Titulo Estágio
Security versus Energy Efficiency in Mobile Applications
Local do Estágio
SSE-CISUC
Enquadramento
The ubiquity of mobile devices in citizens’ daily lives is such that, currently, it is estimated that they actively use them for an average of 5 hours a day, with 92% of this time spent on mobile applications. In this context, the battery life of mobile devices is an increasingly important factor in consumer satisfaction. Thus, it is crucial that energy capacity is used as efficiently as possible.
As we investigate techniques to improve energy efficiency of the mobile applications, it is not yet understood the impacts that may exist in the security of those applications.
Objetivo
The main goal of this internship is to understand how the techniques to improve energy efficiency may impact in the security of mobile applications.
For this, we intend to compare applications with different degrees of energy efficiency in the context of security and robustness tests. As the datasets to support this analysis may be limited, it will be necessary to gather representative applications with and without security issues, and in case it is not possible to obtain them, use vulnerability injection techniques to create the proper code base of applications.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 1
T1. [12/09/2022 to 15/10/2022] Understanding environment. Study of technologies used to evaluate the energy consumption of mobile devices. Study mobile security issues and code smells.
T2. [15/10/2022 to 15/11/2022] Requirements and State of the art analysis. Identification of potential codebase of applications that can be used, and availability of datasets.
T3. [15/11/2022 to 31/12/2022] Definition of the proposed approach.
T4. [01/01/2023 to 21/01/2023] Write the Dissertation Plan.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 2
T5. [01/02/2023 to 30/03/2023] Develop the solution
T6. [01/04/2023 to 30/04/2023] Experimental Validation.
T7. [15/04/2023 to 31/05/2023] Write a paper or a technical report.
T8. [15/05/2023 to 01/07/2023] Write the thesis.
Condições
The selected candidate will become a team member of the GreenStamp – Mobile Energy Efficiency Services research project, with the possibility of receiving a research grant from the project.
Orientador
João Ferreira, Nuno Antunes
nmsa@dei.uc.pt 📩