Short Course: Security and Misbehavior Handling in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to provide an overview of issues related to protocols and security in ad hoc networks. The tutorial should benefit researchers as well as practitioners from industry and academia who are interested in areas related to wireless ad hoc networking. Duration is 1 day (or 2 half-days). Copies of slides prepared using PowerPoint will be distributed to the attendees.
HIGH-LEVEL COURSE OUTLINE:
- Introduction
- Wireless LANs
- Mobile ad hoc networks
- Overview of protocols wireless LANs and ad hoc networks
- Medium Access Control protocols: Discussion of selected protocols
- Routing protocols for unicasting in ad hoc networks: Discussion of selected protocols
- Key management in wireless ad hoc networks
- Secure communication in ad hoc networks
- Misbehavior at the MAC layer
- Misbehavior detection and handling
- Encryption
- Anonymous broadcast
- Misbehavior at the network layer
- Misbehavior detection and handling
- Trust and reputation propagation
- Various attacks on routing protocols
- Security: Other issues
- Attacks on sensor networks
- Monitoring of wireless networks, Anomaly detection
- Pointers to related IETF activities
- Conclusion
Instructor Biography
Nitin Vaidya received the Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is presently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He has held visiting positions at Microsoft Research, Sun Microsystems and the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay. His current research is in wireless networking and mobile computing. He co-authored papers that received awards at the ACM MobiCom and Personal Wireless Communications (PWC) conferences. Nitin's research has been funded by various agencies, including the National Science Foundation, DARPA, Motorola, Microsoft Research, and Sun Microsystems. Nitin Vaidya is a recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Nitin has served on the committees of several conferences, including service as program co-chair for the 2003 ACM MobiCom and General Chair for the 2001 ACM MobiHoc. He has served as an editor for several journals, and has served as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing since January 2005. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.