Evaluation of Energy Efficiency of Popular Mobile Payment Protocols

Abstract

Over the last few years, the popularity of both electronic and mobile commerce (M-Commerce) has
increased due to advancement in the Information Technology (IT). Evaluation of E-commerce and M
commerce protocols has always remained a subject of sustained effort to find an optimal solution.
Mobile devices are resource constrained in terms of memory, processing and battery power. There have
been efforts in the past for evaluation of such protocols based on the issues like privacy, security and
efficiency. In this paper special consideration however is given to the battery power and thus evaluates
few well-known M-commerce payment protocols for their battery requirements in terms of energy cost
and compares energy cost of these protocols to find the most optimal solution for mobile payment.
Initial objective of this paper finds out energy consumption for every individual entity involved in the
most popular mobile payments protocols. After the earlier has been achieved, the second and the most
fundamental objective of this work is to calculate the overall energy consumption and to analyze these
selected protocols to find out the most energy efficient protocol.