Wireless Telecommunications Symposium

Research Article

Service organization and discovery for facilitating RFID network manageability and usability via WinRFID middleware

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/WTS.2008.4547593,
        author={ Xiaoyong  Su and Chi-Cheng  Chu and  R.   Gadh and B.S. Prabhu},
        title={Service organization and discovery for facilitating RFID network manageability and usability via WinRFID middleware},
        proceedings={Wireless Telecommunications Symposium},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={WTS},
        year={2008},
        month={6},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/WTS.2008.4547593}
    }
    
  • Xiaoyong Su
    Chi-Cheng Chu
    R. Gadh
    B.S. Prabhu
    Year: 2008
    Service organization and discovery for facilitating RFID network manageability and usability via WinRFID middleware
    WTS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/WTS.2008.4547593
Xiaoyong Su1, Chi-Cheng Chu1, R. Gadh1, B.S. Prabhu1
  • 1: Dept. of Mech. & Aerosp. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Abstract

A radio frequency identification (RFID) network is a heterogeneous environment in which various hardware devices (RFID readers, sensors, and computers etc) and software components co-exist. Achieving resource manageability and usability in an RFID network is a challenge because of the diversity and complexity of the resources within the network. Service organization and discovery is an effective way to manage resources in a network. However, current research efforts have not addressed the characteristics of RFID network and are mostly focusing on either hardware device or software components discovery. In this paper, we present a service discovery architecture extended from existing service discovery protocols. Service organization, service discovery, service description and exchange format are discussed.