Transparent settlement model between mobile network operator and mobile voice over Internet protocol operator

The Journal of Engineering

Luzango Pangani Mfupe¹  Mjumo Mzyece¹  Anish Mathew Kurien¹ 

[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, FSATI, Tshwane University of Technology, Private Bag X680, Pretoria 0001, South Africa

关键词: mobile network operator;    MNO subscribers;    data traffic;    subscriber user equipment;    interconnection settlements;    data services;    TSM;    mobile voice over Internet protocol operator;    MNO packet based cellular network infrastructure;    service level agreement;    transparent settlement model;    MVoIPO;   

DOI  :  10.1049/joe.2014.0242

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

来源: IET

【 摘 要 】

Advances in technology have enabled network-less mobile voice over internet protocol operator (MVoIPO) to offer data services (i.e. voice, text and video) to mobile network operator's (MNO's) subscribers through an application enabled on subscriber's user equipment using MNO's packet-based cellular network infrastructure. However, this raises the problem of how to handle interconnection settlements between the two types of operators, particularly how to deal with users who now have the ability to make ‘free’ on-net MVoIP calls among themselves within the MNO's network. This study proposes a service level agreement-based transparent settlement model (TSM) to solve this problem. The model is based on concepts of achievement and reward, not violation and punishment. The TSM calculates the MVoIPO's throughput distribution by monitoring the variations of peaks and troughs at the edge of a network. This facilitates the determination of conformance and non-conformance levels to the pre-set throughput thresholds and, subsequently, the issuing of compensation to the MVoIPO by the MNO as a result of generating an economically acceptable volume of data traffic.

【 授权许可】

CC BY