Integration of Wifi Services Based on the IEEE802.11u Standard

This paper presents a novel technique to integrate multiple Wifi services into a single hardware access point. This is achieved by combining service advertisement mechanism defined in the IEEE 802.11u standard and dynamic VLAN assignment used in enterprise-level networks, both of which are for authentication techniques to achieve secure and flexible access to IP-based networks. Compared to virtual access points which is normal solution, a larger number of services can be integrated into an access point without degrading the performance of network access services. The method, the implementation a prototype system and the result of performance test are described.