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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