Converged Charging Method for Transportation Satellite SMS Service

A Converged Charging Framework for Mobile Voice and Data Applications

The evolution of an integrated mobile communication environment enables service deployment and content delivery offered by independent providers through heterogeneous network infrastructures. In a few months, a mobile user will be able to access value added services through several wireless public access networks (i.e., 3G cellular, Wireless LAN or WAN) belonging to the same or different operat...

Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions for Converged Satellite & Terrestrial Networks

The current trend in telecommunications services provisioning is shifting towards global ubiquitous networking and unified service architecture. Given the diversity of access technologies, this global ubiquitous networking cannot be possible without an efficient interworking between the different access players. This leads to the necessity of defining, implementing and deploying common services...

Charging users for library service

The question of instituting direct charges for library service is examined and is contrasted with the current indirect changing system where services are paid for by taxes of various types. The policy of whether to levy direct charges for on-line bibliographic searching serves as an example for the analysis. In this case it is concluded that due to considerations of information as a merit good,...

Charging in Multi-Service Networks

Review of proposed architectures and mechanisms for charging and pricing in IP and ATM networks Charging is becoming a more and more interesting issue in the Internet as well as in ATM networks. This report first gives an overview on pricing schemes including a rough classification. Also some problems associated especially with Internet pricing are addressed. The most important concepts for pri...

Analytical method for determining the statistics of interference between non-geostationary-satellite orbit fixed-satellite service systems and other non-geostationary-satellite orbit fixed-satellite service systems or geostationary-satellite orbit fixed-satellite service networks