RFID Systems: Research Trends and Challenges

RFID Systems: Research Trends and Challenges

Information about the book

Description:
The book seeks to provide an opportunity for researchers to explore currently ‘hot’ field of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) networks. The main direction of the book is to review various algorithms, protocols and solutions that were developed in the RFID area.

The book is divided in four parts.

Part 1 provides an introduction and describes architectures of both readers and tags. In addition, it defines performance metrics and terminology that will be used in the book. It distinguishes between passive and battery-operated systems with the emphasis on the passive RFID systems. It introduces also software components of RFID systems as well as RFID standards.

Part 2 is related to networking protocols that involve one reader and multiple tags with the goal of resolving tag to tag interference. Tag identification protocols are covered in systematic way. They include Aloha-based protocols, tree-based protocols which are the most popular. In addition tag-talks-first and tag-talks-only protocols are covered.

Part 3 provides coverage of networking protocols that involve host and multiple readers. First, we will consider interface between the host and the readers. Next, MAC layer solutions for reducing reader-to-tag interference are discussed. In addition, redundant reader elimination problem as well as delay-tolerant RFID networks are considered.

In Part 4, the editors have recognized several major research problems in RFID field such as read rates that are less than 100% even in the most favourable RF environments, low read ranges, security problems, localization of tags and lack of efficient simulators. Some of these problems are so serious that they prevent wide-spread use of RFID technology (e.g. low read rate). Hence, a number of these problems and potential solutions are analyzed in this section. One solution to some of these issues is to introduce novel RFID technologies.

Editors:

Miodrag Bolic
Associate Professor
School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada
mbolic@site.uottawa.ca http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~mbolic
RFID research group

David Simplot-Ryl
Professor
Centre de recherche INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France
David.Simplot-Ryl@inria.fr http://www.lifl.fr/~simplot

Ivan Stojmenovic
Professor
School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada
Ivan@site.uottawa.ca http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~ivan

Contributors:

Moeness G. Amin
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Laboratory, Center for Advanced Communications, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA;

Akshay Athalye
Astraion LLC., Stony Brook, NY, USA

Raj Bridgelall
Axcess International, Inc., TX, USA

Bogdan Carbunar
Applied Research and Technology Center, Motorola, Schaumburg, IL, USA

Wenyi Che
Fudan University, China

S. Chiu
Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA, USA

Dan Deavours
ITTC - University of Kansas

Zhiguang Fan
Tektronix (China) Co., Ltd

Christian Floerkemeier
Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity Headquarters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Ananth Grama
Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Abhiman Hande
Texas Micropower, Inc., TX, USA

Alwyn J. Hoffman
North-West University, South Africa

Johann Holm
North-West University, South Africa

Suresh Jagannathan
Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Gyanendra Prasad Joshi
Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea

Sung Won Kim
Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea

Heiko Knospe
Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Mehmet Koyuturk
EECS Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Kerstin Lemke-Rust
Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Qiang Li
Quanray, China

Tzu Hao Li
School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa

Xin Li
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Laboratory, Center for Advanced Communications, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

Henri-Jean Marais
North-West University, South Africa

Nathalie Mitton
Centre de recherche INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France

Miyako Ohkubo
National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan

Petar Popovski
Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Shingo Kinoshita
NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories, Japan

Murali Krishna Ramanathan,
Coverity, San Francisco, USA

Lixin Ran
Department of Information and Electronics Engineering, Zhejiang University, China

Sanjay Sarma,
Auto-ID Labs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Jianhua Shen
Department of Information and Electronics Engineering, Zhejiang University, China

Fazhong Shen
Department of Information and Electronics Engineering, Zhejiang University, China

Christian Steger
Institute of Technical Informatics, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Koutarou Suzuki
NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories, Japan

Hongyi Wu
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA

Na Yan
Fudan University, China

Yuqing Yang
Fudan University, China

Yimin Zhang
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Laboratory, Center for Advanced Communications, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

Acknowledgements:

We would like to express our gratitude to the authors of book chapters who did not only contributed a book chapter but also reviewed one additional chapter. In addition, we would like to thank a number of people who helped us reviewing this book – their names and affiliations are listed in the “Acknowledgements” page in the book.

On this Web page, we would like to thank the following people:

Alexey Borisenko (University of Ottawa, Canada) who helped designing the Web page.

Tzu Hao Li (University of Ottawa, Canada) who contributed in making Power Point presentations based on figures from the book.

Hong-Zhou Tan (Sun Yat-Sen University, China) who contributed in reviewing a book.
Contact:

Please send all the comments or questions you might have related to this Web page or the book to Dr. Miodrag Bolic at mbolic@site.uottawa.ca.

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