CprE 537 - Fall 2001 - Wireless Network Security

Project Assignments
    The following is a list of students and the projects they have requested

Jinran Chen - Mobile IP (3G):  What is the current research and how is it being implemented? (approval pending)
Mei-Peng Cheong - Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) for 802.11. (Proposal approved 09/05/01)
Jim-Carl Ng - Bluetooth Security Issues (Proposal approved 09/24/01)
Jon Malm - The Insecurities of WEP  (Proposal approved 09/24/01)
Zheng Min - Security issues in the wireless Virtual Environment System (C6)  (Proposal approved 09/24/01)
James Truckenmiller - Security implantations and vulnerabilities of the 802.11b standard (Proposal approved 09/24/01)
Rakesh Raghavan - The Bluetooth Wireless Communication Standard and Associated Security Issues (Proposal approved 09/24/01)
Alicia Rice - Security features in cordless phones (Proposal approved 09/24/01)
Wei-Kheun Chok - Bluetooth:  physical layer and MAC layer security issues (Proposal approved 09/24/01)
Jingyang Li - Security Issues for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) (Proposal approved 09/24/01)
Subbarao Bellamkonda - Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security  (Proposal approved 09/24/01)
Sonal Pandey - Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Security Issues and Technology  (Proposal approved 09/24/01)
Zhong Zhang - Security Issues for Mobile IP (3G)   (Proposal approved 09/24/01)
Robert Dzupin - Implementing and protecting wireless networks using Microsoft technologies   (Proposal approved 09/24/01)
Fouad. Al-Kohlany - Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security Issues (approval pending)
Mich Cook - Security Issues in Home RF networking (Proposal approved 09/25/01)
Greg Rice - Weaknesses of the communications and physical layers of 802.11B standard  (Proposal approved 09/25/01)
Ying LI - Bluetooth Security (Proposal approved 10/04/01)
Kavitha Arunachalam - Security of the Wireless Applications Protocol (approval pending)



Potential Projects

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.

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?