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Rigney, et al, Remote
Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS), IETF Stand
Rigney, et al., RADIUS Accounting, IETF Informational RFC 2866, June 2000.
Rigney, et al., RADIUS Extensions, IETF Informational RFC 2869, June 2000.
Congdon, et al., IEEE 802.1x Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) Usage Guidelines, IETF Informational RFC 3580, September 2003.
Anton, et al., Best Current Practices for Wireless Internet
Service Provider (WISP) Roaming, Version 1.0, Wi-Fi
Data Elements and Interchange Formats – Information
Interchange – Representation of Date and Time, ISO 8601:2000 International
Organization for Stand
Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries and their
Subdivisions, ISO 3166-x, International Organization for Stand
Codes for the Representation of Currencies and Funds, ISO
4217, International Organization for Stand
Inter-operator Handbook, (WLAN Roaming) Version F, WLAN Task Force (GSM Association), September, 2002.
End-to-end WLAN Roaming Test Cases, Version 3.0.0 (PRD IR.62), GSM Association, June 2003.
Draft 3GPP TS 23.234 v1.6.0, 3GPP System to Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Interworking Release 6, 2003-02.
Bradner, S., Key words for use in
RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, IETF Best Current Practice RFC 2119, M
IPDR Service Specification Design Guidelines, Version 3.5, (Public release version expected in the ne
IPDR Cap
Enhanced Telecom Operations Map™ (eTOM) - Version 3.0, GB921, TeleManagement Forum (TMF - http://www.tmforum.org), June 2002.
XML Schema P
XML Schema P
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1, W3C Note 08 May
2000. See http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP.
OSF CAE Specification, Document C706, 1997, Appendix A, located at: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009629399/.
IPDR Organization Home Page: http://www.ipdr.org.
Application Se
Voice over IP Se
Electronic Mail Se
Authentication and Authorization Se
Internet Access Se
Wholesale Se
Streaming Media Se
Recommendation I.350: General
aspects of quality of se
Recommendation
E.425: Internal automatic obse
Recommendation
E.431: Se
Recommendation
E.437: Comp
Recommendation
E.458: Figure of merit for facsimile transmission performance—2/96, ITU-T
Recommendation
E.459: Measurements and metrics for ch
Recommendation E.460: Measurements and metrics for monitoring the
performance of V.34 Group 3 facsimile—3/00, ITU-T
Recommendation
E.600: Terms and definitions of traffic engineering—3/93, ITU-T
Recommendation
E.721: Network grade of se
Recommendation
P.561: In-se
Recommendation
P.562: Analysis and interpretation of INMD voice-se
Recommendation
P.800: Methods for subjective determination of transmission quality—8/96, ITU-T
Recommendation
P.831: Subjective performance evaluation of network echo cancellers—1/98, ITU-T
Recommendation
P.862: Perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ), an objective method for
end-to-end speech quality assessment of n
Recommendation
G.107: The E-Model, a computational model for use in transmission
planning-5/00, ITU-T
Recommendation
G.1010: End-user multimedia QoS categories—11/01, ITU-T
Recommendation
J.143: User requirements for objective perceptual video quality measurements in
digital c
Recommendation J.144: Objective
perceptual video quality measurement techniques for digital c
TS-101-329-5 v1.1.2: Telecommunications
and Internet Protocol H
TS-101-329-2 v2.1.3: Telecommunications
and Internet Protocol H
Recommendation Y.1540: ITU-T, Internet protocol data communication se
Recommendation Y.1541: ITU-T, Network Performance Objectives for IP-Based Services
Best Current Practices for Wireless Internet Service
Provider Roaming (WISPr) Version 1.0: WiFi
Supplier/P
ETSI TS 101 321 V2.1.1 (2000-08), Telecommunications and
Internet Protocol H
PRD TD.57, Transferred Account Procedure Data Record Format
Specification Version Number 3, Version 3.10.01, Release Date
Bray, T., J. Paoli, and C. Sperberg-McQueen,
"Extensible "Namespaces in XML", W3C Recommendation, Janu
IPDR Service Specification Design Guidelines.
T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, U.C. Irvine, L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax". RFC 2396, August 1998.
N. Brownlee, A. Blount, "Accounting Attributes and Record Formats", RFC 2924, September 2000
OSF specification for Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). OSF CAE Specification, Document C706, 1997
P. Leach, R. Salz, UUIDs and GUIDs, IETF draft,
1998. Expired, but avail
R. Srinivasan, "XDR: External Data Representation Stand
Bray, T., J. Paoli, and C. Sperberg-McQueen,
"Extensible M
N. Brownlee, A. Blount, "Accounting Attributes and Record Formats", RFC 2924, September 2000
K. McCloghrie, J. Heinanen, W. Greene,A. Prasad,
"Accounting Information for ATM
Networks", RFC 2512, Febru
F. Yergeau, "UTF-8, a
transformation format of ISO 10646", RFC 2279, Janu
OSF specification for Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). OSF CAE Specification, Document C706, 1997
RFC 3423 (CRANE protocol specification).
IPDR.org Protocol Encoding:XDR 3.5 IPDR Organization, Inc.
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Rigney, C., Willens, S., Rubens, A. and W. Simpson, "Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)", RFC 2865, June 2000.
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Bradner, S., "Key words for
use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, M
Kent, S. and R. Atkinson, "Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol", RFC 2401, November 1998.
Dierks, T. and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol,
Version 1.0", RFC 2246, Janu
R. Srinivasan, "XDR: External
Data Representation Stand
M. Rose, “The Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol Core”, RFC
3080, M
XML-Schema P
|
Term |
Definition |
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Access Provider |
In the context of Roaming, the Access Provider facilitates service delivery to the Service Consumer where the Home Service Provider is unable to provide PWLAN access. |
|
Accounting |
The process of collecting and analyzing service and resource usage metrics for the purposes of capacity and trend analysis, cost allocation, auditing, and billing, etc. Accounting management requires that resource consumption be measured, rated, assigned, and communicated between appropriate business entities. |
|
Aggregator |
A type of PWLAN Service Provider that
maintains business relationship with the Service Consumer for providing PWLAN
Services. |
|
Audit |
In order for two service providers to
measure of level of trust and SLAs, there is a need of automation of exchange
of revenue impacting data between them. This data/information is known as
audit/reconciliation records. |
|
Bilateral Relationship |
A business relationship between two
Service Provider wherein they agree to serve each other’s Service Consumers |
|
Bill |
The identifier used for Settlement
between Service Providers |
|
Billed Entity |
One of the following:
|
|
Billing Class of Service |
An indication of which of a choice of
bill |
|
Business Relationship Record |
Two service providers may enter into a
business agreement to offer service to the consumer via identifying |
|
Business Support System |
A network element that enables automated support for Accounting and Billing related business processes of a Service Provider. (Examples of business processes are fraud Detection & handling, data warehousing, rating, billing, customer care and web self-care). Two Business Support Systems may also interwork to provide Bilateral Settlement. |
|
Ch |
A network feature that supports specific
type(s) of service agreements between the Service Provider and the Billed
Entity |
|
Cle |
In view of the network reference model,
the Cle |
|
Content Provider |
A Service Provider partner or third-party vendor that offers digital content via the Access Provider |
|
Intermedi |
A bro |
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Mediation |
In view of network reference model, Mediation refers to the combination of the logical entities IPDR recorder, IPDR transmitter, and IPDR store. |
|
Multilateral Relationship |
A business relationship between Service
Providers wherein they agree to perform Settlement via an Intermedi |
|
Net Position |
The result of the Settlement process
wherein two or more Service Providers comp |
|
Network Access Identifier (NAI) |
The mobile user’s Username and service provider identifier such as defined in RFC2486 (e.g., username@serviceprovider.com) |
|
Operations Support System |
Software and hardware employed in the management and surveillance of Service Provider Resources |
|
P |
A Service Provider that maintains a
commercial relationship with another Service Provider to allow coll |
|
Payment Method |
One of the following: Pre-Paid,
Subscription |
|
Prepaid Service |
Services provisioned as user accounts
with a finite avail |
|
PWLAN Access |
PWLAN Access may be defined as the time
duration between successful authentication and logoff initiated by the user
or the PWLAN network. The account is provided by the Service Provider. |
|
PWLAN P |
A third-p |
|
Rating |
The process of assigning a monet |
|
Resource |
A quantifiable asset employed by a Service Provider, or on behalf of a Service Provider by another Service Provider, to fulfill a request of a Service Consumer. (Examples include: files, communications, goods, etc). |
|
Revenue Assurance |
The process of using an independent
source of audit data to verify accuracy and completeness of Settlements |
|
Roaming |
Service usage initiated by a service
consumer and provided by a Service Provider other than the one with which the
service consumer have business relationship. |
|
Roaming Agreement |
Contract between Service Providers
defining how their respective Service Consumers may use the Resources of a
Visited Service Provider and how the Visited Service Provider will be
compensated for the usage |
|
Roaming Plan |
A service agreement that defines the
terms under which the Service Consumer uses public WLAN access and/or
services from multiple devices, locations, and Access Providers networks |
|
Serve Provider |
The Visited Service Provider |
|
Service |
Network and/or application operation that
provides the Service Consumer with the requested resource. |
|
Service Consumer |
The beneficiary (human or system) of a service. |
|
Service Element |
Any element that is responsible for fulfilling a Service Consumer request. (Examples include: network equipment and system processes) |
|
Service Provider |
An enterprise that provides communications-based Services. |
|
Session |
A set of related service usages; service usages may or may not be time based in the unit of measurement. |
|
Settlement |
Periodic correlation of usage provided by more than one Service
Providers for the purpose of determining the net debtor and creditor
positions (in terms of accounting units) between the Service Providers.
Settlement done between two Service Providers is Bilateral Settlement.
Settlement done between more than two Service Providers is Multilateral
Settlement. |
|
Settlement Exchange |
Net Position rated in currency units. |
|
Settlement Model |
One of : Bilateral or Multilateral |
|
Subscription |
Services implemented via contract between
a payor and payee |
|
Summ |
Exchange of Summ |
|
Supplier |
A Service Provider that delivers Service
Consumer requested services from a P |
|
Terminal Equipment |
The device used by the Service Consumer for access to PWLAN services. |
|
Termination Cause |
How the Session was terminated. |
|
Universal Access Method |
The ability to access WISP services with only an Internet browser and Wi-Fi network interface on the Service Consumers device |
|
Usage |
Consumption of resources and services by a Service Consumer. |
|
Usage Attribute |
A parameter
whose value indicates some aspect of usage
of a given service and/or resource. |
|
Usage Entry[1] |
A Service-specific trigger resulting in the generation by a Service Element of a set of Usage Attribute values related to Usage specific to a given Service Consumer |
|
Usage Event |
A discrete Service Consumer, Terminal Equipment, or Service Element activity impacting Resource Usage |
|
Use Case |
A use case is a coherent unit of
functionality provided by a system, a
subsystem, or a class as manifested by sequences of messages exchanged among
the system and one or more outside interactors
(called actors) together with actions performed by the system. (Note: the
definition, as defined in UML standards, is followed in this specification). |
3GPP - Third
Generation P
AAA - Authentication, Authorization, Accounting
ANI - Automatic Number Identification
ASP - Application Service Provider
BID - Billing Identifier
BRI - Business Relationship Identifier
BSS - Business Support Systems
CCI - Call
Cl
CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access
CLEC -
Competitive Local Exchange C
CRM - Customer Relationship Management
DOCSIS - Data over
C
DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
DSS - Decision Support Systems
DTD - Document Type Definition
EP - End Point
ESN - Electronic Serial Number
ETSI -
European Telecommunications Stand
FoIP - Fax over IP
GK - Gate Keeper
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
GPRS - General
Pac
GSM - Global
System for
GSMA - GSM Association
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
IMSI - International Mobile Subscriber Identity
IP - Internet Protocol
IPDRDoc-IPDR Document
IS - IPDR Store
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO -
International Stand
ISP - Internet Service Provider
IT - IPDR Transmitter
ITU-T -
International Telecommunications
LAN - Local Area Network
LEC - Local
Exchange C
MAC - Media Access Controller
MOS - Mean Opinion Score
MSO -
Multi-(c
NAI - Network Access Identifier
NAS - Network Access Server
NDM - Network Data Management
NDM-U - Network Data Management - Usage
NSE - Network Service Element
PAC - Protected Access Controller
PLMN -
POP - Point of Presence
PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network
QoS - Quality of Service
RADIUS – Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
RAS - Remote Access Server
SC - Service Consumer
SCN - Switched Communications Network
SE - Service Element
SID - System Identifier
SIM - Subscriber Identity Module
SMS - Short Message Service
SP - Service Provider
TIPHON- Telecommunications and Internet Protocol H
TMF - TeleManagement Forum
TOM - Telecommunications Operations Map
UA - Usage Aggregators
UAM - Universal Access Method
UC - Usage Collectors
VoIP - Voice over IP
VPN - Virtual Private Network
WAP - Wireless Application Protocol
Wi-Fi® - Wireless
Fidelity (Registered Tradem
WISP - Wireless Internet Service Provider
WLAN - Wireless LAN
xDSL - Digital Subscriber Line of type x
XML - eXtensible
M
[1] Because
of legacy issues, a Usage Entry from a given Service Element will not initially
conform to an IPDR specification or, in some cases, may never conform. To be considered a Usage Entry the
information presented or made avail