Impact of Security and Quality Attributes of 3-G Based M-Commerce Systems Based on B2C Operation

A year ago, everyone was talking about the great opportunities for 3G, and accessing the Internet from one's mobile terminal. Today 3-G network has grown up. Mobile-commerce (m-commerce) systems have been developed at a significant rate in recent years. M-commerce can be viewed as a subset of e-commerce and refers to transaction with monetary value that is conducted via a mobile network. 3-G based MCommerce offer functions and services in order to fulfil the end-users requirements and to provide secure services of high quality through a more usable and user friendly environment. In m-commerce applications, the design process still lacks a systematic quality control procedure. There are also variations on these attacks which exploit weaknesses in the architecture and some of the protocols used in 3-G cellular data networks. In this paper we study the security and quality attributes on which B2C m-Commerce system held through the 3G Network. We will correlate quality characteristics of ISO9126 quality standard to M-Commerce Quality. Also discuss the security issues from mobile devices, from 3G network and from customer’s perspective.