Title: A secured transmission model for EPC network

Authors: Zhongwen Li; Qian Li; Zhibin Xu; Hai Jiang; Kuan-Ching Li

Addresses: College of Information Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Information Processing, Institutions of Higher Education of Sichuan Province, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, China ' College of Information Science and Technology, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, China ' College of Information Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361000, China ' Department of Computer Science, College of Sciences and Mathematics, Arkansas State University, USA ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Providence University, Taichung, 43301, Taiwan

Abstract: Electronic product code (EPC) network is an advanced and integrated complex system, with the ultimate goal of building an internet of physical objects, and therefore, appropriate security schemes ensuring its resilience to sophisticated attacks, data confidentiality, client privacy protection and other features ought to be re-designed and implemented. For such, this paper proposes a new transmission model of EPC network, which includes an effective multi-key generation centre (KGC) scheme and secure protocols in the ONS query system. Compared to traditional models based on certificate, the proposed model has obvious advantages, such as easy implementation and avoidance of complex certificate management. Based on certificateless public key cryptography (CL-PKC), multi-ONS query process is designed to meet the security requirement of EPC network with decentralised root ONS administration and object information transmission in this model. Analysis shows that the new transmission model of EPC network has new properties as improvement, such as anonymity, tolerance, security and DDoS attack-resistance.

Keywords: EPC networks; electronic product code networks; multi-ONS query; certificateless public key cryptography; CL-PKC; anonymous transmission; network security; multi-key generation centre; KGC; secured transmission models; anonymity; tolerance; DDoS attacks; distributed denial-of-service.

DOI: 10.1504/IJES.2015.072375

International Journal of Embedded Systems, 2015 Vol.7 No.3/4, pp.324 - 333

Received: 17 Jan 2015
Accepted: 30 Jan 2015
Published online: 11 Oct 2015 *

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