Performance Evaluation for an E-Business Platform

Abstract

E-business combines the Internet and network environment with the economic operations, reaching to the core of the business processes, strengthen the enterprises informatization and digitization level. Often e-business integrates different services which communicate with each other. Frameworks and collections of services can be developed in efficient manner using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Web services based on Soap protocol and Rest architectural style are key technologies, used to realize e-business applications frameworks. In this paper is presented an e-business platform example, based on SOAP and REST Web services, which can be accessed by mobile users through Android OS Smartphones, while the data traffic amount and cost are optimized. The digital content source is represented by the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE), but it also can be retrieved from on-line vendors, e-commerce, e-payment agents etc. A performance evaluation for the e-business SOAP and REST Web services, provided on 4G LTE and IEEE 802.11n WLAN channels, is presented in the paper, in a QoS approach, referring to the response time and throughput. The content and informational tools of the platform can be extended and configured to provide and comply with other types of e-business services as: e-banking, e-commerce, e-payment agents etc, according to different application patterns.