Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems

This is a single, comprehensive, timely reference on the smart antenna technologies applied to radio frequency identification (RFID). Smart antennas provide outstanding capacity improvement to the radio communication systems for RFID, an automatic identification method that uses devices called RFID tags (transponders). Featuring chapters by leading experts in both academia and industry, it explains the recent development of smart antennas for the RFID system, both in the physical layer development and the software algorithms and protocols, and covers the latest achievements in design and application.

The beginning chapters provide a comprehensive overview of RFID and smart antennas, offering an in-depth description of terminologies and concepts. The work presented thereafter focuses on these seven main categories:

• RFID reader architecture

• Smart antenna physical layer development

• RFID position location using electronically steerable parasitic array radiator (ESPAR)

• RFID multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system

• Multi-antenna RFID tags

• Anti-collision and throughput improvement

• Ultra wideband (UWB) RFID direction of arrival (DOA) estimation

Topics discussed include signal processing algorithms, hardware architectures, adaptive beamforming for RFID smart antennas, multiuser interference suppression in RFID tag reading, phased array antennas for RFID applications, and smart antennas in wireless systems. Also featured are market analysis and case studies of RFID smart antennas.