CloudCap (C2app) : A Cloud-Based Platform for Packet Analysis On The Edge

TL;DR

This paper introduces CloudCap, a cloud-based platform that enables real-time network traffic analysis on mobile devices, reducing resource use while providing comprehensive traffic insights.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel cloud-based system for packet analysis on mobile devices, combining traffic capturing and visualization to optimize performance and security monitoring.

Findings

System effectively captures and visualizes network traffic.

Evaluation shows reduced resource consumption on mobile devices.

Proves architecture's usefulness across various devices.

Abstract

Data exchange through mobile devices is rapidly increasing due to the high information demands of today's applications. The need for monitoring the exchanged traffic becomes important in order to control and optimize the device and network performance and security. Taking this under consideration, in this paper, we developed a cloud-based system for the analysis of network traffic. The smartphone devices act both as traffic captors and visualization endpoints, enabling the user to get an overview of the network while minimizing resource consumption. In the presented work, we evaluate our system using two test cases and a variety of target devices. Our results prove the usefulness of the proposed system architecture.