Exploring the Gap between Ideal and Reality: An Experimental Study on Continuous Scanning with Mobile Reader in RFID Systems

Author

Lei Xie ; Qun Li ; Chuyu Wang ; Xi Chen ; Sanglu Lu

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. for Novel Software Technol., Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, China

Volume

14

Issue

11

fYear

2015

Firstpage

2272

Lastpage

2285

Abstract

In this paper, we show the first comprehensive experimental study on mobile RFID reading performance based on a relatively large number of tags. By making a number of observations regarding the tag reading performance, we build a model to depict how various parameters affect the reading performance. Through our model, we have designed very efficient algorithms to maximize the time-efficiency and energy-efficiency by adjusting the reader´s power and moving speed. Our experiments show that our algorithms can reduce the total scanning time by 50 percent and the total energy consumption by 83 percent compared to the prior solutions.

Keywords

energy conservation; energy consumption; mobile radio; radiofrequency identification; telecommunication power management; RFID systems; energy consumption; energy-efficiency; mobile RFID reading performance; mobile reader; reader power; time-efficiency; Density measurement; Histograms; Mobile communication; Power system measurements; Probabilistic logic; Protocols; Radiofrequency identification; Algorithm Design; Continuous Scanning; Model; Optimization; RFID; Realistic Settings; algorithm design; continuous scanning; model; optimization; realistic settings;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1233

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMC.2015.2395426

Filename

7018022