Federated accounting: Service charging and billing in a business-to-business environment

2001 7th IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Integrated Network Management Proceedings: Integrated Management Strategies for the New Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 107-121

  Bhushan, B ^a   Tschichholz, M ^a   Leray, E ^b   Donnelly, W ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER FOKUS   (Germany)

^b Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Communication industry; Customer service; Environmental management; Project management; Quality of service; Spine; Technology management; Telecommunication standards; Telecommunication traffic; Virtual private networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SALES; STANDARDIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS;

COMMUNICATION INDUSTRY; CUSTOMER SERVICES; SPINE; TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENTS; TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDS;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 84924014607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INM.2001.918015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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