Workbook approach to algorithm design and service accounting in a component orientated environment

Abstract-We present a framework enabling charging for composed services comprised of services offered by multiple providers. In the framework rating engines may generate charge information for individual services and provide this information upon request to other rating engines when these services are used as part of a composed service. Rating engines additionally employ a two-phase rating process which allows potentially complex business agreements between providers to be reflected in composed service charges. Charges can vary depending on the context in which a service is executed, for example, as part of a composed service which includes services offered by a partner provider. Crucially, the process allows rating engines to calculate these varying charges without having to be manually pre-configured with details of the structure of individual composed services. In the paper we provide an overview of the framework, specifying in detail the rating process and inter-rating engine communications, and describe via an example its deployment in a distributed environment supporting the execution of composed services.

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“…This resulting charge is inserted into the record in a charge element. Full details of the process are provided in [7].…”

Section: A Rating Bureau Service Enhancementmentioning

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Flexible Charging for Multi-provider Composed Services using a Federated, Two-phase Rating Process

Jennings

Malone

2006

2006 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium NOMS 2006

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A service component-based accounting and charging architecture to support interim mechanisms across multiple domains

Beijnum

Huitema³

2004 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37507)

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Today, telematics services are o Aen compositions of different chargeable service components offered by different service providers. To enhance component-based accounting and charging, the service composition information is used to match with the corresponding charging structure of a service session. This enables the sharing of revenues among the service providers, and calculation of the total cost for the end-user. When multiple independent service providers are involved, it i s a great challenge to apply interim accounting and charging during a service session in order to minimize financial risks between business partners. Another interesting development is the trend towards outsourcing accounting and charging processes to specialized business partners. This requires a decoupling between provisioning and accounting and charging processes. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive component-based accounting and charging architecture to support service session provisioning across multiple domains. The architecture, modeled in UML, incorporates an interim accounting and charging mechanism to enable the processing and exchange of accounting information needed to update intermediate charges for separate service components and the user's credit, even during the service provisioning phase.

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Workbook approach to algorithm design and service accounting in a component orientated environment

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Flexible Charging for Multi-provider Composed Services using a Federated, Two-phase Rating Process

Flexible Charging for Multi-provider Composed Services using a Federated, Two-phase Rating Process

VITAL++, a new communication paradigm: embedding P2P technology in next generation networks

A service component-based accounting and charging architecture to support interim mechanisms across multiple domains

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