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http://dx.doi.org/10.7472/jksii.2017.18.2.01

An Automatic AP Connections Scheme using iBeacon  

Nam, ChoonSung (College of Information and Communication Engineering, SungKyunKwan University)
Shin, DongRyeol (College of Information and Communication Engineering, SungKyunKwan University)
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Journal of Internet Computing and Services / v.18, no.2, 2017 , pp. 1-11 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Autonomous access; Access point; Public wireless LAN; SSID; iBeacon; Android;
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