An approach to pricing of connectionless network services

摘要

In the Internet,the current flat-fee pricing scheme is not suitable to prevent congestion situations.therefore,pricing is likely to be changed in the future,suh that usrers are charged accordifng to hte resources they ocnsume -a usage-based pricing scheme.Because of the heterogeneous network infrastructure,a uniform pricing mechanism must provide for localized pricing policies.It is necessary to allow a step-by-step transition from flat-fee towards rusage-based pricing.