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The Design of a Single Funding Point Charging Architecture

The Design of a Single Funding Point Charging Architecture

  • Christos Tsiaras17,
  • Martin Waldburger17,
  • Guilherme Sperb Machado17,
  • Andrei Vancea17 &
  • …
  • Burkhard Stiller17 
  • Conference paper
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Abstract

Most federations across the world apply Single Sign-On (SSO) Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) platforms. Thus, access to services offered by organizations, which belong to such a federation, can be granted to their users independent of their current location. The increasing demand to charge users for those service usages lead organizations to establish various charging mechanisms. However, until today the majority of organizations is using service-dependent solutions to perform charging. This policy absorbs the utility of an SSO system, since users still have to monitor and control each credit account separately. Therefore, the approach proposed defines an extension to SSO platforms, which is consolidated, non dispersed and service-independent. A Single Funding Point Charging Architecture (SFP-CA) allows users to settle payments using funds from the same credit account, for any type of service they use inside their federation.

Keywords

  • Accounting
  • Authorization
  • Single Funding Point
  • Charging Architecture

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  1. Communication Systems Group CSG, University of Zürich, Switzerland

    Christos Tsiaras, Martin Waldburger, Guilherme Sperb Machado, Andrei Vancea & Burkhard Stiller

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Tsiaras, C., Waldburger, M., Machado, G.S., Vancea, A., Stiller, B. (2012). The Design of a Single Funding Point Charging Architecture. In: Szabó, R., Vidács, A. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies. EUNICE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7479. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32808-4_14

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