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Among four ecommerce business models, the customer-to-customer (C2C) model allows customers to exchange goods or services, and get their money through fully or partly direct transactions. This model is usually dependent on mediate companies, e.g. eBay or Craigslist, for solving the main challenges of technology maintenance and quality control. This paper presents a decentralized C2C ecommerce model based on mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Several advantageous characteristics of the mobile P2P network including autonomy in control and administration, scalability and reliability in peers and resources not only avoid centralized servers and technology maintenance but also facilitate quality control by selecting various quality peers and resources using flexible search mechanisms on mobile devices. We have provided the design of Book Trading Service (BTS) using Gnutella protocol and the prototype of the BTS application on Android mobile platform. The experimental results show the feasibility and effectiveness of the decentralized C2C ecommerce model and the BTS application that can also be applied to several application domains.
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We thank Pham Le Trung for implementing the prototype of the BTS application. This research activity is funded by Hong Bang International University under the grant number GVTC14.1.01.
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Huynh, T.K., Le, HD., Van Nguyen, S., Tran, H.M. (2020). Applying Peer-to-Peer Networks for Decentralized Customer-to-Customer Ecommerce Model. In: Dang, T.K., Küng, J., Takizawa, M., Chung, T.M. (eds) Future Data and Security Engineering. Big Data, Security and Privacy, Smart City and Industry 4.0 Applications. FDSE 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1306. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4370-2_2
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