MODELZ: Monitoring, Detection, and Analysis of Energy-Greedy Anomalies in Mobile Handsets

It is of great importance to protect rapidly-spreading and widely-used small mobile devices like smartphones and PocketPCs from energy-depletion attacks by monitoring software (processes) and hardware (especially, battery) resources. The ability to use these devices for on-and/or off-job functions and even for medical emergencies or disaster recovery is often dictated by their limited battery capacity. However, traditional malware detection systems and antivirus solutions based on matching signatures are limited to detection of only known malware, and hence, cannot deal with battery-depletion attacks.