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Title | ||
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Tagcaster: Activating Wireless Voice of Electronic Toll Collection Systems With Zero Start-Up Cost |
Abstract | ||
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This work enhances the machine-to-human communication between electronic toll collection (ETC) systems and drivers by providing an AM broadcast service to deployed ETC systems. This study is the first to show that ultra-high radio frequency identification signals can be received by an AM radio receiver due to the presence of the nonlinearity effect in the AM receiver. Such a phenomenon allows the development of a previously infeasible cross-technology and cross-frequency communication, called Tagcaster, which converts an ETC reader to an AM station for broadcasting short messages (e.g., charged-fees and traffic forecast) to drivers at tollbooths. The key innovation in this work is the engineering of Tagcaster over off-the-shelf ETC systems using shadow carrier and baseband whitening without the need for hardware nor firmware changes. This feature allows zero-cost rapid deployment in the existing ETC infrastructure. Two prototypes of Tagcaster are designed, implemented, and evaluated over four general and five vehicle-mounted AM receivers (e.g., Toyota, Audi, and Jetta). Experiments reveal that Tagcaster can provide good-quality (PESQ>2) and stable AM broadcasting service with a 30 m coverage range. Tagcaster remarkably improves user experience at ETC stations, and two-thirds of volunteer drivers rate it with a score of 4+ out of 5. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2022 | 10.1109/TNET.2022.3169914 | IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
E-Toll collection,RFID,cross-technology communication,IoT | Journal | 30 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
5 | 1063-6692 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 18 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zhenlin An | 1 | 28 | 7.60 |
| Qiongzheng Lin | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Lei Yang | 3 | 321 | 18.58 |
| Lei Xie | 4 | 283 | 34.16 |