SDR based EPC UHF RFID reader DS-SS localization testbed

Author

Galler, Florian ; Faseth, Thomas ; Arthaber, Holger

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electrodynamics, Microwave & Circuit Eng., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria

fYear

2015

fDate

13-15 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents the design and evaluation of a flexible UHF RFID testbed, which is intended to be used for developing real time localization systems. It is based on an off the shelf software defined radio platform, i.e. the National Instruments USRP-2922. Special requirements for a localization algorithm based on a superimposed Direct Sequence-Spread Spectrum signal which is currently under active research have been considered for the described implementation progress and specifically for the decoder. Because some of the requirements couldn´t be fulfilled using the provided manufacturer´s driver framework, a custom field-programmable gate array implementation has been carried out.

Keywords

UHF circuits; decoding; field programmable gate arrays; radiofrequency identification; software radio; spread spectrum communication; SDR based EPC UHF RFID reader DS-SS localization testbed; USRP-2922; custom field-programmable gate array implementation; decoder; flexible UHF RFID testbed; off the shelf software defined radio platform; real time localization systems; superimposed direct sequence-spread spectrum signal; Clocks; Correlation; Decoding; Radiofrequency identification; Signal resolution; Synchronization; UHF measurements; Field programmable gate arrays; Radiofrequency identification; Software radio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), 2015 IEEE 16th Annual

Conference_Location

Cocoa Beach, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAMICON.2015.7120382

Filename

7120382