scholarly journals When Wireless Communication Responds to COVID-19: Combating the Pandemic and Saving the Economy

Author(s):  
Nasir Saeed ◽  
Ahmed Bader ◽  
Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri ◽  
Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The year 2020 is witnessing a global health and economic crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries across the world are using digital technologies to fight this global crisis. These digital technologies strongly rely, in one way or another, on the availability of wireless communication systems. This paper aims to outline the role of wireless communications in the COVID-19 pandemic from multiple perspectives. First, we show how wireless communication technologies are helping to combat this pandemic by monitoring the spread of the virus, enabling healthcare automation, and enabling virtual education and conferencing. We emphasize the importance of digital inclusiveness in the pandemic and possible solutions to connect the unconnected. Next, we discuss the challenges posed by the use of wireless technologies, including concerns about privacy, security, and misinformation. Later, we highlight the importance of wireless technologies in the survival of the global economy, such as automation of industries and supply chain, e-commerce, and supporting occupations that are at risk. Finally, we outline that the rapid development of wireless technologies during the pandemic is likely to be useful in the post-pandemic era.

Author(s):  
Michail Yu. Maslov ◽  
Yuri M. Spodobaev

Telecommunications industry evolution shows the highest rates of transition to high-tech systems and is accompanied by a trend of deep mutual penetration of technologies - convergence. The dominant telecommunication technologies have become wireless communication systems. The widespread use of modern wireless technologies has led to the saturation of the environment with technological electromagnetic fields and the actualization of the problems of protecting the population from them. This fundamental restructuring has led to a uniform dense placement of radiating fragments of network technologies in the mudflow areas. The changed parameters of the emitted fields became the reason for the revision of the regulatory and methodological support of electromagnetic safety. A fragmented structural, functional and parametric analysis of the problem of protecting the population from the technological fields of network technologies revealed uncertainty in the interpretation of real situations, vulnerability, weakness and groundlessness of the methodological basis of sanitary-hygienic approaches. It is shown that this applies to all stages of the electromagnetic examination of the emitting fragments of network technologies. Distrust arises on the part of specialists and the population in not only the system of sanitary-hygienic control, but also the safety of modern network technologies is being called into question. Growing social tensions and radio phobia are everywhere accompanying the development of wireless communication technologies. The basis for solving almost all problems of protecting the population can be the transfer of subjective methods and means of monitoring and sanitary-hygienic control of electromagnetic fields into the field of IT.


Author(s):  
Macho Revelino Siahaan ◽  
Levi Olivia Nur ◽  
Radial Anwar

One of the challenges of antenna development for wireless communication systems is to create an antenna that casn be operated in wide frequency so that a single antenna can be used in various wireless communication technologies. This paper discussed the wideband antenna with Telkom University Logo-shaped patch, using Fr-4 (?r = 4.3) substrate with 1.6 mm thickness. The antenna can be operated in the frequency range of 760 MHz – 13.75 GHz. The gain performance at the working frequency is still above 0 dBi. Hence, the antenna design to work properly for wireless communication systems which require relatively long distances. The Defected Ground Substrate (DGS) method is applied to achieve that bandwidth. Measurement shows the logo-shaped patch antenna achieves 12.994 GHz bandwidth with 1.33 VSWR and gain 2.85 at 921.5 MHz frequency.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milad Kamkar ◽  
Ahmadreza Ghaffarkhah ◽  
Ehsan Hosseini ◽  
Majed Amini ◽  
Saeid Ghaderi ◽  
...  

The ever-increasing proliferation of wireless communication systems and modern electronics arouses concerns regarding electromagnetic (EM) pollution. Such concerns become even more vital considering the rapid development in compact and flexible...


2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Umair Jilani ◽  
Muhammad Umar Khan ◽  
Adnan Afroz ◽  
Khawaja Masood Ahmed

Wireless Communication Technologies hascompletely revolutionized the world. Wireless CommunicationTechnologies provide ease to the users such as portability of thedevices and mobile access to the internet. These portable wirelessdevices include PDAs, laptops, smart phones etc. offers somevaluable features. These features include accessing the e-mails,SMS, MMS, calendars, addresses, phone numbers list and theinternet. These entire devices store large amount of data and theirwireless connection to network spectrum exhibit them asimportant source of computing. These devices are alwaysvulnerable to attacks. Mobile devices are the new frontier forviruses, spam and other potential security threats. All theseviruses, spam, Trojans and worms are out there in our vicinity togain access to our personal data. This research aims to analyze thethreats of viruses in the wireless communication systems andsecurity including their role in the service outbreak, laying downthe possible scenarios and also identifying possible remedies.


2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Umair Jilani ◽  
Muhammad Umar Khan ◽  
Adnan Afroz ◽  
Khawaja Masood Ahmed

Wireless Communication Technologies hascompletely revolutionized the world. Wireless CommunicationTechnologies provide ease to the users such as portability of thedevices and mobile access to the internet. These portable wirelessdevices include PDAs, laptops, smart phones etc. offers somevaluable features. These features include accessing the e-mails,SMS, MMS, calendars, addresses, phone numbers list and theinternet. These entire devices store large amount of data and theirwireless connection to network spectrum exhibit them asimportant source of computing. These devices are alwaysvulnerable to attacks. Mobile devices are the new frontier forviruses, spam and other potential security threats. All theseviruses, spam, Trojans and worms are out there in our vicinity togain access to our personal data. This research aims to analyze thethreats of viruses in the wireless communication systems andsecurity including their role in the service outbreak, laying downthe possible scenarios and also identifying possible remedies.


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