On the optimal frame-length configuration on real passive RFID systems

  • Authors:
  • M. V. Bueno-Delgado;J. Vales-Alonso

  • Affiliations:
  • Telematics Engineering Group, Technical University of Cartagena, Plaza del Hospital 1, Cuartel de Antiguones, Cartagena 30202, Spain;Telematics Engineering Group, Technical University of Cartagena, Plaza del Hospital 1, Cuartel de Antiguones, Cartagena 30202, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The majority of the anti-collision protocols proposed for passive RFID systems are based on frame slotted aloha (FSA). They assume a classical result in FSA-based protocols which states that the theoretical identification throughput is optimized when the number of competing tags in coverage equals the number of slots in the frame. However, this is not exact in real RFID systems, as the so-called capture effect is neglected. The capture effect occurs when a tag identification signal is successfully decoded from a collision slot. This paper analyzes the identification performance of real RFID systems, taking into account not only the capture effect, but also the requirements imposed by the de facto standard EPCglobal Class-1 Gen-2. The analysis is addressed by discrete time Markov chains. From the analysis, a set of relevant results is extracted: the frame-length values that, configured into the readers studied, guarantee the best identification performance (maximum throughput). The analytical results have been confirmed by means of simulations and by a set of measurements performed on a real passive RFID system. Results closely match the analysis predictions, which demonstrate a notable impact of the configuration on the performance.