Use of smart antennas for the localization of RFID reader

APMC 2009 - Asia Pacific Microwave Conference 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1036-1039

  Abedin, Mohammed J ^a   Mohan, Ananda S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arrays; Localisation; MUSIC; RFID reader; Smart antennas

Indexed keywords

ANGLES OF ARRIVAL; ANTENNA ELEMENT; CAPON BEAMFORMING; DIRECTIONAL PROPERTIES; LOCALISATION; LOCATION ACCURACY; MUSIC ALGORITHMS; PASSIVE TAGS; RF-ID TAGS; RFID READERS; UNIFORM LINEAR ANTENNA ARRAYS; WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT;

MICROWAVES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO NAVIGATION; SMART ANTENNAS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77950644136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APMC.2009.5384361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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