Time interval-based prepaid charging of qos-enabled IP services

Authors:
Pascal Kurtansky;Burkhard Stiller
Affiliations:
Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory TIK, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory TIK, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Venue:
WINE'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Internet and Network Economics
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Driven by the analysis of existing prepaid charging solutions with their limitations, a novel approach of prepaid charging for Internet Protocol (IP) services based on time intervals has been developed. This approach combines key advantages of hot billing with a tariff flexibility and the guarantee of minimal fraud for providers. The technical effort of real-time charging is reduced to a min imum and ensures economic efficiency as well as scalability in large-scale envi ronments for providers who achieve a better customer binding in prepaid cases.