Tree Slotted Aloha: a New Protocol for Tag Identification in RFID Networks

  • Authors:
  • Maurizio A. Bonuccelli;Francesca Lonetti;Francesca Martelli

  • Affiliations:
  • Universita di Pisa, Italy;Universita di Pisa, Italy;ISTI "A. Faedo", Italy

  • Venue:
  • WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we approach the problem of identifying a set of objects in an RFID network. We propose a modified version of Slotted Aloha protocol to reduce the number of transmission collisions. All tags select a slot to transmit their ID by generating a random number. If there is a collision in a slot, the reader broadcasts the next identification request only to tags which collided in that slot. Simulation results show that our approach performs better than Framed Slotted Aloha and query tree based protocols, in terms of number of slots needed to identify all tags, which is a commonly used metric, strictly related to delay.