Safeguarding Backscatter RFID Communication against Proactive Eavesdropping

• Published in: ICC 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) pp. 1 - 6
• Main Authors: Zhao, Bing-Qing, Wang, Hui-Ming, Jiang, Jia-Cheng
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2020
• Subjects: artificial noise; Backscatter; Backscatter communication; Eavesdropping; Games; Optimization; physical layer security; proactive eavesdropping; Radiofrequency identification; Resource management; RFID; Security
• DOI: 10.1109/ICC40277.2020.9149064

Passive radio frequency identification (RFID) systems raise new transmission secrecy protection challenges against the special proactive eavesdropper, since it is able to both enhance the information wiretap and interfere with the information detection at the RFID reader simultaneously by broadcasting its own continuous wave (CW) signal. To defend against proactive eavesdropping attacks, we propose an artificial noise (AN) aided secure transmission scheme for the RFID reader, which superimposes an AN signal on the CW signal to confuse the proactive eavesdropper. The power allocation between the AN signal and the CW signal are optimized to maximize the secrecy rate. Furthermore, we model the attack and defense process between the proactive eavesdropper and the RFID reader as a hierarchical security game, and prove it can achieve the equilibrium. Simulation results show the superiority of our proposed scheme in terms of the secrecy rate and the interactions between the RFID reader and the proactive eavesdropper.