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Ronak S AswaneyRonak S Aswaney

ID:0710229

Canadian University of Dubai

Aug, 10th 2010



Introduction to Billing & Accounting

What is accounting?

Accounting: Collection of data about resource usage

What is Billing?Billing: Basically, charging someone based on the usage of the

resources. MORE Next Slide!

Why we need billing and accounting services?

Control resource usage and reservation in multi-service networks

Give incentives to use only required resources

Prevent waste of bandwidth

Being fare to the public

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Introduction to Billing & Accounting

Billing is a service

± service based on knowledge of network utilization

± apply this knowledge to identify price-quantityrelationships that satisfy broadest range of user needs

Accounting information is required to

± prove the service provided meets the user requirement

± demonstrate value ± compute usage-sensitive bills

± innovate ...

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Understanding Internet Billing /

Accounting

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The charging/billing algorithms used by the network and

service providers will probably remain an instrument of

differentiation and competition.



The Different Billing Techniques on the

Internet

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ASP (Access Service Provider)

Different flat rate per month by speed

ISP (Internet Service Provider)

Flat(All you can eat)

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IP/CP (Information Provider/Content Provider)

Free, flat rate, usage rate, mixed

Internet advertisement

E.g.. Use eBay , for billing and accounting



Why Usage Detail is Important

Usage Detail reveals:

Who is using the network?

How much bandwidth is being

used?

What the network being

used for?

The cost associated with this

usage?

Telecommuter

Mobil

User

Internet Network

Remote/Branch

Offices

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Internet Billing Architecture

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Accounting MediationUsage Data

Generation

Billing

Systems

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Typical Components of an

Internet Billing Architecture

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Tier 2Tier 2Tier 1Tier 1

Billing and Customer

care systems

Customer OSS¶s

Tier 3Tier 3

Services:

Layer 3:

Data,

VoIP,

Stream

Layer 2:

Data, VON

Layer 3: Dial

Access

Hosting,

Mgmt,

Security,

Leasing

Network

Elements

ProvideServices

Data Collectors:

Collection Protocols: Web-Enabled

Clients

Cross-Layer

Correlation

Aggregation

Mediation

Raw & Aggregated Accounting Data



Policy-based Accounting

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Flexibility

± Make accounting components configurable

± Re-Use existing components (MIBs, admission control functions)

± Define common configuration interfaces for different types of accountingcomponents (e.g. different meter types)

Efficiency

± Control allocation of resources for accounting

Interaction with Authorization

± Use authorization data bases, messages, mappings, languages, etc.

± Authorize accounting services (e.g. online charging, itemized invoice)



Policy-based Accounting

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Policies can be used for :

Allocation of resources for accounting (meters, collectors,...)

Adaptation and configuration of accounting elements at different

layers to particular accounting tasks Common description of configuration for different types of accounting

module

Policy-based accounting model:

Utilization of existing policy framework definitions and protocols

Integration of RTFM Modules into generic AAA model

Definition of interfaces to authorization data bases and modules



Policy-based Accounting Architecture

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Accounting

Collecting Collecting

Billing

Charging

AccountingData

Billing and

Charging

Policy

Server

Accounting

& Metering

Policy Server

AccountingPolicy

M

Meter Policy

ChargingPolicy

(TFL)

Billing

Policy

Account.

Policy

Reader

Policy

Accounting

M

MM

Provider Domain A Provider Domain B



Exchange of Tariff Information

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Diameter

Charging Information Protocol (CIP)

± Informs users about current tariffs

± Server maintains service and tariff information ± Clients request information (push or pull mode)

CI C lie t CI erver

EG I ¡ TE

200 (OK)

INFO 1

........

INFO ¢

200 (OK)

........

CI Clie t CI erver

(201) INFO1

........

(201) INFO £

(201) INFO2

GET_INFO

GET_INFO

........

¤ EG I ¥ TE ¤

Push mode Pull mode



Multicast Accounting

Costs of multicast provisioning

± Bandwidth savings vs. additional overhead

± Dependent on group size and membership distribution

Resource usage difficult to meter ± Number and distribution of receivers unknown

± Bandwidth savings vary due to dynamic groups

Cost allocation

± sender and/or receiver payment

± cost sharing between receivers

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Convergent billing

± integrate billing for multiple products and

services onto the same consumer invoice

± support invoicing, discounting, reporting

± track invoices and accounts receivables,

collections, etc.

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References

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summar

y?doi=10.1.1.39.6353

PDF Provided

http://www.linktionary.com/p/policy.html

http://www.netveda.com/downloads/Policy

Net_Whitepaper.pdf

THANK YOU !!

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Google and Verizon outline vision for

'open internet' My Opinion:

Google & Verizon are two giants in their respective fields,

Google is one of the world leaders in data banks. They have too

much data which is their main asset. The want to prioritize their data because by doing so they will become bigger and the leader,

everyone will be using Google for practically everything on the

Web.

In my perspective, Google & Verizon are playing it safe

agreeing upon ³net neutrality´ is just for the media and the public, so they wont have a wrong impression about them. Their

main objective is to initiate the ³two-tier service´.

This is just a business strategy to take full control of the market.

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Google and Verizon outline vision for

'open internet' By doing so, Google will become the giant leaders in the WWW

and therefore they will then have the power to do anything.

Verizon will also benefit from this agreement because applicationvendors will have to think before they invest.

I believe this is not a great idea for the fellow public, I believe

everyone should have same priorities.

But if at all this plan is agreed, people or companies or application

vendors must pay a large sum of money to gain more of the

bandwidth.

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