TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 CHIPLESS RFID -- 1.2 CHIPLESS RFID TAG READER -- 1.3 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2 SIGNAL SPACE REPRESENTATION OF CHIPLESS RFID SIGNATURES -- 2.1 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND CHIPLESS RFID SYSTEMS -- 2.1.1 THE CONVENTIONAL DIGITAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM -- 2.1.2 CHIPPED RFID SYSTEM -- 2.1.3 CHIPLESS RFID SYSTEM -- 2.2 THE GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATION OF SIGNALS IN A SIGNAL SPACE -- 2.2.1 REPRESENTING TRANSMIT SIGNALS USING ORTHONORMAL BASIS FUNCTIONS -- 2.2.2 RECEIVING SIGNALS AND DECODING INFORMATION -- 2.3 NOVEL MODEL FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF CHIPLESS RFID SIGNATURES -- 2.3.1 SIGNAL SPACE REPRESENTATION OF FREQUENCY SIGNATURES -- 2.3.2 APPLICATION OF NEW MODEL -- 2.4 PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS -- 2.5 EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS USING THE COMPLETE TAG -- 2.6 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3 TIME-DOMAIN ANALYSIS OF FREQUENCY SIGNATURE-BASED CHIPLESS RFID -- 3.1 LIMITATIONS OF CURRENT CONTINUOUS-WAVE SWEPT FREQUENCY INTERROGATION AND READING METHODS FOR CHIPLESS RFID -- 3.2 UWB-IR INTERROGATION OF TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY-BASED CHIPLESS RFID -- 3.3 TIME-DOMAIN ANALYSIS OF FREQUENCY SIGNATURE-BASED CHIPLESS RFID -- 3.4 ANALYSIS OF BACKSCATTER FROM A MULTIRESONATOR LOADED CHIPLESS TAG -- 3.4.1 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION AND MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR BACKSCATTER ANALYSIS -- 3.4.2 CHIPLESS RFID TAG DESIGN -- 3.5 SIMULATION RESULTS -- 3.6 PROCESSING RESULTS -- 3.7 ANALYSIS OF BACKSCATTER FROM A MULTIPATCH-BASED CHIPLESS TAG -- 3.7.1 SYSTEM MODEL AND EXPRESSIONS FOR BACKSCATTER -- 3.7.2 THE DESIGN AND OPERATION OF THE MULTIPATCH-BASED CHIPLESS RFID -- 3.8 ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION OF SYSTEM.

3.8.1 FOUR-PATCH BACKSCATTERING CHIPLESS TAG -- 3.8.2 INVESTIGATION INTO READING DISTANCE AND ORIENTATION OF TAG -- 3.8.3 MEASUREMENT RESULTS -- 3.9 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4 SINGULARITY EXPANSION METHOD FOR DATA EXTRACTION FOR CHIPLESS RFID -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 THE SEM -- 4.2.1 THE COMPLEX FREQUENCY DOMAIN -- 4.2.2 EXTRACTION OF POLES AND RESIDUES -- 4.2.3 MATRIX PENCIL ALGORITHM -- 4.2.4 CASE STUDY -- 4.3 APPLICATION OF SEM FOR CHIPLESS RFID -- 4.4 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5 DENOISING AND FILTERING TECHNIQUES FOR CHIPLESS RFID -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 MATRIX PENCIL ALGORITHM-BASED FILTERING -- 5.3 NOISE SUPPRESSION THROUGH SIGNAL SPACE REPRESENTATION -- 5.4 SSI -- 5.5 WAVELET-BASED FILTERING OF NOISE -- 5.6 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6 COLLISION AND ERROR CORRECTION PROTOCOLS IN CHIPLESS RFID -- 6.1 INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 RFID SYSTEM AND COLLISION -- 6.2.1 READER-READER COLLISION -- 6.2.2 READER-TAG COLLISION -- 6.2.3 TAG-TAG COLLISION -- 6.3 APPLICATIONS THAT INVOLVE MULTIPLE TAGS -- 6.4 ANTICOLLISION ALGORITHM IN CHIPPED RFID TAGS -- 6.4.1 SDMA -- 6.4.2 FDMA -- 6.4.3 CDMA -- 6.4.4 TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS: TDMA -- 6.5 ANTICOLLISION ALGORITHM FOR CHIPLESS RFID -- 6.5.1 LINEAR BLOCK CODING -- 6.5.2 CORRELATIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING-BASED APPROACH -- 6.5.3 WALSH-DOMAIN MATCHED FILTERING -- 6.5.4 SPATIAL FOCUSING (SDMA) -- 6.5.5 OTHER ANTICOLLISION/MULTI-ACCESS METHODS -- 6.6 COLLISION DETECTION AND MULTIPLE ACCESS FOR CHIPLESS RFID SYSTEM -- 6.7 INTRODUCING BLOCK CODING IN CHIPLESS RFID -- 6.7.1 CODING -- 6.7.2 BLOCK CODING FOR COLLISION DETECTION -- 6.7.3 BLOCK CODING FOR IMPROVING DATA INTEGRITY -- 6.7.4 ADVANTAGES AND CHALLENGES OF BLOCK CODING -- 6.8 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

CHAPTER 7 MULTI-TAG IDENTIFICATION THROUGH TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION -- 7.2 T-F ANALYSIS AND CHIPLESS RFID SYSTEMS -- 7.3 FRFT: BACKGROUND THEORY -- 7.3.1 LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATED SIGNAL -- 7.3.2 FRFT -- 7.4 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION -- 7.4.1 ADS SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT -- 7.4.2 POSTPROCESSING IN MATLAB -- 7.5 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 7.6 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8 FMCW RADAR-BASED MULTI-TAG IDENTIFICATION -- 8.1 INTRODUCTION -- 8.2 BACKGROUND THEORY -- 8.2.1 OVERVIEW OF FMCW RADAR -- 8.2.2 FMCW RADAR TECHNIQUE FOR CHIPLESS RFID SYSTEMS: MULTI-TAG IDENTIFICATION -- 8.3 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION -- 8.3.1 ADS SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT -- 8.3.2 POSTPROCESSING IN MATLAB -- 8.4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 8.4.1 COLLISION DETECTION AND RANGE EXTRACTION -- 8.4.2 TAG IDENTIFICATION -- 8.5 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9 CHIPLESS TAG LOCALIZATION -- 9.1 INTRODUCTION -- 9.2 SIGNIFICANCE OF LOCALIZATION -- 9.3 TAG LOCALIZATION: CHIPLESS VERSUS CONVENTIONAL RFID -- 9.4 CONVENTIONAL RFID TAG LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUES -- 9.4.1 RTOF ESTIMATION -- 9.4.2 RSS-BASED LOCALIZATION -- 9.4.3 PHASE EVALUATION METHOD -- 9.5 CHIPLESS RFID TAG LOCALIZATION -- 9.6 BENEFITS OF CHIPLESS TAG LOCALIZATION -- 9.7 PROPOSED LOCALIZATION FOR CHIPLESS RFID TAGS -- 9.7.1 BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL FROM CHIPLESS TAG -- 9.7.2 MAXIMUM DETECTION RANGE -- 9.7.3 LOCALIZATION OF TAG -- 9.7.4 RANGING OF TAG -- 9.7.5 POSITIONING OF TAG -- 9.8 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 9.8.1 SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT -- 9.8.2 EXPERIMENTAL SETUP -- 9.8.3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 9.8.4 UNKNOWN TAG LOCALIZATION -- 9.9 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10 STATE-OF-THE-ART CHIPLESS RFID READER -- 10.1 INTRODUCTION -- 10.2 CHALLENGES IN MASS DEPLOYMENT -- 10.3 SMART RFID READER.

10.3.1 PHYSICAL LAYER (FRONT END) -- 10.3.2 IT LAYER (BACK END) -- 10.4 VARIOUS SMART READERS -- 10.5 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- WILEY SERIES IN MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL ENGINEERING -- EULA.