Computer and Network Security

EECS 588 — Winter 2009

Overview | Schedule | Readings | Attack Presentation | Course Project

Your course project should address an important, interesting security problem. You may choose a research-focused topic (something that could turn into a conference paper) or an industry-focused topic (something that could turn into a marketable product), though your work does not necessarily have to be ready for publication or sale by the end of the term.

Project Proposal — February 12, 2009 Monday, February 16

Your proposal should consist of a 2-3 page description of your project that includes the following:

  1. Group: Group member names and email addresses
  2. Problem: A description of the problem you will address and why it is important.
  3. Context: A brief survey of related work and past approaches to the problem.
  4. Approach: How you will address the problem and how your approach differs from past work.
  5. Evaluation: How you will test how well your approach works and evaluate its performance.
  6. Scope: What you plan to accomplish and deliver by the checkpoint and by the end of the semester.

Project Checkpoint — March 12, 2009 Tuesday, March 24

I'd like you to email me a concise status report (no more than one page) answering the following questions:
  1. What have you accomplished so far? Which do you have left to do?
  2. Are you on track to complete what you proposed?
  3. Have you encountered any surprises or unexpected problems?
  4. If you're having problems, how do you intend to solve them or work around them?
  5. Can you draw any preliminary conclusions from your results so far?

You're welcome to come see me during office hours, or make an appointment, if you need any additional advice on your project.

Project Presentation — April 14 and 16, 2009

Each group will give a 15 minute in-class presentation about their results, in the style of a conference talk. I'll post a presentation schedule towards the end of the semester.

Final Report — April 21, 2009, 1:30pm April 24, 2009, 11:59pm

Your group's final project report should be written in the style of a conference submission, like most of the papers we have read this semester. Please include an abstract, an introduction that motivates the problem you are trying to solve, a related work section that differentiates your contributions, and detailed sections about your methodology and results.

The length of your report should not exceed 8 pages in USENIX format. Please submit it to me via email.