• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.171-175
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• 2010

This paper analyzes the tag data inconsistency problem caused by incomplete execution of the tag access operation to the RFID tag's memory and proposes a protocol to control consistent tag data accesses with finalizing the incomplete operation. Passive RFID tag cannot guarantee complete execution of the tag access operations because of uncertainty and unexpected disconnection of RF communications. This leads to the tag data inconsistency problem. To handle this, we propose a concurrency control protocol which defines incomplete tag operations as continuous queries and monitors the tags're-observation continuously. The protocol finalizes the incomplete operation when the tag is re-observed while it blocks inconsistent data accesses from other operations. We justify the proposed protocol by analyzing the completeness and consistency. The experiments show that the protocol shows better performance than the traditional lock-based concurrency control protocol.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.195-202
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• 2011

RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) is a system to identify objects and its usage is being extended to distribution, healthcare, and air&port etc. RFID is a contactless system environment, and reducing tag authentication time is important because multiple tags are identified at the same time. Studies about RFID system so far is, however, mostly to improve security vulnerability in the tag authentication process. Therefore, this paper suggests an efficient scheme to decrease the time of tag authentication which is also safe for the security of tag authentication process. The proposed scheme cuts down on the tag ID search time because it searches only the classified relevant ID in the database, which is one of many components of RFID system, by using identification bits for tag ID search. Consequently, the suggested scheme decreases process time for tag ID authentication by reducing the processing time and the load of the database. It also brings performance improvement of RFID system as it improves the energy applicability of passive tag.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.9
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• pp.41-49
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• 2008

This paper presents a design of the control block of a passive UHF RFID tag IC according to EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 UHF RFID 1.1.0 Protocol. The control block includes a PIE block, CRC5/CRC16, a Slot Counter, a Random Number Generator, a Main Control Block, a Encoder and a Memory Interface. The control block has been designed using the Verilog HDL and has been simulated. Functional simulation results for the overall control block operation show that 11 instructions with 7 states are operated correctly. Also, the control block has been implemented with 36,230 gates by Synopsys Design Compiler and Apollo using Magnachip 0.25$\mu$m technology.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1066-1067
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• 2007

유비쿼터스 환경에 적합한 기술로써 RFID가 많은 관심을 받고 있다. RFID는 바코드를 대체하기 위한 무선 주파수 인식 기술로 유비쿼터스를 실현하기 위한 핵심 기술이다. 하지만 무선 기술을 사용하며 비접촉으로 인식할 수 있기 때문에 악의적인 사용자가 불법적인 목적으로 사용자가 소지한 태그의 내용을 몰래 획득하여 사용자 프라이버시 침해 문제가 발생하고 있다. 이를 해결하기 위하여 RFID 보안에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있지만 수동형 태그의 제한된 연산 능력 및 저장 능력을 고려해야 되기 때문에 경량화를 고려하지 않을 수 없다. 따라서 본 방식은 한번 사용하고 폐기하는 일회용 패스워드 OTP를 이용하여 모바일 환경의 RFID 보안을 제공하는 방식이다. OTP 방식이 향후 인증 수단으로 발전했을 경우 태그를 제외한 리더의 역할을 대체할 수 있을 것이며, S/Key 방식에 타임스탬프로 재전송공격을 막고 더 안전한 방식을 제안함으로써 모바일 환경에서 사용할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1421-1424
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• 2009

RFID(Radio-Frequency IDentification) 시스템은 무선주파수를 이용한 자동 인식 기술로 개인의 위치 추적이나 사용자 프라이버시와 같은 정보 유출의 위험성을 내포하고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 대칭키 기반의 AES 암호화 알고리즘은 해시함수나 공개키 암호화 기법에 비해 메모리를 적게 소모하고 구현이 쉬운 장점 때문에 수동형 RFID태그에 더 적합하다. 그러나 기존의 AES를 이용한 RFID 인증 프로토콜에서는 항상 고정된 키를 이용하여 암호화하였고 태그와 리더사이의 안전하지 않은 무선 채널에서 공격자에 의해 키 값이 노출될 수 있는 또 다른 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 태그와 서버의 고정된 키와, 리더 태그 서버에서 생성된 난수를 차례로 이용하여 대칭키를 변환한다. 그리고 매 세션마다 변환된 키로 난수를 암호화 하면서 태그와 리더를 상호 인증한다. 이와 같이 변환된 키를 이용할 경우 키 값의 노출 문제가 해결되며, 이 키를 통해 암호화하여 인증할 경우 재전송, 도청, 위치추적 및 스푸핑과 같은 공격에도 안전하다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.12B
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• pp.1468-1474
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• 2009

This paper shows an UHF RFID metallic tags using a Cavity structure for a long reading range. The reading range of a general passive tag is limited because the EIRP of a reader system is limited as 36㏈m by ISO 18000-6. To extend the reading range, the tag antenna should have a high gain antenna structure. The designed tag antenna is recognized over 10m range with a Cavity structure. The directivity pattern and the performance of the tag with the Cavity structure is stable when it is attached to a metallic object. The designed tag antenna has two kinds as cavity thickness. The sizes of designed tag antennas are $176\;{\times}\;52\;{\times}\;10\;mm$ and $176\;{\times}\;61\;{\times}\;30mm$ They can be attached to a large metallic materials and heavy equipments. The measured reading ranges of the tags are about 11m and 15m when they are attached to a metallic object.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.1 s.116
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• pp.31-36
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• 2007

In the RFID system, one of the important criteria of tag antenna performance is the detection distance. The most important factor determining the detection distance of the tag antenna is the Radar Cross Sections(RCS). In this paper, we propose a method to simply measure the RCS of the RFID tag antenna using two reader antennas(Tx and Rx) and a network analyzer. We estimate RCS' from the RCS equation based on the measured $S_{21}$ using the network analyzer. We compare the measured $S_{21}$ values with the calculated $S_{21}$ values and the simulated $S_{21}$ values using EM simulator. The used tag antennas are two kinds of dipole-type, metal-type, and an inductively-coupled type ones. In case of the dipole type, the measured, simulated and calculated values of the RCS are almost the same. In case of other types, we obtain the measured RCS values with a difference of about 3 dB.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.133-141
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• 2009

A tag collision problem occurs when many tags are placed in a interrogation zone in RFID system. A tag collision problem is one of core issues and various protocols have been proposed to solve the collision problems. Generally tree-based protocols generate unique prefixes and identify tags with them as quick as possible. In this paper, we propose the QT-BCS protocol which decreases the identification time by reducing the number of query-response. The QT-BCS protocol makes a prefixes using time slot and bit change sensing unit. This protocol compares the current bit of tags until the current bit is differ from the previous one. When this occurs, all of the bits scanned so far are transferred to slot-0 and slot-1 depending on the first bit value in Reader. Consequently, this method can reduce the number of queries by tracing prefixes easily. Simulation result shows QT-BCS is more efficient in identifying tags than Query Tree and 4-ary Query Tree protocol.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.83-91
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• 2014

The passive UHF RFID tags for item-level tagging are now explosively used in the supply chain and retail applications as they have several advantages, the two most relevant are cost and a longer read range. However, the signal interference problem between RFID tags and smart devices in real world is expected according to the smart-phone and tablet market growth together. The performance of RFID tags can be significantly less. The popular examples are the read-success rates and read range reduction. Especially, KT Corp. recently emphasized the serious signal interference at 900 MHz of LTE and old RFID frequencies through their public demonstration. By popular demands, this paper suggests the interference tolerance measurement method between the passive UHF RFID tag and the transmitted signal from a smart device. In addition, we selected three passive UHF RFID tags(Inlay) available on the market and quantitatively evaluated read range reduction results by interference signals using the PCR(Performance Change Rates) index. As a result, the LTE system is about three times as effective as the WCDMA system in terms of interference effects, and the read range performance of two RFID tags about 60 % drop.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.17 no.6 s.109
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• pp.511-518
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• 2006

In this paper, a small RFID tag antenna in UHF band which has bandwidth-enhanced characteristic is proposed. The shape of the proposed antenna is a meander antenna to have size-reduced characteristic, and it consists of two radiators which make dual resonance in adjacent frequency to enhance bandwidth. By adjusting length and location of each radiator, the proposed antenna can make dual resonance at arbitrary location on the Smith chart, which is able to make impedance matching with RFID tag chip in wide frequency range. And it is apparent that the proposed antenna can have bandwidth-enhanced characteristic according to the simulated and measured results.