A User Perspective of Quality of Service in m-Commerce

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 187-206

  Ghinea, Gheorghita ^a   Angelides, Marios C ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

M commerce; Quality of Service; User perception

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SERVERS;

MOBILE COMMERCE; USER PERCEPTION;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 1342323818     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MTAP.0000011934.59111.b5     Document Type: Review

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