Kobo, Hlabishi IsaacTucker, William David2013-05-022013-05-022012Kobo, H. I. & Tucker, W. D. (2012). Situation-aware routing for wireless mesh networks with mobile nodes. In P. Cunningham & M. Cunningham (eds.), Information Society Technologies - Africa (IST-Africa). Dar es Salaam, Tanzania978-1-905824-34-2http://hdl.handle.net/10566/585This paper describes a situation-aware algorithm based on the current situation of a mesh network with mobile nodes that improves quality of service. After running laboratory performance tests, we concluded that a situation-aware mesh routing protocol offers potential to address issues pertaining to mobility, congestion and scalability in dynamic mesh networks with mobile nodes. Such networks appear promising to provide connectivity to people living in rural areas in developing regions of Africa, and can be easily interconnected to telco-styled networks through gateways for voice and Internet services. Such services can remain free in the mesh, yet can also be billed for interconnection. Our vision offers an attractive business model for up scaling a rural customer base for telcos, while at the same time offering increased quality of service for mobile users on rural mesh networks.enCopyright International Information Management Corporation (IIMC). This file may be freely used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way. Acknowledgement of the authors and the source is required.Free and open source softwareICT for eInclusion and eAccessibilityMobile applicationConference Proceedings