Enabling Technologies for Wireless E-Business

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1 Enabling Technologies for Wireless E-Business

2 Weidong Kou Yelena Yesha (Eds.) Enabling Technologies for Wireless E-Business With 141 Figures and 15 Tables ABC

3 Editors Weidong Kou Chinese State Key Laboratory of ISN 2 South Taibai Road Xi an, Shaanxi, Peoples Republic of China kou_weidong@yahoo.com.cn Yelena Yesha Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, Maryland 21250, USA yeyesha@umbc.edu ACM Classification: C.2, C.3, H.4, J.1 Library of Congress Control Number: ISBN-10 ISBN Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer, Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springer.com c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006 Printed in The Netherlands The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. inthis publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: SPI Publisher Services using Springer Word makropackage Cover design: KünkelLopka, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: / 3100/ SPI

4 Foreword The key message that we have for readers is that wireless is blooming. The following statistics can show readers that this is definitely true: According to Strategy Analytics and UK-based Portio Research, at the end of 2005 there were over 2.1 billion mobile subscribers in the world. By the end of 2006 the mobile subscribers will reach to the level of 2.5 billions, and this figure is expected to increase to close to 4 billion by The worldwide mobile phone penetration is predicted to easily pass the 50% mark by the end of The Ministry of Information Industry of China reported that at the end of 2005, the number of mobile subscribers in the country was close to 400 millions. It is predicted that by the end of 2006, the number of mobile subscribers in China can reach 440 millions. In addition, the number of short messages sent in China in 2005 was over 300 billions, and the associated revenue was close to $4 billion US dollars. According to LaNetro Zed based in Madrid of Spain, at the end of 2005, West Europe has over 270 millions of wireless subscribers. Germany is the largest market for mobile phones in Europe, with 74.1 million users, and it has a penetration rate of 90%; Italy is the second largest market in Europe, with over 65.3 million mobile subscribers and a penetration rate of 114%, the highest in the world; the United Kingdom has 64 million subscribers and a mobile phone penetration rate of 106%; the penetration rate in Finland stands at 100% with nearly 5.2 million subscribers. In 2005 total number of mobile service subscribers in Russia has grown by 70 percent and reached million, according to a recent report in 2006 from AC&M consulting bureau. According to Mobile Marketing Association, in the United States the number of wireless subscribers was over 200 millions. The data on the Mobilephonediscuss.com Forums shows that 66% of US households own cell phones. In Canada, with the number of subscribers to wireless products and service totaling close to 13.9 million by mid-2004, almost 43% of Canadians now have access to a wireless device. By the end of 2005, it was estimated that this number is probably over 50%. Global wireless service revenue is expected to rise 11% to $623.9 billion. The global wireless service industry is expected to generate $800 billion in revenue in 2010, with emerging markets accounting for about 42% of the total.

5 VI Foreword Worldwide shipments of mobile phones reached a record 242 million units in Q4 2005, surpassing the previous peak of 200 million units in Q4 2004, according to isuppli. For all of 2005, 813 million units were shipped, up 14% from 713 million in The list of statistics can go on and on. The rapid growth in the number of wireless subscribers along with the emergence of new wireless technologies such as 3G and Wi-Fi, allowing for higher transmission rates will lead to an explosion of new e-business applications and services generally referred to as wireless e-business. Wireless e-business allows people to conduct business wirelessly without physical connectivity. A variety of different devices can be used for wireless e-business, including mobile phones, pagers, palm-powered personal computers (PCs), pocket PCs, laptop computers, and other mobile devices or devices connected to the wireless networks. Because wireless e-business holds the promise to reshape the way businesses conducted, and because it has a huge customer base, the advantages of wireless e-business are endless. The key is that people can break free from spatial and temporal constraints and communicate and transact in business anytime and anywhere. However, there are a number of great challenges, including problems of sustaining connectivity, limited resources such as limited bandwidth and limited frequency spectrum, as well as the issues of security and privacy in a wireless environment. To address these problems and issues, huge efforts have been made to develop a variety of enabling technologies, including new wireless communication technologies, wireless security, wireless application protocols, mobile payment protocols, mobile data management, mobile agents, mobile payment, mobile computing, mobile services, and RFID technologies. Drs. Weidong Kou and Yelena Yesha have edited this book, with assistance from the chapter contributors to cover these technologies. I believe this is an excellent book for business managers, e-business developers, academic researchers, university students, professors, and professional consultants to acquire comprehensive knowledge on enabling technologies for the blooming wireless e-business. I highly recommend this book! Robert Mayberry Vice President, Sensors and Actuators IBM Software Group

6 Table of Contents 1 Introduction to Enabling Technologies for Wireless E-Business W. Kou and Y. Yesha Introduction About This Book... 3 References Fundamentals of Wireless Communications D. Shen and V.O.K. Li Introduction Global System for Mobile Communication General Packet Radio Service Code Division Multiple Access Systems Summary References Wireless Security W.-B. Lee Introduction Mobile Certificate Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Mobile Computing Server Assisted Mobile Security Infrastructure Summary References Wireless Application Protocol W. Kou Introduction Wireless Application Protocol Wireless Application Security Summary Appendix References... 87

7 VIII Table of Contents 5 RFID Technologies and Applications D. Kou, K. Zhao, Y. Tao and W. Kou Introduction Components Middleware Technology Standards Summary References Software Infrastructure for Context-Aware Mobile Computing C.L. Wang, X.L. Zhang, N. Belaramani, P.L. Siu, Y. Chow, and F.C.M. Lau Introduction Context-aware Mobile Computing Infrastructure A Case Study The Sparkle Project Summary References Data Management for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks F. Perich, A. Joshi, and R. Chirkova Introduction Origins of Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing Model Challenges Peer-to-Peer Data Management Model Future Work Summary References Mobile Agents: The State of the Art B. Yang and J. Liu Introduction System Facilities Migration and Planning Communication and Interoperability Security Summary References

8 Table of Contents IX 9 Multiagent Communication for e-business using Tuple Spaces H.F. Li, T. Radhakrishnan, and Y. Zhang Introduction Computation and Tuple Spaces Examples of Agent Coordination in e-commerce A Tuple Space Based Framework for Agent Communication A Case Study in e-commerce Using Tuple Spaces Summary References Mobile Payment Y. Liu, X. Cao, and L. Dang Introduction Characteristics Agents Security for Mobile Payment Summary References Mobile Content Delivery Technologies Y. Yang, and R. Yan Introduction Short Message Service Multimedia Messaging Service Transcoding Techniques Summary References Mobile Services Computing L. Zhang, B. Li, and Y. Song Web Services Overview Extending Web Services to Mobile Services General Architecture of Mobile Services Two General Approaches to Develop Web/Mobile Services Case Study WAS (Wireless Alarm System) Summary References

9 X Table of Contents 13 Location-Aware Services and its Infrastructure Support Y. Chen, and D. Liu Introduction Location Operating Reference Model and Infrastructure Location Server Moving Object Databases Spatial Publish/Subscribe Engine Related Works Summary References Mobile Commerce and Wireless E-Business Applications S. Song Introduction Mobile Commerce Wireless e-business Applications Case Study Summary References Glossary About the Editors Contributors Index