Design and applications of a software-defined listener for UHF RFID systems

Abstract

Conventional RFID readers combine transmission (to the tag) and reception (from the tag) functions in a single physical device. In this paper we discuss the design and potential applications of a receive-only device, called "RFID listener", that decodes the signals from both the tag and the reader. This enables augmented RFID systems where one transmitter coexists with multiple listeners offering reception redundancy and diversity. We present a Software-Defined Radio (SDR) implementation of an RFID listener compliant with Gen2 standard, which can serve as a research tool for experimenting "on air" novel augmented RFID systems. Moreover, our listener can be used as a flexible and cheap protocol analyzer for conventional reader/tag systems. We present a test-bed setting where our listener and a conventional SDR reader are used in conjunction to measure separately the maximum downlink and uplink range. © 2011 IEEE.


Tutti gli autori

  • D. De Donno , F. Ricciato , L. Catarinucci , L. Tarricone

Titolo volume/Rivista

IEEE MTT-S INTERNATIONAL MICROWAVE SYMPOSIUM DIGEST


Anno di pubblicazione

2011

ISSN

0149-645X

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21

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28/04/2018


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