Abstract-

RFID plays an increasingly prominent role in the areas including Safety and Compliance, Real-time Asset Monitoring, Enhanced Asset Management, Streamlined Maintenance Operations, and Cost Optimization. They are also used in the national infrastructure including Airports, Smart Grid, Nuclear power plants, and Defense applications. Use of RFID in the national infrastructure requires its security to be of “Military grade” – above and beyond security for non-critical application.  The security challenges for RFID include Eavesdropping, Cloning and Spoofing, Unauthorized Access and Replay, Denial of Service (DoS), Privacy, and Electromagnetic Interference. Low cost and physical constraints of the devices are challenges to implementation of practical mitigation schemes, since for example, cryptographic solutions have to be lightweight.  This workshop aims to bring together subject matter experts from industry, government, and academia to present and discuss use of RFID in the critical infrastructure along with the necessary security properties, current security challenges, and how these can be mitigated.

Chair: Arupjyoti (Arup) Bhuyan,

Directorate Fellow and Director of Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Wireless Security Institute

Short Bio- 
 Dr. Arupjyoti (Arup) Bhuyan is the Director of the Wireless Security Institute (WSI) and a Directorate Fellow in the Idaho National Laboratory(INL). The focus of his research is on secure implementation of future generations of wireless communications with scientific exploration and engineering innovations across the fields of wireless technology, cybersecurity, and computational science. Specific goals are to lead and focus wireless security research efforts for 5G/6G and Wi-Fi 6E/7 with national impact, to secure 5G/6G spectrum sharing with distributed scheduling, and to secure cellular communication for a nationwide unmanned aerial system.  Arup is currently the primary investigator (PI) of the 5G Threat Assessment program work in INL for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E) in the Department of Defense (DoD). He serves as a  Member of the Advisory Board in Platform for Open Wireless Data-driven Experimental Research (POWDER), in the University of Utah.  Arup has extensive industry experience in wireless communications from his work before he joined INL in October 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Sciences from Yale University. He is a senior member of IEEE.