Abstract :
Wi-Fi is a Wireless technology that
uses the radio frequency to transmit data through air. With the rise of
Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) , technology comes the rise of the hotspot -public
access Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) that allow anyone with a Wi-Fi
capable notebook or PDA to connect to the Internet or a corporate intranet in
airports, hotels, coffee shops, or even campgrounds and fast food restaurants.
Wi-Fi hotspots are expected to have an important role in
future provisioning of “anywhere, anytime” connectivity. They are quickly being
deployed at locations that tend to attract nomadic users, such as cafes,
airports, hotels, and conference centers
This paper contributes an alternative billing architecture
using virtual prepaid tokens (VPTs) and experimentally evaluates its performance. Users
buy VPTs at the point and time of access, using a third-party online payment
server. Therefore, such an account is more flexible than is a conventional pay-per-use
account, which can be used only to purchase access from a specific provider or
set of providers.



