Achieving high security and efficiency in RFID-tagged supply chains

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

1-2010

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.

Keywords

RFID security, supply chain security, visibility, supply chain efficiency, RFID protocols, supply chain management, SCM, radio freqeuency identification, RFID tags, information security

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Information Security and Trust

Publication

International Journal of Applied Cryptography

Volume

2

Issue

2

First Page

3

Last Page

12

ISSN

1753-0563

Identifier

10.1504/IJACT.2010.033794

Publisher

InderScience

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJACT.2010.033794

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