Optimum Frame-length Configuration in Passive RFID Systems Installations

M. V. Bueno-Delgado, J. Vales-Alonso, E. Egea-López, J. García-Haro

2009

Abstract

Anti-collision mechanisms in RFID, including current standards, are variations of Aloha and Frame Slotted Aloha (FSA). The identification process starts when the reader announces the length of a frame (in number of slots). Tags receive the information and randomly choose a slot in that cycle to transmit their identifier number. The best performance of FSA always requires working with the optimum frame-length in each cycle. However, it is not a parameter easy to adjust in real RFID readers. In this work a markovian analysis is proposed to find the optimum value of frame-length for the current readers of the market. Besides, to validate and contrast the analytical results, a real passive RFID system has been used to get experimental results: the development kit Alien 8800. The experimental results match the analysis predictions.

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V. Bueno-Delgado M., Vales-Alonso J., Egea-López E. and García-Haro J. (2009). Optimum Frame-length Configuration in Passive RFID Systems Installations . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges - Volume 1: IWRT, (ICEIS 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-94-4, pages 72-78. DOI: 10.5220/0002203300720078


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iwrt09,
author={M. V. Bueno-Delgado and J. Vales-Alonso and E. Egea-López and J. García-Haro},
title={Optimum Frame-length Configuration in Passive RFID Systems Installations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges - Volume 1: IWRT, (ICEIS 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={72-78},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002203300720078},
isbn={978-989-8111-94-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges - Volume 1: IWRT, (ICEIS 2009)
TI - Optimum Frame-length Configuration in Passive RFID Systems Installations
SN - 978-989-8111-94-4
AU - V. Bueno-Delgado M.
AU - Vales-Alonso J.
AU - Egea-López E.
AU - García-Haro J.
PY - 2009
SP - 72
EP - 78
DO - 10.5220/0002203300720078