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This paper address a new problem in RFID authentication research for the first time. That is, existing RFID authentication schemes generally assume that the backend server is absolutely secure, however, this assumption is rarely tenable in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Wei Xie , Chen Zhang , Quan Zhang , Chaojing Tang

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and biometric technologies saw fast evolutions during the last years and which are used in several applications, such as access control. Among important characteristics in the RFID tags, we mention the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-25 Noureddine Chikouche , Foudil Cherif , Mohamed Benmohammed

The wireless medium contains domain-specific information that can be used to complement and enhance traditional security mechanisms. In this paper we propose ways to exploit the spatial variability of the radio channel response in a rich…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Liang Xiao , Larry Greenstein , Narayan Mandayam , Wade Trappe

Communication in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band has recently been proposed to enable giga-bit-per-second data rates for next generation wireless systems. Physical layer security techniques have emerged as a simple and yet effective way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Rohith Talwar , Nancy Amala , George Medina , Akshadeep Singh Jida , Mohammed E. Eltayeb

Ambient backscatter communication is an emerging and promising low-energy technology for the Internet of Things. In such a system, a tag sends a binary message to a reader by backscattering a radio frequency signal generated by an ambient…

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) has become an integral part of ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) applications due to its energy-harvesting capabilities and ultra-low-power consumption. However, the open wireless environment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yifan Zhang , Yongchao Dang , Masoud Kaveh , Zheng Yan , Riku Jäntti , Zhu Han

This paper presents a lightweight, protocol-agnostic security enhancement for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Building on a backscatter-based identification mechanism,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Taki Eddine Djidjekh , Alexandru Takacs , Gaël Loubet , Lamoussa Sanogo , Daniela Dragomirescu

Trusted identification is critical to secure IoT devices. However, the limited memory and computation power of low-end IoT devices prevent the direct usage of conventional identification systems. RF fingerprinting is a promising technique…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Tianhang Zheng , Zhi Sun , Kui Ren

Along with the development of internet of things and pervasive computing, researchers are increasingly focusing on server-less RFID authentication and searching protocols, which utilize mobile RFID readers. However, revealing privacy of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Wei Xie , Chen Zhang , Quan Zhang , Chaojing Tang

Radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) is a promising device identification technology, with recent research shifting from robustness to security due to growing concerns over vulnerabilities. To date, while the security of RFF against basic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhou Xu , Guyue Li , Zhe Peng , Aiqun Hu

Backscattering tag-to-tag networks (BTTNs) represent a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) system that enables direct communication between tags within an external radio frequency (RF) field. However, low spectral efficiency and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Zheng Yan , Riku Jantti

With millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communication envisioned to be the key enabler of next generation high data rate wireless networks, security is of paramount importance. While conventional security measures in wireless networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Sarankumar Balakrishnan , Shreya Gupta , Arupjyoti Bhuyan , Pu Wang , Dimitrios Koutsonikolas , Zhi Sun

Mobile crowdsensing allows a large number of mobile devices to measure phenomena of common interests and form a body of knowledge about natural and social environments. In order to get location annotations for indoor mobile crowdsensing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Qiang Xu , Rong Zheng , Ezzeldin Tahoun

It is estimated that the number of IoT devices will reach 75 billion in the next five years. Most of those currently, and to be deployed, lack sufficient security to protect themselves and their networks from attack by malicious IoT devices…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-18 Donald Reising , Joseph Cancelleri , T. Daniel Loveless , Farah Kandah , Anthony Skjellum

In this work we present the first passive attack over the SASI lightweight authentication protocol with modular rotations. This can be used to fully recover the secret $ID$ of the RFID tag, which is the value the protocol is designed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-11-27 Julio C. Hernandez-Castro , Juan M. E. Tapiador , Pedro Peris-Lopez , Jean-Jacques Quisquater

In this paper, we analyze the security of an RFID authentication protocol proposed by Liu and Bailey [1], called Privacy and Authentication Protocol (PAP), and show its vulnerabilities and faulty assumptions. PAP is a privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-08-24 Mu'awya Naser , Pedro Peris-Lopez , Mohammd Rafie , Jan van der Lubbe

Eavesdropping on voice conversations presents a growing threat to personal privacy and information security. In this paper, we present RadEar, a novel RF backscatter-based system designed to enable covert voice eavesdropping through walls.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Qijun Wang , Peihao Yan , Chunqi Qian , Huacheng Zeng

In this paper, we explore an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with backscattering RFID tags. In this setup, an access point employs a communication beam to serve a user while leveraging a sensing beam to detect an RFID…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Hao Luo , Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

An advanced technology known as a radio frequency identification (RFID) system enables seamless wireless communication between tags and readers. This system operates in what is referred to as a dense reader environment, where readers are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Hadiseh Rezaei , Rahim Taheri , Mohammad Shojafar

Radio Frequency (RF) fingerprinting is to identify a wireless device from its uniqueness of the analog circuitry or hardware imperfections. However, unlike the MAC address which can be modified, such hardware feature is inevitable for the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zhaoyi Lu , Wenchao Xu , Ming Tu , Xin Xie , Cunqing Hua , Nan Cheng