Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons^™

Android Drone: Remote Quadcopter Control With A Phone, Aubrey John Russell

Computer Engineering

The purpose of the “Android Drone” project was to create a quadcopter that can be controlled by user input sent over the phone’s Wi-Fi connection or 4G internet connection. Furthermore, the purpose was also to be able to receive live video feedback over the internet connection, thus making the drone an inexpensive option compared to other, equivalent drones that might cost thousands of dollars. Not only that, but the Android phone also has a host of other useful features that could be utilized by the drone: this includes GPS, pathing, picture taking, data storage, networking and TCP/IP, a Java software …

Effective Memory Management For Mobile Environments, Ahmed Mohamed Abd-Elhaffiez Hussein

Open Access Dissertations

Smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices exhibit vastly different constraints compared to regular or classic computing environments like desktops, laptops, or servers. Mobile devices run dozens of so-called “apps” hosted by independent virtual machines (VM). All these VMs run concurrently and each VM deploys purely local heuristics to organize resources like memory, performance, and power. Such a design causes conflicts across all layers of the software stack, calling for the evaluation of VMs and the optimization techniques specific for mobile frameworks.

In this dissertation, we study the design of managed runtime systems for mobile platforms. More specifically, we deepen the …

Convicted By Memory: Automatically Recovering Spatial-Temporal Evidence From Memory Images, Brendan D. Saltaformaggio

Open Access Dissertations

Memory forensics can reveal “up to the minute” evidence of a device’s usage, often without requiring a suspect’s password to unlock the device, and it is oblivious to any persistent storage encryption schemes, e.g., whole disk encryption. Prior to my work, researchers and investigators alike considered data-structure recovery the ultimate goal of memory image forensics. This, however, was far from sufficient, as investigators were still largely unable to understand the content of the recovered evidence, and hence efficiently locating and accurately analyzing such evidence locked in memory images remained an open research challenge.

In this dissertation, I propose breaking from …

A Study Of Security Issues Of Mobile Apps In The Android Platform Using Machine Learning Approaches, Lei Cen

Open Access Dissertations

Mobile app poses both traditional and new potential threats to system security and user privacy. There are malicious apps that may do harm to the system, and there are mis-behaviors of apps, which are reasonable and legal when not abused, yet may lead to real threats otherwise. Moreover, due to the nature of mobile apps, a running app in mobile devices may be only part of the software, and the server side behavior is usually not covered by analysis. Therefore, direct analysis on the app itself may be incomplete and additional sources of information are needed. In this dissertation, we …

Using Ubiquitous Data To Improve Smartwatches' Context Awareness, Yuankun Song

Open Access Theses

Nowadays, more and more data is being generated by various software applications, services and smart devices every second. The data contains abundant information about people’s daily lives. This research explored the possibility of improving smartwatches’ context awareness by using common ubiquitous data. The researcher developed a prototype system consisting of an Android application and a web application, and conducted an experiment where 10 participants performed several tasks with the help of a smartwatch. The result showed a significant improvement of the smartwatch’s context awareness running the prototype application, which used ubiquitous data to automatically execute proper actions according to contexts. …

A Smartphone-Based System For Clinical Gait Assessment, Andres Alfredo Perez Leon

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Patients with lower limbs problems are an increasing population in the US and many of them require surgery and its subsequent post-op Physical Therapy (PT). For all these patients, tracking their progress and evolution towards full recovery is very important. To assess the patients and track their progress, patients are usually required to perform very specific tests administered by a physical therapist. These tests either require very expensive equipment or rather require the subjective experience of the physical therapist who administer them. One of these tests is the Functional Gait Assessment (FGA) test, perhaps the most widely adopted one for …

A Web-Based Solution For Small Unmanned Aircraft System (Suas) Traffic Management, Monetta Angelique Shaw

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

There is currently no system in place for safely managing small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Small UAS (sUAS) pose a safety hazard to both manned aircraft and people on the ground. The initial solution to this problem proposed in this paper is a system that consists of a web server and an Android mobile application (app). In this solution, the server is only accessible through the Android mobile app. After evaluating the initial solution, we determine that the system in this solution would be unable to quickly adjust to changes in technology and in the sUAS industry. To solve this …

Quote Inspire, Lenkala Devendar Reddy, Sai Rathna Reddy Hanumandla, Kalyan L. Samavedam, Nahri Krishna Vasala

All Capstone Projects

This is proposal for developing the interactive mobile application for android. This quotation application which contains 50+ quotations from various different categories like motivation, leadership, wisdom, spiritual etc. and also 50+ background pictures. There are many existing quotation applications available in present android market, we are trying to enhance the features of these applications which makes application more realistic, interactive and user friendly. Users can navigate and select quotations and background pictures from dashboard and select specific time for display. User can add quotations and background pictures also create his/her own quotation pictures by using the quotation editor available in …

Scalability Of Multimedia Streaming Service: A Cross Layer Perspective, Hima Bundu Ardadi, Sainath Chundru, Jaswanth Varma Poranki, Ajay Vyas

All Capstone Projects

In this project, we realized a prototype of this architecture to validate the feasibility of the proposed method. According to the experiment, this method could provide efficient self-adaptive multimedia streaming services for varying bandwidth environment. Video streaming is gaining popularity among mobile users. The latest mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, are equipped with multiple wireless network interfaces. How to efficiently and cost-effectively utilize multiple links to improve video streaming quality needs investigation. In order to maintain high video streaming quality while reducing the wireless service cost, in this paper, the optimal video streaming process with multiple links …

World News On A Click, Ranadheer Kulla, Phani Hemanth Maddali, Jagadeep Reddy, Anand Dixit Vaddi

All Capstone Projects

A leading newspaper with their present mobile application which is not providing a good user-friendly environment for their users wherein they could not easily interact with its users and also it intends in increasing its readership. So, it decided to enable their users an agile environment where news could be read with low internet speed. The user can also view videos.

WORLD NEWS ON A CLICK provides the user a dynamic environment where the news gets updated every 45 seconds, WORLD NEWS ON A CLICK is an android application which enables users to get updated with the latest news as …

Early-Enact, Shiva Sai Kumar Gaday, Sandeep Gopal, Mohammed Muslim Sharif

All Capstone Projects

These days the Present generation is exaggerated with the mobile devices due to the breakthroughs of auxiliary features in the modern devices such as mobile phones, tablets, etc. Now a day’s each and every handset is collaborated with the contemporary technologies such as Wi-Fi, GPS, and 4G Connectivity. The primary idea of the Early-Enact Mobile application is to develop an android based application which enable the family of university to register with their personal information and chatter with the Wi-Fi based intranet application with their group of Co-users who are already registered with the Early-Enact mobile application. Using this system …

World Of Quotes, Pavan Kumar Gangavarupu, Nikith Reddy Kalva, Anil Kumar Paudala, Shivaprasad Reddy Sangireddy

All Capstone Projects

Present day hand held gadgets, for example, advanced mobile phones and tablets are multiplying in business sector which are having additional elements incorporated into these gadgets have opened ways to an extensive variety of potential outcomes. Specifically, most mobile phones routinely incorporate cameras, preparing similar to PCs from just a couple of years back, and web access. Nonetheless, even with these additional capacities, there ought to be couple of uses that ought to permit a client to make as he wish like setting his own experience pictures that we have in our PC furthermore with a few elements such as …

Building And Safety Department Android Mobile Application, Nary Simms

Mathematics and Computer Science Capstones

Research has found that Americans spend 4.5 hours watching television, 1.5 hours listening to the radio, about half an hour reading print and spend a whooping five plus hours per day in digital media (online, mobile, other). Out of these five hours, two hours and twenty minutes are spent on a mobile device (phone or tablet), which is a massive increase of about 575 percent from the twenty-four minutes that was reported in 2010. Flurry, an analytic app company, released data about their tracking of more than 300,000 apps in 2013, and they found the average time spent per day …

Applying Deep Learning Techniques To The Analysis Of Android Apks, Robin Andrew Nix

LSU Master's Theses

Malware targeting mobile devices is a pervasive problem in modern life and as such tools to detect and classify malware are of great value. This paper seeks to demonstrate the effectiveness of Deep Learning Techniques, specifically Convolutional Neural Networks, in detecting and classifying malware targeting the Android operating system. Unlike many current detection techniques, which require the use of relatively rigid features to aid in detection, deep neural networks are capable of automatically learning flexible features which may be more resilient to obfuscation. We present a parsing for extracting sequences of API calls which can be used to describe a …