• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.19A no.2
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• pp.93-100
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• 2012

LLRP (Low-Level Reader Protocol) specifies an interface between RFID readers and RFID applications, also called LLRP servers and clients respectively. An LLRP server should concurrently execute various functions. This paper designs an LLRP server of a multi-threaded architecture. For that, (i) the operational procedure between LLRP servers and clients is investigated, (ii) the functional requirements of LLRP servers are presented, (iii) the operation of an LLRP server is decomposed into several threads to satisfy those functional requirements, and (iv) the operational procedure is further examined in thread-level. To validate the designed architecture, it is modeled and simulated by using the DEVS formalism which specifies discrete event systems in a hierarchical, modular manner. From the simulation result, we can conclude that the proposed architecture conforms the LLRP standard and satisfies all the given functional requirements.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.2B
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• pp.279-286
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• 2010

RFID reader protocol is an interface between RFID readers and higher (host) such as RFID middlewares and applications. At present, reader protocols provided by vendors are different from each other and there are compatibility problems in environment using heterogeneous readers. In this paper, to solve this problem, an RFID reader which supports LLRP(Low Level Reader Protocol), a well-known standard reader protocol presented by EPCglobal is designed and implemented. It is designed with two modules and supports various interfaces for easy adaptation to various applications. The LLRP protocol is implemented over a embedded LINUX multi-thread environment. It not only supports almost all properties of LLRP, and is designed with flexible hardware/software architecture to meet various requirements.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.8B
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• pp.822-829
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• 2009

A reader protocol is an interface between a host and RFID readers. There are several standards for reader protocol such as EPCglobal Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP) 1.0.1, EPCglobal Reader Protocol (RP) 1.1, and ISO/IEC 15961/15962. Unfortunately, these standards focus on the passive RFID system, and so they are not appropriate for the active RFID system. In this paper, we implemented an efficient reader protocol for the active RFID system, which is based on EPCglobal LLRP 1.0.1, but smoothing/filtering functions of EPCglobal RP 1.1 are added. This protocol is designed to configure air interface parameters for active RFID readers and tags. It can reduce the amount of data transfer between the reader and host by filtering function, and can improve the performance of tag collection by smoothing function. In addition, it can remove inefficiency caused by tag memory data change according to the standards of ISO/IEC 15961/15962. In the real-world environment, we evaluated the performance of our implemented reader protocol using one RFID reader and 45 tags.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.10B
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• pp.1159-1167
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• 2011

In this paper, we proposed and implemented an EPCglobal Reader Manegement (RM) based management protocol. Using RFID Reader's management function, we could diagnose an active RFID Reader concretely which was impossible with only using Reader protocols and check the problem quickly when the RFID Reader is in failure. When diagnosing RFID Readers using the proposed RM based management protocol, we can check on their failure in stages and specifically, and can estimate range of failure. This helps RFID Reader's fast recovery, reduce loss of failure and improve QoS. We could get reader information with almost same overhead compared with the management message in LLRP. And we could get more information about RFID Reader's operation status.