QoS-aware accounting in mobile computing scenarios

Bellavista, Paolo; Corradi, Antonio; Vecchi, Silvia

doi:10.1109/empdp.2003.1183637

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 10 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Processing elaborates the raw metering data to obtain concise indicators about service usage. When and how to perform processing may greatly vary depending on the accounting goals: in billing, metering data can be processed on/off-line to enable dynamic/static pricing strategies [4]; when dealing with QoS-aware services over best effort networks, processing can also be in charge of ascertaining the QoS level offered during service provisioning, both to perform QoS management operations and to charge users for the actually supplied QoS level [5]. The design and implementation of QoS-aware accounting systems in mobility scenarios has to face additional challenging issues.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pervasive Accounting of Resource Consumption for Wireless Services with Adaptive QoS

Bellavista

Corradi

Vecchi

2003

Management of Multimedia Networks and Services

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract. Wireless communications and device miniaturization are enabling pervasive scenarios where the limited resource availability and the wide heterogeneity of access terminals make crucial to provide mechanisms and tools for the dynamic adaptation of Quality of Service (QoS). Particularly in case of very resource-consuming services QoS levels should be downscaled to fit the specific characteristics of the provisioning environment and of the current access device. In this context, a challenging aspect is to account clients not only for the generated network traffic, but also for the distributed resources involved in the dynamic QoS adaptation. The paper presents an accounting middleware solution that extends the traditional Internet where and when needed, depending on the mobility patterns of the wireless client devices, by introducing flexible mobile components for metering and charging. The middleware exploits the Mobile Agent (MA) technology to achieve dynamicity in metering/charging behavior, locality in the access to metering data, and to enable session-dependent accounting, even in case of temporary network partitioning.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%