%0 Journal Article %1 prakashs2011unified %A Prakash S, Kashyap dhruve %A Akki, C B %D 2011 %E Das, Dr. Vinu V %J International Journal on Information Technology %K 4G_Networks Ipv6 Unified_Billing %N 3 %P 7 %T Unified Billing-Realization of convergent architecture for charging and billing in 4G networks %U http://doi.searchdl.org/01.IJIT.1.3.575 %V 1 %X 4G is expected to get deployed by many telecom companies in this year. Technologies employed by 4G being tested and going to hit the commercial market soon. When fully implemented, 4G is expected to offer high speed transmission and provide seamless handoffs across multiple high speed heterogeneous networks. These heterogeneous networks on converged platform provide access to varied services over an IPv6 core. Convergence & high speed would provide opportunity to end user to use compounded services from varied network providers; this will lead to big challenge for accounting, Charging and billing. This paper in continuation of our previous papers 721 discusses a Convergent Framework Architecture (CFA) which provides a unified bill to the user for all his compounded usage across varied network operators. The CFA introduces a trusted third party operator called the Convergent Network Operator (CNO) to achieve a transparent charging, accounting and unified billing provisions. The functionality of the CFA is demonstrated with a prototype. We were able to realize unified bill to end user for the usage of different type of service from varied network providers. This concept and business model will bring better Quality of service (QoS) not only at competitive price but also provide independence and choice to users to opt for specific services from Quality network operators. These instructions give you basic guidelines for preparing camera-ready papers for ACEEE’s conference proceedings/Journal Publications.

@article{prakashs2011unified, abstract = {4G is expected to get deployed by many telecom companies in this year. Technologies employed by 4G being tested and going to hit the commercial market soon. When fully implemented, 4G is expected to offer high speed transmission and provide seamless handoffs across multiple high speed heterogeneous networks. These heterogeneous networks on converged platform provide access to varied services over an IPv6 core. Convergence & high speed would provide opportunity to end user to use compounded services from varied network providers; this will lead to big challenge for accounting, Charging and billing. This paper in continuation of our previous papers [7][21] discusses a Convergent Framework Architecture (CFA) which provides a unified bill to the user for all his compounded usage across varied network operators. The CFA introduces a trusted third party operator called the Convergent Network Operator (CNO) to achieve a transparent charging, accounting and unified billing provisions. The functionality of the CFA is demonstrated with a prototype. We were able to realize unified bill to end user for the usage of different type of service from varied network providers. This concept and business model will bring better Quality of service (QoS) not only at competitive price but also provide independence and choice to users to opt for specific services from Quality network operators. These instructions give you basic guidelines for preparing camera-ready papers for ACEEE’s conference proceedings/Journal Publications.}, added-at = {2012-09-24T06:48:44.000+0200}, author = {Prakash S, Kashyap dhruve and Akki, C B}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ff1301b0a7fb5bdb165b78d7892bc13a/ideseditor}, editor = {Das, Dr. Vinu V}, interhash = {449972cc6ea285a37708be41995e89c6}, intrahash = {ff1301b0a7fb5bdb165b78d7892bc13a}, journal = {International Journal on Information Technology}, keywords = {4G_Networks Ipv6 Unified_Billing}, month = {December}, number = 3, pages = 7, timestamp = {2012-09-24T06:48:44.000+0200}, title = {Unified Billing-Realization of convergent architecture for charging and billing in 4G networks}, url = {http://doi.searchdl.org/01.IJIT.1.3.575}, volume = 1, year = 2011 }