Next Generation of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

Preface

So, yet another book on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth? While deciding which contents should be included in this book, a quick web search was made, which showed that there are possibly thousands of different books involving some aspects of explaining Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Yes indeed, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are very mature technologies. It is true that people have been using these technologies for quite a long time and have become extremely familiar with them. To some degree, we can even say that they are old technologies. After all, the name Wi-Fi has been with us since 1997, and Bluetooth even earlier, since 1989. Of course, we were not very familiar with these terms at the time of their first release, but both technologies started coming into the spotlight when the first smartphones were introduced in the middle of the 2000s and these technologies allowed us to connect to the Internet or with various computer peripherals without additional costs.

Then, what more is there to explain about these technologies? As redundant and old-fashioned as these topics may seem, we cannot simply neglect them in the future of next-generation networks. For beginners, these technologies may just seem like very old things that exist in our everyday lives (like a refrigerator, television or a coffee machine). However, inside the core of the technology, there have already been many modifications and enhancements for both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and more will occur in the future. Due to the ever-changing ...