• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.62 no.12
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• pp.1719-1724
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• 2013

In this paper, a size-reduction technique is presented for the RFID reader antenna working at two UHF bands. To tackle the problem of size increase in multi-band applications, two resonance paths are made to occur in one geometry with a single feed. While one resonance path is combined with the other, the entire geometry is determined to guarantee the resonance at the target frequencies through the dual-band input impedance matching. The antenna performance is predicted by the full-wave simulation, and the design method is verified by observing the good agreement between the simulated and measured results. At the two frequencies, the satisfactory return loss as well as the antenna efficiency and peak gain of the far-field pattern is obtained.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.348-355
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• 2019

UHF and microwave RFID systems are widely applied in various fields because they can read a plurality of tag information within a radius of several meters ahead of the RFID reader. However, they cannot detect the position of the tag in applications that recognize only a tag at a specific position. In this study, we propose a new RFID system that can interrogate the tag of a specific location selectively by using the position information of the tag. This can be done by only adjusting the reader's operating frequency. To verify the feasibility of the proposed system, we implemented a 2.4 GHz RFID reader whose frequency can be varied by using a phase-locked loop circuit and a backscattered tag. Experimental results confirm that the tag position can be sensed exactly.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.3399-3404
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• 2009

RFID system, which tries to identify a information of the tag using the wireless transmission, has been used to recognize long distance. However, each RFID system uses different way for individual needs. So, it is might not be compatible with the each system using a little different way. Also there is a trouble to freely use the protocols between the one tag and the other reader. So we tested a various RFID tags and readers to use the designed system with several protocols. Therefore, this paper shows that we designed and realized of the testing system for RF characteristics test as well as protocol analysis.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.155-162
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• 2008

The ubiquitous, which is developed for human's convenience, uses the concept of situation awareness that communicates with computer and performs a certain work without user's recognition. In order to collect the information of situation, many devices are required. Also, in the condition of ubiquitous middleware, priority is given to effective controls of various devices. There are many devices for collecting the information of situation awareness such as sensor, RFID, etc. Among them, in the use of RFID, the researcher performed the experiment, in which multiple readers were used depending on the necessity of awareness information, and found the problem of intervention between readers occurring when multiple readers are used. The paper handles the problem of intervention causing from using multiple readers and suggests middleware design module using session manager to solve the problem.

• 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.

• 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 Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.552-558
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• 2010

This is an example of ABSTRACT format. This study proposes a hypertension management system that implements a signal collision avoidance algorithm for RFID tags and enables accurate medical services for hypertension patients. The proposed system enables the mobile RFID reader to accurately recognize the RFID tag signals emitted from the patient by using OR logic. Moreover, the system adopts a multi-agent approach to provide and manage information on patient condition and automated medical service in a mobile environment.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1169-1172
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose an improved anti-collision algorithm for multi tag interrogation in ubiquitous sensor network(USN) and show the result of simulation for multi tag interrogation in RFID systems. We have analyzed an EPC(Electronic Product Code) protocol which specifies the physical and logical requirements for a passive-backscatter Reader-Talk-First(RTF) RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) system operating in the $860MHz{\sim}960MHz$ frequency range. We have also designed and implemented the simulator of the RFID system based on the EPC protocol. Finally, we find that proposed algorithm works better than an existing algorithm.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.2
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• pp.370-375
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose an antenna module with high isolation between Tx and Rx in RFID reader module. The proposed module consists of a quadrafilar antenna and a directional coupler with a switchable dummy load to improve the directivity. The proposed module achieves the isolation higher than 20 dB between Tx and Rx. To show the validity of the proposed scheme, we have performed the measurement of tagging range and multi-tagging ability. The experiment results show that the detecting range and multi-tagging ability are enhanced by 81% and 200%, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06d
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• pp.172-176
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• 2007

유통분야에서 물품관리를 위해 사용되었던 바코드를 대체할 차세대 인식기술로 꼽히는 RFID 기술은 IT기술의 주요 시장으로 부상하면서 다양한 연구가 이루어지고 있는 분야이다. 유통 및 물류분야에서는 다량의 물품을 실시간으로 식별해야 하는 경우가 필요한데 이를 위해 여러 개의 리더가 동시에 사용 된다. RFID 시스템을 구축하는데 있어서 다중 리더 운영 기법은 전체 RFID 시스템의 성능을 좌우한다. EPCglobal에서 제안 된 Gen2 프로토콜은 900MHz 대역의 단일 통합 표준으로서 ISO/IEC 18000-6 C타입으로 채택되었다. 하지만 Gen2 프로토콜에서 다중 리더 운영 정책에 대해서 Session 기능을 간단히 내놓았을 뿐 자세한 소프트웨어 응용법을 제시하지 않았으며, 이에 관한 미들웨어 연구도 이루어지고 있지 않다. 본 논문에서는 현재 Gen2 프로토콜에서의 태그 인식 기술과 EPCglobal에서 제안하는 RFID 프로토콜, Sesssion 개념을 소개하고 Gen2 프로토콜을 이용하는 RFID 시스템에 다중 리더 관리 모듈을 설계를 통해 다중 리더를 운영하는 기법을 제안한다.