RFIDSim : a discrete event simulator for Radio Frequency Identification systems

Abstract

This thesis presents RFIDSim, a discrete event process-oriented simulator designed to model Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) communication. The simulator focuses on the discovery and identification process of passive powerless RFID tags--a category of low cost tags that harvest all of their energy from the radio frequency signals sent by the reader. RFIDSim currently supports the Auto-ID Class 0 and Class 1 UHF RFID protocols, and is designed to be an extensible framework for additional protocol implementations, as well as a modular structure that partitions the reader / tag logic separately from the signal modeling.