Articles
Papers
- m-Commerce: Reality Behind the Hype
- This paper attempts to provide a categorization of current and future m-Commerce initiatives. Followed by an outline of each of the current limitations facing m-Commerce, providing some insight on how they may be overcome.
- m-Commerce Paper (PDF)
- Survey of GPRS
- This paper provides a high level overview of the major components of a GPRS system as it relates to GSM. A brief overview of the GSM system is given, followed by the overall architecture of a GPRS extended GSM system.
- Three key areas are emphasized,
- The two new GPRS Support Nodes.
- Device types available.
- Quality of Service offered.
- Afterwards, registration and session management are discussed, along with an example of routing between an external network and a mobile station. Followed by the critical subject of mobility management and maintaining packet deliverability.
- Survey of GPRS Paper (PDF)
- Survey of GPRS Presentation (PDF)