Author :
Ferrari, Domenico ; Delgrossi, Luca
Author_Institution :
Center for Res. on the Appl. of Telematics to Organ. & Soc., Cattolica Univ., Piacenza, Italy
Abstract :
In an integrated-services packet-switching network (e.g. the Internet of the future, which is expected to offer real-time as well as non-real-time services), the charging policy must be service-dependent, but how should charges vary with the type of service and with the quality of service (i.e. with the QoS parameters and with their respective values)? We start from a list of the properties the policy should have, and derive from it a formula that satisfies most of them. We also briefly discuss the evaluation of the coefficients in the formula and the experiments that could be run for its validation
Keywords :
ISDN; Internet; costing; packet switching; real-time systems; telecommunication services; Internet; QoS parameters; coefficients evaluation; integrated-services packet-switching network; nonreal-time services; real-time services; service quality; service-dependent charging policy; validation; Costs; Delay; IP networks; Jitter; Performance loss; Pricing; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Telematics; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Quality of Service, 1998. (IWQoS 98) 1998 Sixth International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Napa, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4482-0
DOI :
10.1109/IWQOS.1998.675210
