Protocol Enhancement for Near Field Communication (NFC): Future Direction and Cross-Layer Approach

This paper discusses future Near Field Communication (NFC) directions focusing on its communication protocols, by which a contact less IC-card can become a part of the future network infrastructure. The current standardized handshake protocol can be improved in terms of performance by the proposed methods keeping the backward compatibility to the standards. The improvement is obtained by combining the plural layers of communication, and is confirmed by the analysis and simulation.