Accounting Management Based on Quality of Service for Heterogeneous Mobile Communications Networks

Service Accounting Management within the new heterogeneous advanced mobile communications networks environment will be one of the great challenges to resolve from the point of view of service providers. The objective will be to maximize resource utilization and the economic benefits obtained. In the near future, service providers may make use of a combination of different technologies access to offer users a wide variety of innovative services, characterized by the demand for different requirements of quality of service (QoS). Furthermore, users can select appropriate to your preferences service provider. Within this scenario, service accounting management will become an effective tool that allows meet the demands of users and maximize the profits of providers. In this article we present a proposal for charging based on QoS that allows increase the level of satisfaction of the user at a first instance, maximizing the level of provided CdS, and a second instance implementing adaptable price strategies at the level of offered QoS management. These strategies allow service providers to maximize obtained profits.