Lectures and Syllabus -

• Lecture 1 (PDF) (6-up PDF) (Jan 18, 2008) - class introduction
• Lecture 2 (PDF) (Jan 25, 2008) - Cisco routers, Zebra toolkit and lab instructions
• Lecture 3 (PDF) (6-up PDF) (Feb 1, 2008) - Networking background for lab exercises
• Lecture 4 (Feb 8, 2008) - class canceled, instructor is out sick
• Lecture 5 (PDF) (6-up PDF) (Feb 15, 2008) - Scalable upload, OpenSSL and patching source code

• Lecture 1 (Jan 18, 2008) - Class introduction.
• Lecture 2 (Jan 25, 2008) - Cisco routers, Zebra toolkit and lab instructions.
• (Jan 28, 2008) - Lab exercise 1 starts.
• (Feb 1, 2008) - Last day to register or drop the class.
• Lecture 3 (Feb 1, 2008) - Networking background for lab exercises.
• Lecture 4 (Feb 8, 2008) - Scalable upload, OpenSSL and patching source code.
• (Feb 6, 2008) - Presentation topic selection is due.
• Lecture 5 (Feb 15, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Instructor
    • Scalable Upload, OpenSSL and Patching Source Code
• (Feb 18, 2008) - Lab exercise 1 due.
• (Feb 19, 2008) - Lab exercise 2 starts.
• Lecture 6 (Feb 22, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Vijayakumar Gopalakrishnan <gopalakr@usc.edu>
    • Honeypots: Catching Insider Threat (PDF) (PowerPoint)
  • Prashanth Kannan <pkannan@usc.edu>
    • Active Router Approach to Defeating Denial-of-service Attacks in Networks (PDF)
  • Kaustubh Sathe <ksathe@usc.edu>
    • IP Traceback - Advanced and Authenticated Marking Schemes (PDF)
• Lecture 7 (Feb 29, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Smitesh Pawar <smiteshp@usc.edu>
    • Hash-Based IP Traceback (PDF)
  • Junaid Tisekar <tisekar@usc.edu>
    • On the Effectiveness of Route-based Packet Filtering for Distributed DoS Attack Prevention in Power-law Internets (PDF)
• (Mar 4, 2008) - Lab exercise 2 due.
• (Mar 5, 2008) - Lab exercise 3 starts.
• Lecture 8 (Mar 7, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Mazin AlAlyan <alalyan@usc.edu>
    • Firewall and Intrusion Detection Systems (PDF)
  • Mukhtar Kshibekov <kshibeko@usc.edu>
    • State-transition Analysis in Detecting Intrusions (PDF)
• (Mar 13, 2008) - Project selection due.
• Lecture 9 (Mar 14, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Jeet Poonater <poonater@usc.edu>
    • IP Traceback-based Intelligent Packet Filtering (PDF)
  • Yogiraj Kamat <ykamat@usc.edu>
    • Secure Border Gateway Protocol (S-BGP) (PDF)
• (Mar 17-21, 2008) - Spring break.
• Lecture 10 (Mar 28, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Varun Sawardeker <sawardek@usc.edu>
    • 802.11 Security or actually lack of it: Weak Encryption and Message Authentication techniques in WEP and WPA as an alternative (PDF)
  • Aparna Rajan <aparnar@usc.edu>
    • 802.11 Security - SOLA: a One-bit Identity Authentication Protocol for Access Control in IEEE 802.11 (PDF)
• (Apr 2, 2008) - Lab exercise 3 due.
• Lecture 11 (Apr 4, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Hideaki Katagishi <katagish@usc.edu>
    • The Security of Database Outsourcing (PDF)
  • Aishwarya Jayanth <jayanth@usc.edu>
    • Coping with the Overload on the Network Time Protocol Public Servers (PDF)
• Lecture 12 (Apr 11, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Arman Junusbayev <junusbay@usc.edu>
    • Simple and Fault-Tolerant Key Agreement for Dynamic Collaborative Groups (PDF)
  • Fawaz Farooqui <farooqui@usc.edu>
    • TCP-DCR: A Novel Protocol for Tolerating Wireless Channel Errors (PDF)
• (Apr 7, 2008) - Project design document due.
• Lecture 13 (Apr 18, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Abhiram Annangi <annangi@usc.edu>
    • Linux Bootloader (PDF)
  • Munish Luthra <mluthra@usc.edu>
    • Security in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks (PDF)
  • Gagan Panjabi <gpanjabi@usc.edu>
    • A Divide-and-Conquer Strategy for Thwarting DDoS Attacks (PPT)
• Lecture 14 (Apr 25, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Thamir Alsadoun <alsadoun@usc.edu>
    • Survey of DDoS Attacks & a Method to Protect TCP Services (PDF)
  • Aaron Fernandes <abfernan@usc.edu>
    • Anonymous Internet Communication using Overlay Onion Routing: Tor (PDF)
• [BC: Changed 4/24/2008] (May 2, 2008) - No class.
• [BC: Changed 4/24/2008] (May 8-9, 2008) - Project demo.
• [BC: Changed 4/24/2008] (May 11, 2008) - Project report due.

• Class introduction (PDF) (6-up PDF)
• Cisco routers, Zebra toolkit and lab instructions (PDF)
• Networking background for lab exercises (PDF) (6-up PDF)
• Scalable upload (Bistro) (PDF) (6-up PDF)
• OpenSSL and patching source code (PDF) (6-up PDF)