FP7 ASPIRE Training on RFID and AspireRfid

Additional Reading Material

FP7 ASPIRE Training on RFID and AspireRfid ................................................................. 1
Additional Reading Material .......................................................................................... 1
Introduction to RFID .................................................................................................. 1
Open Source RFID Projects ........................................................................................ 1
RFID Standards ........................................................................................................... 2
RFID Vendor Resources.............................................................................................. 3
RFID Research ........................................................................................................... 3
RFID Market and Policy .............................................................................................. 4
ASPIRE Deliverables ................................................................................................... 5
EU RFID Projects and Case Studies ............................................................................ 5
RFID Security and Privacy........................................................................................... 5
Logistics, Warehouse Management, Supply Chain Management ............................. 6
RFID Books ................................................................................................................ 6

Introduction to RFID
[1] Finkenzeller K. (2003), RFID Handbook: Fundamentals and Applications in
Contactless Smart Cards and Identification (2nd Ed.), John Wiley & Sons Ltd.,
West Sussex.
[2] Sanjay Sarma, David Brock, Daniel Engels, ‘Radio Frequency Identification and the
Electronic Product Code’, IEEE Micro, November/December 2001 (Vol. 21, No. 6)
pp. 50-54.
[3] V. Stanford, ‘Pervasive Computing Goes to Work: Interfacing to the Enterprise’,
IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp.6-12, July 2002.
[4] V. Stanford, “Pervasive computing goes the last hundred feet with RFID systems”,
Pervasive Computing, IEEE Computer Science, 2003 pp. 9-14
[5] Nath, B.; Reynolds, F.; Want, R., ‘RFID Technology and Applications’, IEEE
Pervasive Computing, Vol. 5, No. 1, Jan.-March 2006, pp. 22- 24.

Open Source RFID Projects

[6] Christian Floerkemeier, Christof Roduner, and Matthias Lampe, ‘RFID Application
Development with the Accada Middleware Platform’, IEEE Systems Journal, Vol.
1, Issue 2, pp.82-94, December 2007.
[7] The ASPIRE FP7 Project, http://www.fp7-aspire.eu
[8] The AspireRfid project, http://forge.objectweb.org/projects/aspire/ (forge),
http://wiki.aspire.objectweb.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome (wiki)
[9] The FossTrack project, http://www.fosstrak.org
[10] John Soldatos, “AspireRfid Can Lower Deployment Costs”, RFID Journal,
March 16th, 2009.
[11] John Soldatos and Didier Donsez, “The AspireRfid Project: Is Open Source
RFID Middleware still an option?”, RFID World, March 16th, 2009.

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[12] UCLA WinRFID Middleware. http://www.wireless.ucla.edu/rfid/winrfid/.
[13] S. Prabhu, Xiaoyong Su, Harish Ramamurthy, Chi-Cheng Chu, Rajit Gadh,
“WinRFID –A Middleware for the enablement of Radio Frequency Identification
(RFID) based Applications”, Invited chapter in Mobile, Wireless and Sensor
Networks: Technology, Applications and Future Directions, Rajeev Shorey, Chan
Mun Choon, Ooi Wei Tsang, A. Ananda (eds.), John Wiley, available at:
http://www.wireless.ucla.edu/rfid/winrfid/.

RFID Standards
[14] Architecture Review Committee, “The EPCglobal Architecture Framework,”
EPCglobal, July 2005, available at: http://www.epcglobalinc.org.
[15] “EPC Information Services (EPCIS) Version 1.0, Specification,” EPCglobal, Apr.
2007, available at: www.epcglobalinc.org
[16] EPCglobal, “Reader Protocol Standard, Version 1.1,” June 2006. [Online].
Available: www.epcglobalinc.org
[17] EPCglobal, “EPC Tag Data Specification 1.1,” Nov. 2003. [Online]. Available:
www.epcglobalinc.org
[18] “EPC Tag Data Translation (TDT) Standard,” EPCglobal, Jan. 2006. [Online].
Available: www.epcglobalinc.org
[19] “The Application Level Events (ALE) Specification, Version 1.0,” Sept. 2005.
[Online]. Available: www.epcglobalinc.org
[20] EPCglobal, “Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP), Version 1.0.1,” EPCglobal, Aug.
2007. [Online]. Available: www.epcglobalinc.org
[21] International Organization for Standardization, “Information technology –
Radio frequency identification for item management – Part 6: Parameters for air
interface communications at 860 MHz to 960 MHz ,” 2004.
[22] ERM TG34, “Electromagnetic compatibility and Radio spectrum Matters
(ERM);Radio Frequency Identification Equipment operating in the band 865 MHz
to 868 MHz with power levels up to 2 W,” European Telecommunications
Standards Institute (ETSI), Tech. Rep. EN 302 208-1 V1.1.1, 2004. [Online].
Available: www.etsi.org
[23] ERM RM, “Electromagnetic compatibility and Radio spectrum Matters (ERM);
Technical characteristics of RFID in the UHF Band; System Reference Document
for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) equipment; Part 1: RFID equipment
operating in the range from 865 MHz to 868 MHz,” European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Tech. Rep. ETSI TR 102 649-1
V1.1.1, 2007, available at: www.etsi.org
[24] Object Naming Service (ONS), Version 1.0, EPCglobal Ratified Specification,
Version of October 4, 2005.
[25] EPCglobal, “Class 1 Generation 2 UHF Air Interface Protocol Standard Version
1.0.9,” 2005, available at: www.epcglobalinc.org.
[26] Auto-ID center. technical report. 860MHz–930MHz Class I Radio Frequency
Identification Tag Radio Frequency & Logical Communication Interface
Specification. Candidate Recommendation. Version 1.0.1.
http://www.epcglobalinc.org/standards_technology/Secure/v1.0/UHF-class1.pdf

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[27] Stine, Jon C. (2005, October 28) Intel Retail Consumer Package Goods:
Industry Field Primer

RFID Vendor Resources

[28] BEAWebLogic RFID Enterprise Server™, “Understanding the Event, Master
Data, and Data Exchange Services”, Version 2.0, Revised: October 12, 2006.
[29] Oracle Sensor Edge Server,http://www.oracle.com/
[30] Gupta and M. Srivastava, ‘Developing Auto-ID Solutions using Sun Java
System RFID Software’, http://java.sun.com.
[31] S. Microsystems, “Java System RFID Software 3.0 Developer Guide,”
www.sun.com, Feb. 2006.
[32] Reva Systems, http://www.revasystems.com “Tag Acquistion Processor,”
2007.
[33] Intel Corporation and Oracle Corporations, ‘Intel, Oracle and Sensor-Based
Computing Laying the Technology Foundation for Maximum Business Value’,
Corporate White Paper, 2004.

RFID Research
[34] Dijiang Huang, Mayank Verma, Archana Ramachandran, Zhibin Zhou, “A
Distributed ePedigree Architecture Arizona State University”, in the Proc. of the
11th International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
(FTDCS 2007), pp. 220-230.
[35] Achilleas Anagnostopoulos, John Soldatos and Sotiris G. Michalakos, ‘REFiLL:
A Lightweight Programmable Middleware Platform for Cost Effective RFID
Application Development’, Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (Elsevier),
Vol. 5, Issue 1, February 2009, pp. 49-63.
[36] Nikos Zarokostas, Panagiotis Dimitropoulos and John Soldatos, "RFID
Middleware Design for enhancing traceability in the Supply Chain Management",
in the Proc. of the 18th IEEE Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications,
Athens, Greece, September 3-7, 2007.
[37] K. S. Leong, M. L. Ng, and P. H. Cole, “The Reader Collision Problem in RFID
Systems,” in Proceedings of IEEE 2005 International Symposium on Microwave,
Antenna, Propagation and EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications
(MAPE 2005), Beijing, China, 2005.
[38] Panos Dimitropoulos and John Soldatos, ‘RFID-enabled Fully Automated
Warehouse Management: Adding the Business Context’, accepted for publication
to the International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management
(IJMTM), Special Issue on: "AIT-driven Manufacturing and Management" to
appear 2010.
[39] Cho, S. Song, S. Kim, S. Kim, H. Yoo, “A 5.1 µW UHF RFID tag chip integrated
with sensors for wireless environmental monitoring”, Proceedings of ESSCIRC,
Grenoble, France, 2005, pp. 279-282
[40] S. Chawathe, V. Krishnamurthyy, S. Ramachandrany, and S. Sarma,
“Managing RFID Data,” in Proceedings of the 30st international conference on

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 very large data bases (VLDB). Toronto, Canada: VLDB Endowment, 2004, pp.
1189–1195.
[41] C. Bornhövd, T. Lin, S. Haller, J. Schaper, ‘Integrating Automatic Data
Acquisition with Business Processes Experiences with SAP’s Auto-ID
Infrastructure’, 30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VDLB),
Toronto, Canada, Aug. 29th -Sep. 3rd, 2004, pp.1182-1188.
[42] T. Staake, F. Thiesse, and E. Fleisch, “Extending the EPC network: the
potential of RFID in anti-counterfeiting,” in SAC ’05: Proceedings of the 2005
ACM symposium on Applied computing. Santa Fe, NM, USA: ACM Press, Mar.
2005, pp. 1607–1612.
[43] C. Floerkemeier and M. Lampe, “RFID middleware design – addressing
application requirements and RFID constraints,” in Proceedings of SOC’2005
(Smart Objects Conference), Grenoble, France, Oct. 2005, pp. 219–224.
[44] J. Brusey, C. Floerkemeier, M. Harrison, and M. Fletcher, “Reasoning about
Uncertainty in Location Identification with RFID,” in Workshop on Reasoning with
Uncertainty in Robotics at IJCAI-2003, Acapulco, Mexico, 2003.
[45] Opasjumruskit, K.; Thanthipwan, T.; Sathusen, O.; Sirinamarattana, P.;
Gadmanee, P.; Pootarapan, E.; Wongkomet, N.; Thanachayanont, A.;
Thamsirianunt, M., ‘Self-powered wireless temperature sensors exploit RFID
technology’, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 5, No. 1, Jan.-March 2006, pp. 54-
61.
[46] U. Karthaus and M. Fischer, “Fully Integrated Passive UHF RFID Transponder
IC With 16.7-MW Minimum RF Input Power,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
vol. 38, no. 10, pp. 1602–1608, Oct. 2003.
[47] Andreas Meissner and Yolanda Ursa, Cold-Trace: A Networked Temperature
Sensing System for Food Traceability, INSS Conference, Chicago, June, 2006.
[48] Roy Want, ‘Enabling Ubiquitous Sensing with RFID’, Computer, vol. 37, no. 4,
April 2004, pp. 84-86.
[49] S. Sarma, “Integrating RFID,” ACM Queue, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 50–57, 2004.

RFID Market and Policy

[50] “European Policy Outlook RFID”, a working document by the German
Presidency of the Council of the EU 2007, June 2007.
[51] Economist, “The Best Thing since the Bar-Code,” Feb. 2003.
[52] BIGresearch & Artafact LLC. 2004. RFID Consumer Buzz. October 2004. www.
bigresearch.com
[53] Regulation (EC) No 37/2005 of 12 January 2005 on the monitoring of
temperatures in the means of transport, warehousing and storage of quick
frozen food stuffs intended for human consumption.
[54] McKinney, J. (2006, February 8). Recap of the RFID ROI Summit. Retrieved
from http://www.rfidupdate.com/articles/index.php?id=1048
[55] Chappell, G., Durdan D., Gilbert G., Ginsberg L., Smith J. & Tobolski, J. 2003.
Auto-ID in the Box: the Value of Auto-ID technology in retail stores. Accenture
and Auto-ID Centre MIT. February 1, 2003

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[56] Clemons, E.K., S.P. Reddy and M.C. Row, (1993), “The impact of information
technology on the organization of economic activity the move to the middle
hypothesis”, Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 10, No: 2, p. 27.
[57]
[58] Langdoc, Scott & Romanow, Kara. (2005, October 6). RFID and Retail: Little
Return for Case and Pallet Tagging. Retrieved from
http://www.amrresearch.com/Content/View.asp?pmillid=18701

ASPIRE Deliverables
[59] ASPIRE Public Deliverable D3.2
[60] ASPIRE Public Deliverable D3.4a
[61] ASPIRE Public Deliverable D4.2a
[62] ASPIRE Public Deliverable D4.3b
[63] ASPIRE Public Deliverable D4.4a

EU RFID Projects and Case Studies

[64] eTEN Programme. Grant Agreement Nº C517403 Cold-Trace – Cold Chain
Monitoring and Traceability Services.
[65] BRIDGE
[66] ASPIRE
[67] SMART
[68] Legner, C.; Thiesse, F., ‘RFID-based maintenance at Frankfurt airport’, IEEE
Pervasive Computing, Vol. 5, No. 1, Jan.-March 2006, pp. 34- 39.
[69] Shister, N. (2005, August 1). RFID: Taking Stock of the Wal-Mart Pilot. World
Trade Magazine
[70] R Zucker publisher. (2005, October 19). Wal-Mart Improves On-Shelf
Availability Through the Use of Electronic Product Codes - RFID. Retrieved June 1,
2006, from http://emol.org.emclum/?q=walmartrfid
[71] American Apparel and Footwear Association, Supply-Chain Case Study:
Lemmi Fashion, Feb. 2006, Available online at http://www.apparelmag.com

RFID Security and Privacy

[72] Centre for Democracy and Technology. 2006. Privacy Best Practices for
Deployment of RFID Technology – Interim draft. May 2006.
[73] S. Garfinkel and B. Rosenberg, Eds., RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy.
Addison-Wesley, 2005.
[74] M. Langheinrich, “RFID and Privacy,” in Security, Privacy and Trust in Modern
Data Management, M. Petkovic and W. Jonker, Eds. Springer- Verlag, 2006, ch.
RFID and Privacy.
[75] Allbrecht, K. 2005. RFID: The Doomsday Scenario. In: Garfinkel, S. &
Rosenberg, S. 2005. RFID, Applications, Security and Privacy. Addison Wesley.
[76] CAP (Consulting Technology Outsourcing) & National Retail Federation. 2004.
RFID and Consumers: Understanding their mindset.
http://www.nrf.com/download/NewRFID_NRF.pdf
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[77] Article 29 Working Party on Data Protection. 2005a. ‘Working document on
data protection issues related to RFID technology’. 10107/05/EN. 19 January
2005.
[78] Article 29 Working Party on Data Protection. 2005b. ‘Results of the Public
Consultation on Article 29 Working Document 105 on Data Protection Issues
Related to RFID Technology’. 1670/05/EN. 28 September 2005.
[79] Capgemini. 2005. RFID and Consumers – What European consumers think
about radio frequency identifications and the implications for businesses.
[80] American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). 2004. Naked data: how the U.S.
ignored international concerns and pushed for radio chips in passports without
security. An ACLU White paper. November 24 2004.

Logistics, Warehouse Management, Supply Chain Management

[81] James A. Tompkins, “Warehouse Management Handbook”, Tompkins Press;
2nd edition (October 1998) , ISBN-10: 0965865916, ISBN-13: 978-0965865913.
[82] Agrawal, D.K. (2003), “Logistics and Supply Chain Management”, Macmillan
India Ltd., Bombay
[83] Emory University, University of St. Gallen, & University Of Colorado. (2002)
Retail Out of Stocks: A Worldwide Examination of Extent, Causes and Consumer
Response.
[84] Gattorna, J.L. and D.W. Walters, (1996), “Managing the Supply Chain- A
Strategic Perspective”, Macmillan Press Ltd., London.
[85] Watson, S.V. and A.S. Marucheck , (1997), “ The relationship between EDI
and supplier reliability”, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol-33, No: 3, pp.
30-35.
[86] Tan, K.C. , V.R. Kannan, R.B. Handfield, and S. Ghosh, (1999) “ Supply chain
management ; an empirical study of its impact on performance”, International
Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol 19, No: 10, pp. 1034-52.
[87] Fisher, M.L. (1997), What is the right supply chain for your products?”,
Harvard Business Review, March-April, pp. 105-16.
[88] Baskerville, R., Mathiasseen, L., Pries-Heje, J. and DeGross, J. (Ed.) (2005),
Business Agility and Information Technology Diffusion, Springer, NY.
[89] Edwin Kalischnig, ‘RFID: Making sense of sensor-based technology’,
Manufacturing and Logistics IT Magazine, July 2004, pp.18-24.
[90] Chappell, G., Durdan, D., Gilbert, G., Ginsburg, L., Smith, J., and Tobolski, J.
(2002), Auto-ID on Delivery: The Value of Auto-ID Technology in the Retail Supply
Chain, Auto-ID Center.

RFID Books
[91] Patrick J. Sweeney II, “RFID For Dummies”, Wiley, April 2005