Open AccessScalable and resynchronisable radio frequency identification ownership transfer protocol based on a sliding window mechanism
Author(s) -
Wang Xin,
Yuan ChaoWei
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
iet information security
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1751-8717
pISSN - 1751-8709
DOI - 10.1049/iet-ifs.2012.0178
Subject(s) - sliding window protocol , scalability , computer science , radio frequency identification , window (computing) , protocol (science) , computer network , authentication (law) , transfer (computing) , identification (biology) , pseudonym , computer security , parallel computing , operating system , medicine , botany , alternative medicine , pathology , political science , law , biology
A lightweight scalable and resynchronisable protocol is presented for radio frequency identification (RFID) ownership transfer. The proposed protocol employs a sliding window mechanism, where the server needs to store only the tag's old and new adjacent eigenvalues for tag matching and authentication. The eigenvalue window moves forward just one step every time when the secret update is done successfully, and this leads to lower storage, better performance and higher security compared to the previously proposed RFID pseudonym protocol P 1 and secret update protocol P 2 . Both analytical and simulation results show that the proposed scheme can resynchronise when suffering continuous desynchronising attacks.