ChinaCom2008-Network and Information Security Symposium

Research Article

Scalable RFID Authentication and Discovery in EPCglobal Network

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685227,
        author={Tieyan Li and Robert Deng},
        title={Scalable RFID Authentication and Discovery in EPCglobal Network},
        proceedings={ChinaCom2008-Network and Information Security Symposium},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM2008-NIS},
        year={2008},
        month={11},
        keywords={RFID Authentication Peer-to-peer Discovery EPCglobal Network},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685227}
    }
    
  • Tieyan Li
    Robert Deng
    Year: 2008
    Scalable RFID Authentication and Discovery in EPCglobal Network
    CHINACOM2008-NIS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685227
Tieyan Li1,*, Robert Deng2,*
  • 1: Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613
  • 2: Singapore Management University (SMU) 80 Stamford Road, Singapore 178902
*Contact email: litieyan@i2r.a-star.edu.sg, robertdeng@smu.edu.sg

Abstract

It is a challenging task on designing RFID tag-reader mutual authentication protocols that are secure, scalable and implementable on EPCglobal compatible tags. In this paper, we propose an authentication protocol for efficiently authenticating an RFID tag, which can be enhanced by providing forward security. We further build a p2p discover service to provide more scalable EPC data access than centralized databases, which can be strengthened by private p2p service. Our analysis show that our protocol is secure in a realistic security model and is cost effective considering its performance.