On-line Virtual Reader Toolkit for Evaluation of RFID Middleware
Je-Kwan Park, Wooseok Ryu, Bonghee Hong · 2011
RFID has become one of the necessary technologies for a wide area of application such as logistics, manufacture and medicine. RFID middleware is an essential system for collecting and filtering mass data in RFID system, which ensures independency between various readers and applications. Scalability about diverse readers and query processing are important element in RFID middleware so that these capabilities should be tested in numerous readers environment. RFID middleware should be tested by testing software because constructing test environment by RFID devices spend high expense about money and human resource. However, previous testing method can't test those capabilities because it is just emulate reader's protocol. To resolve this problem, this paper proposes an on-line virtual readers toolkit for evaluating RFID middleware. On-line virtual reader toolkit provides reader environment emulation for generating test data through parameters, we propose for testing data collection capability of RFID middleware. We also propose a parameter and a method for evaluating query processing capability of RFID middleware.