Threshold-based identification of wireless SAW RFID-tags with pulse position encoding

Abstract In recent decades, there have been designed and developed passive surface acoustic wave radio frequency identification tags with time position encoding in groups of slots. For such tags identified when the received pulse-burst exceeds a threshold, we specify the generic identification (ID) error probability and optimize the threshold employing the Marcum Q -function of first order. As examples, we estimate the ID errors for the one-group 28-slot tag and Barker encoding. It is shown that, under the ideal conditions of equal SNRs (14.8 dB) in On-pulses and zeroth in Off-pulses, the ID error probability lesser 1% (one slip per 100 readings) can be guarantied with single reading for any reasonable number of slots. It becomes lesser 0.1% (1 slip per 1000 readings) with seven or lesser slots.