Research and implementation of an RFID object tracking system simulation platform

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been the focus of research for its valuable application in space-time information query. Because of performing experiments in real RFID application systems is difficult, this paper proposes an RFID object tracking system simulation platform to assist the researching of RFID uncertain data management and space-time information query. After researching the simulation models of the reader, tag and radio propagation in physical layer and logical layer, this paper presents the simulation strategy which is combined by discrete event scheduling and activity scanning. The platform is implemented by three layers based on Eclipse RCP and GEF. The system can be easily extended just by a new plug-in developed by the user. At last, a basic object tracking test is presented to prove that it can reproduce RFID application scenes efficiently and can assist the research in this field.