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Poster: Combating Multipaths to Enable RFID Sensing in Practical Environments

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There have been increasing interests in exploring the sensing capabilities of RFID beyond its basic identification task, to reveal more information of tagged objects and the physical world. Phase is a crucial physical feature for many RFID sensing applications, such as tag localization. Most existing methods rely on a low multipath environment for accurate phase measurement. Unfortunately, practical environments are highly likely to be multipath-revalent, especially for indoors. This paper presents the first work to extract "clean" phase measurement of RFID tags in multipath-prevalent environments. We propose CPEX (Clean Phase EXtraction) based on theoretical modeling, which is also validated via experimental results of our prototype implementation. We studied the performance of CPEX on tag localization. CPEX can achieve median errors of 4.3-6.4cm (in different setups), which is the most accurate 3D tag localization result in multipath-prevalent environments.

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    MobiCom '17: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
    October 2017
    628 pages
    ISBN:9781450349161
    DOI:10.1145/3117811
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    1. RFID
    2. localization
    3. multipath

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    • (2024)LoMu: Enable Long-Range Multi-Target Backscatter Sensing for Low-Cost TagsIEEE INFOCOM 2024 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications10.1109/INFOCOM52122.2024.10621272(2069-2078)Online publication date: 20-May-2024
    • (2022)RF-Dial: Rigid Motion Tracking and Touch Gesture Detection for Interaction via RFID TagsIEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing10.1109/TMC.2020.301772121:3(1061-1080)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2022
    • (2020)PRSRTI: A Novel Device-Free Localization Method Using Phase Response Shift Based Radio Tomography ImagingIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology10.1109/TVT.2020.302795769:11(13812-13820)Online publication date: Nov-2020
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