Access point selection mechanism to circumvent rogue access points using voting‐based query procedure

One of the challenging issues in wireless network is rogue access point (RAP) detection and mitigation. The authors propose a new access point (AP) selection mechanism to keep wireless users from RAPs. A centralised server called AP registration centre (APRC) maintains a list of authorised APs, and a wireless user can check if a specific AP is legitimate by querying APRC about its legitimacy in a secure way using the concept of voting and signal strength‐based authentication. The authors compare their scheme with a timing‐based scheme and the experiment results show that our scheme detects RAPs accurately with lower false positives and false negatives.