State of the art prepaid charging for IP services

Authors:
Pascal Kurtansky;Burkhard Stiller
Affiliations:
Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, TIK ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, TIK ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Venue:
WWIC'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The provisioning of IP services in the mobile telecommunication and the IP world differs in many aspects, especially with prepaid charging de termining an important useability distinction. Thus, the state of the art of pre paid charging systems have been analyzed in detail, elaborating on their key ca pabilities and major limitations. Additionally, economic aspects in terms of op erator's risks and major costs, addressing the technical overhead to implement prepaid charging, have been evaluated. Therefore, to enable prepaid charging for QoS-enabled and all-IP environments, key concerns for a future IP service provisioning have been determined, which remain infeasible with existing prepaid solutions, and the evaluation lead to a new scheme proposed.