Billing - Standards

3GPP Early Releases Charging Reference Points

Bx

BD
Bc B* MSC AS AS
Ga

Bo

CAP Ro

CGF

CDF

Rf

MRFC MGCF BGCF P/S/ICSCF Ro

OCS

Wf Ga

S-CSCF

ISC

IMS GW

Ro

NEs

WLAN GGSN SGSN

Wo Gy CAP Gy

Gz

TPF

OFFLINE CHARGING

Gx

ONLINE CHARGING Rx AF

CRF

3GPP Release 6
Billing Domain CS-NE Service -NE SIP AS Bx MRFC MGCF Ga CDF Rf BGCF P-CSCF I-CSCF S-CSCF Wf WLAN SGSN GGSN TPF OFFLINE CHARGING CRF ONLINE CHARGING Ro ISC IMS GWF OCS

CGF

AF

Offline Charging Architecture

Reference from 3GPP 32.260-640

Online charging
Reference from 3GPP 32.260-640

3GPP Charging Standards

SA5 SWGB
32.240 Charging Architecture and principles (Stage 2) (T-Mobile)

1) a common charging architecture and principles TS as the top tier;

SA5 SWGB Rapp Service Charging
32.270 MMS (Siemens) 32.271 LCS (Siemens) 32.27x <Service> (Siemens)

SA5 SWGB Rapp Bearer Charging RG

32.250 CSdomain 32.251 PSdomain (Nortel) WLAN 32.252

SA5 Rapp IMS

32.260 IMS (Lucent) (Nokia)

2) domainspecific stage 3 TSs in the middle Level;

CAP

FTP

CDRs

DIAMETER

CN2

SA5 SWGB

29.078
CAMEL

OCS Description (TMobile/Amdocs)

32.296

Common Bx Interface Description (Nortel)

32.297

Common ASN.1 Module (T-Mobile)

32.298

Charging Protocol Description (Accounting and Credit Control Application) Diameter (Nokia)

32.299

3) common charging blocks to all domains at the lower tier.

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