Secure Billing for Ubiquitous Service Delivery

Abstract. This work presents a secure interaction framework for establishing ad-hoc billing paths between untrusted players in a global telecommunications network. User authentication is supported through the introduction of a Billing provider, responsible for identifying users and acting as a proxy financial entity to visited service providers. Authentication, Integrity, Validity and non-repudiation issues are addressed, along with the processes involved

Secure Billing For Ubiquitous Service Delivery

This document explores the financial system for automatically negotiated service level agreements. Focus is placed on billing and a solution is proposed based on autonomous, negotiating agents. Security, non-repudiation and authentication issues are addressed, along with the role of speculation and aggregation and within the system