Listening to tags: Uplink RFID measurements with an open-source software-defined radio tool

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-118

  De Donno, Danilo ^a   Ricciato, Fabio ^a   Tarricone, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fading; GNU Radio; polyphase filter banks (PFBs); Radio Frequency IDentification (ID) (RFID); read range; software defined radio (SDR); timing recovery

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; ERROR STATISTICS; EXPERIMENTS; FILTER BANKS; FREQUENCY HOPPING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; NETWORK LAYERS; RADIO RECEIVERS; SOFTWARE RADIO;

FADING; GNU RADIO; POLYPHASE FILTER BANKS; READ RANGE; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; TIMING RECOVERY;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 84870980183     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2212513     Document Type: Article

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