The Relevance of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) In Agroforestry Practices

This paper x-rays the relevance of ICTs in Agroforestry practices. Existing areas of applications such as forest andenvironmental management, specie identification and research publications are identified. The paper also looked into futurepossible usage of ICT and concludes that while the application of ICTs to Agroforestry practices in the 21st century is oftremendous importance it is important to know that there are still more areas where ICT would be applicable in Agroforestrywhich are yet to be discoveredKeywords – ICTs, Agroforestry, Applications, Fuzzy Logic, Environmental management

Nigerian Wood Waste: A Potential Resource for Economic Development

Wood waste generation in Nigeria is constantly on the increase as a result of low average percentage timber recovery both in the forests and wood processing industries and increased demand for wood and its products in the country. Being perceived as mere useless materials to be discarded, wood waste has become a menace to public health and the environment in Nigeria due to its indiscriminate disposal practices. This paper therefore aims to highlight the potentials of wood waste as a viable resource for economic growth and sustainable development and thereby pique the people’s interest in the proper management and harnessing of wood waste. Keywords: Sustainable development, Wood waste, Wood waste management, Wood waste utilization

THE RELEVANCE OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTs) IN AGROFORESTRY PRACTICES

Heathcote (2000) posited that “Within half a century, computers and information technology have changed the world andaffected millions of lives in ways that no one could have foreseen”. The great impacts, contributions to knowledge,importance and economic achievements that have emerged from the fields of computer science (information science) andelectronic engineering, in the 21st century, are revolutionary and mind boggling (Bamgbade,2011). This paper explores theextent to which ICT applications have improved agro-forestry practices and discussed areas of application such as forestryand environmental management, species identification, research publication, ICT in agroforestry education, plant pathologystudies, wood anatomy, biometrics, Data management, modeling, analysis and miningKeywords: ICTs, Agroforestry, Impact, Management, Computers, Practices and Applications

A Flexible Handoff Prioritization Scheme for Improved Quality of Service in Mobile Networks

Efficient handoff prioritization schemes make mobile networks to perform better. However, most existing schemes have the common characteristics of reducing the call drop probability and increasing the call block probability; this decreases the general network performance. The reservation of channels for the use of handoff calls alone has not proved to be an efficient approach to optimally utilize the network limited channel resources. These approaches are such that even when the reserved channels are not in use, new calls could still get blocked if there are no channels among the shared channels to allocate to the new calls. In trying to maintain an improved QoS for handoff calls while ensuring an acceptable QoS for new calls, different methods have been suggested for new calls to access and use the reserved channels while priority is still given to handoff calls since it is more frustrating to have an on-going call dropped than blocking a new call. Network parameters such as call drop probability and traffic intensity had been used separately to determine when new calls could be granted access to use the reserved channels or otherwise. Handoff queuing and other call admission control approaches have also been used. This paper proposes the use of traffic intensity and call drop probability to decide whether the new calls could use the reserved channels or not. Also proposed is the need to keep the number of reserved channels fixed rather than calculating the numbers to reserve per time therefore reducing the computational complexity of the scheme. The simulation results showed an improved QoS for the handoff calls while producing a commensurate improvement for the new calls through a reduced Call drop Probability and call block probability. Keywords: Call block probability, Call drop probability, traffic intensity, handoff prioritization, mobile network DOI: 10.7176/JIEA/11-1-03 Publication date: January 31st 202

The Relevance of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) In Agroforestry Practices

ABSTRACT This paper x-rays the relevance of ICTs in Agroforestry practices. Existing areas of applications such as forest and environmental management, specie identification and research publications are identified. The paper also looked into future possible usage of ICT and concludes that while the application of ICTs to Agroforestry practices in the 21st century is of tremendous importance it is important to know that there are still more areas where ICT would be applicable in Agroforestry which are yet to be discovere