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CNN for User Activity Detection Using Encrypted In-App Mobile Data

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  • Madushi H. Pathmaperuma

    (Institute for Digital Technologies, Loughborough University London, London E20 3BS, UK)

  • Yogachandran Rahulamathavan

    (Institute for Digital Technologies, Loughborough University London, London E20 3BS, UK)

  • Safak Dogan

    (Institute for Digital Technologies, Loughborough University London, London E20 3BS, UK)

  • Ahmet Kondoz

    (Institute for Digital Technologies, Loughborough University London, London E20 3BS, UK)

Abstract

In this study, a simple yet effective framework is proposed to characterize fine-grained in-app user activities performed on mobile applications using a convolutional neural network (CNN). The proposed framework uses a time window-based approach to split the activity’s encrypted traffic flow into segments, so that in-app activities can be identified just by observing only a part of the activity-related encrypted traffic. In this study, matrices were constructed for each encrypted traffic flow segment. These matrices acted as input into the CNN model, allowing it to learn to differentiate previously trained (known) and previously untrained (unknown) in-app activities as well as the known in-app activity type. The proposed method extracts and selects salient features for encrypted traffic classification. This is the first-known approach proposing to filter unknown traffic with an average accuracy of 88%. Once the unknown traffic is filtered, the classification accuracy of our model would be 92%.

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  • Madushi H. Pathmaperuma & Yogachandran Rahulamathavan & Safak Dogan & Ahmet Kondoz, 2022. "CNN for User Activity Detection Using Encrypted In-App Mobile Data," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 14(2), pages 1-18, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:14:y:2022:i:2:p:67-:d:754895
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    Cited by:

    1. Christoph Stach, 2022. "Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Blockchains and the IoT," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 14(11), pages 1-4, November.

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