TY  - EJOU
AU  - Jiang, Xin  
AU  - Liu, Mingzhe  
AU  - Yang, Chen  
AU  - Liu, Yanhua  
AU  - Wang, Ruili  

TI  - A Blockchain-Based Authentication Protocol for WLAN Mesh Security Access
T2  - Computers, Materials \& Continua

PY  - 2019
VL  - 58
IS  - 1
SN  - 1546-2226

AB  - In order to deploy a secure WLAN mesh network, authentication of both users and APs is needed, and a secure authentication mechanism should be employed. However, some additional configurations of trusted third party agencies are still needed on-site to deploy a secure authentication system. This paper proposes a new block chain-based authentication protocol for WLAN mesh security access, to reduce the deployment costs and resolve the issues of requiring key delivery and central server during IEEE 802.11X authentication. This method takes the user’s authentication request as a transaction, considers all the authentication records in the mesh network as the public ledger and realizes the effective monitoring of the malicious attack. Finally, this paper analyzes the security of the protocol in detail, and proves that the new method can solve the dependence of the authentication node on PKI and CA.
KW  - WLAN mesh
KW  -  block chain
KW  -  authentication protocol
KW  -  public ledger

DO  - 10.32604/cmc.2019.03863