benchmark systemfor s m e s- calvin college（加尔文学院s e m s -基准系统）（19页）.docVIP

Wireless Communications: Past, Present, and Future Ericko Yulianto Abstract Nobody in this world knows exactly when the history of wireless communications started. Several people, such as Maxwell, Hertz, Hughes, and Branly to name a few, established the principle of electromagnetism, which quickly became the basic foundations of the wireless telecommunications. Marconi was later claimed as the father of wireless communications after his invention, a radio, has changed the way people communicate drastically. Nowadays, more than sixty per cent of humans’ communications is done wirelessly and a lot more effectively. Wireless communications are expected to be the dominant mode of access technology in the future. Besides voice, a new data range of services such as multimedia and high speed data are being offered for delivery over wireless network. Mobility will be seamless, realizing the concept of persons’ being in contact anywhere, at any time. Throughout this paper, we review the long, interesting development of wireless communication in the past, examine the current progress in standards and technologies, and finally discuss possible trends for wireless communication solutions. Keywords Maxwell, Differential Equation, electric field, Hertz, electromagnetic waves, transmission coherer, wireless detector, Popov, Marconi, wireless telegraph, radio station, bidirectional, transoceanic, Frequency Modulated (FM), cellular mobile, Ericsson, GSM, Bluetooth, wireless internet, Wireless Application Protocols (WAP) , asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) Introduction Understanding the history is as important as understanding the methodical concept behind technology. History has made people realizing the complexity of one device as well at the same time made people to be aware of where the world will shift in the future. This paper will outline in great details how wireless communications have advanced in the past two centuries. History has proven that wireless commu