A small piece of software runs in the background of a mobile device, logging information on enterprise-related activity, all of which gets sent back to the Virtual Smartphone Platform at MobileIron.

Once an embedded device becomes a fully functional unit with Linux running on top of it, lots of daemons tend to run in the background generating lots of log messages.

The paper first introduces the background of EDD and elements of EDD, then analyzes the existing device description technology, at last a new method is put forward to overcome its shortcomings.