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Many cities around the globe are adopting the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as part of a strategy to transform into Smart Cities. These will allow cities in the developing world to cope with the ever increasing demand for services such as an effective electricity supply, healthcare and water management. Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication standards play a vital role in enabling...
Cities increasingly face challenges related to pollution, efficient use of resources (e.g. water, energy) and ensuring a good quality of life for its citizens. Solutions built on existing and emerging technologies such as Cloud computing, Internet of Things, Machine-to-Machine and data analytics can improve on or create services able to address these challenges. These solutions are seen as contributors...
Mobile Network Operators provide wireless communication services to their customers using their own network infrastructures. For providers, in particular in low income countries, access to latest network functions to offer 4G/5G services can be a large burden as this is directly impacted by financial restrictions of operators. Although some network sharing solutions between operators to reduce the...
The proliferation of cloud computing techniques has created a multitude of applications for network services deployments, enabled by the adoption of Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) paradigms. Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) also have the opportunity to leverage these technologies to enable the delivery of traditional networking functionality making use of...
With a large majority of the world's population moving towards urban environments in the foreseeable future, the notion of Smart City is emerging globally as an important research topic. The population movement will affect the consumption rate of natural resources i.e. water, soil, and plants. Therefore, innovative management and monitoring systems are required to enhance citizen's quality of life...
Over the last 5 years the Communications Research Group at the University of Cape Town has been actively involved in IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) testbed research initiatives. This paper aims to describe the research work that was done within this testbed. The work ranges from work on an IMS client, IMS based services such as IPTV and Advertising, as well as network management work relating to QoS,...
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