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CyanDroid: stable and effective energy inefficiency diagnosis for Android apps

CyanDroid: 面向安卓应用能耗低效问题的稳定分析

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Smartphones are an indispensable part of people’s daily lives. Smartphone apps often use phone sensors to probe their users’ physical environmental conditions to provide services. However, sensing operations can be energy-consumptive, and thus the obtained sensory data should be effectively utilized by apps for their users’ benefits. Existing studies disclosed that many real-world smartphone apps have poor utilization of sensory data, and this causes serious energy waste. To diagnose such energy bugs, a recent technique GreenDroid automatically generates sensory data, tracks their propagation and analyzes their utilization in an app. However, we observe that GreenDroid’s sensory data generation is random and this can negatively affect its stability and effectiveness. Our study reported that GreenDroid might miss energy bugs that require specific sensory data to manifest. To address this problem, we propose a novel approach to systematically generating multi-dimensional sensory data. For effective diagnosis, we also propose to consider app state changes at a finer granularity. We implemented our approach as a prototype tool CyanDroid, and evaluated it using four real-world Android apps and hundreds of their mutants. Our results confirmed that CyanDroid is more stable and effective in energy inefficiency diagnosis for sensory data underutilization issues.

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    用多维白盒采样技术分析安卓应用的传感数据利用率;

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    用细粒度运行状态提升安卓应用能耗低效分析的稳定性。

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Qiwei Li, Chang Xu, Chun Cao, Xiaoxing Ma & Jian Lü

  2. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Qiwei Li, Chang Xu, Chun Cao, Xiaoxing Ma & Jian Lü

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

    Yepang Liu

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Li, Q., Xu, C., Liu, Y. et al. CyanDroid: stable and effective energy inefficiency diagnosis for Android apps. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 60, 012104 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-015-1015-5

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