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Abstract
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a wireless data capturing technology
that provides the capability of monitoring, tracking, and identifying objects at distance
using radio waves. This thesis proposes the RFID technology for the monitoring of
nuclear materials during their usage, storage as a method of securing the work at nuclear
facilities. While surveying the main technical challenges that oppose the deployment of
RFID systems, we found that the collision problem constitutes great problem that need to
be solved. We focused mainly on studying the two types of collision problem which are
Tags to reader collisions and reader to reader collisions. Consequently we presented an
ALOHA based anti-collision algorithm that tries solve the tags to reader collision
problem.
Besides, we developed three efficient optimization algorithms and validated their
performance on a set of standard benchmark functions. Accordingly, we proposed the use
of these three algorithms along with two other algorithms as efficient optimizers for
solving the reader to reader collision problem. These algorithms are Biogeography Based
Optimization (BBO), a hybrid of BBO with Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm referred
to as BBO-SA, the Adaptive hybrid of the BBO with SA algorithm known as
AHBBOSA, A hybrid of Invasive Weed (IW) with the BBO named HIWBBO and A Self
Learned IW-Mixed BBO (SLIWMBBO) algorithm. The proposed algorithms showed a
better performance in finding the optimal distribution of RFID readers that achieve the
objectives of the RFID Network Planning (RNP) problem other than the compared
algorithms. The BBO and the BBO-SA are implemented on a grid based RFID network
model and used for solving the RNP problem on a case study for an irradiation facility.
The results of the BBO and BBO-SA encourage the improvement of the BBO-SA to the
Adaptive Hybrid BBOSA (AHBBOSA) for investigating the balance of more complex
objectives in large scale RNP. Subsequently, the AHBBOSA, the HIWBBO and the
SLIWMBBO are used to solve the RNP problem on a continuous RFID network model.
The final part of the thesis is the practical implementation of RFID based tracking system
for the monitoring of nuclear materials. The presented system proves its capability of
tracking nuclear materials during their usage, transportation and storage.