Users
September 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As wireless devices and the useful services they can deliver become more pervasive and affordable; the need for wireless broadband technologies meeting the demands of emerging market countries is...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Broadband Provision to Underprivileged Rural Communities
August 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Providing access to remote rural areas presents a unique set of technical and non-technical challenges. These challenges are key issues that arise when deploying wireless networks to remote rural...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
An Intelligent Wireless Forensic Model (IWFM) for Moving Devices Between Wireless Networks
June 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There are currently many different types of wireless crime investigation tools designed for different purposes in order to track down intruders of wireless crime, like Intrusion Detection Systems...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
A Simple Pragmatic Approach to Mesh Routing Using BATMAN
May 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Development and performance analysis of ad hoc networking protocols has typically been performed by making use of software based simulation tools. However when running a routing protocol such as...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Design Challenges for Quality of Service Aware Communication Protocol for Sensor Grid
August 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) was originally used by military applications such as battlefield surveillance. Though, now it finds application in many industrial and civilian application areas...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Affordable Mobile Broadband Services: Models & the Way Forward
March 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It is becoming more and more apparent that the vast majority of subscribers in developing countries will be receiving wireless broadband information services through mobile terminals. To make the...
Provided by CSIR
-
White Papers
Applying Data-Mining Techniques in Honeypot Analysis
March 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
Very little is known about the exact actions executed by a hacker entering a system. Much insight can be gained from following and understanding a hacker's behaviour. It is believed that the more...
Provided by CSIR
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