System and method for charging for microwave to switch in global intercommunication system

Abstract

The invention discloses a billing method of a world interoperability for microwave access system, the method comprises: a strategic billing rule generation entity generates billing strategic information against the service of a mobile terminal MS and sends to a strategic billing implementation entity in the WiMAX system; the strategic billing implementation entity in the WiMAX system implements the billing of the service according to the received billing strategic information and the obtained billing information. The method which is provided by the invention defines the fusion of the WiMAX system and a PCC framework, and then the related processing of the billing of the service which is related to the WiMAX system is very conductive to the popularization and the application of the WiMAX system.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a charging technology in a wireless communication system, in particular to a method and system for charging in a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX, Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) system. Background technique [0002] The structure of the WiMAX system is as follows figure 1 As shown, the WiMAX system mainly includes three parts: a mobile terminal (MS, Mobile Station), a service access network (ASN, Access Service Network) and a connection service network (CSN, Connectivity Service Network). Among them, ASN mainly includes base station (BS, Base Station) and access service network gateway (ASN-GW, Access Service Network Gateway), etc.; CSN mainly includes prepaid server (PPS, Prepaid Server) and authentication, authorization and billing server ( AAA, Authentication Authorization Accounting Server) and other logical entities. MS and ASN are connected through R1 interface, MS and CSN...

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Problems solved by technology

[0023] If the PCC architecture is integrated with the WiMAX network, the PCEF should also obtain the charging information from the charging client and / or the charging agent in the ASN when the PCEF performs charging for the service when implementing the PCC rules (there is no such implementation yet. program in detail)

[0024] Although the above solution proposes to associate the access network charging information and the application layer charging information of the same application session, it does not propose how to do the association

In the above solution, the charging policy information in the PCC rule is not delivered to the charging client and / or charging proxy in the ASN, and the charging client and / or charging proxy in the ASN report the charging policy information to the PCEF. When billing information, in theory, it will collect billing information according to the most fine-grained and fully supported methods, and cannot support prepaid methods well, which will cause waste of WiMAX system resources and bandwidth resources

In the above scheme, there is no description of the rate information. The calculation of user charges and the allocation of quotas are carried out according to their own policies. When introducing new services, the policies need to be modified, which is not conducive to the introduction of services.

Furthermore, in the above solution, the mobile of the MS will cause the change of the billing client and / or the billing agent in the ASN, which will lead to the change of the reported billing information

[0025] In addition, in the above solution, the PCEF only charges the service according to the PCC rules, but entities in the WiMAX system cannot charge the service, resulting in fewer policy and charging enforcement entities in WiMAX. When there are many services to be charged, the bottleneck effect

[0026] To sum up, there is currently no solution to integrate the PCC architecture into the WiMAX system to charge MS traffic

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