The course provides the necessary knowledge and skills to lead a software project team, understand the software process, time and cost estimates, and the relationship of software development to overall product engineering. Topics include life cycle models, requirements definition, configuration control, environments, planning, scheduling, execution, monitoring, evaluation, refinement, quality

This course presents theoretical and practical aspects of testing software; a comprehensive study of software testing and quality control concepts, principles, methodologies, management strategies and techniques. The emphasis is on understanding software testing process, planning strategy, criteria, and testing methods, as well as software quality assurance concepts & control process. Students

Tools, techniques, and design principles behind these systems. Design, deployment, and maintenance issues; multi-tier and peer-to-peer architectures; security and transactional issues that present unique challenges in distributed systems. Concepts to be covered include inter-process communication, remote invocation, data serialization, messaging, integration, distributed design patterns

An overview of operating system security; network security, including cryptography and cryptographic protocols, firewalls, and network denial-of-service attacks and defenses; user authentication technologies; security for network servers; web security; and security for mobile code technologies; intrusion detection; techniques to provide privacy in Internet applications; and protecting digital

The course covers authentication protocols, key distributions protocols, e-commerce security protocols. Security protocol properties: authentication, secrecy, integrity, availability, non-repudiation, atomiCIT-y, certified delivery; crypto-protocol attacks; security protocols design, implementation and analysis. OSI security architecture, models and architectures for network security

The course covers fundamental concepts and mechanisms for enforcing security and defining secure operating systems, defining an ideal secure operating system, the first OS designed for security goals, systems development approaches applied to build a secure operating system, access control fundamentals, formal security goals and corresponding security models proposed for secure operating systems

The course covers security measures for different types of wireless networks, the challenges associated with securing ad hoc networks, the different attacks on Ad hoc networks, the different types of intrusion detection systems used for ad hoc networks, the reputation systems as an approach to securing ad hoc networks. Upon completing the course the students will be able to describe the different

The course discusses security evaluation of information systems, security evaluation of software, security evaluation of products, security code inspection, security testing, security standards, preparation of a security evaluation: impact scale, likelihood scale, severity scale, vulnerability analysis, risk analysis, security plan elaboration, common criteria, target of evaluation, protection

The course provides an overview of security incident response and emergency handling activities. Topics covered include detecting and characterizing an attack; forensics and evidence collection; understanding the technical issues of different attack types; and performing analysis and response tasks for various types of incidents. The course also outlines how to build and manage computer incident

The course covers how to identify and prioritize information assets, identify and prioritize threats to information assets, define an information security policy, develop, implement and maintain various security policies, implement information security constraints used to prevent misuse of information on an organization’s human resources process, and to know the role of culture in ethics as it

In this course, students will learn and understand the different components of risk, risk assessment and risk management and how all these components relate; the different types of risk assessment; the frameworks and methodologies of conducting and processing risk management correctly, efficiently and effectively in the enterprise; how to establish an effective risk management for your

The course covers basics of Information Security Governance, Security Governance vs. IT Governance, regulatory requirements for information security, the needs and benefits of the governance approach, Information Security Governance program and its deliverables, establishing the ISG processes in the organization, aligning the ISG to the organization’s strategy and goals, the associated roles and

Analysis and design of communication systems; including an overview of analog and digital modulation and demodulation, frequency conversion, multiplexing, noise and distortion; spectral and signal-to-noise ratio analysis, probability of error in digital systems, spread spectrum. Advanced topics include optimal communication, modulation under bandwidth and complexity constraints, and mobile

Fundamental parameters. Dipoles, loops, reflectors, Yagis, helices, slots, horns, micro-strips. Antennas as transitions between guided and free radiation, ultrasound analogue. Famous antennas. Pattern measurements. Friis and radar equations. Feeds, matching, baluns. Broad banding. Arrays, aperture synthesis, interferometry, very-long-baseline interferometry. Thermal radiation, antenna temperature

Topics covered include MIMO (multiple input multiple output) communication, space-time coding, opportunistic communication, OFDM and CDMA. The concepts are illustrated using many examples from wireless systems such as GSM, IS-95 (CDMA), IS-856(1xEV-DO), Flash OFDM and ArrayComm SDMA systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the interplay between concepts and their implementation in systems.

The course includes a review sampling and reconstruction, CTFT, DTFT, DFT. It covers multi-rate signal processing: up-sampling and down-sampling, poly-phase filters, sample rate conversion, multistage filter design. Time-Frequency Analysis: uncertainty principle, continuous STFT, discrete STFT, continuous wavelet transform. Wavelets: review of Hilbert spaces, discrete wavelet transform, multi