LRAPM: A Lightweight RFID Authentication Protocol for MIoT Systems

Subject Areas : Communication Engineering

Alireza Abdollahi ¹ , Mahdi Sajadieh ² , Mohammad Rohollah Yazdani ³

1 - Department of Electrical Engineering, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Department of Electrical Engineering, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Department of Electrical Engineering, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2022-08-24 Accepted : 2022-10-30 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: MIOT, Lightweight authentication, Reader impersonation, De-synchronization,

Abstract :

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) networks have extensively been used in various practical field, one of the most important of which is medical Internet of Things (MIoT). In these networks, radio frequency identification (RFID) is one of the main technologies in creating an authentication system that is able to efficiently identify and identify medical equipment and patients. Therefore, researchers in this field have proposed different authentication protocols for RFID-based MIOT systems and claimed that they are resistant to active and passive attacks. Contrary to their claims, most of these protocols are not resistant to conventional attacks. Fan et al. have recently proposed a lightweight RFID authentication scheme for cloud-based RFID health-care systems and claimed that it is sufficiently efficient and secure. In this paper , we analyzed the Fan et al protocole and demonstrated that their protocol is vulnerable to replay, reader impersonation, tag tracking, and de-synchronization attacks. Moreover, we show how the similarity of some of their protocol messages causes attack. Then, we propose an improved protocol (LRAMP) that is resistant to these and other known attacks in RFID authentication protocol. According to security analysis, we can see that the LRAPM protocol has a high level of security. This high security can only be achieved by adding a new message and changing other messages. A comparison of the performance of the LRAPM protocol shows that this protocol is comparable to similar protocols in terms of computational costs, storage costs and communication costs.

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