• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.25-40
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• 2007

As memory-extended RFID tags are recently developed, various types of item identification structures can be stored in the tags. In this paper, we propose a new national product identifier(NPI) which accepts not only ISO item identification standards but also the memory capacity of ISO tags. First of all, item identification structures of ISO/IEC 15459 and EPC, and memory structures of ISO/IEC 18000-6C and EPC tags are analyzed. Based on these analyses, the NPI currently used is analyzed and its problems are described from the viewpoint of standardization. To overcome the problems, a new NPI structure suitable for ISO/IEC 15459 is proposed. Finally, data related to the NPI is designed for encoding to tags.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.124-133
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• 2009

There are many different ID representation forms depending on the media or applications. In case of RFID tag, ID representation form must be followed by the rule of ISO/IEC 15962. In this study, we developed the efficient ID conversion algorithm between ID representation form on RFID tag and Internet. The main idea is on the use of XML based ID profiles and three step logical IDs forms. The algorithm was tested by the typical three kinds of real IDs such as EPC, ISO/IEC 15459 KKR Code, and mCode which are the typical meta-IDs can be defined in ISO/IEC 18000-6C tag.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.927-930
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• 2007

As RFID systems are applied to various fields and applications such as supply chain management, asset management, location based applications etc. the requirements becomes diverse. For example, Much higher performance, TCP/IP protocol stack are required in some applications. However, low end processors based systems such as 8051 processor can not meet such requirements due to their low processing capacity and limited size of memory. In this paper a UHF band RFID system which meets the ISO 18000-6 TYPE C specification with ARM920T-based processor is implemented and tested.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.117-134
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• 2010

A passive RFID tag which received attention as a future technology for automatic and quick identification faces some difficulties about security problems such as tag authentication, reader authentication, data protection, and untraceability in addition to cost and reliable identification. A representative passive RFID technology is the ISO/IEC 18000-6 Type C which is an international standard for 900 MHz UHF-band. This standard has some difficulties in applying to the security services such as originality verification, tag's internal information protection, and untraceability, because it does not provide high-level security solution. In this paper, we summarize security requirements of ISO/IEC ITC 1/SC 31 international standardization group, propose security protocols suitable for the UHF-band passive RFID system using a crypto engine, and analyze its security strength. In addition, we verify that it is possible to implement a tag conforming with the proposed security protocols by presenting concrete command/response pairs and cryptographic method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.85-94
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• 2010

As an automatic identification technology, in which electronic tags are attached to items and system auto-identifies informations of the items using wireless communication technology, use of RFID system is increasing in various fields. According to that, related security problems are becoming important issue. Up to now, many authentication protocols have been proposed to solve security problem of RFID system. In this paper, We show that the RFID authentication protocols in [9, 10], which are compatible with Type C RFID system in ISO 18000-6 Amd1[8], are vulnerable to a spoofing attack. In addition, we propose improved protocols having small additional cost over the original protocols.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.3859-3865
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• 2010

Modeling a virtual reader and tags, the emulator system is realized by using a commercial signal generation device to make signal, a data collection equipment, and DSP board. By using a Virtual UHF RFID (860 ~ 960 [MHz]) reader/tags module, a developed RFID reader, protocol of tag, and properties of RF support to provide the way how to verify the suitability to international standards (ISO 18000-6 Type C, EPCglobal C1G2). In this paper, to implement a proposed model reader and tag model, Visual DSP is applied by using DSP board, composing the system's signal generators, signal analyzers and performance verification, the target readers or tags, RFID emulator control computesr and control programs.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.28-36
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• 2008

This paper describes a low-power CMOS analog front-end block for UHF band RFID tag chips. It satisfies ISO/IEC 18000-6C and includes a memory block for test. For reducing power consumption, it operates with an internally generated power supply of 1V. An ASK demodulator using a current-mode schmitt trigger is proposed and designed. The proposed demodulator can more exactly demodulate than conventional demodulator with low current consumption. It is designed using a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. Measurement results show that it can operate properly with an input as low as $0.25V_{peak}$ and consumes $2.63{\mu}A$. The chip size is $0.12mm^2$.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.130-136
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• 2008

This paper describes a low-power high-performance analog front-end block for $UHF(860{\sim}960MHz)$ band RFID tag chips. It satisfies ISO/IEC 18000-6 type C(EPCgolbal class1. generation2.) and includes a memory block for test. For reducing power consumption, it operates with a internally generated power supply of 1V. An ASK demodulator using a current-mode schmitt trigger is proposed and designed. The proposed demodulator has an error rate as low as 0.014%. It is designed using a 0.18um CMOS technology. The simulation results show that the designed circuit can operate properly with an input as low as $0.2V_{peak}$ and consumes $2.63{\mu}A$. The chip size is $0.12mm^2$

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.199-202
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• 2006

RFID는 유비쿼터스 시스템을 실현할 수 있는 기본적 구성 요소이며, 최근 다양한 응용 분야가 개발되어 실제 적용분야가 점차 증가하고 있는 상황이다. RFID 시스템 확산의 가장 큰 문제점은 현실적으로 태그의 가격을 매우 싸게 만들어야 하는 것이고, 이를 해결하기 위하여 많은 업체들이 기술 개발에 전념하고 있다. RFID 시스템 중에서도 가장 큰 관심을 받고 있는 900MHz 대역의 규격인 ISO/IEC 18000-6에서는 새로이 형식 C가 추가되어 기존의 형식 A, B를 포함하여 모두 세 종류의 형식이 제안되었다. 이에 본 논문에서는 형식 C에 대한 규격을 분석하고, 이의 기능 블럭을 VHDL로 구현하였다. 규격에 제안된 것과 동일한 프레임을 구현하고 임의의 데이터를 가정한 후에 데이터 변조 방식으로서 사용되는 PIE와 FM0 변조 방식 등을 구현하고, 이를 송수신 함으로써 변복조가 정확히 구현되었음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.191-192
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• 2007

This paper presents a 900MHz fractional-N frequency synthesizer for radio frequency identification (RFID) reader using $0.18{\mu}m$ standard CMOS process. The IC meets the EPC Class-1 Generation-2 and ISO-18000 Type-C standards. To minimize VCO pulling, the 900MHz VCO is generated by a 1.8GHz VCO followed by a frequency divider. The settling time of the synthesizer is less than $20{\mu}m$. The frequency synthesizer achieves the phase noise of -105.6dBc/Hz at 200kHz offset. The frequency synthesizer occupies an area of $1.8{\times}0.99mm^2$, and dissipates 8mA from a low supply voltage of 1.8V.