A Blockchain-Based Secure Radio Frequency Identification Ownership Transfer Protocol

Abstract

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.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jan 07, 2022
Source ID
10.1155/2022/9377818

Entities

People

  • Jia-Ning Luo
  • M. Vijayalakshmi
  • Ming-Hour Yang
  • S. Mercy Shalinie
  • Shou-Chuan Lai

Organizations

  • Ming Chuan University
  • National Defense University
  • Thiagarajar College of Engineering

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.

Technology Areas

  • 5G
  • 5G - DoD 5G Program
  • 5G - Internet of Things