A hardware-enabled certificate of authenticity system with intrinsically high entropy

The objective of the proposed research is the design and fabrication of a novel stand-alone wireless robust system with enhanced hardware-enabled authentication and anti-counterfeiting capabilities. The system consists of two major components; the near-field certificates of authenticity (CoA), which serve as authenticity vouchers of the products they are attached to, and a microcontroller-enabled, low-power and low-cost reader. Small-sized passive physical three-dimensional structures that are composed of extremely cheap conductive and dielectric materials are shown to yield a unique and repeatable RF signature in a small portion of the frequency spectrum when brought in the reactive and radiating near-field regions of an array of miniature antennas. The multidimensional features of these CoAs, or in other words their signature or fingerprint, are cryptographically signed and digitally stored. The contactless signature validation procedure, in which an attempt to associate the near-field signature response of the physical CoA with the digitized signature, is carried out by the reader designed and fabricated. This low-cost reader operates autonomously and in an offline fashion. The feasibility and performance robustness of the system, in terms of accuracy, consistency and speed of capturing of the signatures, is rigorously assessed with a wide array of tests. Moreover, the entropy, or uncertainty, of the signatures generated by the system are empirically quantified and verified to achieve a virtually impossible false alarm. The aforementioned characteristics of the realized authentication system make it applicable to a vast array of physical objects that needs protection against counterfeiters.Ph.D

Evolutionary Algorithm with Covariance Matrix Adaptation (EA-CMA) and Use on Optimization Problems

Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο--Μεταπτυχιακή Εργασία. Διεπιστημονικό-Διατμηματικό Πρόγραμμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών (Δ.Π.Μ.Σ.) “Υπολογιστική Μηχανική

Concealable, low-cost paper-printed antennas for WISP-based RFIDs

Paper-based, inkjet-printed antennas are proposed in this paper as replacement for the typical antennas used on the WISP RFID tag. These antennas are designed to be as concealable as possible. The designs presented exploit meandered techniques in order to achieve significantly reduced dimensions. In particularly, text-based meandered line techniques are applied to obtain both decreased size and concealment. The inkjet printing has been chosen to provide a substrate, which suits the aim of concealment for the final device. Moreover, this paper shows how the inkjet printing techniques perfectly match the text-based design proposed in terms of high applicability. A comparison with the normal antennas mounted on the WISP is performe

Low-cost Low-power Small-form-factor Node for Health Monitoring Wireless Multi-Hop Personal Area Networks with Dramatically Increased Range

The medical device field is an emerging technology that has captured the interest of many engineers. The increased life expectancy created the need for reliable real time vital signal monitoring from the comfort of the home, to be transmitted to an Internet database for continuous access of medical personnel. Standard techniques fo