Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2013, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (1): 44-51.doi: 10.1109/JSEE.2013.00006

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Robust digital receiver for EPC sensor network

Cheng Jin∗ and Sung Ho Cho   

  1. Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 133791, Korea
  • Online:2013-02-25 Published:2010-01-03

Abstract:

A robust digital receiver based on a matched filter (MF) is proposed for the radio frequency identification (RFID) reader system to enhance the reliability of signal processing in the electronic product code (EPC) sensor network (ESN). The performance of the proposed receiver is investigated by examining the anti-collision algorithm in the EPC global Class1 Generation2 protocol. The validity and usefulness are demonstrated by both computer simulations and experiments. Based on the verification  results, comparing with the conventional zero crossing detector (ZCD) based receiver, the proposed receiver is very robust against strong amplitude distortions and considerable frequency deviations happening on the backscattered signal from a passive tag.