One of the most interesting and rewarding classes I took at Berkeley was
CS194, a Mobile class taught by
Kurtis Heimerl and
Eric Brewer. Unlike most of the undergraduate courses I had taken, this class was structured more like a graduate-level course. We went over many different topics, but our main focus was a semester-long research project.
In fact, I enjoyed this class so much, I decided to do research with Kurtis and Eric in the
TIER group.
The project I worked on was one in which my group members (Patrick Tiet, Shirley Wu, and Fadi Haddad) and I set up a 2G cell phone network with the purpose of illustrating just how insecure mobile communications currently are. We dubbed it "Evil Telco Service." At the end of the semester, we presented our work in a poster session with the rest of our classmates.
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| A look from the side |
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| Our table |
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| USRP radio |
For reference, I uploaded the
poster we used and our original
design document.
The poster session took place on Wednesday, May 2nd from 1-4PM on the 5th floor of Soda Hall.
Special thanks to George Chigrichenko for taking these pictures!
