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A Distributed Mobile Reader Collision Avoidance Protocol for Dense RFID Networks

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Today Radio Frequency Identification systems (RFID) are one of the most usable automated wireless identification technologies in the internet of things. Identification systems can exchange data remotely by communicating between a tag and a reader with sending radio waves. The main challenge of identification systems with radiofrequency in a dense RFID network is the collision, which occurs when readers are located in each other's interference range and start reading tags simultaneously. With these collisions happening, readers cannot read all the tags around them in the efficient time durations. In this research, using a distributed method and the channel listening technique, readers select a time interval to take the control channel by the Geometric Probability Distribution Function. Also, by measuring the signal strength from neighboring readers and sharing tag information, there will be an increase in the throughput of identification systems through radio waves while avoiding all kinds of collisions in the control channel. Extensive results show that the proposed method has better throughput and has less average waiting time.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran

    Mehdi Golsorkhtabaramiri

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, University College of Rouzbahan, Sari, Iran

    Mohammad Tahmasbi & Sepideh Ansari

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Golsorkhtabaramiri, M., Tahmasbi, M. & Ansari, S. A Distributed Mobile Reader Collision Avoidance Protocol for Dense RFID Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 125, 2719–2735 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-022-09681-3

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