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WWIC 2006: Wired/Wireless Internet Communications pp 143–154Cite as

State of the Art Prepaid Charging for IP Services

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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.

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  1. Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, TIK ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Pascal Kurtansky & Burkhard Stiller

  2. Department of Informatics IFI, University of Zurich, Switzerland

    Burkhard Stiller

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern, Switzerland

    Torsten Braun

  2. Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, University of Tübingen, Germany

    Georg Carle

  3. Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, 250 N. University Street, IN 47907-2066, West Lafayette, USA

    Sonia Fahmy

  4. Department of Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 10, 33720, Tampere, Finland

    Yevgeni Koucheryavy

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Kurtansky, P., Stiller, B. (2006). State of the Art Prepaid Charging for IP Services. In: Braun, T., Carle, G., Fahmy, S., Koucheryavy, Y. (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communications. WWIC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3970. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11750390_13

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