Secure registration protocol for media appliances in wireless home networks

Wireless LANs based on the IEEE 802.11 technology are becoming increasingly prevalent. Te availability of high bandwidth together with the convenience of being a wireless medium makes it a compelling technology for multimedia-based applications. In this paper, we present a gateway-based architecture of the wireless home media network and develop a secure registration protocol that is appropriate for such an architecture. The primary goal of the protocol is to provide a secure bootstrap registration mechanism for a new media appliance and to ensure a secure communication path between appliances and the gateway that minimizes the resource usage at the appliance.