• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.367-372
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• 2022

In the age of smartphones, users accomplish their daily tasks using their smartphones due to the significant growth in smartphone technology. Due to these tremendous expansions, attackers are highly motivated to penetrate numerous mobile marketplaces with their developed malicious apps. Android has the biggest proportion of the overall market share when compared to other platforms including Windows, iOS, and Blackberry. This research will discuss the Android security features, vulnerabilities and threats, in addition to some existing protection mechanisms.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.223-229
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• 2011

A novel ecosystem surrounding developing, publishing and using of smartphone applications is driving a new paradigm in software industry. Thousands of applications are newly published on appstores everyday. However more than 97% of them happen to be downloaded less than 1,000 times and resultingly disappeared out of user's interesting. It means that so many efforts and time of developers are vanished. In this paper, we proposed a new architecture to increase code reusability of Android applications so that the time and efforts to develop new applications can be shortened. The proposed architecture, an extended Intent mechanism, supports sharing of Android components among the applications registered in different servers as well as in the same Android device. We designed a new Intent mechanism by extending the PackageManager service and by adopting a new class for ServerPackageManager service.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.1105-1119
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• 2016

Android includes SEAndroid as a core security feature. SELinux is applied to Android OS as a SEAndroid, because there exists structural differences between Linux and Android. Since the security of SEAndroid depends on the reliable policy if the policy is tampered by the attacker, the serious security problems can be occurred. So we must protect policies which are the most important thing in SEAndoroid. In this paper, we analyze the process of SEAndroid policy updating to find out vulnerabilities and study the attack points on policy tampering. And we propose the SPPA to detect whether the policy is modified by an attacker. Moreover, we prove the performance and the effect of our proposed method on mobile device.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.335-343
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• 2015

As the usage of mobile devices becomes diverse, a number of attacks on Android also have increased. Among the attacks, Android can be compromised by flashing a new image of compromised Android Linux. In order to solve this problem, we propose SeBo (Secure Boot System) which prevents compromised Android Linux by guaranteeing secure boot environment for mobile devices based on ARM TrustZone architecture. SeBo checks the hash value of the Android Linux image before the Android Linux executes. SeBo detects all the attacks within 5 seconds. Moreover, since SeBo only trusts the Secure Bootloader from Secure World, SeBo can reduce the additional overhead of checking the Normal Bootloader from Normal World.

• Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.9-17
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• 2013

Android applications market has increased rapidly due to the popularity of smart phones. In order to high competitiveness in the application market should be high productivity, reduce cost. And short development cycle is required because of increased the android applications demand. Owing to develop applications in short time, the requirements analysis, design process are able to omitted. But in the case of reuse application at development phase, involved many problems because omit document or design. so target of this paper is android application source code that omit document or design. we propose architecture recovery techniques from android application source code by reverse engineering with identify functions are reused. We expect that increase productivity and reduce development cost, smooth maintain by proposed technique.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.11B
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• pp.1323-1328
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• 2011

In this paper, we have shown Dalvik virtual machine implementation to reduce the profiling overhead from the trace of the JIT compiler for the specific method. By running the same Java method on the original Dalvik VM and the modified Dalvik VM, we have achieved around 30% performance improvement with this algorithm. In this paper, to increase the reader's understanding of Android Dalvik virtual machine, we will explain the architecture of Dalvik JIT compiler and we will provide the detailed explanation with source codes for modified parts of Dalvik virtual machine. From the industry perspective, we can expect competitive benefits over the competitors with performance improvement in Android core.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.149-154
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• 2012

This paper aims to design and realize android smartphone mobile webapp office JPetStore order system based Seam framework. Currently in production until the lightweight container architecture, known commonly architecture is Seam framework. However, there is no design and implementation research of mobile webapp office with the Seam framework environment. In this study, the Seam environment based on the android mobile webapp office JPetStore order system implementation after analyzing the mobile webapp office development productivity with the objective is to provide guidance.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.48-52
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• 2012

As the growing popularity of smartphones, mobile web browsing has become one of the most important and popular applications in mobile devices. Furthermore, it is clear that the demand for PC-like full browser performance on mobile devices is increasing greatly. WebKit is an open source web browser engine adopted by Google Android. This paper proposed a technique of increasing the performance of WebKit by paralleling its libraries. This method was applied to JPEG library and the performance evaluation was conducted in PC environment. The results was used to estimate the performance prediction on multi-core mobile embedded architecture and to show the feasibility of the proposed method to estimate the performance gain on heterogeneous multi-core embedded architecture.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.190-200
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• 2011

Android platform provides a content provider and a cursor mechanism to access the internal SQLite engine. Content providers not only store and retrieve data but also make it accessible to applications. Applications can only share data through content provider, since there's no common storage area that Android packages can access. Cursor is an interface that provides random read-write access to the result set returned by a database query. However, this cursor possesses two major limitations. First, a cursor does not support a join clause among cursors, since the cursor can only access a single table in the content provider. Second, the cursor is not capable of creating user-customized field in the predefined content providers. In this paper, we propose the unified cursor architecture that merges several cursors into a single virtual cursor. Cursor translation look-aside buffer (TLB), column windowing mechanism and virtual data management are the three major techniques we have adopted to implement our structure. And we also propose a delayed synchronization method between an application and a proposed unified cursor. An application can create a user-customized field and sort multiple tables using a unified cursor on Android platform.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.33-38
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• 2016

In Android platform, as applications invoke various service functions through IPC (Inter-Process Communication), IPC performance is critical to the responsiveness in Android. However, Android offers long IPC latency of hundreds of micro-seconds due to complicated software stacks between the kernel Binder and the user-level process Context Manager. This separation provides modularity and flexibility, but degrades the responsiveness of services owing to additional context switching and inefficient request handling. In this paper, we anatomize Android IPC mechanisms and observe that 55% of IPC latency comes from the communication overhead between Binder and Context Manager. Based on this observation, this paper proposes a kernel Binder cache that retains a popular subset of service function mappings, thereby reducing the requests transferred to the user-level daemon. The proposed Binder cache is implemented in Android 5.0 and experimental results with various benchmarks show that the proposed cache architecture improves performance by 52.9% on average.