Title:	COMMERCIALISING THE MOBILE INTERNET FROM A METERING AND ACCOUNTING PERSPECTIVE
Author(s):	Juergen Jaehnert
ISBN:	978-972-8924-55-3
Editors:	Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2008
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Commercial Mobile Internet, Metering, Accounting, Scalability, Pricing
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	362
Last Page:	370
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	The commercialisation of the Internet has been smoothly progressing. However, there is a lack of suitable mechanisms to provide scalable and efficient support for charging and billing. Such support is crucial for the overall success of a commercialised network. Though the demand for standardized and efficient solutions in support of reliable, open and flexible mobile services has increased, existing metering and accounting mechanisms are not yet sufficiently ready to support these requirements. Moreover, the current transition from traditional circuit switched networks towards a packet based wireless IP network infrastructure, the Mobile Internet, increases significantly the pressure to provide the missing mechanisms on IP layer. Although the basic mechanisms are available and widely understood, their efficient and scalable integration is still a mute point. This article analyses the technical and non-technical environment of the Mobile Internet and derives requirements requiring architectural and conceptual modifications to the currently available Mobile Internet architecture with a clear focus on selected operational aspects. The proposed solutions are a distributed metering architecture, a signalling concept for integrating business models in the distributed metering architecture and a session concept to efficiently consolidate the gathered usage data. These solutions can be seamlessly integrated into the existing IP infrastructure and are based on current standards. The feasibility study is given at the end of this paper underline the added value the proposed solution generates.
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