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Smartphone Traffic Analysis: A Contemporary Survey of the State-of-the-Art

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In today’s era, speedy growth in the popularity of smartphone have been witnessed, emerging it as a popular sophisticated smart computing device. It has also become an integral part of large number of people from all corners of the world. Traditional communication activities such as text messages and voice calls are no longer the only benefits of these mobile devices. Smartphones are available in the market offering plenty of advanced functionalities made available with the help of enormous multipurpose apps (e.g. e-commerce, gaming, emails, social communication, internet and many more). As a result, the massive adoption of smartphones generates a significant mobile network traffic that amounts to a critical share of whole internet traffic. Due to the network traffic generated via smartphone, many researchers are continuously investigating the privacy and security issues emerging with it, which can be analyzed to gather info that can be used for different goals extending from user behaviour analysis and system identification to malware detection. In this paper, we have reviewed the work associated with network traffic monitoring of smartphones. Particularly, we have provided an insight into the aim of the analysis, the most popular smartphone platforms and methods that exploit network traffic to detect vulnerabilities in smartphone. In this survey, a comparison of the different frameworks and methods proposed by researchers ranging from 2014, to till date has been carried out. This survey paper can be used as a reference for more research related to this field.

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  1. SAG, Defence Research and Development Organisation, Delhi, India

    Sumit Kumar & Gurjit Singh Walia

  2. Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India

    S. Indu

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  1. Department of Information Technology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Haringhata, West Bengal, India

    Debasis Giri

  2. School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Rajkumar Buyya

  3. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

    S. Ponnusamy

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Haringhata, West Bengal, India

    Debashis De

  5. Unconventional Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Andrew Adamatzky

  6. Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University Geelong, Geelong, VIC, Australia

    Jemal H. Abawajy

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Kumar, S., Indu, S., Walia, G.S. (2021). Smartphone Traffic Analysis: A Contemporary Survey of the State-of-the-Art. In: Giri, D., Buyya, R., Ponnusamy, S., De, D., Adamatzky, A., Abawajy, J.H. (eds) Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Mathematics and Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1262. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8061-1_26

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