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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:
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Moeness G. Amin
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Laboratory,
Center for Advanced Communications, Villanova University, Villanova,
PA, USA;
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Akshay Athalye
Astraion LLC., Stony Brook, NY, USA
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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.
Pleease send the comments about the Web page as well as broken links to
the Web administrator Alexey Borisenko at abori021@uottawa.ca.
Copyright:
RFID Systems: Research Trends and Challenges, Miodrag Bolic, David
Simplot-Ryl, Ivan Stojmenovic, © 2010 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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