A Lightweight protocol for validating proximity in UHF RFID systems

Chrysa Paschou; Oliver T Johnson; Angela Doufexi; Ziming Zhu

doi:10.1109/VTC2021-Fall52928.2021.9625484

A Lightweight protocol for validating proximity in UHF RFID systems

Chrysa Paschou
, Oliver T Johnson
, Angela Doufexi
, Ziming Zhu

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Abstract

We present a novel scheme for testing the proximity of an Ultra-high frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) transponder, based on the fact that two co-located devices experience correlated channel fluctuations on a reference signal. When the interrogator requests data from the transponder, the latter performs backscattering modulation on the carrier wave provided by a helper node. The interrogator applies signal processing techniques on the backscattered signal to extract the channel characteristics of the channel between itself and the helper, and the channel between the transponder and the helper. If the two channels are correlated, then the proximity of the transponder is validated by the fundamental properties of spatial channel correlation. The proposed scheme can be employed seamlessly in RFID systems from the transponder's point of view and is resilient to distance-fraud attack.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Fall)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-1368-8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-1369-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2021-Fall52928.2021.9625484
Publication status	Published - 10 Dec 2021
Event	2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Fall) - Norman, OK, United States Duration: 27 Sept 2021 → 30 Sept 2021

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Name	IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
Volume	2021-September
ISSN (Print)	1550-2252

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Conference	2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Fall)
Country/Territory	United States
City	OK
Period	27/09/21 → 30/09/21

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Keywords

Physical Layer Security
Channel Correlation
Backscattering modulation
Channel propagation
Distance bounding
Distance Fraud
RFID systems

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Paschou, C, Johnson, OT , Doufexi, A & Zhu, Z 2021, A Lightweight protocol for validating proximity in UHF RFID systems. in 2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Fall). IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, vol. 2021-September, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Fall), OK, United States, 27/09/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2021-Fall52928.2021.9625484

A Lightweight protocol for validating proximity in UHF RFID systems. / Paschou, Chrysa; Johnson, Oliver T ; Doufexi, Angela et al.
2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Fall). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021. (IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference; Vol. 2021-September).

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