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An Efficient Protocol for the Tag-information Sampling Problem in RFID Systems

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Given a population S of N tags in an RFID system, the tag-information sampling problem is to randomly choose K distinct tags from S to form a subset T, and then inform each tag in T of a unique integer from {1,2,⋯ ,K}. This is a fundamental problem in many real-time analysis applications of RFID systems, as it enables rapidly selecting a small random tag subset T from a large tag population S and collecting the tag-information from T for analyzing purposes. However, existing protocols for this problem are far from satisfactory due to high communication costs. This paper aims at solving this problem by using a small communication cost. First, a lower bound on communication cost, denoted by Clb, is obtained for the tag-information sampling problem. Then, a protocol Ps is proposed for solving the studied problem, and is proved to have a communication cost within a factor of 2 of the lower bound Clb. Lastly, extensive simulation results not only verify the theoretical properties of the proposed protocol but also demonstrate its advantages in comparison with the state-of-art protocols.

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  1. The reader R may transmit IDs and newly collected tag-information either to or from the backend server, or transmit newly collected tag-information to the backend server.

  2. Changing the data rate from readers to tags would only alter the absolute communication time of the three protocols, but not affect the comparison results. Two reasons account for this: (1) the communication cost of each protocol remains constant regardless of changes in data rates, and (2) all protocols are tested at the same data rates.

  3. Note that we set the length of the Bloom filter to be 24K in the simulations when testing TOP [23]. This parameter setting is according to part A: Energy cost in Section IV of [23].

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China under Grants 61402008, 61702006 and 61672038, in part by the Provincial Key Research and Development Program of Anhui Province under Grants 202004a05020009 and 201904a05020071, in part by the University Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Province (No. KJ2020A0249), in part by the Electronic Information and Control of Fujian University Engineering Research Center, Minjiang University, under Grant MJXY-KF-EIC1803, and in part by the Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Anhui Higher Education Institutes under Grant CS2020-006.

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    Xiujun Wang, Yan Gao, Xiao Zheng, Xuangou Wu & Wei Zhao

  2. Anhui Engineering Laboratory for Intelligent Applications and Security of Industrial Internet, Maanshan, 243032, China

    Xiujun Wang, Yan Gao, Xiao Zheng, Xuangou Wu & Wei Zhao

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Wang, X., Gao, Y., Yang, Y. et al. An Efficient Protocol for the Tag-information Sampling Problem in RFID Systems. Mobile Netw Appl 26, 1974–1985 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-021-01738-0

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