EL 6393   ADVANCED NETWORK SECURITY - ARCHITECTURES, ALGORITHMS, AND IMPLEMENTATIONS

Course Description

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, present them in the class, and complete a term project with either simulations to evaluate the proposed schemes, or architecture/VHDL designs for the schemes.


Course Outline

Week Date Contents
01   Introduction to Network Security
02   Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDPS)
03   String Matching Algorithms
04   Hashing and Bloom Filters I
05   Hashing and Bloom Filters II
06   SNORT
07   Internet Worms
08   Midterm
09   DDoS I
10   DDoS II
11   DDoS III
12   Abnormally Detections
13   Spam
14   Term Project Presentation
15   Term Project Presentation


Grading: Weekly quizzes 20%, Midterm 30%, Project 50% ( Presentation 10% and Report 40%)

Pre-Requisite: CS 682 or approval by advisors

Class Schedule: Monday 3:00 - 5:40 PM

Instructor: Prof. H. Jonathan Chao
Office: LC 206
E-mail: chao@poly.edu
Tel: 718-260-3302
URL: http://eeweb.poly.edu/~chao

Office Hours: Monday 1:00 – 2:50 PM