Performance evaluation of e-commerce requests in wireless cellular networks

  • Authors:
  • Irfan Awan;Suhani Singh

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing, University of Bradford, Horton Building, Great Horton Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK;Department of Computing, University of Bradford, Horton Building, Great Horton Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK

  • Venue:
  • Information and Software Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Recent technological advances in mobile devices and wireless networks enable mobile users to order goods in an anywhere and anytime fashion. Quality of Service (QoS) provision is one of the most challenging issues in the heterogeneous wireless network-based e-commerce systems. Such e-commerce systems enable users to roam between different wireless networks operators and geographical areas while providing interactive broadband services and seamless connectivity. Due to movement of users during e-commerce requests, one of the most important QoS factors for successful completion of users' requests is related to handover of request from one cell to another. A handover could fail due to unavailability of sufficient bandwidth in the destination cell. Such failure of ongoing e-commerce requests is highly undesirable and can cause serious problems to the e-commerce users and the service providers. This paper proposes an enhanced priority queuing based handover scheme in order to ensure a seamless connectivity of e-commerce requests. It focuses on the performance anaylsis of the proposed scheme. Experimental study demonstrates that the proposed scheme provides QoS with low connection failure and mean response time for handover of e-commerce requests.