Authentication and authorization service for a community network

Abstract

Wireless community networks became popular in uniting people with common interests. This thesis presents authentication and authorization service for a wireless community network using captive portal approach including ability to authenticate clients from associated networks thereby combining multiple communities in a syndicate.

The system is designed and implemented to be reliable, scalable and flexible. Moreover, the result includes software management system, which automatically performs software updates at network’s access points. Future development of the system can be concentrated on an improvement of the software management system.