A new charging scheme for multi-domain DiffServ networks

Author

Ji, Liang ; Arvanitis, Theodoros N. ; Woolley, Sandra I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Birmingham, UK

Volume

7

fYear

2003

fDate

1-5 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

4074

Abstract

We propose a new charging scheme for multi-domain differentiated services (DiffServ) networks. Our scheme considers the existence of non-DiffServ networks on the route of transmission. The charging agent at the edge of the source domain inserts in the DiffServ traffic charging measurement (CM) packets which contain traffic and charging information. The CM packets are subsequently returned by the charging agents at the downstream DiffServ domains. The charges can be easily calculated according to the feedback information in the returned CM packets. In addition to the above, we propose two signaling mechanisms for our charging schemes. We show that our scheme is simple, fair and scalable.

Keywords

Internet; feedback; pricing; quality of service; software agents; tariffs; telecommunication signalling; telecommunication traffic; Internet; QoS; charging agents; charging measurement packets; charging scheme; feedback information; multi-domain DiffServ networks; multi-domain differentiated services networks; nonDiffServ networks; signaling mechanisms; traffic information; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Diffserv networks; Feedback; Intserv networks; Pricing; Quality of service; Scalability; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2003. GLOBECOM '03. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7974-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2003.1258994

Filename

1258994