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Time Interval-Based Prepaid Charging of QoS-Enabled IP Services

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Internet and Network Economics (WINE 2005)

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Driven by the analysis of existing prepaid charging solutions with their limitations, a novel approach of prepaid charging for Internet Protocol (IP) services based on time intervals has been developed. This approach combines key advantages of hot billing with a tariff flexibility and the guarantee of minimal fraud for providers. The technical effort of real-time charging is reduced to a min imum and ensures economic efficiency as well as scalability in large-scale envi ronments for providers who achieve a better customer binding in prepaid cases.

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  1. Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory TIK, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    Pascal Kurtansky & Burkhard Stiller

  2. Department of Informatics IFI, University of Zurich, Switzerland

    Burkhard Stiller

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    Xiaotie Deng

  2. Stanford University, Stanford, CA

    Yinyu Ye

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Kurtansky, P., Stiller, B. (2005). Time Interval-Based Prepaid Charging of QoS-Enabled IP Services. In: Deng, X., Ye, Y. (eds) Internet and Network Economics. WINE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3828. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11600930_32

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