14-814 Wireless Security
12 units, Carnegie Mellon University
With the surge of mobile device use, embedded system deployment, and development of alwaysconnected devices, the underlying wireless communication and network systems are becoming more critical for everyday use. Even though security and privacy have emerged as important focus areas for modern technology, the wireless links that connect our pervasive devices are still less understood from the perspectives of security and privacy than other system aspects. This course will focus on the challenges in providing secure communication and network services in a variety of wireless systems and current and past approaches to manage these challenges. Topic coverage will include vulnerabilities, attacks, security mechanisms, and tradeoffs at various layers of the network protocol stack, from aspects of physical communication to application and service security issues examples include jamming, MAClayer misbehavior, selective packet dropping, decentralized trust and reputation, and crosslayer holistic attacks. Systems of interest include but are not limited to personal devices, connected vehicles, embedded and IoT systems, wireless infrastructure, and ad hoc networks. Class material will be largely based on recent and current research. In addition to individual homework assignments, students will participate in an intensive group project involving significant research, development, and experimentation. Graduate standing is required to register for this course.
Prerequisites: (18-330 (min C) or 15-330 (min C) or 14-741 (min C) or 18-730 (min C) or 18-631 (min C)) and (18-756 (min C) or 18-741 (min C) or 18-841 (min C) or 14-760 (min C) or 15-641 (min C) or 14-740 (min C))
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