The past and future of wireless communications

There is a tight relationship between the historical developments within integrated circuit technology and telecommunications. Improvements in IC technologies have led to a tremendous increase in computational capacity over the last 50 years. At the same time, data rates that can be achieved via wireless communications have gone up as well but the advances in wireless capacity lag behind advances in computational capacity. In this presentation, the reasons for this will be explained and the way we deal with it within the Radio Systems group of the University of Twente, will be presented.

Where wireless communication is based on so-called 'wanted' radiation, in reality we also have to cope with unwanted radiation, called interference. Because of the electrification of our society, Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) is becoming more and more important and an overview of activities at the University of Twente in this area will be given.

André Kokkeler – University of Twente