• DocumentCode
    320472
  • Title

    Requirements and implementation of service-ordering and billing system for multimedia services

  • Author

    Arimichi, Hiroshi ; Kikuchi, Hideo ; Minemura, Masataka ; Hara, Satoshi

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Inf. & Commun. Syst. Labs., Japan
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    15-20 Feb 1998
  • Firstpage
    682
  • Abstract
    As service providers (SPs) strive to offer more efficient and higher-quality multimedia services to their customers, the service ordering and billing functions become more and more important. In this paper we introduce improved service-ordering and billing systems, focusing on their requirements and implementation. The main requirements of an SP for service-ordering and billing using multimedia services are described. We illustrate our four approaches to system implementation. Together these satisfy the requirements
  • Keywords
    multimedia systems; billing system; multimedia services; service-ordering; Advertising; Contracts; Degradation; Electronic mail; Laboratories; Multimedia systems; Prototypes; Throughput; Web and internet services;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Network Operations and Management Symposium, 1998. NOMS 98., IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    New Orleans, LA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4351-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NOMS.1998.654471
  • Filename
    654471