Mobile Payment Protocol for Tag-to-Tag Near Field Communication (NFC)

Managing near field communication (NFC) payment applications through cloud computing

Near Field Communication (NFC)

Near field communication (NFC) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches. Near Field Communication (NFC) is one of the short range wireless communication technologies based on RFID. NFC provides secure and inherent communication between el...

Near Field Communication based Mobile Payment System

In daily life, ordinary cash is more and more replaced by electronic means of payment. Where on the one hand side macro payment systems are well covered by credit cards, micro payment systems still suffer from different technological and usability issues. Besides usability, security in payment systems has always been a hot topic ever since. In this paper we present a new, promising approach for...

Phone Tag: Laser Tag for Mobile Devices

Mobile games now represent the largest sector of the game market when measured by revenue [1]. Ubiquitous smartphones with their wide range of integrated peripherals present designers with opportunities to use the devices in novel ways. Our goal was to build an Android app that turns a smartphone into the equipment to play a game similar to “laser tag”. A two-player game has been implemented as...

Secure Authentication Protocol for NFC Mobile Payment Systems

Near Field Communication (NFC) is an attractive technology which is used in several countries for contactless payment operations via mobiles. This technology is suffered from increasing the security weaknesses. In the NFC mobile payment systems, the payment operations are vulnerable to various attacks. Therefore, the authentication protocol in the NFC technology has the highest priority to deve...