Realistic Mobile Commerce Application

This article provides an in-depth analysis of a realistic mobile commerce application, including its business flow, architecture, technical requirements, and design. It also evaluates the critical aspects of the application and provides a bibliography for further reading.

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Realistic Mobile Commerce Application
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Table of Contents
Business Flow and Architecture:.....................................................................................................2
Technical Requirements:.................................................................................................................3
Design:.............................................................................................................................................4
Devices:...........................................................................................................................................7
Critical Evaluation:..........................................................................................................................8
Bibliography:...................................................................................................................................9

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Business Flow and Architecture:
The mobile application is divided into three parts such as payments, bank payments and
entertainment. A single mobile device can have only one application installed in it. The
application has user management feature that allows the users to register and login. The m-
commerce application will not be considered as the traditional E-commerce cum payment
gateway application. It will be a fully-fledged Payments Bank Organization. The revenues that
this E-Commerce application of Muscatel will make will be categorized into payments section,
payment bank, payments & wallet integration and DTR and entertainment. For the mobile
recharge, electric bill recharge and many other recharges, the application will be taking two to
four percent of the commission. The commission of the application will be higher than that of
physical shops that makes used to make recharge on behalf of customer. For every purchase
made through the payments bank, the application will provide virtual money to the digital wallet
which can only be redeemed through this application. It will encourage the users to make more
payments using the integrated digital wallet.
Allowing multiple accounts through a single application will make the application hugely
flexible in terms of customer handling. If one customer does not have enough virtual money,
then the other customer can login to their account to make the payment. For the entertainment
part, the entertainment features will be partially free. The customers can use basic features but
for accessing the advanced features in the entertainment section they have to upgrade to plus or
similar termed service.
Implications: The application will hugely advance the customer loyalty and base. The
organization can adapt the idea that only Muscatel service holders can access the upgraded

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entertainment section for free then it will boost the e-commerce application sales. The huge
customer base of the organization will push the application sales. The offers will promote the
digital wallet of the e-commerce application.
Technical Requirements:
User Management: It will be the first technical requirement of the application because it
will allow the application identify the user. As the system will allow different users to login into
same application, the phone number based direct verification is not an option. The user
management will be done using registration and login.
Data Storage: Tracking the activities of the user is a significant part of the business. The
organization requires to share these data with the customer or later use these data for analysis.
That is why storing the data in a safe place is essential. As the amount of data that system server
will handle is huge, the big data is selected as the data storage medium.
Security: The application should have encryption methods that will protect the data from
being accessed by cyber criminals. This is essential because data will travel through less secure
open internet medium. The server should be DoS and other major cyber-attack free.
Bandwidth: The bandwidth of the network should be high and continuous while
accessing the entertainment section. Less bandwidth network can be used for making payments
and using payments bank section.
Performance: The application will be working very less because most of the time it will
be idle. However, same cannot be said for the server. The huge customer base will force the
server to process thousands of requests per second simultaneously.

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Design:
Figure 1: Wireframe of Login Page of the Application
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Figure 2: Wireframe of Registration Page of the Application
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Figure 3: Wireframe of Mobile Recharge Page of the Application
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Figure 4: Network Design for Server and Client Connection
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The network diagram clearly shows that the network will be using ring topology. This
topology will have a network distributor in the middle of the network so that each user can
access the network. Each client will be connected to that network distributor device directly. So
that, if a mobile device is disconnected, the other devices are not affected.
Devices:
In order to store the data, the database server will need a server system that can support
the MongoDB. The server system will have a high-end computer with high computational
power. Physical disks of 2TB at least fifty connected to the database server system. For the
application server, more powerful computer will be used. The application server will have less

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amount of storage capacity than database server system. Each server computer will have thread
reaper microprocessor.
The network will be distributed through existing telecom towers. The application will use
the internet of any kind such as mobile internet and broadband through Wi-Fi. The user devices
are low in processing capacity. That is why the server will be responsible for all the processing
that requires medium powered processes. This will allow smooth service for low and medium
end mobile devices.
Critical Evaluation:
In this assignment I have learned to develop the prototypes in Adobe XD. I had used
other applications for developing the prototypes but for this application I used XD and it is very
fast and reliable. The prototypes are clickable, therefore simulation of the developed prototypes
can be done. I have also learned more about designing the network. I was slightly aware of how
to develop a LAN design but including the internet, tower and client devices was new.
I learned how the payment gateway organizations and mobile entertainment service
providers like Spotify works. I learned how the business requirements are converted into system
requirements. I have also learned what kind of devices are used in the servers. The main
technical issues that could happen to the application is providing flawless service to low spec
devices. No matter how much processing is done by server, few processes needs to be done by
the mobile device and low end mobile devices may hang during that processing.

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