A Mobile Commerce System Structure

A mobile commerce system is inherently interdisciplinary and could be implemented in various ways. The following figure shows a gereralized structure of a mobile commerce system and an example of such a system that is currently possible based on existing technology.


Compared to an electronic commerce system, a mobile commerce system is much more complicated because components related to mobile computing have to be included. For example, the network infrastructure consists of both wired and wireless networks. The mobile commerce system components are
  1. mobile commerce applications,
  2. mobile handheld devices,
  3. mobile middleware,
  1. wireless networks,
  2. wired networks, and
  3. host computers.