RFIDSim : a discrete event simulator for Radio Frequency Identification systems

This thesis presents RFIDSim, a discrete event process-oriented simulator designed to model Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) communication. The simulator focuses on the discovery and identification process of passive powerless RFID tags--a category of low cost tags that harvest all of their energy from the radio frequency signals sent by the reader. RFIDSim currently supports the Auto-ID Class 0 and Class 1 UHF RFID protocols, and is designed to be an extensible framework for additional protocol implementations, as well as a modular structure that partitions the reader / tag logic separately from the signal modeling.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2003

Author dc:creator

• Yu, Kenneth Kwan-Wai, 1979-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Sanjay E. Sarma.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/18024

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/18024