[PDF] Evolution and Impact of Wi-Fi Technology and Applications: A Historical Perspective | Semantic Scholar (2024)

This paper is an effort to deploy wifi in working environment and to make it economic and having maximum signal in all areas.

A historical perspective on the evolution of spectrum regulation and management is presented, the diversified meanings of interference for different sectors of the wireless industry are explained, and a path for implementing a theoretical foundation for interference monitoring and forecasting is presented to enable the emergence of a liberated spectrum industry and a new paradigm in spectrum management and regulations.

The commentary proposes to the research and development community to pursue the path for the design of a nationwide interference map of the mid-bands to enable the research community to design more efficient methods to utilize these bands and the government agencies to resort to more efficient regulations for these essential bands for secure nationwide wireless communications.

The Wi-Fi evolution is introduced and the main standards developed over the years are explained, compared with 5G and beyond, and the concepts related to slicing, virtualization, RAN, Open-RAN and the open research challenges are explained.

A gated recurrent unit (GRU) based deep learning-recurrent neural network (DL-RNN) based deep learning-recurrent neural network (DL-RNN) is presented to estimate the optimal RAW slots that improves the performance of IEEE 802.11ah for dense IoT networks.

This paper classify and analyze Wi-Fi-assisted indoor positioning schemes in detail, as well as review related work and point out open challenges and forecast promising directions for future work.

A detailed implementation of WLAN Rx PER test in Production Automated Test Equipment (ATE) environment with parallel testing is described and studied and incorporates efficiency of implementation, yield improvement of 2% and test time comparison with respect to legacy test methodology.

The evolution of portable devices, from the first mobile phones to modern smartphones and tablets, is examined, and the impact of these devices on the development of the mobile Internet is explored.

An extensive set of simulations in a dense solar-based energy-harvesting Wi-Fi network in an e-Health environment is performed, and optimization algorithms, which benefit from the Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods, are introduced to efficiently adjust to the complexity and dynamic behaviour of the network.

This work proposed and demonstrated a robust scheme achieved by the statistical extraction method based on Wigner- Ville Distribution analysis for Wi - Fi devices and employs K-nearest neighbor algorithm for both detecting rogue devices and classifying legitimate devices.

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This article describes how Skyhook Wireless has succeeded with GPS and wireless local area networks — better known as Wi-Fi, which is now incorporated into a wide range of mobile " connected " platforms, including smart devices such as Apple's iPhone and iPod.

A comprehensive study on Hong Kong people’s knowledge about WiFi security and their use of WiFi in connecting the Internet is presented to shed light on the knowledge gaps of Hong Kong WiFi users in using and setting up WiFi connections so that service providers, policy makers and stakeholders can devise appropriate security measures to improve the security of WiFi connection.

A holistic vision of emerging cyberspace applications and explains how they benefit from the RF cloud to operate is provided and how authentication and security applications benefit from RF cloud characteristics are shown.

A survey of recent advances in WiFi vision problems, i.e., sensing, recognition, and detection by utilizing the channel state information (CSI) of the commodity WiFi devices, focuses on nine key applications of smart environments.

An overview of the wireless data field is presented, emphasizing three major elements: technologies utilized in existing and currently planned wireless data services, issues related to the performance of these systems, and discernible trends in the continuing development of wireless data systems.

This work evaluates the feasibility of building a wide-area 802.11 Wi-Fi-based positioning system, and shows that it can estimate a user's position with a median positioning error of 13-40 meters, lower than existing positioning systems.

There are many issues associated with wireless communication and mobile stations and this paper will discuss these issues and attempt to explain why developments of wireless LANs may be progressing a bit slower than some would expect.

This survey gives a comprehensive review of the signal processing techniques, algorithms, applications, and performance results of WiFi sensing with CSI, and presents three future WiFi sensing trends, i.e., integrating cross-layer network information, multi-device cooperation, and fusion of different sensors for enhancing existing WiFi sensing capabilities and enabling new WiFi sensing opportunities.

An overview of issues related to handoff with particular emphasis on hybrid mobile data networks is presented and five architectures for the example hybrid network, based on emulation of GPRS entities within the WLAN, mobile IP, a virtual access point, and a mobility gateway, are described and compared.

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