scholarly journals A Blockchain-Based Secure Radio Frequency Identification Ownership Transfer Protocol

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
M. Vijayalakshmi ◽  
S. Mercy Shalinie ◽  
Ming Hour Yang ◽  
Shou-Chuan Lai ◽  
Jia-Ning Luo

Supply chain management (SCM) governance is the streamline of the IoT product life cycle from its production to delivery. Integrating blockchain with supply chain management is essential to ensure end-to-end tracking, trustiness between manufacturers and customers, fraud and counterfeit elimination, and customizing administrative costs and paperwork. This paper proposes an RFID ownership transfer protocol with the help of zk-SNARKs (Zero Knowledge-Succinct Noninteractive Arguments of Knowledge) using Ethereum blockchain. When the owner performs RFID transfer, the transferred information will be recorded on the blockchain using smart contracts. When using a smart contract to transfer ownership on the Ethereum blockchain, because the content on the blockchain will not be tampered with, all accounts in the Ethereum can view the transfer results and verify them. The privacy of the supply chain is attained by generating the proof of product code via zk-SNARKs algorithm. This algorithm also enhances the scalability of the supply chain system by creating a trusted setup in off-chain mode.

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuo-Yu Tsai ◽  
Ming Yang ◽  
Jia Luo ◽  
Wei-Tim Liew

In the supply chain management literature, various mobile radio frequency identification (RFID) protocols have been proposed for minimizing cargo theft during transport while ensuring the integrity of the entire cargo load or transferring ownership of a tagged item to another owner. These protocols are generally called grouping proof protocols and ownership transfer protocols, respectively. However, no protocol has been proposed that can achieve both requirements. In this paper, we propose a novel designated ownership transfer with grouping proof protocol that simultaneously generates grouping proofs and authenticates the consistency between the receipt proof and pick proof while ensuring that ownership of the cargo is transferred to the new designated owner in one attempt. In addition, the proposed scheme is robust against attacks (such as replay, denial-of-service, and denial-of-proof attacks) and has security features, such as forward/backward secrecy and message integrity.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia-Ning Luo ◽  
Ming-Hour Yang

Mobile radio frequency identification (RFID) has been extensively applied in a wide range of fields. In supply chain management, RFID is used to more efficiently manage the ownership transfer of cargo. The transfer of a group of tags belonging to multiple owners is often required at the front end of a supply chain. This study, therefore, proposes a secure, high-performance threshold multi-owner partial tag ownership transfer protocol that supports a mobile RFID environment and features the capabilities and security required for supporting existing ownership transfer environments (e.g., application for different authorities, designation of the transfer target, and ownership transfer of a group of tags). Moreover, the proposed protocol can resist against most of the known attacks on RFID.


1970 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juraj Vaculik ◽  
Ivan Michalek ◽  
Peter Kolarovszki

The paper deals with RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)implementation and utilization within supply chain managementand also includes the economic feasibility of rollingout RFID. The members of the supply chain networks- suppliers,manufacturers and distributors - will operate independentlyfrom one another and according to their own agendas.This type of unmanaged network, howeve1; results in inefficiencies.The manufacturer might have a goal of maximizing productionin order to minimize unit costs. Clearly, all members ofthe supply chain stand to gain by coordinating their efforts toimprove efficiency and overall supply chain performance. Thisarticle is divided into three parts: Supply chain, Economic feasibilityof rolling out RFID and Processes of Supply chain management.


Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 2265
Author(s):  
Labonnah Farzana Rahman ◽  
Lubna Alam ◽  
Mohammad Marufuzzaman ◽  
Ussif Rashid Sumaila

At present, sustainability and emerging technology are the main issues in any supply chain management (SCM) sector. At the same time, the ongoing pandemic is increasing consumers’ concerns about food safety, processing, and distribution, which should meet sustainability requirements. Thus, supervision and monitoring of product quality with symmetric information traceability are important in fresh food and fishery SCM. Food safety and traceability systems based on blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSN), and radio frequency identification (RFID) provide reliability from production to consumption. This review focuses on RFID-based traceability systems in fisheries’ SCM, which have been employed globally to ensure fish quality and security, and summarizes their advantages in real-time applications. The results of this study will help future researchers to improve consumers’ trust in fisheries SCM. Thus, this review aims to provide guidelines and solutions for enhancing the reliability of RFID-based traceability in food SCM systems so to ensure the integrity and transparency of product information.


Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 1191
Author(s):  
Suman Kalyan Sardar ◽  
Biswajit Sarkar

Presently, it is essential to increase customer service such that the Supply Chain Management (SCM) can earn more profit in a sustainable manner. In the supply chain, the manufacturer and the retailer are two players who try to maintain the joint profit of the Supply Chain (SC) without only thinking about their own respective profits. However, the retailer may not provide all information to the manufacturer. This research introduces the use of the advanced technology Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) in a retailer’s shop to obtain exact information about customer demand. A consignment policy is used to increase the manufacturer profit, and a fixed fee is offered to the retailer to generate more profit in coordination with the manufacturer. This study is conducted with and without the effect of RFID to show the benefit of SCM even when the retailer is unreliable. Both models are solved using the classical optimization technique. Numerical findings prove that SCM can benefit from the outcome of this study even for unreliability. Coordination within SCM can be maintained for a long time by using the proposed recommendations of this study.


Author(s):  
D. Wright

Efficient supply chain management relies on knowing where products in the supply chain are located. The ability to track items from manufacturing plant to warehouse to distribution center to wholesaler to retailer is currently provided by RFID, radio frequency identification (Weinstein, 2005). Case examples of commercial applications of RFID in supply chain management are evaluated by Jones et al. (2004). A recent development, low power wireless personal area networking, WPAN, can offer advantages over RFID in certain circumstances. It is the purpose of this article to evaluate RFID and wireless personal area networks with respect to each other and to identify the features that give one an advantage over the other. We first describe the two technologies.


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