CprE 537 - Fall 2001 - Wireless Network Security

Project Suggestions
    The following is a small list of project from which you can choose.  You can also propose a project of your own that you want to do.

Bluetooth Security:  Research the physical layer and MAC layer security issues associated with Bluetooth.

IEEE 802.11 Security:  Research the physical layer and MAC layer security issues associated with Bluetooth.

Mobile IP (3G):  What is the current research and how is it being implemented?

Cordless Phone Security:  Cordless phones use high frequencies and spread-spectrum to provide cordless services.  What are the security features in popular cordless phone technologies?

Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security:  Determine the current state of security features and implements in mobile ad hoc networks.

Home RF:  What is the technology being used and how secure is it?

Wired Equivalent Privacy:  What is the current implementation and what research is going on to improve security?

Mutual interference in the 2.4 GHz ISM band:  The license-free ISM bands have many different and competing services using the same frequency band.  What are the security issues associated with this shared use?

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP):  Whate are the security issues and technologies associated with WAP?

Anti-Jam Receiving system Design:  What types of receiver designs can be used to minimize the effects of jamming?

Multi-User Interference:  How does multi-user interference reduce the reliablilty of a communication system?

System Security Overview:  Do the research necessary for writing a report on the high-level aspects of wireless network security.

Airlink Security:  What are the issues, research, and technologies associated with providing the best possible airlink security?