TY - GEN
T1 - Automating the generation, deployment and application of charging schemes for composed IMS services
AU - Xu, Lei
AU - Jennings, Brendan
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Providers of communications services aim to specify, realise and deploy services as quickly as possible in order to gain a competitive edge in meeting evolving consumer demands. One means of creating new service offerings is the composition of pre-existing services which, when orchestrated in a particular manner, provide novel functionality. Indeed, many industry analysts predict the emergence of virtual services providers, who do not themselves deploy and offer individual services, but instead orchestrate services offered by other providers. Crucial to the success of providers offering composed services is an efficient, automated process by which such services are charged and billed for. In this paper we present a process for automated generation of charging schemes for composed IMS services, based on analysis of the charging schemes associated with services comprising those composed services. Charging schemes are specified using a Domain Specific Language (DSL), so that they can then be mapped to platform specific representations that can be deployed onto one or more rating engines. Semiautomated configuration of charging schemes in this manner obviates the need for expensive manual configuration of accounting components every time a new composed services is specified and activated.
AB - Providers of communications services aim to specify, realise and deploy services as quickly as possible in order to gain a competitive edge in meeting evolving consumer demands. One means of creating new service offerings is the composition of pre-existing services which, when orchestrated in a particular manner, provide novel functionality. Indeed, many industry analysts predict the emergence of virtual services providers, who do not themselves deploy and offer individual services, but instead orchestrate services offered by other providers. Crucial to the success of providers offering composed services is an efficient, automated process by which such services are charged and billed for. In this paper we present a process for automated generation of charging schemes for composed IMS services, based on analysis of the charging schemes associated with services comprising those composed services. Charging schemes are specified using a Domain Specific Language (DSL), so that they can then be mapped to platform specific representations that can be deployed onto one or more rating engines. Semiautomated configuration of charging schemes in this manner obviates the need for expensive manual configuration of accounting components every time a new composed services is specified and activated.
KW - Charging
KW - Domain specific language
KW - IMS
KW - Multi-provider composed services
KW - Service composition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34748924579&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/INM.2007.374728
DO - 10.1109/INM.2007.374728
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34748924579
SN - 1424407990
SN - 9781424407996
T3 - 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management 2007, IM '07
SP - 856
EP - 859
BT - 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management 2007, IM '07
T2 - 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management 2007, IM '07
Y2 - 21 May 2007 through 25 May 2007
ER -