CN104301881A - Billing method and billing device - Google Patents
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Abstract
The embodiment of the invention provides a billing method and a billing device. The problems that an existing billing device integrates functions of a control surface and a user surface at the same time, and accordingly functions are complex and deployment flexibility is poor are solved. The method includes the steps that a first device builds a general packet radio service tunnel protocol (GTP) bearer for service of user equipment (UE); first indication information is generated, wherein the first indication information includes the corresponding relationship of GTP masthead information of data packets corresponding to the service of the UE and bearing identification information of the GTP bearer; the first indication information is sent to a second device so that the second device can carry out flow and/or duration statistics on the service of the UE through the first indication information; the statistic information of the flow and/or duration, reported by the second device, of the service of the UE is received; the first device generates a billing call bill according to the statistic information and billing strategy information corresponding to the UE and obtained in advance. The method is applied to the technical field of communication.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to communication technical field, particularly relate to a kind of method and message accounting of charging.
Background technology
Global radio communication is just presenting the trend of mobile, broadband and IPization, the competition of mobile communications industry, in order to maintain competitiveness in mobile communications industry and leading position, realize higher message transmission rate in a network, lower time delay, third generation partner program is (English: The 3rd Generation Partnership Project, be called for short: 3GPP) be organized in and start Long Term Evolution (English: Long Term Evolution, abbreviation: LTE) to realize seamlessly transitting to 4G technology in November, 2004.The target of 3GPP plan is: higher message transmission rate, lower time delay, the power system capacity of improvement and coverage and lower cost.
In LTE network framework, the chain of command of most network element is separated with user face, makes a part of network element primary responsibility chain of command function, the function in another part network element primary responsibility user face, thus achieve the flexible deployment of network element.
But, in existing LTE network, for realizing the device of charging, as charging gateway, still chain of command function and forwarding surface function being coupled, making message accounting function numerous and diverse, dispose flexibility poor.
Summary of the invention
Embodiments of the invention provide a kind of method and apparatus of charging, solve the be coupled function brought of traditional message accounting chain of command and user face height numerous and diverse and dispose the problem of very flexible.
For achieving the above object, embodiments of the invention adopt following technical scheme:
First aspect, embodiments provide a kind of method of charging, the method comprises: the first equipment is that the business of user equipment (UE) is set up general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP and carried;
Described first equipment generates the first indication information, and described first indication information comprises the corresponding relation of the bearing identification information that the GTP header information of the packet corresponding to business of described UE and described GTP carry;
Described first indication information is sent to the second equipment by described first equipment, with the statistics making described second equipment to be carried out flow and/or duration to the business of described UE by described first indication information;
Described first equipment receives the flow of business and/or the statistical information of duration of the described UE that described second equipment reports;
Described first equipment is according to described statistical information, and the accounting policy information corresponding to described UE of pre-acquired, generates charging bill.
Second aspect, embodiments provide a kind of method of charging, the method comprises:
Second equipment receives the first indication information that described first equipment sends, and described first indication information comprises the corresponding relation of the bearing identification information that GTP that the general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP header information of the packet corresponding to business of user equipment (UE) and described UE use carries;
Packet corresponding to the business of the described UE received is resolved by described second equipment, obtains GTP header information;
Described GTP header mates with described first indication information by described second equipment, obtains the identification information that the GTP corresponding with described GTP header information carries;
The identification information that described second equipment carries according to described GTP, carries out the statistics of flow and/or duration to the packet got;
The statistical information of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment by described second equipment, generates charging bill to make described first equipment according to described statistical information.
The third aspect, embodiments provides a kind of message accounting, and this device comprises: set up unit, the first generation unit, transmitting element, the first receiving element and the second generation unit;
Describedly set up unit, carry for setting up general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP for the business of user equipment (UE);
Described first generation unit, for generating the first indication information, described first indication information comprises the corresponding relation of the bearing identification information that the GTP header information of the packet corresponding to business of described UE and described GTP carry;
Described transmitting element, for described first indication information is sent to the second equipment, with the statistics making described second equipment to be carried out flow and/or duration to the business of described UE by described first indication information;
Described first receiving element, for receiving the flow of business and/or the statistical information of duration of the described UE that described second equipment reports;
Described second generation unit, for according to described statistical information, and the accounting policy information corresponding to described UE of pre-acquired, generate charging bill.
Fourth aspect, embodiments provides a kind of message accounting, and this device comprises: receiving element, the first acquiring unit, second acquisition unit, statistic unit and transmitting element;
Described receiving element, for receiving the first indication information that the first equipment sends, described first indication information comprises the corresponding relation of the bearing identification information that GTP that the general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP header information of the packet corresponding to business of user equipment (UE) and described UE use carries;
Described first acquiring unit, for being resolved by the packet corresponding to the business of the described UE received, obtains GTP header information;
Described second acquisition unit, for being mated with described first indication information by described GTP header, obtains the identification information that the GTP corresponding with described GTP header information carries;
Described statistic unit, for the identification information carried according to described GTP, carries out the statistics of flow and/or duration to the packet got;
Described transmitting element, for the statistical information of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment, generates charging bill to make described first equipment according to described statistical information.
Embodiments provide a kind of method and apparatus of charging, the chain of command function of former message accounting is completed by the equipment that two are separated respectively with user plane functions, thus the function that the while of solving message accounting in prior art, integrating control surface function and user plane functions are brought is numerous and diverse, disposes the problem that flexibility is poor.
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In order to be illustrated more clearly in the embodiment of the present invention or technical scheme of the prior art, be briefly described to the accompanying drawing used required in embodiment or description of the prior art below, apparently, accompanying drawing in the following describes is only some embodiments of the present invention, for those of ordinary skill in the art, under the prerequisite not paying creative work, other accompanying drawing can also be obtained according to these accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a kind of method flow diagram of charging;
Fig. 2 is a kind of LTE network configuration diagram;
Fig. 3 is the method flow diagram of another kind of charging;
Fig. 4 is the method flow diagram of another charging;
Fig. 5 is a kind of message accounting schematic diagram;
Fig. 6 is another kind of message accounting schematic diagram;
Fig. 7 is another message accounting schematic diagram.
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Below in conjunction with the accompanying drawing in the embodiment of the present invention, be clearly and completely described the technical scheme in the embodiment of the present invention, obviously, described embodiment is only the present invention's part embodiment, instead of whole embodiments.Based on the embodiment in the present invention, those of ordinary skill in the art, not making the every other embodiment obtained under creative work prerequisite, belong to the scope of protection of the invention.
3GPP improves LTE network architectural framework.Relative to traditional 2G or 3G network, network element in LTE network achieves being separated of chain of command and user face to a certain extent, such as, in the network architecture of LTE, signaling traffic is fewer, and business datum flow is many, (English: Mobility Management Entity by mobile management entity, be called for short: MME) main carrier signaling flow, packet data gateway is (English: Packet Gateway, be called for short: PGW) and gateway (English: Serving Gateway, be called for short: SGW) main bearer service data traffic.Like this, the deployment quantity of MME can be less than the deployment quantity of SGW/PGW, such as, in a province, only arrange that a MME is just much of that, and need deployment SGW/PGW in each districts and cities, thus achieve the flexible deployment of the network equipment, make the whole network architecture more efficient, more economical.
But for realizing the device of charging in LTE network, as charging gateway, the function in its chain of command and user face is still highly coupled, making its function numerous and diverse, disposing flexibility poor.
For addressing this problem, embodiments provide a kind of method of charging, as described in Figure 1, the method comprises:
101, the first equipment is that the business of user equipment (UE) is set up general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP and carried.
The function of original message accounting is separated the first equipment by two in the present invention and the second equipment completes.Composition graphs 2, exemplary describes a kind of LTE network Organization Chart, first equipment is only responsible for the function of existing message accounting chain of command, Signalling exchange is carried out with MME, second equipment is responsible for the function in existing message accounting user face, carry out alternately with UE, receive and forward the up-downgoing data of UE, and being responsible for the flow of user's up-downgoing data and/or the statistics of duration.
Concrete, when UE needs an initiation business, during as sent upstream data or downlink data receiving, service requesting information can be sent to MME by Access Network, concrete, described business request information can be create conversation request message, after MME receives the service requesting information of described UE transmission, need to set up GTP between the first equipment to carry, described GTP carrying is distributed by the first equipment.Based on this, described MME sends to described first equipment and creates carrying request.
Described first equipment can obtain Qos information corresponding to described UE and billing features information by two kinds of modes after receiving the establishment carrying request that described MME sends.
First kind of way is, MME is before sending establishment carrying request to described first equipment, and from the equipment storing described UE CAMEL-Subscription-Information, as described in server HSS acquisition, the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of UE, comprises the Qos information corresponding to described UE and billing features information.Described MME carries above-mentioned information when sending create carrying request to described first equipment, thus makes described first equipment can directly get above-mentioned information.
The second way is, after described first equipment receives the establishment carrying request of described MME transmission, charging policy solicited message is sent with charging rule functions unit PCRF to strategy, the user totem information of described UE is comprised in described charging policy solicited message, as the international mobile subscriber identity IMSI information of UE, described PCRF, according to the user totem information of described UE, sends Qos information corresponding to described UE and billing features information to described first equipment.
It should be noted that, described billing features information refers to the way of paying of described UE, generally comprises the one in rear paying, pre-payment, flat rate, heat paying.
After the Qos information that described first equipment gets described UE and billing features information, just can according to the strategy preset, for described UE distributes a GTP carrying.Concrete, described preset strategy can set according to actual conditions, and can have multiple, the embodiment of the present invention does not limit this.
102, described first equipment generates the first indication information, and described first indication information comprises the corresponding relation of the bearing identification information that the GTP header information of the packet corresponding to business of described UE and described GTP carry.
Described first equipment is service generation first indication information of described UE, concrete, described first indication information can be the Extended forms based on existing openflow stream table, comprising GTP header information and described first equipment is the identification information one-to-one relationship that GTP that described UE distributes carries, and can also comprise based on the one-to-one relationship between the occurrence of existing openflow agreement and action.Concrete, the identification information of described GTP carrying can be the tunnel endpoint identifier TEID information of GTP tunnel, and can be also other identification informations, the embodiment of the present invention limit this.
103, described first indication information is sent to the second equipment by described first equipment, with the statistics making described second equipment to be carried out flow and/or duration to the business of described UE by described first indication information.
Described first equipment and described second equipment carry out the transmission of data by the first agreement, optionally, can be carried out the transmission of data by the openflow agreement of expansion.
Concrete, after described first indication information is sent to described second equipment by described first equipment, described first equipment successfully creates GTP carrying, send to MME and create bearing response message, comprise the identification information that described GTP carries in described response message, as TEID information, after described MME receives described establishment bearing response message, send response message to described UE, with the GTP tunnel making described UE be distributed by described first equipment, and between the second equipment, carry out the transmission of data.
104, described first equipment receives the flow of business and/or the statistical information of duration of the described UE that described second equipment reports.
It should be noted that, after described second equipment receives the packet of described UE transmission, the GTP header be resolved to from described packet can be mated with described first indication information, owing to comprising the one-to-one relationship of the identification information that described GTP header and described GTP carry in described first indication information, as when as described in GTP carrying be designated as described in GTP carrying TEID time, the one-to-one relationship of described GTP header and described TEID is comprised in described first indication information, described second equipment is by described GTP header, just can determine that described UE and described second equipment carry out the GTP that transfer of data uses and carries.
Described second equipment, according to the beared information carrying out transfer of data between described UE and described second equipment and use, carries out the statistics of flow and/or duration to the business of described UE.It should be noted that, in the lte networks, the speech business of user is also undertaken transmitting by the form of IP packet.
Concrete, described second equipment carries the statistics of the business of described UE being carried out to flow and/or duration according to the GTP carrying out transfer of data between described UE and described second equipment, and be the known technology of those skilled in the art, the embodiment of the present invention repeats no more this.
105, described first equipment is according to described statistical information, and the accounting policy information corresponding to described UE of pre-acquired, generates charging bill.
Described first equipment receives the flow of described second equipment to the business of described UE and/or the statistics of duration, in conjunction with the accounting policy information corresponding to the described UE obtained in advance, generates charging bill.
The accounting policy information that described UE is corresponding, refer to for the different type of service of described UE, the charging regulation of different destination address etc., as UE respectively to destination address be 1 equipment and destination address be 2 equipment send upstream data, destination address be 1 equipment be peripatetic device, and the equipment that destination address is 2 is local device, then under the prerequisite using same traffic, UE and destination address be the charge of business between the equipment of 1 be higher than UE and destination address be 2 equipment between the charge of business.Certainly, this is a kind of feasible execution mode, and concrete, described accounting policy information can have multiple according to actual conditions, and the embodiment of the present invention repeats no more this.
Accounting policy information corresponding to described UE, described first equipment obtains in advance, concrete, described first equipment can obtain accounting policy information corresponding to described UE by the mode of the QoS information and billing features information that obtain described UE in step 101, also can obtain the accounting policy information of described UE by other means, the embodiment of the present invention does not limit this.
For example, the flow that described first equipment receives the business corresponding to described UE that described second equipment reports is A, and the charging policy corresponding to described UE is, the charge of every M flow is B unit, then in conjunction with flow and charging policy, the charging bill corresponding to described UE just can be generated.Certainly, this is a kind of feasible embodiment, and the mode that described first equipment carries out combining according to described statistics and described charging policy the charging bill generated corresponding to described UE can have multiple, and the embodiment of the present invention does not limit this.
Embodiments provide a kind of method of charging, the method is applied to the charge system that a kind of chain of command is separated with user face, this system is made up of the first equipment be separated and the second equipment, wherein, first equipment is for realizing the function of existing message accounting chain of command, second equipment is for realizing the function in existing message accounting user face, thus it is numerous and diverse to solve the integrated function brought within one device of existing message accounting chain of command and user face, disposes the problem of very flexible.
Further, the embodiment of the present invention additionally provides a kind of method of charging, and the method is applied to the charge system that a kind of chain of command is separated with user face, and this system is made up of the first equipment be separated and the second equipment, composition graphs 3, and the method comprises:
301, the first equipment is that the business of user equipment (UE) is set up general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP and carried.
302, described first equipment generates the first indication information, and described first indication information comprises the corresponding relation of the bearing identification information that the GTP header information of the packet corresponding to business of described UE and described GTP carry, and the charging identifier information of described UE.
Concrete, it is charging index information that described charging identifier information refers to, and is namely used for distinguishing charging event, and such as user's session just uses same, namely produces a ticket.
Concrete, for example, UE sends upstream data, second equipment carries out the statistics of flow and/or duration to the upstream data that described UE sends, described second equipment is when meeting a certain preset trigger condition, statistics will be reported the first equipment, now, the process that described UE sends upstream data may not terminate, described second equipment has reported rear continuation to carry out the statistics of flow and/or duration to the upstream data that described UE sends, and again statistics is reported described first equipment when meeting preset trigger condition.That is, for a session of user, described second equipment may be divided into and repeatedly statistics reported described first equipment, and under normal circumstances, described first equipment only needs to produce a ticket to a session of user.Now, it is the charging identifier that described UE distributes that described first equipment gets other equipment, and wherein, described first equipment can obtain from PCRF, also can obtain by other means, and concrete, the embodiment of the present invention does not limit this.
303, described first indication information is sent to the second equipment by described first equipment, with the statistics making described second equipment to be carried out flow and/or duration to the business of described UE by described first indication information.
304, described first equipment receives the flow of business and/or the statistical information of duration of the described UE that described second equipment reports, and comprises the charging identifier information of described user in described statistical information.
Described second equipment carries out the statistics of flow and/or duration to the business of described UE, when described second equipment meets preset trigger condition, statistics is reported described first equipment by described second equipment, and carries described charging identifier information.
305, the charging policy that described first equipment is corresponding according to described UE, by all statistical informations carrying same charging identifier information, generates same charging bill.
For a session of a user, described first equipment may receive multiple statistical informations that described second equipment sends according to sequencing, the statistical information with same charging identifier combines with the charging policy of described UE by described first equipment, generates a charging bill.
It should be noted that, the detail technical features of other steps of the embodiment of the present invention can see the embodiment corresponding to Fig. 1, and the embodiment of the present invention repeats no more this.
Embodiments provide a kind of method of charging, the method is applied to the charge system that a kind of chain of command is separated with user face, this system is made up of the first equipment be separated and the second equipment, wherein, first equipment is for realizing the function of existing message accounting chain of command, second equipment is for realizing the function in existing message accounting user face, thus it is numerous and diverse to solve the integrated function brought within one device of existing message accounting chain of command and user face, disposes the problem of very flexible.
Further, embodiments provide a kind of method of charging, the method is applied to the charge system that a kind of chain of command is separated with user face, and this system is made up of the first equipment be separated and the second equipment, composition graphs 4, and the method comprises:
401, described second equipment receives the first indication information that described first equipment sends, and described first indication information comprises the corresponding relation of the bearing identification information that GTP that the general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP header information of the packet corresponding to business of user equipment (UE) and described UE use carries.
402, the packet corresponding to the business of the described UE received is resolved by described second equipment, obtains GTP header information.
403, described GTP header mates with described first indication information by described second equipment, obtains the identification information that the GTP corresponding with described GTP header information carries.
404, the identification information that carries according to described GTP of described second equipment, carries out the statistics of flow and/or duration to the packet got.
Concrete, the detail technical features of step 401-step 404 can see the embodiment corresponding to Fig. 1, and the embodiment of the present invention repeats no more this.
405, the statistical information of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment by described second equipment, generates charging bill to make described first equipment according to described statistical information.
Concrete, when the traffic statistics of described second equipment to the packet that described UE sends reach predetermined threshold value, the statistical information of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment by described second equipment; Or when the duration statistics of described second equipment to the packet that described UE sends reaches preset value, the statistics of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment by described second equipment.
Optionally, the charging identifier of described UE can also be comprised in described first indication information, when described second equipment sends described statistical information to described first equipment, carry the charging identifier of described UE, generate a charging bill to make the same session of described first equipment to described UE.
Embodiments provide a kind of method of charging, the method is applied to the charge system that a kind of chain of command is separated with user face, this system is made up of the first equipment be separated and the second equipment, wherein, first equipment is for realizing the function of existing message accounting chain of command, second equipment is for realizing the function in existing message accounting user face, thus it is numerous and diverse to solve the integrated function brought within one device of existing message accounting chain of command and user face, disposes the problem of very flexible.
Embodiments provide a kind of message accounting, composition graphs 5, this device comprises: set up unit 501, first generation unit 502, transmitting element 503, first receiving element 504 and the second generation unit 505;
Describedly set up unit 501, carry for setting up general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP for the business of user equipment (UE);
Described first generation unit 502, for generating the first indication information, described first indication information comprises the corresponding relation of the bearing identification information that the GTP header information of the packet corresponding to business of described UE and described GTP carry;
Described transmitting element 503, for described first indication information is sent to the second equipment, with the statistics making described second equipment to be carried out flow and/or duration to the business of described UE by described first indication information;
Described first receiving element 504, for receiving the flow of business and/or the statistical information of duration of the described UE that described second equipment reports;
Described second generation unit 505, for according to described statistical information, and the accounting policy information corresponding to described UE of pre-acquired, generate charging bill.
Concrete, composition graphs 6, described message accounting also comprises: the second receiving element 506 and acquiring unit 507;
Described second receiving element 506, for receiving the establishment carrying request that mobile management entity MME sends, wherein, described establishment carrying request sends after described MME receives the service requesting information of described UE transmission, and described establishment carries the identification information carrying described UE in request;
Described acquiring unit 507, for obtaining service quality QoS information corresponding to described UE and billing features information, wherein, described billing features information comprise pre-payment, rear paying, unified payment and heat pay in one;
Described set up unit 501 specifically for: according to described QoS information and billing features information, the business for described UE set up GTP carrying.
Optionally, described transmitting element 503 specifically for: by expansion openflow agreement, described first indication information is sent to the second equipment.
Optionally, described first indication information also comprises: the charging identifier information of described UE;
Described first receiving element 504 specifically for: the flow of business and/or the statistical information of duration that receive the described UE that described second equipment reports, comprise the charging identifier information of described user in described statistical information;
Described second generation unit 505 specifically for: according to the accounting policy information corresponding to described UE, by all statistical informations carrying same charging identifier information, generate same charging bill.
Embodiments provide a kind of message accounting, chain of command function in the existing message accounting of this device primary responsibility, thus it is numerous and diverse to solve the function that the while of first having message accounting, integrating control surface function and user plane functions are brought, dispose the problem that flexibility is poor.
The embodiment of the present invention additionally provides a kind of message accounting, composition graphs 7, and this device comprises: receiving element 701, the first acquiring unit 702, second acquisition unit 703, statistic unit 704 and transmitting element 705;
Described receiving element 701, for receiving the first indication information that the first equipment sends, described first indication information comprises the corresponding relation of the bearing identification information that GTP that the general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP header information of the packet corresponding to business of user equipment (UE) and described UE use carries;
Described first acquiring unit 702, for being resolved by the packet corresponding to the business of the described UE received, obtains GTP header information;
Described second acquisition unit 703, for being mated with described first indication information by described GTP header, obtains the identification information that the GTP corresponding with described GTP header information carries;
Described statistic unit 704, for the identification information carried according to described GTP, carries out the statistics of flow and/or duration to the packet got;
Described transmitting element 705, for the statistical information of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment, generates charging bill to make described first equipment according to described statistical information.
Concrete, described receiving element 701 specifically for:
Receive the first Indication message that described first equipment is sent by the openflow agreement of expansion.
Concrete, described transmitting element 705 for:
When the traffic statistics of the packet sent described UE reach predetermined threshold value, the statistical information of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment, or, when the duration statistics of the packet sent described UE reaches preset value, the statistics of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment.
Optionally, described first Indication message also comprises: the charging identifier information of described UE;
Described transmitting element 705 specifically for: described flow and/or duration statistical information are sent to described first equipment, wherein, the charging identifier information of described user is comprised in described statistical information, to make the accounting policy information of described first equipment corresponding to described UE by all statistical informations carrying same charging identifier information, generate same charging bill.
Embodiments provide a kind of message accounting, user plane functions in the existing message accounting of this device primary responsibility, thus it is numerous and diverse to solve the function that the while of first having message accounting, integrating control surface function and user plane functions are brought, dispose the problem that flexibility is poor.
One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that: all or part of step realizing said method embodiment can have been come by the hardware that program command is relevant, aforesaid program can be stored in a computer read/write memory medium, this program, when performing, performs the step comprising said method embodiment; And aforesaid storage medium comprises: ROM, RAM, magnetic disc or CD etc. various can be program code stored medium.
The above; be only the specific embodiment of the present invention, but protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, is anyly familiar with those skilled in the art in the technical scope that the present invention discloses; change can be expected easily or replace, all should be encompassed within protection scope of the present invention.Therefore, protection scope of the present invention should be as the criterion with the protection range of described claim.
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1. a method for charging, the method is applied to the charge system that a kind of chain of command is separated with user face, and this system is made up of the first equipment be separated and the second equipment, and it is characterized in that, the method comprises:
First equipment is that the business of user equipment (UE) is set up general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP and carried;
Described first equipment generates the first indication information, and described first indication information comprises the corresponding relation of the bearing identification information that the GTP header information of the packet corresponding to business of described UE and described GTP carry;
Described first indication information is sent to the second equipment by described first equipment, with the statistics making described second equipment to be carried out flow and/or duration to the business of described UE by described first indication information;
Described first equipment receives the flow of business and/or the statistical information of duration of the described UE that described second equipment reports;
Described first equipment is according to described statistical information, and the accounting policy information corresponding to described UE of pre-acquired, generates charging bill.
2. method according to claim 1, is characterized in that, the first equipment is that the business of user equipment (UE) is set up general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP carrying and specifically comprised:
The establishment that described first equipment reception mobile management entity MME sends carries asks, and wherein, it is send after described MME receives the service requesting information of described UE transmission that described establishment carries request, and the identification information of described UE is carried in described establishment in carrying and asking;
Described first equipment obtains service quality QoS information corresponding to described UE and billing features information, wherein, described billing features information comprise pre-payment, rear paying, unified payment and heat pay in one;
Described first equipment is according to described QoS information and billing features information, and the business for described UE sets up GTP carrying.
3. method according to claim 1 and 2, is characterized in that, described first indication information is sent to the second equipment and specifically comprises by described first equipment:
Described first indication information, by the openflow agreement of expansion, is sent to the second equipment by described first equipment.
4. the method according to any one of claim 1-3, is characterized in that, described first indication information also comprises: the charging identifier information of described UE;
The flow of business of the described UE that described second equipment of described first equipment reception reports and/or the statistical information of duration specifically comprise:
Described first equipment receives the flow of business and/or the statistical information of duration of the described UE that described second equipment reports, and comprises the charging identifier information of described user in described statistical information;
Described first equipment is according to described statistical information, and the accounting policy information corresponding to described UE of pre-acquired, generates charging bill and specifically comprises:
The accounting policy information of described first equipment corresponding to described UE, by all statistical informations carrying same charging identifier information, generates same charging bill.
5. a method for charging, the method is applied to the charge system that a kind of chain of command is separated with user face, and this system is made up of the first equipment be separated and the second equipment, and it is characterized in that, the method comprises:
Described second equipment receives the first indication information that described first equipment sends, and described first indication information comprises the corresponding relation of the bearing identification information that GTP that the general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP header information of the packet corresponding to business of user equipment (UE) and described UE use carries;
Packet corresponding to the business of the described UE received is resolved by described second equipment, obtains GTP header information;
Described GTP header mates with described first indication information by described second equipment, obtains the identification information that the GTP corresponding with described GTP header information carries;
The identification information that described second equipment carries according to described GTP, carries out the statistics of flow and/or duration to the packet got;
The statistical information of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment by described second equipment, generates charging bill to make described first equipment according to described statistical information.
6. method according to claim 5, is characterized in that, the first indication information that described second equipment receives described first equipment transmission specifically comprises:
Described second equipment receives the first Indication message that described first equipment is sent by the openflow agreement of expansion.
7. the method according to claim 5 or 6, is characterized in that, the statistical information of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment and specifically comprises by described second equipment:
When the traffic statistics of described second equipment to the packet that described UE sends reach predetermined threshold value, the statistical information of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment by described second equipment, or, when the duration statistics of described second equipment to the packet that described UE sends reaches preset value, the statistics of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment by described second equipment.
8. the method according to any one of claim 5-7, is characterized in that, described first Indication message also comprises:
The charging identifier information of described UE;
The statistical information of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment by described second equipment, generates charging bill specifically comprise to make described first equipment according to described statistical information:
Described flow and/or duration statistical information are sent to described first equipment by described second equipment, wherein, the charging identifier information of described user is comprised in described statistical information, to make the accounting policy information of described first equipment corresponding to described UE by all statistical informations carrying same charging identifier information, generate same charging bill.
9. a message accounting, is characterized in that, this device comprises: set up unit, the first generation unit, transmitting element, the first receiving element and the second generation unit;
Describedly set up unit, carry for setting up general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP for the business of user equipment (UE);
Described first generation unit, for generating the first indication information, described first indication information comprises the corresponding relation of the bearing identification information that the GTP header information of the packet corresponding to business of described UE and described GTP carry;
Described transmitting element, for described first indication information is sent to the second equipment, with the statistics making described second equipment to be carried out flow and/or duration to the business of described UE by described first indication information;
Described first receiving element, for receiving the flow of business and/or the statistical information of duration of the described UE that described second equipment reports;
Described second generation unit, for according to described statistical information, and the accounting policy information corresponding to described UE of pre-acquired, generate charging bill.
10. message accounting according to claim 9, is characterized in that, this device also comprises: the second receiving element and acquiring unit;
Described second receiving element, for receiving the establishment carrying request that mobile management entity MME sends, wherein, described establishment carrying request sends after described MME receives the service requesting information of described UE transmission, and described establishment carries the identification information carrying described UE in request;
Described acquiring unit, for obtaining service quality QoS information corresponding to described UE and billing features information, wherein, described billing features information comprise pre-payment, rear paying, unified payment and heat pay in one;
Described set up unit specifically for: according to described QoS information and billing features information, the business for described UE set up GTP carrying.
11. message accountings according to claim 9 or 10, is characterized in that, described transmitting element specifically for:
By the openflow agreement of expansion, described first indication information is sent to the second equipment.
12. message accountings according to any one of claim 9-11, it is characterized in that, described first indication information also comprises: the charging identifier information of described UE;
Described first receiving element specifically for: the flow of business and/or the statistical information of duration that receive the described UE that described second equipment reports, comprise the charging identifier information of described user in described statistical information;
Described second generation unit specifically for: according to the accounting policy information corresponding to described UE, by all statistical informations carrying same charging identifier information, generate same charging bill.
13. 1 kinds of message accountings, is characterized in that, this message accounting comprises: receiving element, the first acquiring unit, second acquisition unit, statistic unit and transmitting element;
Described receiving element, for receiving the first indication information that the first equipment sends, described first indication information comprises the corresponding relation of the bearing identification information that GTP that the general packet radio service tunnel agreement GTP header information of the packet corresponding to business of user equipment (UE) and described UE use carries;
Described first acquiring unit, for being resolved by the packet corresponding to the business of the described UE received, obtains GTP header information;
Described second acquisition unit, for being mated with described first indication information by described GTP header, obtains the identification information that the GTP corresponding with described GTP header information carries;
Described statistic unit, for the identification information carried according to described GTP, carries out the statistics of flow and/or duration to the packet got;
Described transmitting element, for the statistical information of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment, generates charging bill to make described first equipment according to described statistical information.
14. message accountings according to claim 13, is characterized in that, described receiving element specifically for:
Receive the first Indication message that described first equipment is sent by the openflow agreement of expansion.
15. message accountings according to claim 13 or 14, is characterized in that, described transmitting element specifically for:
When the traffic statistics of the packet sent described UE reach predetermined threshold value, the statistical information of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment, or, when the duration statistics of the packet sent described UE reaches preset value, the statistics of described flow and/or duration is sent to described first equipment.
16. message accountings according to any one of claim 13-15, described first Indication message also comprises: the charging identifier information of described UE;
Described transmitting element specifically for: described flow and/or duration statistical information are sent to described first equipment, wherein, the charging identifier information of described user is comprised in described statistical information, to make the accounting policy information of described first equipment corresponding to described UE by all statistical informations carrying same charging identifier information, generate same charging bill.
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