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CSci 288 - Wireless and Mobile Security

Simha and Staff

Credits: 3

Security issues in wireless networks and mobile applications. Overview of wireless networks and mobile applications-Mobile Agents,Wireless Web, WAP, WEP, Peer-to-Peer Computing; secure routing; intrusion detection and authentication on wireless networks; security for handheld devices; encryption and cryptographic measures for wireless; real-time wireless security; security measures for embedded devices. Prerequisites: CSci 232, CSci 383

Text: Randall K Nichols and Panos C Lekkas, Wireless Security, (WS) McGraw-Hill Professional Books, January 2002. ISBN: 0-07-138038-8.

Course Outline

* Introduction to Wireless and new threats
* Wireless Information Warfare
* System Vulnerabilities
* Review of Cryptography, and problems with wireless
* Intrusion detection in wireless ad-hoc networks
* Securing Ad Hoc Networks
* Providing security for mobile ad hoc networks
* WAP, WLAN
* Software /Hardware Implementations: A review of the tradeoffs -Performance, Security, Economics.
* Wireless transport layer security, Bluetooth
* End-to-End security, and Optimizing wireless security