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    Multipath Fading Measurements at 5.8 GHz for Backscatter Tags With Multiple Antennas
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-11) Griffin, Joshua D. ; Durgin, Gregory D.
    Multipath fading can be heavy for ultra-high frequency (UHF) and microwave backscatter radio systems used in applications such as radio frequency identification (RFID). This paper presents measurements of fading on the modulated signal backscattered from a transponder for backscatter radio systems that use multiple antennas at the interrogator and transponder. Measurements were performed at 5.8 GHz and estimates of the backscatter channel envelope distributions and fade margins were calculated. Results show that multipath fading can be reduced using multiple transponder antennas, bistatic interrogators with widely separated transmitter and receiver antennas, and conventional diversity combining at the interrogator receiver. The measured envelope distribution estimates are compared to previously derived distributions and show good agreement.
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    Gains for RF tags using multiple antennas
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-02) Griffin, Joshua D. ; Durgin, Gregory D.
    Backscatter radio systems, including high frequency radio frequency identification (RFID), operate in the dyadic backscatter channel - a two-way pinhole channel that has deeper small-scale fades than that of a conventional one-way channel. This paper shows that pinhole diversity is available in a rich scattering environment caused by modulating backscatter with multiple RF tag antennas - no diversity combining at the reader, channel knowledge, or signaling scheme change is required. Pinhole diversity, along with increased RF tag scattering aperture, can cause up to a 10 dB reduction in the power required to maintain a constant bit-error-rate for an RF tag with two antennas. Through examples, it is shown that this gain results in increased backscatter radio system communication reliability and up to a 78% increase in RF tag operating range.
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    Link envelope correlation in the backscatter channel
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-09) Griffin, Joshua D. ; Durgin, Gregory D.
    High-frequency backscatter radio systems operate in the dyadic backscatter channel, a pinhole channel whose envelope probability density function and bit-error-rate performance are strongly affected by link envelope correlation – the envelope correlation between the forward and backscatter links of the dyadic backscatter channel. This paper shows that link envelope correlation is most detrimental for backscatter radio systems using co-located reader transmitter and receiver antennas and a single RF transponder antenna. It is shown that using separate reader antennas and multiple RF transponder antennas will decrease link envelope correlation effects and a near maximum bit-error-rate can be achieved with link envelope correlation less than 0.6.
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    RF tag antenna performance on various materials using radio link budgets
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006) Griffin, Joshua D. ; Durgin, Gregory D. ; Haldi, Andreas ; Kippelen, Bernard
    Passive radio frequency (RF) tags in the UHF and microwave bands have drawn considerable attention because of their great potential for use in many radio frequency identification (RFID) applications. However, more basic research is needed to increase the range and reliability of a passive RF tag’s radio link, particularly when the RF tag is placed onto any lossy dielectric or metallic surface. This paper presents two new useful forms of the radio link budget that describe the power link of an RF tag system when the tag is attached to an object. These radio link budgets are dependent upon the gain penalty, a term which quantifies the reduction in RF tag antenna gain due to material attachment. A series of measurements, or radio assay, was used to measure the far-field gain pattern and gain penalty of several flexible 915 MHz antennas when attached to cardboard, pine plywood, acrylic, deionized water, ethylene glycol, ground beef, and an aluminum slab. It is shown that the gain penalty due to material attachment can result in more than 20 dB of excess loss in the backscatter communication link.