Application-specific dynamic policy rules (ASDPR) for J2ME

In recent years, many innovations were introduced to make mobile devices more flexible, effective, functional, and smaller which led to their ubiquity and dependence of users on their availability. Java-based mobile devices have become mainstream appliances, hence Java security has become the center of attention of a lot of researches aimed to investigate and enhance the Java security model. In this paper, we propose a new framework for enhancing run-time security for applications on mobile devices by providing dynamic policies for independently controlling each application based on the historical usage of this application. A user can control the behavior of each application and the policy rules can grow dynamically during execution. Java 2 Micro edition (J2ME) is used as a case study and vehicle to demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework. Preliminary performance evaluation experiments show acceptable memory allocation and application execution time overhead.