Design and implement of the EPC Discovery Services with confidentiality for multiple data owners

Abstract

Electronic Product Code Discovery Service (EPCDS), a well known and under developed standard provided by EPCglobal Network, is playing a crucial role in handling of the product visibility data throughout the supply chain. Recently, EPCDS now has a centralized data repository in which the data are registered by multiple data owners. To protect the privacy of the centralized data, this paper proposes a novel approach in how to handle the accessibility of the multiple data owners for the centralized EPCDS. The proposed framework facilitates the rules and techniques to authenticate the data owners and provides them the authority to access the allowed data. The data communication security through the internet is also included using Transport Layer Security (TLS). Based on the centralized EPCDS architecture, this framework provides flexibility and confidentiality for the data owners and ensures that their data will be protected from discovery by their business competitors or any unauthorized persons.