Introduction

In this milestone, it is time to put everything we learned together into a proposal to address a gap in the literature of network security. By this time, after reading the papers, you should have built a good understand of the current state of the art work in the topic you selected, and what might be the gaps that you’d like to address. Your job is to convince your audience that your idea and proposed solution deserve a chance to be executed in practice (that might be in terms of providing you with funds, access to resources, etc.).

Writing the proposal

This will vary from project to project, but you will need to address the following questions:

• What are the stages (or sequence of stages) that are to be done to complete your proposed solution?
  • In other words, if you are to split your work into milestones, how would you do that?
• What are the means of testing each checkpoint or milestone in your proposed project?
• What are the evaluation metrics for your proposed solution?
  • In other words, how would you define success/failure in your project?
• If you have done any preliminary work, then clearly summarize the work and how it contributes to your proposal.
• List any tools, resources, machines, infrastructure, … you’d need to successfully conduct your experiments

Make sure that any claims you make in your proposal are one of the two types:

1. A hypothesis: In this case the claim is unjustified yet. Make sure you mention a place to validate your hypothesis as part of the proposal.
2. A claim based on fact listed elsewhere (e.g., in a literature review): make sure you clearly cite the works that are addressing that claim.

Submission

• Milestone 2 is due on Sunday, May 22 at 17:00 pm.
• Submit a single PDF document to gradescope that includes:
  • Your names
  • The title of your research
  • Your literature review section
  • Your proposal section