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Reputation-based Wi-Fi deployment protocols and security analysis

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Naouel Ben Salem,

Jean-Pierre Hubaux,

Markus JakobssonAuthors Info & Claims

WMASH '04: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots

Pages 29 - 40

https://doi.org/10.1145/1024733.1024738

Published: 01 October 2004 Publication History

Abstract

In recent years, wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) have established thousands of WiFi hot spots in cafes, hotels and airports in order to offer to travelling Internet users access to email, web or other Internet service. However, two major problems still slow down the deployment of this kind of networks: the lack of a seamless roaming scheme and the variable quality of service experienced by the users. This paper provides a response to these two problems: We present a solution that, on the one hand, allows a mobile node to connect to a foreign WISP in a secure way while preserving its anonymity and, on the other hand, encourages the WISPs to provide the users with good QoS. We analyse the robustness of our solution against various attacks and we prove by means of simulations that our reputation model indeed encourages the WISPs to behave correctly.

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Reputation-based Wi-Fi deployment protocols and security analysis
1. Networks
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  2. Network types
    1. Mobile networks
    2. Wireless access networks

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WMASH '04: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots

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156 pages

ISBN:1581138776

DOI:10.1145/1024733

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University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
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Seoul National University, Korea
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Intel Research, Seattle, WA

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