Localized Load Balancing in RFID Systems

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Ahnaf Munir, Md. Sakhawat Hossen, Salimur Choudhury

Published: 2016, Last Modified: 06 Nov 2025TPNC 2016EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology consists of uniquely identifiable and inexpensive tags as well as readers that monitor these tags with the help of radio frequency signal. Balancing the load of tags among the readers in a multi-reader RFID system is an important issue to successfully collect data from all the tags. In this paper we try to minimize the reading time of the readers by distributing the tags among the readers in the RFID system. We introduce a Cellular Automaton (CA) based localized load balancing algorithm to transfer tags from highly loaded readers to readers with lower number of tags associated with them. Our simulation results exhibit that our algorithm outperforms the existing algorithm.