DHCP-based Authentication for Mobile Users/Terminals in a Wireless Access Network

In this paper we present a simple solution to control the wireless users/terminals access to the services offered by a wireless access provider and ultimately to the global Internet. We enhance the DHCP configuration procedure with authentication capability, and add further filtering control at the access router interfacing with the global Internet. This required adding some functionality in the DHCP server; while the DHCP client is unchanged. This feature allows personalizing the offered service based on user’s credentials and profile.