Abstract :
This introduction to the issue discusses challenges facing mobile systems and presents five articles that address challenges in the area of specialized accelerators, application start-up, energy-efficient browsing, security and isolation, and vulnerability detection.
Keywords :
Computer applications; Mobile communication; Network security; Special issues and sections; Android; Android permissions; BYOD; Movidius Myriad architecture; VulHunter; battery life; computing accelerators; context switching; energy efficient browsing; mobile computing; mobile systems; mobile web browsing; nonvolatile memory; privacy; security; user experience; virtualization; vulnerability detection;