Title: Trust in RFID-enabled Supply-Chain Management

Authors: Manmeet Mahinderjit-Singh, Xue Li

Addresses: School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia. ' School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia

Abstract: RFID-enabled supply-chain systems are in an open-system environment, where different organisations have different business workflows and operate on different standards and protocols. This supply-chain environment can only be effective if the partners can trust each other and be collaborative. Besides that, counterfeiting is a challenging issue in RFID Supply-Chain Management (SCM). On the basis of the analysis of traditional trust framework in SCM, this paper proposes a seven-layer RFID trust framework. An example of integration of our trust framework with SCM systems is presented. Taxonomy of cloning threats and solutions is also presented.

Keywords: RFID; radio frequency identification; SCM; supply chain management; trust; security; authentication; supply chain collaboration; counterfeiting.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSN.2010.032208

International Journal of Security and Networks, 2010 Vol.5 No.2/3, pp.96 - 105

Published online: 17 Mar 2010 *

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