Wireless Communication and

Mobile Computing
Semester Project Topic
Mobile Commerce

Presented By:
Syed Haseeb Hasan Hamdani
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Organization of talk
What is Mobile Commerce?
Types of Mobile Commerce
Trends Towards Use of Mobile
Block Diagram of mobile commerce
Enabling technologies
Existing applications of mobile commerce
Challenges in Mobile Commerce
Difference between M-commerce and E-Commerce
Conclusion


What is Mobile Commerce?
M-commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services
through wireless handheld devices.
M-Commerce is the process of paying for services using a
mobile phone or personal organizer.
M-Commerce is the use of mobile devices to communicate,
inform transact and entertain using text and data via a
connection to public and private networks.

Internet + Wireless + E-commerce = M-Commerce


Types of Mobile Commerce
Two Major attributes mobility and reachability

Six categories
Time Critical Services
Flight timing change notifications, stock market prices alerts etc
Location Aware and location sensitive Services
Tracking trucks, Stolen cars.
Identity Enacted Services
Mobile banking, Nordea bank finland.
Ubiquitous Computing and Content aware services
Mobile News delivery, Distance education
Business process streamlining
Insurance Process
Mobile Offices
Security agencies, Office environment
Trends Towards Mobile Usage
Block Diagram
User Equipment:
A mobile phone or PDA acts as the user endpoint.

Access Network:
To provide authentication or to validate a users attempt to use the network
resources.

Service Network:
Provides personalized portals to many services, including commerce.

Enabling Technologies
Wireless development
First-generation wireless technology was the cellular phone
Second generation wireless technology, which includes digital cellular
phones, is currently in use worldwide
Third generation, or 3G technology enables wireless devices to send and
receive data as much as seven times faster than a standard 56K modem
(0.4M ~ 2Mbps)
Fourth generation, networks designed to uninterrupted high speed data
transfer
Wireless Devices
Personal Digital assistants (PDA)
Digital cellular phones
Two way pagers

Enabling Technologies Contd..
Mobile Communication
GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) is a digital mobile
telephone system that is widely used in Europe and other parts of the
world. GSM uses a variation of time division multiple access (TDMA).
General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) is a packet-based wireless
communication service in GSM
CDMA is a form of multiplexing, which allows numerous signals to occupy
a single transmission channel, optimizing the use of available bandwidth.
Mobile IP is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard
communications protocol that is designed to allow mobile device users to
move from one network to another while maintaining their permanent IP
address.

Enabling Technologies Contd..
Uncomplicated User Interface
WAP
I-mode

WAP
Developed by WAP forum, a consortium of nokia, ericsson, motorola
WAP 1.0
WAP Gateway Acts as a interpreter
GPRS and High Data rates
WAP 2.0

I-mode
NTT Docomo
Only in japan.
iHTML
Compatible sites divided into two categories
Content provided by official providers
Content provided by unofficial providers

Enabling Technologies Contd..
Proposed Solution for the improvement of m-commerce

Mobile RFID Technology

RFID Tags on almost all products.
Product information
Product ordering
Product receiving
Product transfer management system.

Enabling Technologies Contd..
Product ordering system architecture.

Enabling Technologies Contd..
As Large scale RFID technology more and more products in
the world will have tags
Use a smart phone or PDA to get product information
Mobile RFID reader
EPC code is read into the mobile RFID reader and
transferred to the mobile device
Through wireless network and the gateway mobile device can
access internet
The application queries the ONS using the EPC code to get
the address of the PML server
Retrieving product relative information from PML server
If both the products match then order the product through m-
commerce server
Existing Applications
Challenges in M-Commerce
Security:
Authentication is a property by which the correct identity of an entity or
party is established with a required assurance.
Security Remains a threat .
User input (voice, text, gestures)
Human computer interaction technology should be developed for voice
recognition, gesture recognition and natural language processing of the
text.
IPv4:
A bridging support should be developed for embedded devices to
communicate through Internet.
Ubiquity:
The devices should be capable of ubiquitous computing.





E-Commerce Vs M-Commerce
Conclusion
M-Commerce will be at least as successful as e-commerce if
the underlying technology and standards accentuate the
advantages and minimize the disadvantages.

The technology certainly is worth working on its just the
matter of going in the right direction and make its right use in
order to get to the desired results.
Thank You
Questions???
Q.1: Why the WAP 1.0 Failed and WAP 2.0 was created?
Ans 1: WAP 1.0 failed because of security reasons. Before
transmitting the information to the server it was decrypted at
the WAP gateway. That is why WAP 2.0 was created to
address this fault in WAP 1.0

Q.2: How mobile RFID technology would help to remove the
peoples concern in receiving m-commerce products in terms
of safety and quality?
Ans 2: When you receive the products you ordered, you can
scan the tag to get what stores in it. The information will be
checked with the order terms you signed in Internet , the
retailers regulations and the commerce laws via existed
mobile communication technology and software. According to
the result , customer will determine to get it or reject it. In this
way the customers can be assured of quality of the product
and more customers will be encouraged.
Q. 3: Explain briefly from the following diagram how the system
architecture of product ordering works in Mobile RFID
system?
Ans 3:
Use a smart phone or PDA to get product information
EPC code is read into the mobile RFID reader and
transferred to the mobile device
Through wireless network and the gateway mobile device can
access internet
The application queries the ONS using the EPC code to get
the address of the PML server
Retrieving product relative information from PML server
If both the products match then order the product through m-
commerce server