Title :
Service level accounting in telecommunications
Author :
Redmond, C. ; Wade, V.
Author_Institution :
CAPE Technol. Ltd., Blackrock, Ireland
Abstract :
At present, infrastructure providers generally charge for services based on the use of underlying resources. This paper describes a means of accounting for services at the service level, then outlines an architecture that supports such a means of accounting and evaluates an implementation based on that architecture.
Keywords :
accounting; commerce; economics; telecommunication services; economics; infrastructure providers; service level accounting; subscriber based telecommunications business model; telecommunications accounting systems; Computer architecture; Computer science; Costs; Educational institutions; Monitoring; Pricing; Prototypes; Solid modeling; Telecommunication services; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2002. NOMS 2002. 2002 IEEE/IFIP
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7382-0
DOI :
10.1109/NOMS.2002.1015584
