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Wireless devices are becoming pervasive and increasingly versatile. Untethered communication enables a multitude of applications closely knitted with the physical world, with the devices often being the network: anytime and anywhere communication, location-aware services, environmental monitoring, intelligent transportation, socially motivated information exchange. Wireless systems are, however, a double-edged sword: their applications and the nature of wireless communications create new vulnerabilities, and attacks against wireless systems can create new dangers for their users.
This tutorial focuses on the unique characteristics and security requirements of wireless systems. It distills numerous recent results to cover building blocks and fundamental aspects of wireless system security. Moreover, it lays the ground for its systematic understanding, showing how to reason rigorously on the correctness of wireless security protocols, and it captures performance issues. The covered topics include secure neighborhood discovery, secure ranging and distance bounding, anti-jamming techniques, secure communication, secure localization, and security for vehicular communication systems.
The potential audience includes researchers from academia and industry, including PhD and graduate students. Some background in wireless networking and knowledge of basic security principles would help participants to fully benefit from this tutorial.
Bio: Panos Papadimitratos is a scientist at EPFL, Switzerland, and he received his PhD from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He is visiting PoliTo, Italy, in the spring of 2010. His research is concerned with security and wireless networks and systems; he has authored more than 70 technical publications on these topics. He has served as an area editor for the ACM MC2R journal and as a member of several technical program committees, including ACM WiSec, ASIACCS, and MobiHoc, and IEEE INFOCOM.
Email: panos.papadimitratos@epfl.ch
URL: http://people.epfl.ch/panos.papadimitratos
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