基于MATAdOR框架的移动消息业务局部性分析
Analyzing Locality of Mobile Messaging Traffic using the MATAdOR Framework
摘要：
移动信息服务在全球电信业中占有很大份额。与电话、短信或电子邮件等传统服务不同，它们没有一个标准化的环境，可以实现联合和潜在的本地服务架构。我们对28个国家之间四种流行的移动消息服务的通信模式进行了广泛和大规模的分析，并分析了通信的本地性及其对用户隐私的影响。我们发现，移动消息服务的服务器架构高度集中在单个国家。这迫使信息大大偏离直接通信路径，使托管和传输国家能够潜在地拦截和审查流量。为了进行这项工作，我们开发了一个测量框架来分析这些移动消息服务的流量。它允许使用移动消息传递应用程序进行自动化实验，对这些应用程序是透明的，并且不需要对应用程序进行任何修改。
英文摘要：
Mobile messaging services have gained a large share in global telecommunications. Unlike conventional services like phone calls, text messages or email, they do not feature a standardized environment enabling a federated and potentially local service architecture. We present an extensive and large-scale analysis of communication patterns for four popular mobile messaging services between 28 countries and analyze the locality of communication and the resulting impact on user privacy. We show that server architectures for mobile messaging services are highly centralized in single countries. This forces messages to drastically deviate from a direct communication path, enabling hosting and transfer countries to potentially intercept and censor traffic. To conduct this work, we developed a measurement framework to analyze traffic of such mobile messaging services. It allows to conduct automated experiments with mobile messaging applications, is transparent to those applications and does not require any modifications to the applications.
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