ICQT 2013 - International Workshop on Advanced Internet Charging and QoS Technology

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 design of efficient charging methods
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.
Topics of interest for ICQT include, but are not limited to, the following ones:
Telecommunication Economics
Monitoring, measuring, and accounting
Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing
Revenue sharing and economics of peering agreements
Charging for QoS, QoE, and security
Management of Service Level Agreements
Pricing mobile and wireless services
Network neutrality and charging
Cost, business and competition models for providers
Economical aspects of Information-Centric Networking
Charging models, including grid, web and cloud services
Security mechanisms for charging and accounting
Economics of privacy
Novel business models for green networking