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. 2018 Mar 22;13(3):e0193951.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193951. eCollection 2018.

Clone tag detection in distributed RFID systems

Hazalila Kamaludin  1 , Hairulnizam Mahdin  1 , Jemal H Abawajy  2
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Clone tag detection in distributed RFID systems

Hazalila Kamaludin et al. PLoS One. .

Abstract

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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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Fig 1. Multitier middleware architecture ([28]).
Fig 2
Fig 2. Distributed RFID supply chain system.
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Fig 3. Mapping of base stream into modified count-min sketch.
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Fig 4. CM sketch visualization of initial, map and update reading for three readers.
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Fig 5. Execution time of MCH with 60% packing density and bucket sizes bs = 10, bs = 20, bs = 30, bs = 40 and bs = 50.
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Fig 6. Comparison of execution times for detecting clone tag.
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Fig 7. Comparison of clone detection accuracy between DeClone and BASE in varying number of clone IDs.
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Fig 8. Comparison of clone detection accuracy between MCH, DeClone and BASE in varying number of clone IDs.
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