EE693e (Spec Topics): Wireless and Mobile Security

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Executive Summary

this course focuses on selected research topics of current interest in wireless security and is intended for undergraduate, master, or doctoral students who are interested in wireless security. at the end of this course, students will have a in-depth knowledge of the state-of-the-art and open problems in wireless security, thus enhancing their potential to do research or pursue a career in this rapidly developing area. this course is structured as a research seminar and laboratory where research papers from leading conferences & journals will be presented by the instructor and students. main topics of interests include: pairing, authentication, access control, wireless sensing and localization, jamming and anti-jamming, security analysis of wireless applications, hardware/firmware, side-channel analysis, IoT privacy, wireless fingerprinting, location privacy, and security in future cellular networks.

Textbook

required: , by acm.

Logistics

lecturer: et al.
lecture: mondays wednesday 9:00am-10:15am, virtual via .
discussion: virtual via .
office hours: schedule it .
laboratory hours: schedule it .

Policies

presenter: you may work in teams of two or three. each team will be assigned with two topics (four papers). each team needs to complete two tasks on each paper: (1) give a in-depth presentation (60 min) and answer all the questions during the q&a (15 min); (2) write a one-page (excluding citations) summary of the paper (in ieee conference format).
audience: you must work alone and complete the following tasks for each presentation: (1) watch the conference presentation that accompanies the paper; (2) prepare at least one relevent question for the presenter; (3) grade the presenter’s presentation and report.

Schedule

time	lecture/presentations	presenter	papers	video/slides	report
Week 01 (Aug 24, 26)	Course logistic	Yao Zheng	—	—	—
Week 02 (Aug 31, Sep 02)	Mobile payments and fraud	Alvin Yang, Thomas Yang	,	,
Week 03 (Sep 09)	NO CLASS
Week 04 (Sep 14, 16)	Wireless localization and security	Samson Aggelopoulos, Changlong Wu	,	,
Week 05 (Sep 21, 23)	Jamming and anti-jamming	Grant A. Stankaitis, Japhet J. Ye	,	,
Week 06 (Sep 28, 30)	Mobile app security	Dawei Yang, Matthew W. Sahara	,	,
Week 07 (Oct 05, 07)	Physical-layer security	Samson Aggelopoulos, Noha M. Mohammed	,
Week 08 (Oct 12, 14)	Hardware, firmware, and side-channel	Alvin Yang, Japhet J. Ye	,	,
Week 09 (Oct 19, 21)	Wireless fingerprints	Brian Z. Lu, Matthew W. Sahara	,	,
Week 10 (Oct 26, 28)	Location privacy	Grant A. Stankaitis, Changlong Wu	,	,
Week 11 (Nov 02, 04)	Privacy risks and protection in IoT	Brian Z. Lu, Noha M. Mohammed	,	,
Week 12 (Nov 09)	NO CLASS
Week 13 (Nov 16, 18)	Pairing and access control	Dawei Yang, Thomas Yang	,	,
Week 14 (Nov 23, 25)	Wireless sensing and authentication	Yao Zheng	,	,
Week 15 (Nov 30, Dec 02)	Security in 4G/LTE	Yao Zheng	,	,
Week 16 (Dec 07, 09)	Security in 5G	Yao Zheng	,	,

Acknowledgement

This course is developed with the materials provided by ACM WiSec 2020, and the supports of University of Hawaii at Manoa Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) grant, NSF grants DGE-1662487, CNS-1948568.