Pub Date : 2024-12-09DOI: 10.1109/JRFID.2024.3507492
Alessandra Costanzo;Andrea Nardin
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Pub Date : 2024-11-29DOI: 10.1109/JRFID.2024.3509617
Francesca Maria Chiara Nanni;Gaetano Marrocco
Fingerprinting stands as an effective non-intrusive and non-destructive method to ensure physical security in wireless systems and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) applications. Conventionally, the most common state of the art approach involves extracting signal features from the devices and employing machine learning techniques for the classification of counterfeit or cloned ones. This paper explores how to enhance RFID antenna electromagnetic fingerprints by proposing a multi-power interrogation approach. Unlike traditional methods, our technique emphasizes the non-linear behavior of RFID integrated circuits (ICs) by properly varying the reader input power and frequencies. This strategy increases the unpredictability of the IC impedance modulation, thereby extracting richer and more complex information from the RFID tags. Using Shannon Information Theory, we can quantify the entropy of these enhanced fingerprints, revealing an average increase of almost 2 bits in the information content compared to single-power level interrogations. Our findings can lay the foundations to implement more robust RF physical unclonable functions (PUFs) with robust physical keys against counterfeiting and replication threats.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-18DOI: 10.1109/JRFID.2024.3501355
Gene-Jinhan Ng;Muthukannan Murugesh;Eng-Hock Lim;Pei-Song Chee;Jen-Hahn Low;Chun-Hui Tan
A simple, single-layer anti-metal tag that is designed using a truncated patch antenna has been proposed. The patch configuration is simple as it only requires the use of two truncated corners and an inclined I-slit as its effective tuning mechanisms, all of which can be easily made on the single surface of a substrate. With the application of the two tuning mechanisms, the tag resonant frequency can be easily tuned by adjusting the geometrical parameters of the truncations and the I-slit, without the involvement of metallic vias/stubs and multiple-layer structures. It makes such a tag convenient for mass manufacturing. The proposed tag has a miniature size (40 mm $times $