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P2P M-Commerce in Pervasive Environments

Sasikanth Avancha, Peter D'Souza, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, and Yelena Yesha

January 28, 2003

Pervasive environments are characterized by the presence of wireless devices ranging from sensors to mobile PDA-phones to laptops. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) information sharing in such environments presents a tremendous opportunity for people and devices to exchange information such as music, pictures, documents and stock tickers with peers. Information that has a monetary value introduces a whole new set of problems for P2P interaction in pervasive environments. In this work, we present the design of a middleware that attempts to solve these problems using concepts of the Contract Net Protocol, Semantic Service Discovery and secure transaction protocols.

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Tags: ecommerce, mobile computing, p2p, pervasive computing

Type: Article

Volume: 3

Number: 4

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Google Scholar Citations: 16 citations