• DocumentCode
    1165824
  • Title

    A QoS index for IP services to effectively support usage-based charging

  • Author

    Di Sorte, Dario ; Femminella, Mauro ; Reali, Gianluca

  • Author_Institution
    Dipt. di Ingegneria Elettronica e dell´´Informazione, Univ. of Perugia, Italy
  • Volume
    8
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    686
  • Lastpage
    688
  • Abstract
    The goal of this letter is to present a model to compute a quality-of-service (QoS) index to characterize IP services. Then, we show how such a score may be used in a clear and flexible way for defining advanced usage-based tariff criteria to charge QoS guaranteed network services to address the dynamics of the expected future telecommunications scenario.
  • Keywords
    IP networks; Internet; quality of service; tariffs; telecommunication traffic; IP services; QoS index; guaranteed network services; quality-of-service; usage-based tariff charging; Admission control; IP networks; Numerical analysis; Pricing; Propagation delay; Quality of service; Telecommunication computing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Web and internet services; 65; Guaranteed IP service; numerical analysis; usage-based tariff;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2004.837661
  • Filename
    1359893