MBA: a tool for multicast billing and accounting

IP multicast deployment has been slow due to several factors. One of the important reasons is a lack of support for debugging, accounting and billing services for multicast protocols. We propose a common framework that can be used to provide multiple multicast services efficiently. The framework col...

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Published inProceedings. Sixth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications pp. 172 - 177
Main Authors Dondeti, L., Haberman, B., Sandick, H., Hardjono, T., Haixiang He
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2001
Subjects
Costs
Debugging
Helium
Multicast algorithms
Multicast protocols
Prototypes
Statistics
Telecommunication traffic
Unicast
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Summary:IP multicast deployment has been slow due to several factors. One of the important reasons is a lack of support for debugging, accounting and billing services for multicast protocols. We propose a common framework that can be used to provide multiple multicast services efficiently. The framework collects information such as multicast router status, flow statistics and stores them in a database. The data could be used for debugging, traffic engineering, accounting and billing. We illustrate the use of the framework for accounting and billing. We describe a prototype implementation of our approach. Our contributions include a protocol independent tree discovery mechanism and an efficient algorithm for per-receiver accounting.
ISBN:9780769511771
0769511775
ISSN:1530-1346
2642-7389
DOI:10.1109/ISCC.2001.935371