A scalable object based discovery service for global tracing of RFID products

  • Authors:
  • Gihong Kim;Bonghee Hong;Joonho Kwon

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea;Department of Computer Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea;Department of Computer Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • DASFAA'12 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology can provide global visibility for each product by the Discovery Service (DS) of EPCglobal, the de facto international standard for RFID. Only the role of a DS has been introduced and no concrete standard for a DS has yet been specified. A DS should have high scalability because of the huge volume of products and therefore tracing information. We propose a scalable distributed architecture for a DS that is Object-Based Discovery Service (OBDS). An OBDS consists of several unit-DSs and a Unit-DS Lookup Service (UDLS). A unit-DS contains all data for some objects and a UDLS enables the discovery of the desired unit-DS among distributed unit-DSs for global tracing of an object. We present an analytic comparison of several approaches for the DS and an experimental comparison of several approaches for designing a UDLS.