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As soon as a network offers different service levels, pricing is needed to give incentives for not always using the highest quality of service (QoS). An open issue is how to derive a price for a certain service based on the transfer costs for data within this service. This paper shows that there is a need for a framework for end-to-end pricing between providers and for inter-domain interchange of price information. The presented framework leaves the freedom of choosing a certain pricing model within domains in order to foster competition among different providers. It uses a hierarchical, domain centered approach which can be easily deployed within Differentiated Services networks because it may use already available components for pricing purposes.
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Gerke, J., Ritter, H., Schiller, J., Wehrle, K. (2000). Elements of an Open Framework for Pricing in the Future Internet. In: Crowcroft, J., Roberts, J., Smirnov, M.I. (eds) Quality of Future Internet Services. QofIS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1922. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39939-9_24
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