Cancers are group of diseases that are distinguished by increased division of cells caused byrngenetic changes. Globally, it accounted for 9.6 million deaths in 2015 and is increasing to be arnpublic health burden. Yet the treatment of cancer is mainly through chemotherapy that possessesrnsevere...
Hypertension is an important public health challenge worldwide. It is defined as persistentlyrnelevated arterial blood pressure (BP), systolic BP (SBP) ≥ 140 mmHg and/or diastolic BP (DBP)rn≥ 9 0 mmHg or use of antihypertensive medication in adults older than 18 years. The aim of...
Starch has been the subject of intensive research over many decades due to the fact that nativernstarches are diverse, biodegradable, applications are enormous and modifications to starch arernnumerous. In this study, Plectranthrus edulis (P.edulis) starch has been chemically modified...
Echinops kebericho Mesfin, valued primarily for its roots, is one of the most important rnmedicinal plants of Ethiopia with a long traditional use against a range of ailments. However,rnquality control parameters and marker compound identification for E. kebericho have not beenrncarried out. In the...
Milk is a complete food useful to promote growth and development of the infant mammals contains vital nutrients including proteins, essential fatty acids, lactose, vitamins and mineraa balanced proportion. However, milk can also contain chemical hazards and contaminants, as heavy metals which can...
Cellular network coverage prediction is a cornerstone of mobile network operators and servicernproviders in order to provide good services to users. Without coverage provisioning, it isrnmeaningless to talk about service or Quality of service (QoS) provisioning. Coverage planning isrna complex task...
Smartphones have become key enablers for users to exploit video streaming services such asrnYouTube, Hulu, Netflix. Quality of experience (QoE) represents the actual visual perception ofrnusers and it becomes a prominent concept. Considering the perception of users on the quality ofrnmobile video...
The ubiquity nature of mobile networks, growth in technology, and innovations in mobile servicesrnwill attract more users with the growing expectation and satisfaction. To accommodate thernincreasing number of users’, operators are investing more in infrastructure and service delivery....
Cellular networks usually suffer from failures or performance degradations duernto several reasons, such as external interference, hardware/software bugs on networkrnelements, power outages, or cable disconnections. Therefore, to avoid customerrndissatisfaction and loss of revenue due to failures...
In cellular mobile networks due to the emerge of different application services, the datarntraffic generated by these application services is increasing. Moreover, the traffic...
Telecom service providers operate and control complex network infrastructurernused for data transmission. However, security issues have been among the mostrnserious problems for service providers in general and ethio telecom in particularly.rnOne of the main security problems that become the...
Telecom operators should monitor the satisfaction level of their customers and the quality ofrntheir networks to take on-time network optimization, redesign and marketing, in general effectivernresource allocation decisions. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the impact of fixed...
Global network infrastructures are increasing with the development of new technologies andrngrowth in Internet traffic. As network infrastructures increases, maintaining and monitoring themrnwill become very challenging since thousands of alarms are generated every day. Clearing thosernalarms by...
For mobile operators, delivering quality service to their customers is very important as servicernquality significantly affects their business. To achieve a consistent quality service delivery, theyrnneed to continuously monitor and analyze their network performance and timely address anyrnobtained...
For telecom operators, base station is one of the most important mobile networkrncomponent from which messages are sent and received directly to/from users. The basernstation consists of different hardware and software components. Any of theserncomponents could experience various types of faults...
Customer segmentation is dividing of customers into groups of individuals thatrnhave common characteristics or traits. By segmenting customers based on theirrnusage behavior, telecom companies can better target and classify their customers,rnprovide the services that meet their expectations and...
Unparalleled increasing demands for high capacity and consistent service quality on cellular network havernbeen challenging for telecom operators. However, current deployed and existing radio access network isrnsignificantly behind the growth. This promotes operators to network upgrade, expansion...
The mobile communication system revolutionized the way people communicate, entertain, doing their businessrnand educate. This results in the need and demand for mobile and Internet users to increasing everyrnday. Ethio telecom is a discoverer market in Eastern Africa with 66.8 million mobile...
The growth of internet trafï¬c forces telecom service providers to invest in new infrastructurernand/or expanding the network to achieve the desired Quality of Service (QoS) and copernup the network congestion. But several techniques available for granting QoS and networkrncongestion. The...
Bulk-messaging, one of the technologies carried by the telecom industry, is a processrnof sending a large number of messages to many people at once. It is likelyrna more economical and effective way of marketing media as compared to others.rnTherefore, many companies are using this service for...