Title :
A novel paradigm to exchange data in RFID piconets
Author :
Farris, Ivan ; Iera, Antonio ; Spinella, Silverio Carlo
Author_Institution :
Dept. DIIES, Univ. Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy
fDate :
April 30 2013-May 2 2013
Abstract :
In this paper a new paradigm is proposed, according to which a group of RFID readers establishes a piconet, called RAN (RFID Area Network), similarly to Bluetooth or Zigbee devices and exchanges data by only using RFID tags as a common “virtual channel”. The proposal represents an interesting enabling factor of pure RFID ecosystems, wherein RFID enabled devices (such as mobile RFID readers, RFID reader cards embedded into cellular/mobile devices, etc.) only rely on the RFID technology for identification, for sensing and, now, for low-bitrate data exchange as well. Suitable algorithms to handle interference and collision problems during the data exchange within a piconet are proposed and the performance of the introduced paradigm is assessed.
Keywords :
Bluetooth; Zigbee; radiofrequency identification; Bluetooth; RAN; RFID area network; RFID ecosystems; RFID piconets; RFID readers; Zigbee; virtual channel; Communication channels; Interference; Personal area networks; Protocols; Radio access networks; Radiofrequency identification; Standards; Anticollision; RFID piconets; RFID virtual channel;
Conference_Titel :
RFID (RFID), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Penang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5748-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5749-4
DOI :
10.1109/RFID.2013.6548157