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Motivated by the plethora of RFID security protocols and the interoperability problems that this diversity causes, we propose a software agent-based platform that allows an RFID back-end subsystem to integrate and manage heterogeneous tags that are based on non-standardized implementations. In addition, we introduce a new suite of lightweight tag management protocols that support tag authentication, time-based tag delegation and ownership transfer. The protocols can take advantage of the proposed agent-based platform and do satisfy all the standard security and privacy requirements.
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Rekleitis, E., Rizomiliotis, P., Gritzalis, S. (2010). An Agent Based Back-End RFID Tag Management System. In: Katsikas, S., Lopez, J., Soriano, M. (eds) Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business. TrustBus 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6264. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15152-1_15
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