High-precision accounting for high-precision network services

Abstract

The networking landscape is expected to undergo profound changes over the coming years, with new applications emerging that depend on the ability of networks to provide high-precision services with stringent service-level guarantees. To enable and incentivize network providers to deploy and deliver such services will also require advances in the way such services can be accounted for. At its core, this will require support for high-precision metering that allows to generate custom accounting records that can be custom tailored towards specific service offerings and service level agreements. This paper presents a framework to enable such metering.