• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.51-60
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• 2009

In radio frequency identification(RFID) systems, when an RFID reader uses the same or adjacent frequency with neighbor readers, the interference between the readers may occur, which causes the reader collision and errors in tag recognition. In the previous study on RFID reader anti-collision, the techniques based on Frequency Division Mutiplex(FDM) or Time Division Multiplex(TDM) are proposed. However in these paper, the problem on the condition of RFID reader-to-reader interference considering the distance between interfering readers, frequency and operating time is not define exactly. In this paper, the interference effect is analyzed through RFID reader interference model considering the TDM and FDM, and the optimization problem is defined. To solve this, genetic-resource allocation technique is proposed. Therefore the optimal resource allocation applied RFID environment faithfully is accomplished.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.501-509
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• 2010

In this paper, the interference avoidance performance of the RFID reader with the compressive receiver was analyzed. In the environment of the multiple dense readers operating, the recognition rates of the conventional RFID reader and the proposed RFID reader with the compressive receiver were measured and compared. The recognition rate of the proposed reader was improved more than 2.7 times compared to the conventional reader. Especially, in the environment of two proposed RFID readers operating simultaneously, little degradation of the recognition rate was observed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.822-825
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• 2007

RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) 시스템에서 다수의 리더가 동시에 동일한 태그의 인식을 시도하는 경우, 태그는 다수의 리더가 요청한 내용을 처리할 수 없기 때문에 리더 충돌이 발생하게 된다. 이러한 리더 간 간섭에 의한 충돌은 RFID 시스템의 태그 인식 효율 및 인식 속도의 저하 등에 대한 주요 요인으로 작용하기 때문에 이를 방지할 수 있는 효과적인 리더 충돌 방지 알고리즘이 요구된다. 이에 본 논문에서는 리더 충돌이 발생한 경우, 관리 리더(Master Reader)와 보조 리더 그룹(Assistant Reader Group)간의 계층적인 구조를 형성하고, 관리 리더를 통해 하위 리더 그룹을 관리하여 리더 충돌을 방지하는 리더 충돌 방지 알고리즘을 제안한다. 또한, 모의실험을 통해 제안하는 알고리즘의 성능을 분석하고 평가하였다.

• 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 KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.884-891
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• 2008

As the scale of RFID systems grows, decrease in recognition rate of collision between readers is becoming an issue. Time division technique may solve the problem, but this will cause total recognition time to increase. This issue must be solved for real-time inventory control. In this study, total recognition time was improved by placing ARCM in RFID systems. ARCM maintains short recognition time through efficient utilization of frequency channel and manages RFID systems to recognize the tag by avoiding interference. As the result of using ARCM, saving maximum 20% of time was possible.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.53-63
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• 2008

Reader collision may occur when neighboring RFID readers use the same channel at the same time. Especially when the readers are operated in dense mode, even though many channels are available, because of frequent reader collisions we can not guarantee the performance of RFID readers. Conventional solutions such as FH(Frequency Hopping) or LBT(Listen Before Talk) are not effective in this situation because they can not schedule RFID readers effectively when RFID readers are operated in multi-channel, dense reader mode, In this paper, we propose a new RFID reader anti-collision algorithm which employs LBT, random backoff before channel access, and probabilistic channel hopping at the same time. While LBT and Random backoff before channel access reduces collisions between competing readers, probabilistic channel hopping increases channel utilization by adaptively changing the hopping probability by reflecting the reader density and utilization. Simulation results shows that our algorithm outperforms conventional methods.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.87-97
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• 2013

In the RFID system, multiple tags respond in the process of identifying multiple tags in the reader's interrogation zone, resulting in collisions. Tag collision occurs when two or more tags respond to one reader, so that the reader cannot identify any tags. These collisions make it hard for the reader to identify all tags within the interrogation zone and delays the identifying time. In some cases, the reader cannot identify any tags. The reader needs the anti-collision algorithm which can quickly identify all the tags in the interrogation zone. The proposed algorithm efficiently divides tag groups through an efficient separation to respond, preventing collisions. Moreover, the proposed algorithm identifies tags without checking all the bits in the tags. The prediction with efficient separation reduces the number of the requests from the reader.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.2247-2256
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a coordinator-based reader protocol that can avoid reader collisions in a passive RFID system. In a proposed protocol, unlike conventional protocols that a reader itself selects its own slot randomly to communicate with tags such as DCS, Colorwave, a coordinator reader allocates an unused slot to a reader to participate in the network and sends a current slot number. A reader allocated a slot can communicate with tags. The proposed protocol can adaptively modified to apply for multiple coordinator readers environment in a wide area. This causes reader collision problem, but can be alleviated partly by applying the frequency planning. In this way, we verifies that a RFID system using the proposed protocol is three to five times better than existing systems through the simulation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.321-328
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• 2010

This paper presents a coordinator-based TDMA reader protocol that can avoid the reader collision in a passive RFID system. In the proposed protocol, the coordinator can not only minimize the number of empty slots by efficiently allocating slots to readers incoming in Poisson distribution, but reduce latency time through the limited frame size. The proposed protocol can be implemented in either mobile or fixed mode through the slot structure to be described in the context. The simulation results show it works as suggested and the frame size limitation as well as the statistical distribution of incoming readers has a great impact on the overall slots and the average latency time.