Mobile RFID Environment Research Articles

Privacy and Authentication Protocol for Mobile RFID Systems

Security and privacy issues in RFID technology gain tremendous popularity recently. However, existing work on RFID authentication problems always make assumptions such as (1) hash function can be fully employed in designing RFID protocols; (2) channels between readers and server are always secure. The first assumption is not suitable for EPC Class-1 Gen-2 tags, which has been challenged in many research work, while the second one cannot be directly adopted in mobile RFID applications where wireless channels between readers and server are always insecure. To solve these problems, in this paper, we propose a novel ultralightweight and privacy-preserving authentication protocol for mobile RFID systems. We only use bitwise XOR, and several special constructed pseudo-random number generators to achieve our aims in the insecure mobile RFID environment. We use GNY logic to prove the security correctness of our proposed protocol. The security and privacy analysis show that our protocol can provide several privacy properties and avoid suffering from a number of attacks, including tag anonymity, tag location privacy, reader privacy, forward secrecy, and mutual authentication, replay attack, desynchronization attack etc. We implement our protocol and compare several parameters with existing work, the evaluation results indicate us that our protocol significantly improves the system performance.

Zero Knowledge and Hash-Based Secure Access Control Scheme for Mobile RFID Systems

The integration of RFID technology and mobile smart device stimulates the daily increasing popularity of mobile RFID-based applications, which makes its way to become a new hot zone for research and development. The primary mitigation strategies of RFID systems are ensuring that all devices are behind the corporate firewall, and physically securing the network itself. But due to the portable nature of an RFID Mobile device, as well as the potential to use wireless or internet connections for communications, Mobile RFID systems have specific security concerns that need to be addressed. In this paper, an authentication protocol based on zero-knowledge protocol and hashing in mobile RFID environment is proposed which effectively achieves forward security with preventing replay, eavesdropping, and counterfeit tag attacks.

The Influence of RFID Use Factors on Trust, Perceived Risk, and Intention to Use in Mobile RFID Environment - Focusing on the RFID Systems of Pharmacies -

The Influence of RFID Use Factors on Trust, Perceived Risk, and Intention to Use in Mobile RFID Environment - Focusing on the RFID Systems of Pharmacies -

TTP-Based Group Ownership Transfer in A Mobile RFID Environment

TTP-Based Group Ownership Transfer in A Mobile RFID Environment

Across-authority lightweight ownership transfer protocol

With the combination of mobile devices and readers in recent years, mobile RFID systems have been widely deployed in mobile identification and its further applications. E-commerce has applied many mobile RFID services, including the transfer of a tagged item’s ownership. To secure such transfer in a mobile RFID environment, we propose a new ownership transfer protocol across different authorities. We prove that it is able to withstand most threats for RFID and prevent denial of service attacks that arise in the presence of asynchrony. It can also guarantee forward and backward secrecy, and circumvent the windowing problem. This scheme is designed for lightweight tags and has been proved to be viable for use in low-cost passive tags. It also offers better performance than any other known ownership transfer schemes.

Protocol for ownership transfer across authorities: with the ability to assign transfer target

AbstractRadio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been widely deployed for its high capabilities in simple computation, storage, long scan distance, and simultaneous reading. With the combination of mobile devices and readers in recent years, it has been transformed to mobile RFID providing wider services for its users and mobility for its readers. E‐commerce, for instance, has applied many of mobile RFID's deriving services, one of which is the transfer of a tagged item's ownership. To secure such transfer in a mobile RFID environment, we propose a new approach for ownership transfer across different authorities and prove it able to stand most threats for RFID and to prevent Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that derive from asynchrony. Another contribution in this paper is that we can assign transfer targets, which, except our scheme, can only be achieved by Yang et al.'s Cross Authority Ownership Transfer (CAOT) protocol. That scheme, however, involves heavy computation and is not suitable for lightweight tags, whereas this scheme is designed for lightweight tags and has been proved viable on low‐cost passive tags and has better performance than any known ownership transfer schemes. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Lightweight authentication protocol for mobile RFID networks

Current RFID authentication schemes are not suitable for use in a mobile RFID environment since the proposed authentication schemes result in a computing load because of the low-cost tag and provide insufficient protection to the information and to the privacy of the user. Therefore, we propose a lightweight authentication protocol for mobile RFID networks that complies with Electronic Product Code (EPC) Class-1 Gen-2 norms, effectively achieving forward security. We use the GNY logic analysis to show what the proposed authentication protocol can do against threats of replay attacks, spoofing, Man-In-The-Middle (MITM), counterfeit tag and message loss.

Differential Colpitts VCO for Enhancing Transceiver Performance in Specified UHF Mobile RFID Environment Conditions

In this paper, we introduce a differential Colpitts voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), performing a signal oscillation with low phase noise. The proposed VCO is a part of our RF integrated circuit (IC) transceiver design project; some transceiver components are also introduced. VCO performance is verified both in simulation and practical measurement using the proposed RF IC transceiver, communicating with a commercial passive UHF RF identification tag in a small-scale area. The measured phase-noise level at the frequency divider output port is nearly -106 and -135 dBc/Hz at 40-kHz and 1-MHz offset, respectively. A good figure-of-merit of 1.93 dB is obtained. The paper also highlights some important components [e.g., phase-locked loop, low-noise amplifier, dc offset canceller (DCOC)], and their performance. We configure the reader system, which consists of the proposed transceiver on board and a patch antenna, to use frequency hopping in 15 channels at a 200-kHz interval. The transceiver power amplifier supports 22 dBm of power. Configuring the interrogation range to 1 m, we measure received backscatters at the DCOC output port (the regenerated tag data level is 8 mV). Finally, we verify satisfactory states of the tag data process in the receiver.