Telephone Charging Systems

Charging CDR (Call detail Records) IP-DR (IP Detail Records)

Petri Noponen, 60136B

Charging
3GPP :Charging A function where whereby information related to chargeable operation is formatted and transferred in order to make it possible to determine usage for which the charged party may be billed
OMA(Open Mobile Alliance): Payment A mechanism by which funds are moved from the customer to the merchant in exchanged for goods and/or services. It may be on a per transaction basis, or may be aggregated over a number of transactions

Charging separates payment for the content payment for the use of mobile domain (wireless bearer, mobile context: presence) Accounting means gathering also non-charging data.

Charging

3GPP CHARGING (Course book) -generating -formatting -transferring of data records Charging (Course book)
Generated charging info Transformation Normalization Correlation of usage data Charging Might focus also prerating -> prepaid accounts (prepaid SIM, mobile wallet)

3GPP TS 32.240 V6.0.0 (2004-09) Release 6 charging: a function within the telecommunications network and the associated OCS/BD components whereby information related to a chargeable event is collected, formatted, transferred and evaluated in order to make it possible to determine usage for which the charged party may be billed.

Billing
Billing process: Bill or invoice presentation, settlements, clearing, taxation, general ledger entries

Postpaid or prepaid (IN) Offline or online (hotbilling) Mediation Raw CDR- TAP file clearing house operators billing system

Case: GSM roaming

Clearing house

Telecom network
raw-CDR storage Mediator Billing system Billing system Mediator raw-CDR storage

Operator 1
Invoice

Operator 2

Customer

CDR
3GPP Release 6

3GPP TS 32.240 V6.0.0 (2004-09), Release 6 Charging architecture

3GPP TS 32.240 V6.0.0 (2004-09), Release 6 Charging documents

3GPP TS 32.298 V1.0.0 (2004-09) Release 6 Charging Data Record (CDR) CDR parameters Generic parameters Bearer level parameters CS domain parameters (circuit data/speech) PS domain parameters (GPRS) WLAN parameters Subsystem level (IMS) Service level (MMS,LCS)

IP-DR
www.ipdr.org

IPDR High level model

http://www.ipdr.org/public/DocumentMap/BSR-NDM-U3.5.0.1.pdf

Reference model for exchanging IPDRs

http://www.ipdr.org/public/DocumentMap/BSR-NDM-U3.5.0.1.pdf

IPDR record flow

http://www.ipdr.org/public/DocumentMap/BSR-NDM-U3.5.0.1.pdf

IPDR parameters
http://www.ipdr.org/public/DocumentMap/BSR-NDM-U3.5.0.1.pdf

Who responsible for the usage

User ID

When
End time or Event time

What
Service, usage measures/quantities, QoS measures, state info, event code

Where
traceability/context, Source/Destination/service element(originator) identifiers

Why
Event trigger type (service/network element)

IP-DR : (VOIP)
http://www.ipdr.org/public/Service_Specifications/3.X/VoIP3.5-A.0.1.pdf

IP-DR : (VOIP)
http://www.ipdr.org/public/Service_Specifications/3.X/VoIP3.5-A.0.1.pdf

IPDR elements
http://www.ipdr.org/public/DocumentMap/BSR-NDM-U3.5.0.1.pdf

Case:WiFi roaming
http://www.ipdr.org/public/DocumentMap/BSR-NDM-U3.5.0.1.pdf