Business Models, Accounting and Billing Concepts in Grid-Aware Networks
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The emerging Grid Economy, shall set new challenges for the network. More and more literature underlines the significance of network awareness for efficient and effective grid services. Following this path to Grid evolution, this paper identifies some key challenges in the areas of business modeling, accounting and billing and proposes an architecture that addresses them.
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