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A Model for the Analysis of QoS and Security Tradeoff in Mobile Platforms

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Today, mobile platforms are multimedia devices that provide different types of traffic with the consequent particular performance demands and, besides, security concerns (e.g. privacy). However, Security and QoS requirements quite often conflict to a large degree; the mobility and heterogeneous paradigm of the Future Internet makes coexistence even more difficult, posing new challenges to overcome. Probably, one of the main challenges is to identify the specific reasons why Security and QoS mechanisms are so related to each other. In this paper, we present a Parametric Relationship Model (PRM) to identify the Security and QoS dependencies, and to elaborate on the Security and QoS tradeoff. In particular, we perform an analysis that focus on the mobile platform environment and, consequently, also considers subjective parameters such user’s experience, that is crucial for increasing the usability of new solutions in the Future Internet. The final aim of our contribution is to facilitate the development of secure and efficient services for mobile platforms.

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  2. Note that the user’s experience is a very subjective parameter, because it depends on the user’s opinion, which is based on their personal experiences.

  3. Note that in Eq. 10 the equation is simplified in order to show the example. Indeed, in Eq. 10 the data rate parameter may be considered as the time which the network consumes to deliver the data end-to-end, although in this analysis we consider data rate as one parameter measured at the Communication layer.

  4. Note that the overhead property may also be calculated for a particular node.

  5. The difference between bit rate and data rate is basically the quantification, respectively, bits per second (bps) and bytes per second (kB/s). So, in the following we use Data Rate.

  6. www.graphviz.org

  7. In total around seventy six parameters are considered.

  8. For example, if aD + b and ∇a, then the value of b is not modified, because b is only affected when a increases.

  9. The jitter is increased because the delay is continuously decreasing while the test. Once the delay is stable, then jitter remains stable too.

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This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the projects ARES (CSD2007-00004) and SPRINT (TIN2009-09237), being the last also co-funded by FEDER. Additionally, it has been funded by Junta de Andalucia through the project FISICCO (TIC-07223). The first author has been funded by the Spanish FPI Research Programme.

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This paper is a substantial extended version of a paper previously published In The 4th FTRA International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA 2012): Security and QoS relationships in Mobile Platforms, pp. 13-21, 2012 (doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5699-1_2).

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Nieto, A., Lopez, J. A Model for the Analysis of QoS and Security Tradeoff in Mobile Platforms. Mobile Netw Appl 19, 64–78 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-013-0462-y

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