ChinaCom2008-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium

Research Article

On Object Identification Reliability Using RFID

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685137,
        author={Chonggang Wang and Mahmoud Daneshmand and Kazem Sohraby},
        title={On Object Identification Reliability Using RFID},
        proceedings={ChinaCom2008-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM2008-WCN},
        year={2008},
        month={11},
        keywords={RFID Object Identification Reliability Performance Evaluation},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685137}
    }
    
  • Chonggang Wang
    Mahmoud Daneshmand
    Kazem Sohraby
    Year: 2008
    On Object Identification Reliability Using RFID
    CHINACOM2008-WCN
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685137
Chonggang Wang1,*, Mahmoud Daneshmand2, Kazem Sohraby1
  • 1: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
  • 2: AT&T Research Lab, USA
*Contact email: cgwang@uark.edu

Abstract

Radio frequency identification (RFID) provides a more convenient and automatic approach for object identification than traditional universal product code-based barcode technology. However radio communications are naturally unreliable and inevitably lead to unreliable object identification, which in turn encumber some special applications demanding large-scale deployment of RFID, even though many RFID applications have been emerging recent years. This paper discusses object identification reliability. We first list factors that could cause false readings and lead to unreliable object identification. Then we provide five definitions that directly and formally define object identification reliability. Based on these reliability-related definitions, a general framework for guaranteeing object identification reliability is proposed in this paper. Existing schemes for reliability improved are briefly compared within this framework