Third-party libraries (TPLs) have been widely used in mobile apps, which play an essential
part in the entire Android ecosystem. However, TPL is a double-edged sword. On the one …

In recent years, mobile devices (eg, smartphones and tablets) have met an increasing
commercial success and have become a fundamental element of the everyday life for …

The rapid adoption of mobile messaging Apps has enabled us to collect massive amount of
encrypted Internet traffic of mobile messaging. The classification of this traffic into different …

Smartphone apps have changed the way we interact with online services, but highly
specialized apps come at a cost to privacy. In this paper we will demonstrate that a passive …

The proliferation of mobile apps is due in part to the advertising ecosystem which enables
developers to earn revenue while providing free apps. Ad-supported apps can be …

Mobile applications (apps) have been gaining rising popularity due to the advances in
mobile technologies and the large increase in the number of mobile users. Consequently …

The continuing expansion of mobile app ecosystems has attracted lots of efforts from the
research community. However, although a large number of research studies have focused …

Third-party libraries are widely used in Android applications to ease development and
enhance functionalities. However, the incorporated libraries also bring new security & …

We present SAMPLES: Self Adaptive Mining of Persistent LExical Snippets; a systematic
framework for classifying network traffic generated by mobile applications. SAMPLES …

The mobile in-App service analysis, aiming at classifying mobile internet traffic into different
types of service usages, has become a challenging and emergent task for mobile service …