Modeling RFID readers deployment in three-dimensional space

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Zhou, Shijie^* | Liu, Yun | Xu, Jin

Affiliations: School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Shijie Zhou, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University ofElectronic Science and Technology of China, China. Tel./Fax: +86 2861 831566; E-mail: sjzhou@uestc.edu.cn.

Abstract: This paper presents a new algorithm for RFID deployment in 3D space. We first introduce a cube-based model to describe both the reading space and the coverage space, which can be represented by a 3D matrix. Then, an improved particle swarm optimization algorithm is proposed to implement our cube-based model in the intensive RFID reader deployment. The proposed deployment algorithm is simple and neat, by addition of two matrices. Our solid simulation results show that our cube-based model with improved particle swarm optimization algorithm is a practical scheme for the RFID coverage problem in 3D space.

Keywords: RFID reader, 3D space, deployment, coverage and overlap, RFID network planning

DOI: 10.3233/RFT-150076

Journal: International Journal of RF Technologies, vol. 7, no. 2-3, pp. 131-152, 2016