A New and Efficient Distance Bounding Protocol

RFID tags are exposed to different location based attacks including mafia-fraud and terrorist-fraud attacks. These attacks are also called relay attacks and are very difficult to prevent, as they are similar to a man-in-the-middle attack. Distance bounding protocols are a very good solution to thwart such type of attacks and is very popular area of research now a days. Different Distance-Bounding protocols (DBPs) have been presented over the time, however, most of them are either found vulnerable against relay attacks or are too complex to implement in low-cost resource constrained RFID tags. In this paper, we have analyzed different DBPs and have proposed a novel and efficient Distance Bounding protocol. The proposed protocol provides the ideal resistance against mafia fraud and terrorist fraud attacks with reduced computation, memory and communication overheads.