Data transmission method in passive communication system

• US 9,136,977 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2011
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
• Original Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
• Inventors: Kim, Seon Wook, Kim, Jong-Ok, Hwang, Seok Joong
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehmood, Jennifer
• Assistant Examiner(s): CASILLASHERNANDE, OMAR
• Application Number:
  US13/809,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20130113611A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,695 Days
• Field of Search: 340/10.1, 340/10.3, 340/10.24
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0007 by modifying the frame length
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1809 Selective-repeat protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

This invention relates to a data transmission method in a passive communication system being wirelessly powered up and being passively operable, without using its own power, for data transmission and reception, such as in a passive RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) communication system, which is capable of effectively configuring a message transmitted by a passive device, thereby providing improved transmission efficiency.

Claims

1. A data transmission method in a passive communication system including a passive device having no own power source and an active device which wirelessly supplies power to the passive device and communicates with the passive device, the method comprising the steps of:

a) by the active device, determining a number of synchronization signals and a number of message fragments located between the synchronization signals on the basis of communication environmental information, and transmitting a request message including the number of synchronization signals and the number of message fragments;

b) by the passive device, transmitting a response message to the active device, the response message including a message fragment package including a synchronization signal and one or more message fragments, wherein the message fragment package is constructed by the number of synchronization signals included in the request message of the active device, and each of the message fragments includes an identification number and a checksum to determine whether data are normally received or not;

c) when an error occurs in data included in the message fragments received by the active device, by the active device, recording the error to correspond to the received message fragments using the identification number of each of the message fragments;

d) by the active device, in the event of the error, transmitting a re-transmission request message including a bit flag corresponding to the identification number of the message fragment to the passive device;

e) by the passive device, constructing only data for a message fragment corresponding to the bit flag in conformance to a structure of the response message and transmitting the constructed data to the active device;

f) by the active device, collecting error statistics for message fragments having the same distance from the synchronization signals using the error record;

g) by the active device, obtaining an offset of a bit error probability using the error statistics depending on the size of corresponding ones of the message fragments having the same distance; and

h) by the active device, obtaining a slope of the bit error probability depending on the number of message fragments between the synchronization signals.

2. The data transmission method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

i) by the active device, obtaining a set of message fragment size, synchronization signal interval and the number of synchronization signals to allow a structure of the response message to be optimal to communication environments using the offset and slope of the bit error probability, and requesting the passive device to apply the set to the structure of the response message.

3. The data transmission method according to claim 2, further comprising the step of:

after the step i),

j) by the active device, initializing the error record when the structure of response message is changed.

4. The data transmission method according to claim 3, further comprising the step of:

k) by the active device, acquiring message synchronization by detecting the synchronization signals from the response message received by the active device, and decoding data of the response message.

5. The data transmission method according to claim 1, wherein the passive device is a passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).