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If a very large volume of data generated from the scan of RFID tags on individual items continuously flow into a single RFID middleware component with limited hardware resources, its entire data processing time for extracting necessary information from this huge amount of scanned data may become considerably longer. This paper presents mobile agent-based distributed software modules applicable to traditional RFID systems to highly alleviate a huge amount of workload of the middleware by addressing this fundamental limitation. They provide a convenient environment enabling required data to be pre-processed repeatedly in transit by transferring a mobile agent including its specified data management rules to numerous mobile readers. Simulation results verify that our proposed system performs better and more reliable than the traditional one processing the data by fixed readers after having arrived at the destination in case a large amount of RFID tag data should be processed in middlewares with RFID readers.
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Ahn, J. (2012). Enhancing Performance and Reliability of RFID Middleware Using Mobile Agents. In: Wang, X., Zheng, R., Jing, T., Xing, K. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7405. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31869-6_24
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