Abstract
Modern communication systems are becoming increasingly dynamic and complex. In this article a novel mechanism for next generation charging and billing is presented that enables self-configurability for accounting systems consisting of heterogeneous components. The mechanism is required to be simple, effective, efficient, scalable and fault-tolerant. Based on simulation results it is shown that the proposed simple distributed mechanism is competitive with usual cost-based or random mechanisms under realistic assumptions and up to non-extreme workload situations as well as fulfilling the posed requirements. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 898-920 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Computer Communications |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 16-May-2011 |
Keywords
- Charging
- Billing
- Accounting
- Self-configuration
- Communication systems
- ARCHITECTURE
- NETWORKS
- AAA