A Blockchain Based Authentication Mechanism in Wireless Local Area Network

DOI

10.2991/cnci-19.2019.33How to use a DOI?

Keywords

WLAN, Security, Decentralized, Authentication, Blockchain, Smart Contract.

Abstract

Considering the security of the widely used WLAN technology, a secure, flexible and reliable authentication scheme is definitely necessary. Most of the existing schemes adopt centralized authentication process, making it vulnerable to DDoS attack, faked AP and the leak of shared secrets. We propose a blockchain based authentication system in the WLAN scenario, taking advantage of the decentralization and tamper resistant characteristics of the blockchain, to make everyone know the exactly information about the WLAN and have the opportunity to authenticate other’s access request. Our analysis and comparison show that it’s more convenient and has better security properties.

Copyright

© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuan Yao
AU  - Tao Xie
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - A Blockchain Based Authentication Mechanism in Wireless Local Area Network
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Computer, Network, Communication and Information Systems (CNCI 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 227
EP  - 231
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/cnci-19.2019.33
DO  - 10.2991/cnci-19.2019.33
ID  - Yao2019/05
ER  -