TY - BOOK AU - Qiao,Yan AU - Chen,Shigang AU - Li,Tao ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - RFID as an Infrastructure T2 - SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, SN - 9781461452300 AV - TK7876-7876.42 U1 - 621.3 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York, NY PB - Springer New York, Imprint: Springer KW - Engineering KW - Microwaves KW - Optical engineering KW - Electrical engineering KW - Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering KW - Communications Engineering, Networks KW - Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) N1 - Introduction -- Tag Estimation in RFID Systems -- Collecting Information from Sensor-augmented RFID Systems -- Tag-ordering Polling Protocols in RFID Systems N2 - RFID (radio frequency identification) tags are becoming ubiquitously available in object tracking, access control, and toll payment. The current application model treats tags simply as ID carriers and deals with each tag individually for the purpose of identifying the object that the tag is attached to. The uniqueness of RFID as an Infrastructure is to change the traditional individual view to a collective view that treats universally-deployed tags as a new infrastructure, a new wireless platform on which novel applications can be developed.  The book begins with an introduction to the problems of tag estimation and information collection from RFID systems, and explains the challenges. It discusses how to efficiently estimate the number of tags in a large RFID system, considering both energy cost and execution time. It then gives a detailed account on how to collect information from a sensor-augmented RFID network with new designs that significantly reduce execution time UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5230-0 ER -