Skinning the Cat of Mobile Data QoS
Billing & OSS World, March 2009
Hopefully, nobody is really skinning cats these days, but the expression fits for measuring quality of service in the mobile data environment; there are so many ways to do it. Depending on the cost of measuring quality from a particular point of view or the weight given to the relevance of certain performance data, mobile operators can look in their IP core, in the back haul network, in the radio access network, at the handset or through the billing records and usage data for the answers.