Chord: a scalable peer-to-peer lookup protocol for internet applications
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Kademlia: A Peer-to-Peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric
IPTPS '01 Revised Papers from the First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems
Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
Middleware '01 Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms Heidelberg
The design and implementation of a next generation name service for the internet
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A Distributed ePedigree Architecture
FTDCS '07 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
Examining RFID applications in supply chain management
Communications of the ACM - Creating a science of games
Tapestry: a resilient global-scale overlay for service deployment
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
SecTTS: A secure track & trace system for RFID-enabled supply chains
Computers in Industry
ODSA: Chord-Based Object Discovery Service Architecture for the Internet of Things
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Collaborative design and analysis of supply chain network management key processes model
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
KEDGEN2: A key establishment and derivation protocol for EPC Gen2 RFID systems
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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Today, obtaining and managing all the information about supply chains are key tasks for the improvement and progress of business and commercial strategies. Ubiquitous information technologies, like RFID, can be used for tracking and tracing of materials and items as they move through the supply chain. In this scenario, EPCglobal consortium provides an architecture framework for collecting, sharing and accessing information about EPC-tagged objects. One of the key components of EPCglobal architecture required to implement track and trace capabilities is the discovery service (DS). Although DS is still under development, it is expected that DS will be implemented by a centralized architecture. Another key component is the object name service (ONS), which is used to resolve the Internet addresses of the EPC information services (EPCISs). According to EPCglobal specification, ONS is based on the traditional Internet DNS. In this work, an alternative solution to implement ONS and DS services is presented. Both services are based on a distributed architecture, which eliminates the disadvantages and weaknesses of the centralized implementations of ONS and DS. In addition, the proposed distributed EPCglobal network architecture allows item level track and trace capabilities even if item visibility along the complete supply chain is not possible. In previous works, other authors always assume complete item visibility. However, in many industrial fields where items are packaged to facilitate the transport and distribution, this supposition is not true. Both EPCglobal network solutions are analytically compared, concluding with the benefits of using the distribution solution.