Program

2:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Room: 701+702: Workshop on Wireless Power Transfer for Various Applications

Room: 703: Special Tutorial IoT related regulations and standards

Thursday, September 17

S3: Localization and its applications

Room: 601, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Transmit Beamforming for Angle-of-Activation (AoAct) Estimation in Passive UHF RFID Systems: Markus Cremer (London South Bank University, United Kingdom); Uwe Dettmar, Rainer Kronberger, Robin Lerche, Carsten Hudasch and Thomas Knie (Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Anjum (Jim) Pervez (London South Bank University, United Kingdom)
Simultaneous AoA Estimations for Two Passive UHF RFID Tags: Meng-Chang Hua and Hsin-Chin Liu (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
Deployment of LED light control system using battery-less wireless human detection sensor networks: Tao Yu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Yusuke Kuki and Gento Matsushita (Osaka University, Japan); Daiki Maehara (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Seiichi Sampei (Osaka University, Japan); Kei Sakaguchi (Osaka University & Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

S1: Networking and Communications Protocols 1

Room: 701+702, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Cooperative Tag Communications: Daniel Dobkin (Enigmatics, USA); Tali Freed, Christopher Gerdom, Carlos Flores, Eric Futak and Clay Suttner (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, USA)
A performance analysis of interference rejection technique in multi-subcarrier multiple access: Yuki Igarashi (Keio University, Japan); Nitish Rajoria (Keio University, India); Yuusuke Kawakita (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Jin Mitsugi (Keio University, Japan); Haruhisa Ichikawa (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
RFID Physical Layer Collision Recovery Receivers with Spatial Filtering: Jelena Kaitovic (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Markus Rupp (TU Wien, Austria)

S2: RFID Information System

Room: 703, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Multi-code Filtering & Collection: Proposal and Performance Evaluation: Iori Mizutani and Jin Mitsugi (Keio University, Japan); Masaki Ehara (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)
Measuring User-Object Interactions in IoT Spaces: Raúl Parada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Joan Melià-Seguí (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain); Anna Carreras, Marc Morenza-Cinos and Rafael Pous (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Weighted Insert Scheme Based on R*-tree for Tracing Moving Objects with an RFID Tag: Gihong Kim and Bonghee Hong (Pusan National University, Korea)

S4: Networking and Communications Protocols 2

Room: 701+702, 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM

Balance Codes for More Throughput in RFID and Backscatter Links: Gregory Durgin (Georgia Tech, USA)
Optimization on Guard time and Synchronization Cycle for TDMA-based Deterministic RFID System: Chuanying Zhai (The Royal Institute of Thechnology, Sweden); Zhuo Zou (KTH-The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Qiang Chen (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Li-Rong Zheng (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Hannu Tenhunen (University of Turku, Finland)
Multiple Access Channel Allocation Improvement for Sensor Nodes Setting Based on RFID Communication: Matsuda Tomoaki, Wakisaka Yuuki and Yuusuke Kawakita (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Jin Mitsugi (Keio University, Japan); Haruhisa Ichikawa (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

S5: Industrial Deployment and Pilot Experiment 1

Room: 703, 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM

Experimental Performance Evaluation of Passive UHF RFID Systems under Interference: Bekir S Çiftler (Florida International University, USA); Abdullah Kadri (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar); Ismail Güvenç (Florida International University, USA)
An Optimization Model for Antenna Selection and Deployment in Single and Multi-cell RFID Systems: Sicheng Zou (Cambridge University, United Kingdom); Michael J Crisp and Sithamparanathan Sabesan (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Abdullah Kadri (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar); Richard Penty (Cambridge University, United Kingdom); Ian White (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Multi-Tags Performance Analysis For Improving Inventory of Tagged Electric Meter (Author NO SHOW to the conference): Yong Liang (Beijing Smartchip Microelectronics Technology Company Limited, P.R. China)

P1: Conference Plenary

Room: 607+608, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

P2: Poster and Demo

Room: 701+702, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Long range and low powered RFID tags with tunnel diode: Francesco Amato (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Christopher Peterson (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Muhammad Bashir Akbar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Gregory Durgin (Georgia Tech, USA)
Near-Field Tag-Antenna-Based Presence Sensing with Object-Identification: Wataru Hattori (NEC Corporation, Japan); Kiyohiko Takahashi (NEC Corp., Japan); Ryo Kawai (NEC Corporation, Japan); Yusuke Takahashi (NEC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd., Singapore); Shinichi Mikami and Daichi Shimohata (NEC Engineering, Ltd., Japan)
A High-Capacity Protocol for Physical Distribution using 920-MHz band: Nobuaki Mochizuki (NTT Corporation, Japan)
A Performance evaluation of subcarrier allocation methods in multi-subcarrier multiple access: Nitish Rajoria (Keio University, India); Yuki Igarashi and Jin Mitsugi (Keio University, Japan); Yuusuke Kawakita and Haruhisa Ichikawa (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Compact Linux Platform using Soft Processor for Software Defined Radio: Takeshi Matsuya, Jin Mitsugi and Jun Murai (Keio University, Japan)
Cost-Effective ETC System using RFID Tag: Yuriko Hattori (Tsukuba University of Technology, Japan)
Indoor Positioning Scheme Using Sensing Components for Improving the Operating Performance: Yih-Shyh Chiou (Chinese Culture University, Taiwan); Sheng-Cheng Yeh (Ming Chuan University, Taiwan)
Unobtrusive and Wireless Physiological Balance Sensing: Keishi Ohashi, Shigeki Kuroiwa, Sho Hideshima, Takuya Nakanishi, Akane Matsuzaka and Tetsuya Osaka (Waseda University, Japan)
Enhancing communication through a two-dimensional waveguide: Yoshiaki Hirano and Hiroko Kosaka (Teijin LTD, Japan)
(invited from aural session) A performance analysis of interference rejection technique in multi-subcarrier multiple access: Yuki Igarashi (Keio University, Japan); Nitish Rajoria (Keio University, Japan); Yuusuke Kawakita (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Jin Mitsugi (Keio University, Japan); Haruhisa Ichikawa (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
(invited from aural session) Multiple Access Channel Allocation Improvement for Sensor Nodes Setting Based on RFID Communication: Matsuda Tomoaki, Wakisaka Yuuki and Yuusuke Kawakita (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Jin Mitsugi (Keio University, Japan); Haruhisa Ichikawa (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
(invited from aural session) Multi-code Filtering & Collection: Proposal and Performance Evaluation: Iori Mizutani and Jin Mitsugi (Keio University, Japan); Masaki Ehara (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)
(invited from aural session) Measuring User-Object Interactions in IoT Spaces: Raúl Parada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Joan Melià-Seguí (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain); Anna Carreras, Marc Morenza-Cinos and Rafael Pous (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Conference Dinner

Washington Hotel Ariake, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Friday, September 18

S6: Networking and Communications Protocols 3