Tag Counting and Monitoring in Large-Scale RFID Systems: Theoretical Foundations and Algorithm Design

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical foundation and algorithmic tools necessary in the design of efficient tag counting and monitoring algorithms in emerging RFID systems. The book delivers an in-depth analysis on the following problems ranging from theoretical modeling and analysis, to practical algorithm design and optimization: Stability analysis of the frame slotted Aloha protocol, the de facto standard in RFID tag counting and identification; Tag population estimation in dynamic RFID systems; Missing tag event detection in the presence of unexpected tags; Missing tag event detection in multi-group multi-region RFID systems. The target readers are researchers and advanced-level engineering students interested in acquiring in-depth knowledge on the topic and on RFID systems and their applications.

Lin Chen received his B.E. degree in Radio Engineering from Southeast University, China in 2002 and the Engineer Diploma and Ph.D. degree from Telecom Paris Tech, in 2005. He also holds a M.S. degree of Networking from the University of Paris 6. He currently works as associate professor in the department of computer science of the University of Paris-Sud. He serves as Chair of IEEE Special Interest Group on Green and Sustainable Networking and Computing with Cognition and Cooperation, IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing. His main research interests include modeling and control for wireless networks, distributed algorithm design and game theory.

Jihong Yu received the B.E degree in communication engineering and M.E degree in communication and information systems from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 2010 and 2013, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science at the University of Paris-Sud, France, in 2016. He is currently a research fellow at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He serves as TPC member of IEEE ICNC 2018. His research interests include networking and RFID technologies.