IEEE RFID 2008 AUTHOR INFO

Listed below are some PLANNING DETAILS for you to keep in mind as you prepare for your paper presentations at our conference:

o    Technical sessions have been organized and are listed below with the day/time/location indicated.

o     Speaker Briefings
              * These meetings will take place Wednesday (April 16th) and Thursday (April 17th) at                   8:00 a.m.
              * Plan to attend the meeting on the day your paper will be presented
              * You will get to meet your session chair and other authors in your session
              * A Session Monitor will assist you in loading your paper on the session laptop

o      Audio/Visual arrangements
              * An LCD projector, projection screen, and laptop will be provided in each of our                      session rooms
              * Bring your presentation on a memory stick or CD to load onto the laptop

o      Session format - all technical paper presentations will be made orally

o      Business attire for presenters

o      There will not be a separate speaker ready room available
 
A Best Paper Award, sponsored by ODIN Technologies, Inc., will be awarded to the best technical paper accepted and presented at the conference.

 

IEEE RFID 2008 PROGRAM BRIEF
Wednesday, April 16 (Morning)

10:30 - 12:00 TECHNICAL SESSIONS

 

Session 1A1: Testing & Evaluation Systems and Results(Veronese 2503)   Multi-Antenna RF Tag Measurement System Using Back-Scattered Spread Spectrum Gregory Durgin, Anil Rohatgi, Georgia Tech (USA)   Automated Test System for ISO 18000-7 -Active RFID Peter J. Hawrylak, Ajay Ogirala, J.T. Cain, Marlin Mickle University of Pittsburgh (USA)   Feasibility Study of Surface Acoustic Wave RFID for Information Processing Asset Management Byung You Song, Arunabh Chattopadhyay, Jae Yeol Lee, Rait Gadh, Junghoon Lee Seoul National University (South Korea)     Evaluation of RFID Performance for a Pharmaceutical Distribution Chain:HF vs. UHF Dilek Dagdelen Uysal, Jean-Pierre Emond, Daniel Engels University of Florida (USA)

Session 1A2: Security I (Veronese 2504)   An Efficient and Flexible Way to Protect Privacy in RFID Environment with Licenses Shi-Cho Cha, Kuan-Ju Huang, Hsiang-Meng Chang, National Taiwan University of Science & Technology (Taiwan)   High-Assurance Avionics Multi-Domain RFID Processing System Rainer Falk, Florian Kohlmayer, Andreas Koepf, Siemens AG; Mingyan Li, Boeing Phantom Works (USA)   A Tamper Detection Method for RFID Tag Data Akira Yamamoto, Shigeya Suzuki, Hisakazu Hada, Jin Mitsugi, Fumio Teraoka, Osamu Nakamura, Keio University (Japan)   Design and Implementation of PUF- Based "Unclonable" RFID ICs for Anti-Counterfeiting and Security Applications Srinivas Devadas, M.I.T.; G. Edward Suh, Cornell Univ.; Sid Paral, Richard Sowell, Thomas Ziola, Vivek Khandelwal, Pufco Inc. (USA)

Session 1A3: RuBee (IEEE P1902.1) in Action (Invited) (Veronese 2505)   A panel of RuBee experts discusses applications for the DoD weapons visibility, RitzCarlton applications, healthcare tools, and other mobility solutions.     Moderator:Peter Abell, VP Business Development, Visible Assets.   Panelists: John Stevens, Visible Assets, How the Physics of RuBee Can Block Tempest, Target and Eavesdropping Threats in Ultra High Security Applications. Dane Davis, Military Market Manager, Sig Sauer. Weapons Visibility Networks and Shot Counting. Gary Dennis, Trimble. "Process Free" Mobile Asset Visibility with Driver Identity Using Van Contained RuBee Networks. Herb Hauser,MidTown Technologies. RuBee at the Ritz/ Joe Chwan Jr. (Snap-On Tools), RuBee- Enabled Mission Critical Tool Applications. Izumida Masamich (Epson/Seiko), RuBee Networks for Human Identity and Human Resource Management.

 

12:00-13:30 Lunch Veronese 2502
Wednesday, April 16 (Afternoon)
13:30 - 15:00 TECHNICAL SESSIONS

 

Session 1B1: Antenna Theory & Design (Veronese 2503)   A Compact Low Cost Planar Smart Antenna for RFID Reader at 900 MHz Nemai Chandra Karmakar, Sushim Mukul Roy, Muhammad Saqib Ikram, Monash University(Australia)     A Printed Rampart-Line Antenna with a Dielectric Superstrate for UHF RFID Applications Benjamin Braaten, Gregory Owen, Robert Nelson, Cherish Bauser-Reich, Jacob Glower, North Dakota State U.; Dustin Vaselaar, Michael Reich, Aaron Reinholz, CNSE; Brian Morlock, Packet Digital LLC(USA)     Compact Mobile RFID Antenna Design and Analysis Using Photonic-Assisted Vector Near-Field Characterization Jeong-Jin Kang, Dong Seoul College; Dong- Joon Lee, Chia-Chu Chen, John F. Whitaker, U. Michigan; Edward J. Rothwell, Michigan State Univ. (USA)     Novel N - way Power Divider and Array Configuration for RFID Readers Operating at 5.8 GHz Sushim Mukul Roy, Isaac Balbin, Nemai Chandra Karmakar, Monash University (Australia)

Session 1B2: Security II (Veronese 2504)   EC-RAC (ECDLP Based Randomized Access Control): Provably Secure RFIDAuthentication Protocol Yong Ki Lee, Ingrid Verbauwhede University of California Los Angeles; Lejla Batina, Katholieke Univ, Leuven (USA)   Aggregatin Symmetric/Asymmetric Attestations Huafei Zhu, Heng Mui Keng Terrace(Singapore)     Tamper Detection in RFID-Enabled Supply Chains Using Fragile Watermarking ShuiHua Han, Xiamen University; Chao-Hsien Chu Pennsylvania State University (China)     HB-MP+ Protocol: An Improvement on the HB-MP Protocol Xuefei Leng, Keith Mayes, Konstantinos Markantonakis Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)

Session 1B3: Distributed Management of RFID Intelligence (Invited) (Veronese 2504)     Discussion of works in progress on intelligent clients, local processing with a central database.       Daniel Engels, Christian Floerkemeier, William A. Gruver, Dilip B. Kotak

 

15:00 - 15:30 BREAK

15:30 - 17:00 TECHNICAL SESSIONS

 

Session 1C1: Circuits and Architectures (Veronese 2503)   Power and Energy Optimization of the Digital Core of a Gen2 Long Range Full Passive RFID Sensor Tag Ibon Zalbide, Julia Vicario, Igone Velez, CEIT and Tecnun (Spain)     Very High Efficiency 13.56 MHz RFID Input Stage Voltage Multipliers Based on Ultra Low Power MOS Diodes. Geoffroy Gosset, Bertrand Rue, Denis Flandre Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium)   High Data Rate RFID Tag/Reader Architecture Using Wireless Voltage Regulation Nicholas Pillin, Norbert Joehl, Catherine Dehollain, Michel Declercq, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology(Switzerland)     Hybrid Transformer-Based Adaptive RF Front End for UHF RFID Mobile Phone Readers Pekka Pursula, Heikki Seppa VTT Technical Research Centre (Finland)

Session 1C2: Localization and Tracking (Veronese 2504)     Introducing a Micro-Wireless Architecture for Business Activity Sensing Raj Bridgelall, Axcess International(USA)     SLAM Algorithm for 2D Object Trajectory Tracking based on RFID Passive Tags Po Yang, Wenyan Wu, Staffordshire University(UK)     SIP-RLTS: An RFID Location Tracking System Based on SIP Zang Li, Chao-Hsien Chu, Wen Yao Pennsylvania State University (USA)     Value of Sparse RFID Traceability Information in Asset Tracking During Migration Period Tatsuya Inaba, Keio University (Japan)

Session 1C3: RFID and Sensors in Industry (Invited) (Veronese 2505)     A Ubiquitous Computing and Monitoring System (UCoMS) for Oil Platforms Management Magdy Bayoumi Center of Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), University of Louisiana at Lafayette     U.S. Air Force RFID SCOUT Program Kristin Hedger, Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing (KMM) Mark G. McDonald, Alien Technology     HF, UHF & Sensors Jean-Pierre Emond, University of Florida

 

Thursday, April 17 (Morning)

 

8:30 - 10:00 SYMPOSIUM PANEL RFID Technology for Transportation Security Logistics (ILS) Veronese 2502
Logistics is increasingly important in ensuring a security system¡¯s success as a product. Increased competition in inventory control, speed-to-market (airport deployments), and maintenance put more emphasis on the efficiency of the enterprise. As a result, logistics information systems (ILS) is critical to profitability.
Moderator:	Buzz Cerino Overview and Evolution of RFID technology, and the IATA business model for RFID implementation.
Dave Bourgon, Airline Systems Manager, McCarran International Airport (Las Vegas) Airport/Terminal Issues.
Ken Ehrman, President & COO of I.D. Systems, a Wireless Fleet Management System (WFMS) vendor. Applications in Vehicle/Asset Geo Tracking.
John C. Shoemaker is President, Shipcom Wireless, a solutions provider serving many global markets. Bold New Options for Management: Integrated Hybrid RFID Solutions Development and Integration.

 

10:00 - 10:30 BREAK

 

10:30 - 12 noon SYMPOSIUM ROUNDTABLE Where Are The Jobs? Veronese 2502
Moderator:	Steven Cherry, Senior Associate Editor, IEEE SPECTRUM magazine
Industry Panel:		Loek d¡¯Hont, VP Business Development, Mark IV Industries Peter Kuzma, Vice President of Business Development, Thin Battery Technologies Pedro Reyes, Associate Professor, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University Craig Weakley, Technical Director, RCD Technology Inc. Donna Wright, Vice President and General Manager, AIDC Solutions Group, NCR
IEEE Leaders:		Paul Hartmann, General Vice Chair, IEEE RFID 2008, is Vice President of Engineering for RF SAW, Inc. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, served on the Board of Governors of the Communications Society from 1998 to 2000, was Technical Program Chair for IEEE Globecom ¡®89 and is a member of the Globecom/ICC Management and Strategy Committee (GIMS). Elizabeth Johnston, engineering student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, is IEEE Region 6 Student Representative. Karen Panetta, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University, Medford, MA, is Chair of the IEEE WIEC (Women in Engineering Committee). Ed Perkins, a 30-year veteran of the electronics industry, is 2008 Chair of the IEEE-USA Career and Workforce Policy Committee. Perkins, who has been an IEEE volunteer for 25+ years, is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Past Chair of the Oregon Section, as well as Region 6 Membership Chair

 

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH Veronese 2502

 

Luncheon Speaker	Russ Lefevre, President, IEEE-USA The Evolution of RFID within IEEE
LUNCHEON PANEL	RFID in Casinos
Moderator:	Harry Pappas, President & CEO, International RFID Business Association
Participants:	Jim Grubbs, Security Supervisor and Training Coordinator, Caesar¡¯s Palace John M. Kendall, President & CEO, CHIPCO International Jeff Markman, President, Positek RFID

 

Thursday, April 17 (Afternoon)

13:30 - 15:00 TECHNICAL SESSIONS

 

Session 2B1: Collision Avoidance (Veronese 2503)   Robust and Dynamic Bin Slotted Anti-Collision Algorithms in RFID System Jae Sung Choi, Hyun Lee, Daniel Engels, Ramez Elmasri, The University of Texas at Arlington (USA)     Speed Adjustment Algorithm for an RFID Reader and Conveyor Belt System Performing Dynamic Framed Slotted Aloha Laurent Simon, Poompat Saengudomlert, Asian Institute of Technology; Urachada Ketprom, Nat. Elec & Comp. Tech. Ctr. (Thailand)   The Slotted-LBT: A RFID Reader Medium Access Scheme in Dense Reader Environments Cheng-Hao Quan, Gil-Young Choi, Electronics?& Telecom Res. Inst.; Jin-Chul Choi, Chae-Woo Lee, Ajou University (South Korea)     CDMA-based RFID Systems in DenseScenarios: Concepts and Challenges Christian Floerkemeier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Carlo Mutti, ASSA ABLOY (Switzerland)

Session 2B2: System Deployment & Design (Veronese 2504)     Shortest Travel Distance for Full Reads on Least RFID Friendly Carton Stacking Configuration Using Advance Design of Experiments Techniques and Gage Reproducibility and Repeatability Edmund Chan, Republic Polytechnic (Singapore)     An Overview of RFID System Interfaces and Reader Protocols Christian Floerkemeier, Sanjay Sarma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)     A Comparative Analysis of RFID Adoption in Retail and Manufacturing Sectors Mithu Bhattacharya, Chao-Hsien Chu, Tracy Mullen, Pennsylvania State University (USA)     Improvements in Operational Distance in Passive HF RFID Transponder Systems Christian Klapf, Albert Missoni, Wolfgang Pribyl, Graz, University of Technology; Gter Hofer, Gerald Holweg, Walter Kargl Infineon Tech. Graz(Austria)

Session 2B3: RFID and Sensors for Space and Harsh Environments (Invited) (Veronese 2505)     Discussion of the use of RFID for asset tracking and RFID with sensors in the environments found in manned space craft, in testing facilities that simulate space environments, and for monitoring the condition or health of critical hardware systems under stressful environmental conditions.     Moderator:Paul Hartmann, VP Engineering, RF SAW     Panelists: Clinton Hartmann, President, RF SAW RFID Asset Tracking on the International Space Station Patrick Fink, NASA Johnson Space Center TBD Kurt Silvers, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RFID Asset Health Monitoring ?A Technology Coming of Age Scott Hafermalz, NASA RFID in the Mars Habitat Test in Antarctica

 

15:00 - 15:30 BREAK

15:30 - 17:00 TECHNICAL SESSIONS

 

Session 2C1: Radio Frequency Investigation and Utilization(Veronese 2503)     A Channel Allocation Scheme Considering with Collisions and Interferences in Practical UHF RFID Applied Communication Fields Seon Mi Yeo, Bu Won Jeon, Jae Hyun Bae, Young Joo Moon, Hyoung Hwan Roh, Jun Seok Park, Yeong Rak Seong, Ha Ryoung Oh, Yeon Joo Kim, University of Kookmin; Jeong Seok Kim, Chan Won Park, Gil Young Choi, ETRI (South Korea)     Characterization of RF Propagation in Helical and Toroidal Metal Pipes for Passive RFID Systems Darmindra Arumugam, Daniel Engels University of Texas at Arlington (USA)     Antennas and Propagation in UHF RFID Systems Pavel Nikitin, KVS Rao Intermec Technologies (USA)   A Novel Chipless RFID System Based on Planar Multiresonators for Barcode Replacement Stevan Preradovic, Isaac Balbin, Nemai Chandra Karmakar, Monash University Gerry Swiegers, CSIRO (Australia)

Session 2C2: Smart Environments (Veronese 2504)     ASSIST - Automated System for Surgical Instrument and Sponge Tracking Nilo Rivera, Rosemary Mountain, Allen A. Williams, A.B. Cooper, Douglas L. Lewis, Richard C. Benson, Joseph A. Miragliotta, Russell H. Taylor, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Marohn, Johns Hopkins Hospital; Lia Assumpcao, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute (USA) iWalker: Toward a Rollator-MountedWayfinding System for the Elderly Vladimir Kulyukin, Aliasgar Kutiyanawala, Utah State University; Edmund LoPresti, AT Sciences; Judith atthews, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing (USA)     GIDS - A System for Combining RFID-Based Site Information and Web-Based Data for Virtually Displaying the Location on Handheld Devices Andreas Lfler, Uwe Wissendheit, Heinz Gerhser, Dina Kuznetsova, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)   Wirelessly-Charged UHF Tags for Sensor Data Collection Daniel Yeager, Richa Prasad, David Wetherall, University of Washington; Pauline Powledge, Joshua Smith, Intel Research (USA)

Session 2C3: Tools for Design andEvaluation (Veronese 2505)   Combined System Analysis and AutomatedDesign of RFID Transponder Systems Frank Deicke, Hagen Grätz, Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems; Wolf-Joachim Fischer, Technische Universität Dresden  (Germany)      Functional Verification of Future Higher Class UHF RFID Tag Architectures based on Cosimulation Alex Janek, Christian Steger, Reinhold Weiss Graz University of Technology; Josef Preishuber-Pfluegl, Markus Pistauer, CISC Semiconductor Design Consulting GmbH    (Austria)     Engineering RFID Systems Through Electromagnetic Modeling Sudhanshu Gakhar, Joseph Feldkamp, MarkPerkins, Kimberly-Clark Corp.; Rensheng Sun,C.J. Reddy, EM Software & Systems Inc.(USA)     Evaluation of Physical and Logical Layer RFID Simulation Engine Christian Floerkemeier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ravikanth Pappu, ThingMagic Inc.   (USA)



If you have further questions, please contact merrily.hartmann@comsoc.org.