Paper Info
Title
Convergent Online Charging for Context-Aware Mobile Services
Abstract
Personalized and context-aware services are of high interest for mobile network operators (MNOs) to keep existing and win new subscribers. Although such services are already available, they are frequently offered by third parties in a rather stand-alone manner. The challenge is to come up with appropriate interfaces that allow (a) third parties to offer their innovative services via an MNO 's network infrastructure and (b) to charge corresponding service users through the MNO's existing Charging and Billing System in a robust and reliable way. This article presents convergent online rating, charging and billing mechanisms for context-aware mobile services offered by third party service providers, e.g., local mobile services. The proposed mechanisms build upon international standards like IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Parlay X and are imple mented as Web Services, such that they are fully applicable in SOA-based environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/AINAW.2007.133
Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2007, AINAW '07. 21st International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
local mobile service,innovative service,context-aware service,context-aware mobile service,mobile network operators,existing charging,convergent online charging,context-aware mobile services,billing system,party service provider,ip multimedia subsystem,corresponding service user,internal standard,web services,mobile computing,service provider,quality of service,mobile communication,web service,next generation networking,robustness
Mobile computing,Mobile network operator,Services computing,Computer science,Parlay X,Computer network,Service provider,IP Multimedia Subsystem,Web service,Convergent charging
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
1
0-7695-2847-3
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.92
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frank Bormann1162.99
Stephan Flake224122.77
Jürgen Tacken3409.48