Building an accounting infrastructure for the Internet

Author

Fang, Wenjia

Author_Institution

Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

18-22 Nov 1996

Firstpage

105

Lastpage

109

Abstract

This paper explores the issues involved in providing of an accounting infrastructure for the Internet. It first argues that accounting, absent in the current Internet architecture, is crucial to the success of the Internet in the future. Then it focuses mainly on the design issues involved in such provision. Finally, it provides a possible scheme in implementing such an accounting infrastructure

Keywords

Internet; finance; telecommunication traffic; Internet architecture; accounting infrastructure; design issues; traffic profiles measurement; usage based accounting; Bandwidth; Government; IP networks; Intserv networks; Pricing; Resource management; Sufficient conditions; Telecommunication traffic; Telephony; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1996. GLOBECOM '96. 'Communications: The Key to Global Prosperity

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3336-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1996.586138

Filename

586138

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3478401