• Antennas & Propagation: Antenna theory and designs for RFID tags
and readers at all RF frequencies, flexible and low cost substrate
antennas, and channel measurements/modeling
• Applications: Research papers on the introduction and operational
experience of RFID applications; applications papers should have a
strong technical focus and address a research issue
• Circuits, Devices & Sensors: Low-power RFID circuit designs for
tags at all frequencies, RFID with integrated sensors, energy
harvesting and batteries, nanostructures, and non-silicon, chipless,
and printed RFID tags
• Communication Protocols: Coding, modulation, anti-collision, and
medium access schemes for either passive, semi-passive, or active
RFID systems and that operate efficiently in mixed passive, semipassive,
and active environments
• Deployment Issues & Concerns: EMC compatibility, tag recycling,
issues in patient safety
• Interrogators: Architecture, algorithms, detection, sensitivity, read
rate optimizations, multi-interrogator coordination and interference
• Policy & Regulatory Issues: Spectral management, privacy issues,
co-existence of RFID systems, social implications of RFID technology
• RF-Based Localization: Novel system approaches, technologies, and
algorithms, beam steering, and distance measurement
• RFID System Architecture: RFID middleware, large-scale discovery
services, RFID and “Green Electronics”
• Security & Privacy: Cryptographic protocols and privacy-enhancing
techniques, mechanisms, and protocols
• System Tools: Tools for the design, deployment, and evaluation of
RFID systems; testbed design, setup, and operation for single tag and
multiple tag evaluation
• Others: For those topics which do not fit within one of the
above categories.