In passive RFID systems, tags are arbitrated on the Medium Access Control layer by the Framed Slotted Aloha protocol. Tags select an arbitrary slot to send their information, such that the reader receives slots with no responses, single tag responses or multiple tag responses, generating empty, singleton and collision slots, respectively. In order to maximize the system throughput, precise know...

In an RFID system, tags can be identified by a reader when they are within the interrogation zone of the reader. Collisions occur when tags using backscatter technology report their IDs to the reader at the same carrier frequency simultaneously. The performance of tag identification is degraded by collisions, so it is important to address the tag collision problem. Several anti-collision protoc...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are being intensively used recently for automated identification. Every object can be detected as one form of an electronic code. At the beginning, the main purpose of RFID tag usage is meant to be an improvement of barcodes. Besides the fact that an RFID tag does not need line of sight to obtain its ID, the tag is also water and dirt resistant. Mor...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is prominent technology for fast object identification and tracking. In RFID systems, reader-to-reader or tag-to-tag collisions are common. Majority of probabilistic and deterministic anticollisions methods are inefficient in channel distribution and improving the performance. In this work, simulation annealing based anti-collision protocol is proposed wher...

The technology of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) enables many applications that rely on passive, battery–less wireless devices. If a RFID reader needs to gather the ID from multiple tags in its range, then it needs to run an anti–collision protocol. Due to errors on the wireless link, a single reader session, which contains one full execution of the anti–collision protocol, may not be su...

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In this paper, we review two of the most well-known citation indexes and establish their connections with the Choquet and Sugeno integrals. In particular, we show that the recently established -index is a particular case of the Sugeno integral, and that the number of citations corresponds to the Choquet integral. In both cases, they use the same fuzzy measure. The results presented here permit ...