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The present bibliography represents a comprehensive list of references on nonlinear system identification and its applications in signal processing, communications, and biomedical engineering. An attempt has been made to make this bibliography complete by listing most of the existing references up to the year 2000 and by providing a detailed classification group.

With the ability of recognizing tag content wirelessly within a limited distance and a short period of query time, RFID technology has been adopted and deployed on various applications. In consequence, how to effectively avoid responses collision from multiple tags and to further reduce the average query time per tag becomes an important performance issue for RFID systems. To get better perform...

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With RFID technology being applied in more and more applications nowadays, many researchers have focused on how to manage and analyze RFID data efficiently. Obviously, location information, which is an important part of RFID data, has the characteristic of multiple conceptual levels. Existing methods of RFID data management mainly deal with the cases of non-hierarchy (single hierarchy) or multi...

Kyle Rector, Evan Welbourne, Magdalena Balazinska University of Washington School of Computer Science and Engineering Seattle, Washington 98195 {rectorky, evan, [email protected]}

In a multi-reader environment, RFID system performance will be limited by the reader collision problem. RFID readers use different channels to minimise collision. However, with limited channels, the in-channel collision will happen. Using a path loss model, this paper predicts the safe distance between the readers before collisions occur in a same channel. This paper also explores the complicat...

The successful implementation of any innovation requires an understanding of its benefits and costs. This study examines the changes in the magnitude of costs and benefits associated with technology process innovation adoption as the innovation diffuses across different industries. Using RFID as an exemplar technology, the study shows that the magnitude of benefits and costs associated with tec...