4. Metering Pricing Charging Billing Measuring and Collecting resource usage information related to a single customer’s service utilization Determining a cost per unit Use cost per unit to translate the customer’s resource usage information Into Amount is to inform and bill the customer
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6. A N V ERVIEW O F A CCOUNTING O PTIONS Accounting What? Who? How? Transport Content Internet Provider (provider-based) Owner Of content (server-based ) Inband Outband
11. P ROVIDER- B ASED A CCOUNTING Access router Access router Accounting server Accounting server Client Server Client’s provider Server’s provider Backbone Provider(s) Normal data stream (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)