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A Lightweight Virtualization Solution for Android Devices.

Authors :
Chen, Wenzhi
Xu, Lei
Li, Guoxi
Xiang, Yang
Source :
IEEE Transactions on Computers. Oct2015, Vol. 64 Issue 10, p2741-2751. 11p.
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

Mobile virtualization has emerged fairly recently and is considered a valuable way to mitigate security risks on Android devices. However, major challenges in mobile virtualization include runtime, hardware, resource overhead, and compatibility. In this paper, we propose a lightweight Android virtualization solution named Condroid , which is based on container technology. Condroid utilizes resource isolation based on namespaces feature and resource control based on cgroups feature. By leveraging them, Condroid can host multiple independent Android virtual machines on a single kernel to support mutilple Android containers. Furthermore, our implementation presents both a system service sharing mechanism to reduce memory utilization and a filesystem sharing mechanism to reduce storage usage. The evaluation results on Google Nexus 5 demonstrate that Condroid is feasible in terms of runtime, hardware resource overhead, and compatibility. Therefore, we find that Condroid has a higher performance than other virtualization solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00189340
Volume :
64
Issue :
10
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
109349076
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.2015.2389791