The project proposal should be at most 3 pages, double-column in 10 point font.
Here is a guideline to structure your paper.
For research project-based papers, the following 3 sections are important:

   1. Introduction: Motivate why the problem you choose is important, and what has been done before.
   2. Problem Definition: Define the problem as precisely as possible, explain the problem with a well-chosen one example
   3. Proposed Evaluation: how you will evaluate your approach, planned benchmarks, etc.
   Optional: Tentative timeline


For survey-based papers, the following 3 sections are important:
   1. Introduction: State the long-standing problem you choose to survey. State why it has been an interesting problem.
   2. Research Questions: Identify a preliminary set of 3-5 specific technical questions that your paper hopes to answer. 
   3. Organization: Propose a rough categorization (4-5 categories) of previous solutions to the problem. List the papers you will read.

For survey papers, you can look at some of the "Systematization of Knowledge" (or SoK) papers at the IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy conference for inspiration.