A distributed near real-time billing environment

1 January 1999

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

p. 142-148
https://doi.org/10.1109/tina.1999.789980

Abstract

This paper describes an architecture for a near-real-time billing system for use in a next-generation communications environment. The specifications of the architecture called for an open system that could scale from environments supporting a few thousand customers to those supporting hundreds of millions while maintaining the reliability and flexibility of adding new services required by modern communications service providers. The architecture was designed using a distributed processing environment incorporating lightweight hierarchical focused trading and a lightweight transactional engine. The architecture is described; following the description are the results of a simulation built to model performance.

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