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Improving the Performance and Reliability of Mobile Commerce in Developing Countries

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Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2014)

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Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is currently more widely adapted in developed countries than the developing countries. Developing countries lag behind due to inappropriate technological infrastructure for the provisioning of m-commerce services. Though there exist various obstacles of adapting m-commerce services in developing countries, this paper addresses the performance and reliability issues. In particular, it considers the limited bandwidth of wireless networks and the capacity of underlying web servers involved in processing m-commerce requests. If m-commerce requests are not processed efficiently then they are more likely to be dropped wherever the network connection can be intermittent as in developing countries. This paper proposes an approach which is based on the class-based priority scheme that distinguishes m-commerce requests from other requests. The idea is to give high priority to the requests coming from mobile devices (over wireless networks) as compared to requests coming from standard PC/laptops (over standard Internet (wired) connections) as the later can tolerate longer delay and are less susceptible to connection failures. The proposed approach is formally specified and is implemented as a prototype tool. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach significantly improves the performance and reliability m-commerce requests.

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  1. Computer Science College, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia

    Ibtehal Nafea

  2. Department of Computing and Communication Technologies, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

    Muhammad Younas

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  1. Department of Computing, University of Bradford, BD7 1DP, Bradford, UK

    Irfan Awan

  2. Department of Computing and Communication Technologies, Oxford Brookes University, OX33 1HX, Oxford, UK

    Muhammad Younas

  3. Department of Sercice and Information System Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Xavier Franch

  4. Department of Service and Information System Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Carme Quer

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Nafea, I., Younas, M. (2014). Improving the Performance and Reliability of Mobile Commerce in Developing Countries. In: Awan, I., Younas, M., Franch, X., Quer, C. (eds) Mobile Web Information Systems. MobiWIS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8640. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10359-4_9

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