Ubiquitous RFID: Where are we?

After over a half century of development, radio-frequency identification (RFID) is beginning to move into mainstream applications for automatic identification. RFID is widely seen today as one of the key enabling technologies of the “Internet of Things”. However, many challenges still need to be addressed before we can fully benefit from this nascent and ubiquitous technology. In this paper, we present the state of the art of RFID technology and discuss the challenges and open issues in developing next generation RFID applications.     

Guest editorial: Advances in RFID technology

After over a half century of development, radio-frequency identification (RFID) is beginning to move into mainstream applications for automatic identification. RFID is widely seen today as one of the key enabling technologies of the “Internet of Things”. However, many challenges still need to be addressed before we can fully benefit from this nascent and ubiquitous technology. In this paper, we present the state of the art of RFID technology and discuss the challenges and open issues in developing next generation RFID applications.     

RFID enabled traceability networks: a survey

The emergence of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology brings significant social and economic benefits. As a non line of sight technology, RFID provides an effective way to record movements of objects within a networked RFID system formed by a set of distributed and collaborating parties. A trail of such recorded movements is the foundation for enabling traceability applications. While traceability is a critical aspect of majority of RFID applications, realizing traceability for these applications brings many fundamental research and development issues. In this paper, we assess the requirements for developing traceability applications that use networked RFID technology at their core. We propose a set of criteria for analyzing and comparing the current existing techniques including system architectures and data models. We also outline some research opportunities in the design and development of traceability applications.     

RFID localization algorithms and applications—a review

Object localization based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has promising potentials. By combining localization with its identification capability, existing applications can be enhanced and new applications can be developed for this technology. This paper starts with an overview introducing the available technologies for localization with a focus on radio frequency based technologies. The existing and potential applications of RFID localization in various industries are then summarized. Moreover, RFID localization algorithms are reviewed, which can be categorized into multilateration, Bayesian inference, nearest-neighbor, proximity, and kernel-based learning methods. Also, we present a localization case study using passive RFID technology, and it shows that objects can be successfully localized using either multilateration or Bayesian inference methods. The survey also discusses the challenges and future research on RFID localization.     

A SCADA oriented middleware for RFID technology

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) has emerged as the new technology paradigm for acquisition and information management. RFID can be used to improve significantly the efficiency of business processes by providing the capability of automatic identification and data capture. This technology introduces new challenges on data and process information management in current systems. RFID data are time-dependent and dynamically changing. In addition, data carry implicit semantics. The homogeneous data processing of such implicit semantics allows us to propose RFID middleware as a WHO–WHEN–WHERE data problem. This paper presents DEPCAS, a new middleware for RFID information based on the SCADA architecture for control systems. An application of DEPCAS is the resolution of heterogeneous situations, which solves the WHAT or context-aware to apply the auto identification data received from RFID systems in business applications.     

A lightweight anti-desynchronization RFID authentication protocol

Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has been widely used in ubiquitous infrastructures. However, resource constraint in the low-cost RFID systems has posed potential risks such as privacy and security problems, becoming adoption barrier for RFID-based applications. In this paper, current security issues in RFID are introduced firstly. Then, we propose a lightweight Anti-desynchronization privacy preserving RFID authentication protocol. It is particularly suitable for the low-cost RFID environment for only the capacity of one-way hash function and XOR operation is needed. In this lightweight Anti-desynchronization RFID authentication protocol, the back-end server keeps the history of the random key update to prevent the active attackers from de-synchronizing the shared secret between the tag and the back-end server. The security and the performance of the proposed protocol are analyzed as well.     

基于3G的RFID小区车辆监控系统设计

RFID身份识别是一种非接触式的自动识别技术,识别工作无须人工干预.随着3G技术的发展,使得3G与RFID相结合的应用成为未来的研究热点.简要介绍了RFID系统的基本组成,分析了RFID系统的特点和优势,设计了一种基于3G的RFID小区车辆监控系统,并给出了RFID双向身份认证协议.     

基于密钥矩阵的RFID安全协议

无线射频识别(RFID)作为一种新型的自动识别技术正逐渐得到广泛应用,但RFID系统的特点和RFID设备的局限性带来了很多安全隐患问题。针对这些问题,讨论并阐明RFID的系统组成和安全隐患,分析了几种现有的典型的RFID 安全协议的特点和缺陷,提出一种基于密钥矩阵的RFID安全协议。该协议使用密钥矩阵来加密标签和阅读器之间传输的数据,并在认证后更新标签中密值,能有效抵抗多种攻击。分析表明,该协议具有效率高、成本低、安全性高等特点。     

基于Jini技术的RFID中间件平台

随着社会生产力的发展,科学技术的不断进步,射频识别（Radio Frequency Identification,RFID）技术近年来由于其显著的优点得到了广泛的应用,为了让作为RFID系统神经中枢的RFID中间件可以更好、更快地得到应用,使其能适应更多的应用需求,对现有的RFID中间件进行改进与优化是十分必要的,本文研究基于Java的分布式系统—Jini,给出基于Jini的RFID中间件平台的总体架构,利用RMI通信方式,实现RFID设备（虚拟的设备）在Jini环境下的自动识别、RFID中间件在Jini环境下的自动配置和管理以及RFID设备的＂即插即用＂的功能,同时对RFID中间件在Jini环境下的管理进一步地进行优化,使得基于EPCglobal标准的RFID中间件的设备配置与管理能在分布式环境下高效地运行。最后在实验中验证RFID中间件在Jini平台中的＂即插即用＂性。本文为RFID中间件与现代技术的结合提供思路和方法参考。     

RFID Technology and Applications

Radio frequency identification is a wireless communication technology that lets computers read the identity of inexpensive electronic tags from a distance without requiring a battery in the tags. As RFID technology matures, it will likely unleash a new wave of applications that will exploit inexpensive and highly available automatic identification.