A cost-effective SDR platform for performance characterization of RFID tags

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 903-911

  Catarinucci, Luca ^a   De Donno, Danilo ^a   Colella, Riccardo ^a   Ricciato, Fabio ^a   Tarricone, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differential radar cross section (RCS); GNU Radio; radio frequency identification (RFID); read range; sensitivity; software defined radio (SDR); tags

Indexed keywords

GNU RADIO; RADIO FREQUENCIES; READ RANGE; SENSITIVITY; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; TAGS;

RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADIO NAVIGATION; RADIO RECEIVERS; SOFTWARE RADIO;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 84858337447     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2174899     Document Type: Article

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