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System-Level Simulation for the Dependability Improvement of UHF RFID Systems

Authors:
Vincent Beroulle
Oum-El-Kheir Aktouf
David Hély

Keywords: RFID; system level simulation; dependability; middleware; tag architectures

Abstract:
The SafeRFID project targets the improvement of Ultra High Frequency Radio Frequency Identification (UHF RFID) system dependability using system level simulation or emulation. RFID systems are based on low cost components (tags) more and more often used in critical applications and running in harsh environments (railway, aeronautic, food production, product manufacturing). Defects can have different origins (1) hardware failures, (2) medium perturbations (electromagnetic interferences), or (3) software bugs. The main goals of this project are (1) to develop hardware and software validation envi-ronments to validate and evaluate methods for detecting and diagnosing defects within RFID systems, (2) to develop new middleware services to improve the performances of RFID sys-tems in presence of defects and (3) to develop robust tag architec-tures. This paper sums up all these complementary solutions which have been validated thanks to system level simulation or emulation and which have been integrated in a global dependable UHF RFID system. The results of this work are (1) the design of a robust middleware and of (2) a hardware tag and (3) the evaluation of the dependability of such global RFID systems thanks to system level simulation or emulation.

Pages: 47 to 52

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: November 13, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4219

ISBN: 978-1-61208-514-2

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 13, 2016 to November 17, 2016