The course willinvestigate the latest advances in network security. It will explore the aforementioned research area by studying, critically analyzing and discussing, summarizing, and presenting selected first-rate research articles. Techniques such as thoroughly surveying literature, critical discussion and analysis of scientific articles, and the presentation of the obtained results will be demonstrated by students. Topics will include: practical anonymity in opportunistic wireless networks, contemporary emergency communication systems, physical layer security in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), distributed trust establishment in (WMNs), detection of attacks on MANETs, outlier detection in wireless sensor networks, and constructive interference in WSN.