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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2020)

Articles

RADIUS Authentication on Unifi Enterprise System Controller using Zero-Handoff Roaming in Wireless Communication

https://doi.org/10.38094/jastt1427

Published 2020-08-07

  • Diyar Naman
    • ,
  • Mohammad Abdulwahab
    • ,
  • Abbas Ibrahim

Diyar Naman
Ministry of Education, Duhok, Kurdistan Region – Iraq

Mohammad Abdulwahab
Dept. of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Zakho, Kurdistan Region – Iraq

Abbas Ibrahim
Dept. of Petroleum Engineering, College Engineering, University of Zakho, Kurdistan Region – Iraq

Abstract

The demand for setting up a wireless LAN internet connectivity is almost mandatory for every commercial building, home, company, and educational institutions. With the growing number and height of buildings as well as the number of users, it has become essential to apply new techniques to provide better wireless network services, especially for security issue with many applications used by an attacker that can decrypt the traditional password to use network resources, that’s lead to poor network performance for providing network services for people authorized to use it. All of that is almost a very challenge issue when applying outdated techniques. In this research a wireless network has been created considering a large number of users in a multi-floor building using a new control system which can solve the problems by setting up RADIUS authentication via that wireless network with a webpage that automatically appears to the user immediately after connecting to the wireless radio signal and automatically gaining an IP address, lead user directly to the temporary page asking him for  authentication, if the user has the right username and password or even sometimes a code called Voucher, he will get a package assigned to his priority. This technology will eliminate the vulnerability on the wireless connection and the unauthorized user will be discarded from the router, in addition of that authorized users will get authenticated to make better use of network resources.

Keywords

RADIUS, Hotspot, Unified Controller System, Zero-Handover

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