“…AN INTRODUCTION TO MODERN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS A Brief History of Wireless Communications Faraday, Maxwell, and Hertz: The Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves Guglielmo Marconi, Inventor of Wireless Communications Developments in the Vacuum Electronics Era (1906 to 1947) The Modern Era in Wireless Communications (1947 to the Present) Basic Concepts Information Capacity of a Communication Channel Antenna Fundamentals The Basic Layout of a Wireless Communications System Decibels and Link Budgets Characteristics of Some Modern Communication Systems Mobile Communication Systems and…”