Dissecting the Security and Protection Issues in Pervasive Computing.

Adnan Sohail; Qaisar Javaid; Humera Yaseen; Munam Ali Shah; Muhammad Kamran

doi:10.22581/muet1982.1802.02

Author(s)

Adnan Sohail Department of Computer Science, Iqra University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Qaisar Javaid Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Humera Yaseen Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Munam Ali Shah Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Kamran Department of Distance Continuing & Computer Education, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan

Abstract

Human beings reflect nomadic behaviour as they keep on travelling place to place whole day for personal or organizational purposes. The inception of modern networking technologies and the advent of wide range of applications in terms of services and resources have facilitated the users in many ways. The advancements in numerous areas such as embedded systems, WN (Wireless Networks), mobile and context-aware computing, anticipated pervasive computing dominated the human communication at large. Pervasive computing refers to the environment where information is accessible anywhere and anytime while existing system is invisible to the user. On the other hand, the invisibility of pervasive computing is also a problem in its adoption as users are unaware when and what devices collect their personal data and how it is being used. It has caused new security chaos as the more information about user is collected the more privacy and security concerns it raises, thus, the pervasive computing applications became key concern for user. This paper is aimed at analyzing the security and protection issues that arise while traveling from place to place connected with wireless mobile networks. The paper reviews many existing systems that offer possible security to pervasive users. An easy, precise and relative analysis and evaluation of surveyed pervasive systems are presented and some future directions are highlighted.

Publication Details

Page(s) 241-256

DOI 10.22581/muet1982.1802.02

Published Journal: Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Year: 2018

Request the full text from PASTIC

References

Beal , V., ., -

2015.,[Accessed: 10th November -

Vikas , S.S.,Pawan , K.,Gurudatt , A.K.,Shyam , G., 2014.Mobile Cloud Computing: Security Threats,Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Electronics & Communication Systems 1 -4

April,Langheinrich , M., 2002.“A Privacy Awareness System for Ubiquitous Computing Environments”,Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing 37 237 -245

Kaur , N., 2015.Delving into the Security Issues of Mobile Cloud Computing”,International Journal of Computer and Communication System Engineering 2 451 -454

Djedid , M.N., 2012.“A Trust-Based Security Mechanism for Nomadic Users in Pervasive Systems”, 2 -3

Beresford , A.R.,Rice , A.,Skehin, 2011.MockDroid: Trading Privacy for Application Functionality on Smartphones Categories and Subject Descriptors”,12th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications 49 -54

Agarwal , Y.,Hall , M.,Services, 2014.ProtectMyPrivacy: Detecting and Mitigating Privacy Leaks on iOS Devices Using Crowdsourcing Categories and Subject Descriptors”,11th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems 6 97 -110

Chin , E.,Felt , A.P.,Sekar , V.,Wagner , D., 2012.Measuring User Confidence in Smartphone Security,8th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, No. 1 1 -16

Liu , B.,Sadeh, 2014.,“Reconciling Mobile Application Privacy and Usability on Smartphones: Could User Privacy Profiles Help?,” 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web 201 -212

Banuri, H., Alam, M., Khan, S., and Manzoor, J., “An Android Runtime Security Policy Enforcement Framework”, Ubiquitous Computer, Volume 16, No. 6, pp. 631-641, 2012

Enck, W., Cox, L.P., Gilbert, P., and Mcdaniel, P., TaintDroid: An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones”, Proceedings of 9th USENIX Conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, pp. 1-6, 2010.

Werthmann, T., Davi, L., Sadeghi, A., and Holz, T., “PSiOS: Bring Your Own Privacy & Security to iOS Devices Categories and Subject Descriptors”, 8th ACM SIGSAC Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Securirty, pp. 13–24, 2013.

Rashidi, B., Fung, C., and Vu, T., “RecDroid: A Resource Access Permission Control Portal and Recommendation Service for Smartphone Users”, ACM MobiCom Workshop on Securrity Privary Mobile Environment, pp. 13-18, 2014

Papamartzivanos, D., Damopoulos, D., and Kambourakis, D., “A Cloud-Based Architecture to Crowdsource Mobile Application Privacy Leaks”, Proceedings of 18th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, pp. 1-6, 2014.

Beresford, A.R., Rice, A., and Skehin, N., “MockDroid: Trading Privacy for Application Functionality on Smartphones Categories and Subject Descriptors”, 12th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, pp. 49–54, 2011

Agarwal, Y., and Hall, M., “ProtectMyPrivacy: Detecting and Mitigating Privacy Leaks on iOS Devices Using Crowdsourcing Categories and Subject Descriptors”, 11th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, Volume 6, pp. 97-110, September, 2014

Chin, E., Felt, A.P., Sekar, V., and Wagner, D., “Measuring User Confidence in Smartphone Security and Privacy”, 8th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, No. 1, pp. 1-16, 2012

Liu, B., and Sadeh, N., “Reconciling Mobile Application Privacy and Usability on Smartphones: Could User Privacy Profiles Help?,” 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web, pp. 201-212, 2014.