Characterizing smartphone usage patterns from millions of android users

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn 2015-October, Issue , 2015, Pages 459-472

  Li, Huoran ^a   Lu, Xuan ^a   Liu, Xuanzhe ^a   Xie, Tao ^b   Bian, Kaigui ^a   Lin, Felix Xiaozhu ^c   Mei, Qiaozhu ^d   Feng, Feng ^e  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e Wandoujia Lab   (China)

Author keywords

Android apps; App management; App performance; App popularity; App stores

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INTERNET;

ANDROID APPS; APP STORES; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NETWORK TRAFFIC; USAGE PATTERNS; USER BEHAVIORS;

ANDROID (OPERATING SYSTEM);

EID: 84954117175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2815675.2815686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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