Measurements of RFID Tag Sensitivity in Reverberation Chamber

Journal article, 2011

The reverberation chamber is now commonly accepted and used for fast and accurate performance evaluation of mobile phones and other wireless devices for in particular new systems such as LTE 4G and IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi. In this letter, we describe a new methodology of measuring sensitivity of RFID tags in a reverberation chamber, and we show how the measurements time can be shortened by using the fact that the RFID tag behaves like an ideal threshold receiver. We then extend to tag population measurements that can be used to select the best tag among the many during the same measurement sequence.