A mobile commerce framework based on Web services architecture

Abstract

"Mobile Internet" arguably means more than just a new technique for communication; many analysts believe that it revolutionized the business world and innovate the way individuals live. This study concentrates on switching existing e-commerce applications from the wired Internet to the mobile Internet. Web services technologies are currently the most appropriate technologies to realize e-commerce applications. This study develops a mobile commerce application framework based on Web services technologies and mobile Internet functions. To investigate the feasibility of the proposed framework, an m-store implementation is deployed in a laboratory and simulated using HTTP transactions with secure sockets layer connections in a multi-user access environment. The minimum response time is stable (0.170 seconds for 5 users, 0.196 seconds for 50 users); the maximum throughput is invariable (0.365 Mbps for 5 users, 0.317 Mbps for 50 users), and the maximum transaction rate has little variation (5.882 per seconds for 5 users, 5.102 per seconds for 50 users). Results of this study demonstrate that the proposed framework is flexible, stable and scalable.