Research Article

A Novel IM Sync Message-Based Cross-Device Tracking

Table 5

Sync message identification result of four applications.

Device typeIndicatorQQWeChatWhatsAppFacebook Messenger

PCPrecision94.3%81.4%95.3%86.8%
Recall99.0%96.0%82.0%92.0%
-score0.9660.8810.8820.893

Mobile phonePrecision88.2%90.5%80.3%88.3%
Recall97.0%95.0%94.0%98.0%
-score0.9240.9270.8660.929