The performance bounds of RFID protocols in wireless channel for ISO 18000-3 standard

Today, vicinity RFID tags use authentication protocols in many applications. These protocols take a vital place in RFID world. The performance of the protocols affects the quality of RFID applications. Therefore, many simulation environments have been improved to evaluate the performance of these kinds of protocols. However, none of them shows the success bounds of the protocols by considering wireless channel effect. Motivated by this need, in this paper we improve the PETRA simulation environment by adding two channel models, AWGN channel, Rayleigh fading channel and show the performance bounds of an RFID authentication protocol in these channels for ISO/IEC 18000-3 standard. For this purpose, we implement a secure authentication protocol in our new simulation environment to understand the effect of the wireless channel in a real life scenario. This work may guide the protocol designers to test their protocols and see their performance before using them on real systems.