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However, the existing EPC C1G2 protocol is inefficient when there are abundant critical and emergency data to be transmitted and cannot adapt to changing energy-harvesting and channel conditions. In this paper, we propose a fast and reliable method for burst data transmission by fragmenting large data packets into blocks and we introduce a burst transmission mechanism to optimize the EPC C1G2 communication procedure for burst transmission when there are critical and emergency data to be transmitted. In addition, we utilize erasure codes to reduce Acknowledgement (ACK) delay and to improve system reliability. 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