R2: Over-the-air reprogramming on computational RFIDs

Wu, Die; Hussain, Muhammad Jawad; Li, Songfan; Lu, Li

doi:10.1109/rfid.2016.7488004

Cited by 13 publications

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“…The fundamental problem of a wireless firmware update for CRFID devices was addressed in two recent approaches [12], [13]; both focused on transmission reliability, miniaturization of firmware code size, and energy efficiency. None of them addressed the difficult problem of assuring the security of wireless firmware updates, although Tan et al [12] highlighted that secure wireless code dissemination remains the most urgent need to be addressed.…”

Section: A Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

SecuCode: Intrinsic PUF Entangled Secure Wireless Code Dissemination for Computational RFID Devices

Gao

Chesser

et al. 2021

IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Comput.

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The simplicity of deployment and perpetual operation of energy harvesting devices provides a compelling proposition for a new class of edge devices for the Internet of Things. In particular, Computational Radio Frequency Identification (CRFID) devices are an emerging class of battery free, computational, sensing enhanced devices that harvest all of their energy for operation. Despite wireless connectivity and powering, secure wireless firmware updates remains an open challenge for CRFID devices due to: intermittent powering, limited computational capabilities, and the absence of a supervisory operating system. We present, for the first time, a secure wireless code dissemination (SecuCode) mechanism for CRFIDs by entangling a device intrinsic hardware security primitive-Static Random Access Memory Physical Unclonable Function (SRAM PUF)-to a firmware update protocol. The design of SecuCode: i) overcomes the resource-constrained and intermittently powered nature of the CRFID devices; ii) is fully compatible with existing communication protocols employed by CRFID devices-in particular, ISO-18000-6C protocol; and ii) is built upon a standard and industry compliant firmware compilation and update method realized by extending a recent framework for firmware updates provided by Texas Instruments. We build an end-to-end SecuCode implementation and conduct extensive experiments to demonstrate standards compliance, evaluate performance and security.

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Section: A Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

SecuCode: Intrinsic PUF Entangled Secure Wireless Code Dissemination for Computational RFID Devices

Gao

Chesser

et al. 2021

IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Comput.

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“…We argue that this is the most urgent feature missing in WISP. Other functionalities required consideration, including the ability to resume a transfer after failure, and the addition of a data compression mechanism, which involves a trade-off of performance versus the computation power used by the CRFID [25,26] .…”

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Optimal data transmission in backscatter communication for passive sensing systems

Zhao

et al. 2020

Tinshhua Sci. Technol.

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Computational Radio Frequency IDentification (CRFID) is a device that integrates passive sensing and computing applications, which is powered by electromagnetic waves and read by the off-the-shelf Ultra High Frequency Radio Frequency IDentification (UHF RFID) readers. Traditional RFID only identifies the ID of the tag, and CRFID is different from traditional RFID. CRFID needs to transmit a large amount of sensing and computing data in the mobile sensing scene. However, the current Electronic Product Code, Class-1 Generation-2 (EPC C1G2) protocol mainly aims at the transmission of multi-tag and minor data. When a large amount of data need to be fed back, a more reliable communication mechanism must be used to ensure the efficiency of data exchange. The main strategy of this paper is to adjust the data frame length of the CRFID response dynamically to improve the efficiency and reliability of CRFID backscattering communication according to energy acquisition and channel complexity. This is done by constructing a dynamic data frame length model and optimizing the command set of the interface protocol. Then, according to the actual situation of the uplink, a dynamic data validation method is designed, which reduces the data transmission delay and the probability of retransmitting, and improves the throughput. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme is superior to the existing methods. Under different energy harvesting and channel conditions, the dynamic data frame length and verification method can approach the theoretical optimum.

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“…Wu et al [18] discuss the possibility to reprogram computational RFIDs (CRFIDs) over the air. In their approach, the firmware of passive CRFID tags is reprogrammed using the Electronic Product Code (EPC) protocol.…”

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confidence: 99%

SECURECONFIG: NFC and QR-code based hybrid approach for smart sensor configuration

Ulz

Pieber

Steger

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID)

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Abstract-In smart factories and smart homes, devices such as smart sensors are connected to the Internet. Independent of the context in which such a smart sensor is deployed, the possibility to change its configuration parameters in a secure way is essential. Existing solutions do provide only minimal security or do not allow to transfer arbitrary configuration data. In this paper, we present an NFC-and QR-code based configuration interface for smart sensors which improves the security and practicability of the configuration altering process while introducing as little overhead as possible. We present a protocol for configuration as well as a hardware extension including a dedicated security controller (SC) for smart sensors. For customers, no additional hardware other than a commercially available smartphone will be necessary which makes the proposed approach highly applicable for smart factory and smart home contexts alike.

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R2: Over-the-air reprogramming on computational RFIDs

Cited by 13 publications

References 18 publications

SecuCode: Intrinsic PUF Entangled Secure Wireless Code Dissemination for Computational RFID Devices

SecuCode: Intrinsic PUF Entangled Secure Wireless Code Dissemination for Computational RFID Devices

Optimal data transmission in backscatter communication for passive sensing systems

SECURECONFIG: NFC and QR-code based hybrid approach for smart sensor configuration

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