An Architecture for Reverse Charging in the Internet
Ron Sprenkels, Róbert Párhonyi, Aiko Pras, Bert-Jan van Beijnum, B. L. de Goede · 2000
Charging for traffic in the Internet is gaining importance, due to the introduction of different Quality of Service classes and the increasing access speeds of endusers. Current charging schemes are limited since they do not allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to charge customers of other ISPs for data that is transferred to these customers. This paper presents an architecture for reverse charging in the Internet, that does allow such payments to be made. Reverse charging enables new business scenarios for traffic flow in the Internet. 1 INTRODUCTION In the last decade the Internet has grown from a research network into a ubiquitous communication platform supporting new applications like video on demand, video conferencing, Internet radio, IP telephony and electronic commerce. To support these applications customers get connected to the Internet via high speed links and new techniques are introduced that allow creation of different Quality of Service (QoS) classes [1]. As a conse...