Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas: Second International Conference, InterSol 2018, Kigali, Rwanda, March 24–25, 2018, Proceedings ... Telecommunications Engineering Book 249)

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas, InterSol 2018, and the 7 th Collogue National sur la Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications, CNRIA 2018, held in Kigali, Rwanda, in March 2018. The 23 papers presented were selected from 56 submissions and issue the following themes: papers dealing with the evolution of performances of solar systems in Africa, papers addressing the issues is public health, telecom papers studying the business model of telecommunication, math models presenting the climatic phenomenon and finally health papers dealing with medical devices that are suitable to underserved areas. The proceedings also contain 7 papers from the co-located 7 th CNRIA (Collogue National sur la Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications) focusing on network architecture and security, software engineering, data management, and signal processing. Front Matter ....Pages I-XI Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 On the Prevalence of Boomerang Routing in Africa: Analysis and Potential Solutions (Assane Gueye, Babacar Mbaye)....Pages 3-12 Ego-Community Evolution Tracking in Instant Messaging Networks (Ahmed Ould Mohamed Moctar, Idrissa Sarr)....Pages 13-22 Investigation of Degradation in Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Modules After 10 Years Exposition in Senegal by Infrared (IR) and Electroluminescence (EL) (Ababacar Ndiaye, Cheikh M. F. Kébé, Boudy Ould Bilal, Abdérafi Charki, Vincent Sambou, Papa A. Ndiaye)....Pages 23-40 Building Energy Audit in Nigeria: Some Guides for Energy Efficiency Building Regulations (Abdulhameed Danjuma Mambo, Cheikh Mouhamed Fadel Kebe)....Pages 41-51 ICT Performance Indicators in Formal Education at the Secondary School Level in Rwanda (Florien Gumyusenge, Robert Mugisha, Aminata A. Garba, Martin Saint)....Pages 52-61 The Impact of over the Top Service Providers in the Rwandan Telecommunications Market: An Analysis of Business Models (Emelyne Kwizera, Darius Mico, Michael Nayebare, Aminata A. Garba, Martin Saint, Linda G. Deen)....Pages 62-71 Challenges and Opportunities in Instrumentation and Use of High-Density EEG for Underserved Regions (Ashwati Krishnan, Ritesh Kumar, Arnelle Etienne, Amanda Robinson, Shawn K. Kelly, Marlene Behrmann et al.)....Pages 72-82 E-Medicine: A Secure Transmission of Electrocardiograms Using Chaotic Oscillators Synchronization (Alain Tiedeu, Yannick Abanda, Gutenbert Kenfack)....Pages 83-89 Bringing Life Where There Is No Light: A Low-Cost Movie Projection and Data Collection Solution for Underserved Areas (Alain Shema, Michel Bézy)....Pages 90-99 A Study of the Wind Potential in Climatic Zones of Chad (Zoutene Pabame, Cheikh Mouhamed F. Kebe, Boudy Ould Bilal, Ababacar Ndiaye, Assane Gueye, Pape Alioune Ndiaye)....Pages 100-107 Front Matter ....Pages 109-109 Beyond Participation: Welfare Effects of Gender-Differentiated Group-Based Approaches Under Climate Change in Kenya (Marther W. Ngigi, Ulrike Mueller)....Pages 111-122 Climate Change Signals Over Senegal River Basin Using Regional Climate Models of the CORDEX Africa Simulations (Mamadou Lamine Mbaye, Samo Diatta, Amadou Thierno Gaye)....Pages 123-132 Climate Change Mitigation Potential in Agricultural and Forestry Sector: The Impact of Expanded Woody Biomass Co-firing on Global Climate Stabilization (Aklesso Y. G. Egbendewe)....Pages 133-142 Climate Change May Result in More Water Availability in Parts of the African Sahel (Ousmane Seidou)....Pages 143-152 Evaluation and Update of Two Regional Methods (ORSTOM and CIEH) for Estimations of Flow Used in Structural Design in West Africa (Sehouevi M. D. Agoungbome, Ousmane Seidou, Moussa Thiam)....Pages 153-162 Statistical Downscaling of Global Climate Model MIROC_4h Outputs to Precipitation in Rwanda (Nkusi Pearl, Mutabazi Alphonse)....Pages 163-171 Front Matter ....Pages 173-173 An Internet of Things Infrastructure for Rainfall Monitoring in Dakar (Abdoulaye Kama, Cheikh Modou Noreyni Fall, Mamadou Simina Drame, Moussa Diallo)....Pages 175-186 A Parallelized Spark Based Version of mRMR (Reine Marie Ndéla Marone, Fodé Camara, Samba Ndiaye)....Pages 187-198 Multi-scenario Modelling of Learning (Guy Merlin Mbatchou, François Bouchet, Thibault Carron)....Pages 199-211 RailMon: Distance, Temperature and Location Railway Monitoring Using IoT Technologies (Pa Saffiong Kebbeh, Madoune R. Seye, Bassirou Ngom, Bamba Gueye, Moussa Diallo)....Pages 212-223 An Encoding for the Theta Model of Elliptic Curves (Nafissatou Diarra, Emmanuel Fouotsa)....Pages 224-235 BEDWE: A Decentralized Workflow Engine for Best-Effort Infrastructures (Palakiyem Wallah, Cédric Tedeschi, Jean-Louis Pazat)....Pages 236-247 A Robust Process to Identify Pivots Inside Sub-communities in Social Networks (Joseph Ndong, Ibrahima Gueye)....Pages 248-260 Back Matter ....Pages 261-261