Cooperative Integration of Harvesting RF Sections for Passive RFID Communication

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4556-4566

  Andia Vera, Gianfranco ^a   Allane, Dahmane ^b   Georgiadis, Apostolos ^d   Collado, Ana ^d   Duroc, Yvan ^c   Tedjini, Smail ^a  

^a Grenoble Institute of Technology   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; harmonic balance; non linearity; RFID; UHF passive tags; wireless power transmission

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY HARVESTING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

DIGITALLY-MODULATED SIGNALS; EXTERNAL SOURCES; NONLINEAR EFFECT; PASSIVE UHF RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATIONS (RFID); POWER DEPENDENCY; RFID COMMUNICATION; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; TIME VARYING ENVELOPE;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84959497921     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2015.2495351     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (30)

1. H. Stockman, "Communication by means of reflected power," Proc. IRE, pp. 1196-1204, Oct. 1948.
2. A. Rida, L. Yang, M. Tentzeris, RFID-Enabled Sensor Design and Applications. Norwood, MA, USA: Artech House, 2010.
3. D. Paret, RFID at Ultra and Super High Frequencies: Theory and Application. New York, NY, USA: Wiley, 2010.
4. L. Yan, Y. Zhang, L. Yang, H. Ning, The Internet of Things: From RFID to the Next-Generation Pervasive Networked Systems, ser. Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, 2008.
5. C. Occhiuzzi and G. Marrocco, "Constrained-design of passive UHF RFID sensor antennas," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 2972-2980, Jun. 2013.
6. K. Niotaki, F. Giuppi, A. Georgiadis, A. Collado, "Solar/EM energy harvester for autonomous operation of a monitoring sensor platform," Wireless Power Transfer, vol. 1, no. 01, pp. 44-50, 2014.
7. C. H. P. Lorenz, S. Hemour, W. Liu, A. Badel, F. Formosa, K. Wu, "Hybrid power harvesting for increased power conversion efficiency," IEEE Microw. Compon. Lett., vol. 25, no. 10, pp. 687-689, Oct., 2015.
8. A. Georgiadis, G. Andia Vera, A. Collado, "Rectenna design and optimization using reciprocity theory and harmonic balance analysis for electromagnetic (EM) energy harvesting," IEEE Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 9, pp. 444-446, 2010.
9. G. Andia Vera, Y. Duroc, S. Tedjini, "RFID test platform: Nonlinear characterization," IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 63, no. 9, pp. 2299-2305, Sep. 2014.
10. A. Collado and A. Georgiadis, "Optimal waveforms for efficient wireless power transmission," IEEE Microw. Compon. Lett., vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 354-356, May 2014.
11. J. A. Hagerty, F. B. Helmbrecht, W. H. McCalpin, R. Zane, Z. B. Popovic, "Recycling ambient microwave energy with broad-band rectenna arrays," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 1014-1024, Mar. 2004.
12. M. S. Trotter, J. D. Griffin, G. D. Durgin, "Power-optimized waveforms for improving the range and reliability of RFID systems," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. RFID, Apr. 27-28, 2009, pp. 80-87.
13. G. Andia Vera, A. Georgiadis, A. Collado, S. Via, "Design of a 2.45 GHz rectenna for electromagnetic (EM) energy scavenging," in Proc. IEEE Radio Wireless Symp., Jan. 10-14, 2010, pp. 61-64.
14. A. S. Boaventura and N. B. Carvalho, "Maximizing DC power in energy harvesting circuits using multi-sine excitation," in Proc. IEEE Int. Microw. Symp., Jun. 5-10, 2011.
15. A. Boaventura, A. C. Collado, N. B. Carvalho, A. Georgiadis, "Optimum behavior: Wireless power transmission system design through behavioral models and efficient synthesis techniques," IEEE Microwave, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 26-35, Mar.-Apr. 2013.
16. C. R. Valenta and G. D. Durgin, "Rectenna performance under poweroptimized waveform excitation," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. RFID, Apr. 30, 2013, pp. 237-244.
17. G. Fukuda, S. Yoshida, Y. Kai, N. Hasegawa, S. Kawasaki, "Evaluation on use of modulated signal for microwave power transmission," in Proc. 44th Eur. Microw. Conf., Oct. 6-9, 2014, pp. 425-428.
18. A. Collado and A. Georgiadis, "Improving wireless power transmission efficiency using chaotic waveforms," in Proc. IEEE Int. Microw. Symp., Jun. 17-22, 2012, pp. 1-3.
19. D. Belo and N. B. Carvalho, "Behavior of multi-band RF-DC converters in presence of modulated signals for space based wireless sensors," in Proc. Asia-Pacific Microw. Conf., Nov. 4-7, 2014, pp. 170-172.
20. Electromagnetic Compatibility and Radio Spectrum Matters (erm); Radio Frequency Identification Equipment Operating in the Band 865 MHz to 868 MHz With Power Levels up to 2 W; Part 1: Technical Requirements and Methods of Measurement EN 302 208-1 V1.2.1 2008, ETSI.
21. IEEE Std 802.11 Standard for Information Technology-Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems Local and Metropolitan Area Networks-Specific Requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications, IEEE Standards Association [Online]. Available: http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11-2012.pdf
22. Z. Popovic, S. Korhummel, S. Dunbar, R. Scheeler, A. Dolgov, R. Zane, E. Falkenstein, J. Hagerty, "Scalable RF energy harvesting," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 1046-1056, Apr. 2014.
23. A. Dolgov, R. Zane, Z. Popovic, "Power management system for online low power RF energy harvesting optimization," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I, Reg. Papers, vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 1802-1811, Jul. 2010.
24. V. Palazzi, F. Alimenti, C. Mariotti, M. Virili, G. Orecchini, L. Roselli, P. Mezzanotte, "Demonstration of a high dynamic range chipless RFID sensor in paper substrate based on the harmonic radar concept," in Proc. IEEE Int. Microw. Symp., May 17-22, 2015, pp. 1-4.
25. M. Buettner, R. Prasad, A. Sample, D. Yeager, B. Greenstein, J. Smith, D. Wetherall, "RFID sensor networks with the Intel WISP," in Proc. 6th ACM Conf. Embedded Network Sensor Syst., Nov. 2008, pp. 393-394.
26. G. De Vita and G. Iannaccone, "Design criteria for the RF section of UHF and microwave passive RFID transponders," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 2978-2990, Sep. 2005.
27. G. Andia Vera, S. Nawale, Y. Duroc, S. Tedjini, "Optimum integration of passive UHF RFID tag-rectenna in a single feed dual band antenna," in Proc. General Assembly Scientific Symp., Aug. 2014, pp. 1-4.
28. UHF Gen2 Air Interface Protocol, EPC Standard 2.0.1, 2015.
29. G. Andia Vera, Y. Duroc, S. Tedjini, "Cooperative integration of harvesting sections for passive RFID communication," in Proc. IEEE Int. Microwave Symp., May 17-22, 2015, pp. 1-3.
30. K. V. S. Rao, P. Nikitin, S. Lam, "Antenna design for UHF RFID tags: A review and a practical application," IEEE IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 3870-3876, Dec. 2005.