System for bearer binding and event reporting function relocation and method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9277592-B2
Application number	US-200913258893-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 7, 2009
Priority date	Jul 20, 2009
Publication date	Mar 1, 2016
Grant date	Mar 1, 2016

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method for a bearer binding and event report function relocation so as to implement deferred linking of the policy and charging control session in the roaming scenario. The present invention implements the deferred linking of the policy and charging control session in roaming scenarios of home roaming and local breakout by establishing a new subsession of the S9 session between a visited PCRF and a home PCRF in a process of the BBERF relocation, and linking the new subsession of the S9 session to the Gxx session established between the destination BBERF and the visited PCRF and the corresponding Gx session.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for a Bearer Binding and Event Report Function (BBERF) relocation comprising:
after a first IP Connectivity Access Network (IP-CAN) session is established for a User Equipment (UE) in an Evolved Packet System (EPS) and a first gateway control session, a first Gx session, an S9 session and a first subsession of the S9 session that perform policy control on the first IP-CAN session are established, in a process of the BBERF relocation:
establishing a second subsession of the S9 session between a visited Policy and Charging Rule Function (PCRF) and a home PCRF, and linking a second gateway control session established between a destination BBERF and the visited PCRF to the second subsession;
if an IP-CAN session modification indication message sent by a Policy and Charging Execution Function (PCEF) is received, then the home PCRF linking the first Gx session that the IP-CAN session modification indication message requests to modify to the second subsession based on session identifier information contained in the IP-CAN session modification indication message; and
if an IP-CAN session establishment indication message sent by the PCEF is received, then the home PCRF linking a second Gx session that the IP-CAN session establishment indication message requests to establish to the second subsession based on session identifier information contained in the IP-CAN session establishment indication message.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein:
after receiving a gateway control session establishment indication message sent by the destination BBERF, the visited PCRF establishes the second subsession with thehome PCRF based on a deferred linking indication and session identifier information contained in the gateway control session establishment indication message, and links the second gateway control session that the gateway control session establishment indication message requests to establish to the second subsession.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the visited PCRF establishes the second subsession by sending an 89 session modification indication message containing the deferred linking indication and session identifier information to the home PCRF.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein:
after receiving the S9 session modification indication message, the home PCRF sends an S9 session modification acknowledgement message containing a default Quality of Service (QoS) policy made for a user to the visited PCRF based on the deferred linking indication and session identifier information; and after receiving the S9 session modification acknowledgement message, the visited PCRF sends a gateway control session establishment acknowledgement message containing the default QoS policy to the destination BBERF.

5. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the session identifier information contains a user identifier and a packet data network identifier.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein:
after linking the first Gx session to the second subsession, the home PCRF sends a Policy and Charging Control (PCC) policy made for the user to the PCEF through the first Ox session and sends the QoS poiicy made for the user to the visited PCRF through the second subsession, and the visited PCRF sends the QoS policy to the destination BBERF through the second gateway control session; or
after linking the second Ox session to the second subsession, the home PCRF sends the PCC policy made for the user to the PCEF through the second Ox session and sends the QoS policy made for the user to the visited PCRF through the second subsession, and the visited PCRF sends the QoS policy to the destination BBERF through the second gateway control session.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the session identifier information contains a user identifier and a packet data network identifier.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the session identifier information contains a user identifier and a packet data network identifier.

9. A method for a Bearer Binding and Event Report Function (BBERF) relocation comprising:
after a first IP Connectivity Access Network (IP-CAN) session is established for a User Equipment (UE) in an Evolved Packet System (EPS) and a first gateway control session first Gx session, an S9 session and a first subsession of the S9 session that perform policy control on the first IP-CAN session are established, in a process of the BBERF relocation:
establishing a second gateway control session between a destination BBERF and a visited Policy and Charging Rule Function (PCRF);
if an IP-CAN session modification indication message sent by a Policy and Charging Execution Function (PCEF) is received, then the visited PCRF linking the first Gx session that the IP-CAN session modification indication message requests to modify to the second gateway control session based on session identifier information contained in the CAN session modification indication message, establishing a second subsession of the S9 session with the home PCRF; and
if an IP-CAN session establishment indication message sent by the PCEF is received, then the visited PCRF linking a second Gx session that the IP-CAN session establishment indication message requests to establish to the second gateway control session based on session identifier information contained in the IP-CAN session establishment indication message, establishing the second subsession of the S9 session with the home PCRF.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein:
the policy modified or newly made by the home PORE contains Policy and charging Control (PCC) rules; and after obtaining the PCC rules modified or newly made by the home PCRF through the second subsession, the visited PCRF sends the PCC rules to the PCEF through the first Gx session, makes corresponding Quality of Service (QoS) rules based on the PCC rules, and sends the QoS rules to the destination BBERF through the second gateway control session.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the session identifier information contains a user identifier and a packet data network identifier.

12. The method according to claim 9 , wherein
after receiving the IP-CAN session modification indication message, the visited PCRF establishes the second subsession by sending an S9 session modification indication message containing an execution indication to the home PORE, the execution indication being used for indicating the home PORE to modify a policy for the user; after receiving the S9 session modification indication message, the home PORE sends an S9 session modification acknowledgement message containing the policy modified for the user to the visited PCRF based on the execution indication; or after receiving the IP-CAN session establishment indication message, the visited PCRF establishes the second subsession by sending an S9 session modification indication message containing the execution indication to the home PCRF, the execution indication being used for indicating the home PCRF to make a policy for the user; after receiving the S9 session modification indication message, the home PCRF sends an S9 session modification acknowledgement message containing the policy made for the user to the visited PCRF based on the execution indication.

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the session identifier information contains a user identifier and a packet data network identifier.

14. The method according to claim 9 , wherein:
the destination BBERF establishes the second gateway control session by sending a gateway control session establishment indication message containing a deferred linking ind

Assignees

• Zhou Xiaoyun
• Zong Zaifeng
• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Zhou Xiaoyun
• Zong Zaifeng

Classifications

• H04W76/028

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M15/8038

  Roaming or handoff · CPC title

• H04W76/021

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M15/66

  Policy and charging system · CPC title

• H04W92/24 Primary

  between backbone network devices · CPC title