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Title: Flexible and time-efficient tag scanning with handheld readers
Authors: Liu, X
Zhang, S
Xiao, B 
Bu, K
Issue Date: 1-Apr-2016
Source: IEEE transactions on mobile computing, 1 Apr. 2016, v. 15, no. 4, 7008541, p. 840-852
Abstract: Tag scanning is an important issue to dynamically manage tag IDs in radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. Different from tag identification that collects IDs of all the tags, tag scanning first verifies whether or not a responding tag has already been identified and retrieves its ID when the answer is yes, and collects the tag's ID only when it is unidentified. In this paper, we present the first study on spot scanning with a handheld reader, which aims to scan tags in the reader's interrogation range at an arbitrarily specified position in the system. Existing studies mainly focus on continuous scanning, and they are highly time inefficient in performing spot scanning. The inefficiency stems from the small overlap between tag populations in different spot scanning operations, in which case existing solutions cannot efficiently recognize unidentified tags. We develop a novel technique called LOCK to efficiently recognize unidentified tags even when the overlapped tags are few. LOCK does not simply use a tag's reply slot index but also compact short responses from tags to efficiently distinguish unidentified tags from identified ones. The valuable compact short responses are firstly investigated, which are the keys for efficient tag identification in the paper. Based on LOCK, three tag scanning protocols are proposed to solve the spot scanning problem. Simulation results show that, for spot scanning, our best protocol reduces per tag scanning time by up to 70 percent when compared with the state-of-the-art solution. Moreover, the proposed protocols can also be employed to perform continuous scanning with better time efficiency than the best existing solutions.
Keywords: Handheld reader
RFID system
Spot scanning
Tag scanning
Time-efficiency
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Journal: IEEE transactions on mobile computing 
ISSN: 1536-1233
EISSN: 1558-0660
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2014.2381252
Rights: © 2014 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
The following publication X. Liu, S. Zhang, B. Xiao and K. Bu, "Flexible and Time-Efficient Tag Scanning with Handheld Readers," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 840-852, 1 April 2016 is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2014.2381252.
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