Universal Plug and Play Based Billing System for Moving Networks

This paper describes a possible utilization of the UPnP architecture for accounting purposes in moving networks. Starting from a system architecture where the UPnP framework is used for attaching a moving network to a remote network providing a certain number of services, the paper shows how it is possible to use the same UPnP architecture for accounting users in the moving network and for transferring accounting information between a moving network and a remote network (i.e. the service provider); this allows the utilization of the same standard mechanism for all the different signalling purpose