Research Paper Proposal

Submitted by:	Filipos Abraham
Class:		CS 898T
Instructor:	Dr. Chang
Date Due:	04/28/04 - 05/10/04



1. Topic:
	Security in the Wireless Network

2. Major Goals:
	- To describe the underlying requirements for wireless networks
	- To identify what are vulnerabilities in entrée points?
	- To describe what are the suitable encryption technologies to reduce 
	  outflow of clear text information.

3. Scope:
Wireless local area networks are here to stay!  Along with it comes a 
whole new set of security concerns, obviously wireless network is more and 
more installed by businesses and government consumer and because of the 
lack of restrictions wireless communications and the decreasing costs of 
the hardware and software technology and  existing security methods for 
preserving the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of wireless 
communications are disputable. However, leaving wireless communication 
open to several type of attacks does not leave the resources safer and 
secure. Some finding have shown that even the new standards are imperfect, 
allowing attackers to commit both active as well as passive attacks, This 
paper.s center of attention is on the description and analysis of the 
wireless network standards.   
    

References:
    [1]   Andrew S. .Tanenbaum, Computer Network. .- 4th ed..
	 Pearson Education, Inc. [2003], pg: 780 . 785, 265 - 270 
          
    [2]   Charles P Pfleeger and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger
          .Security in Computing, -- 3rd ed..
           Pearson Education, Inc [2003], pg: 370 . 402.
 
    [3]   P. Gupta and P. R. Kumar, .The capacity of Wireless Networks..      
             IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-46(2): [2000] pg 338-404

   [4]   WAP Form. Wireless Transport Layer Security Specifica-tion.
	 http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cache/papers/cs/26427/http:zSzzSz
     	 www.cs.ucla.eduzSz~jkongzSzpublicationszSzprospectus.pdf/
         adaptive-and-resilient-security.pdf