INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT

NAME: Mukoya Phillip

STUDENT NUMBER: 150000707
MODULE: Wimax ASSIGNMENT 1
COURSE: Digital Communication Technology year 2

1. EVOLUTION OF CELLULAR NETWORKS

radio communication was invented by Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo
Marconi: in 1893, Nikola Tesla made the first public demonstration of
wireless (radio) telegraphy; Guglielmo Marconi conducted long ditance
(over see) telegraphy 1897
in 1940 the first walkie-talkie was used by the US military
in 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain from AT&Ts Bell Labs
invented the transistor (semiconductor device used to amplify and
switch electronic signals)
AT&T introduced commercial radio comm.: car phone two way radio
link to the local phone network
in 1979 the first commercial cellular phone service was launched by
the Nordic Mobile Telephone (in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark).
The first generation (1G) uses analog signal.
AMPS
The second generation (2G) uses digital technology and provided
enhanced services (e.g., messaging, caller-id, etc.).
Two U.S. standards: Interim Standard 136 (IS-136) based on TDMA,
and IS-95 based on CDMA.
European standard: Global System Mobile Communications (GSM)
2.5G offers enhanced services over second generation systems
(emailing, web-browsing, etc.).
GPRS, EDGE
3G offers higher data rates than 2.5G. This allows users to
send/receive pictures, video clips, etc. (up to 3.1Mbps)
Wideband CDMA (WCDMA, UMTS) and CDMA 2000 EVDO/EVDV.
These two standards have been adopted world-wide.
4G (practically 3-5Mbps, target over 100Mbps)
Long term Evolution (LTE), LTE-advanced
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), WiMax 2
2. EVOLUTION OF WIFI
Wi-Fi is a way of getting broadband internet to a device without using
wires. Wi-Fi uses a wireless transmitter to send information to your
computer. A transmitter converts information from the internet into a
radio signal. This allows an electronic device to exchange data with the
transmitter, sending information to and from the wireless device.
Wi-Fi was first released for consumers in 1997, when a committee
called 802.11 was set up. IEEE802.11 was the name for a set of
standards used when setting up a WLAN or wireless local area
network. A basic specification for Wi-Fi was created, which allowed for
two mega-bites per second of data transfer. Engineers immediately
began to work on prototype equipment to comply with it. In 1999, the
release of routers sparked the beginning of the wide use of Wi-Fi in our
homes.

References:
Mobile and wireless network by Dong-Wan Tcha, Encyclopedia of information
systems, volume 3,copyright
2003,Elsevier science (USA)

Wireless internet by Abbas Jamilpour, handbook of technology management,

Wiley 2009,Hossein Bidgoli (editor
in chief)
Wireless internet by Abbas Jamilpour, handbook of technology management,
Wiley 2009,Hossein Bidgoli (editor in
chief)