Evaluation of the State of Passive UHF RFID: An Experimental Approach

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 168-176

  Aroor, Supreetha Rao ^a   Deavours, Daniel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; near field; performance; RFID; RFID readers; RFID tags

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008043062     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2007.909179     Document Type: Article

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