Africa 3: A Continental Network Model to Enable the African Fourth Industrial Revolution
Olasupo O. Ajayi, Antoine B. Bagula, Hloniphani M. Maluleke

TL;DR
This paper proposes a comprehensive continental network model for Africa, integrating data centers and optimized routing to support the continent's development through the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Contribution
It introduces a multilayer network model using hybrid clustering and modified Ant Colony Optimization tailored for Africa's unique geo-spatial and infrastructural features.
Findings
Effective clustering of African countries based on multiple factors
Optimized network paths across Africa and within regional clusters
Model supports enhanced data connectivity for development
Abstract
It is widely recognised that collaboration can help fast-track the development of countries in Africa. Leveraging on the fourth industrial revolution, Africa can achieve accelerated development in health care services, educational systems and socio-economic infrastructures. While a number of conceptual frameworks have been proposed for the African continent, many have discounted the Cloud infrastructure used for data storage and processing, as well as the underlying network infrastructure upon which such frameworks would be built. This work therefore presents a continental network model for interconnecting nations in Africa through its data centres. The proposed model is based on a multilayer network engineering approach, which first groups African countries into clusters of data centres using a hybrid combination of clustering techniques; then utilizes Ant Colony Optimization with…
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