Under a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system, there is an incentive for system participants to delay making their outgoing payments to facilitate their funding, and this creates the risk of settlement delays spreading throughout the entire system. Intraday credit facility and market practices have been established to avoid the risk and led to settlement concentration in the morning, as well...

Abstract Maintaining a stable productivity rate in construction project is challenge. Many external and internal factors influence it. Delay payment one of the representing cash flow mirrors company’s financial stability status. This study explores delay payments effects on small medium companies Oman. Also, it ranks among other factors. Sixty-five registered Oman Tender Board participated ques...

In IEEE 802.11-based WLANs, nodes sharing an access point (AP) have equal opportunity to access the link (or channel) via a random access MAC protocol. As a consequence, a node sending more packets shows a longer delay than other nodes sending a lower number of packets. This is fair enough for besteffort service, since the communication cost is not determined by the amount of traffic sent. In a...

mobile commerce is whatever electronic transfer or transaction via a mobile modem through a mobile net in which the true value or advance payment is done for goods, services or information. a mobile payment system should be beneficial for all related persons. for a payment system to be a successful system, end-user, seller, exporter and operators should see a additional value in it. end-user pr...