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Unit 9: Mobile Commerce

Notes
Figure 9.1: The Proposed Framework for Mobile Commerce Showing a user
Plane with Four Levels and a Developer-provider Plane with three Levels

Source: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/graduate/666/mobile_commerce.pdf
The framework shown above includes a user plane with four levels:

 Applications. Many new applications are becoming possible, and many existing e-
commerce applications can be modified for a mobile environment.
 User infrastructure. The design of new mobile commerce applications should consider the
capabilities of the user infrastructure—the mobile devices.
 Wireless Middleware. With its ability to hide the underlying network’s details from
applications while providing a uniform and easy-to-use interface, middleware is extremely
important for developing new mobile commerce applications.

 Network infrastructure. In mobile commerce, service quality primarily depends on
network resources and capabilities.

Notes The framework also provides a developer-provider plane, which addresses the
different needs and views of application developers, content providers, and service
providers.

Task Make distinction between user infrastructure and network infrastructure.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
3. Mobile commerce ..................................... allows companies to strategize and create mobile
commerce applications.

4. The design of new mobile commerce applications should consider the capabilities of the
.....................................

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