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SafeRFID Project: A Complete Framework for the Improvement of UHF RFID System Dependability

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

Keywords: RFID; system level simulation; fault injection and simulation; on-line test; diagnosis.

Abstract:
The SafeRFID project targets the improvement of Ultra High Frequency Radio Frequency Identification (UHF RFID) system dependability using system level simulation and 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 environments to validate and evaluate new methods for detecting and diagnosing defects within RFID systems, (2) to develop new middleware services to improve the performances of RFID systems in presence of defects and (3) to develop robust tag architectures. This paper sums up all these complementary solu-tions, which have been validated thanks to system level simula-tion and 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, (2) the design of a robust hardware tag and (3) the evaluation of the dependability of such global RFID systems thanks to system level simulation and emulation.

Pages: 44 to 54

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2017. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2017

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ISSN: 1942-2644