9th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies

(ICQT 2017)
Nov 26 - 27, 2017,Tokyo, Japan

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 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. 

Important Dates:

• Workshop/Tutorial Proposal deadline:Jun 19, 2017
• Notification of Acceptance:Sep 3, 2017
  
• Final Version Due:Oct 7, 2017