Wireless for Federal Govt.: Technologies and Security

Day 1 – Software Defined and Cognitive Radio

• Software Defined Radio
  • Radio Architectures
  • Reconfigurable Embedded Processing
  • Hardware/Software Architectures
  • Signal Processing
  • Protocol Processing
  • Research Challenges: Latency, Scalability, Management
• Cognitive Radio
  • Planning Algorithms
  • Machine Learning
  • Policy Radios
  • Learning Radios
  • Radio Parameter Optimization
  • Spectrum Sensing
  • Dynamic Spectrum Access
• Emerging Spectrum Policy
  • TV Whitespace
  • National Broadband Plan
  • Role of Spectrum Sharing

Day 2 – Emerging Communications Technologies

• RF Channel Models
  • Fading
  • Mobility
  • Link Budgets
• Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
  • Time-Frequency Diversity
  • Frequency-Domain Modulations
  • OFDM Basics
  • Multiple Access Protocols
  • Performance Analysis
• Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO)
  • Spatial Diversity
  • Beamforming
  • Spatial Multiplexing
  • Space-Time Coding

Day 3 – Cellular/Broadband Standards and Protocols

• Cellular Technology History
  • 1G AMPS
  • 2G GSM/EDGE/IS-95
  • 2G CDMA/1xRTT
• 3G Cellular Technologies
  • 3GPP UMTS
  • 3GPP HSPA/HSPA+
  • 3GPP2 CDMA2000
  • 3GPP2 EV-DO
• IEEE Broadband Standards
  • IEEE 802.11 (WiFi)
  • IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX)
  • IEEE 802.22 (WRAN)
• 4G Cellular Technologies
  • 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
  • 3GPP LTE Advanced
  • IEEE 802.16m (WiMAX2)
• 5G Technologies
  • Femtocells
  • Cognitive Radio
  • Dynamic Spectrum Access

Day 4 – Wireless Networking Security

• IEEE 802.11 Security
  • Wired Equivalency Protocol (WEP)
  • Cryptographic and Protocol Attacks
  • IEEE 802.11i (WPA/WPA2)
  • Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
• Cellular Network Security Architectures
  • Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs)
  • Authentication and Roaming
  • Authorization and Accounting
  • Core Network Security
• Physical-Layer Security
  • RF Jamming Threats
  • Intelligent Jamming
  • Network-Layer Jamming
  • Next-Generation Electronic Warfare

Day 5 – Emerging Mobile Security

• Changing Threat Model
  • Emergence of Smartphones
  • Military Applications of Smartphone Technologies
  • Threats against Smartphones
  • Mobile Applications
• Handset Security Challenges
  • Hardware Security
  • Operating System and Kernel Security (Linux)
  • Mobile Distribution Security (Android, iOS)
  • Mobile Application Security
• Network Security Challenges
  • Mobile Device Management (MDM)
  • Provisioning and Accounting
  • Hardened App Stores
• Evolving DoD Policies
  • Management of MDM
  • Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
  • Hardened COTS/GOTS Handset Programs
  • DoD and Federal Mobility Strategies

Course Wrap-up

• Course Recap and Q/A
• Evaluations