ICQT 2011 - ICQT 2011 7th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies

ICQT 2011
7th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies
Website:
http://www.ftw.at/veranstaltungen/ICQT11?set_langu...
Organizers:
Program Co-Chairs:
Johanne Cohen (Univ. Versailles)
Patrick Maille (Institut Telecom/Telecom Bretagne)
Steering Committee:
Peter Reichl (FTW Vienna)
Burkhard Stiller (Univ. Zurich)
Bruno Tuffin (INRIA Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique)
Description
With the appearance of new technologies and new services, the nature of the economic stakes in the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) sector is continually evolving. An illustration is the soaring number of providers who base their business models on publicity instead of bandwidth selling. Following the same tendency, the power relationships have radically changed in the last decade, between the providers offering connectivity, and those managing services and user identities (content providers, cloud computing providers, social networks). While future business models and regulatory frameworks are still under discussion, the provision of efficient charging support for the variety of upcoming network technologies, including fixed networks, wireless access networks, and mobile user support, has become of paramount importance for realizing the economic potential of future convergent architectures and services. The resulting combination of technical and economic perspectives drives many relevant research topics for application developers, business architects, network and service providers, and customers. Especially the identification of novel service charging solutions, the investigation and evaluation of their technical feasibility, and the consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms for enabling a fast, guaranteed, and efficient charging of services is of fundamental importance for the future evolution of the Internet and the telecommunications business in general, and as such the central focus of the international ICQT workshop series. ICQT 2011 is the seventh event in this series, following the highly successful ICQT workshops in Vienna 2001, Zurich 2002, Munich 2003, Barcelona 2004, St. Malo 2006, and Aachen 2009.