MC-2D: An Efficient and Scalable Multicoupon Scheme

Hinarejos, M. Francisca; Isern-Deyà, Andreu Pere; Ferrer-Gomila, Josep Lluís; Payeras–Capellà, M. Magdalena

doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxt119

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“…Authors in [66] provide two schemes that improve the efficiency during the issuance and the redemption stages of previous proposals [15,18,53], but they do not provide proofs to support this claim. Only two of the analyzed proposals dealing with multicoupons provide a limited computing performance evaluation on a laptop [6,32]. In both works, authors evaluate the computational time required by involved protocols, but without considering any kind of network communication or message coding.…”

Section: Evaluation Of Existent Electronic Multicoupon Proposalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In terms of evaluating and testing the functionalities of the schemes as a proof-of-concept, a single machine where servers and clients run could be enough. In fact, this is the option chosen by the few proposals that obtain performance measures (the same machine to run server and client developments) [26,32]. However, it does not take into account some external effects that must be considered in a real deployment scenario, such as communication lines, network bottlenecks, bounded computing capabilities, limited availability of resources, security levels.…”

Section: Server Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the multi-merchant scenario [6,32,33,39], a coupon provider must be included in order to issue multicoupons to customers on behalf of a manufacturer. Thus, customers can use these multicoupons at different merchants, and these merchants must have a previous agreement with the issuer before accepting multicoupons.…”

Section: How To Apply the Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first proposal is the multicoupon scheme proposed in [32], because this is one of the latest published proposals of multicoupons. And the second one is the scheme proposed by Hsueh et al [33], which is one of the most cited solutions for multicoupons.…”

Section: How To Apply the Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Next, we present the most relevant cryptographic tools used by [32] to provide anonymity and untraceability: group signatures and partially blind signatures.…”

Section: Relevant Cryptographic Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Deployment and performance evaluation of mobile multicoupon solutions

Hinarejos

Isern-Deyà

Ferrer-Gomila

et al. 2018

Int. J. Inf. Secur.

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Mobile commerce (m-commerce) represents an important area of business with a huge potential revenue for merchants and great opportunities for customers to achieve better offers. One of the topics within m-commerce that needs important improvements on usability and efficiency is electronic coupon systems. This is because solutions for electronic coupons are focused on their theoretical definition, overlooking both their performance evaluation and their viability analysis. In this paper, we provide an evaluation framework to test multicoupon solutions. Under this framework, we evaluate two particular multicoupon schemes, obtaining interesting performance results, such as the fact that cryptographic operations are not always the most costly processes, as usually claimed by authors of multicoupon schemes. We show that message encoding can help to improve the efficiency of multicoupon solutions, even up to 50% of the overhead over the network. Moreover, we solve other issues related to the viability of these schemes, for example, using a standardized way to distribute non-standard cryptographic key material. Therefore, the viability of a multicoupon solution should be validated considering all involved factors, such as internal processing, networking, message encoding and current technology support.

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Section: Evaluation Of Existent Electronic Multicoupon Proposalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Server Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: How To Apply the Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: How To Apply the Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Next, we present the most relevant cryptographic tools used by [32] to provide anonymity and untraceability: group signatures and partially blind signatures.…”

Section: Relevant Cryptographic Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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