EURASIP RFID 2010
The third international EURASIP workshop on RFID technology will provide a premium forum for presentation of the most recent research in this new technology. The objective is to continue, accelerate, and broaden the momentum already gained in this field. This call for papers intends to solicit contributions on the latest research of this new technology for wireless communication systems, spanning from the individual tag to entire systems based on RFIDs.
10.10.2010 News:
new "Post Conference" section has been added. It includes future Call For Paper Links and conference pictures (a password is required to download the pictures)
Invited talk: Human Exposure in UHF RFID - current European norms and numerical issues in finding the SAR.
Dr. Stoyan Iliev, Kathrein, Germany
The UHF RFID systems are radio frequency devices which fall within the scope of the Directive 1999/5/EC of the European Commission.
This directive provides harmonized standards which define the requirements that RFID equipment should meet concerning its radio
spectrum matters, radiated power and human exposure issues. This paper analyzes the different assessment procedures which can be
applied in order to show conformity with the human exposure standards.
A particular emphasis is made on the necessity of numerical modelling of human phantoms for obtaining the specific absorption rate (SAR) caused
by the near field RFID antennas. When these antennas are used in applications where parts of the human body are few millimetres away from
them, it can be demonstrated using electromagnetic (EM) simulations that the SAR values do not achieve the ones required for conformity and this
way the harmless operation of the RFID equipment is ensured.
Invited talk: Security Challenges in RFID Communication.
Dr. Katerina Mitrokotsa, LASEC group, Swiss
RFID technology is a prominent area of research in ubiquitous computing.
Its contactless nature and potential for data processing and storage gives it many advantages over existing machine-readable identification techniques (e.g. barcodes, optical recognition charters).
Nevertheless, RFID systems present a number of inherent vulnerabilities with serious potential security implications.
In this presentation we will provide a clear overview of possible threats against RFID technology ranging from the application to the physical layer and provide real world examples.
We will identify the main security and privacy risks in RFID communication.
One important threat are relay attacks, which can be used to fool a legitimate reader about the proximity of an RFID tag.
We shall discuss how distance bounding authentication protocols can be used to thwart them.
