Abstract
Time of arrival (TOA) estimation in multipath dense environment for UWB backscattering radio frequency identification (RFID) system is challenging due to the presence of strong clutter. In addition, the backscattering RFID system has peculiar signal transmission and modulation characteristics, which are considerably different from conventional communication and localization systems. The existing TOA estimators proposed for conventional UWB systems are inappropriate for the backscattering RFID system since they lack the required clutter suppression capability and do not account for the peculiar characteristics of backscattering system. In this paper, we derive a nondata-aided (NDA) least square (LS) TOA estimator for UWB backscattering RFID system. We show that the proposed estimator is inherently immune to clutter and is robust in under-sampling operation. The effects of various parameter settings on the TOA estimation accuracy are also studied via simulations.
Highlights
Backscattering radio frequency identification (RFID) is a type of RFID technology employing tags that do not generate their own signals but reflect the received signals back to the readers
By examining the properties of the derived estimator, we find that it has inherent immunity to clutter for arbitrary data sequence which is highly desirable for backscattering RFID system
Since no ultra wideband (UWB) channel model for clutter has been reported in the literature, the impulse response of the clutter channel used in simulations is generated as follows
Summary
Backscattering radio frequency identification (RFID) is a type of RFID technology employing tags that do not generate their own signals but reflect the received signals back to the readers. Ranging for UWB backscattering RFID system requires estimation of time of arrival (TOA) of the tag response signal at the reader. The aforementioned TOA estimators do not include clutter in their signal models during the derivation processes and they lack of proven clutter suppression capability Those TOA estimators cannot be directly applied to UWB backscattering RFID system. According to the above discussion, the peculiar transmission and modulation characteristics of UWB backscattering system together with the clutter suppression requirement call for a dedicated treatment of the derivation for TOA estimator. With these requirements in mind, we derive a novel NDA LS TOA estimator for the UWB backscattering RFID system with antipodal 2-PAM based on the tag structure proposed in [9].
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