Efficient RFID Search Protocols Using Counters

Sangjin KIM  Jihwan LIM  Jaehong HAN  Heekuck OH 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications  Vol.E91-B  No.11  pp.3552-3559
Publication Date: 2008/11/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Emerging Technologies for Practical Ubiquitous and Sensor Networks)
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Keyword: 
RFIDsearch protocolcounter

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Summary: 
In an RFID search protocol, a reader uses a designated query instead of an unspecified query commonly used in RFID authentication protocols. Due to this fundamental difference, techniques used in RFID authentication protocols may not be suitable for RFID search protocols. Tan et al.'s protocol, however, is based on techniques used in previous works such as using random values. In this paper, we propose two RFID search protocols, one based on static ID and the other based on dynamic ID, both which does not require additional measures to satisfy security requirements of RFID protocols. We achieve this by using counters.