Television White Space Opportunities and Challenges: What Next for the Developing Countries?

M ISMAIL, M KISSAKA… - 2019 IST-Africa Week …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Developing countries in the sub-Saharan Africa region have a huge unused radio spectrum
in the Television broadcast band known as TV White Space (TVWS). Despite availability and …

Network performance analysis of the Limpopo TV white space (TVWS) trial network

MT Masonta, LM Kola, AA Lysko, L Pieterse… - AFRICON …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Television white spaces (TVWS) refers to vacant channels in the ultra-high frequency (UHF)
band between 470 and 690 MHz assigned for television broadcast and can be used …

TV white space networks deployment: a case study of Mankweng Township in South Africa

MT Ramoroka, MT Masonta, A Kliks - e-Infrastructure and e-Services: 7th …, 2016 - Springer
The role of cheap and easy access to various telecommunication facilities is crucial for
further community development. Such an observation is of particular importance for the …

[PDF][PDF] Spectrum Decision Schemes for Heterogeneous White Space Radio Networks

MT Masonta - 2016 - researchgate.net
This thesis proposes solutions to address the white space (WS) spectrum decision and
management problem in WS radio networks (WSRNs). We conducted field spectrum …

Review of Interference Mitigation Techniques for White Space Networks

E Ntuli, C Du, F Mekuria - 2019 IEEE 2nd Wireless Africa …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An important challenge to guarantee the successful operation of white space networks
based on spectrum sharing, in a heterogeneous wireless network environment, is mitigation …

Modernizing African townships using TV white space networks: a case study of Mankweng township in South Africa

TM Ramoroka, MT Masonta, A Kliks - EAI Endorsed Transactions on Future …, 2016 - eudl.eu
The role of cheap and easy access to various telecommunication facilities is crucial for
further community development. Such an observation is of particular importance for the …

Adaptive spectrum decision framework for heterogeneous dynamic spectrum access networks

MT Masonta, F Mekuria, M Mzyece… - AFRICON 2015, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spectrum decision is the ability of a cognitive radio (CR) system to select the best available
spectrum band to satisfy dynamic spectrum access network (DSAN) users' quality of service …

University of Colorado at Boulder WiLDNet Testbed

B Miller, HB Fiehn, AF Avila, K Mazotti… - 2018 IEEE Global …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A wireless local area network (WLAN) was first implemented at the University of Colorado at
Boulder (UCB) in April of 2017. Only four 5.8 GHz band transceivers were present at the …

Building an argument for Internet expansion in Dwesa-an under-serviced rural community in South Africa

S Dlamini, MT Masonta, DL Johnson - e-Infrastructure and e-Services for …, 2015 - Springer
The purpose of this paper is to present research findings that investigate the extent of
Internet usage as well as options for extending the current reach of the wireless network in …