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Early Developments

Electricity
–> Discovery of Electricity
–> The electric charge
–> Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta
–> Magnetism
–> Hans Christian Oerstedt
–> Andre Marie Ampere
–> Michael Faraday und die Elektrodynamik

Telegraphy
–> The first electrical transmission of a message
–> Telegraphy and the Railroad
–> First Telegraph Lines
–> Werner Siemens
–> Samual Morse
–> ITU: The first global organisation
–> Telegraphy and Time

Telephony
–> Philipp Reis
–> Antonio Meucci
–> Elisha Gray
–> Alexander Graham Bell
–> Bell Telephone Company
–> The Telephone Network
–> Hello
–> Almond Strowger

Electromagnetic Radiation
–> James Clark Maxwell
–> Heinrich Hertz
–> Pioneers of radio transmission
–> Down of wireless Communication
–> Ferdinand Braun
–> Telefunken
–> World Radiocommunication Conference
–> Spark or Radio

Modulated Electromagnetic Waves
–> Damped Oscillation
–> The Vacuum Tube and the Dawn of Electronics
–> Continuous Oscillation with Triode Tubes
–> Amplitude Modulation
–> Superheterodyne Receiver

Triumph of Radio
–> Crystal Oscillator
–> Radio gets Mobile
–> Radio and Propaganda
–> Frequency Modulation
–> Radiotelephony
–> The first Handheld

Early Telecommunication Industry
–> Origin of the PTTs
–> European Supplier
––>  Felten & Guillaume, Haller and TeKaDe
––>  Siemens & Halske
––>  LM Ericsson
––>  International Telephone and Telegraph
–> Development in the USA
––>  Western Union
––>  AT&T and Western Electric

Early Technology for Communication
–> Meissner-Circuit
–> Amplitude Modulation
–> Superheterodyne Receiver
–> Crystal Oscillator
–> Frequency Modulation

The Car Phone

First Wave Car Telephones
–> Duplex Operation
–> First Receive and Transmit Channels
–> How to share a radio channel
–> Signaling
–> Manual Call Setup
–> Automatic Call Reception
–> Mobile Telephone Service

Second Wave Car Telephones
–> The Protocol
–> Required Components
––>  Keypad
––>  Display
––>  Memory
––>  Logic
––>  Phase Locked Loop and Frequency Synthesis
–> Signalisation via the radio channel
–> The B-Network
–> IMTS

Early Semiconductors Industry
–> The first Transistor
–> The MOSFET
—>Photolithography
–> The dawn of Silicon Valley
–> The integrated circuit and the dawn of the Information Age
–> To the Moon and back
–> The first electronic Gadget

Technology 1946 – 1980
–> DTMF
–> LED
–> Memory
–> Logic
–> PLL

Telecommunication Industry after WWII
–> Network Operators
––>  AT&T and the Baby Bells
–> Infrastructure- and Device Manufacturers
––>  Ericsson and SRA 
––>  Siemens
––>  TeKaDe Philips
––>  Motorola
–> Semiconductor Industry
––>  Texas Instruments
––>  Philips Semiconductors
––>  Motorola Semiconductors
––>  Intel

1G First Generation Mobile Communications

Cellular Network
–> The Invention of the Cellular Network
–> Signing in, signing out, handover
–> Handover during a call
–> Signaling and Error Correction
–> First Cellular Standards
–> Coopers „Cellular Call“

C-Netz
–> New Frequency Bands for the C-Netz
–> Organisation Channel
––>  Frequency Shift Keying
––>  Frame Structure
––>  Synchronization
––>  Error Correction
–> Selection of the Base Station
–> Sign In
–> Inband Coding
–> Digital Signal Processing
–> Subscriber Identification
–> Deployment and Devices

AMPS, TACS and NMT
–> Advanced Mobile Phone Service
––>  AMPS Frequency Bands
––>  AMPS Control Channel
––>  Handover with AMPS
––>  Roll Out of AMPS
–> Total Access Communication System
–> Nordic Mobile Telephone

Technology 1980 – 1990
–> Microcontroller
––>  Arithmetic and Logic Unit
––>  Control Unit
––>  Memory Input/Output
––>  First Microcontroller IC
–> Programming
–> Pulse Code Modulation

1G Telecommunication Industry
–> Network Operators
––>  Network Operators in the US
––>  Network Operators in Great Britain
–> Infrastructure Provider
––>  AT&T
––>  Ericsson
––>  Motorola
––>  Nokia
––>  Alcatel
––>  Siemens
–> Terminal Device Manufacturer

2G Second Generation Mobile Communication

GSM
–> GSM Air Interface
—> TDMA
–—> Bitrate and Bandwidth
–—> Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying
—> GSM Bands for Europe
—> Time Slots
—> Intersymbol Interference and Channel Equalization
—> Special Time Slots
—> Access Call
—> Control Channels
—> Frequency Hopping
–> GSM Signal Processing
—> Encryption
—> Source and Channel Coding
—> Interleaving
—> Voice Activity Detection
—> Convolutional Coder
—> Viterbi
–> Setup of a GSM Phone
—> Reference Oscillator
—> Timer
—> Card Reader
—> Power Management
—> Converter
—> Digital Signal Processor
—> Microprocessor
—> ASICs
–> First GSM Devices
—> Motorola International 3200
—> Ericsson GH172
—> Nokia 1011
—> Decline of the Car Phones

IS-54 Digital AMPS
–> Dual Mode
–> Bitrate and Modulation
–> IS-54 Time Slot
–> Synchronisation
–> Control Channel

IS-95 CDMA
–> CDMA Basics
—> Mariner 9 and Walsh Code
—> Channel Selection using Walsh Codes
—> Party Effekt to explain CDMA
–> Qualcomm
–> IS-95 Air Interface
—> CDMA channels
—> Logical Channels
—> CDMA Traffic Channel
–—>  Forward Traffic Channel
–—>  Backward Traffic Channel
—> CDMA Receiver
—> CDMA Handover
—> Near Far Problem
—> Synchronization of the Base Stations

Smaller, lighter, cheaper
–> Size
–> Weight
–> Battery Life
–> Price
–> Cost reduction through integrated circuits
–> Baseband Processor
–> Advanced RISC Machine (ARM)
–> Mixed Signal Design
–> Technology Nodes
–> Battery Technology

Mobile Phone Boom of the 1990s
–> Digital Communication System (DCS)
–> Mobile Device Trends
–> Short Message System (SMS)

Technology 1990 – 2000
–> Digital Signal Processing
—> Digitalization of mobile communication
—> Digital Signals
—> TDMA Systems
—> Noise Free Transmission
—> Signal analysis
—> Digital Filter
—> Digital Signal Processor
—> Speech Coding
—> Protection agains Interception
–> Digital Modulation
–> Computer Aided Design

2G Telecommunication Industry
–> Network Operator
––>  US Network Operator
—–>  Consolidation of the US Market
—–>  McCaw Cellular and AT&T Wireless
—–>  Airtouch and Vodafone
—–>  Verizon Wireless
—–>  Cingular Wireless
—–>  Sprint
––>  Network operator in Europe
—–>  Great Britain
—–>  Germany
—–>  France
—–>  Spain
–> Infrastructure Provider
––>  Lucent Technologies
––>  Philips Kommunikations Industrie
––>  Ericsson
––>  Motorola
––>  Nokia
––>  Nortel
––>  Alcatel
––>  Siemens
–> Terminal Provider
––>  USA
––>  Europe
—–>  Siemens
—–>  Philips
–> Semiconductor Industry

Satellite Phone

Iridium
–> Iridium Air Interface 
–> Start of Iridium and Bankruptcy
Globalstar
–> Globalstar Air Interface
–> Start of Globalstar and Bankruptcy
Inmarsat und Thuraya

 2.5 G and the Internet

The Internet
–> The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
–> The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
–> Data Packets and Computer Networks 
–> Intergalactic Computer Network
–> Interface Message Processor
–> E-Mail
–> Unified Protocol TCP/IP
–> Domain Names
–> ARPANET becomes Internet
–> The World Wide Web

GPRS and EDGE
–> General Packed Radio Service (GPRS)
–> GPRS Air Interface
–> GPRS Coding Scheme
–> GPRS States
–> GPRS Network
–> Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)
–> Usage of GPRS

Beginning of the mobile internet

The Feature Phone

Display
Storage
Computer Connectivity (USB)
Camera Technology
Audio (storage and playing of music)
FM Receiver
Games

Bluetooth

Industrial, Scientific and Medical Band (ISM)
Bluetooth
Bluetooth Air Interface
Bluetooth Application

3G Third Generation Mobile Communication

IMT 2000
–> IMT frequency bands
–> IMT Studies in Europe
–> IMT Studies in Japan
–> 3G Partnership Project (3GPP)
–> UMTS Release 99
–> CDMA2000
–> 3G Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2)
–> 1x Radio Transmission Technology (1x RTT)
–> CDMA2000 Evolution 1XRTT EV DO
–> The holy war of wireless
–> Final IMT-2000 Standards

UMTS
–> Wideband CDMA Air Interface
–> Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factors (OVSF)
–> Channel-Structure and Synchronization with UMTS
–> Synchronization
–> Advantages of W-CDMA over GPRS/EDGE
–> Roll Out of UMTS
–> UMTS Licensing
–> Development of first UMTS Devices

Technology 2000 – 2010
–> OFDM
––>  Multi Carrier Modulation
––>  Fourier Transformation
––>  Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT)
–> Direct Conversion Receiver
–> Smartphone Technologies
––>  Multi Touch Display
––>  Gesture Control
––>  Distance Sensors

3G Telecommunication Industry
–> Network Operator
––>  China
––>  India
––>  USA
––>  Afrika, Asia and Latin America
––>  Germany
–> Infrastructure Manufacturer
––>  Motorola
––>  Alcatel Lucent
––>  Nokia Siemens Networks
––>  Nortel
––>  Ericsson
––>  Huawei
–> Device Manufacturer
––>  Nokia
––>  Ericsson
––>  Siemens Mobile
––>  Motorola
––>  Samsung
––>  Shanzhai
–> Semiconductors
––>  Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance
––>  Texas Instruments
––>  Qualcomm
––>  Siemens Halbleiter/Infineon
––>  Intel
––>  Philips Semiconductors/NXP
––>  Samsung
––>  Mediatek
––>  Marketshare

Wireless LAN

Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection (CSMA/CD)
IEEE 802
–->  WaveLAN
–->  802.11 b
–->  802.11 b Frame Struktur
–->  WLAN Netzwerk
–->  WiFi
HIPERLAN und 802.11 a
–->  802.11 a Physical Layer und Frame Struktur
802.11 g

The Smartphone

PDA
–->   Resistive Touchscreen
–->   Apple Newton
–->   Palm Pilot
–->   Windows Mobile
The Smartphone
–->   IBM Simon
–->   Geos
–->   Nokia Communicator
–->   Symbian OS
–->   Blackberry
The iPhone
–->   Apple iPod
–->   Three Products in One
–->   Cooperation mit Cingular
Android
–->   Unix
–->   Linux
–->   Open Handset Alliance

3.5 G HSDPA

High Speed Physical Downlink Shared Channel
Modulation and Data Rate
Reduction of Response Time
Improvement of Channel Coding (Turbo Codes)

4G Fourth Generation Mobile Communication

Long Term Evolution LTE
–>  LTE Physical Layer
––>    Channel Structure
––>    Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA)
––>    LTE Data Rates
––>    LTE TDD
–>  New Bands for LTE
–> LTE Network Architecture

The Triumph of the Smartphones
–>  APPS
–>  Push
–>  Instant Messaging
–>  Twitter
–>  GPS
–>  WLAN based Location
–>  First GPS Devices
–>  Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis
–>  Decline of the Feature Phone

Evolution of the Smartphone
–>  2008 iPhone 3G und Galaxy
–>  2010 iPhone 4 und Galaxy S1
–>  2011 iPhone 4S und Galaxy S2
–>  2012 iPhone 5 und Galaxy S3/S4
–>  2014 iPhone 6 und Galaxy S5/S6
–>  2016 iPhone 7 und Galaxy S7
–>  2017 iPhone X und Galaxy S8

Patent Wars
–>  Nokia against Apple
–>  Apple against Android
–>  Apple against HTC
–>  Apple against Samsung

Technologie 2010 – 2020
–>  Multi Antenna System
––>   Antenna Diversity
––>   Space Division Multiple Access
––>   First MIMO-Developments and Systems
–>  Power amplifier in basis stations
––>   Intermodulation
––>   Digital Predistortion (DPD)
––>   Crest Factor Reduction (CFR)
–>  Remote Radio Head
–>  Near Field Communication

4G Telecommunication Industry
–>  Mobile Operator
––>   Development in the US
—–>   Sprint and WiMAX
—–>   LTE Introduction
—–>   Sprint/T-Mobile Merger
––>   China
––>   India
—–>   Reliance Communication and JIO
––>   Germany
–>  Infrastructure Provider
––>   Alcatel Lucent and Nokia
––>   Ericsson
––>   Starent and Cisco
–>  Device Manufacturer
––>   Nokia
––>   The Smartphone Market
––>   Huawei
–>  Semiconductors
––>   ST-Ericsson
––>   Intel
––>   Qualcomm
––>   Mediatek
––>   Hisilicon
––>   Spreadtrum/UniSoc

WiMAX

Fixed WiMAX Physical Layer
––>   Guard Time
––>   Subcarrier
––>   Bandwidth
––>   Channel Coding, Modulation and Bit Rates
––>   OFDMA
Wireless Broadband (WiBro)
Introduction of WiMAX

LTE Advanced

Carrier Aggregation
LTE Categories
Voice over LTE
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
IP Multimedia Subsystem

Internet of Things

Low Power Wide Area Networks
––> Sigfox
Machine Type Communication
––> Narrow Band IoT

5G Firth Generation Mobile Communication