Hybrid tag anti-collision algorithms in RFID systems

Abstract

RFID, Radio Frequency Identification, technology is a contactless automatic identification technology about which a lot of researches and developments are recently progressing. For this RFID technology to be widely spread, the problem of multiple tag identification, which a reader identifies a multiple number of tags in a very short time, has to be solved. So far, several anti-collision algorithms are developed. And those can be largely divided into ALOHA based algorithm and tree based algorithm. In this paper, two new anti-collision algorithms combining the characteristics of these two categories are presented. And the performances of the two algorithms are simulated. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.