Part of the Wireless Without Batteries lecture series. We discuss various forms of the link budget, particularly those related to RFID and sensor systems.
WWB03: The Radio Link Budget
Paper: P.V. Nikitin and K.V.S. Rao, “Antennas and Propagation in UHF RFID Systems.” IEEE International Conference on RFID, Las Vegas, NV. April 2008. 12 pages.
Reading: T.S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications Principles and Practice, 2nd ed, Ch 4, 2003.