E-retailing ethics in Egypt and its effect on customer repurchase intention

The theoretical understanding of online shopping behaviour has received much attention. Less focus has been given to the formation of the ethical issues that result from online shopper interactions with e-retailers. The vast majority of earlier research on this area is conceptual in nature and limited in scope by focusing on consumers’ privacy issues. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical model explaining what factors contribute to online retailing ethics and its effect on customer repurchase intention. The data were analysed using variance-based structural equation modelling, employing partial least squares regression. Findings indicate that the five factors of the online retailing ethics (security, privacy, non- deception, fulfilment/reliability, and corporate social responsibility) are strongly predictive of online consumers’ repurchase intention. The results offer important implications for e-retailers and are likely to stimulate further research in the area of e-ethics from the consumers’ perspective

Extended DBP for (m,k)-Firm Based QoS

Colloque avec actes et comité de lecture. internationale.International audienceIn this paper, an extended DBP (E_DBP) scheme is studied for (m,k)-firm constraint. The basic idea of the proposed algorithm takes into account the distance to exit a failure state, which is a symmetrical notion of distance to fall into a failure state in DBP. Quality of Service (QoS) in terms of dynamic failure and delay is evaluated. Simulation results reveal the effectiveness of E_DBP to provide better QoS

Radio Spectrum Issues and Cognitive Mobile Computing

The rapid proliferation of mobile wireless devices, astronomical data traffic transmission and development of multifarious technologies has resulted in huge demand for usable radio spectrum bands. Allocation of new spectrum bands and maximizing the usage of currently allocated radio spectrum bands have become of vital importance in emerging mobile computing networks. This chapter highlights the importance and issues of radio spectrum in mobile computing networks and also presents cognitive functionalities as an appropriate solution to cope with the scarcity of usable radio spectrum in emerging cognitive mobile computing networks

Joint Connection and Packet level Analysis in W-CDMA Radio Interface

Abstract. This work introduces a new analytical method for performance evaluation of wireless packet-oriented networks. Unlike traditional call admission control procedures commonly used for performance evaluation of wireless networks, this paper deals with the problem of coupling connection and packet level QoS characteristics by analysis. At connection level we use the Blocked-Calls-Cleared (BCC) model, whereas at packet level we use the Blocked-Call-Interfered (BCI) model which has no immediate feedback from packet level to connection level about lost data. At connection level we use the convolution algorithm which defines the feasible state space at packet level. At packet level we take into consideration wireless interference (soft blocking). The traffic is modeled as multi-rate Binomial-Poisson-Pascal (BPP-) traffic at connection level and on-off traffic at packet level. We obtain individual performance measures for each service, both at connection level and at packet level. By case studies we investigate the trade-off between the two levels to meet Grade of Service (GoS) requirements for cellular networks with WCDMA radio interface. Keywords: Two-level analysis, WCDMA, multi-service wireless network, connection level, packet level, soft blocking, teletraffic, Blocked-Calls-Cleared, Blocked-Calls-Held, Blocked-Calls-Interfered models.