November 2012

An open source Geographic Information System (GIS) approach to water supply management, distribution and billing

  In this work a comprehensive solution for the Gatanga Water Trust (GWT) has been developed to assist it in managing its water supply and distribution. The solution comprises two subcomponents: a mapping component and a billing component which are tightly coupled together. The proposed system uses stable open source products for the mapping component and the database. At present the GWT uses outdated maps and...

Author(s): David Ndegwa Kuria, Douglas Engoke Musiega, Moses Murimi Ngigi and Simon Kibue Ngugi

November 2012

Simulation analysis of proactive, reactive and hybrid routing protocols in mobile ad hoc network using Qualnet simulator 5.0.2

  Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) consist of a collection of wireless mobile nodes which dynamically exchange data among themselves without the reliance on a fixed base station or a wired backbone network. All nodes are mobile and can be connected dynamically in an arbitrary manner. There is no static infrastructure such as base station. All nodes of these networks behave as routers and take part in discovery...

Author(s): Nitin Arora and Suresh Kumar