Fast RFID counting under unreliable radio channels.

Sze, Wai Kit.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-83).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Abstract --- p.iAcknowledgement --- p.viChapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 2 --- Background and Related Work --- p.8Chapter 3 --- RFID Tag-set Cardinality estimation based on a Two-parameter implicit Channel Model --- p.13Chapter 3.1 --- System Model --- p.14Chapter 3.2 --- Number of Empty Slots Observed by the Reader --- p.16Chapter 3.3 --- Estimator Accuracy and Performance Analysis --- p.25Chapter 3.4 --- Results and Discussions --- p.32Chapter 3.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.41Chapter 4 --- RFID Tag-set Cardinality estimation over Unknown Channel --- p.42Chapter 4.1 --- System Model --- p.43Chapter 4.2 --- Baseline: The Union-based approach --- p.45Chapter 4.2.1 --- Motivation --- p.46Chapter 4.2.2 --- Union Algorithm --- p.46Chapter 4.2.3 --- Analysis of the Union algorithm --- p.47Chapter 4.3 --- "Probabilistic Tag-counting over Lossy, Unknown channels via the Mh model" --- p.52Chapter 4.3.1 --- "Novel Interpretation of Mh for RFID Counting over Lossy, Unknown Channels" --- p.52Chapter 4.3.2 --- The Moment Estimator --- p.55Chapter 4.3.3 --- Sample Coverage Estimator --- p.57Chapter 4.3.4 --- Estimating the overall Tag population t --- p.59Chapter 4.4 --- Performance Validation and Comparison --- p.62Chapter 4.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.65Chapter 5 --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.73Chapter A --- Proof of Equation (3.6) in Chapter 3 --- p.75Bibliography --- p.7