Your group is to submit a one or two-page written proposal for the project with an initial bibliography. The due date is in the course calendar. It is advisable to get going early; I will gladly accept proposals before the deadline. This assignment gives the teaching stuff a chance to review and approve your project proposal, and to suggest references that you may have overlooked.

Attention: Submit your project proposal in one of the following formats ONLY: PDF. Proposals in any other formats will be discarded. Only first two pages will be read. Spelling, grammar, and other language errors will result in fewer points credited to the proposal. Format your proposal and references in IEEE Transactions format.

You are also encouraged to arrange a short meeting with the course staff to discuss what you want to do for the project. The deadline for such a meeting is specified in the course calendar.

The following are the questions that your project proposal should address in brief:

For a design project:

1. What is the problem we are going to address?
2. Why is this problem important?
3. How is this problem currently addressed by others?
4. What is the way we are proposing to address the problem?
5. Why and in what respect is our way to address this problem is going to be better than those developed by others?
6. What is our plan for completing the project and submitting the report by the deadline (see the course calendar)?

For an analysis project:

1. What is the system that is going to be analyzed?
2. Why is security analysis of this systems important? (Explain it in terms of value of the assets, threats, and risks).
3. Who else did perform similar analysis or analyzed similar systems?
4. What is the metholodology of your analysis? Explain here exactly how you will be analyzing the system.
5. Make sure to include in your submitted proposal the project authorization form signed by all the required parties. If the system owner or the course professor did not provide signatures, include corresponding e-mail messages from them.
6. Why will the world be a better place after your analysis. That is, how is your analysis going to be beneficial to the society?
7. What is our plan for completing the project and submitting the report by the deadline (see the course calendar)?

Hints and Tips for both design and analysis projects:

1. Please consider using term project report templates (available here) for writing up your proposals. This will help you with writing your project reports.
2. Use past tense, as if you have already completed your projects, since you will have to use past tense for your final report.