Phase based spatial identification of UHF RFID tags

RFID 2010: International IEEE Conference on RFID

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 102-109

  Nikitin, Pavel V ^a   Martinez, Rene ^a   Ramamurthy, Shashi ^a   Leland, Hunter ^a   Spiess, Gary ^a   Rao, K V S ^a  

^a Intermec Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MODEL; FREE SPACE; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; MODELING AND SIMULATION; MULTI-PATH; PHASE BASED; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHASE INFORMATION; SPATIAL DOMAINS; TIME DOMAIN; UHF RFID;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY CONTROL; RADIO NAVIGATION;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953885463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFID.2010.5467253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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