CN101309171A - Method for realizing affair off-line charging in next-generation network - Google Patents
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Disclosed is a method which realizes the event off-line charging in the next generation network; a service layer CTF entity and a transport layer CTF entity send the service layer charging data and the transport layer charging data to a CCF entity respectively; meanwhile, the service layer charging data and the transport layer charging data are indicated as the event charging; the CCF entity generates the transport layer charging data record and the service layer charging data record according to the transport layer charging data and the service layer charging data and transports the charging data records to an CGF entity; the CGF entity combines the received transport layer charging data with the received service layer charging data to generate a new charging data record which is sent to an accounting domain BD entity to be processed. The event off-line charging in the next generation network realizes the event off-line charging mode in NGN and has the advantages of simplicity, easy implementation and being compatible with the prior art.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to communication technical field, what be specifically related to is the method for realization event offline charging among the NGN (New Generation Network next generation network).
Background technology
NGN is one in concept and transmits based on grouping, and voice, data and multimedia integration service can be provided, and guarantees service quality, and guarantees safety, and comprehensive various access waies can provide a desirable communication network of application easily for the third party.Along with the continuous increase of user's request, how to load more business on the NGN platform is important topics that operator faces.The standardization body of at present a lot of international and regional property is all being studied, and a lot of operators are also disposing NGN energetically, but with regard to the present research and the deployment of network, all is interim, only can provide partial service and partial function.Along with deepening continuously of research and improving day by day and enhancing of capacity of equipment, the NGN that is built in the future can provide more business.
Normal structure ITU (International Telecommunications Union) is the main research organization of NGN, the NGN Release1 standard of releasing is mainly supported PSTN/ISDN artificial service, multimedia service, PSTN/ISDN analog service at present, and the general frame of NGN proposed, as shown in Figure 1, comprise two aspects: service layer and transmission aspect.Service layer comprises service control function, service-user attribute database and application/business support function, and by API (Application Programming Interface API) access application.Controlled function, resource and the permission controlled function and the transport layer user attribute database function that comprise network attached device in the middle of the transmission aspect transmission controlled function.
Along with the construction in broadband and carrying out of NGN business, such as business accurately being chargeed challenge has been proposed to adopting which type of charging means according to flow, duration, content, NGN is also stepping up to study the charging relevant framework for this reason.The research of NGN charging framework is carried out in the 13rd seminar, present Release2 has proposed the charging framework based on strategy, having introduced RACF (Resource AdmissionControl Function resource authorization controlled entity) in this framework as the charging policy decision entity, can issue different strategies and accurately charge according to different broadband services.The charging framework of NGN comprises following functional entity: SCF (Service Control Function business control function body) as shown in Figure 2, PD-FE (Policy Decision Function Entity policy deciding functional entity), PE-FE (PolicyEnforcement Function Entity policy execution functional entity), CCF (Charging CollectionFunction Charging Collection Function entity), CGF (Charging Gateway Function charging gateway function body), BD (Billing Domain book keeping operation territory entity), OCF (Online Charging Function online charging functional entity), RF (Rating Function wholesale price functional entity), AMF (AccountingManagement Function account management functional entity), IP-CGF (charging gateway function body between Inter-Provider ChargingGateway Function net) and CTF (Charging Trigger Function charging triggering function entity).Also show charging policy configuration feature (Charging ﹠amp among Fig. 2; Accouting Policy Configuration Function) entity, transfer function (Transport Functions) entity and billing function (Charging and Acounting functions) entity.Reference Point C x and Cy are also in the middle of research.Be noted that especially in addition that except that transport layer also can dispose CTF (being also referred to as the CTF entity) in operation layer, the CTF of transport layer can dispose separately, also can dispose with the PE-FE unification.The CTF of operation layer can dispose separately, also can dispose with the SCF unification.
Field of telecommunications has two kinds of charging methods at present, and a kind of is online charging, and a kind of is offline charging.Online charging is monitoring and quotas administered in real time, the providing of the process influence business of charging.Offline charging be the use of Internet resources with the simultaneous a kind of charging way of the gatherer process of metering data, metering data is the professional charging form that provides of influence in real time, therefore is with a wide range of applications.Offline charging has ticket, and online charging does not have ticket at present.The type of service of field of telecommunications can be divided into conversation type and event type, and conversational service is meant that producing metering data has process and time that direct relation is arranged, and the event mode business is meant that it is disposable producing metering data, and is irrelevant with duration.
At present, the charging framework of realizing in NGN based on strategy also just proposes a functional division and related needs, does not have standardization and standardization for how implementing accurately charging and correlative detail, does not promptly also have the scheme that realizes.
Summary of the invention
In view of this, the technical problem to be solved in the present invention provide a kind of in next generation network the method for realization event offline charging.
In order to solve the problems of the technologies described above, the present invention proposes a kind of in next generation network the method for realization event offline charging, comprising:
Operation layer charging triggering function CTF entity and transport layer CTF entity send to Charging Collection Function CCF entity with user's operation layer metering data and transport layer metering data respectively, all indicate this time to charge simultaneously and are the event class charging;
Described CCF entity generates the transport layer charging data record according to the transport layer metering data of receiving, generate the operation layer charging data record according to the operation layer metering data of receiving, and described transport layer charging data record and operation layer charging data record are sent to Charging Gateway Functionality CGF entity;
Described transport layer charging data record that described CGF entity will be received and operation layer charging data record merge, generate a new charging data record that comprises operation layer and transport layer metering data, and described new charging data record is sent to book keeping operation territory BD entity handles.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
Described operation layer charging triggering function CTF entity is arranged in the service control layer functional entity, and described transport layer charging triggering function CTF entity is arranged in the transport layer functionality entity.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
Described operation layer CTF entity and transport layer CTF entity are after carrying out professional transport process, and transport layer metering data and the operation layer metering data with described user sends to described CCF entity respectively.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
Described operation layer CTF entity is by sending the request of charging to described CCF entity, and user's operation layer metering data is sent to described CCF entity, and this time of indication chargeed and be the event class charging in described charging request simultaneously; After described CCF entity receives described charging request, return charging to described operation layer CTF entity and reply.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
Described transport layer CTF entity is by sending the request of charging to described CCF entity, and user's transport layer metering data is sent to described CCF entity, and this time of indication chargeed and be the event class charging in described charging request simultaneously; After described CCF entity receives described charging request, return charging to described transport layer CTF entity and reply.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
Described CCF entity is respectively described transport layer charging data record and operation layer charging data record to be sent to described Charging Gateway Functionality CGF entity.
In order to solve the problems of the technologies described above, the present invention also provide a kind of in next generation network the method for realization event offline charging, it is characterized in that, comprising:
Operation layer charging triggering function CTF entity sends to Charging Collection Function CCF entity with user's operation layer metering data, indicates this time to charge simultaneously and is the event class charging;
Described CCF entity generates the operation layer charging data record according to the operation layer metering data of receiving, and described operation layer charging data record is sent to Charging Gateway Functionality CGF entity;
After described CGF entity is received described operation layer charging data record, described operation layer charging data record is sent to book keeping operation territory BD entity handles.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
Described operation layer charging triggering function CTF entity is arranged in the service control layer functional entity.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
Described operation layer CTF entity is by sending the request of charging to described CCF entity, and user's operation layer metering data is sent to described CCF entity, and this time of indication chargeed and be the event class charging in described charging request simultaneously; After described CCF entity receives described charging request, return charging to described operation layer CTF entity and reply.
In order to solve the problems of the technologies described above, the present invention also provide a kind of in next generation network the method for realization event offline charging, it is characterized in that, comprising:
Transport layer charging triggering function CTF entity sends to Charging Collection Function CCF entity with user's transport layer metering data, indicates this time to charge simultaneously and is the event class charging;
Described CCF entity generates the transport layer charging data record according to the transport layer metering data of receiving, and described transport layer charging data record is sent to Charging Gateway Functionality CGF entity;
After described CGF entity is received described transport layer charging data record, described transport layer charging data record is sent to book keeping operation territory BD entity handles.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
Described transport layer charging triggering function CTF entity is arranged in the transport layer functionality entity.
Further, said method also can have following characteristics:
Described transport layer CTF entity is by sending the request of charging to described CCF entity, and user's transport layer metering data is sent to described CCF entity, and this time of indication chargeed and be the event class charging in described charging request simultaneously; After described CCF entity receives described charging request, return charging to described transport layer CTF entity and reply.
By technique scheme as can be seen, method of the present invention has following advantage:
1, filled up prior art--the blank of realization event offline charging in NGN has effectively solved realization event offline charging mode in NGN;
2, technical solution of the present invention is simple, can be good at compatible prior art, can stimulate the development of NGN affair off-line charging.
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Fig. 1 is the general frame of NGN;
Fig. 2 is the charging framework of NGN;
Fig. 3 is the offline charging flow chart of embodiment of the invention method based on incident.
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The present invention is described in detail below in conjunction with specific embodiments and the drawings.
The present invention is a realization event offline charging in NGN, and offline charging (as requesting song, pay channel etc.) is finished by OFCS (Offline Charging System off-line accounting system), and the OFCS related functional entities has CCF, CGF.
In the present embodiment, in transport layer and operation layer, all be deployed with the CTF entity, be respectively applied for the metering data of collecting transport layer and operation layer.The offline charging flow process of realization event comprises following steps as shown in Figure 3 in NGN:
301, transport layer CTF entity and operation layer CTF entity carry out business and transmit (service delivery) process;
Among Fig. 3, with CTF (PE-FE) expression transport layer CTF entity, this CTF entity can be disposed with the PE-FE unification.With CTF (SCF) expression operation layer CTF entity, this CTF can dispose with the SCF unification.
302a-1, transport layer CTF entity send the request of chargeing (Accounting Request) in the CCF entity, comprise user's metering data such as flow, duration etc. with transport layer in the request, and indicate this time charging to be the charging of event class;
After 302a-2, CCF entity received the charging request of transport layer CTF entity transmission, returning charges replied (Accounting Answer);
302b-1, operation layer CTF entity send the request of chargeing (Accounting Request) in the CCF entity, comprise the same user's of operation layer metering data in the request, and indicate this time charging to be the charging of event class;
After 302b-2, CCF entity received the charging request of operation layer CTF entity transmission, returning charges replied (Accounting Answer);
303a, the CCF entity is according to user's metering data of the transport layer of transport layer CTF entity transmission, generate the CIR (Charging Information Record charging data record) of transport layer and send to the CGF entity, after the CGF entity is received the CIR of CCF entity transmission, echo reply message;
303b, CCF entity are according to user's metering data of the operation layer of operation layer CTF entity transmission, and the CIR that generates operation layer also sends to the CGF entity, after the CGF entity is received the CIR of CCF entity transmission, and echo reply message;
The present invention is to above-mentioned steps 302a-1 and 302b-1, and the order of step 303a and 303b does not limit.
304, the CGF entity merges the operation layer CIR and the transport layer CIR that receive, produces a new CIR, and this new CIR comprises the metering data of operation layer and transport layer;
305, the CGF entity sends the rapid middle new CIR that produces of previous step and handles in the BD entity, finishes this affair off-line charging flow process.
Under some special situations, the metering data that only needs operation layer or transport layer during charging, only need send corresponding metering data to the CCF entity by the CTF entity of operation layer or transport layer this moment, indicate this time to charge simultaneously and be the event class charging, the CCF entity is received back echo reply message, and the CIR that generates operation layer or transport layer sends to the CCF entity, need not after the CCF entity is received to merge, and directly the CIR of operation layer or transport layer issued BD and handles and get final product.
The above only is preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is in order to restriction the present invention, within the spirit and principles in the present invention not all, any modification of being done, is equal to replacement, improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention.
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1, a kind of in next generation network the method for realization event offline charging, it is characterized in that, comprising:
Operation layer charging triggering function CTF entity and transport layer CTF entity send to Charging Collection Function CCF entity with user's operation layer metering data and transport layer metering data respectively, all indicate this time to charge simultaneously and are the event class charging;
Described CCF entity generates the transport layer charging data record according to the transport layer metering data of receiving, generate the operation layer charging data record according to the operation layer metering data of receiving, and described transport layer charging data record and operation layer charging data record are sent to Charging Gateway Functionality CGF entity;
Described transport layer charging data record that described CGF entity will be received and operation layer charging data record merge, generate a new charging data record that comprises operation layer and transport layer metering data, and described new charging data record is sent to book keeping operation territory BD entity handles.
2, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that:
Described operation layer charging triggering function CTF entity is arranged in the service control layer functional entity, and described transport layer charging triggering function CTF entity is arranged in the transport layer functionality entity.
3, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that:
Described operation layer CTF entity and transport layer CTF entity are after carrying out professional transport process, and transport layer metering data and the operation layer metering data with described user sends to described CCF entity respectively.
4, method as claimed in claim 1 or 2 is characterized in that:
Described operation layer CTF entity is by sending the request of charging to described CCF entity, and user's operation layer metering data is sent to described CCF entity, and this time of indication chargeed and be the event class charging in described charging request simultaneously; After described CCF entity receives described charging request, return charging to described operation layer CTF entity and reply.
5, method as claimed in claim 1 or 2 is characterized in that:
Described transport layer CTF entity is by sending the request of charging to described CCF entity, and user's transport layer metering data is sent to described CCF entity, and this time of indication chargeed and be the event class charging in described charging request simultaneously; After described CCF entity receives described charging request, return charging to described transport layer CTF entity and reply.
6, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that:
Described CCF entity is respectively described transport layer charging data record and operation layer charging data record to be sent to described Charging Gateway Functionality CGF entity.
7, a kind of in next generation network the method for realization event offline charging, it is characterized in that, comprising:
Operation layer charging triggering function CTF entity sends to Charging Collection Function CCF entity with user's operation layer metering data, indicates this time to charge simultaneously and is the event class charging;
Described CCF entity generates the operation layer charging data record according to the operation layer metering data of receiving, and described operation layer charging data record is sent to Charging Gateway Functionality CGF entity;
After described CGF entity is received described operation layer charging data record, described operation layer charging data record is sent to book keeping operation territory BD entity handles.
8, method as claimed in claim 7 is characterized in that: described operation layer charging triggering function CTF entity is arranged in the service control layer functional entity.
9, as claim 7 or 8 described methods, it is characterized in that:
Described operation layer CTF entity is by sending the request of charging to described CCF entity, and user's operation layer metering data is sent to described CCF entity, and this time of indication chargeed and be the event class charging in described charging request simultaneously; After described CCF entity receives described charging request, return charging to described operation layer CTF entity and reply.
10, a kind of in next generation network the method for realization event offline charging, it is characterized in that, comprising:
Transport layer charging triggering function CTF entity sends to Charging Collection Function CCF entity with user's transport layer metering data, indicates this time to charge simultaneously and is the event class charging;
Described CCF entity generates the transport layer charging data record according to the transport layer metering data of receiving, and described transport layer charging data record is sent to Charging Gateway Functionality CGF entity;
After described CGF entity is received described transport layer charging data record, described transport layer charging data record is sent to book keeping operation territory BD entity handles.
11, method as claimed in claim 10 is characterized in that: described transport layer charging triggering function CTF entity is arranged in the transport layer functionality entity.
12, as claim 10 or 11 described methods, it is characterized in that:
Described transport layer CTF entity is by sending the request of charging to described CCF entity, and user's transport layer metering data is sent to described CCF entity, and this time of indication chargeed and be the event class charging in described charging request simultaneously; After described CCF entity receives described charging request, return charging to described transport layer CTF entity and reply.
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