Achieving high security and efficiency in RFID-tagged supply chains

  • Authors:
  • Shaoying Cai;Yingjiu Li;Tieyan Li;Robert H. Deng;Haixia Yao

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore.;School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore.;Institute for Infocomm Research, 1 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore.;School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore.;Institute for Infocomm Research, 1 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Applied Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

While RFID technology has greatly facilitated visible supply chain management, designing a secure and efficient RFID-tagged supply chain system is still a challenge. To achieve high security and efficiency at the same time, we categorise RFID-tagged supply chain environments in two security levels and design an RFID-tagged supply chain system accordingly. In the relatively secure environment, our system is set to the weak security mode, and the tagged products can be processed in a highly efficient manner. While in the less secure environment, our system is tuned into the strong security mode so as to maintain a high level of security with its efficiency lower than that in the weak security mode. A set of RFID protocols are designed to enable the duel security modes.