Performance analysis of RFID Generation-2 protocol

Chonggang Wang, Mahmoud Daneshmand, Kazem Sohraby, Bo Li

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Abstract

This paper investigates the performance of EPCgloabl Generation-2 (Gen-2) [1] Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) protocol. Gen-2 protocol has a critical parameter Q that plays an important role in resolving tag collisions. Gen-2 protocol proposes an adaptive slot-count algorithm to adjust Q dynamically based on the type of replies from tags. In this paper, we define two performance metrics for tag identification: Query Success Rate (QSR) and Tag Identification Speed (TIS). We establish a Discrete- Time Markov Chain (DTMC) model for the Gen-2 and accordingly obtain quantitative results of QSR and TIS. Extensive simulations validate our theoretical analysis and demonstrate that the number of tags has little impact on the performance. In other words, QSR and TIS do not nearly decrease even though the number of tags may be increasing. Our model for Gen-2 protocol is also useful to study the performance of other RFID protocols.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2592-2601
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume8
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2009

Keywords

  • Performanmce analysis
  • Query success rate
  • Radio frequency identification
  • Tag collision
  • Tag identification speed

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