A quality of service-enabled pricing approach for heterogeneous wireless access networks

Abstract

Heterogeneous wireless access networks (HWAN) will create a market for the delivery of an extensive collection of novel and attractive services and contents. Accounting and pricing the ubiquitous services will play a key role from both service providers and users point of view. By one hand, wireless service providers (WSP) look for the maximum revenue and utilization rate and by other hand users will select service providers depending on the offered price and the Quality of Service (QoS) assurance. In such a market-based scenario, accounting will become an effective tool that satisfies the users’ service demands and maximizes the revenue of the providers.