Experimental Performance Evaluation of Dual Antenna Diversity Receivers for RFID Readers
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چکیده
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems operating in the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) band, are exposed to fading. While state-of-the-art RFID systems employ multiple antennas, with random selection of a single receive path to obviate the performance losses, this paper proposes to employ antenna diversity by the combination of all paths applying maximal ratio combining. An experimental performance comparison of maximum ratio combining and random antenna selection with two receive antennas in a high fading environment is given, which demonstrates the superior performance of our proposal.
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