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While the recent proliferation of broadband wireline and wireless networking technologies have substantially increased the available network capacity and enabled a wide-range of feature-rich high-speed communication services, security remains a major concern. Large-scale, high-profile system exploits and network attacks have become common recurring events which increasing threaten the proper functioning and continual success of the communication infrastructure and services. One key aspect of mitigating such increasing threats is to develop new security/defense architectures, systems, methodologies and algorithms which can scale together with the communications infrastructure in terms of operating speed, operational simplicity and manageability etc.
The goal of the course is to understand the theoretical, architectural, system and implementation issues related to all aspects of security in high-speed networks, and study various proposed solutions. The course will be run in a seminar style with presentations by the instructor, outside experts, and the attending students. Students are required to read research papers and present them in the class, and to complete a term project with either simulations, or architecture/VHDL designs.
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