Dynamic RFID Anti-collision Algorithm with Multiple Interrogators

Abstract

In dense radio frequency identification (RFID) situations where the coverage of multiple interrogators overlaps, a key challenge is to mitigate interrogator-involved collisions. Among the solutions that have been proposed to reduce or avoid such collisions, Geometric Distribution Reader Anti-collision (GDRA) protocol achieves the highest throughput exploiting Geometric distribution to minimise contention among interrogators. This approach is compatible with current RFID protocols, such as EPC Gen2, ISO18000-6C and ETSI EN 302 208–1 without extra hardware support. In this paper, based on GDRA, we propose an enhanced protocol, called Dynamic GDRA (DGDRA), in which different interrogators dynamically and independently adapt their own Geometric distributions based on the experienced number of successful transmissions and collisions. Simulation results confirm that the proposed DGDRA provides higher throughput and enhances fairness performance compared to the original anti-collision scheme.