Articles
Charging information synchronization in convergent environment
Mary Cristina Carrascal-Reyes- José Luis Arciniegas-Herrera
Published 2019-01-01
Keywords
- charging,
- group communications,
- IP Multimedia Subsystem,
- middleware,
- synchronization
- user profile ...More
How to Cite
Carrascal-Reyes, M. C., & Arciniegas-Herrera, J. L. (2019). Charging information synchronization in convergent environment. Revista UIS Ingenierías, 18(1), 21–38. https://doi.org/10.18273/revuin.v18n1-2019002
Abstract
The services and systems are in the midst of a major transformation. Users are becoming more diverse in their needs and requirements, resulting in an increased demand for sophisticated, individualized communications services that improve their experience. In this context, information management is an important aspect, so charging information is a key element when we want to provide services in a converged environment.
Currently, charging data are distributed between different network elements involved in service provisioning. Therefore, it is a challenge to implement a mechanism to keep data consistency that allows for a real services convergence.
This article proposes a mechanism to ensure data synchronization and consistency in IMS environments. To achieve this goal, we adopted databases synchronization techniques already tested in the information technology field.
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