This document is a technical seminar paper submitted by M. Dona Sri on wireless communication networks. It provides an overview of the history and development of wireless technologies including early innovations like the photophone and wireless telegraphy. It discusses various wireless communication modes like radio, free-space optical, sonic and electromagnetic induction. It also covers wireless applications in different areas such as mobile phones, data communications, medical technologies and computer interface devices. Finally, it examines common modern wireless technologies and implementation standards.

1. Submitted in partial fulfilment of
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Requirements of Technical Seminar on
wireless communicaions
Bachelor of Technology
in
Computer Sciences and EngineerinG
BY
M.DONA SRI
14A81A05A0
3rd CSE
Department of Computer sciences and engineering
SRI VASAVI ENGINEERING COLLEGE
(Affiliated to JNTU,Kakinada)
Pedatadepalli,Tadepalligudem-534101,Wg dist..
ANDHRA PRADESH

2. CONTENTS:
o 1.1 Photophone
o 1.2 Early usage
o 1.3 Radio
 2Modes
o 2.1 Radio
o 2.2 Free-space optical
o 2.3 Sonic
o 2.4 Electromagnetic induction
 3 Services
 4 Computers
 5 Cordless
 6 Electromagnetic spectrum
 7 Applications
o 7.1 Mobile telephones
o 7.2 Data communications
o 7.3 Energy transfer
o 7.4 Medical technologies
o 7.5 Computer interface devices
 8 Categories of implementations, devices and standards

3. Wireless communication:
Is the transfer of information or power between two or
more points that are not connected by an electrical conductor
The most common wireless technologies use radio. With radio waves
distances can be short, such as a few meters for television or as far as
thousands or even millions of kilo meters for deep-space radio
communications. It encompasses various types of fixed, mobile, and
portable applications, including two-way radios, cellular
telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and wireless networking.
Other examples of applications of radio wireless
technology include GPS units, garage door openers, wireless computer
mice, keyboards and headsets, headphones, radio receivers, satellite
television, broadcast television and cordless telephones.
Somewhat less common methods of achieving wireless communications
include the use of other electromagnetic wireless technologies, such as
light, magnetic, or electric fields or the use of sound. The
term wireless has been used twice in communications history, with
slightly different meaning. It was initially used from about 1890 for the
first radio transmitting and receiving technology, as in wireless
telegraphy, until the new word radio replaced it around 1920. The term
was revived in the 1980s and 1990s mainly to distinguish digital devices
that communicate without wires, such as the examples listed in the
previous paragraph, from those that require wires or cables. This is its
primary usage in the 2000s. LTE, LTE-Advanced, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are
common modern wireless technologies used in the 2000s.
Wireless operations permit services, such as long-range
communications, that are impossible or impractical to implement with
the use of wires. The term is commonly used in
the telecommunications industry to refer to telecommunications
systems (e.g. radio transmitters and receivers, remote controls, etc.)
which use some form of energy (e.g. radio waves, acoustic energy,) to
transfer information without the use of wire.
Information is transferred in this manner over both short and long distances.

4. Wireless telegraphy:
David E. Hughes transmitted radio signals over a few hundred yards using a clockwork
keyed transmitter in 1878.
 As this was before Maxwell's work was understood, Hughes' contemporaries
dismissed his achievement as mere "Induction.
 In 1885, Thomas Edison used a vibrator magnet for induction transmission.
 In 1888, Edison deployed a system of signaling on the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
 In 1891, Edison obtained the wireless patent for this method using inductance (U.S.
Patent 465,971).
 In 1888, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic waves, the
underlying basis of most wireless technology.
 The theory of electromagnetic waves was predicted from the research of James
Clerk Maxwell and Michael Faraday.
 Hertz demonstrated that electromagnetic waves travelled through space in
straight lines, could betransmitted, and could be received by an experimental
apparatus.
 Hertz did not follow up on the experiments.
 Jagadish Chandra Bose around this time developed an early wireless detection
device and helped increase the knowledge of millimeter-length electromagnetic
waves.
Later inventors implemented practical applications of wireless radio communication and
radio remote control technology.

5. Photophone :
The world's first wireless telephone conversation occurred in 1880
 when Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter invented and patented
the photophone, a telephone that conducted audio conversations wirelessly over
modulated light beams (which are narrow projections of electromagnetic waves).
 In that distant era, when utilities did not yet exist to
provide electricity and lasers had not even been imagined in science fiction, there
were no practical applications for their invention, which was highly limited by the
availability of both sunlight and good weather.
 Similar to free-space optical communication, the photophone also required a clear
line of sight between its transmitter and its receiver.
 It would be several decades before the photophone's principles found their first
practical applications inmilitary communications and later in fiber-optic
communications.[2][3]

6. History of radio:
Marconi transmitting the first radio signal across the Atlantic.
The term "wireless" came into public use to refer to a radio receiver or transceiver (a dual
purpose receiver and transmitter device), establishing its use in the field of wireless
telegraphy early on now the term is used to describe modern wireless connections such as
in cellular networks and wireless broadband Internet.
It is also used in a general sense to refer to any operation that is implemented without the
use of wires, such as "wireless remote control" or "wireless energy transfer", regardless of
the specific technology (e.g. radio, infrared,ultrasonic) used.
Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun were awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize for
Physics for their contribution to wireless telegraphy.

7. Data communications:
Wireless data communications are an essential component
of mobile computing.
The various available technologies differ in local
availability, coverage range and performance, and in some
circumstances, users must be able to employ multiple
connection types and switch between them.
To simplify the experience for the user,connection
manager software can be used, or a mobile VPN deployed
to handle the multiple connections as a secure, single virtual
network.
Supporting technologies as wifi lifi mifi ............,

8. Medical technologies:
New wireless technologies, such as mobile body area
networks (MBAN), have the capability to monitor blood
pressure, heart rate, oxygen level and body temperature.
The MBAN works by sending low powered wireless signals
to receivers that feed into nursing stations or monitoring
sites.
This technology helps with the intentional and
unintentional risk of infection or disconnection that arise
from wired connections.

9. Personal Area Network :
A Personal Area Network (PAN) is smallest network
which is very personal to a user.
This may include Bluetooth enabled devices or
infra-red enabled devices. PAN has connectivity
range up to 10 meters.
PAN may include wireless computer keyboard and
mouse, Bluetooth enabled headphones, wireless
printers, and TV remotes.
For example, Piconet is Bluetooth-enabled Personal Area
Network which may contain up to 8 devices connected
together in a master-slave fashion

10. Free-space optical communication:
An 8-beam free space optics laser link, rated for 1 Gbit/s at a
distance of approximately 2 km.
The receptor is the large disc in the middle, the transmitters the
smaller ones. To the top and right corner amonocular for assisting
the alignment of the two heads.
Free space optical communication (FSO) is an optical
communication technology that uses light propagating in free
space to transmit wirelessly data
for telecommunications or computer networking.
"Free space" means the light beams travel through the open air or
outer space.
This contrasts with other communication technologies that use light
beams traveling through transmission lines such asoptical fiber or
dielectric "light pipes".
The technology is useful where physical connections are impractical
due to high costs or other considerations.
For example, free space optical links are used in cities between
office buildings which are not wired for networking, where the cost
of running cable through the building and under the street would
be prohibitive. Another widely used example is consumer IR devices
such as remote controls and IrDA (Infrared Data Association)
networking, which is used as an alternative to WiFi networking to
allow laptops, PDAs, printers, and digital cameras to exchange
data.

11. Medical technologies:
New wireless technologies, such as mobile body area
networks (MBAN), have the capability to monitor blood
pressure, heart rate, oxygen level and body temperature.
The MBAN works by sending low powered wireless signals
to receivers that feed into nursing stations or monitoring
sites.
This technology helps with the intentional and
unintentional risk of infection or disconnection that arise
from wired connections.

12. Cordless:
The term "wireless" should not be confused with the term
"cordless", which is generally used to refer to powered electrical or
electronic devices that are able to operate from a portable power
source (e.g., a battery pack) without any cable or cord to limit the
mobility of the cordless device through a connection to the mains
power supply.
Some cordless devices, such as cordless telephones, are also
wireless in the sense that information is transferred from the
cordless telephone to the phone's base unit via some
wirelesscommunications link.
This has caused some disparity in the usage of the term "cordless",
for example in Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications.

13. Computers:
 Wi-Fi
 Cordless computer peripherals:
 mouse
 headphones,
 keyboards,
 printers,
 USB and,
 Bluetooth
 Wireless networking
 To span a distance beyond the capabilities of
typical cabling,
 To provide a backup communications link in case
of normal network failure,
 To link portable or temporary workstations,
 To overcome situations where normal cabling is
difficult or financially impractical, or
 To remotely connect mobile users or networks.
Developers need to consider some parameters involving
Wireless RF technology for better developing wireless
networks:
 Sub-GHz versus 2.4 GHz frequency trends
 Operating range and battery life.

14. Wi-Fi:
Is a wireless local area network that enables portable
computing devices to connect easily to the Internet.
Standardized as IEEE 802.11 a,b,g,n, Wi-Fi approaches
speeds of some types of wired Ethernet.
Wi-Fi has become the de facto standard for access in
private homes, within offices, and at public hotspots.
Some businesses charge customers a monthly fee for
service, while others have begun offering it for free in an
effort to increase the sales of their goods.

15. Gi-Fi or gigabit wireless:
Refers to a wireless communication at a data rate of more than one billion bits (gigabit)
per second.
By 2004 some trade press used the term "Gi-Fi" to refer to faster versions of the IEEE
802.11 standards marketed under the trademark Wi-Fi.
In 2008 researchers at the University of Melbourne demonstrated a transceiver integrated
on a single integrated circuit(chip) that operated at 60 GHz on the CMOS process.[2] It
will allow wireless transfer of audio and video data at up to 5 gigabits per second, ten times
the current maximum wireless transfer rate, at one-tenth the cost. Researchers chose the
57–64 GHz unlicensed frequency band since the millimetre-wave range of the spectrum
allowed high component on-chip integration as well as the integration of very small high
gain arrays. The available 7 GHz of spectrum results in very high data rates, up to 5
gigabits per second to users within an indoor environment, usually within a range of 10
metres. Some press reports called this "GiFi". It was developed by Melbourne University-
based laboratories of NICTA (National ICT Australia Limited), Australia’s Information
and Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence.
In 2009, the Wireless Gigabit Alliance was formed. It used the term
"WiGig" which avoided trademark confusion.

16. Light Fidelity (Li-Fi):
Is a bidirectional, high-speed and fully networked wireless
communication technology similar to Wi-Fi.
The term was coined by Harald Haas and is a form of visible
light communication and a subset of optical wireless
communications (OWC) and could be a complement to RF
communication (Wi-Fi orcellular networks), or even a
replacement in contexts of data broadcasting.
It is wire and uv visible-light communication or infrared and
near-ultraviolet instead of radio-frequency spectrum, part of
optical wireless communications technology, which carries
much more information, and has been proposed as a
solution to theRF-bandwidth limitations.

17. Computer interface devices:
Answering the call of customers frustrated with cord clutter, many manufacturers of computer
peripherals turned to wireless technology to satisfy their consumer base.
Originally these units used bulky, highly local transceivers to mediate between a computer and a
keyboard and mouse; however, more recent generations have used small, high-quality devices,
some even incorporating Bluetooth.
These systems have become so ubiquitous that some users have begun complaining about a lack of
wired peripherals. Wireless devices tend to have a slightly slower response time than their wired
counterparts; however, the gap is decreasing.
A battery powers computer interface devices such as a keyboard or mouse and send signals to a
receiver through a USB port by the way of a radio frequency (RF) receiver. The RF design makes it
possible for signals to be transmitted wirelessly and expands the range of efficient use, usually up
to 10 feet. Distance, physical obstacles, competing signals, and even human bodies can all degrade
the signal quality. Concerns about the security of wireless keyboards arose at the end of 2007,
when it was revealed that Microsoft's implementation of encryption in some of its 27 MHz models
was highly insecure.

18. wireless wide area network (WWAN):
Is a form of wireless network. The larger size of a wide area
network compared to a local area network requires differences in technology.
Wireless networks of all sizes deliver data in the form of telephone calls, web
pages, and streaming video.
A WWAN often differs from wireless local area network (WLAN) by
using mobile telecommunication cellular networktechnologies such
as LTE, WiMAX (often called a wireless metropolitan area network or
WMAN), UMTS, CDMA2000, GSM,cellular digital packet data (CDPD)
and Mobitex to transfer data. It can also use Local Multipoint Distribution
Service (LMDS) or Wi-Fi to provide Internet access. These technologies are
offered regionally, nationwide, or even globally and are provided by
a wireless service provider. WWAN connectivity allows a user with a laptop
and a WWAN card to surf the web, check email, or connect to a virtual
private network (VPN) from anywhere within the regional boundaries of
cellular service. Various computers can have integrated WWAN capabilities.
A WWAN may also be a closed network that covers a large geographic area.
For example, a mesh network or MANET with nodes on building, tower,
trucks, and planes could also be considered a WWAN.
Since radio communications systems do not provide a physically secure
connection path, WWANs typically
incorporateencryption and authentication methods to make them more
secure. Unfortunately some of the early GSM encryption techniques were
flawed, and security experts have issued warnings that cellular
communication, including WWAN, is no longer secure.UMTS (3G) encryption
was developed later and has yet to be broken.

19. Service :
 Infrared and ultrasonic remote control devices
 Professional LMR (Land Mobile Radio) and SMR
(Specialized Mobile Radio) typically used by business, industrial
and Public Safety entities.
 Consumer Two-way radio including FRS Family Radio Service,
GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service) and Citizens band ("CB")
radios.
 The Amateur Radio Service (Ham radio).
 Consumer and professional Marine VHF radios.
 Airband and radio navigation equipment used
by aviators and air traffic control
 Cellular telephones and pagers: provide connectivity for
portable and mobile applications, both personal and business.
 Global Positioning System (GPS): allows drivers of cars and
trucks, captains of boats and ships, and pilots of aircraft to
ascertain their location anywhere on earth.
 Cordless computer peripherals: the cordless mouse is a
common example as below:
 wireless headphones, keyboards, and printers can also be
linked to a computer via wireless using technology such
as Wireless USB or Bluetooth
 Cordless telephone sets: these are limited-range devices, not to
be confused with cell phones.
 Satellite television: Is broadcast from satellites
in geostationary orbit.
 Typical services use direct broadcast satellite to provide
multiple television channels to viewers.

20. Mi-Fi:
Is a brand name used to describe a wireless routerthat acts as mobile Wi-Fi hotspot.
In many countries, including the United States, Canada and Mexico, Novatel
Wireless owns a registered trademark on the "MiFi" brand name, except in the UK where
mobile operator 3owns the "MiFi" trademark.
Novatel Wireless has never offered an "official" explanation for the origins of the name
"MiFi"; it may be short for either "Mobile Wi-Fi", "My Wi-Fi" or simply they were
stumped for a name and turned the W on its head.
A MiFi device can be connected to a cellular network and provide internet access for up to
ten devices. Novatel Wireless introduced the first MiFi device in the United States, in May
2009. 3' "MiFi" is a similar line fromHuawei under the name.

21. conclusion:
Here above are the few wireless
communication networks discussed with the brief
explanations .
 In future many advanced systems and network
communications will be invented by us.
 lets design the world with advanced technology.