To the Readers

Mitigating the Reader Collision Problem in RFID Networks with Mobile Readers. Masters Thesis Radio frequency identification is a generic term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify individual items. RFID system is mainly used in identifying and tracking objects like container or items in the industries/supply chain. The RFID tags are transponders which respond back with its identification number when the reader sends a radio wave for reading the tags. Interference is caused when more than one RFID reader tries to read the same tag at the same time refered to as reader collision problem. Morover the RFID tags are not developed enough to select a particular RFID reader to communicate with as seen in cellular systems. The project aims at developing a MAC protocol for mitigating the reader collision problem in a scenario where the readers are made mobile inorder to reduce the cost.

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