{"title":"Performance analysis of stacked RFID tags","authors":"Feng Lu, Xiaosheng Chen, Terry Tao Ye","doi":"10.1109/RFID.2009.4911194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID.2009.4911194","url":null,"abstract":"Most RFID tag performance analysis is based on the assumption that the tag is stand-alone when interacting with the readers. However, in the real world, RFID tags are often stacked together when deployed, i.e., RFID-labeled carton boxes stacked on the pallet. When multiple RFID tag antennas are placed close to each other, each antenna behaves like a shielding and reflecting object to others and the radiation pattern and other EM properties will be detuned. The stacking impact often leads to performance degradation and in many cases, read and write failure. In this paper, we first derive an RCS model to generalize a loaded antenna as a shielding and reflecting object. We then introduce a normalized mutual impedance matrix of multiple antennas to formulate the coupling effects among stacked antennas. To quantify and visualize the stacking impact in a real world scenario, we also construct a 3-D EM model in Agilent® AMDS consisting of 27 (3 × 3 × 3) stacked carton boxes, each with Alien® tags attached on the surface. Our theoretical calculation agrees with the simulation and shows that both tag radiation pattern and other EM properties will be greatly altered by neighboring tags. Compared with tags in stand-alone scenarios, the degradation at different positions could be very significant (more than 6dB in some directions).","PeriodicalId":417077,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on RFID","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116409840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A capacitive touch interface for passive RFID tags","authors":"A. Sample, D. Yeager, Joshua R. Smith","doi":"10.1109/RFID.2009.4911212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID.2009.4911212","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel method for incorporating a capacitive touch interface into existing passive RFID tag architectures without additional parts or changes to the manufacturing process. Our approach employs the tag's antenna as a dual function element in which the antenna simultaneously acts as both a low-frequency capacitive fringing electric field sensor and also as an RF antenna. To demonstrate the feasibility of our approach, we have prototyped a passive UHF tag with capacitive sensing capability integrated into the antenna port using the WISP tag. Finally, we describe how this technology can be used for touch interfaces as well as other applications with the addition of a LED for user feedback.","PeriodicalId":417077,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on RFID","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127755730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Load shedding based resource management techniques for RFID data","authors":"N. Ahmed, U. Ramachandran","doi":"10.1109/RFID.2009.4911168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID.2009.4911168","url":null,"abstract":"RFID based systems are enjoying widespread adoption in a variety of application scenarios. Item tracking in a supply chain environment is one such application. From an application perspective, there are two challenges: (a) the data rates for large deployments are growing significantly; (b) the demands placed on the system for query processing in real time are also on the rise. Meeting these challenges in large-scale deployments is non trivial. The hardware base for RFID based systems compound these challenges due to the fact that RFID readers are error-prone and reliable reading of RFID tags is hampered by a number of physical limitations such as environmental conditions, and contents of the items carrying the tags. Naturally, the reliability of these systems become even more questionable when both the data rates increase and the need for real time processing of queries increases. We propose load shedding mechanisms that use the spatial and temporal properties of RFID deployments to combat the challenges due to increased demands for tag and query processing in real time. These mechanisms are piggy-backed on top of a middleware Reliable Framework for Radio Frequency IDentification (RF2ID)that uses redundancy to improve the reliability of RFID deployment. The basic idea in RF2ID is to use the spatial notion of a path taken by items flowing from source to destination. By cumulatively aggregating the tags collected by entities called Virtual Readers (VR) that are placed along the path, the total reliability of the system is enhanced. The VRs cooperatively shed the load under heavy load conditions. The built-in redundancy in the RF2ID system allows the VRs to shed load with reasonable system performance thus enhancing the overall reliability of the deployment. Two different load shedding strategies are proposed in the literature: space based approach and time based approach. These strategies have been implemented in the RF2ID middleware and performance results show the efficacy of these mechanisms for dealing with increased data rates.","PeriodicalId":417077,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on RFID","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130446825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multipath fading measurements for multi-antenna backscatter RFID at 5.8 GHz","authors":"J. Griffin, G. Durgin","doi":"10.1109/RFID.2009.4911197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID.2009.4911197","url":null,"abstract":"UHF and microwave backscatter RF-tag systems, including radio frequency identification (RFID) and sensor systems, experience multipath fading that can be more severe than that found in a conventional transmitter-to-receiver channel. Previous work has shown that multipath fading can be reduced on the modulated-backscatter signal received from the RF tag in a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) channel if more than one RF-tag antenna is used to modulate backscatter. This paper presents the first multipath fading measurements for backscatter tags using multiple antennas at 5.79 GHz - the center of the 5.725–5.850 GHz, unlicensed industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) frequency band that may offer reliable operation for future, miniature RF tags. NLOS measurement results are presented as cumulative density functions (CDF) and fade margins for use in backscatter radio link budget analysis and a detailed description of the custom backscatter testbed used to take the measurements is provided. The measurements show that gains are available for multiple-antenna RF tags and results match well with gains predicted using the analytic fading distributions derived previously.","PeriodicalId":417077,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on RFID","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131263773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bongno Yoon, M. Sung, Su-jin Yeon, H. S. Oh, Yoonjoo Kwon, Chul-Jin Kim, Kyung-Ho Kim
{"title":"HB-MP++ protocol: An ultra light-weight authentication protocol for RFID system","authors":"Bongno Yoon, M. Sung, Su-jin Yeon, H. S. Oh, Yoonjoo Kwon, Chul-Jin Kim, Kyung-Ho Kim","doi":"10.1109/RFID.2009.4911167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID.2009.4911167","url":null,"abstract":"Since Hopper and Blum suggested the HB protocol which is based on the conjectured hardness of the LPN (Learning Parity in the Presence of Noise) problem in 2001, a family of light-weight authentication protocols has been developed for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) system by many engineers. It was found that each algorithm had own weakness against new attacks so that more advanced protocols have been expanded in order to overcome the attacks. In this paper, we enhance the HB-MP and HB-MP+ protocol, called HB-MP++. Ultra low-weight and concrete function will be used to eliminate vulnerability of the conventional methods. We also provide the security and performance analysis of the proposed protocol.","PeriodicalId":417077,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on RFID","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127417976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wideband system-level simulator for passive UHF RFID","authors":"D. Arnitz, U. Muehlmann, T. Gigl, K. Witrisal","doi":"10.1109/RFID.2009.4911189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID.2009.4911189","url":null,"abstract":"A chip manufacturing process requires extensive support of CAD-tools in order to predict the behavior of the embedded circuitry and to ensure the intended system functionality. Past experience shows that the overall performance of UHF RFID systems is mainly limited by multipath propagation and detuning. In this context, system-level simulations are vital to assess the overall performance and improve the embedded circuit. We present a simulator framework capable of handling chip-level tag models, fading MIMO radio channels, and interrogator building blocks on signal level. It is based on highly flexible behavioral tag-models instead of highly accurate but static ASIC models. In contrast to other UHF RFID simulators, it is explicitly designed to handle wideband signals, fading channels, nonlinearities, and detuning effects. The simulator is currently used to develop and evaluate the performance of ranging and realtime channel estimation systems. The presented results emphasize the feasibility of our framework in the evaluation of a range estimation approach between a standard UHF RFID transponder and an interrogator.","PeriodicalId":417077,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on RFID","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131467977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A circularly polarized planar antenna modified for passive UHF RFID","authors":"D. Deavours","doi":"10.1109/RFID.2009.4911210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID.2009.4911210","url":null,"abstract":"The majority of RFID tags are linearly polarized dipole antennas, but a few use a planar, dual-dipole antenna that facilitates circular polarization, but requires a three-terminal IC. In this paper, we present a novel way to achieve circular polarization with a planar antenna using a two-terminal IC. We present an intuitive methodology for design, and perform experiments that validate circular polarization. The results show that the tag exhibits strong circular polarization, but the precise axial ratio of the tag remains uncertain due to lack of precision in the experimental system.","PeriodicalId":417077,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on RFID","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114508925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inference of product quality by using RFID-enabled traceability information a study on the US pharmaceutical supply chain","authors":"T. Inaba","doi":"10.1109/RFID.2009.4911170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID.2009.4911170","url":null,"abstract":"We present a stochastic model to infer a product quality index by using product traceability information. We propose a model by using Bayesian Network and apply it to the US pharmaceutical supply chain where regulations to mandate exchanging of traceability information for individual prescription drugs are being studied. In supply chains where traceability information of only a few products is available, consumers simply take the quality of products with traceability information is higher than those without traceability information. But when traceability information of many products becomes available, consumers need to understand the difference and choose the products that have a suitable quality for them. Our model can be used in this situation. We show that our model successfully differentiate product quality indices by using a numerical study with a hypothetical scenario.","PeriodicalId":417077,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on RFID","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123046387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuto Tanaka, Y. Umeda, O. Takyu, M. Nakayama, Kazunari Kodama
{"title":"Change of read range for UHF passive RFID tags in close proximity","authors":"Yuto Tanaka, Y. Umeda, O. Takyu, M. Nakayama, Kazunari Kodama","doi":"10.1109/RFID.2009.4911202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID.2009.4911202","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we discuss change of read range between a UHF passive RFID tag and reader when a tag is close to another tag. The read range is determined by the strength of forward link and reverse link, which are represented by received power at a tag and reader, respectively. Approaching of tags causes electromagnetic interference between antennas of tags and results in change in impedance matching condition between an antenna and IC of a tag. This change in impedance matching condition decreases in read range. Therefore, we measure the change in received power of a tag and reader experimentally so as to identify which link limits read range and to restrict the existence range of IC impedance. In addition, a technique for extending read range when tags are close is proposed.","PeriodicalId":417077,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on RFID","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126511896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Demonstration of improved passive UHF RFID coverage using optically-fed distributed multi-antenna system","authors":"S. Sabesan, M. Crisp, R. Penty, I. White","doi":"10.1109/RFID.2009.4911173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID.2009.4911173","url":null,"abstract":"Optically-fed distributed antenna system (DAS) technology is combined with passive ultra high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID). It is shown that RFID signals can be carried on directly modulated radio over fiber links without impacting their performance. It is also shown that a multi-antenna DAS can greatly reduce the number of nulls experienced by RFID in a complex radio environment, increasing the likelihood of successful tag detection. Consequently, optimization of the DAS reduces nulls further. We demonstrate RFID tag reading using a three antenna DAS system over a 20m×6m area, limited by building constraints, where 100% of the test points can be successfully read. The detected signal strength from the tag is also observed to increase by an average of approximately 10dB compared with a conventional switched multi-antenna RFID system. This improvement is achieved at +31dBm equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP) from all three antenna units (AUs).","PeriodicalId":417077,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on RFID","volume":"330 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114379309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}