James Carter "The Security of IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth"

Peng Fan "Third-Generation (3G) mobile IP systems"

Chunwang Gao "IEEE 802.11 MAC layer security issues"

Zhong Gu "Using convolutional coding to overcome the imperfect channel"

Kyungtae Hwang "Security on Mobile Phones"

Plamen Ivanov (not submitted)

Manik Kapil "Security issues in mobile ad hoc networks"

Bin Lin "Performance Comparison and A New QoS Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Network"

David Orman "Future Directions of 802.11 wireless networking protocols"

Shamsul Shaikh (approval pending)

Odd Petter Slyngstad "Bluetooth technology comparison"

Minh Tran "Wireless network technology and its support for multimedia services"

Nathan Vanderhorn "Mutual interference to services in the 2.4 GHz ISM band"

Robert Volesky "Powering the wireless world"

Katherin Whitaker "Wireless Home Networks"

Zhiwei Zeng "Signal Design for Fading Multipath Channels"

Jianzhon Zhang "Wireless Application Protocol"

Wei Zhang "Wireless network security survey"

Your work will include a major project this semester which will account for 40% of your semester grade. The grading of your project will be based on the following: originality and difficulty (10%), presentation (10%), written final report (20%)

These projects are meant to be fun and interesting to you and to increase your knowledge of some aspect of current communications technology. You will be able to choose your project from a wide range of topics.

The projects will consist of the following:

1. A written project proposal due by the last class period of the third week of the semester. This project proposal should be 3-6 pages long and contain a detailed description and plan of what your project will be. It should contain your objectives and a detailed plan for what you will do. We will discuss your proposal and modify it or choose a different topic if needed. You proposal will then be approved and you can start working on the project.

2. Preliminary project work will be a search of library and web sources on your topic.

3. A 20 minute class presentation on your project (15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions). These presentations will be scheduled for near the end of the semester. You should prepare about 8 slides for your presentation. All slides should be labeled with "Iowa State University", Course Number, [your name],
date, and slide number. Keep the slides simple and easy to read.

5. A written final report which will be due near the end of the semester. This report will contain details of your research and/or simulations. It should contain 10-15 pages of text with up to 10 pages of figures and tables. The report must be written in your own words. Don't copy the words of authors in books or on the web.

5. Deliverables: Your written final report in hard copy form. Your final report and presentation in electronic form (either a CD or a floppy). Figures in Powerpoint, GIF, or JPG and text in PDF, MS Word, or Wordperfect).

6. Example Table of Contents for your report:

TITLE PAGE (Name, Date, Project Title, Course & Semester, Instructor)
ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (list of figures and titles)
INTRODUCTION
THEORY and (if needed) SIMULATIONS (this is the main part of the report and may
contain several sections)
CONCLUSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY (this should include every paper, book, and web site URL you used)
FIGURES
APPENDIX (put supplementary material here including copies of web pages if you think they are important enough to include in you report)