Fast and Reliable Missing Tag Detection for Multiple-Group RFID Systems

Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has been deployed in various scenarios in recent years. In some practical RFID applications, the items attached with tags can be divided into multiple groups. Thus, the efficient and accurate missing tag detection of each group is critical. Accordingly, this article concentrates on the problem of missing tag detection in the multiple-group RFID systems, after which three distinctive protocols are proposed. First, we propose an aptitudinal multiple-group missing tag detection protocol, which makes full use of the expected singleton slots. Then, an enhanced multiple-group missing tag detection protocol is proposed, which can achieve significant broadcast and response savings. Finally, an accurate and expeditious multiple-group missing tag detection protocol is designed, the detection reliability of which can approximate 100%. The theoretical analysis and extensive simulations are conducted and the results verify that the proposed protocols in this article outperform the other ones.