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Charging the Assured-Bandwidth Service  

Seok, Seung-Hak (KT Operations Support System Lab.)
Lee, Hoon (Changwon National University)
Lee, Kwang-Hui (Changwon National University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC / v.41, no.3, 2004 , pp. 21-28 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the near future we can expect a change in charging the Internet service. The flat charging maybe replaced with a usage-based charging. In line with this movement, we propose a method of charging the assured-quality Internet services for the next generation network by introducing a UBC (usage-based charging) scheme over the conventional flat charging platform. First, we investigate the attribute of elastic traffic generated by assured services in IP network. Next, we propose a new method to relate the bandwidth usage with the pricing for the elastic traffic, which is based partially on the usage rate of the network bandwidth. Next, we propose a charging function for elastic traffic, which is applicable to any type of assured Internet services. Finally, we discuss the implication of the work via simple numerical experiments.
Keywords
NGN; Assured services; QoS; Internet pricing; UBC;
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