Providing security for wireless community networks

  • Authors:

  • Milena Radenkovic;Heidi Howard;Jon Crowcroft;Murray Goulden;Christian Greiffenhagen;Derek McAuley;Richard Mortier

  • Affiliations:

  • The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom;The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom;The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 ACM MobiCom workshop on Lowest cost denominator networking for universal access
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper describes a new Internet access paradigm based on Lowest Cost Denominator Networking - the Public Access WiFi Service (PAWS) - that utilises the unused capacity of home broadband connections and provides users who are unable to afford paying for the service with Less-than-Best- Effort access to these resources. We identify the security and architectural challenges faced by the project and propose our solution that enables free internet connectivity to public services for the local community, in a secure and scalable manner.