Location management support for mobile commerce applications
Upkar Varshney · 2001
Mobile commerce applications may include mobile financial services, user and location specific mobile advertising, mobile inventory management, wireless business re-engineering, and mobile interactive games. Mobile commerce applications may present many interesting wireless infrastructure requirements. One such requirement is location management. In this paper, we discuss the location management requirements of different m-commerce applications, present a new methodology to model m-commerce requirements using a generic m-commerce application, and introduce a technique to evaluate the location management overhead of various m-commerce applications.