Three Level Gateway protocol for secure M-Commerce Transactions

Abstract

The Entire world’s economic growth is built upon Trading and trading which was started in ancient times as barter system has now evolved in the modern era as mobile commerce because of enhancements in technologies, Internet, use of Financial Resources and life style of human beings.

Because of advancements in technology and a radical improvisation in the sector of hardware and simultaneous growth in software, the computational devices and mobile phones were being used differently and for multiple purposes. 90 percent of market users are using palm tops, lap tops and smart phones and the human beings life style is also significantly changed where they want everything on a single click through smart applications used in mobile systems irrespective of time and location (Everything through one device). The so called e-commerce is fused with mobile communications which emerged into a mobile commerce.

Mobile commerce is also additionally called as mobile e-commerce or m-commerce which is being defined as all activities or actions related to a likely commercial business deal conducted through communications networks that interface with wireless or mobile devices.

Mobile Commerce addresses electronic commerce via mobile devices, where the consumer physically does not sees any good that is being purchased, he has just a virtual visualization of the product that is being purchased.

The benefits are many with mobile commerce, from customer perspective and manufacturer perspective, but there are also lots of complexities and security issues involved with this mobile commerce which is not allowing still many of the mobile users to switch to m-commerce.

            Many Cryptographic security algorithms and communication protocols were used in building a strong payment system for mobile commerce, but still they have some if’s and but’s. In this paper we provide a Three Level Gateway Protocol for secure M-Commerce Transactions using any conventional or public key cryptosystem algorithm and The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) which is an open standard for passing business messages between applications or organizations.