Identifying diverse usage behaviors of smartphone apps

摘要: Smartphone users are increasingly shifting to using apps as "gateways" Internet services rather than traditional web browsers. App marketplaces for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone platforms have made it attractive developers deploy easy discover start many network-enabled quickly. For example, was recently reported that the iOS AppStore has more 350K 10 billion downloads. Furthermore, appearance of tablets mobile devices with other form factors, which also use these marketplaces, increased diversity in their user population. Despite increasing importance gateways network services, we a much sparser understanding how, where, when they used compared particularly at scale. This paper takes first step addressing this knowledge gap by presenting results on app usage national level anonymized measurements from tier-1 cellular carrier U.S. We identify traffic distinct marketplace based HTTP signatures present aggregate spatial temporal prevalence, locality, correlation.