Title: Study of mobile payment protocols and its performance evaluation on mobile devices

Authors: Rafael Martinez-Pelaez, Francisco J. Rico-Novella, Cristina Satizabal

Addresses: Technical University of Catalonia, Department of Telematic Engineering, Jordi Girona Road, Campus Nord, Block C3, Barcelona 08034, Spain. ' Technical University of Catalonia, Department of Telematic Engineering, Jordi Girona Road, Campus Nord, Block C3, Barcelona 08034, Spain. ' Pamplona University, Engineering and Architecture Department, Km 1 via Bucaramanga – Pamplona, Pamplona, Colombia

Abstract: Mobile payment protocols must provide security services (e.g., authentication, authorisation, integrity, privacy and non-repudiation), but the features of mobile devices make it a difficult task, especially when the service requires to perform public key operations. It is very well known, that the public key operations require high execution time of the CPU and battery consumption. In this paper, we computed the computational cost required by each entity in five mobile payment protocols. In addition, we computed the transmission time of each message among different entities. The exchange of message was done using Bluetooth technology. The performance evaluation of each mobile payment protocol defines its feasibility according with the whole time expending during the protocol considering its computational cost and transmission time.

Keywords: computational costs; Bluetooth; transmission times; m-payment protocols; mobile payments; e-commerce; electronic commerce; performance valuation; mobile phones; cell phones; security; public key operations; CPU; central processing unit; battery consumption; messaging; mobile computing; information management; ICT; information technology; communications technology.

DOI: 10.1504/IJITM.2010.030948

International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 2010 Vol.9 No.3, pp.337 - 356

Published online: 14 Jan 2010 *

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