A novel anti-collision algorithm with optimal frame size for RFID system

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel anti-collision algorithm for Generation 2 RFID system to estimate the number of tags and to use the optimal frame size. Depending on the number of tags, there exists the optimal frame size in the sense that the system efficiency is maximized. The number of tags can be estimated from the collision ratio in terms of collided slots per frame. In addition, we compare our proposed algorithm with other existing schemes by simulation. The proposed scheme is easy to implement, and the simulation results show that its performance improves significantly compared to other schemes in terms of the identification time and the number of consumed slots.