An RFID Cloud Authentication Protocol for Object Tracking System in Supply Chain Management

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Abstract

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a valuable technology for tracking objects in the supply chain. Security and privacy requirements arise with the fast deployment of RFID in supply chain in a heterogeneous environment. Authentication is one of the important security requirements in cloud environment. Even though several RFID cloud authentication protocols are available for supply chain management, they lack to satisfy some security requirements. There is a need for secure, efficient, and scalable protocol for agile supply chain. In this paper, an RFID cloud authentication protocol is proposed and an informal security analysis is carried out. Performance analysis is done with respect to the tag entity. The proposed protocol is scalable and it preserves tag/reader privacy, provides mutual authentication and resistant to many attacks. Comparison with the existing protocol in terms of communication cost shows that our protocol outperforms the other protocols.

Keywords

Mutual authentication RFID Cloud authentication Supply Chain Management Security and privacy issues 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • S. Anandhi
    • 1
  • R. Anitha
    • 1
  • Venkatasamy Sureshkumar
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational SciencesPSG College of TechnologyCoimbatoreIndia

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