Africa 3: A continental network model to enable the African fourth industrial revolution

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dc.contributor.authorAjayi, Olasupo O
dc.contributor.authorBagula, Antoine B.
dc.contributor.authorMaluleke, Hloniphani C.
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-16T09:59:11Z
dc.date.available2022-05-16T09:59:11Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractIt is widely recognised that collaboration can help fast-track the development of countries in Africa. Leveraging on the fourth industrial revolution, Africa can achieve accelerated development in health care services, educational systems and socio-economic infrastructures. While a number of conceptual frameworks have been proposed for the African continent, many have discounted the Cloud infrastructure used for data storage and processing as well as the underlying network infrastructure upon which such frameworks would be built. This work therefore presents a continental network model for interconnecting nations in Africa through its data centres. The proposed model is based on a multilayer network engineering approach, which first groups African countries into clusters of data centers using a hybrid combination of clustering techniques; then utilizes Ant Colony Optimisation with Stench Pheromone, that is modified to support variable evaporation rates, to find ideal network path(s) across the clusters and the continent as a whole. The proposed model takes into consideration the geo-spatial location, population sizes, data centre counts and intercontinental submarine cable landings of each African country, when clustering and routing. For bench-marking purposes, the path selection algorithm was tested on both the obtained clusters and African Union’s regional clusters.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAjayi, O. O. et al. (2020). Africa 3: A continental network model to enable the African fourth industrial revolution. IEEE Access, 8, 20140127, 196847-196864. 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3034144en_US
dc.identifier.issn2169-3536
dc.identifier.uri10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3034144
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/7398
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIEEEen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectAnt colony optimizationen_US
dc.subjectClustering algorithmsen_US
dc.subjectCommunication networksen_US
dc.subjectComputer networksen_US
dc.subjectFourth Industrial Revolutionen_US
dc.titleAfrica 3: A continental network model to enable the African fourth industrial revolutionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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