Program

Details about the IEEE RFID 2017 program:

• Program at a Glance

• Program Schedule

• Technical Program Details

• Hot Topics in RFID

• Wednesday Plenary Session Keynote on Secure RFID for Trusting Devices and Data by Dr. René Martinez, Honeywell

• Thursday Plenary Session Keynote on Near Zero Power Radio Frequency Receivers by Dr. (Troy) Roy H. Olsson III, Darpa

• Workshops/Tutorials

• Technical Paper Presentations

• Best Paper Award Nominees

• Posters

• Networking Dinner

• Young Professionals Networking Event

• 30-Second Teaser Talks

• IEEE RFID Mega Challenge: Smart Cities

Topic Areas

• Antennas & Propagation: Antenna theory and designs, channel measurements and modeling, including MIMO, UWB and hybrid RFID
• Applications & Software: RFID software, middleware, network applications, various applications of RFID in smart cities, scientific studies on operational experience of RFID applications, unconventional RF “identification”
• Circuits, Devices, & Readers: Circuit designs, reader architecture, non-silicon and chipless RFID, multi-reader coordination and interference reduction
• Energy Harvesting & Wireless Power: Ambient RF harvesting, efficiency improvements, power-optimized waveforms, kinetic, thermal, optical, and other power-harvesting methods
• Internet of Things (IoT) & Next-Gen Physical Layer: RFID-enabled devices, IoT/RFID system architectures, MIMO, hybrid and UWB RFID systems, novel networking and communication concepts
• Localization: Performance bounds, novel system approaches, technologies, and algorithms in RFID tag and reader localization, RF tomography and environmental sensing
• Protocols & Security: Coding, anti-collision, cryptography and privacy-enhancing techniques, medium/multiple access schemes
• Sensors: Integration of sensors with RFID tags, including active, passive, or chipless mechanisms; RFID sensor modeling and analysis, new sensors for RFID
• Smart Cities: RFID system designs for smart cities including data mining,  smart grids management, traffic flow control, mass transit monitoring, infrastructure support, revenue collections, parks management. The use of RFID is smart cities is also part of a competition offered by the IEEE Council on RFID (CRFID).