Mobile messengers have first replaced text messages (SMS), and more recently they have become serious competition to established social networks such as Facebook. In this work, we are going to analyse the network traffic that mobile messengers produce in the network of the University of Sydney.
We will develop a protocol dissector for the Bro Intrusion Detection System. This system is used to analyse traffic passing through the network of the University of Sydney. We run the dissector to obtain data about the prevalence of mobile messaging, its usage patterns (time, frequency), and interaction with remote servers.
Note: the privacy of university members is not infringed in this project as we do not identify network users and measurement data is not released. We hold ethical clearance for the operation of Bro.