Mobile commerce: a new frontier

Author

Varshney, Upkar ; Vetter, Ronald J. ; Kalakota, Ravi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Inf. Syst., Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

33

Issue

10

fYear

2000

fDate

10/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

38

Abstract

Electronic commerce continues to see phenomenal growth, but so far most e-commerce development involves wired infrastructures. The authors believe emerging wireless and mobile networks will provide new avenues for growth, creating new opportunities in mobile commerce. According to the GartnerGroup, a market research firm, by 2004 at least 40 percent of consumer-to-business e-commerce will come from smart phones using the wireless application protocol (WAP). Based on a study by the Wireless Data and Computing Service, a division of Strategy Analytics, the annual mobile commerce market may rise to $200 billion by 2004. The authors provide a mobile commerce framework to illustrate potential applications such as mobile inventory management, product location and search, proactive service management, and mobile entertainment. They also describe the wireless user and networking infrastructure, emerging W3C standards, and the open and global WAP specification

Keywords

electronic commerce; entertainment; mobile computing; protocols; stock control data processing; wireless LAN; W3C standards; WAP specification; consumer-to-business e-commerce; electronic commerce; mobile commerce; mobile entertainment; mobile inventory management; mobile networks; proactive service management; product location; smart phones; wireless application protocol; wireless networks; Assembly; Business; Costs; Inventory management; Market research; Middleware; Mobile computing; Space technology; Standards development; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.876290

Filename

876290