Term Project Description CAP6135 Spring 2013

2 Term Project Two students form a group to do term project together – A research oriented term project – Project report follows the same format as a published paper At least 6 pages (double column, single spaced, 11 point font) – Learn how to conduct research and write paper – Learn how to communicate and collaborate with your colleague – Try to find partner using the Canvas discussion forum You can do it alone if you want to

Timeline for Term Project Try to find your partner NOW and discuss what topic to work on – Check top security conferences webpage, look for “advanced program” or “technical program” – Find the session titles--- they are research topics in computer security – Select a topic you are interested and comfortable and familiar – Example conferences: IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, Usenix Security Symposium – List of good security conferences:

Timeline for Term Project Term project proposal: – Last week in February First week in March is Spring Break (Mar. 4-9) – Submit a 5 to 7 minutes’ presentation slides Face-to-face students: present in class Online: submit presentation slides with speaking notes on each page – All slides will be published in Canvas You can see what other students are working on 7-4

Timeline for Term Project Final submission: – April 21 st midnight for submitting presentation slides (25-30 minutes) and project report (6+ pages) via Canvas Face-to-face students: Present term project in the last one lecture (04/22) + final exam time Online students: submit slides with speaking notes on each page All submissions will be published in Canvas on April 22 nd. Network Security7-5

6 Example of Term Project Simple: – Survey of the state-of-art research work in a topic You can find many survey papers as your examples on IEEE or ACM journals – Repeat and realize algorithm/experiments in a published paper chosen by you You will need to program and compare your results with the paper’s Middle: – Minor improvement of ideas/algorithms in published papers You will need to prove that your improvement works – Either mathematical proof, or simulation proof – Present a novel idea, but with no substantial proof

Example of Term Project Advanced: – Present a novel idea with support from simulation or real experiments E.g., success in using an idea from another area to a new topic in computer security – Has potential to be further developed as an academic publishable paper Network Security7-7

8 Find Good Research Paper Find papers in high-quality conferences – There are too many conferences/workshops!! – Security research conferences: Top ranking conferences: – IEEE Security & Privacy, ACM CCS, Usenix Security Other good conferences: – NDSS, RAID, ACSAC, SecureCom, AsiaCCS, DSN, ESORICS…. – Just google “NDSS 2011”, etc. Conference papers are grouped into sections according to topics – The section title will tell you the research topic – Help you quickly find papers you are interested

Find Good Research Paper Good security research journals: – ACM Transactions on Information and System Security – IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing – IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security Problem for journals: – They are slow in publishing, usually will be two years later than conference papers Good resource to find security conferences: – 9

Stage 1: find conference, session titles Stage 2: read paper titles Stage 3: read abstract of papers Stage 4: read “Introduction” (and “related work”) Stage 5: read all