home > academics > graduate > courses CSci 388 - Wireless and Mobile Security Simha and Staff Credits: 3 Security issues in wireless networks and mobile applications. Overview of wireless networks and mobile applications-Mobile Agents,Wireless Web, WAP, WEP, Peer-to-Peer Computing; secure routing; intrusion detection and authentication on wireless networks; security for handheld devices; encryption and cryptographic measures for wireless; real-time wireless security; security measures for embedded devices. Prerequisites: CSci 232, CSci 383 Text: Randall K Nichols and Panos C Lekkas, Wireless Security, (WS) McGraw-Hill Professional Books, January 2002. ISBN: 0-07-138038-8. Course Outline Introduction to Wireless and new threats Wireless Information Warfare System Vulnerabilities Review of Cryptography, and problems with wireless Intrusion detection in wireless ad-hoc networks Securing Ad Hoc Networks Providing security for mobile ad hoc networks WAP, WLAN Software /Hardware Implementations: A review of the tradeoffs -Performance, Security, Economics. Wireless transport layer security, Bluetooth End-to-End security, and Optimizing wireless security