Some more factual/technical links on topics related to wireless networks:

· Not related to the course per se, but an interesting article: Why are engineers so bad at predicting the future?

· This is one related: we talked about the need for licensed spectrum, and I mentioned some of the issues that arose when licensing the spectrum for 3G. On March 5, the Canadian Government announced the rules for the upcoming 5G auction in December 2020.

o According to the Globe and Mail, July 2021, that auction raised a record $8 billion

· Smartphones have been a big driver of what the course covers. Is the era of smartphones coming to an end, to be replaced with completely different devices?

· IEEE Spectrum had two interesting/relevant articles in the January 2017 issue: one on current developments in 5G, and one about fold-up smartphone screens

· January 9, 2007: Steve Jobs announced the iPhone. See the original announcement here.

· The Google project to provide wireless broadband services to underserviced regions is called Loon.

· We will discuss spectrum auctions. This article from The Globe and Mail (January 27, 2015) describes how the rules for the AWS-3 auction were set to advantage smaller players. The results of that auction were announced by Industry Canada in the spring of 2015, the results show that in total over $2.1B were paid by a number of participants, mostly Telus and Bell. (AWS: Advanced Wireless Services).

· Along the same lines, the Globe and Mail published an article on the upcoming spectrum auction for 5G networks (February 2019), and how the rules are set up to benefit smaller players, rather than the incumbents, to foster competition.

· An interesting networking paper is "End-to-End Arguments in System Design" by Saltzer et al. (which, according to Google Scholar, has been cited al most 3000 times as of January 2019), and the key argument/principle also has its own Wikipedia entry

· And in terms of writing papers, here is a great blog entry about why some employers at least care about grammar/writing skills