A survey on security for mobile devices

M La Polla, F Martinelli… - … communications surveys & …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, mobile devices are an important part of our everyday lives since they enable us
to access a large variety of ubiquitous services. In recent years, the availability of these …

Smartphone malware and its propagation modeling: A survey

S Peng, S Yu, A Yang - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smartphones are pervasively used in society, and have been both the target and victim of
malware writers. Motivated by the significant threat that presents to legitimate users, we …

Understanding the spreading patterns of mobile phone viruses

P Wang, MC González, CA Hidalgo, AL Barabási - Science, 2009 - science.org
We modeled the mobility of mobile phone users in order to study the fundamental spreading
patterns that characterize a mobile virus outbreak. We find that although Bluetooth viruses …

Mobility models, traces and impact of mobility on opportunistic routing algorithms: A survey

S Batabyal, P Bhaumik - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile Opportunistic Network (MON) is characterized by intermittent connectivity where
communication largely depends on the mobility pattern of the participating nodes. In MON, a …

Smartsiren: virus detection and alert for smartphones

J Cheng, SHY Wong, H Yang, S Lu - Proceedings of the 5th international …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Smartphones have recently become increasingly popular because they provide" all-in-one"
convenience by integrating traditional mobile phones with handheld computing devices …

Virusmeter: Preventing your cellphone from spies

L Liu, G Yan, X Zhang, S Chen - … 2009, Saint-Malo, France, September 23 …, 2009 - Springer
Due to the rapid advancement of mobile communication technology, mobile devices
nowadays can support a variety of data services that are not traditionally available. With the …

Exploiting social interactions in mobile systems

AG Miklas, KK Gollu, KKW Chan, S Saroiu… - International Conference …, 2007 - Springer
The popularity of handheld devices has created a flurry of research activity into new
protocols and applications that can handle and exploit the defining characteristic of this new …