Wireless LANs based on the IEEE 802.11 technology are , becoming increasingly prevalent. The availability of highbandwidth together with the convenience of being a wireless medium makes it a compelling technology for multimediabased applications. In this paper, we present a gatewaybased 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.

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