Fault-Tolerant Wireless LAN Roaming System Using Client Certificates

Kinoshita, Shunichi; Watanabe, Toshiki; Yamasaki, Yoshio; Goto, Hideaki; Sone, Hideaki

doi:10.1109/compsac.2013.137

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“…We developed earlier a disruption-tolerant roaming system in order to realize secure user authentication and to maintain local network use in temporarily isolated areas affected by natural disasters [5]. The term "disruption-tolerant" means that the function of a system is tolerant of a certain degree of network disruption by network outage or instability.…”

Section: Certificate-based Local Authenticationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Figure 2 shows the local authentication method which we proposed earlier in [5]. Local authentication is realized by the EAP-TLS [6], which is one of the EAP methods used in WPA2/WPA3 Enterprise.…”

Section: Certificate-based Local Authenticationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The network disruption means a temporary communication disorder due to network outage, instability, or out of service area. We developed earlier a disruptiontolerant roaming system in order to realize secure user authentication and to maintain local network use in temporarily isolated areas affected by natural disasters [5]. Our method realized local authentication by utilizing the EAP-TLS (Extensible Authentication Protocol -Transport Layer Security) [6] based on PKI (Public Key Infrastructure).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Section 2 introduces the above-mentioned two use cases in depth, provides related work, and sorts out the problems. Section 3 proposes a certificate-based local authentication method, which is based on our previous work [5], [11] but with a sophisticated architecture and much discussion on its implementation. This part provides the finalized architecture based on Ref.…”

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Disruption-tolerant Local Authentication Method for Network Roaming Systems

Goto

2024

Journal of Information Processing

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A network roaming system allows users to join the wireless or wired networks at various places where they visit. Authentication is a necessary process in the roaming system not only to restrict non-eligible users from network use but also to protect users from malicious activities by attackers. Since the authentication process is provided by remote servers in the current roaming systems, some use cases such as Public Wi-Fi in disaster-affected areas and In-Flight Wi-Fi on passenger aircrafts suffer from service interruption due to network disruptions. We developed earlier a disruption-tolerant system for Public Wi-Fi in order to realize secure user authentication and to maintain local network use in temporarily isolated areas affected by natural disasters. Following its underlying idea and architecture, we have developed two practical schemes of local authentication for large-scale Wi-Fi roaming systems, and designed a framework for In-Flight Wi-Fi. One is certificate-based local authentication using digital certificates. The other utilizes HMAC (Hash-based Message Authentication Code) and benefits from the simplicity of conventional ID/password-based authentication methods. The functionalities are tested using Proof-of-Concept systems.

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Section: Certificate-based Local Authenticationmentioning

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Section: Certificate-based Local Authenticationmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Disruption-tolerant Local Authentication Method for Network Roaming Systems

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2024

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“…Kinoshita et al proposed a disruption-tolerant authentication system [15]. To authenticate a roaming user at SPs, the authentication packet must be sent forward to the user's IdP in the conventional WLAN roaming system.…”

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Easy-to-Deploy Wireless Mesh Network System with User Authentication and WLAN Roaming Features

Niizuma

Goto

2017

IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

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SUMMARYWireless LAN (WLAN) roaming systems, such as eduroam, enable the mutual use of WLAN facilities among multiple organizations. As a consequence of the strong demand for WLAN roaming, it is utilized not only at universities and schools but also at the venues of large events such as concerts, conferences, and sports events. Moreover, it has also been reported that WLAN roaming is useful in areas afflicted by natural disasters. This paper presents a novel WLAN roaming system over Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) that is useful for the use cases shown above. The proposed system is based on two methods as follows: 1) Automatic authentication path generation method decreases the WLAN roaming system deployment costs including the wiring cost and configuration cost. Although the wiring cost can be reduced by using WMN technologies, some additional configurations are still required if we want to deploy a secure user authentication mechanism (e.g. IEEE 802.1X) on WLAN systems. In the proposed system, the Access Points (APs) can act as authenticators automatically using RadSec instead of RADIUS. Therefore, the network administrators can deploy 802.1X-based authentication systems over WMNs without additional configurations on-site. 2) Local authentication method makes the system deployable in times of natural disasters, in particular when the upper network is unavailable or some authentication servers or proxies are down. In the local authentication method, users and APs can be authenticated at the WMN by locally verifying the digital certificates as the authentication credentials.

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Disruption-tolerant Local Authentication Method for Continuous and Secure In-Flight Wireless LAN

Goto

2022

2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)

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Fault-Tolerant Wireless LAN Roaming System Using Client Certificates

Cited by 6 publications

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Disruption-tolerant Local Authentication Method for Network Roaming Systems

Disruption-tolerant Local Authentication Method for Network Roaming Systems

Easy-to-Deploy Wireless Mesh Network System with User Authentication and WLAN Roaming Features

Disruption-tolerant Local Authentication Method for Continuous and Secure In-Flight Wireless LAN

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