• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.547-549
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• 2014

In RFID systems, the performance for the tag identification is closely related with the tag collision, which is caused by the simultaneous transmission. The PS algorithm divides the tags within the identification range of reader into smaller groups by increasing the transmission power incrementally and identifies them. This algorithm uses the fixed frame size at every scan. Therefore, it is anticipated that the performance of PS algorithm can be variously shown according to the number of tags, frame size, and power level increase. In this paper, we analize the performance of PS algorithm according to the frame length and power level increase.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.2 s.344
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• pp.27-38
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• 2006

When an RFID reader attempts to read tags, interference might occur if the neighboring readers also attempt to communicate with the same tag at the same time or the neighboring readers use the same frequency at the same time. These interferences cause the RFID reader collision. When the RFID reader collision occirs, either the command from the reader can not be transmitted to the tags or the response from the tags can not be received by the reader correctly. RFID reader anti-collision algorithms have been developed to reduce it. One of the best blown reader anti-collision algorithms is the Colorwave algorithm proposed by MIT. The Colorwave algorithm reduces the reader collisions by having the readers operate at different times. In Colorwave the time is divided into frames and a frame is divided into a number of slots. Each reader can access the tags using the slot time assigned to it. Depending on the probability of the interference, the colorwave adjusts the frame size to improve the efficiency. In this paper, we analyze the operations and the performance of the Colorwave algorithm and identify the problems of the algorithm. We also show that by adding some modifications to the algorithm the performance can be improved significantly.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.806-811
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• 2006

In RFID system, when multiple tags respond simultaneously, a collision can occur. A method that solves this collision is referred to as anti-collision algorithm. Among the existing anti-collision algorithms, SFSA, though simple, has a disadvantage that when the number of tags is variable, the system performance degrades because of the fixed frame size. This paper proposes a new anti-collision algorithm called DFSA which determines the optimal frame size using the number of collided slots at every frame. According to the simulation results, the tag identification time of the proposed algorithm is faster than that of SFSA.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.712-714
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• 2016

The PS algorithm divides the tags within the identification range of reader into smaller groups by increasing the transmission power incrementally and identifies them. In 13.56MHz RFID system of Auto-ID center, STAC protocol is defined as an anti-collision algorithm for multiple tag reading. In this paper, we propose a STAC/PS algorithm that the PS algorithm is applied in the STAC protocol. The simulation results show that the STAC/PS algorithm can achieve faster tag identification speed compared with STAC protocol due to the low collision rate.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.41 no.9
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• pp.29-37
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• 2004

In RFID system one of the problems that we must solve is to devise a good anti-collision algorithm to improve the efficiency of tag identification which is usually low because of tag collision. Among the existing RFID anti-collision algorithms, Framed Slotted ALOHA algorithm though simple, has a disadvantage that the number of slots used to identify the tags increases exponentially as the number of tags does. In the paper, we propose a new anti-collision algorithm called Partial-Response Framed Slotted ALOHA(PRFSA) which restricts the number of responding tags by dividing the tags into a number of groups when there are large number of tags and changes the frame size when there are small tags. Since the proposed algorithm keeps the frame size and the number of responding tags in such a way that can increase slot utilization, the algorithm shows superior performance to the existing ones. The simulation results showed that the proposed algorithm improves the slot efficiency by 85～100% compared to the existing algorithm.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.18-24
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• 2008

This paper analyzed Air Interface of EPCglobal's Class-0 that is UHF band protocol among radio environment protocol standard that is used to RFID system. And embodied prescribed anticollision algorithm in protocol. Also, the improved anticollision algorithm for the Class-0 protocol is proposed and performances of anticollision algorithm are compared. Result that compare performance of standard algorithm through simulation with improved algorithm, improved Class-0 algorithm when is tag number 100, reduced 8%, and when is tag number 1000, 12.2%. According as tag number increases, total realization time of improved algorithm decreased more gradually better than prescribed algorithm. Therefore, the improved anticollision algorithm proposed in this paper is advanced method improving the performance of tag recognition in the RFID system and Ubiquitous sensor network.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.2569-2574
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• 2013

In 13.56MHz RFID system of Auto-ID center, STAC protocol is defined as an anti-collision algorithm for multiple tag reading. In STAC protocol, the reader uses the tag number estimation scheme to determine the number of slots for the next reply round. If errors occur in the estimated number of tags, the identification performances will be degraded due to a lot of collision or idle slots. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an ERPB algorithm that the reader cancels the reply round when it experiences a series of collision or idle slots during the current round. The transmission probability control for the tag is also applied to the proposed algorithm. Through simulations, it is demonstrated that the collision rate for the proposed scheme is about 39% lower than STAC protocol. Therefore, the proposed scheme can achieve faster tag identification time compared with STAC protocol due to the low collision rate.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38C no.2
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• pp.202-207
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• 2013

RFID technology is applied to port logistics applications since it monitors objects wirelessly without line of sight and constructs ubiquitous system with low cost. Changes of stock status in the warehouse environment make the technology more important for managing such frequent storing and un-storing. Although the RFID has beneficial characteristics of low cost and low complexity, simultaneous responses of RFID tags cause tag identification collision due to absence of elaborate medium access control scheme. Several algorithms have been proposed to overcome the tag collision problem. However, it is difficult to adopt the methods to the logistics systems that has varying loads since there was no consideration on RFID tag's mobility. Therefore, we propose an efficient RFID tag anti-collision protocol, and simulation results demonstrate performance improvement by using the proposed scheme.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.99-108
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• 2010

RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) is a technology that automatically identifies objects containing the electronic tags by using radio wave. When there are some tags in the domain of the RFID reader, the mechanism that can solve a collision between the tags occurs is necessary. The multi tag identification problem is the core issue in the RFID and could be resolved by the anti-collision algorithm. However, RFID system has another problem. The problem id user information security. Tag response easily by query of reader, so the system happened user privacy violent problem by tag information exposure. In the case, RFID system id weak from sniffing by outside. In this paper, We study of security robustness for tree-walking algorithm, query tree algorithm and advanced query tree algorithm of tree based memoryless algorithm.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.483-492
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a new hybrid approach based on query tree protocol to arbitrate tag collisions in RFID systems. The hybrid query tree protocol that combines a tree based query protocol with a slotted backoff mechanism. The proposed protocol decreases the average identification delay by reducing collisions and idle time. To reduce collisions, we use a 4-ary query tree instead of a binary query tree. To reduce idle time, we introduce a slotted backoff mechanism to reduce the number of unnecessary Query commands. Simulation and numerical analysis reveal that the proposed protocol achieves lower identification delay than existing tag collision arbitration protocols.