Development Of Mobile Peer-To-Peer Application For Customer-To-Customer E-Commerce

Abstract

In early 2009, a Peer-to-Peer car transportation and delivery services so called Uber, has created a breakthrough not only in mobile technology but also in how companies run their business. People invented the term “Uberisation” to prefer economic sharing systems utilized by P2P transactions between clients and providers of services. In short, Uber alone does not possess any cars, but can deliver car transportation services to a vast number of customers by applying P2P. [1] Followed the P2P inspiration, this thesis attempts to explore further into the capability of P2P and Uberisation in other aspects rather than just transportation services. In fact, we will observe how we can bring P2P to Customer-to-Customer (C2C) E-commerce in Mobile Platform. The final implementation and demonstration can be served as a prototype for applying P2P into C2C E-commerce. The prototype applies Android Technology, Gnutella Protocol, Web API 2 with Entity Framework. The database for storing information will be SQLite (for mobile device) and Microsoft SQL (for Server Web API).