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Section: New Results

RFID

Participants : Nathalie Mitton, Abdoul Aziz Mbacke.

One of the devices under consideration by the FUN team is RFID. One of the main issues to widely deploy RFID reader is reader-to-reader collision. Indeed, when the electromagnetic fields of the readers overlap, a collision occurs on the tag laying in the overlapping section and cannot be read. Numerous protocols have been proposed to attempt to reduce them, but, remaining reading errors still heavily impact the performances and fairness of dense RFID deployments. In [33], [18] we introduce a new Distributed Efficient & Fair Anticollision for RFID (DEFAR) protocol. It reduces both monochannel and multichannel collisions as well as interference by a factor of almost 90% in comparison with the best state of the art protocols. The fairness of the medium access among the readers is improved to a 99% level. Such improvements are achieved applying a TDMA-based "server-less" approach and assigning different priorities to readers depending on their behavior over precedent rounds. A distributed reservation phase is organized between readers with at least one winning reader afterwards. Then, multiple reading phases occur within a single frame in order to obtain fast coverage and high throughput. The use of different reader priorities based on reading behaviors of previous frames also contributes to improve both fairness and efficiency. Simulation results show the robustness of the proposed solution in terms of different metrics such collision avoidance, fairness and coverage and in comparison with a centralized literature solution.

In order to ensure collision-free reading, a scheduling scheme is needed to read tags in the shortest possible time. We study in [37] this scheduling problem in a stationary setting and the reader minimization problem in a mobile setting. We show that the optimal schedule construction problem is NP-complete and provide an approximation algorithm that we evaluate our techniques through simulation.