Acta Metallurgica Sinica(English letters) ›› 2013, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (4): 116-121.doi: 10.1016/S1005-8885(13)60079-5

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Novel error resilient tag estimation for RFID system in interference scenarios

王帅,李书芳   

  1. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • 收稿日期:2013-01-08 修回日期:2013-04-08 出版日期:2013-08-31 发布日期:2013-08-30
  • 通讯作者: 王帅 E-mail:wangs2680@126.com
  • 基金资助:
    This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2011CB302900).

Novel error resilient tag estimation for RFID system in interference scenarios

  1. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • Received:2013-01-08 Revised:2013-04-08 Online:2013-08-31 Published:2013-08-30
  • Contact: Shuai WANG E-mail:wangs2680@126.com
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2011CB302900).

摘要: In a radio frequency identification (RFID) system, the backscattered signal is small and prone to interference. The performance of RFID tag identi?cation in interference scenarios is degraded compared to that in error-free scenarios. In this paper, a novel Mahalanobis distance estimate (MDE) method is proposed to jointly estimate the number of tags and packet error rate (PER). The MDE method is error resilient owing to its ability to achieve a stable estimation when interference is impairing the observed information. The proposed method achieves significantly enhanced accuracy over existing methods by taking all the information and correlations among the observed results into account. The MDE method improves the estimate performance based on efficient decorrelation and classification of the observed information. Moreover, the performance of the PER estimate is analyzed both in theory and through simulations. It can be concluded from the analysis that the estimated PER is unbiased and variance-bounded. Simulations show that the proposed estimate outperforms the previous proposals in terms of accuracy and stability, which makes it suitable for application in interference scenarios.

关键词: RFID, tag estimate, PER estimate

Abstract: In a radio frequency identification (RFID) system, the backscattered signal is small and prone to interference. The performance of RFID tag identi?cation in interference scenarios is degraded compared to that in error-free scenarios. In this paper, a novel Mahalanobis distance estimate (MDE) method is proposed to jointly estimate the number of tags and packet error rate (PER). The MDE method is error resilient owing to its ability to achieve a stable estimation when interference is impairing the observed information. The proposed method achieves significantly enhanced accuracy over existing methods by taking all the information and correlations among the observed results into account. The MDE method improves the estimate performance based on efficient decorrelation and classification of the observed information. Moreover, the performance of the PER estimate is analyzed both in theory and through simulations. It can be concluded from the analysis that the estimated PER is unbiased and variance-bounded. Simulations show that the proposed estimate outperforms the previous proposals in terms of accuracy and stability, which makes it suitable for application in interference scenarios.

Key words: RFID, tag estimate, PER estimate

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