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A Mobile Commerce Model for Automobile Rescue Services 257Fig. 8. the model of GSM-Modem4.1.2. The Design of R/S Control TierR/S Control Tier has three tasks: sending text messages, receiving text messages andapplication routing. Moreover, necessary log document must be written in. Sending andreceiving text messages are both communicating operations, while the writing of log is thedatabase operation and the application routing is WEB operation. Three independentthreads are designed to take charges of these three functional operations. And we have alsoset two text-message queues to manager the text messages. The structure of R/S ControlTier is shown as Fig.6.R/S Control Tier is a gateway communication Tier which takes responsibility to maintain aconnection to the gateway, send messages to the gateway, and receive messages from thegateway and send them to Message Receiver Queue.Message Sender Queue and Message Receiver Queue are two Queues which see to themessage management.Application Router takes responsibility to send text messages to the related application.Logger Thread is log-writing programs which fetches text messages from the messagequeues, and then write in the log.Sender Thread is a thread program which submits text messages to R/S Control Tier. TheSMS gateway protocol is asynchronous, however, in most of the time, a synchronous one isneeded which means that we have to know whether the sending is successful. Therefore,Sender Thread always provides a method to keep synchronous. After sending a text