Towards an Integrated LBS-Enabled, Mobile Auctions Marketplace for Logistics Services

Author

Emiris, Dimitrios M. ; Marentakis, Charis A. ; Laimos, Panayiotis P.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Piraeus, Piraeus

fYear

2007

fDate

3-7 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Rapid mobile communications penetration in Europe set the basis for the evolution of innovative mobile commerce applications. The integration of mobile commerce and Location-Based Services provides the infrastructure for geographically-focused trade of logistics services, such as the freight transport. The present paper presents a pragmatic information flow model of an auction-based freight transport marketplace, where potential bidders (carriers) are selected based on their current location. To safeguard auction trustworthiness the communication infrastructure should provide real-time multicast transmission of information before, during and after the auction process. In this article, we examine the importance of data communication workload as a performance factor and provide a parametric estimation for the communication requirements of the model.

Keywords

electronic commerce; electronic trading; mobile computing; mobile radio; data communication workload; freight transport; innovative mobile commerce application; location-based service; logistics services; mobile auction marketplace; mobile communication; parametric estimation; real-time multicast transmission; Business; Communication industry; Europe; Innovation management; Land mobile radio; Logistics; Mobile communication; Radio spectrum management; Resource management; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2007. PIMRC 2007. IEEE 18th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2007.4394110

Filename

4394110