Cardinality estimation for large-scale RFID systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1441-1454

  Qian, Chen ^a   Ngan, Hoilun ^b   Liu, Yunhao ^c   Ni, Lionel M ^b  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ALOHA networks; collision resolution; RFID Systems; tag estimation

Indexed keywords

ALOHA NETWORKS; ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; ARBITRATION PROTOCOLS; CARDINALITIES; CARDINALITY ESTIMATIONS; COLLISION RESOLUTION; ESTIMATION SCHEMES; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; LOW LATENCY; LOW OVERHEAD; MOVING OBJECTS; PROCESSING TIME; REAL APPLICATIONS; RF-ID TAGS; RFID SYSTEMS; SCALABILITY PROBLEMS; SHORT PROCESSING TIME; TAG ESTIMATION; TREE-BASED;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; RADIO NAVIGATION; SCALABILITY;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 79960838804     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2011.36     Document Type: Article

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