THE AMAZIMG CHARGING, ACCOUNTING AND BILLING MANAGEMENT SCHEMES AND SOLUTIONS FOR MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION.

 

MARIA KOUTSOPOULOU, ALEXANDROS KALOXYLOS, ATHANASIA A1-ONISTIOTI, AND LAZARUS MERAKOS, COMMUNICATION NETWORKS LABORATORY, UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS KATSUYA KAWAMURA, DOCOMO COMMUNICATIONS LABORATORIES EUROPE GMBHP

ABSTRACT:

The Current technology in mobile telecommunication networks and the Internet arc about to alter existing business models. These different worlds come together and create an open market, where a large number of independent service providers/services will offer their services to users with a limited number of network providers. At the same time, existing 01 network technologies and the definition of new concepts require new high-level and comprehensive solutions in many areas of technology. charging, accounting, and flexible and efficient payment methods. This study article looks at the key concepts of these processes, and the requirements they set for network infrastructure. This document presents the latest efforts made by the certification bodies in the telecommunications industry and the Internet Working Groups to meet these needs.

Uses of Charging, Billing, and Accounting Schemes.

The Charging, billing, and accounting schemes used online have been quite simple until now. Users are charged less at a lower rate, depending on their subscription once, 'or the duration of their Internet access connection. In mobile telecommunication networks, users have been mainly billed based on the subscription and the call duration, as well as a number of other parameters (e.g., type of communication, location of the destination, and so on). In the near future, these schemes are expected to receive extensive modifications as a consequence of recent technological advances combined with the emerging dominance of the Internet Protocol. It has been several years now since the Internet research community's focus has been shifted toward the provision of real-time applications that require stricter quality of service (OOS) guarantees from the underlying network infrastructure This shift created the need for the efficient control of network congestion. According to a solution to this problem could be a usage-based pricing scheme. Such a scheme could be used as a sufficient congestion control mechanism or can be viewed as a control for sharing demand.

However, several researchers insist that flat-rate pricing will continue to dominate the "Internet world" [3, 4], while over-provisioning of cheap network resources will address OOS guarantees. Their observations are based on customer preferences for the simplest possible schemes. The reasoning is based on past user behavior When dealing with similar communication facilities such as ordinary mail, telegraph, and telephone services. However, despite the pricing model, it has been widely recognized that appropriate mechanisms are needed for collecting chargeable events in Order to process the received information according to business models adopted by the involved entities (e.g., application/content providers, ISPs, etc.). Similar needs were also identified in the mobile telecommunications world, especially after the tight integration Of the IP protocol in the mobile network infrastructure potent.