The CSIRO RFID Reading Group

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is attracting significant attention and is emerging as a technology for revolutionising a wide-range of applications. To help you develop the knowledge on the current state of the art of the RFID research, we collected some representative papers from top conferences and journals. These papers report the works from leading research organizations like SAP, Siemens, Berkeley, Stanford, and MIT.

The group meets every second Wednesday afternoon  4:00pm-5:00pm in the seminar room (S206), CSIRO ICT Centre, Building 108, North Road, ANU. All are welcome.  You can email me (michael.sheng@csiro.au) with questions or suggestions.

RFID reading group schedule:

Paper No.	Reading Period	Meeting Time	Discussion Leader	Topic (Paper)	Remark
1	23/01/2006 to 03/02/2006	01/02/2006 Wednesday (3pm-4pm)	Michael Sheng	Sudarshan Chawathe et.al: "Managing RFID Data", 30th VLDB Conference, 2004. [PDF] (7 pages) Sanjay Sarma, "Integrating RFID", ACM Queue, October 2004. [PDF] EPC is a standard effort for RFID, still in its early stages. [EPC1] [EPC2]	Discussion slides (contact Michael)
2	06/02/2006 to 17/02/2006	14/02/2006 Tuesday (4pm-5pm)	Warren Jin	Fusheng Wang and Peiyu Liu: "Temporal Management of RFID Data",  31st VLDB Conference, 2005. [PDF]  (12 pages)	Meeting time changed to Tuesday
3	20/02/2006 to 03/03/2006	01/03/2006 Wednesday (4pm-5pm)	Ross Ackland	Shawn R. Jeffery et.al.: "A Pipelined Framework for Online Cleaning of Sensor Data Streams", 22nd IEEE ICDE conference, 2006. [PDF] (12 pages)
4	06/03/2006 to 17/03/2006	15/03/2006 Wednesday (4pm-5pm)	Paul Brebner	Christof Bornhovd et.al.: "Integrating Automatic Data Acquisition with Business Processes Experiences with SAP’s Auto-ID Infrastructure", 30th VLDB Conference, 2004. [PDF] (7 pages) Rui Peng et.al. "A Web Services Environment for Internet-Scale Sensor Computing", IEEE SCC'04 [PDF] (8 pages) EPCglobal Architecture Framework Version 1.0 [PDF] (supplementary)
5	20/03/2006 to 31/03/2006	29/03/2006 Wednesday (4pm-5pm)	Michael Sheng	Ying Hu et.al: "Supporting RFID-Based Item Tracking Applications in Oracle DBMS Using a Bitmap Datatype", 31st VLDB Conference, 2005. [PDF] (12 pages)
6	03/04/2006 to 14/04/2006	12/04/2006 Wednesday (4pm-5pm)	Peter Lamb	Ari Juels: "RFID Security and Privacy: A Research Survey". IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communication, 2006. [PDF] (19 pages)
7	17/04/2006 to 28/04/2006	03/05/2006 Wednesday (3pm-4pm)	Kerry Taylor	Amol Deshpande et.al.: "Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks", 30th VLDB conference, 2004. [PDF] (12 pages)	meeting time changed to 03/05 Wednesday 3-4pm
8	01/05/2006 to 12/05/2006	08/05/2006 Monday (3pm-4pm)	Ross Wilkinson	Hector Gonzalez et.al.: "Warehousing and Analyzing Massive RFID Data Sets", 22nd IEEE ICDE Conference, 2006. [PDF] (12 pages)

Additional readings:

• A Deferred Cleansing Approach for RFID Data Analytics, by Jun Rao, Sangeeta Doraiswamy, Hetal Thakkar, and Latha Colby. VLDB2006
• FlowCube: Constructuing RFID FlowCubes for Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Commodity Flows, by Hector Gonzalez, Jiawei Han, and Xiaolei Li. VLDB2006
• Adaptive Cleaning for RFID Data Streams, Shawn Jeffery, Minos Garofalakis, and Michael Franklin. VLDB2006 [PDF]
   

Other related links:

• RFID Journal
• Auto-ID Lab at MIT
• EPCglobal
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• RFID News
• RFID Talk (thanks to Paul Brebner)
• RFID Exchange
• ChinaRFID
• Wikipedia RFID (thanks to Tom Worthington)
• RFID Research Lab in UCLA
• AURA Project in Microsoft
• Special Issue on RFID, Communications of the ACM, Vol 48, No 9, September 2005
• Special section on sensor network technology and sensor data management, SIGMOD Record, Vol 33, No 1,
• RFID: Thread or Promise, October 2004, ACM Queue
• Novel Issues in RFID Handling - Applications, Management, Privacy, Security  (thanks to Laurent Lefort)
• Special Issue on RFID, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol 5, No 1, Jan-Mar 2006.

Michael Sheng, January-May 2006.