{"title":"Exploiting Adaptive Multi-interface Selection to Improve QoS and Cost-Efficiency of Mobile Video Streaming","authors":"Seonghoon Moon, Juwan Yoo, Songkuk Kim","doi":"10.1109/MobServ.2015.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobServ.2015.28","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs have accelerated the online video consumption over a wireless network. To guarantee the stable HD video streaming, the steady and reliable wireless mesh is necessary to satisfy QoS of real-time video services. In this paper, we propose a reliable video delivery system with the split-layer SVC encoding and real-time adaptive interface selection over LTE and WiFi links. Through the adaptive interface selection, the system aims to ensure the maximizing video quality which the bandwidth of LTE/WiFi accommodates. Additionally, we offer an optimization scheme for mobile users' cost-effectiveness by controlling the interface selection policies based on users' remaining daily or monthly LTE data. We evaluate the proposed system in an emulated and a real-world heterogeneous wireless network environments. The results show that the proposed system not only achieves to guarantee the highest quality of video frames via WiFi and LTE simultaneous connection, but also efficiently saves LTE data consumption for cost-effectiveness to the mobile client.","PeriodicalId":166267,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125700981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PHINet: A Plug-n-Play Content-centric Testbed Framework for Health-Internet of Things","authors":"Clint Seales, Trung Do, E. Belyi, Suman Kumar","doi":"10.1109/MobServ.2015.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobServ.2015.57","url":null,"abstract":"Named Data Networking, a future networking paradigm, allows for features such as the naming of content for identification and routing as well as router-based caching for ubiquitous storage. These features are well suited for an Internet of Things (IoT) which can network identifiable and addressable electronic devices such as sensors that, in an IoT, are often configured in a Wireless Body Area Network. To bridge the gap between research approaches in the area of both Health-IoT and content centric networking, this paper presents the first content centric networking test bed framework called PHI Net for experimentation with Health-IoT. PHI Net aims to fulfill the following goals: ease of use, seamless scaling, support for testing, development and integration of health services and sensors, support for experimentation with live traffic underneath, and integration of the cloud into Health-IoT. Architecture, design, and implementation of PHI Net is presented. Furthermore, through several use cases, we demonstrate the applicability of the proposed work.","PeriodicalId":166267,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114377020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating Crowd Sourced Navigation for the Visually Impaired in a Virtual Environment","authors":"Wai L. Khoo, Greg Olmschenk, Zhigang Zhu, T. Ro","doi":"10.1109/MobServ.2015.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobServ.2015.65","url":null,"abstract":"Crowdsourcing has been shown to be a powerful method for solving a variety of problems. In this paper, we introduce an approach for allowing a crowd to help navigate a visually impaired user to their destination in real-time. Furthermore, we experiment with several approaches in aggregating and feeding back crowd data to determine the optimal method. Our approach streams live video from the visually impaired user's mobile device to a crowd of sighted volunteers. Each crowd member is able to provide their opinion on how the user should proceed and our algorithm aggregates this into a single opinion that is sent as feedback to the user. In this paper, we first present the design and implementation of our crowd sourced navigation system, including webapp design and two aggregation algorithms: averaging and league leader approaches. A virtualized user (avatar) is also developed for more controlled and repeatable testing of aggregation approaches with multiple crowd sourced volunteers. We also tested two navigation modes: a real-user controlled avatar, and a program controlled avatar. Experimental results are provided with the two aggregation methods and the two navigation modes. Our results show that we do not have significant difference between the aggregation methods and the program controlled avatar performed better than a real-user controlled avatar.","PeriodicalId":166267,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124532258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ronny Hans, Daniel Burgstahler, Alexander Müller, Manuel Zahn, D. Stingl
{"title":"Knowledge for a Longer Life: Development Impetus for Energy-Efficient Smartphone Applications","authors":"Ronny Hans, Daniel Burgstahler, Alexander Müller, Manuel Zahn, D. Stingl","doi":"10.1109/MobServ.2015.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobServ.2015.27","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in the spread of smartphones and thus in the utilization of mobile applications. Such applications require a substantial portion of the available energy. Since a short battery lifetime has a very negative impact for the user experience, application developers should have the skills and the knowledge to avoid energy-inefficient applications. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of approaches and methods to reduce the energy consumption and thus help software developers to improve their applications.","PeriodicalId":166267,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130436575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultralightweight RFID Reader-Tag Mutual Authentication Revisited","authors":"Yu-Chung Huang, Jehn-Ruey Jiang","doi":"10.1109/MobServ.2015.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobServ.2015.32","url":null,"abstract":"The RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology plays an important role of providing mobile services in Internet of Things (IoT) environments. In an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) system, a tag with a unique ID is attached to an object and a reader can recognize the object by identifying the attached tag. With this identified tag ID, the reader can then retrieve the related information of the object from the backend server database and even access IoT-aware services associated with the object. Due to the nature of RF signals, the communication between the reader and tags is vulnerable to attacks. Typical attacks include the man-in-the-middle (MitM), replay, forward secrecy, denial of service (DoS), and impersonation attacks. Due to the extremely small memory and very limited computation power of tags, some RFID reader-tag mutual authentication schemes, like Huang and Jiang's scheme, Yi et al.'s scheme and Khedr's scheme, have been proposed to resist these attacks by using on-tag ultra lightweight operations, such as the random number generation (RNG), the pseudo random number generator (PRNG), the cyclic redundancy check (CRC), the exclusive-or (XOR), and lightweight cryptographic hash function (LHash) operations. These schemes still have some flaws, though. This paper proposes an improved mutual authentication scheme using only ultra lightweight operations to resist more attacks and/or achieve lower communication, computation, and tag memory overheads.","PeriodicalId":166267,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130000949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Malavolta, Stefano Ruberto, Tommaso Soru, Valerio Terragni
{"title":"End Users' Perception of Hybrid Mobile Apps in the Google Play Store","authors":"I. Malavolta, Stefano Ruberto, Tommaso Soru, Valerio Terragni","doi":"10.1109/MobServ.2015.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobServ.2015.14","url":null,"abstract":"Today millions of mobile apps are downloaded and used all over the world. Mobile apps are distributed via different app stores, such as the Google Play Store, the Apple App Store, the Windows Phone Store. One of the most intriguing challenges in mobile apps development is its fragmentation with respect to mobile platforms (e.g., Android, Apple iOS, Windows Phone). Recently, companies like IBM and Adobe and a growing community of developers advocate hybrid mobile apps development as a possible solution to mobile platforms fragmentation. Hybrid mobile apps are consistent across platforms and built on Web standards. In this paper, we present an empirical investigation into mobile hybrid apps. Our goal is to identify and analyse the traits and distinctions of publicly available hybrid mobile apps from end users' perspective. The study has been conducted by mining 11,917 free apps and 3,041,315 reviews from the Google Play Store, and analyzing them from the end users' perception perspective. The results of this study build an objective and reproducible snapshot about how hybrid mobile development is performing \"in the wild\" in real projects, thus establishing a base for future methods and techniques for developing hybrid mobile apps.","PeriodicalId":166267,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114270891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Code Coverage Measurement for Android Dynamic Analysis Tools","authors":"Chun-Ying Huang, Chin-Hsiang Chiu, Chih-Hung Lin, Han-Wei Tzeng","doi":"10.1109/MobServ.2015.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobServ.2015.38","url":null,"abstract":"It is common to inspect an Android application using static or dynamic analysis techniques. Most traditional tools adopt static analysis techniques due to its low cost and high performance properties. However, since an inspected target could be obfuscated, it is also common to work with dynamic analysis techniques so that complete runtime information can be obtained to provide in-depth application behavior. Although there are already a lot of tools based on dynamic analysis techniques, the capability of such a tool is unknown. It is straightforward to understand the capability of a dynamic analysis tool by measuring its code coverage. However, to our knowledge, there is not a universal approach for measuring code coverage for all dynamic analysis tools, especially when a tool is only accessible remotely. In this paper, we propose an approach to measure code coverage for dynamic analysis tools. We design and implement the approach to measure code coverage for both online and off-line dynamic analysis tools. We then pick online tools including ABM, Anubis, Copper Droid, Tracedroid, as well as off-line tools including standard Android emulator, Droid Box, and Droid Scope. Our measurement results show that the average coverage rate for each tool lies between 20% and 60%.We believe that our approach can provide more information for researchers and developers to better understand and improve the capability of dynamic analysis techniques.","PeriodicalId":166267,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121291109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diffusion of Information in Mobile Social Networks: A Brief Survey","authors":"Qipeng Yao, Xu Wu, Xi Zhang","doi":"10.1109/MobServ.2015.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobServ.2015.44","url":null,"abstract":"The mobile social network (MSN) combines techniques in social science and wireless communications for mobile networking. The MSN can be considered as a system which provides a variety of data delivery services involving the social relationship among mobile users. Information diffusion in mobile social networks provides great opportunities for the spread of positive information such as innovations and negative information propagation like malicious rumors. Therefore understanding information diffusion in mobile social networks is a critical research goal. In this paper, we provide an overview of the recent research in information diffusion area including a wide variety of techniques such as optimization algorithms, data mining, data streams covering a large number of problems such as influence spread maximization, negative information limitation, and study of trends in mobile social networks.","PeriodicalId":166267,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125725016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter Bak, R. Melamed, Dany Moshkovich, Yuval Nardi, Harold J. Ship, Avi Yaeli
{"title":"Location and Context-Based Microservices for Mobile and Internet of Things Workloads","authors":"Peter Bak, R. Melamed, Dany Moshkovich, Yuval Nardi, Harold J. Ship, Avi Yaeli","doi":"10.1109/MobServ.2015.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobServ.2015.11","url":null,"abstract":"Research institutes such as Gartner and Forrester claim that the future of mobile will focus around the user's context. Most of the future mobile applications will leverage user context to provide a richer user experience and deeper engagement, and consequently higher customer value. We present three cloud micro services that can substantially accelerate the development and evolvement of location and context-based applications. These include a contextual triggering micro service used to derive the user's context in the moment of interaction, and visualization and analytics micro services to distill business and operational insights from application data. These micro services are described alongside mobile and Internet of Things usage examples.","PeriodicalId":166267,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services","volume":"8 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129118382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-Adaptation to Mobile Resources in Service Oriented Architecture","authors":"Nour Ali, C. Solís","doi":"10.1109/MobServ.2015.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobServ.2015.62","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile or pervasive systems continuously change their environments and resources (e.g. Battery or bandwidth). Mobile applications require different services when they enter or exit environments and as their resources change. In this paper, we propose a service oriented architectural approach that supports self-adaptation to changes in resources and location topology when mobility occurs, by reconfiguring the software architecture at runtime. The location topology and mobility primitives are inspired from ambient calculus. Our approach considers ambients to be autonomic elements that can manage elements located in them to their environment and provide them with new services suited to the available resources, when mobility occurs. Ambients implement a hierarchical and decentralized MAPE-K loop to adapt the distributed and mobile service oriented architecture to the resource requirements. We have designed an algorithm based on swarm optimization technique in order to allow ambients to optimally plan the reconfiguration process according to available services and resources. Throughout the paper, we use a scenario to illustrate our approach and perform initial evaluations on the swarm algorithm.","PeriodicalId":166267,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122052039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}