• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.16-21
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• 2007

A Dual-Path Voltage Multiplier for passive RFID Tags was proposed and fabricated by using a 0.25um CMOS process with additional steps for schottky diodes. The proposed circuit needs only 4 additional diodes, and the area increment compared to conventional one is negligible in multi-stage voltage multipliers. The simulation and measurement results show that the output power capability of proposed multiplier are about two times larger than the conventional half-wave multiplier.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.11A
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• pp.1159-1166
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• 2006

In this paper, we have designed a RFID reader receiver system for improving the performance of the passive Tag based 9$'908.5{\sim}914MHz'$ RFID reader, and analyzed the system performance according to the frequency, the reader, and tag properties. The commercial receive system causes a loss in sensitivity because of 24 capacitors and 6 inductors. So we have designed an improved system using a circulator, LNA and a SAW filter. The experimental results show that the use of a circulator to separate the Tx/Rx paths eliminates interference, the LNA improves the sensitivity of the Rx module and SAW filter eliminates the noise and spurious components in the received signal.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.6B
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• pp.618-630
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• 2011

Mobile RFID system, that consists of the existing RFID reader mounted on the mobile devices such as smartphones, is able to provide the users a variety of services and convenience. Although the users can get the information about a certain product anytime anywhere, there is high probability that their privacy may be violated because their belongings with RFID tags can be scanned by other mobile readers at any time. Several RFID authentication schemes have been proposed to deal with these privacy issues. However, since the existing solutions require heavy computation on the tag side, most of them is not applicable to the general low-cost passive tags which do not have any processing unit. In this paper, we propose the efficient authentication scheme for mobile RFID system applicable to the passive tags as well as the active ones by the best use of computing capability of mobile devices. The proposed scheme satisfies the import security issues such as tag protection, untraceability, anti-traffic analysis. We also implement the proposed scheme on top of real smartphone for feasibility and show the experimental results from it.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.275-285
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• 2009

RFID technology using the smart tag technology as a part of the sensor network is currently in the spotlight. But there are still many problems in applying the technology in a ubiquitous environment, induding at the point when anybody can read the tag information and the authentication between the tag and the reader, and security problems in very low-cost smart tag implementation. The proposed scheme is designed to enhance security and efficiency related to various services required in RF networks, based on the reliable peripheral devices for users of passive RFID tag. Using passive RFID tag, which has been applied to authentication transactions in existing papers, this study also proposed an appropriate management scheme that is suitable for a dynamic environment and setting a temporary group to provide various services. also proposed scheme is support RFID grouping, temporary group of service and security servicce, improved efficiency of communication.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.70-72
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• 2005

최근들어 Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) 태그가 다수의 상품에 부착되고 절러 분야에 적용되기 시작했지만, 비용문제로 인해 인증이나 암호화 같은 보안기능은 고려하지 않고 있다. 보안 기능이 없는 RFID시스템은 개인정보 노굴, 불법 리더의 접근, 위조 태그의 남용과 같은 심각한 부작용을 초래하지만 현 단계에서는 보안기능을 적용하기가 쉽지않다. 절러 기술을 따르는 수동형 태그중 EPCglobal의 EPC Class 1과 Class 1 Generation 2(C1G2)는 산업계의 여러 분야에서 특히, supply-chain 모델에서 사실상 국제표준으로 여겨진다. EPC Class1 수준의 태그는 자체 밧데리를 가지지 않는 수동형 태그이고, 암호 프리미티브를 적용한 알고리즘이나 프로토콜은 제공하지 않는다. EPC Class1 과 EPC C1G2의 유일한 보안 대책으로는 태그를 영원히 동작하지 못하게 하는 Kill 기능이 있다. Kill을 수행한 태그는 RFID 태그로서의 의미가 사라진다. 본 논문에서는 Kill 기능에 대한 EPC Class1 시스템의 취약성을 보이고 또한, EPC C1G2 시스템에서 Kill 관점에서의 보안성을 분석한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.109-110
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 900MHz RFID 수동형 태그 전치부를 설계하고 검증하였다. 문턱전압(threshold voltage) 제거 구조의 전압 체배기, 전류를 이용한 복조 회로로 설계되었으며 파워다운 회로를 추가하여 정류동작의 안정성에 중점을 두었다. PWM(Pulse Width Modulation)을 이용한 변조기를 구조로 입력단에 용량성 임피던스의 변화로 변조 동작을 검증하였다. 삼성 0.18um 공정을 이용하였고, 인식거리는 15m, 평균 소모 전력은 약 60uW이며, 패드를 포함한 칩 사이즈는 $1.22mm^2$이다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.46-51
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• 2013

In this paper, a dual-band antenna is proposed for the RF power harvester system as well as RFID tag. The proposed antenna operates as the passive and active RFID tag antenna in the UHF and microwave band, respectively. In addition, to charge the battery of an active RFID tag in the microwave band, it harvest the RF signal for tagging from the passive RFID tag antenna in the UHF band. The proposed antenna operates in the UHF band (917~923.5 MHz) and microwave band (2.4~2.45 GHz). In order to obtain the dual-band operation, the dipole structure and meander parasitic elements are proposed as the ${\lambda}/2$ and $1{\lambda}$ dipole antenna, respectively. The radiating dipole structure in the microwave band acts as the coupled feed for the meander parasitic elements in the UHF band. The impedance bandwidth (VSWR < 2) of the proposed antenna covers 917~923.5 MHz (UHF band) and 2.4~2.45 GHz (Microwave band). Measured total efficiencies are over 45 % in the UHF band and over 70 % in the microwave band. Peak gains are over 0.18 dBi and 2.8 dBi in the UHF and microwave band with an omni-directional radiation pattern, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.721-724
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• 2007

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is increasingly popular technology with many application. The majority of applications of RFID deployed in supply-chain management. In this paper, we present a wireless RFID glove in interactive learning method. Objects tagged with a small passive RFID tag, can be sensed at short ranges by using wireless RFID glove. We describe the wireless RFID glove prototype, and present some interactive learning programs and games.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.69-76
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• 2013

Reader-to-reader interference in RFID system is occurred due to the use of limited number of frequencies, and this is the main cause of read rate reduction in the passive RFID tags. Therefore, in order to maximize the read rate under the circumstances of limited frequency resources, it is necessary to minimize the frequency interference among RFID readers. This paper presents a hybrid FDM/TDM constraint satisfaction problem models for frequency interference minimization problems of the RFID readers, and assigns optimal channels to each readers using conventional backtracking search algorithms. A depth first search based on backtracking are accomplished to find solutions of constraint satisfaction problems. At this moment, a variable ordering algorithm is very important to find a solution quickly. Variable ordering algorithms applied in the experiment are known as efficient in the graph coloring. To justify the performance of the proposed constraint satisfaction problem model, optimal channels for each readers in the passive UHF RFID system are allocated by using computer simulation satisfying various interference constraints.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.7B
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• pp.1081-1090
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• 2010

$0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS UHF RFID tag frontend is presented in this paper. Several key components are highlighted: the voltage multiplier based on the threshold voltage terminated circuit, the demodulator using current mode, and the clock generator. For standard compliance, all designed components are under the EPC Global Class-1 Generation-2 UHF RFID protocol. Backscatter modulation uses the pulse width modulation scheme. Overall performance of the proposed tag chip was verified with the evaluation board. Prototype Tag Chip dimension is neary 0.77mm2 ; According to the simulation results, the reader can successfully interrogate the tag within 1.5m. where the tag consumes the power about $71{\mu}W$.