• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.869-872
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• 2008

This paper presents the VHDL implementation procedure of the passive RFID tag in Ultra High Frequency RFID system. The operation of the tag compatible with the EPCglobal Class1 Generation2(GEN2) protocol is verified by timing simulation after synthesis and implementation on prototyping board. Due to the reading range with relatively large distance, a passive tag needs digital processor which facilitates faster decoding, encoding and state transition for enhancement of the interrogation rate. Also with UART communication, verify a inventory Round in Gen2 Protocol. The verification results with the fastest data rate, 640kbps, and multi tags environment scenario show that the implemented tag spend 1.4ms transmitting the 96bits EPC to reader.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06c
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• pp.138-143
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• 2008

RFID 기술은 기존의 바코드 기술보다 발전된 무선의 비접촉 인식 기술로서, 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅의 핵심기술로 간주되고 있다. RFID 태그는 기존의 단순한 사물의 인식 기능 중심에서 사물의 상태 및 환경 정보를 감지할 수 있는 센서 태그로의 발전으로 물류 프로세스의 양적, 질적 향상을 도모할 수 있게 되었다. 센서 태그는 환경 정보를 센싱하기 위하여 배터리를 내장하고 있으며, RF Transceiver의 내장 유무에 따라 자체적으로 신호를 보낼 수 있는 active 센서 태그와 리더로부터의 신호를 사용하는 semi-passive 센서 태그로 구분된다. Semi-passive 센서 태그는 배터리를 부착함으로써 passive 태그에 비해 인식률과 인식거리가 향상되었고 active 태그에 비해 단가가 매우 저렴하여 센서 태그가 부착된 물품의 상태를 모니터링하고 환경을 감시하는 다양한 응용에 사용될 수 있다. 이러한 응용의 요구에 따라 Edge Manager는 기존의 passive 태그는 물론 센서 태그를 지원함으로써 상위 응용에게 정제된 결과를 전달할 필요성이 있다. 본 논문에서는 특히 semi-passive 센서 태그를 지원하는 Edge Manager의 설계를 위하여, 센서를 사용한 또 다른 활용 분야인 센서 네트워크에서의 질의 유형을 분석하고, semi-passive 센서 태그의 특징을 고려한 요구사항을 분석한다. Semi-passive 센서 태그는 센서 네트워크의 센서 노드와는 달리 태그 레벨에서 필터링과 병합을 수행할 수 없으므로 Edge Manager에서 이러한 기능이 제공되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 Edge Manager에서의 센서 태그 데이터에 대한 질의를 위한 방법으로 EPCglobal ALE 표준명세의 ECSpec을 확장하는 방법을 제안하고, 센서 태그 데이터의 특성을 고려한 필터링 기법과 병합(aggregation) 기법을 적용한 질의 처리가 가능한 Edge Manager의 구조를 제시한다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.454-461
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to analyze the RFID recognition performance by level of water. A 13.56 MHz RFID management system for packaged liquid food logistics is consisted of antenna, reader, passive type tags, and embedded controller. The tests were conducted at different level of water, distances between tag and antenna, and position of attached tags. To analyze the RFID recognition performance, maximum recognition distances for a container and recognition rates for a logistics made of 27 containers were measured and analyzed. The maximum recognition distance for a container was different depending on position of attached tags, and attached tag at upside position showed a good performance. But, the recognition rate of 27 containers showed a good ability for attached tags at front side position, 30~35 cm distance to antenna, and water level 1. Therefore, to manage packaged liquid food logistics using RFID system, position of attached tag, distances between tag and antenna, and level of water should be considered.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.30-39
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• 2011

This paper proposed a new concept of information space called Smart Floor. Smart Floor is an intelligent space where a mobile robot can read and write specific information through Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tags which are mounted on Smart Floor to drive its goal position. RFID tag packaging technology is described for building Smart Floor. Also a mobile robot equipped passive RFID System with ultra high frequency (UHF) bandwidth has developed. The information that consists of an absolute position in the Smart Floor and desired direction saved on RFID tags is a simulated Q-value based on Q-learning algorithm. Proposed Smart Floor will be a proper method to communicate between space and robot.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.199-202
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• 2007

In this paper, we examined the operating principle of a passive tag antenna for RFID system in UHF band. Based on the study, we proposed a novel RFID tag antenna which adopts the inductively coupled feeding structure to match antenna impedance to a capacitively loaded commercial tag chip. The proposed tag antenna consists of microstrip lines on a thin PET substrate for low-cost fabrication. The detail structure of the tag antenna were optimized using a full electromagnetic wave simulator of IE3D in conjunction with a Pareto genetic algorithm, and the size of the tag antenna can be reduced up to kr=0.27(2 cm2). We built some sample antennas and measured the antenna characteristics such as a return loss, an efficiency, and radiation patterns. The readable range of the tag antenna with a commercial RFID system showed about 1 to 3 m.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.4B
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• pp.428-434
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• 2009

Many RFID authentication protocols have been proposed to build a secure ubiquitous environment. However, existing protocols do not respond recent attacks appropriately and they perform many hash operations to authenticate a large number of tags. In this paper, we propose a hash function-based secure authentication protocol for improving efficiency in RFID system. The proposed protocol is safe to passive attacks and active attacks, and requires only 2 hash operations in a tag and 3 hash operations in a database. Accordingly, the proposed protocol is very effective in RFID system environment which is composed to low-cost tags and a database handling many tags.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.46-51
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• 2013

In this paper, a dual-band antenna is proposed for the RF power harvester system as well as RFID tag. The proposed antenna operates as the passive and active RFID tag antenna in the UHF and microwave band, respectively. In addition, to charge the battery of an active RFID tag in the microwave band, it harvest the RF signal for tagging from the passive RFID tag antenna in the UHF band. The proposed antenna operates in the UHF band (917~923.5 MHz) and microwave band (2.4~2.45 GHz). In order to obtain the dual-band operation, the dipole structure and meander parasitic elements are proposed as the ${\lambda}/2$ and $1{\lambda}$ dipole antenna, respectively. The radiating dipole structure in the microwave band acts as the coupled feed for the meander parasitic elements in the UHF band. The impedance bandwidth (VSWR < 2) of the proposed antenna covers 917~923.5 MHz (UHF band) and 2.4~2.45 GHz (Microwave band). Measured total efficiencies are over 45 % in the UHF band and over 70 % in the microwave band. Peak gains are over 0.18 dBi and 2.8 dBi in the UHF and microwave band with an omni-directional radiation pattern, respectively.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1169-1172
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose an improved anti-collision algorithm for multi tag interrogation in ubiquitous sensor network(USN) and show the result of simulation for multi tag interrogation in RFID systems. We have analyzed an EPC(Electronic Product Code) protocol which specifies the physical and logical requirements for a passive-backscatter Reader-Talk-First(RTF) RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) system operating in the $860MHz{\sim}960MHz$ frequency range. We have also designed and implemented the simulator of the RFID system based on the EPC protocol. Finally, we find that proposed algorithm works better than an existing algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.11
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• pp.1929-1945
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• 2011

RFID technologies have attracted a lot of attention in recent years because of their cost/time-effectiveness in large-scale logistics, supply chain management (SCM) and other various potential applications. One of the most important issues of the RFID-based systems is how quickly tags can be identified. Tag collision arbitration plays a more critical role in determining the system performance especially for passive tag-based ones where tag collisions are dealt with rather than prevented. We present a novel tag collision arbitration protocol called Optimum Frame-Slotted Aloha (OFSA). The protocol has been designed to achieve time-optimal efficiency in tag identification through an analytic study of tag identification delay and tag number estimation. Results from our analysis and extensive simulations demonstrate that OFSA outperforms other collision arbitration protocols. Also, unlike most prior anti-collision protocols, it does not require any modification to the current standards and architectures facilitating the rollout of RFID systems.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1287-1290
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• 2005

최근에 정부는 IT839 전략을 발표하여 IT산업의 새로운 서비스 도입과 신규 수요 창출에 역량을 집중하고 있으며, 신규 서비스로서 RFID/USN도입을 강력히 추진하고 있다. 이런 추세에 발맞추어 본 논문에서는 기존 passive RFID의 단점을 개선한 RFID/USN의 동향을 알아보고 USN활성화를 위한 범용 대국민 서비스, 공공 인프라서비스 등의 킬러서비스 드라이브 전략을 제시한다. 또한 이런 서비스들을 제공하기 위한 실용적인 USN구조를 설명한다. 현재 우리나라의 휴대폰 보유율은 3000만대를 넘어섰다. 이 모바일 휴대폰 각각은 훌륭한 USN단말기 역할이 가능하기에 모바일 휴대폰을 기반으로 하여 적은 투자로도 구축가능한 AnyTime, AnyWhere USN망을 제안한다.