{"id":118,"date":"2015-09-22T00:07:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T22:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uct.ac.za\/mengtelecom\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2016-05-03T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T12:47:12","slug":"alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uct.ac.za\/mengtelecom\/alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Alumni<\/h4>\n<h5>Doctor of Philosophy, PhD<\/h5>\n<p>Doctor of Philosophy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u>Guy-Alain Lusilao-Zodi<\/u> (co-supervisors: <u>Gerhard de Jager<\/u> &amp; <u>Keith Ferguson<\/u>) <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Real-Time Data Flow Models and Congestion Management for Wireless and Wired IP Networks, UCT PhD Thesis, <\/em>December 2011.<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Tembalethu Jama Ndwe<\/u> (co-supervisors: Etienne Barnard and <u>Daniel J. Mashao<\/u>) <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Usability engineering of interactive voice response (IVR) system in Oral Users of Southern Africa; UCT PhD Thesis, <\/em>June 2011.<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Mthulisi Velempini<\/u> <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Improving the scalability of MAC <strong>protocols<\/strong> in Wireless Mesh Networks; UCT PhD Thesis, <\/em>December 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Master of Science in Engineering, MSc Eng<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nixon Thuo Nge&#8217;the<\/strong><em><br \/>\nAn Adaptive Threshold Energy Detection Technique with Noise Variance Estimation for Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks, <\/em>December 2015<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/test.ee.uct.ac.za\/ee_student.php?euid=3\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Joshua Adeleke<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/strong> <em><em><br \/>\nSingle Queue Priority Scheduler for Video Transmission in IEEE 802.11 Networks, <\/em><\/em>June 2015<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ojuetimi Ifedayo Akinsolu<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>A Design of Variable Transmission Power Control for Wireless Ad-hoc Network<\/em>, June 2015<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oluwadamilare Daniel Adeyemo<\/strong><em><br \/>\nImproving Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) for Interference Mitigation in Multi-tier 4G Wireless Networks, <\/em>June 2015<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lindelweyizizwe Siziwe Manqele<\/strong><em><br \/>\nAn architecture for user preference-based IoT service selection in cloud computing using mobile devices for smart campus, <\/em>December 2014<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bernard Nyakundi Isaacs<\/strong><em><br \/>\nAdaptive Radio Resource Management Schemes for the Downlink of the OFDMA-based Wireless Communication Systems, <\/em>June 2014<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eleceng.uct.ac.za\/people\/MYXVUS003.php\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Vusumuzi Moyo<\/span><\/u><\/a> (joint supervisor: Olabisi E. Falowo)<\/strong><em><br \/>\nImproving Inter-service Bandwidth Fairness in Wireless Mesh Networks, <\/em>June 2013<em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Dulce-Maira Boneke Nokonoko<\/u> (co-superviser: <u>Antoine Bagula<\/u><\/strong><strong>)<\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for Hybrid-RFID Sensor Network<\/em><em>,<\/em><em> MSc (Eng) Dissertation, <\/em>December 2011<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eleceng.uct.ac.za\/people\/LBBSMA001.php\"><u>Smart Charles Lubobya<\/u><\/a> (co-supervisors: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eleceng.uct.ac.za\/people\/gdj.php\"><u>Gerhard de Jager<\/u><\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csir.co.za\/researcher_profiles\/Keith.html\"><u>Keith Ferguson<\/u><\/a>)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Fast Implementation of Integer Transforms in 4 x 4 H.264\/AVC Video Encoders<\/em><em>,<\/em><em> MSc (Eng) Dissertation, <\/em>December 2011<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Naga Rohini Koduri<\/u> (co-supervisors: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eleceng.uct.ac.za\/people\/gdj.php\"><u>Gerhard de Jager<\/u><\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csir.co.za\/researcher_profiles\/Keith.html\"><u>Keith Ferguson<\/u><\/a>)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Fast Implementations of Block Motion Estimation Algorithms in Video Encoders<\/em><em>,<\/em><em> MSc (Eng) Dissertation, <\/em>December 2011<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Sabelo Velemseni Dlamini<\/u> <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Optimisation of FMIPv6 using timely predictive link-layer triggers and the IEEE 802.21 MIH service,<\/em><em> MSc (Eng) Dissertation, <\/em>December 2010<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Nakato Josephine Kakande<\/u> (co-supervisors: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eleceng.uct.ac.za\/people\/gdj.php\"><u>Gerhard de Jager<\/u><\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csir.co.za\/researcher_profiles\/Keith.html\"><u>Keith Ferguson<\/u><\/a>)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>Real-Time Protocols for Internet Applications, <\/em><em>MSc (Eng) Dissertation, <\/em>December 2010<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Veronica Sentongo<\/u> (co-supervisors: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eleceng.uct.ac.za\/people\/gdj.php\"><u>Gerhard de Jager<\/u><\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csir.co.za\/researcher_profiles\/Keith.html\"><u>Keith Ferguson<\/u><\/a><\/strong><strong>)<\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>Comparative Analysis of Media Pipeline Plug-in Architectures, <\/em>June 2010<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Mzabalazo Lupupa<\/u> <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Transmit Antenna Selection in Fading Mobile Communication Systems, <\/em>December 2009<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Oswald Jumira<\/u> <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Comparison of DFT-OFDM and DWT-OFDM based transceivers for wireless communication, <\/em>June 2009<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nust.ac.zw\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=section&amp;id=16&amp;Itemid=97\"><u>Clifford Sibanda<\/u><\/a> <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Mobile IP across Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (Media-Independent Handovers), <\/em>December 2008<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Nathaniel Oreolowe Fadiran<\/u> <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Multi-user detectors for Turbo Coded STBC CDMA system, <\/em>December 2008<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Kamil H. Suleiman<\/u> ( joint supervisor: H. Anthony Chan)<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Call Admission Control for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, <\/em>June 2008<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Oladayo Bello nee\u00a0Salami<\/u> ( joint supervisor: H. Anthony Chan) <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Multi-stage Queuing and Iterative Probabilistic Scheduling of IP Traffic for QoS Provisioning, <\/em>June 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Master of Engineering &#8211; Telecommunications, MEng (Telecom)<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Damiano Kamanga<\/span><\/u> (co-supervisor: <u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">H. Anthony Chan<\/span><\/u>) <\/strong><em>Performance-based Network Selection Scheme for Interworking UMTS and WLAN Networks <\/em><em>(December 2009)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rodgers Mbao (co-supervisor: <u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">H. Anthony Chan<\/span><\/u>) <\/strong><em>Capacity Optimisation of MBMS Enabled 3G Mobile Systems Running HSDPA <\/em><em>(December 2009)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sikute Sankama (co-supervisor: <u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">H. Anthony Chan<\/span><\/u>) <\/strong><em>Modelling Average end-to-end Delay, Per Node and Overall Network Throughputs in Random Access Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) <\/em><em>(December 2009)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Mahsen Taher Abud<\/span><\/u> (co-supervisor: <u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">H. Anthony Chan<\/span><\/u>) <\/strong><em>Congestion Control Scheme Incorporating Service Differentiation for Wireless Sensor Networks (December 2009)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Victor Abiola Abe<\/u> <\/strong><em>Adaptive Fair Scheduling for Quality of Service (QoS) in IEEE 802.16e \/Mobile WiMAX Network (December 2008)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Masimba Chinhamu<\/u> <\/strong><em>Performance Comparison of MC-CDMA and OFDMA Techniques for Next Generation Mobile Systems (December 2008)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Brilliant Habeenzu<\/u> <\/strong><em>Exploiting Diversity and Spatial Multiplexing Gains in Wireless Communication Systems (December 2008)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Postgraduate Research Opportunities<\/h4>\n<p><u>Bursaries: Ericsson Contact &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/johan.bouwer@ericsson.com\">Johan Bouwer<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrf.ac.za\/studentsupport\/\"><u>NRF Scholarships and Fellowships<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telkom.co.za\/minisites\/ir\/corpgov\/hcm.html\"><u>Telkom SA Foundation<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgfo.uct.ac.za\/\"><u>UCT Postgraduate Funding Office<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ska.ac.za\/\"><u>Square Kilometre Array<\/u><\/a> &#8211; 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