User oriented IP accounting in multi-user systems

The traditional IP accounting method is IP address oriented, that means one IP address corresponds to one user, but it can not meet the finer granularity accounting requirement in multi-user systems, in which many users share one or more IP address at the same time. In the multi-user systems the user oriented IP accounting can distinguish the producers of the IP traffic, which come from the same IP address. Hence it is a more accurate accounting method than traditional IP address oriented accounting method. In this paper, we present the technology of the user oriented IP accounting, and describe the principle of this method, and the realization considerations.