CSE 598E: Security and Privacy on Emergent Networks, Spring 2008
 

Instructor:  Sencun Zhu
Office, Phone,  338F IST Building, (814)865-0995
Email: szhu (at) cse.psu.edu
Meeting times/location:   W, 2:30- 5pm, IST 223B
Office hours:       T: 1:30-3:30pm
Course webpage: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~szhu/teach/cse598e
Course Syllabus:  see ANGEL
 

Course Description:

Network and systems security is becoming one of the biggest concerns today as a result of a dramatic increase in the number and severity of security attacks.  Although a tremendous amount of research effort has been made to build more secure networks and systems, the study of security (especially privacy) of emergent networks such as cellphone networks, P2P networks, sensor networks is still in the early stage. Lots of challenges as well as opportunities are ahead of us. This course aims at providing graduate students an opportunity to know the state-of-the-art of some of the hottest research topics in these emergent networks.  It is also hoped that this course could initiate some research studies for those with research  interests in security.  A tentative outline is as follows.

  • Foundations of modern cryptography
  • Security & Privacy of Sensor Networks
  • Security & Privacy of VoIP
  • Security & Privacy of Cellular Networks
  • Security & Privacy of P2P Networks
  • Security & Privacy of RFID

Reference Books (no textbook): 

Prerequisite:  Computer Networks and Operating System, or the permission of the instructor. The course might involve some programming in C or C++, students are expected to have a solid foundation in these languages.

Candidate Topics for Project: TBA

Course Format:  The instructor will lecture ~50% classes, and students will present 50% (1 or 2 papers each person subject to the number of class participants).