Epothecary: Cost-effective drug pedigree tracking and authentication using mobile phones

SIGCOMM 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 SIGCOMM Conference and Co-Located Workshops, MobiHeld 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 13-18

  Paik, Michael ^a   Chen, Jay ^a   Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barcode; Counterfeit; Pedigree; SMS; Track trace

Indexed keywords

BAR CODES; COMMERCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; CRIME; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; MOBILE PHONES; SAMARIUM; TELEPHONE SETS;

COST EFFECTIVE; COUNTERFEIT; DEVELOPING WORLD; DISTRIBUTION CHAINS; MOBILE TELEPHONES; PEDIGREE; PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS; ROBUST SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84881142099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1592606.1592610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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