The arrival of fast internet and employment in Africa

J Hjort, J Poulsen - American Economic Review, 2019 - aeaweb.org
To show how fast Internet affects employment in Africa, we exploit the gradual arrival of
submarine Internet cables on the coast and maps of the terrestrial cable network. Robust …

Improving quality-of-service in cloud/fog computing through efficient resource allocation

SB Akintoye, A Bagula - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Recently, a massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud has been recorded in
the IT world. One of the challenges of cloud computing is Quality-of-Service management …

Deep diving into africa's inter-country latencies

A Formoso, J Chavula, A Phokeer… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet in Africa is evolving rapidly, yet remains significantly behind other regions in
terms of performance and ubiquity of access. This clearly has negative consequences for the …

[HTML][HTML] Misinformation technology: Internet use and political misperceptions in Africa

J Cariolle, Y Elkhateeb, M Maurel - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
The use of the Internet to access news has an impact on African citizens' perceptions of
democracy. Using repeated cross-sectional data from the Afrobarometer survey across 35 …

The Ethiopian telecom industry: gaps and recommendations towards meaningful connectivity and a thriving digital ecosystem

BO Adame - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
Ethiopia, the second-most populous country in Africa with 110 million inhabitants, has one of
the oldest public telecommunication operators established in 1894. Despite its age …

Investigating the Causes of Congestion on the African IXP substrate

R Fanou, F Valera, A Dhamdhere - Proceedings of the 2017 Internet …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The goal of this work is to investigate the prevalence, causes, and impact of congestion on
the African IXP substrate. Towards this end, we deployed Ark probes (within networks …

Using SDN and reinforcement learning for traffic engineering in UbuntuNet Alliance

J Chavula, M Densmore… - … Conference on Advances …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software Defined Networking (SDN) provides opportunities for dynamic and flexible traffic
engineering. This paper discusses how UbuntuNet Alliance National Research and …

Reshaping the African Internet: From scattered islands to a connected continent

R Fanou, F Valera, P Francois, A Dhamdhere - Computer Communications, 2017 - Elsevier
There is an increasing awareness amongst developing regions on the importance of
localizing Internet traffic in the quest for fast, affordable, and available Internet access. In this …

Reassessing the constancy of end-to-end internet latency

L Davisson, J Jakovleski, N Ngo, C Pham… - IFIP Network Traffic …, 2021 - par.nsf.gov
A paper by Zhang et al. in 2001,“On the Constancy of Internet Path Properties”[1] examined
the constancy of end-to-end packet loss, latency, and throughput using a modest set of hosts …

Cyber-healthcare kiosks for healthcare support in developing countries

MF Bagula, H Bagula, M Mandava… - e-Infrastructure and e …, 2019 - Springer
Cyber-healthcare can be described to be virtual medicine applied in reality. It involves the
use of healthcare professionals consulting and treating patients via the internet and other …