WO2015071395A1 - Procédé de configuration d'un dispositif de répétition dans un réseau sans fil, et dispositif d'installation d'abonné - Google Patents

Procédé de configuration d'un dispositif de répétition dans un réseau sans fil, et dispositif d'installation d'abonné Download PDF

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WO2015071395A1
WO2015071395A1 PCT/EP2014/074566 EP2014074566W WO2015071395A1 WO 2015071395 A1 WO2015071395 A1 WO 2015071395A1 EP 2014074566 W EP2014074566 W EP 2014074566W WO 2015071395 A1 WO2015071395 A1 WO 2015071395A1
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Koen Van Oost
Frederik Verwaest
Stijn SEGERS
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W84/00—Network topologies
    • H04W84/02—Hierarchically pre-organised networks, e.g. paging networks, cellular networks, WLAN [Wireless Local Area Network] or WLL [Wireless Local Loop]
    • H04W84/04—Large scale networks; Deep hierarchical networks
    • H04W84/042—Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
    • H04W84/047—Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems using dedicated repeater stations
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W12/00—Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity
    • H04W12/50—Secure pairing of devices
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W88/00—Devices specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. terminals, base stations or access point devices
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  • the invention relates to the field of customer-premises equipment devices including a Wi-Fi node and coupled to an IP (Internet Protocol) network, e.g. via a digital subscriber line to a network service provider.
  • IP Internet Protocol
  • Residential gateways are widely used to connect devices in the home to the Internet or to any other wide area network (WAN) .
  • Residential gateways use in particular digital subscriber line (DSL) technology that enables a high data rate transmission over copper lines or optical lines.
  • DSL digital subscriber line
  • xDSL digital subscriber line
  • ADSL and VDSL digital subscriber line
  • xDSL digital subscriber line
  • optical transmission for Internet services is well known, for example fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and fiber-to-the premises (FTTP) .
  • Residential gateways, but also other devices such as routers, WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) forwarders, repeaters, switches, telephones and set-top boxes, are understood in this context as customer premises equipment (CPE) devices .
  • CPE customer premises equipment
  • Wi-Fi A mechanism for connecting wireless devices to a local area network (LAN) is called Wi-Fi, which is a brand name of the Wi-Fi Alliance for devices using the IEEE 802.11 family of standards for wireless data transmission.
  • the IEEE 802.11 standards define two types of wireless nodes, a general wireless device that can connect to other devices, called a station (denoted as STA) , and a special type of a STA that is in control of the network, namely an access point (denoted AP) .
  • STA station
  • AP access point
  • a Wi-Fi network also called WLAN, consists of an AP with one or several STA connected to the AP .
  • WLAN repeater or "range extender”.
  • range extender Such a repeating device connects to the main access point and repeats or extends the service area by allowing devices to connect to a WLAN repeater as if they were connecting to the main access point.
  • WDS wireless distribution system
  • WDS wireless distribution system
  • WDS a non-infrastructure WLAN mode
  • WDS offers the advantage that it is able to transparently encapsulate Layer 2 Ethernet frames and does not require a lot of protocol stack to be able to exchange frames. It can be considered as a virtual Ethernet connection, which is considered very useful when repeating the in- home LAN, as the solution behaves similar to another access point that uses wired Ethernet to make the connection to the main access point or broadband
  • gateway Hence a grid of access points can be placed in the home environment, allowing client devices to roam from access point to access point.
  • FIG. 1 An example wireless network including a WDS bridge is schematically illustrated in figure 1.
  • a first access point defines together with a first station PCI a first basic service set (BSS) BSS 1, and a second access point defines together with a second station PC2 a second basic service set BSS 2.
  • the first and second access points are connected via a WDS bridge, defining an extended service set (ESS) , a set of two interconnected BSSs that share the same SSID (Basic Service Set
  • the ESS appears as a single BSS to the stations PCI, PC2, which facilitates secure roaming applications.
  • a typical wireless network includes the components WLAN: a
  • PHY physical layer
  • WLAN driver a WLAN driver
  • WLAN management daemon a security application providing encryption for the security of the wireless network.
  • WDS has advantages as mentioned before, but there are also severe issues to overcome before being able to deploy a WDS based WLAN repeater.
  • WPS wireless protected setup
  • 802. lx 802. lx
  • device detection e.g. scanning for beacons and based on that a launch for a connection attempt
  • the method for a configuration of a repeating device within a wireless network including an access point and a first station comprises
  • the repeating device connecting to the access point as a second station via a secure wireless connection, the repeating device retrieving from the access point network settings of the wireless network, and after having received the network settings, the
  • the repeating device transforming from the access point mode to a repeater mode to enable a repeater function with the first station.
  • the repeating device retrieves in particular all necessary network settings from the access point to set up a wireless link with the access point .
  • the repeating device boots in a station mode after switching on the repeating device within the wireless network, for providing a connection of the repeating device with the access point as the second station.
  • the repeating device then retrieves the necessary network settings from the access point: a Basic Service Set Identification of the access point, a network channel on which the access point operates - implicitly derived by scanning for the access point and connecting to it -, and a security mechanism of the access point, to set up a wireless link with the access point. Retrieval of the security mechanism requires for example to retrieve both the set of security
  • Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) key and or passphrase e.g. a Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) key and or passphrase, and the type and version of the WPA.
  • WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
  • a customer premises equipment device comprises a software application for performing the method.
  • the customer premises equipment device is in particular a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) repeater, for example, but not limited to, a WDS based WLAN repeater.
  • WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
  • a non-transitory program storage medium has stored therein a software application including instructions, which when executed by the customer premises equipment device perform a method for a configuration of a repeating device within a wireless network.
  • Fig. 1 two wireless networks being interconnected via a WDS bridge according to prior art
  • Figs. 2-4 a wireless network including a repeating
  • Fig. 5 a message flow diagram for illustrating a
  • Fig. 6 an architecture for a wireless network in
  • a customer premises equipment (CPE) device includes in a preferred embodiment a controller, e.g. a
  • the Wi-Fi node includes a complex software driver, a physical layer with data buffers and an antenna.
  • a CPE device of this kind is for example a residential gateway, which has a central position within a wireless local area network (WLAN) , or a WLAN
  • a method for an automatic configuration of a wireless repeating device R within a wireless network including an access point 2 (AP) and a first station (STA) 1 is explained with regard to figures 2-4.
  • STA 1 in figure 2 experiences a weak RF signal connection to the AP 2, e.g. due to a large path loss.
  • Adding a repeating device, e.g. a repeater R, in between the AP 2 and the STA 1 is presented as a solution to overcome the large path loss, figure 3.
  • R e.g. a WDS-repeater
  • R will scan and connect with a given AP, here AP 2, hence the issue of not being able to establish the operating channel of the AP 2 is solved.
  • the repeater R boots up in the station functional role and can then be connected to the AP 2, either via WPS (wireless protected setup) , or via a manual
  • a dedicated application included in the repeater R contacts the AP 2 to retrieve the necessary information to configure the repeater R, e.g. as a WDS repeater.
  • the first station 1 then connects to the repeater R because the repeater R is providing a higher signal strength with regard to AP 2, figure 4.
  • a security key to encrypt the WDS link AP 2 - repeater R (note that the actual key is irrelevant for the concept of the system.
  • the « key » could even be a set of VPN credentials to set up a tunnel between 2 WDS nodes ; an example could be a 64 character key that can be used to AES encrypt the WDS frames) .
  • a Media Access Control (MAC) address of the remote WDS peer AP 2.
  • the repeater application can trigger the repeater device R - currently in station role - to switch to an access point role and enable a parallel WDS node configuring both of them with the acquired information.
  • Figure 6 depicts the newly created architecture, corresponding with figure 4.
  • the repeater application realises the maintenance function through a link detection coupled to a role change trigger.
  • Link detection is realised by sending probe signals through the WDS link: AP 2 - repeating device R.
  • the repeater application determines that the link is lost by not having received a probe signal during a defined time window, it will transition the repeater device R back into the station mode so that the repeater device R can start to recover the lost link.
  • the invention leverages on the fact that a repeating device can act as a station first and via this way retrieves all necessary configuration to set up a wireless link, e.g. a WDS link.
  • a wireless link e.g. a WDS link.
  • all the standardized techniques such as WPS, WPA-PSK ... can be applied to form a connection between the repeating device and an access point.
  • an application can run so that credentials and/or wireless network information can be exchanged and the repeating device can transition from infrastructure mode device STA to non-infrastructure mode AP/WDS-repeater .
  • the concept of using a multi-role device to retrieve all the configuration info in a standard way via a dedicated application is

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L'invention concerne un procédé de configuration d'un dispositif de répétition (R) dans un réseau sans fil comportant un point d'accès (2) et une première station (1), qui consiste en la connexion par le dispositif de répétition au point d'accès en tant que seconde station par le biais d'une connexion sans fil sécurisée, le dispositif de répétition extrayant du point d'accès les réglages du réseau sans fil, et après réception des réglages du réseau sans fil, le dispositif de répétition passant du mode de point d'accès à un mode de répétiteur afin de permettre une fonction de répétiteur avec la première station. Le dispositif de répétition extrait en particulier à partir du point d'accès tous les réglages réseau nécessaires pour établir une liaison sans fil avec le point d'accès.
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