AHPCap: A Framework for Automated Hardware Profiling and Capture of Mobile Application States

The prevalence of push notifications for communication between devices is increasing and is vital to Internet of Things (IoT) components. It has been observed that delays of notification receipt vary even for devices that are on the same network and using the same hardware. A closer analysis is needed to understand what is occurring in the hardware when a notification occurs from a cloud service or other application.In this paper, we describe and develop a framework, AHPCap, to better understand application behavior at the hardware level at the time of a notification. We explain the framework and its deployment and capabilities. We then show an example of a hardware profile that can be generated on mobile devices and analyze the time required to capture and record the profile data. Lastly, we discuss some of AHPCap's potential applications.