WO2012106881A1

WO2012106881A1 - Charging method, network access device and core network device

Info

Publication number: WO2012106881A1
Application number: PCT/CN2011/077057
Authority: WO
Inventors: 胡国杰; 张勇
Original assignee: 华为技术有限公司
Priority date: 2011-07-12
Filing date: 2011-07-12
Publication date: 2012-08-16
Also published as: CN102308603A; CN102308603B

Abstract

Provided are a traffic charging method, an access device and a core network device, which enable the traffic of User Equipment (UE) to still be charged through a PS core network system after exiting the Gi interface of a network access point. The method of the present invention includes: the network access point detects the offloaded service data of the UE; and the network access point reports a heartbeat message to the core network, wherein the heartbeat message includes the traffic information of the offloaded service data of the UE, so that the core network charges the traffic of the offloaded service data of the UE according to the heartbeat message.

Description

Charging method, network device, core network device

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a flow rate method, a network access device, a core network device, and a billing system.

Background technique

HNB (HomeNodeB, home base station) Service data needs to pass the PS (packet switched domain), but with the rapid development of mobile broadband services, the traffic of mobile service data will increase greatly, and the PS core network will inevitably become a bottleneck. The continuous upgrade of the PS core network is inevitable with the increase of data traffic. However, another problem that arises at the same time is that high-speed Internet access services accessing the Internet (Internet) are often low-value services and cannot be brought to mobile operators. How much revenue, while the network upgrades capital expenditures, there is no significant growth in business revenue, so operators will be overwhelmed. Therefore, operators hope to transfer data from low-value services to other paths.

The data bypass function of the LBO (Lood Breakout) of the home base station HNB is the solution to solve this problem, and the data of the low-value service is bypassed from the PS core network, that is, the fixed IP transmission network is used to carry these. Data from low-value services, thereby reducing the burden on the PS core network. For operators, the HBO's LBO data bypass function can reduce PS core network load, reduce network construction costs, and bring new business growth points. After the implementation of the Gi interface on the HNB, the uplink service data traffic of the UE (User Equipment, User Equipment) is divided into two paths in the HNB, one is to the PS (packet switched domain), and the other is through the HNB. The traffic of the Gi interface to the public Internet and the user's home network.

When there are high-value services and low-value services on the HNB, the data bypass function of the LBO can be used to offload the data of the low-value service, and the bypass of the low-value service is through the Gi interface of the HNB. The data of the low-value service is connected to the public Internet and the user's home network, and the data of the high-value service is ensured to enter the PS core network.

In the prior art, the HNB passes the data of the high-value service among the HNB, HGW (Home Gate Way), HNB GW (HNB Gateway), SGSN (serving GPRS support node GPRS, service support node), and GGSN (Gateway). GPRS support node) and other core network devices, and then access the Internet, That is, the 3G core network is used to provide data services for high-value businesses.

With the rapid development of mobile services, business data traffic is exploding, bringing impact to 3G core networks. Most of the new business data is data of low-value services. By expanding the throughput of core network equipment, traffic problems can be solved. However, the cost is relatively large. By using HNB for data bypass, the UE of the low-value service directly accesses the user's home network and the Internet through the Gi interface of the HNB, which reduces the burden on the core network, but also brings The following technical issues:

Since the UE accesses the user's home network and the Internet through the Gi port of the HNB, the data uploaded or downloaded by the UE does not pass through the core network, so the core network cannot obtain the information of the part of the data traffic, and thus cannot calculate

Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the present invention provides a method for calculating a flow rate, a network access device, and a core network device, so that the data traffic of the UE can still be charged through the PS core network system after being bypassed by the Gi interface of the HNB.

In order to achieve the above object, the embodiment of the present invention uses the following technical solutions:

In one aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for calculating a flow rate, including: the network access point reporting a heartbeat message to a core network, where the heartbeat message includes traffic information of a data service bypassed by the UE And/or duration information, so that the core network charges the traffic of the data service bypassed by the UE according to the heartbeat message. .

The network access point periodically reports the heartbeat message to the core network.

For each service performed by the UE, the network access point reports the corresponding heartbeat message to the core network. In another aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a network access point device, including:

a first processor, configured to detect a data service that the user equipment UE is bypassed;

The sender sends a heartbeat message to the core network, where the heartbeat message includes traffic information and/or duration information of the data service bypassed by the UE, so that the core network performs the message according to the heartbeat message. The UE is charged by the traffic and/or duration information of the bypassed data service.

In another aspect, an embodiment of the present invention is a core network device, including:

a receiver, configured to receive a heartbeat message reported by the network access point, where the heartbeat message includes the UE is Traffic information and/or duration information of the bypassed data service;

And a second processor, configured to perform charging, according to the heartbeat message, traffic and/or duration information of the service data bypassed by the UE.

According to the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the heartbeat packet is reported to the core network at the network access point, and the core network is finally bypassed by the Gi interface of the HNB by using the heartbeat packet. The traffic and/or duration information of the business data is billed.

DRAWINGS

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only It is a certain embodiment of the present invention, and other drawings can be obtained from those skilled in the art without any creative work.

1 is a flow chart of a flow rate in an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a flowchart of a service support point sending charging information according to an embodiment of the charging method according to the present invention; FIG. 3 is a network topology diagram of a traffic accounting system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a schematic block diagram of a flow rate system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of processing a data bypass of a home base station HNB according to an embodiment of the present invention;

6 is a flowchart of a home base station HNB transmitting a heartbeat message according to an embodiment of the present invention;

7 is a flowchart of a post-paid charging process after an embodiment of the present invention;

8 is a flowchart of prepaid charging processing according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a protocol stack between a UE and a service support device SGSN according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 10 is a format of a packet when the heartbeat packet is a DNS message according to the present invention;

11 is a message format of a heartbeat message according to the present invention when it is a DHCP message;

12 is a structural block diagram of a home base station HNB according to an embodiment of the present invention;

13 is a block diagram showing the composition of Embodiment 1 of the core network device according to the present invention;

14 is a block diagram of a second embodiment of the core network device according to the present invention;

15 is a block diagram of a second processor of Embodiment 1 of the core network device of the present invention; FIG. 16 is a block diagram of a second processor of Embodiment 2 of the core network device of the present invention; A block diagram of the billing system. detailed description

Embodiments of the present invention provide a flow rate method, a network access point device, and a core network device, so that data traffic of the mobile terminal UE can still be performed by the PS core network system after being bypassed by the Gi interface of the HNB home base station. Billing

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. It is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative efforts are within the scope of the present invention.

Example 1

This embodiment provides a method for calculating a flow rate. In this embodiment, a network access point is used as a home base station HNB as an example, and the same charging method can be extended to various micro base stations, macro base stations, and distributed base stations. The network access point, as shown in FIG. 1, the flow rate method includes the following steps:

The network access point (in this embodiment is a home base station) detects the service data 102 that the user equipment UE is bypassed: the network access point (the home base station in this embodiment) reports a heartbeat message to the core network, where The heartbeat message includes traffic information and/or duration information of the service data that the UE is bypassed;

After receiving the heartbeat packet, the core network charges the traffic and/or duration information of the bypassed service data according to the heartbeat packet.

Optionally, before the foregoing step 101, the method further includes: the traffic of the service data that is bypassed by the UE, that is, the traffic information and/or duration of the service data that the UE accesses the home network through the Gi port. The information is reported to the core network device for charging by using the heartbeat packet, so that the service data traffic and/or duration information of the UE flowing into the home network through the Gi port is implemented as shown in FIG. 2, wherein the core network is based on the home base station. The heartbeat packet reported by the HNB is used to charge traffic and/or duration information, including the following steps:

201: After receiving the heartbeat message sent by the home base station, the service support node SGSN located on the core network side, according to the traffic information and/or duration information of the service data bypassed by the UE in the heartbeat message Generate billing information;

202: The SGSN uploads the charging information to a charging system for charging.

The foregoing steps describe the implementation steps of the charging method for implementing the traffic and/or duration information, and FIG. 3 is a network topology diagram of the charging method for implementing traffic and/or duration information in the embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3 or FIG. After the data traffic generated by the UE passes through the HNB, the bypassed traffic is connected to the home network through the Gi port, and other data traffic still passes through the home gateway, the security gateway, the HNB gateway, the service support node SGSN, and the gateway GPRS support node, and finally Into the Internet. In the embodiment of the present invention, the traffic information of the service data that the UE flows into the home network through the Gi port or the time length information of the service used by the service to be injected into the home network through the Gi interface is reported to the service support node SGSN in the core network by using the heartbeat packet. The service support node SGSN generates charging information according to the heartbeat message, and then uploads the charging information to the charging system in the core network, thereby implementing traffic information of the service data flowing into the home network by the UE through the Gi port and/or Or use the length of time information for billing.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of the flow rate of the prior art. Since the home base station HNB does not report the heartbeat message to the service support node SGSN, the traffic that is partially bypassed to the home network cannot be charged. The steps include:

5.1 : Activate the PDP context;

5.2: The home base station HNB bypasses the traffic in the UE;

5.3: The HNB performs NAT processing on the bypass traffic.

5.4: HNB accesses traffic that does not require bypass to the core network. It should be noted here that FIG. 3 to FIG. 4 are schematic structural diagrams corresponding to the implementation of the charging method embodiment, but it does not mean that all devices in the figure are necessary devices for implementing the traffic charging method.

Optionally, the HNB can periodically report the heartbeat message to the service support node SGSN; or preset the reporting time of the heartbeat message on the HNB according to the requirement, so as to implement the traffic of the service data more flexibly. fee.

The process of reporting the heartbeat message to the SGSN by the HNB is shown in Figure 6. The steps include:

6.1 : Activate the PDP context;

6.2: The home base station HNB bypasses the traffic in the UE through the Gi port;

6.3: The HNB performs NAT processing on the data bypassed by the Gi port; here are further divided into the following two sub-steps: 6.3.1 The home base station HNB uploads the un-bypassed data to the security gateway;

6.3.2 Home base station The HNB uploads the heartbeat message to the service support node SGSN on the core network side;

6.4: After the HNB uploads the un-bypassed data to the security gateway, it finally accesses the data that does not need to be bypassed to the core network.

It should be noted that step 6.4 is the final description of the data flow direction in the above step 6.3.1, that is, in the step 6.3.1, after the home base station HNB uploads the un-bypassed data to the security gateway, the security gateway will eventually The data is uploaded to the HNB gateway, and then the data is uploaded to the service support node SGSN and the gateway GPRS support node GGSN, and finally the data is sent to the PS core network, that is, step 6.4.

The above steps 6.1 to 6.4 only explain the flow of data and do not represent the order in which they are executed.

The traffic information of the UE accessing the service data in the home network through the Gi interface includes the user equipment UE information, the uploaded data traffic of the user equipment UE in the last statistical period, and/or the user used by the last statistical period. The duration and the data traffic downloaded by the user equipment UE in the last statistical period and/or the duration used by the user in the last statistical period.

In this embodiment, the HNB performs the charging by reporting the heartbeat packet to the core network. Specifically, the HNB reports the heartbeat packet to the SGSN, and the SGSN according to the traffic information in the heartbeat packet reported by the HNB and/or The time-length information generates charging information, and the charging information is reported to the charging system for charging.

The following sections describe post-paid and pre-paid separately.

As shown in FIG. 7, if the user of the UE is a post-paid user, the SGSN generates charging information and reports the charging information to the charging system for charging.

GPRS service support node SGSN generates a call detail record CDR according to the heartbeat message reported by the network access point;

The GPRS service support node SGSN forwards the call detail record CDR to the charging gateway CG, as shown in FIG. 8. If the user of the UE is a prepaid user, the network access point reports a heartbeat message to the core network. The heartbeat packet includes the traffic information and/or the duration of the service data that the UE is bypassed, so that the core network charges the traffic of the bypassed service data according to the heartbeat packet. Specifically:

GPRS service support node The SGSN reports the heartbeat message to the SCP, so that the SCP obtains the prepaid fee of the corresponding UE.

1 mouth from, - The GPRS service support node SGSN sends the traffic information and/or the duration information of the bypassed service data included in the heartbeat message to the service control point SCP, so that the SCP is prepaid according to the UE. Information, and traffic and/or duration information of the service data bypassed by the UE, refreshing the remaining traffic and/or duration information of the UE;

The GPRS service supporting node SGSN receives the remaining traffic and/or duration information of the UE after the service control point SCP is refreshed.

With reference to FIG. 8, the charging process may be further described as: the GPRS service supporting node SGSN obtains the CAMEL message of the UE according to the information of the UE in the heartbeat message, and sends the application part of the CAMEL message to the service control point SCP. a CAP message, so that the SCP obtains prepaid information of the UE;

The GPRS service support node SGSN reports the traffic and/or duration used by the UE to the service control point SCP for refresh charging. The SCP combines the pre-paid information of the corresponding UE with the traffic and/or duration used by the UE received from the SGSN. Performing calculations to obtain remaining traffic and/or duration information of the UE

For the prepaid subscriber, the SGSN sends the CAP (CAMEL Application Part, CAMEL Application Part) message in the CAMEL message of the UE to the SCP (the CAMEL message in the CAMEL message of the UE is included in the heartbeat message sent by the network access point to the core network). The service control point, the SCP obtains the prepaid information of the UE, and the prepaid information includes the traffic and/or duration that the UE allows to use. At the same time, the SGSN collects the traffic and/or duration of the user's previous statistics period, and reports the traffic and duration of the user to the SCP according to the specified reporting interval or the preset statistics period in the CAP message. The SCP refreshes the UE. The remaining traffic and/or duration is sent to the SGSN, which limits the UE's service usage based on the remaining traffic and/or duration of the UE. For each UE, the HNB needs to define a heartbeat message separately. After receiving the heartbeat message reported by the HNB, the service support node SGSN can separately charge each UE.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a protocol stack between a UE and an SGSN according to an embodiment of the present invention. The protocol stack can be used to learn the protocol interaction process between the UE and the SGSN. In the traffic and/or duration information charging method mentioned in the embodiment of the present invention, the heartbeat message reported by the HNB to the SGSN may be: a custom message or a DNS message or a DHCP message.

The following describes the heartbeat message as a custom message or a DNS message or a DHCP message. When the heartbeat message is a custom message, we assume that the HNB periodically (here, the period is 5 minutes) is sent to the SGSN. The heartbeat packet corresponding to the UE, the heartbeat packet includes the traffic information and/or the duration information of the service data that the UE flows into the home network through the Gi interface, and the UE flows the service in the home network through the Gi interface through the heartbeat packet. The traffic information and/or the duration information of the data is reported to the SGSN. After the service support point SGSN receives the heartbeat message, the HNB feeds back a "traffic feedback" message.

The above custom heartbeat messages may include:

1. Packet type: In this embodiment, as in Table 1, it is "Traffic Report";

2. The data content, as shown in Table 1, includes the "UE identity, the data traffic information uploaded by the UE in the last statistical period, and/or the duration used by the user in the previous statistical period (ie, the uplink data traffic in Table 1). Information), the data traffic information downloaded by the UE in the last statistical period and/or the duration used by the user in the previous statistical period (ie, the downlink data traffic information in Table 1).

The table 1 is used as an example to describe the format of the custom heartbeat message:

1. The package type is: Traffic Report;

2. The UE identifier is: IMSI;

3. The data traffic and/or duration information uploaded by the UE in the previous statistical period is: ULDATA;

4. The data traffic and/or duration information downloaded by the UE in the previous statistical period is: DLDATA.

After the information about the bypassed data traffic of the UE is detected by the HNB, the fields in the heartbeat packet shown in the table are filled in, and then the heartbeat is reported to the SGSN. After receiving the heartbeat packet sent by the HNB, the SGSN analyzes the heartbeat packet, and can determine which UE the heartbeat packet belongs to by reading the UE identifier, and analyzes the uplink data traffic information and/or duration information in Table 1. ", can determine the uplink data traffic of the UE in the last statistical period and/or the length of time used by the bypass service in the previous statistical period, by analyzing "downstream data traffic information and/or duration information" in Table 1. The length of the downlink data traffic of the UE in the last statistical period and/or the length of time used by the bypass service in the last statistical period may be determined. After the analysis, the SGSN will report the "traffic report feedback" message fed back by the HNB. The "traffic report feedback" message may include a packet type and a result indicating whether the obtained traffic information is successful or failed.

Assume in Table 2 above:

1. The package type is: raffic Report Feedback;

2. The UE identifier is: IMSI;

3. The result is success: 0;

In the custom message initiated by the HNB, only the self-detected related data of the bypassed data traffic of the UE is required. The information can be filled in the fields in Table 1. The SGSN receives the heartbeat message sent by the HNB for analysis, and returns the data that the HNB bypasses the UE by feeding back the "0" or "1" feedback to the HNB. The traffic and/or duration information is reported to the SGSN. If the heartbeat packet is a DNS message, the standard packet format of the DNS is as shown in FIG. The home base station HNB periodically (here assumed to be 5 minutes) sends a DNS request message to the service support point SGSN. After receiving the information, the SGSN feeds back a DNS response message to the HNB.

DNS request messages include:

Package type: such as "Traffic Report";

2. Data content, including "UE information, the data traffic information uploaded by the UE in the last statistical period, and/or the usage duration of the bypassed service in the previous statistical period, and the data traffic information downloaded by the UE in the previous statistical period and / or the length of use of the bypassed business during the last statistical period".

DNS response messages include:

Package type: such as "Traffic Report Feedback"

2. Result: It is used to indicate success or failure of obtaining traffic information, "0" means success; "1" means failure.

The format of the message when the DNS message is as shown in Figure 10, we can fill the extension content in the "query problem".

Assume that the HNB sends DNS packets to the SGSN:

1. The package type is: Traffic Report;

2. The UE identifier is: IMSI;

3. The data traffic uploaded by the UE and/or the length of time used by the bypassed service in the previous statistical period is: ULDATA;

4. The data traffic downloaded by the UE in the previous statistical period and/or the duration used by the bypassed service is: DLDATA.

In order to satisfy the DNS format, the above information can be combined by ".", namely:

TrafficReport. IMSI. ULDATA DLDATA

Then, the HNB sends a DNS packet to the SGSN including TmfficReport IMSI1. ULDATA. DLDATA;

Assume that the SGSN successfully obtains the traffic information in the DNS packet, and the result of the DNS response message returned by the ijSGSN to the HNB is "0". If the heartbeat packet is a DHCP message, the standard format of the DHCP message is as shown in Figure 11. The HNB periodically (here assumed to be 5 minutes) sends a DHCP request message to the SGSN. After receiving the information, the SGSN feeds back a DHCP response message to the HNB.

DHCP request messages include:

Package type: such as "Traffic Report";

2. Data content, including "UE information, duration used by the UE to upload data and/or bypassed service during the last statistical period, data downloaded by the UE in the last statistical time, and/or used by the bypassed service. The length of time."

DHCP response messages include:

Package type: such as "Traffic Report Feedback";

2. Result: It is used to indicate success or failure of obtaining traffic information, "0" means success; "1" means failure;

The format of the DHCP message is shown in Figure 11. We can populate the extension with the "boot file name". Assumption:

1. The package type is: Traffic Report;

2. The UE identifier is: IMSI;

3. The data traffic uploaded by the UE in the last statistical period is the length of time used by the bypassed service and/or by the bypass service: ULDATA;

4. The data traffic downloaded by the UE in the previous statistical period is the length of time used by the bypassed service and/or used by the bypass service: DLDATA;

In order to meet the "boot file name" format requirement, the information can be combined by ".": TrafficReport. IMSI1. ULDATA. DLDATA

Then, the DHCP sent by the HNB to the SGSN includes TmfficReport IMSI1. ULDATA. DLDATA ₀ assumes that the SGSN successfully obtains the traffic information in the DNS packet, and the DHCP response returned by the Bay ijSGSN to the HNB The result contained in the message is "0".

The data flow rate method provided in this embodiment uses the home base station HNB as a network access point embodiment, but the flow rate method can extend the network access point to other accesses such as a micro base station, a macro base station, or a distributed base station. In the case of the point, the implementation principle is completely the same, and any one skilled in the art can easily conceive changes or substitutions within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the flow calculation method of the present invention should be based on the protection scope of the corresponding claims. Example 2

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a network access point device, where the network access point device can be used to perform all the steps performed by the network access point device in Embodiment 1 above. For the convenience of the reader, an example will be described below.

As shown in FIG. 12, in this embodiment, it is assumed that the network access point device is a home base station HNB 12, and the home base station HNB 12 includes:

The first processor 121 is configured to detect service data that the user equipment UE is bypassed;

The sender 122 sends a heartbeat message to the core network, where the heartbeat message includes traffic information and/or duration information of the service data that is bypassed by the UE, so that the core network according to the heartbeat message The traffic and/or duration information of the service data bypassed by the UE is charged.

In this embodiment, the network access point device is the home base station HNB. Specifically, in this embodiment, the heartbeat message is reported to the service support node SGSN in the core network, and the service support node SGSN generates the charging according to the heartbeat message. The information is then uploaded to the billing system in the core network to implement billing.

The transmitter 122 can periodically report the heartbeat message to the service support node SGSN.

Optionally, the network access point device further includes a second processor, configured to define a heartbeat message.

The heartbeat message defined by the second processor includes UE information, data traffic transmitted by the UE in a previous statistical period, and data traffic downloaded by the UE in a previous statistical period.

For the service performed by each user equipment UE, the second processor defines a heartbeat message corresponding to each UE and reports a corresponding heartbeat message to the service support node SGSN.

The heartbeat message defined by the second processor may be a custom message, a DNS message, or a DHCP message, and the type of the heartbeat message is consistent with the message type mentioned in Embodiment 1. Alternatively, the functions of the first processor and the second processor described above may be integrated in one processor.

The network access point device provided in this embodiment uses the home base station HNB as a network access point, but the network access point device can extend the network access point to other networks such as a micro base station, a macro base station, or a distributed base station. The access point device is implemented in the same manner. Any one skilled in the art can easily conceive changes or substitutions within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the flow calculation method of the present invention should be based on the protection scope of the corresponding claims. Example 3

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a core network device, which can be used to perform all the steps performed by the core network device in the foregoing Embodiment 1. For the convenience of the reader, specific examples will be described below.

As shown in FIG. 13, the core network device is configured to receive a heartbeat packet sent by the HNB, and perform a traffic fee according to the heartbeat packet. As shown in FIG. 13, the core network device 13 includes:

The receiver 131 is configured to generate charging information according to the heartbeat message reported by the home base station HNB.

The second processor 132 is configured to upload the generated charging information to the charging system for charging. In this embodiment, the core network device 13 may be an SGSN, and the SGSN also includes a receiver 131 and a second processor 132. When the home base station HNB reports the heartbeat packet to the core network device for charging, specifically, when the home base station HNB reports the heartbeat message to the service supporting node SGSN, the receiver 131 of the service supporting node SGSN The second processor 132 of the service support node SGSN reports the charging information to the charging system according to the step of generating the charging information in the heartbeat message reported by the home base station HNB. Specifically, the second processor B2 further includes:

The third processor is configured to generate charging information according to the heartbeat message reported by the network access point, and the fourth processor is configured to upload the generated charging information to the charging system for charging. When discussing that the second processor B2 reports the charging information to the charging system for charging, it is necessary to separately discuss the post-paid and pre-paid situations.

As shown in FIG. 15, if the UE user is a post-paid user, the network access point reports a heartbeat message to the core network device, where the heartbeat message includes traffic information of the bypassed service data of the UE. When the core network device charges the traffic of the service data that the UE is bypassed according to the heartbeat packet, The second processor specifically includes:

The call detail recording unit 151 is configured to generate a call detail record CDR according to the heartbeat message reported by the network access point;

The upload call detail record unit 152 is configured to upload the call detail record CDR to the billing gateway CG for billing.

As shown in FIG. 16, if the user of the UE is a prepaid user, the network access point reports a heartbeat message to the core network, where the heartbeat message includes traffic information of the service data that the UE is bypassed. And/or the duration, the CAMEL message of the UE, so that the core network charges the traffic and/or the duration of the service data that the UE is bypassed according to the heartbeat packet, where the second processor specifically includes :

The message sending unit 161 is configured to report the heartbeat message to the SCP, so that the SCP obtains the prepaid message of the corresponding UE.

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The information reporting unit 162 is configured to send traffic information and/or duration information of the bypassed service data included in the heartbeat message to the service control point SCP, so that the SCP is configured according to the UE. Pre-paid information, and traffic and/or duration information of the service data bypassed by the UE, refreshing the remaining traffic and/or duration information of the UE;

The balance receiving unit 163 is configured to receive remaining traffic and/or duration information of the UE after the service control point SCP is refreshed. For each user equipment UE, the home base station HNB must define a separate heartbeat message for each user equipment UE, and report the corresponding heartbeat message to the service support node SGSN, so as to complete the UE for each user. Corresponding billing.

The network access point device provided in this embodiment uses the home base station HNB as the network access point, but the network access point device can extend the network access point to other network access point devices such as a macro base station, and the implementation thereof The principles are completely consistent, and any variations or substitutions are readily conceivable within the scope of the present invention by those skilled in the art. Therefore, the protection scope of the flow calculation method of the present invention should be based on the protection scope of the corresponding claims. Example 4 The invention further discloses a flow rate fee network, as shown in FIG. 17, comprising: optionally, the network access point can be used to define a heartbeat message;

The core network is configured to receive a heartbeat message sent by the network access point, and perform flow rate and/or duration information according to the heartbeat message.

In this embodiment, the network access point is the home base station HNB 172, and the core network 173 includes a service support point SGSN 1731 and a charging system 1732. The home base station HNB 172 defines a heartbeat message and sends the heartbeat message to the core network 173. The support point SGSN 1731, the service support point SGSN 1731 generates charging information, and reports the charging information to the charging system 1732, thereby completing charging of the traffic generated by the user equipment UE 171.

The heartbeat message defined by the network access point includes the user equipment UE information, the uploading data of the user equipment UE in the last statistical time, and/or the duration and the last statistics used by the bypassed service data in the previous statistical period. The time during which the data downloaded by the user equipment UE and/or the last statistical period is bypassed by the service data.

For the service performed by each user equipment UE, the home base station HNB defines the heartbeat message corresponding to each user equipment UE and reports the corresponding heartbeat message to the service support node SGSN.

The heartbeat message defined by the network access point is a custom message, a DNS message, or a DHCP message. The network access point is a home base station HNB or a macro base station.

The core network includes:

Service support point SGSN 1731, used to generate billing information;

The charging system 1732 is configured to receive the charging information sent from the service support point SGSN and perform charging.

The heartbeat message defined by the home base station HNB is a custom message, a DNS message, or a DHCP message. Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the present invention can be implemented by means of software plus necessary general hardware, and of course, by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation. . Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention, which is essential or contributes to the prior art, may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a readable storage medium, such as a floppy disk of a computer. , hard disk or CD, etc., including a number of instructions to make a meter The computer device (which may be a personal computer, server, or network device, etc.) performs the methods described in various embodiments of the present invention.

The above is only the specific embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think of changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention. It should be covered by the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the invention should be determined by the scope of the claims.

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A flow rate method, comprising: the network access point reporting a heartbeat message to a core network, where the heartbeat message includes traffic information of the bypassed service data of the UE and/or The duration information is such that the core network charges the traffic of the service data bypassed by the UE according to the heartbeat message.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the heartbeat message further comprises a user equipment UE

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The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the traffic information of the service data bypassed by the UE includes the uplink data traffic of the user equipment UE in the last statistical period and the last statistical period. The data traffic downloaded by the user equipment UE.

The method according to claim 1, wherein the network access point reports a heartbeat message to the core network, where the heartbeat message includes traffic information of the bypassed service data of the UE and/or The duration information is used to enable the core network to charge the traffic information and/or the duration information of the service data that the UE is bypassed according to the heartbeat packet, specifically:

GPRS service support point The SGSN generates charging information according to the traffic information and/or duration information of the service data bypassed by the UE in the heartbeat message;

GPRS Service Support Point The SGSN uploads the billing information to the billing system for billing.

The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein, if the user of the UE is a post-paid user, the network access point reports a heartbeat message to the core network, and the heartbeat report The information includes the traffic information and/or the duration information of the service data that is bypassed by the UE, so that the core network charges the traffic of the service data bypassed by the UE according to the heartbeat packet, specifically:

The GPRS service support node SGSN uploads the call detail record CDR to the charging gateway CG for charging.

The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein, if the user of the UE is a prepaid user, the network access point reports a heartbeat message to the core network, and the heartbeat report The text includes that the UE is bypassed The traffic information and/or the duration of the service data, so that the core network charges the traffic of the service data that the UE is bypassed according to the heartbeat packet, specifically:

GPRS service support node The SGSN reports the heartbeat message to the SCP, so that the SCP obtains the prepaid message of the corresponding UE.

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The GPRS service support node SGSN sends the traffic information and/or the duration information of the bypassed service data included in the heartbeat message to the service control point SCP, so that the SCP is prepaid according to the UE. Information, and traffic information and/or duration information of the service data bypassed by the UE, refreshing the remaining traffic information and/or duration information of the UE;

The GPRS service supporting node SGSN receives the remaining traffic information and/or duration information of the UE after the service control point SCP is refreshed.

The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

The network access point defines a heartbeat message.

The method according to claim 1, wherein the network access point periodically reports the heartbeat message to the core network.

The method according to claim 1, wherein the heartbeat message reported by the network access point to the core network is a custom message, a DNS message or a DHCP message.

10. A network access point device, comprising:

a first processor, configured to detect service data that the user equipment UE is bypassed;

The sender sends a heartbeat message to the core network, where the heartbeat message includes traffic information and/or duration information of the service data bypassed by the UE, so that the core network performs the message according to the heartbeat message. The UE is charged by the traffic of the bypassed service data.

The device according to claim 10, further comprising:

The second processor is configured to define a heartbeat message.

12. The device according to claim 10, wherein the transmitter periodically reports the heartbeat message to a core network.

13. The device according to claim 10, wherein the heartbeat message transmitted by the transmitter further comprises user equipment UE information.

The device according to claim 10, wherein the traffic information of the service data bypassed by the UE includes the uplink data traffic of the user equipment UE in the last statistical period and the last statistical period. Data traffic downloaded by the user equipment UE.

The device according to claim 10, wherein the heartbeat message reported by the first sender is a custom message, a DNS message or a DHCP message.

16. A core network device, comprising:

a receiver, configured to receive a heartbeat message reported by the network access point, where the heartbeat message includes traffic information and/or duration information of the service data of the UE being bypassed;

And a second processor, configured to perform charging, according to the heartbeat message, traffic information and/or duration information of the service data that the UE is bypassed.

The device according to claim 16, wherein the second processor comprises:

The third processor is configured to generate charging information according to the heartbeat message reported by the network access point, and the fourth processor is configured to upload the generated charging information to the charging system for charging.

The device according to claim 16, wherein, if the UE user is a post-paid user, the network access point reports a heartbeat message to the core network device, where the heartbeat message includes the UE The traffic information and/or the duration information of the bypassed service data, so that the core network device charges the traffic information and/or the duration information of the service data bypassed by the UE according to the heartbeat message. The second processor specific packet generates a call detail recording unit, configured to generate a call detail record CDR according to the heartbeat message reported by the network access point;

Uploading a call detail recording unit for uploading the call detail record CDR to the charging gateway CG for counting

The device according to claim 16, wherein, if the user of the UE is a prepaid user, the network access point reports a heartbeat message to the core network, where the heartbeat message includes the UE Traffic information and/or duration information of the bypassed service data, so that the core network charges the traffic information and/or duration information of the service data bypassed by the UE according to the heartbeat message. The second processor specifically includes: a message sending unit, configured to report a heartbeat message to the SCP, so that the SCP obtains pre-paid information of the corresponding UE; An information reporting unit, configured to send traffic information and/or duration information of the bypassed service data included in the heartbeat message to a service control point SCP, so that the SCP is prepaid according to the UE The fee information, and the traffic information and/or duration information of the service data bypassed by the UE, refresh the remaining traffic information and/or duration information of the UE;

The balance receiving unit is configured to receive remaining traffic information and/or duration information of the UE after the service control point SCP is refreshed.