A Method of Authenticating WLAN APs for Smartphones 


Vol. 39,  No. 1, pp. 17-28, Jan.  2014


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The increase of smartphone users have made mobile carriers offload increasingly congested traffic of 3/4G by providing Wi-Fi hot-spots in the public places such as coffee shops and subway stations. In the traditional authentication in WLAN, the users should convince the service providers that they are valid customers before they use WLAN services. Since the authentication protocol is designed for service providers. Even with the mutual authentication based on the IEEE 802.1X, which is supported by IEEE 802.11 standard, it is difficult to be convinced of that the service providers really have installed the WLAN APs, which users are confronted with. An attacker can install rogue APs that masquerade as legitimate APs by copying the SSID, MAC address, etc. in order to obtain users’ private information. In this paper, we introduce a method of authenticating legitimate APs for smartphone users. And we show our proposal can be well utilized for the current Wi-Fi hot-spots as a security plug-in and prove it through our experiments.

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[IEEE Style]

D. Shin, J. Kang, D. Nyang, S. Lee, K. Lee, "A Method of Authenticating WLAN APs for Smartphones," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 17-28, 2014. DOI: .

[ACM Style]

DongOh Shin, Jeonil Kang, DaeHun Nyang, Sokjoon Lee, and KyungHee Lee. 2014. A Method of Authenticating WLAN APs for Smartphones. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 39, 1, (2014), 17-28. DOI: .

[KICS Style]

DongOh Shin, Jeonil Kang, DaeHun Nyang, Sokjoon Lee, KyungHee Lee, "A Method of Authenticating WLAN APs for Smartphones," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 17-28, 1. 2014.

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