Exploring sensor usage behaviors of Android applications based on data flow analysis

2015 IEEE 34th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, IPCCC 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages

  Liu, Xing ^a   Liu, Jiqiang ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Android system; Clustering; Data flow analysis; Sensor usage

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA TRANSFER; LIBRARIES;

ACCELEROMETER SENSOR; ANDROID APPLICATIONS; ANDROID SYSTEMS; CLUSTERING; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR; POSITION SENSORS; RELATED FUNCTIONS; THIRD PARTY APPLICATION (APPS);

ANDROID (OPERATING SYSTEM);

EID: 84969981400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCCC.2015.7410335     Document Type: Conference Paper

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