Probabilistic Approach for Location-Based Authentication

This paper explores location-based product authentication in a situation where only the past locations of products that flow in a supply chain are known. We transform location-based authentication into a pattern recognition problem and investigate different solutions based on machine-learning techniques. The proposed solutions are studied with computer simulations that model the flow of genuine and counterfeit products in a generic pharmaceutical supply chain. The results suggest that machine-learning techniques could be used to automatically identify suspicious products from the incomplete location information. This paper is published in the proceedings of first International Workshop on Security for Spontaneous Interaction, IWSSI 2007, organized in the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Austria, September 2007.

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