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Fast and scalable counterfeits estimation for large-scale RFID systems

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Ivan Stojmenovic,

Haoxiang LiuAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 24, Issue 2

Pages 1052 - 1064

https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2015.2406669

Published: 01 April 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Many algorithms have been introduced to deterministically authenticate Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, while little work has been done to address scalability issue in batch authentications. Deterministic approaches verify tags one by one, and the communication overhead and time cost grow linearly with increasing size of tags. We design a fast and scalable counterfeits estimation scheme, INformative Counting (INC), which achieves sublinear authentication time and communication cost in batch verifications. The key novelty of INC builds on an FM-Sketch variant authentication synopsis that can capture key counting information using only sublinear space. With the help of this well-designed data structure, INC is able to provide authentication results with accurate estimates of the number of counterfeiting tags and genuine tags, while previous batch authentication methods merely provide 0/1 results indicating the existence of counterfeits. We conduct detailed theoretical analysis and extensive experiments to examine this design and the results show that INC significantly outperforms previous work in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.

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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Volume 24, Issue 2

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