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Multi-Service Internet Charging
menu
context
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too cheap to meter?
Why usage charging?
incentive to waste
incentive to over-book (e.g. SLA)
multi-application network
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active tariff distribution to customers
self-billing - ‘pay and display’
self-billing - ‘traffic warden
recursive - inter-provider charging
zero bits for charging
demo - tariff dissemination
demo - tariff dissemination
admission control is a delusion
admission control at source
price & time offer various price fixing periods
provider price control
congestion avoidance pricing
Dynamic Pricing
Tariff Representation
User interfacing
Transport
Example tariff algorithm
traditional access control by price
optimistic access control
customer state in the network
self-policing
diffserv SLA without policing
demo: price controlled QoS
demo: accounting & payment
account sharing
Accounting
Billing
Payment
Currency
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limitations
related project - M3I
summary
generalisations
further information
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top level architecture
top level architecture!
split-edge pricing - per direction
split edge pricing - per class
split-edge pricing - per leg
the direction of value flow
service flexibility - integration and separation
typical contractual chains
service bundling
the direction of value flow
clearing across edge providers iterative
end to end pricing
clearing across edge providers third party
PIG - phone to Internet gateways
exception peering |