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As smartphones become increasingly more powerful, a new generation of highly interactive user-centric mobile apps emerge to make user's life simpler and more productive. Mobile phones applications have to sustain limited resource…
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Application compartmentalization and privilege separation are our primary weapons against ever-increasing security threats and privacy concerns on connected devices. Despite significant progress, it is still challenging to privilege…
The rapid development of IoT networks has led to a research trend in designing effective security features for them. Due to the power-constrained nature of IoT devices, the security features should remain as lightweight as possible.…
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