Author:Mathebula, I; Isong, B; Gasela, N; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2020Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks (SDWSN) has received significant attention in recent years due to its inherent challenges such as network security, trust management, inefficient energy consumption, and so on. In particular, inefficient ...Read more
Author:Charles, L; Isong, B; Lugayizi, F; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Oct 2021Long Range Wide Area Networking (LoRaWAN) has established itself as one of the leading Media Access Control (MAC) layer protocols in the realm of Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). Although the technology itself is quite mature, the resource ...Read more
Author:Adetunji, KE; Hofsajer, IM; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Cheng, LDate:Jun 2021The integration of renewable energy and electric vehicles in smart grids aims to improve the grid network and reduce carbon emissions. In this regard, this study presents a new Energy Management Scheme (EMS) for the optimal charging and ...Read more
Author:Mtetwa, SN; Sibeko, N; Tarwireyi, P; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2020LoRaWAN is one of the LPWAN technologies that has become popular in both industries and research. LoRaWAN aims to provide long-range communication and empowers lowpowered devices to last for years in the field. LoRaWAN relies on the symmetric ...Read more
Author:Skosana, Vusi J; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2021Video encoding is challenging in the energy-constrained environments Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN) operate. Among the many design considerations when developing a video encoding scheme, the first is the sparsity transform, however, ...Read more
Author:Magubane, Z; Tarwireyi, P; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Adigun, MODate:Nov 2020Nowadays physical objects have an ability to connect to the internet, process, analyze the data to the real world through the Internet of Things (IoT). These physical objects have a limited processing space, storage, memory, and bandwidth. ...Read more
Author:Mattheus, J; Grobler, H; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2020Motion segmentation has applications in, amongst others, robotics, traffic monitoring, sports analysis, inspection, video surveillance, compression, and video indexing. However, the performance of most methods is limited compared to human ...Read more
Author:Albertyn, J; Cheng, L; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2020Increasing electricity prices in South Africa and the imminent threat of load shedding due to the overloaded power grid has led to a need for Demand Side Management (DSM) devices like smart grids. For smart grids to perform to their peak, ...Read more
Author:Thothela, NP; Markus, ED; Masinde, M; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Dec 2020Food security in Africa and the rest of the globe has come under tremendous threat, meaning that agriculture which is the driving force behind many economies is under threat. Seventy per cent of the food produced in sub-Saharan Africa is ...Read more
Author:Lehong, C; Isong, B; Lugayizi, F; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2020The Adaptive Data Rate (ADR) is used in LoRaWAN to ensure optimized data rates and transmission powers for static end devices. However, its implementation is still new, and therefore, its functionalities are limited. Multiple proposals have ...Read more
Author:Skosana, Vusi J; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2020Wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs) make possible diverse and demanding monitoring and surveillance applications. The WMSNs have to operate with significant energy, memory and processing power constraints. These constraints make video ...Read more