Handbook of Research on Wireless Security

Zhang, Yan · Zheng, Jun · Ma, Miao

mar 2008 · IGI Global

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Security is one of the most significant components in wireless systems to ensure the integrity of communications among terminals, networks, and services. As the field of wireless communications expands and inundates personal and professional lives worldwide, up-to-date wireless security research and knowledge becomes increasingly more vital to society.

The Handbook of Research on Wireless Security combines research from over 100 esteemed experts from 23 countries on security issues in various wireless communications, recent advances in wireless security, the wireless security model, and future directions in wireless security. As an innovative and current reference source for students, educators, faculty members, researchers, engineers in the field of wireless security, this handbook will make an invaluable addition to any library collection.

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Yan Zhang is an associate professor in the School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Western Sydney. He received his PhD degree from the University of Sydney, Australia in 1994. Yan has research interests in knowledge update, program modification and evolution, logic programming, model checking, descriptive complexity theory, and information security. Yan has published many research papers in top international conferences and journals in his areas and obtained various national competitive research grants. Currently Yan is leading a research group Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL) at the University of Western Sydney.

Jun Zheng received the B.S and M.S degrees in Electrical Engineering from Chongqing University, China, in 1993, 1996, respectively, the M.S.E degree in Biomedical Engineering from Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2005. Currently he is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Queens College of The City University of New York. He is also a member of the faculty of the Doctoral Program in Computer Science at the Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York. He is the co-editor for two books: Security in Wireless Mesh Networks and Handbook of Research on Wireless Security. He served as general co-chair for WAMSNet-07, track co-chair for ITNG 2007, session co-organizer for PDCS 2006. He also served as TPC member for several international conferences. His research interests are mobility and resource management in wireless and mobile networks, media access control, performance evaluation, network security, computer architectures, fault-tolerant computing, and image processing. He is member of IEEE.

Miao Ma received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, respectively, and the Ph.D degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. From August 2002 to December 2006, she has been working at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore. Since Jan. 2007, she is working at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She is a member of IEEE. Her research interests include media access control, cognitive radio, security, wireless communications and networking. [Editor]