Location based authentication scheme using BLE for high performance digital content management system

Abstract

Certain Internet services are designed to be accessible to a limited location/an institutions/or a specified area affiliated computer services only, depending on their nature. Thus, in general, based on the IP address to access the service uses the IP-based filtering techniques that limit the delivery of the service. We offer a novel location based authentication method by convenient and correct way to take advantage of the Bluetooth BLE Beacon technology using smart mobile devices or laptop devices. In this research, digital content manager initiates and broadcasts BLE beacon signal for checking the presence of users near a specified area/location. We make use of the BLE Sensor Tag device as the location identification method. In this work, a publisher wants to identify whether a user is from a certain institution subscribed as site license for a period of time or not. Until now, the publisher depends on only IP filtering technique to discriminate users. The IP filtering technique allows the publisher to exclude certain IP ranges from accessing the content. So, the publisher wants to leverage users or readers to pay for accessing a technical paper by credit card. In this research, a token is HMACSHA1 generated by a Beacon based on UUID and Time. The MAC is provided only to a person who is closed to a specified location. If a member has the token, our system will connect and report to the server that the users/students are attended the class or near the manager. If the member does not have the token, our system will report to the server that the users/students are not attended the class or not near the manager. By this way a publisher can easily check the readers/users has the right to access the contents. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier B.V.