Public access to the Internet
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
As soon as a networkoffers different service levels, pricing is needed to give incentives for not always using the highest quality of service (QoS). An open issue is how to derive a price for a certain service based on the transfer costs for data within this service. This paper shows that there is a need for a frameworkfor end-to-end pricing between providers and for inter-domain interchange of price information. The presented frameworklea ves the freedom of choosing a certain pricing model within domains in order to foster competition among different providers. It uses a hierarchical, domain centered approach which can be easily deployed within Differentiated Services networks because it may use already available components for pricing purposes.