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http://dx.doi.org/10.4218/etrij.14.0112.0674

A Fully Integrated CMOS Security-Enhanced Passive RFID Tag  

Choi, Suna (Broadcasting & Telecommunications Media Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Kim, Hyunseok (IT Convergence Technology Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Lee, Sangyeon (IT Convergence Technology Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Lee, Kangbok (IT Convergence Technology Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Lee, Heyungsub (IT Convergence Technology Research Laboratory, ETRI)
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ETRI Journal / v.36, no.1, 2014 , pp. 141-150 More about this Journal
Abstract
A fully integrated CMOS security-enhanced passive (SEP) tag that compensates the security weakness of ISO/IEC 18000-6C is presented in this paper. For this purpose, we propose a security-enhanced protocol that provides mutual authentication between tag and reader. We show that the proposed protocol meets the security demands of the ongoing international standard for RFID secure systems, ISO/IEC 29167-6. This paper fabricates the SEP tag with a 0.18-${\mu}m$ CMOS technology and suggests the optimal operating frequency of the CMOS SEP tag to comply with ISO/IEC 18000-6C. Furthermore, we measure the SEP tag under a wireless environment. The measured results show that communications between the SEP tag and reader are successfully executed in both conventional passive and SEP modes, which follow ISO/IEC 18000-6C and the proposed security enhanced protocol, respectively. In particular, this paper shows that the SEP tag satisfies the timing link requirement specified in ISO/IEC 18000-6C.
Keywords
RFID; security-enhanced passive tag; AES; ISO/IEC 29167-6; ISO/IEC 18000-6C;
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