A SIMPLE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE ACCESS RFID NETWORKS BASED ON THE BINARY TREE PROTOCOL (COM3)

Author(s) : Fabio Cappelletti (University of Parma, Italy) Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy) Riccardo Raheli (University of Parma, Italy)

Abstract : In this paper, we propose a simple performance analysis of radio frequency identification (RFID) networks, based on the binary tree medium access control (MAC) protocol. We evaluate various network performance metrics, such as throughput, delay and average number of packets needed to take a census of the RFID tags. In order to validate our analytical results, we develop a simple, yet accurate, simulator and we show that the predicted analytical performance is in good agreement with the simulation results. The significance of this work is due to the fact that RFID networks are becoming a widespread technology in industry and commerce.

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