Syllabus

Schedule of Classes: Fall 2019

Next Class:

Future Classes:

Past Classes:

• Class 1 (Tuesday, August 27, 2019): No Class
  
  
• Class 2 (Thursday, August 29, 2019): Overview of course and syllabus
  Presenter: Nirnimesh Ghose
  Required reading: Class slides
  


• Class 3 (Tuesday, September 03, 2019): Overview and basics of cryptography and security
  Presenter: Nirnimesh Ghose
  Required reading: Class slides
  


• Class 4 (Thursday, September 05, 2019): Basics of cryptography and security
  Presenter: Nirnimesh Ghose
  Required reading: Class slides
  


• Class 5 (Tuesday, September 10, 2019): Basics of cryptography and security
  Presenter: Nirnimesh Ghose
  Required reading: Class slides
  


• Class 6 (Thursday, September 12, 2019): Basics of cryptography and security
  Presenter: Nirnimesh Ghose
  Required reading: Class slides
  


• Class 7 (Tuesday, September 17, 2019): Context based key extraction and evolution
  Presenter: Nirnimesh Ghose
  Required reading: Context-based zero-interaction pairing and key evolution for advanced personal devices
  


• Class 8 (Thursday, September 19, 2019): Context based key extraction and evolution
  Presenter: Nirnimesh Ghose
  Required reading: Do you feel what I hear? Enabling autonomous IoT device pairing using different sensor types
  


• Class 9 (Tuesday, September 24, 2019): Secret free confidentiality
  Presenter: Brendan Owens
  Required reading: Guaranteeing secrecy using artificial noise
  


• Class 10 (Thursday, September 26, 2019): Secret free confidentiality
  Presenter: Nirnimesh Ghose
  Required reading: Cooperative jamming for secure communications in MIMO relay networks
  


• Class 11 (Tuesday, October 01, 2019): Secret free trust-establishment
  Presenter: Jared Fuelberth
  Required reading: Integrity (I) codes: Message integrity protection and authentication over insecure channels
  


• Class 12 (Thursday, October 03, 2019): Secret free trust-establishment
  Presenter: Jake Koperski
  Required reading: Amigo: Proximty based authentication of mobile devices
  


• Class 13 (Tuesday, October 08, 2019): Hardware/embedded security
  Presenter: Alex Clough
  Required reading: DRAM-based intrinsic physically unclonable functions for system-level security and authentication
  


• Class 14 (Thursday, October 10, 2019): Hardware/embedded security
  Presenter: Jared Fuelberth
  Required reading: Case: Cache-assisted Secure Execution on ARM Devices
  


• Class 15 (Tuesday, October 15, 2019): Device fingerprint (hardware/channel)
  Presenter: Jack Arens
  Required reading: Accurate and efficient wireless device fingerprinting using channel state information
  


• Class 16 (Thursday, October 17, 2019): Device fingerprint (hardware/channel)
  Presenter: Lara Quiring
  Required reading: Fatal attraction: identifying mobile devices through electromagnetic emissions
  


• Class 17 (Tuesday, October 22, 2019): No class - Fall break
  


• Class 18 (Thursday, October 24, 2019): MAC layer misbehavior
  Presenter: Jake Koperski
  Required reading: LTE misbehavior detection in Wi-Fi/LTE coexistence under the LAA-LTE standard
  


• Class 19 (Tuesday, October 29, 2019): MAC layer misbehavior
  Presenter: Jake Koperski
  Required reading: FD-MMAC: Combating multi-channel hidden and exposed terminals using a single transceiver
  


• Class 20 (Thursday, October 31, 2019): Denial-of-service/Jamming attacks
  Presenter: Lara Quiring
  Required reading: Selective jamming attacks in wireless networks
  


• Class 21 (Tuesday, November 05, 2019): Denial-of-service/Jamming attacks
  Presenter: Alex Clough
  Required reading: Swift jamming attack on frequency offset estimation: The Achilles' heel of OFDM systems
  


• Class 22 (Thursday, November 07, 2019): Malware threats/Intrusion detection
  Presenter: Brendan Owens
  Required reading: Adversarial Perturbations Against Deep Neural Networks for Malware Classification
  


• Class 23 (Tuesday, November 12, 2019): Malware threats/Intrusion detection
  Presenter: Lara Quiring
  Required reading: BlackIoT: IoT Botnet of high wattage devices can disrupt the power grid
  


• Class 24 (Thursday, November 14, 2019): Device compromise
  Presenter: Jack Arens
  Required reading: On post-compromise security
  


• Class 25 (Tuesday, November 19, 2019): Device compromise
  Presenter: Alex Clough
  Required reading: Drifting keys: Impersonation detection for constrained devices
  


• Class 26 (Thursday, November 21, 2019): VANET/Aircraft communication security
  Presenter: Jared Fuelberth
  Required reading: Secure Track Verification
  


• Class 27 (Tuesday, November 26, 2019): VANET/Aircraft communication security - No class (extra-credit quiz)
  Presenter: Nirnimesh Ghose
  Required reading: Convoy: Physical context verification for vehicle platoon admission
  


• Class 28 (Thursday, November 28, 2019): No class - Thanksgiving vacation
  


• Class 29 (Tuesday, December 03, 2019): 5G LTE security
  Presenter: Brendan Owens
  Required reading: Breaking LTE on Layer Two
  


• Class 30 (Thursday, December 05, 2019): 5G LTE security
  Presenter: Jack Arens
  Required reading: Hiding in Plain Signal: Physical Signal Overshadowing Attack on LTE
  


• Class 31 (Tuesday, December 10, 2019): Final project presentation - Coffee House
  Presenter: TBD
  


• Class 32 (Thursday, December 12, 2019): No Class
  Presenter: TBD