Comparison of Transmission Schemes for Framed ALOHA based RFID Protocols

  • Authors:
  • Christian Floerkemeier;Matthias Wille

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Pervasive Computing ETH, Zurich, Switzerland;Institute for Pervasive Computing ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • SAINT-W '06 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Applications on Internet Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The performance of RFID anti-collision protocols that are based on framed ALOHA depends on a transmission scheme that controls access to the shared channel. In this paper, we outline the characteristics of the RFID domain that impact the performance of such transmission schemes and compare four different transmission strategies. A novel technique introduced in this paper that recursively estimates the backlog on a slot-by-slot basis exhibits a superior performance in our simulations. The results also illustrate that our implementation of the Q algorithm proposed in [2] only performs well, if the frame size changes are restricted to incremental updates.