An Architecture for Secure m-Commerce Applications

As mobile communication technology evolves, more and more features are available to users of mobile devices. The adoption of such features is rapid and the demand for more capabilities is growing, especially with the development of the Internet of Things. One of the most challenging and sensitive concepts used in the always connected mobile world is mobile commerce. Security for mobile financial transactions is of extreme high concern. In this paper we describe the architecture of a secure m-commerce system based on the concepts defined in the FP7 iCore project. We propose a framework that structures an m-commerce system in objects with semantic searching capabilities to provide an efficient and secure handling of system resources and transactions.