Title: Achieving high security and efficiency in RFID-tagged supply chains

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

Addresses: 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

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.

DOI: 10.1504/IJACT.2010.033794

International Journal of Applied Cryptography, 2010 Vol.2 No.1, pp.3 - 12

Published online: 01 Jul 2010 *

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