An Enterprise Model for Real-Time Inter-domain Billing of Services

摘要

The technological developments in networking solutions, information and communication services create the basis for the provisioning of complex, realtime services. This paper addresses the charging and billing of such advanced services. Advanced services will be composed of services provided by various 3rd party providers residing in different domains. Hence, charging and billing of advanced services requires a billing system capable of composing charging and billing information from providers in different domains on a near real-time basis. We present an enterprise model for real-time inter-domain billing, comprising the role of the end-user, subscriber, the service provider, the 3rd party provider, and the billing provider. The model builds on the RM-ODP Enterprise Viewpoint, the eTOM and the Shared Information/Data model (SID).