Title
Access and privacy control enforcement in RFID middleware systems: Proposal and implementation on the fosstrak platform
Abstract
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology offers a new way of automating the identification and storing of information in RFID tags. The emerging opportunities for the use of RFID technology in human centric applications like monitoring and indoor guidance systems indicate how important this topic is in term of privacy. Holding privacy issues from the early stages of RFID data collection helps to master the data view before translating it into business events and storing it in databases. An RFID middleware is the entity that sits between tag readers and database applications. It is in charge of collecting, filtering and aggregating the requested events from heterogeneous RFID environments. Thus, the system, at this point, is likely to suffer from parameter manipulation and eavesdropping, raising privacy concerns. In this paper, we propose an access and privacy controller module that adds a security level to the RFID middleware standardized by the EPCglobal consortium. We provide a privacy policy-driven model using some enhanced contextual concepts of the extended Role Based Access Control model, namely the purpose, the accuracy and the consent principles. We also use the provisional context to model security rules whose activation depends on the history of previously performed actions. To show the feasibility of our privacy enforcement model, we first provide a proof-of-concept prototype integrated into the middleware of the Fosstrak platform, then evaluate the performance of the integrated module in terms of execution time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s11280-015-0325-5
World Wide Web
Keywords
Field
DocType
RFID,Access control,Privacy policy,Middleware,EPCglobal,Provisional context
Middleware,Eavesdropping,Privacy by Design,Computer science,Computer security,Privacy policy,Role-based access control,Enforcement,Access control,Radio-frequency identification,Database
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
1
1386-145X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
21
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wiem Tounsi1423.71
Nora Cuppens-Boulahia2104391.60
Frederic Cuppens318214.57
Guy Pujolle42015267.64