TY - GEN
T1 - Design of an online charging system to support IMS-based inter-domain composite services
AU - Le, V.M.
AU - Huitema, G.B.
AU - Rumph, F.J.
AU - Nieuwenhuis, Lambertus Johannes Maria
AU - van Beijnum, Bernhard J.F.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - For service providers online charging of composite services is necessary in order to manage financial risks of service delivery in multi-domain environments. At service level, inter-domain composite services consist of one or more service components, e.g. access service, IMS communication service or content service, delivered by different service providers. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has developed a framework for off-line and online charging of IMS-based services. However, the current Online Charging System (OCS) specified by 3GPPP does not support an online charging function for composite services. The contribution of this work lies in the design of an online charging system that addresses the required charging functionalities based on the IMS online charging architecture. The design consists of a service composition information model guided by the NGOSS and SID concepts of the Tele- Management Forum, a set of functional charging system components and their interactions at their interfaces.
AB - For service providers online charging of composite services is necessary in order to manage financial risks of service delivery in multi-domain environments. At service level, inter-domain composite services consist of one or more service components, e.g. access service, IMS communication service or content service, delivered by different service providers. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has developed a framework for off-line and online charging of IMS-based services. However, the current Online Charging System (OCS) specified by 3GPPP does not support an online charging function for composite services. The contribution of this work lies in the design of an online charging system that addresses the required charging functionalities based on the IMS online charging architecture. The design consists of a service composition information model guided by the NGOSS and SID concepts of the Tele- Management Forum, a set of functional charging system components and their interactions at their interfaces.
KW - Online charging
KW - inter-domain composite services
KW - IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
KW - IR-75554
KW - EWI-17800
KW - METIS-264897
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-04994-1_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-04994-1_1
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783642049934
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 1
EP - 14
BT - Lecture Notes In Computer Science (including Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics).
A2 - Pfeifer, T.
A2 - Bellavista, P.
PB - Springer
CY - London
T2 - 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2009
Y2 - 26 October 2009 through 27 October 2009
ER -