Impulse-Based UWB for Next Generation Secure and Tunable Short-Range Wireless Infrastructures

Abstract:

There will be increasing demand for high confidentiality, integrity, authentication, for widely deployment of the next RFID generation beside that, the focus will be on avoiding encryption algorithms; as these require more complex modulation, to secure communication between RFID’s tags and readers. In this paper, the focus will be on securing the communication channel between tags and readers at the physical layer, rather than to secure the contents of RFIDs data by encryption. The RFID reader initially will communicate with the tag through a narrowband communication and subsequently through broadband communication, by generating ultra wide-band signal using pulse position modulation with time hopped, it can be a novel approach for RFID security as it simplify or eliminate cryptographic requirements with the same security level of existing passive RFIDs, also it allow simultaneous multiple access without-collision, which will enhance the overall RFID systems performance. The design of the system will be shown by modeling the communication, the designing details of the transmitter as well as the receiver, finally showing the simulated results of modulated signal with its specific parameters as well as the receiver performance.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 793)
• Pages: 535-540
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.793.535
• Online since: September 2015
• Authors: Ezeddin Sanam*, Kamaruzzaman Seman, M.S. Jawad, Abadal Salam T. Hussain, Mohd Zalisham Jali
• Keywords: AWGN, Cryptography, RFID, Time Hopping Pulse Position, AWGN, UWB

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