The COVID-19outbreak has caused people to live in anxiety and fear. This eing implemented as a preventive measure to halt the COVID-19pandemic. People are forced to stay at home, which causes them stress and boredom. As a result, most people turned to social mediaplatforms and use them actively. One of the current trends during MCO is that people learn how to grow plants in the home garden project. This activity is more exciting with the involvement and of help of social media platformssuch as Facebook. However, to date, only few past studies have discussed the factors influencing social media users' behaviour, mainly Facebook, to involve with the home garden project during MCO.Therefore, this study explored the behavioural intention to use Facebookas a platform to share the information regarding home garden project during MCO. This study applied the extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model, which used the original model, focusing on performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating condition. Then, two new factors, namely perceived enjoyment and cognitive gratification, were integrated to predict primary factors of influencing Facebook user's behaviour to involve with the home garden project during MCO. The research can be used as a guideline to help develop better apps in order to cultivate home garden projects.
A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a kind of wireless ad-hoc network, and is a self-configuring network of mobile routers connected wirelessly. MANET may operate in a standalone fashion, or may be connected to the larger Internet. Many routing protocols have been developed for MANETs over the past few years. This project evaluated three specific MANET routing protocols which are Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) and Dynamic MANET On-demand routing protocol (DYMO) to better understand the major characteristics of these routing protocols. Different performance aspects were investigated in this project including; packet delivery ratio, routing overhead, throughput and average end-to-end delay. This project used Linux as an operating system based platform and discrete event simulator NS-2 as simulation software to compare the three MANET routing protocols. This project’s results indicated that all routing protocols perform well according to the performance metrics that have been selected. For packet delivery ratio metric, performance of AODV, DSR and DYMO routing protocols are quite similar to each other. The DSR performance is better compared to AODV and DYMO and has stable normalized routing overhead. In terms of throughput, DYMO routing protocol performs the best as compared to AODV and DSR. Finally, for average end to end delay, DYMO and AODV perform well in comparison with DSR.
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