Index

A

abbreviations for units (table), 14
absorption of RF waves, 43
ACCESS command, 98
active RFID tags, 19, 63–66, 81
actual versus predicted traffic rate (APTR), 255, 266
adhesives for RFID tags, 74–75
adjacent channel interference, 174, 183
AEN (ambient EM noise), 175–176
Agilent 89600 Vector Signal Analyzer, 175–176
air interface protocols, 124, 129
ALE (application-level events), 261, 266
aloha-based protocols, 95–96
ambient EM noise (AEN), 175–176, 183
amplitude
of electromagnetic waves, 8
shift keying (ASK), 28–31
amplitude modulation (AM) and amplitude shift keying, 26–31
ancillary RFID devices and concepts, 232–239
antennas
beamwidth, 36–37
described, 22–23, 49, 106
directivity of, 37
gain, 37–38, 49
in handheld ...

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