MPhil Thesis Defence


"Evaluation of Server-Side and Client-Side Micro-Payment Systems"

By

Mr. Wai-Kwok Fung


Abstract

E-commerce has been developing rapidly together with the Internet.
Micro-payment is a business-to-customer (B2C) E-commerce system, which is
targeted at large numbers of transactions involving only a small amount of
money.  There are various concerns in designing a micro-payment system
such as protection of users' sensitive information, security of
transactions, and provision of fast performance. Server-side and
client-side systems are two different approaches to micro-payment. In this
thesis, we describe and discuss various design decisions of these two
types of micro-payment systems. We build frameworks and develop skills for
performance evaluation with techniques of analysis, measurement and
simulation. Also, we do comparison and analysis of server-side and
client-side models from a technology perspective.


Date:			Thursday, 19 July 2001

Time:			10:00a.m.-12:00noon

Venue:			Room 1505
			Lifts 25-26

Committee Members:	Dr. Jogesh Muppala (Supervisor)
			Dr. Shing-Chi Cheung (Chairman)
			Dr. Snehamay Banerjee (ISMT)


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