Low Level Reader Protocol Research Articles

Standards for Passive UHF RFID

Passive ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has been widely adopted by retail and other industries for serialized item-level identification and data sharing. This article introduces the standards that support and define all procedures in various passive UHF RFID applications. Electronic Product Code (EPC) Radio-Frequency Identity Protocols Generation-2 UHF RFID Standard, or C1G2, is a foundational standard that defines the format, encoding, and procedures within the air interfaces of RFID systems. Low Level Reader Protocol provides a standard and portable interface between different applications and RFID readers from different vendors. The format and encoding of the EPC information are defined by the EPC Tag Data Standard, which enables each tag to be uniquely identified (e.g., item-level identity of many goods in a warehouse). Additional protocols, such as Discovery, Configuration and Initialization and Reader Management, specify and clarify more processes (e.g., the management of many readers) that can be deployed in various business applications. We provide a general introduction of passive UHF RFID technology standards and review each protocol's features and procedures.

Design of Passive RFID Sensor Tags Enhanced by a Novel Logical Communication Procedure over LLRP

Over the past decade, electromagnetic and communication science societies, along with improving the classical RFID technology, have put in a great deal of effort in designing novel and more complex UHF RFID tags with augmented capabilities. Novel tags offer additional functionalities besides identification by embedding sensors, actuators, and processing units. In this work an enhanced version of one of such devices, called SPARTACUS, is presented. While being completely passive, it conjugates identification, sensing, local computing, and actuation control and enables a proactive communication with any standard RFID reader. The paper presents details on a novel logical communication procedure over Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP), besides discussing system validation and performance evaluation.

Enhanced secure low-level reader protocol based on session key update mechanism for RFID in IoT

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is at the core of the IoT (Internet-of-Things) technology. The security risks associated with RFID are also accompanied by a growing number of advantages. This paper focuses on the security of the Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP) released by EPCglobal and designs an enhanced secure mechanism for LLRP that consists of the handshake protocol of the authentication and session key update protocols. The encryption is applied to the communication of the entire LLRP protocol; therefore, the session key should be regularly updated. Because the requirements for session key update are different under different scenarios, a two-round key update protocol and a four-round key update protocol are designed to ensure the security of the protocol. Two types of key update methods with different difficulty coefficients are developed to meet practical requirements. This paper concludes with a performance evaluation of the mechanism.

Improved Battery-Less Augmented RFID Tag: Application on Ambient Sensing and Control

In this letter, an improved version of a recently published battery-less augmented radio frequency identification device enabling a tag-reader cooperative approach is presented. Based on a specifically designed physical layer implementing a logical communication procedure over low-level reader protocol, the device is now capable to react to the reader solicitations by reasoning, asking for extra info, taking autonomous decisions, piloting actuators, and generating alerts. Tests performed in the building automation context demonstrate the capability of the proposed device of reasoning jointly with the reader and changing its behavior according to logical and physical events occurring in the surrounding environment.

SafeRFID-MW: a RFID Middleware with runtime fault diagnosis

In recent years, due to the proliferation of radio fre-quency identification (RFID) technology in everyday life, espe-cially in critical domains such as health care and transportation systems, significant efforts have been made to enhance the de-pendability of this technology. From these efforts have emerged specific techniques and several middleware solutions to handle the large amount of the RFID data. These solutions are not suita-ble for all RFID system requirements especially for issues related to critical domains. In this paper, we propose a novel fault-tolerant RFID middleware providing two fault-tolerant mechan-isms. The first mechanism is an online diagnosis algorithm based on a statistical analysis of the generated RFID data to identify faulty components of the system such as faulty readers or tags. The second mechanism is a verification process based on an extended finite state machine of the Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP), the communication standard between RFID readers and RFID middleware. This process aims at identifying the causes of the diagnosed failures.

LLRP(Low Level Reader Protocol) 서버를 위한 멀티쓰레드 구조의 설계

LLRP(Low-Level Reader Protocol)는 RFID 리더(LLRP 서버)와 RFID 어플리케이션들(LLRP 클라이언트)간의 인터페이스를 기술하고 있다. LLRP 서버는 여러 기능들을 동시에 수행해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 LLRP 서버를 멀티 쓰레드 구조로 설계한다. 이를 위하여 (i) LLRP 서버와 클라이언트들 간의 동작 절차를 분석하고, (ii) LLRP 서버가 만족해야 할 기능적인 요구조건들을 제시하고, (iii) 그 요구조건들을 만족할 수 있도록 LLRP 서버의 역할을 여러 쓰레드로 나누고, (iv) 쓰레드 수준에서 LLRP 동작 절차를 세분하였다. 설계된 구조를 검증하기 위하여 이산사건 시스템을 계층적이고 모듈화된 방식으로 기술하는 언어인 DEVS 형식론을 이용하여 설계된 내용을 모델링하고 시뮬레이션 하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 제안된 구조는 LLRP 표준과 주어진 모든 기능적 요구 조건들을 만족함을 알 수 있었다. LLRP (Low-Level Reader Protocol) specifies an interface between RFID readers and RFID applications, also called LLRP servers and clients respectively. An LLRP server should concurrently execute various functions. This paper designs an LLRP server of a multi-threaded architecture. For that, (i) the operational procedure between LLRP servers and clients is investigated, (ii) the functional requirements of LLRP servers are presented, (iii) the operation of an LLRP server is decomposed into several threads to satisfy those functional requirements, and (iv) the operational procedure is further examined in thread-level. To validate the designed architecture, it is modeled and simulated by using the DEVS formalism which specifies discrete event systems in a hierarchical, modular manner. From the simulation result, we can conclude that the proposed architecture conforms the LLRP standard and satisfies all the given functional requirements.