Porting monitor di rete per gestione interfacce su device android.

Il lavoro svolto in questa tesi consiste nell'effettuare il porting del Monitor di rete da Linux ad Android,facente parte di un sistema più complesso conosciuto come ABPS. Il ruolo del monitor è quello di configurare dinamicamente tutte le interfacce di rete disponibili sul dispositivo sul quale lavora,in modo da essere connessi sempre alla miglior rete conosciuta,ad esempio al miglior Access Point nel caso del interfaccia wireless.

T-Kernel在Blackfin处理器上的移植分析

T-Kernel是日本T-Engine组织推出的开源免费的嵌入式实时操作系统(RTOS),以其强实时小体积内核著称。本文针对T-Kernel在Blackfin处理器(BF533)上的移植过程进行了分析,给出了中断管理,任务切换和系统调用入口的实现方法,并进行了稳定性和实时性测试,保证了移植系统的性能。

Wireless and Physical Security via Embedded Sensor Networks

Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems (WIDS) monitor 802.11 wireless frames (Layer-2) in an attempt to detect misuse. What distinguishes a WIDS from a traditional Network IDS is the ability to utilize the broadcast nature of the medium to reconstruct the physical location of the offending party, as opposed to its possibly spoofed (MAC addresses) identity in cyber space. Traditional Wireless Network Security Systems are still heavily anchored in the digital plane of "cyber space" and hence cannot be used reliably or effectively to derive the physical identity of an intruder in order to prevent further malicious wireless broadcasts, for example by escorting an intruder off the premises based on physical evidence. In this paper, we argue that Embedded Sensor Networks could be used effectively to bridge the gap between digital and physical security planes, and thus could be leveraged to provide reciprocal benefit to surveillance and security tasks on both planes. Toward that end, we present our recent experience integrating wireless networking security services into the SNBENCH (Sensor Network workBench). The SNBENCH provides an extensible framework that enables the rapid development and automated deployment of Sensor Network applications on a shared, embedded sensing and actuation infrastructure. The SNBENCH's extensible architecture allows an engineer to quickly integrate new sensing and response capabilities into the SNBENCH framework, while high-level languages and compilers allow novice SN programmers to compose SN service logic, unaware of the lower-level implementation details of tools on which their services rely. In this paper we convey the simplicity of the service composition through concrete examples that illustrate the power and potential of Wireless Security Services that span both the physical and digital plane.

Mapping di access point wifi su android: valutazione

Sviluppo di un'applicazione Android che effettua scansioni di reti Wi-Fi in una determinata area al fine di mappare tutti gli Access Point rilevabili.

Desarrollo de aplicaciones android usando la tecnología wifi-direct

Este proyecto de fin de grado pretende demostrar la importancia y la utilidad de la creación de redes de dispositivos móviles conectados entre sí. Para ello se explicarán varios tipos de redes inalámbricas que permiten estas conexiones directas entre dispositivos sin la necesidad de un servidor. En estas redes inalámbricas se destacan las redes P2P y las redes Ad-hoc, las cuales se explicarán posteriormente. El despliegue de estas redes se puede encontrar en un amplio rango de campos como puede ser la agricultura, la medicina e incluso en el ámbito militar. Es objetivo de este proyecto, además, el estudio de la tecnología Wi-Fi Direct creada por la Wi-Fi Alliance. Como se explicará a lo largo del proyecto, Wi-Fi Direct está basado en las redes P2P. Esta tecnología permite a los dispositivos cercanos crear redes P2P a través de la red Wi-Fi sin la necesidad de un punto de acceso a Internet. Por otro lado, una gran cantidad de los dispositivos móviles que existen actualmente poseen el sistema operativo Android. Android ha incorporado en sus dispositivos más recientes la tecnología Wi-Fi Direct. Debido a ello han ido surgiendo aplicaciones que usando esta tecnología consiguen desde enviar ficheros hasta indicar la localización de un usuario. Esta tecnología combinada con este tipo de dispositivos puede ser muy útil para utilizar en casos de emergencia donde las infraestructuras de comunicaciones no estén disponibles ya que al no necesitar un punto de acceso a internet es posible la comunicación entre un usuario en peligro y otro que se encuentre dentro de un radio cercano. Por estos motivos otro de los principales objetivos de este proyecto es la implementación de una aplicación para dispositivos Android que use la tecnología Wi-Fi Direct para realizar varias funcionalidades diferentes, como es el intercambio de ficheros entre dispositivos y la creación de un chat para la comunicación simultanea entre dos dispositivos. Con esto se pretende conocer mejor el funcionamiento de la tecnología Wi-Fi Direct y demostrar su utilidad en los dispositivos móviles como son los dispositivos Android. ABSTRACT. This final degree Project tries to demonstrate the importance and utility of networking mobile devices. For this purpose several types of wireless networks will be explained. These networks allow direct connections between devices. The most prominent Wireless networks are P2P and Ad-hoc which will be explained later. The use of these networks can be found in a wide range of fields such as agriculture medicine, and even in the military sector. Besides, other aim of this project is the study of Wi-Fi Direct Technology which is created by Wi-Fi Alliance. As it explained along the project, Wi-Fi Direct is based on P2P networks. This technology lets nearby devices create P2P networks through Wi-Fi network without an Internet access point. On the other hand, a large number of mobile devices have the Android OS. Android has integrated Wi-Fi Direct technology in its latest devices. Because of this applications have emerged that using this technology they get from sending files to send the user’s location. This technology combined with these devices can be very useful to use in emergencies where communications infrastructures are not available. Since not need an Internet access point, communication between a user in danger and another within close radius is possible. For these reasons another of the main aims of this project is the implementation of an application for Android devices which use Wi-Fi Direct technology to perform several different functionalities, such as file exchange or chat for simultaneous communication between devices. This is intended to better understand the operation of Wi-Fi Direct technology and prove its utility on mobile devices such as Android devices.

Enhancing security of linux-based android devices

Our daily lives become more and more dependent upon smartphones due to their increased capabilities. Smartphones are used in various ways from payment systems to assisting the lives of elderly or disabled people. Security threats for these devices become increasingly dangerous since there is still a lack of proper security tools for protection. Android emerges as an open smartphone platform which allows modification even on operating system level. Therefore, third-party developers have the opportunity to develop kernel-based low-level security tools which is not normal for smartphone platforms. Android quickly gained its popularity among smartphone developers and even beyond since it bases on Java on top of "open" Linux in comparison to former proprietary platforms which have very restrictive SDKs and corresponding APIs. Symbian OS for example, holding the greatest market share among all smartphone OSs, was closing critical APIs to common developers and introduced application certification. This was done since this OS was the main target for smartphone malwares in the past. In fact, more than 290 malwares designed for Symbian OS appeared from July 2004 to July 2008. Android, in turn, promises to be completely open source. Together with the Linux-based smartphone OS OpenMoko, open smartphone platforms may attract malware writers for creating malicious applications endangering the critical smartphone applications and owners� privacy. In this work, we present our current results in analyzing the security of Android smartphones with a focus on its Linux side. Our results are not limited to Android, they are also applicable to Linux-based smartphones such as OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner. Our contribution in this work is three-fold. First, we analyze android framework and the Linux-kernel to check security functionalities. We survey wellaccepted security mechanisms and tools which can increase device security. We provide descriptions on how to adopt these security tools on Android kernel, and provide their overhead analysis in terms of resource usage. As open smartphones are released and may increase their market share similar to Symbian, they may attract attention of malware writers. Therefore, our second contribution focuses on malware detection techniques at the kernel level. We test applicability of existing signature and intrusion detection methods in Android environment. We focus on monitoring events on the kernel; that is, identifying critical kernel, log file, file system and network activity events, and devising efficient mechanisms to monitor them in a resource limited environment. Our third contribution involves initial results of our malware detection mechanism basing on static function call analysis. We identified approximately 105 Executable and Linking Format (ELF) executables installed to the Linux side of Android. We perform a statistical analysis on the function calls used by these applications. The results of the analysis can be compared to newly installed applications for detecting significant differences. Additionally, certain function calls indicate malicious activity. Therefore, we present a simple decision tree for deciding the suspiciousness of the corresponding application. Our results present a first step towards detecting malicious applications on Android-based devices.

Monitoring android for collaborative anomaly detection : a first architectural draft

Our daily lives become more and more dependent upon smartphones due to their increased capabilities. Smartphones are used in various ways, e.g. for payment systems or assisting the lives of elderly or disabled people. Security threats for these devices become more and more dangerous since there is still a lack of proper security tools for protection. Android emerges as an open smartphone platform which allows modification even on operating system level and where third-party developers first time have the opportunity to develop kernel-based low-level security tools. Android quickly gained its popularity among smartphone developers and even beyond since it bases on Java on top of "open" Linux in comparison to former proprietary platforms which have very restrictive SDKs and corresponding APIs. Symbian OS, holding the greatest market share among all smartphone OSs, was even closing critical APIs to common developers and introduced application certification. This was done since this OS was the main target for smartphone malwares in the past. In fact, more than 290 malwares designed for Symbian OS appeared from July 2004 to July 2008. Android, in turn, promises to be completely open source. Together with the Linux-based smartphone OS OpenMoko, open smartphone platforms may attract malware writers for creating malicious applications endangering the critical smartphone applications and owners privacy. Since signature-based approaches mainly detect known malwares, anomaly-based approaches can be a valuable addition to these systems. They base on mathematical algorithms processing data that describe the state of a certain device. For gaining this data, a monitoring client is needed that has to extract usable information (features) from the monitored system. Our approach follows a dual system for analyzing these features. On the one hand, functionality for on-device light-weight detection is provided. But since most algorithms are resource exhaustive, remote feature analysis is provided on the other hand. Having this dual system enables event-based detection that can react to the current detection need. In our ongoing research we aim to investigates the feasibility of light-weight on-device detection for certain occasions. On other occasions, whenever significant changes are detected on the device, the system can trigger remote detection with heavy-weight algorithms for better detection results. In the absence of the server respectively as a supplementary approach, we also consider a collaborative scenario. Here, mobile devices sharing a common objective are enabled by a collaboration module to share information, such as intrusion detection data and results. This is based on an ad-hoc network mode that can be provided by a WiFi or Bluetooth adapter nearly every smartphone possesses.

Mobile TuCSoN: theoretical and technological requirements for TuCSoN's porting over Android mobile devices

Communication and coordination are two key-aspects in open distributed agent system, being both responsible for the system’s behaviour integrity. An infrastructure capable to handling these issues, like TuCSoN, should to be able to exploit modern technologies and tools provided by fast software engineering contexts. Thesis aims to demonstrate TuCSoN infrastructure’s abilities to cope new possibilities, hardware and software, offered by mobile technology. The scenarios are going to configure, are related to the distributed nature of multi-agent systems where an agent should be located and runned just on a mobile device. We deal new mobile technology frontiers concerned with smartphones using Android operating system by Google. Analysis and deployment of a distributed agent-based system so described go first to impact with quality and quantity considerations about available resources. Engineering issue at the base of our research is to use TuCSoN against to reduced memory and computing capability of a smartphone, without the loss of functionality, efficiency and integrity for the infrastructure. Thesis work is organized on two fronts simultaneously: the former is the rationalization process of the available hardware and software resources, the latter, totally orthogonal, is the adaptation and optimization process about TuCSoN architecture for an ad-hoc client side release.

Organizzazione dell'interfaccia utente su Android

Studio e progettazione di un'applicazione di tipo interfaccia home su Android.

Un framework per applicazioni di monitoraggio e domotica basato su tecnologie android e arduino

Questa tesi tratta dello sviluppo di un progetto chiamato Faxa e di una sua concreta applicazione nell’ambito della domotica (CasaDomotica). Faxa è un framework per la comunicazione via wireless tra dispositivi che supportano il sistema operativo Android e dispositivi Arduino Ethernet, comunicazione che avviene localmente attraverso il wi-fi. Il progetto si inserisce nel panorama più ampio chiamato “Internet of Things”, ovvero internet delle cose, dove ogni oggetto di uso domestico è collegato ad Internet e può essere quindi manipolato attraverso la rete in modo da realizzare una vera e propria “smart house”; perchè ciò si attui occorre sviluppare applicazioni semplici e alla portata di tutti. Il mio contributo comincia con la realizzazione del framework Faxa, così da fornire un supporto semplice e veloce per comporre programmi per Arduino e Android, sfruttando metodi ad alto livello. Il framework è sviluppato su due fronti: sul lato Android è composto sia da funzioni di alto livello, necessarie ad inviare ordini e messaggi all'Arduino, sia da un demone per Android; sul lato Arduino è composto dalla libreria, per inviare e ricevere messaggi. Per Arduino: sfruttando le librerie Faxa ho redatto un programma chiamato “BroadcastPin”. Questo programma invia costantemente sulla rete i dati dei sensori e controlla se ci sono ordini in ricezione. Il demone chiamato “GetItNow” è una applicazione che lavora costantemente in background. Il suo compito è memorizzare tutti i dati contenuti nei file xml inviati da Arduino. Tali dati corrispondono ai valori dei sensori connessi al dispositivo. I dati sono salvati in un database pubblico, potenzialmente accessibili a tutte le applicazioni presenti sul dispositivo mobile. Sul framework Faxa e grazie al demone “GetItNow” ho implementato “CasaDomotica”, un programma dimostrativo pensato per Android in grado di interoperare con apparecchi elettrici collegati ad un Arduino Ethernet, impiegando un’interfaccia video semplice e veloce. L’utente gestisce l’interfaccia per mezzo di parole chiave, a scelta comandi vocali o digitali, e con essa può accendere e spegnere luci, regolare ventilatori, attuare la rilevazione di temperatura e luminosità degli ambienti o quanto altro sia necessario. Il tutto semplicemente connettendo gli apparecchi all’Arduino e adattando il dispositivo mobile con pochi passi a comunicare con gli elettrodomestici.

Porting della macchina virtuale umview su sistema operativo android arm

Tesi riguardante il porting della macchina virtuale UmView sul sistema operativo Android ARM. Tratta sia di aspetti relativi a umview sia del porting in generale quale del debug remoto con gdb.

Estensione dell'interfaccia grafica in tuprolog per Android

L’obiettivo di questa tesi è quello di estendere l’interfaccia grafica di tuProlog nella versione per Android, il più diffuso sistema operativo per tablet e smartphone. TuProlog è un’ interprete Prolog interamente scritto in java, leggero e open–source. L’applicazione è disponibile sotto forma di archivio JAR eseguibile e può essere utilizzato tramite un’interfaccia a riga di comando, nella versione Java, o per mezzo di interfacce grafiche negli ambienti Java, .NET e Android. La versione per Android supporta pienamente Java e la maggior parte delle librerie dell’applicativo per JVM. Lo sviluppo di applicazioni per dispositivi mobile, però, limita lo sviluppatore in termini di complessità delle elaborazioni effettuabili dal programma e comprensibilità dell’interfaccia grafica; per questi e altri motivi, la struttura dell’applicativo in versione Android, fatta eccezione per il core Prolog, è diversa dalle versioni per altri ambienti. L’applicazione, giunta ora alla versione 2.7.2, manca della possibilità di input da console in tutte le versioni ad interfaccia grafica. Scopo di questa tesi è quindi integrare tale funzionalità, inserendola all’interno del contesto applicativo senza modificare il normale flusso delle operazioni, intervenendo in modo mirato, il meno invasivo possibile e garantendo l’espandibilità della modifica ad estensioni future.

Mapping di Access Point WiFi su Android: architettura

Sviluppo di un'applicazione Android che effettua scansioni di reti Wi-Fi in una determinata area al fine di mappare tutti gli Access Point rilevabili.

Implementazione e analisi di un’applicazione Android per il Dynamic Adaptive Streaming cooperativo tramite Http e WiFi-Direct

Questo lavoro ha lo scopo di presentare l’implementazione e la valutazione di un’applicazione Android che permetta la riproduzione di uno streaming auto-adattante conforme allo standard DASH sfruttando le funzionalità offerte dal player ”ExoPLayer” a cui viene aggiunta la funzionalità di caching e condivisione dei relativi segmenti tramite WiFi-Direct. Questo al fine di raggiungere diversi obiettivi come la riduzione dell’utilizzo di reti mobili, l’aumento della qualità e/o una riproduzione più fluida. Si è inoltre sviluppato un simulatore in C++ che permette di valutare il comportamento dell’applicazione, l’algoritmo usato per la scelta dei segmenti, e i vantaggi correlati.