Demands for wireless data services are showing rapid growth due to evolved networks for high-speed connectivity, wide-scale deployment, flat-rate pricing plans and Internet-friendly devices (smartphones). Consumers rely heavily, and often exclusively, on mo…

3G - LTE StuffFemtocellsMobile BroadBand

Alex Wanda

5 key building blocks for 5G, as illustrated besides are elaborated herein.  Each of these blocks is discussed with highlights their role and importance for achieving 5G

3G - LTE StuffCognitive RadioComputing Wireless Sensor Networks

Alex Wanda

LTE Direct is an innovative device-to-device proximal discovery technology that can be efficiently integrated with LTE Advanced services and networks. It is defined as part of the global 3GPP standard, as a feature in Release 12. LTE Direct will make users …

3G - LTE Stuff4GMobile BroadBand

Alex Wanda

METIS is the EU flagship 5G project with the objective of laying the foundation for 5G systems and building consensus prior to standardization. The METIS overall approach toward 5G builds on the evolution of existing technologies complemented by new radio …

3G - LTE Stuff4GMobile BroadBand

Alex Wanda

PERHAPS AS EARLY AS THE END OF THIS DECADE, our refrigerators will e-mail us grocery lists. Our doctors will update our prescriptions using data beamed from tiny monitors attached to our bodies. And our alarm clocks will tell our curtains when to open and…

4GUbiquitous CommunicationsWireless Sensor Networks

Alex Wanda

As the specification of Release 11 of the LTE standards is approaching its completion, 3GPP is gradually moving its focus toward the next major step in the evolution of LTE. The drivers of the LTE evolution include the increasing demand for mobile broadba…

3G - LTE Stuff4GMobile BroadBand

Alex Wanda

Clothes, cars, trains, tractors, body sensors, and tracking tags. By the end of this decade, analysts say, 50 billion things such as these will connect to mobile networks. They’ll consume 1000 times as much data as today’s mobile gadgets, at rates 10 to 1…

3G - LTE Stuff4GMobile BroadBand

Alex Wanda

The commercial success of mobile and wireless access to the Internet has been monumental. Initially thought of as a way to sell excess capacity of third generation (3G) networks or provide some simple “value added services,” it has, together with the prol…

Mobile BroadBandTelecom Statistics and DataUbiquitous Communications

Alex Wanda

Imagine a world with more base stations than cell phones: this is where cellular technology is headed in 10–20 years. This mega-trend requires many fundamental differences in visualizing, modeling, analyzing, simulating, and designing cellular networks vs.…

3G - LTE Stuff4GMobile BroadBand

Alex Wanda

Over the past two decades, the world has been able to benefit from its significant wealth in knowledge relating to telecommunications engineering. During this time, there has been an exponential growth in the field of mobile communications, proving beyond d…

4GUbiquitous CommunicationsWireless Sensor Networks

Alex Wanda

The Multimedia Telephony communication service is an IMS service that can be realized over any access technology. However, since Multimedia Telephony aims to replace CS telephony, the realization of the Multimedia Telephony must meet strict performance requ…

3G - LTE StuffMobile BroadBandMultimedia Communication

Alex Wanda

Over the next ten-to-fifteen years, it is anticipated that significant qualitative changes to the Internet will be driven by the rapid proliferation of mobile and wireless computing devices.Wireless devices on the Internet will include laptop computers, per…

Cloud ComputingMobile BroadBandTelecom Statistics and Data

Alex Wanda

The notion of a smart internet requires a transformation in our understanding of the web and its architecture – a complete change of perspective, from a server-centric understanding to a user-centric one. This change will be much like the Copernican revolut…

Cloud ComputingMobile BroadBandMultimedia Communication

Alex Wanda

Driven by Moore’s law (Moore 1965), the microelectronics industry has created ever smaller chips that are consuming less energy, are less costly, and yet are more powerful and capable of things one could hardly imagine before. This has led to a large variety …

4GAmbient CommunicationUbiquitous Communications

Alex Wanda

How is the Internet going to look in 2020 and how can we get there? There is a general consensus that the Internet will be the backbone for communications, of people, objects, and machines. This backbone uses, as physical infrastructure, a variety of communic…

Cloud ComputingMobile BroadBandTelecom Statistics and Data

Alex Wanda

Drop in the price of hardware fuelled by manufacturing process improvements has resulted in a noticeable upward cycle of research in the field of networks that not only sense the data but also provide automated reaction to specific situations known as Wireles…

Ambient CommunicationUbiquitous CommunicationsWireless Sensor Networks

Alex Wanda

The development of computing has recently been dominated by three trends: the emergence of a wide range of embedded systems with diverse architectures and purpose; the rise of relatively high-speed mobile communication devices such as smart phones, personal d…

Ambient CommunicationUbiquitous CommunicationsWireless Sensor Networks

Alex Wanda

The “ubiquitous computing” concept has been studied as an aspect of computer technology. The concept requires computers to be out in the real world with people. In a society where this concept is actualized, these computers are embedded in many products/objec…

Ambient CommunicationMobile BroadBandUbiquitous Communications

Alex Wanda

According to the predominant computing environments, the history of Computing can be classified into the initial period of mainframes, the current one of personal computers, and the future one of Ubiquitous Computing whose goal is to provide the user with eas…

3G - LTE StuffCloud ComputingMobile BroadBand

Alex Wanda

In 2001, the first IEEE 802.16 standard was approved, followed by several amendments years afterwards. The IEEE 802.16 specifies a non-line-of-sight environment for the frequency band of 2–11 GHz; this allows OFDM/OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiple…

3G - LTE StuffMobile BroadBandOFDM

Alex Wanda