Title :
A distributed near real-time billing environment
Author_Institution :
Hewlett-Packard, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes an architecture for a near-real-time billing system for use in a next-generation communications environment. The specifications of the architecture called for an open system that could scale from environments supporting a few thousand customers to those supporting hundreds of millions while maintaining the reliability and flexibility of adding new services required by modern communications service providers. The architecture was designed using a distributed processing environment incorporating lightweight hierarchical focused trading and a lightweight transactional engine. The architecture is described; following the description are the results of a simulation built to model performance
Keywords :
information networks; invoicing; open systems; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network management; telecommunication services; communications service providers; distributed processing environment; flexibility; hierarchical focused trading; next-generation communications; open system; performance; real-time billing environment; reliability; simulation; transactional engine; Communication industry; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Hardware; Intelligent networks; Service oriented architecture; Telecommunication computing; Telecommunication network management; Telecommunication services; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Conference Proceedings, 1999. TINA '99
Conference_Location :
Oahu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5785-X
DOI :
10.1109/TINA.1999.789980
