IP Billing and Accounting

1
IP Billing and Accounting

• IP 4
• IP Networking Mediacom2004 Workshop

2
Current status on IP billing

• ASP (Access Service Provider)
• Different flat rate per month by speed
• Premium, Lite
• ISP (Internet Service Provider)
• Flat(All you can eat)
• IP/CP (Infor. Provider/Content Provider)
• Free, flat rate, usage rate, mixed
• Internet advertisement
• Use infoshop service for billing and collecting
  fees

3
Interconnection Arrangements in IP

• Peer-to-peer bilateral
• Hierarchical bilateral
• Third-party administrator
• Cooperative Arrangements

4
Necessity of Billing and Accounting on IP

• QoS based IP traffic processing to meet diverse
  user requirements
• Questions on continuation of flat rate charging
  of IP in future
• Increase of IP based Services and Applications
  (e.g. Multimedia over IP)
• Provide fairness to the user who subscribe
  different QoS/CoS

5
Understanding on IP Billing / Accounting

• The charging/billing algorithms used by the
  network and service providers will probably
  remain an instrument of differentiation and
  competition
• The basic information that needs to be collected
  in order to allow such charging and billing will
  need to be standardized.

6
Cooperation flow for standardza. in ITU-T
Service/Application definition
SG 2, SG 16, SDOs
SG 12, SG 13, ETSI
QoS and Traffic features

• G.17x, G.IPP, G.QoSRQT
• G.VoIP/VBS-island
• Y.iptc, Y.1541

examine
Identify relevant Data Types
SG 4, ETSI, IETF

• G.825
• RFC 2924, RFC 2975
• TS 101 321

examine
Principles
SG 3
Network capability req. Inform. Element
SG 11, SG 13, SDOs