About the Author

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Dr. Tulsi Pawan Fowdur received his BEng (Hons) degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering with honors from the University of Mauritius in 2004. He was also the recipient of a Gold medal for having produced the best degree project at the Faculty of Engineering in 2004. In 2005 he obtained a full-time PhD scholarship from the Tertiary Education Commission of Mauritius and was awarded his PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2010 by the University of Mauritius. He is also a Registered Chartered Engineer of the Engineering Council of the UK, Fellow of the Institute of Telecommunications Professionals of the UK, and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He joined the University of Mauritius as an academic in June 2009 and is presently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Mauritius. His research interests include mobile and wireless communications, multimedia communications, networking and security, telecommunications applications development, the Internet of Things, and AI. He has published several papers in these areas and is actively involved in research supervision, reviewing papers, and also organizing international conferences. Lavesh Babooram received his BEng (Hons) degree in Telecommunications Engineering with Networking with honors from the University of Mauritius in 2021. He was also awarded a Gold medal for having produced the best degree project at the Faculty of Engineering in 2021. Since 2022, he has been an MSc Applied Research student at the University of Mauritius. With in-depth knowledge of telecommunications applications design, analytics, and network infrastructure, he aims to pursue research in networking, multimedia communications, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and mobile and wireless communications. He joined Mauritius Telecom in 2022 and is currently working in the Customer Experience and Service Department as a Pre-Registration Trainee Engineer.