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An Automatic AP Connections Scheme using iBeacon

iBeacon을 이용한 AP 자동접속 방안

  • Nam, ChoonSung (College of Information and Communication Engineering, SungKyunKwan University) ;
  • Shin, DongRyeol (College of Information and Communication Engineering, SungKyunKwan University)
  • Received : 2016.03.15
  • Accepted : 2017.01.05
  • Published : 2017.04.30

Abstract

There are two kinds of wireless network access to a certain place by using smart devices - 1) open (anonymous) - access and 2) user-authorized access. The open-access is a non-authorization connection method which does not need to require Smart device's user authorized information. It means open-access use only user's SSID (Service Set Identifier) information to access the wireless AP devices following public wireless network standard. This access mechanism is not suitable to use all of public wireless networks because users have to get all wireless network information around them. As a result, huge data for smart devices should be one of the most critical overload problems for them. Secondly, the user-authorized access method uses wireless network information (SSID and password) chosen by the users. So, the users have to remember and use the network access information data manually whenever accessing the network. Like open-access, this access method also has the operational and inconvenient problem for the users - manually inputting access information whenever connecting to the network. To overcome this problem in both schemes, we propose two improved wireless network access methods: 1) the implementation of automatic AP connection mechanism using user-authorization and iBeacon messages, and 2) SSID registration form for public wireless networks.

스마트 디바이스를 이용하여 특정 공간에서 미리 설정된 무선랜에 접속하는 방법은 개방형 방식과 사용자 인증 방식으로 나뉠 수 있다. 개방형 방식은 무선랜 접속을 위한 인증이 없이 접속하는 방법이다. 스마트 디바이스 사용자가 자신이 사용하려는 무선랜에 대한 정보를 SSID(Service Set IDentifier)를 통해 공공 무선랜 표기 형식에 따라 제공받아야 하지만, 모든 개방형 무선랜이 이러한 방식을 수동으로 입력하는 방식에는 무리가 있다. 반면에 사용자 인증 방식은 SSID와 PW(PassWord) 설정을 통해 사용자에게 무선랜 접속을 제공하는 방식이다. 따라서 SSID를 통해 공공 무선랜 표기 형식을 따를 수는 있지만, AP 접속을 위해서는 일일이 사용자가 수동으로 패스워드 입력을 통해 AP에 접속해야만 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 사용자 인증방식과 공공 무선랜 표기형식을 iBeacon 메시지 수신을 통해 자동적으로 AP에 접속할 수 있는 방안을 제안한다.

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