Clone tag detection in distributed RFID systems

Although Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is poised to displace barcodes, security vulnerabilities pose serious challenges for global adoption of the RFID technology. Specifically, RFID tags are prone to basic cloning and counterfeiting security attacks. A successful cloning of the RFID tags in...

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Main Authors: Kamaludin, Hazalila, Mahdin, Hairulnizam, Abawajy, Jemal H.
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Language:English
Published: PLOS ONE 2018
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author Kamaludin, Hazalila
Mahdin, Hairulnizam
Abawajy, Jemal H.
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Mahdin, Hairulnizam
Abawajy, Jemal H.
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description Although Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is poised to displace barcodes, security vulnerabilities pose serious challenges for global adoption of the RFID technology. Specifically, RFID tags are prone to basic cloning and counterfeiting security attacks. A successful cloning of the RFID tags in many commercial applications can lead to many serious problems such as financial losses, brand damage, safety and health of the public. With many industries such as pharmaceutical and businesses deploying RFID technology with a variety of products, it is important to tackle RFID tag cloning problem and improve the resistance of the RFID systems. To this end, we propose an approach for detecting cloned RFID tags in RFID systems with high detection accuracy and minimal overhead thus overcoming practical challenges in existing approaches. The proposed approach is based on consistency of dual hash collisions and modified count-min sketch vector. We evaluated the proposed approach through extensive experiments and compared it with existing baseline approaches in terms of execution time and detection accuracy under varying RFID tag cloning ratio. The results of the experiments show that the proposed approach outperforms the baseline approaches in cloned RFID tag detection accuracy.
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spelling uthm-56412022-01-19T07:19:31Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5641/ Clone tag detection in distributed RFID systems Kamaludin, Hazalila Mahdin, Hairulnizam Abawajy, Jemal H. QC676-678.6 Radio waves (Theory) Although Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is poised to displace barcodes, security vulnerabilities pose serious challenges for global adoption of the RFID technology. Specifically, RFID tags are prone to basic cloning and counterfeiting security attacks. A successful cloning of the RFID tags in many commercial applications can lead to many serious problems such as financial losses, brand damage, safety and health of the public. With many industries such as pharmaceutical and businesses deploying RFID technology with a variety of products, it is important to tackle RFID tag cloning problem and improve the resistance of the RFID systems. To this end, we propose an approach for detecting cloned RFID tags in RFID systems with high detection accuracy and minimal overhead thus overcoming practical challenges in existing approaches. The proposed approach is based on consistency of dual hash collisions and modified count-min sketch vector. We evaluated the proposed approach through extensive experiments and compared it with existing baseline approaches in terms of execution time and detection accuracy under varying RFID tag cloning ratio. The results of the experiments show that the proposed approach outperforms the baseline approaches in cloned RFID tag detection accuracy. PLOS ONE 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5641/1/AJ%202018%20%28284%29.pdf Kamaludin, Hazalila and Mahdin, Hairulnizam and Abawajy, Jemal H. (2018) Clone tag detection in distributed RFID systems. Clone RFID tag detection, 13 (3). pp. 1-22. ISSN 19326203
spellingShingle QC676-678.6 Radio waves (Theory)
Kamaludin, Hazalila
Mahdin, Hairulnizam
Abawajy, Jemal H.
Clone tag detection in distributed RFID systems
title Clone tag detection in distributed RFID systems
title_full Clone tag detection in distributed RFID systems
title_fullStr Clone tag detection in distributed RFID systems
title_full_unstemmed Clone tag detection in distributed RFID systems
title_short Clone tag detection in distributed RFID systems
title_sort clone tag detection in distributed rfid systems
topic QC676-678.6 Radio waves (Theory)
url http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5641/
http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5641/1/AJ%202018%20%28284%29.pdf