• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.9
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• pp.29-36
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• 2010

Consider an RFID network configured as a star such that a single reader is surrounded by a crowd of tags. In the RFID network, prior to attaining the information stored at a tag, the reader must cognize the tags while arbitrating a collision among tags' responses. For this purpose, we present a tag cognizance scheme based on framed and slotted ALOHA, which statically provides a number of slots in each frame for the tags to respond. For the evaluation of the cognizance performance, we choose the cognizance completion probability and the expected cognizance completion time as key performance measures. Then, we present a method to numerically calculate the performance measures. Especially, for small numbers of tags, we derive them in a closed form. Next, we formulate a problem to find an optimal time structure which either maximizes the cognizance completion probability under a constraint on the cognizance time or minimizes the expected cognizance completion time. By solving the problem, we finally obtain an optimal number of slots per frame for the tags to respond. From numerical results, we confirm that there exist a finite optimal number of slots for the tags to respond. Also, we observe that the optimal number of slots maximizing the cognizance completion probability tends to approach to the optimal number of slots minimizing the expected cognizance completion time as the constraint on the cognizance time becomes loose.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.507-508
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• 2007

확률적(stochastic) RFID 충돌방지 알고리즘은 둘 이상의 태그가 리더기의 인식범위 내에 있을 경우 태그들이 동시에 리더기의 질의에 응답함으로서 발생하는 충돌을 확률적으로 감소시켜, 정확하고 빠르게 다수의 태그를 인식하기 위한 알고리즘이다. 본 논문에서는 확률적 충돌방지 알고리즘 중 하나인 dynamic framed ALOHA를 기반으로 새로운 태그 수 추정 방법을 이용한 RFID 충돌 방지 알고리즘을 제안하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.8A
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• pp.805-814
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• 2008

Both EPCglobal Generation-2 (Gen2) for passive RFID systems and Intelleflex for semi-passive RFID systems use probabilistic slotted ALOHA with Q algorithm, which is a kind of dynamic framed slotted ALOHA (DFSA), as the tag anti-collision algorithm. A better tag anti-collision algorithm can reduce collisions so as to increase the efficiency of tag identification. In this paper, we introduce and analyze the estimation methods of the number of slots and tags for DFSA. To increase the efficiency of tag identification, we propose two new tag anti-collision algorithms, which are Chebyshev's inequality (CHI) algorithm and hybrid Q algorithm, and compare them with the conventional Q algorithm and adaptive adjustable framed Q (AAFQ) algorithm, which is mentioned in Part I. The simulation results show that AAFQ performs the best in Gen2 scenario. However, in Intelleflex scenario the proposed hybrid Q algorithm is the best. That is, hybrid Q provides the minimum identification time, shows the more consistent collision ratio, and maximizes throughput and system efficiency in Intelleflex scenario.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.21-28
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• 2011

We consider an RFID network configured as a star in which tags stationarily move into and out of the vicinity of the reader. To cognize the neighboring tags in the RFID network, we propose a scheme based on dynamic framed and slotted ALOHA which determines the number of slots belonging to a frame in a dynamic fashion. The tag cognizance scheme distinctively employs a rule for estimating the expected number of neighboring tags, identified as R-retrospective maximum likelihood rule, where the observations attained in the R previous frames are used in maximizing the likelihood of expected number of tags. Simulation result shows that a slight increase in depth of retrospect is able to significantly improve the cognizance performance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.1619-1624
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• 2012

If multiple Tags in the RFID System transmit their IDs to the Reader at the same time, tag identification time is delayed due to collisions. Therefore, to reduce the reader's identification time, an efficient anti-collision technology is needed. In this paper, we propose a hybrid anti-collision method based on the QT and DFSA. Then, the performances of proposed method are compared with the existing method through extensive simulations.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.458-461
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• 2011

With the introduction of the new generation RFID technology, EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2, there is considerable interest in improving the performance of the framed slotted Aloha (FSA)-based tag collision arbitration protocol. We suggest a novel time-optimal anti-collision algorithm for the FSA protocol. Our performance evaluation demonstrates that our algorithm outperforms other tag collision arbitration schemes.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.493-494
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• 2007

RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) 시스템에서 수동 태그의 낮은 전송 파워 때문에 리더는 태그와의 통신시 많은 에러를 경험하게 된다. 이것은 리더가 태그의 정보를 빠르고 정확하게 인식하는 것을 어렵게 만든다. 따라서, 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 에러에 강한 알고리즘을 개발하고 적용할 필요가 있다. 리더가 태그의 정보를 인식하기 위해 사용하는 대표적인 프로토콜에는 ALOHA 기반의 DFSA (Dynamic Framed-Slotted ALOHA) 프로토콜과 트리 기반의 이진트리 프로토콜이 있다. 기존의 두 프로토콜 중 DFSA는 에러가 없을 때 이진트리 보다 성능이 우수하나, 에러가 존재할 때, 이진트리 보다 약 35% 정도 에러의 영향을 많이 받는 성질을 보인다. 본 논문에서는 에러가 있는 환경과 없는 환경에서의 DFSA와 이진트리 프로토콜의 성능을 분석하고, 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 이 논문에서의 성능 분석 방법이 타당함을 증명한다. 그리고 에러가 많은 환경에서는, 빠른 RFID 태그 인식을 위해 DFSA 프로토콜보다 이진트리 프로토콜을 사용할 것을 제안한다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.11
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• pp.2103-2107
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• 2010

This paper deals with the recognition of multiple mobile robots equipped with RFID tag. In the case that the number of robots recognized by each RFID reader is larger than that of allocated slots, the clashing recognition occurs. And, in the case that the total number of robots recognized by all RFID reader is larger than that of real robots, the repetitious recognition occurs. We employ the dynamic frame slot allocation by using the ALOHA algorithm to prevent the clashing recognition and estimate the number of robots by using the received signal strength indication to prevent the repetitious recognition. The numerical experiment shows the reliability and the efficiency of the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.52-52
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• 2004

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.34-39
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• 2012

Collisions between tags greatly reduce the identification speed in radio frequency identification (RFID) systems and increase communication overhead. In particular for an active RFID system, tags are powered by small batteries, and a large number of re-transmissions caused by collisions can deteriorate and exhaust the tag energy which may result in missing tags. An efficient collision-free arbitration protocol for active RFID systems is proposed in this paper. In this protocol, a new mechanism involving collision detection, collision avoidance, and fast tag access is introduced. Specifically, the pulse burst duration and busy-tone-detection delay are introduced between the preamble and data portion of a tag-to-reader (T-R) frame. The reader identifies tag collision by detecting pulses and transmits a busy tone to avoid unnecessary transmission when collision occurs. A polling process is then designed to quickly access the collided tags. It is shown that the use of the proposed protocol results in a system throughput of 0.612, which is an obvious improvement when compared to the framed-slotted ALOHA (FSA) arbitration protocol for ISO/IEC 18000-7 standard. Furthermore, the proposed protocol greatly reduces communication overhead, which leads to energy conservation.