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	Joan Melià Seguí KISON Research Group Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) C/ Roc Boronat 117, 08018 (map) Barcelona - Spain Tlf: + 34 93.673.50.63 Email: melia (at) uoc (dot) edu

Research interests

My research interests are broadly in low-cost identification devices and security. My current research is focused on the design and security of pseudorandom number generators (PRNG) for UHF EPC Gen2 RFID, and its security and privacy issues.

I am also interested in the security and privacy of HF RFID, and low-cost sensor networks such as WISP.

Short bio

I was born in Maó, Menorca, a beautiful island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. I moved to Barcelona to study B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. I realized my M.Sc. Thesis at Mobile Communications department of Aalborg Universitet (Denmark).

After that period I worked as a RFID Project Engineer at AIDA Centre company and I simultaneously studied a M.Sc. in Information and Network Society at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. I received a grant to join the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute as a graduate student for Ph.D. realization, researching in Information Security and RFID in the KISON Research Group. My advisors are Dr. Jordi Herrera Joancomartí and Dr. Joaquín Garcia Alfaro.

Besides from my academic activity I co-founed the NGO Telecos Sense Fronteres (telecomms without borders), with the goal to improve the health and education systems of non-developed countries by means of communication technology. We're currently implementing a communications system between health centers in south Nicaragua's atlantic region.

Publications

J. Melia-Segui, J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti. A Practical Implementation Attack on Weak Pseudorandom Number Generator Designs for EPC Gen2 Tags. Journal of Wireless Personal Communications (WPC), Springer. [To appear]

J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti, J. Melia-Segui. A Multiple-Polynomial LFSR based Pseudorandom Number Generator Design for EPC Gen2 Systems. Mitacs Workshop on Network Security and Cryptography, Mitacs Focus Period, Toronto, Canada, June 2010. [abstract] [site]

J. Melia-Segui, J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti. Classification of security threats in RFID – EPC Gen2 systems. In XI Reunión Española sobre Criptología y Seguridad de la Información (Cryptography and Information Security Spanish Meeting), Tarragona, September 2010. [abstract] [pdf]

J. Melia-Segui, J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti. RFID EPC-Gen2 for Postal Applications: A Security and Privacy Survey. IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technology and Applications 2010 (RFID-TA2010), Guangzhou (China), June 2010. [abstract] [pdf]

J. Melia-Segui, J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti. Analysis and Improvement of a Pseudorandom Number Generator for EPC Gen2 Tags, Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography for Resource-Constrained Devices (WLC) Co-located with Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2010 conference, LNCS, Springer, Tenerife (Spain), January 2010. [abstract] [pdf]

J. Melia-Segui, J. Herrera-Joancomarti i J. García-Alfaro, EPC-RFID Security and Privacy for Postal Sector, RFIDSec Asia, Taipei (Taiwan), January 2009. [abstract]

J. Melia-Segui, J. Herrera-Joancomarti, and J. Garcia-Alfaro. Analisis de Seguridad y Privacidad para Sistemas EPC-RFID en el Sector Postal. In X Reunión Española sobre Criptología y Seguridad de la Información (Cryptography and Information Security Spanish Meeting), Salamanca, September 2008. [abstract] [pdf]

B. Gampl, S. Lange, M. Holweger, J. Melia-Segui and A. Uestuen. Analysis of guidelines for RFID implementation: status and recommendations. 4th WP, CE-RFID European Community Funded Project, June 2008. Site: http://www.rfid-in-action.eu/ [pdf]

GS1 Germany et al. Textile Industry Business Application. 7th WP, BRIDGE (Building Radio Frequency IDentification for the Global Environment) European Community Funded Project, Task 7.2 Requirements Analysis, 2007. Site: http://www.bridge-project.eu/ [pdf]

J. Melia-Segui, D. Pérez-Álvarez, A. Porros-Pérez. Context Aware Routing System in an Indoor Scenario. Master Thesis, Mobile Communications department, Aalborg University, Denmark, June 2005. [abstract] [pdf]