An agent based back-end RFID tag management system

Abstract

Motivated by the plethora of RFID security protocols and the interoperability problems that this diversity causes, we propose a software agent-based platform that allows an RFID back-end subsystem to integrate and manage heterogeneous tags that are based on non-standardized implementations. In addition, we introduce a new suite of lightweight tag management protocols that support tag authentication, time-based tag delegation and ownership transfer. The protocols can take advantage of the proposed agent-based platform and do satisfy all the standard security and privacy requirements. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.