Policy Based Charging in Multimedia Networks

  • Brian Lee
  • Donal O’Mahony
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3754)

Abstract

The telecommunications landscape is undergoing a period of dramatic change. A near term next generation network (NGN) is emerging characterized by a rich set of services and a dynamic and competitive marketplace where innovation and time to market will be critical success factors. Changing consumer-provider relationships, competitive pressures and new e-commerce technologies will accelerate the use of real time payment and prepayment techniques. This will increase the demand for real-time processing of charging data. Powerful, new, charging support systems will be needed to enable real time charging of these new services. Policy based management appears to offer potential solutions.

Keywords

Mobile Agent Session Initiation Protocol Real Time Transport Protocol Billing System Next Generation Network 
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Download to read the full conference paper text

References

  1. 1.
    Clavenna, S., Heywood, P.: Optical Taxonomy, lightreading.com, http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=3780&page_number=1
  2. 2.
    O’Mahony, D., Doyle, L.: Beyond 3G: 4G IP-Based Mobile Networks. In: Dixit, S. (ed.) Wireless IP: Building the Mobile Internet, Arctech House, Norwood, MA, ch. 6, pp. 71–86 (2003)Google Scholar
  3. 3.
    Leida, B.A.: A Cost Model of Internet Service Providers: Implications for Internet Telephony and Yield Management. M. Sc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (February 1998)Google Scholar
  4. 4.
    Sur, A.: Technical Tutorial: Mediation Device Requirements for GPRS. Billing World 7(6), 100–107 (2001)Google Scholar
  5. 5.
  6. 6.
    Calvert, K.L., et al.: Directions in Active Network. IEEE Network (October 1998)Google Scholar
  7. 7.
    Strassner, J.: Policy Based Network Management- Solutions for the Next Generation. Morgan-Kaufmann, Amsterdam (2003)Google Scholar
  8. 8.
    Moore, B., et al.: Policy Core Information Model – Version 1 Specification. IETF RFC 3060 (February 2001), www.ietf.org
  9. 9.
    Salsano, S., Vetriani, L.: QoS and Policy Control by means of COPS to support SIP based Applications. IEEE Network (March/April 2002)Google Scholar
  10. 10.
    Bandwidth Broker Transfer Protocol. Revision 0.3, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Group for Advanced Information Technology (November 1998)Google Scholar
  11. 11.
    Travostino, F.: Towards an Active IP Accounting Infrastructure. In: Proc. 3rd IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming, OPENARCH 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel (March 2000)Google Scholar
  12. 12.
    Briscoe, B., et al.: Lightweight Policing and Charging for Packet Networks. In: Proc. IEEE 3rd Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming, OPENARCH 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel (March 2000)Google Scholar
  13. 13.
    Carle, G., et al.: Policy Based Accounting. IRTF Internet Draft (February 2002), <draft-irtf-aaaarch-pol-acct-04.txt>Google Scholar
  14. 14.
    Bellavista, P., Corradi, A., Vecchi, S.: Mobile Agents for Usage-based Accounting in Wireless Ubiquitous Networks. In: WOA 2002. University of Milan-Bicocca (November 2002)Google Scholar
  15. 15.
    Sloman, S., Lupu, E.: Security and Management Policy Specification. IEEE Network (March 2002)Google Scholar

Copyright information

© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2005

Authors and Affiliations

  • Brian Lee
    • 1
  • Donal O’Mahony
    • 2
  1. 1.Ericsson Systems ExpertiseAthloneIreland
  2. 2.Trinity CollegeDublin 2Ireland

Personalised recommendations