Mobile Electronic Commerce

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chapter three

Critical infrastructure

management for mobile

electronic commerce

Security and reliability issues

on mobile ad hoc network

Haibo Wang, Wei Ning, and Wei Wang

Contents

3.1 Introduction .............................................................................................46

3.2 M-commerce and infrastructure .......................................................... 46

3.2.1 Development of MANET and its characteristics ....................46

3.2.2 Rising popularity of MANET in mobile commerce ..............48

3.2.3 Value creation through mobile network .................................. 49

3.3 Security issues on MANET ................................................................... 52

3.3.1 Urgent need for better MANET security solutions ............... 52

3.3.2 Attacks exploiting MANET’s inherent weakness .................. 52

3.3.3 Improvements made on routing protocols .............................. 53

3.3.4 Concerns and strategies for information assurance .............. 56

3.3.5 Wireless sensor network and its security issues .................... 57

3.3.6 Integrative security framework ................................................ 58

3.4 Reliability issues ..................................................................................... 58

3.4.1 Difculties to maintain a reliable mobile network ................ 58

3.4.2 State-of-the-art research on reliability issue of MANET ...... 59

3.5 Academic research and industry solutions ......................................... 63

3.6 Challenges and future research ............................................................ 66

References .......................................................................................................... 67

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3.1 Introduction

The fth generation of WiFi and new standards of telecommunication pro-

tocols make possible the massive implementation of mobile ad hoc network

(MANET) in retail business at a lower cost. While the retail industry has

started embracing this new technology and mostly by installing a WiFi hot-

spot in their stores and shopping carts, the issues of security and reliability

have become serious concerns to both public and private organizations.

There is a large volume of literature on critical infrastructure of tele-

communication system; however, the topic on mobile e-commerce, espe-

cially on MANET, still offers researchers many great opportunities for

new ideas and designs for the transmission of data. This chapter will

present systematic review of the literature on MANET with the objective

of addressing security and reliability by studying the state of the art in

MANET research and applications. The authors try to identify the gap

between academia and industry and to point out the challenge and future

research directions. Eighty articles are collected, and the outputs of litera-

ture review are categorized into four distinct categories: infrastructure,

security, reliability, and academic research and industry solutions. We

hope that the ndings of this study will serve as a good source for those

interested in MANET. The chapter also presents some real-world chal-

lenges as well as future research directions.

3.2 M-commerce and infrastructure

3.2.1 Development of MANET and its characteristics

New technology in telecommunication network infrastructure enables its

capability to be spread sparsely over large territories at a global scale to

provide exceptional coverage and to impact the lives of large numbers

of people. The new development of MANET communication caught the

attention of investigators in both academia and industry. MANET is

becoming an industry standard, and some retailers are promoting new

customer services powered by MANET technology. The potential applica-

tions of MANET will bring a landslide change to the customer relation-

ship management and supply chain management. Thus, the security and

reliability of MANET are receiving immediate attentions from both pub-

lic and private organizations. The advantage and potential applications of

MANET in retailing industry include the following:

1. Sharing product information with and bringing online to off-line

(O2O) experiences to customers

2. Monitoring the movement of customer in the stores to understand

the customer’s behavior

3. Enabling customer to share shopping experience instantly