CN102695154B - Billing processing method, device and system based on base station direct architecture - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a base station straight-through architecture-base method, device and system for charging process. The method comprises the steps as follows: receiving a charging request message sent by at least one base station, the charging request message consists of a user mark, a dialogue mark and a base station mark, flow information corresponding to communication interaction, and a time mark; inquiring all the charging request messages, acquiring a base station mark to be processed and corresponding to the user mark to be processed, the dialogue mark to be processed and the time mark to be processed, and executing charging process according to a preset communication charging rate corresponding to the dialogue mark; and generating and transmitting a communication list corresponding to the user mark to be processed and the dialogue mark to be processed to an account system to serve the account system to execute charge-deducting, so that management, control and charging to service data of the communication interaction based on the base station straight-through architecture are achieved.

Description

Billing processing method, device and system based on base station direct architecture

technical field

The embodiments of the present invention relate to the technical field of communications, and in particular, to a charging processing method, device and system based on a base station direct architecture.

Background technique

In a communication system with a base station direct architecture, a large number of multimedia services are transmitted between base stations in the access network without passing through the core network. Currently, the billing system on the core network side cannot manage, control and bill the business data that communicates and interacts based on the base station direct architecture. Therefore, it is urgent to configure a corresponding billing system for the system.

Contents of the invention

Aiming at the above-mentioned defects in the prior art, embodiments of the present invention provide a charging processing method, device and system based on a base station direct architecture.

One aspect of the present invention provides a charging processing method based on a base station direct architecture, including:

Receive a charging request message sent by at least one base station, where the charging request message is sent by the base station after learning that a communication interaction of the user equipment has ended, and the charging request message includes: a user identifier, a session identifier, and a base station identifier , and traffic information and time identifier corresponding to the communication interaction;

Query all the charging request messages received, obtain the pending base station ID and average flow information corresponding to the pending user ID, pending session ID and pending time ID, and The corresponding communication rate is billed;

generating a communication bill corresponding to the user ID to be processed and the session ID to be processed and sending it to the accounting system for the accounting system to debit the account corresponding to the user ID to be processed fee processing.

Another aspect of the present invention provides a billing processing device, including:

The receiving module is configured to receive a charging request message sent by at least one base station, the charging request message is sent by the base station after learning that a communication interaction of the user equipment is completed, and the charging request message includes: user identification, A session identifier and a base station identifier, as well as flow information and time identifiers corresponding to the communication interaction;

An acquisition module, configured to inquire about all billing request messages received, and acquire base station identifiers to be processed and average flow information corresponding to user identifiers to be processed, session identifiers to be processed, and time identifiers to be processed;

A billing module, configured to perform billing processing according to a preset communication rate corresponding to the session identifier;

A sending module, configured to generate a communication bill corresponding to the user ID to be processed and the session ID to be processed and send it to the accounting system, so that the accounting system can compare the user ID to be processed The corresponding account will be debited.

Yet another aspect of the present invention provides a billing processing system based on a base station direct architecture, including: a management control center and multiple base stations, wherein the management control center includes the above-mentioned billing processing device.

In the charging processing method, device and system based on the base station direct architecture provided by the embodiments of the present invention, the management control center receives the charging request message sent by at least one base station after knowing that a communication interaction of the user equipment is completed, and queries the received For all billing request messages, obtain the pending base station identification and average traffic information corresponding to the pending user identification, pending session identification and pending time identification, and calculate according to the preset communication rate corresponding to the session identification Carry out billing processing, so as to realize the management, control and billing of business data for communication interaction based on the base station direct architecture.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a service data transmission mode in an existing mobile communication system;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a base station direct communication system;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of an embodiment of the charging processing method based on the base station direct architecture of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart of another embodiment of the charging processing method based on the base station direct architecture of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of the billing processing device of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of another embodiment of the billing processing device of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a charging processing system based on a base station direct architecture according to the present invention.

Detailed ways

Figure 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the service data transmission mode in the existing mobile communication system. As shown in Figure 1, in the existing mobile communication system, the user needs to traverse the access network and the core network to obtain service data through the user equipment, so that Access to the Internet Internet or business platform server. Specifically: for uplink transmission, the service data is transmitted to the service gateway S-GW through the base station, and the service gateway is handed over to the packet data network gateway P-GW to access the service platform or access the Internet. For downlink transmission, the service server reversely transmits the service data to the base station to which the user equipment receiving the service data belongs, and the base station then transmits the service data to the user equipment. For the service data transmission mode of the mobile communication system shown in Figure 1, the corresponding billing system is deployed on the core network side, mainly including the offline billing system and the online billing system. The source of billing information, there is a billing trigger function CTF in these units, and the offline billing system is specifically: CTF transfers the billing information to the billing data function CDF module through the Rf interface to generate standard billing data , and then aggregate the billing data to the billing gateway CGF through the interface Ga, and the CGF uniformly transmits the billing information to the billing domain; the online billing system is specifically: the CTF transmits the information to the online billing gateway through the Ro interface or the CAP interface Fee system OCS for processing.

For the service data transmission mode of the mobile communication system shown in Figure 1, since it needs to traverse the wireless access network and the core network in the whole process, on the one hand, the transmission delay of service data will be increased to a certain extent; on the other hand, such Whether it is the business data accessing the Internet or the business data interacting between users, it will converge to the core network. The data processing capacity of the core network and the transmission resources for converging and accessing will all face enormous pressure, and will gradually become a network bottleneck. To support the transmission of huge data services, a communication system with a base station direct architecture supporting base station direct connection is proposed. Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the communication system of the base station through architecture. As shown in Fig. 2, the system includes a management control center and a plurality of base stations, specifically: the management control center is connected with each base station, and each base station has a The interface between base station equipment used for direct data transmission between base stations. Utilizing the data direct connection between base stations of the base station direct architecture, the service data is deployed marginally on the wireless access network side, and the service data is deployed in the base station, and the control plane protocol stack and user plane protocol stack of the interface between the above-mentioned base station equipment Both support the processing of service data deployed on the access network side, so for the base station direct architecture communication system shown in Figure 2, the transmission of service data is only completed in the access network part without passing through the core network. The data transmission method shown in Figure 1 reduces the time delay for the user equipment to obtain service data. Therefore, if the charging system and method shown in Figure 1 are used, the service data transmission method shown in Figure 2 cannot be performed. Control and billing. The present invention proposes a billing system, device and method corresponding to a data transmission mode based on the base station direct architecture communication system shown in FIG. 2 .

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the charging processing method based on the base station direct architecture of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 3, the method includes:

Step 100, receiving a charging request message sent by at least one base station, the charging request message is sent by the base station after learning that a communication interaction of the user equipment is completed, and the charging request message includes: user identification, session identification and the base station identifier, as well as the flow information and time stamp corresponding to the communication interaction;

Referring to the base station direct communication system shown in Figure 2, the system includes: a management control center and multiple base stations, and a charging system for charging service data transmitted based on the access network is deployed in the management control center Processing device.

The service data transmission based on the base station direct architecture communication system supporting base station direct communication shown in FIG. The request includes session ID, user ID and target user ID. The source base station obtains the target base station according to the target user ID, and determines the next step according to the routing table for direct data transmission between its own base station and other base stations and the resource utilization of each base station. Hop the base station, and forward the session request to the next hop base station. After receiving the session request sent by the source base station, the next hop base station establishes a communication link corresponding to the communication interaction with the source base station, and determines the next hop base station , the process of determining the next-hop base station is similar to that of the source base station, and will not be repeated here. When the target base station receives the session request and establishes a communication link corresponding to the communication interaction, it returns a link establishment success response to the source base station, so that the source base station performs the communication through the established communication link with the target base station Interaction, when the communication interaction ends, the source base station or the target base station sends a session end identifier including a session identifier, so that each base station participating in the communication interaction releases the communication link corresponding to the session identifier according to the session end identifier. After each base station releases the communication link corresponding to the session ID, it sends a charging request message to the charging processing device located in the management control center. The charging request message includes: user ID, session ID and base station ID, and The traffic information and time identifier corresponding to the communication interaction, among which, the user identifier is used to distinguish different user equipment, and the session identifier is used to indicate the content of the communication interaction performed by the user equipment, such as video service, voice service, data service, etc., the base station The identifier distinguishes different base stations. Therefore, the charging processing apparatus receives the charging request message sent by at least one base station after learning that one communication interaction of the user equipment is completed.

Step 101, query all the charging request messages received, obtain the pending base station identification and the average traffic information corresponding to the pending user identification, the pending session identification and the pending time identification, and according to the preset Perform billing processing at the communication rate corresponding to the session identifier;

The charging processing device receives a charging request message sent by at least one base station, and performs charging processing according to the charging request message. It should be noted that the time for the billing processing device to perform billing processing can be flexibly set according to actual application needs, for example, billing processing can be performed in real time, which is equivalent to the online billing method in the embodiment shown in Figure 1; In a certain period of time, for example, when the processing resources are abundant, the unified processing is equivalent to the offline charging method in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 . The billing processing device queries all the billing request messages received at the preset time, obtains the base station identifier to be processed corresponding to the user identifier to be processed, the session identifier to be processed and the time identifier to be processed, and according to each The flow information corresponding to the base station identifiers to be processed and the number of base station identifiers to be processed are used to obtain the average flow information of communication interactions corresponding to the user identifiers to be processed, the session identifiers to be processed, and the time identifiers to be processed. It should be noted that , the amount of data in one communication interaction will be recorded differently in each base station due to uncertain factors of the wireless communication link such as interference. For example: the video communication interaction performed by user equipment A at 9:00-9:10 involves base station 1, base station 2, and base station 3, the flow information of the video communication interaction reported by base station 1 is 80K, and the traffic information reported by base station 2 is The flow information of the video communication interaction is 78K and the flow information of the video communication interaction reported by base station 3 is 82K, then the average flow information of the video communication interaction performed by user equipment A at 9:00-9:10 is (80+78 +82)/3=80. The billing processing device queries the preset communication rate corresponding to the session identifier to perform billing processing. For example, if the preset communication fee rate corresponding to the video service is uniformly set to w, the billing processing device calculates that the product of the average flow information 80K corresponding to the video communication interaction and the communication fee rate w is the user identification The communication fee corresponding to the video communication interaction performed within the time stamp. If the resource utilization rate for data direct transmission in the communication system that supports base station direct transmission varies greatly in different time periods, in order to coordinate the time of resource utilization, the communication rate can be set in a time-sharing manner, for example, at 9:00 a.m. From 00 to 12:00, the video communication interaction service is relatively idle, and from 18:00 to 21:00, the video communication interaction service is relatively busy, so the communication rate corresponding to the video service between 9:00 and 12:00 is lower than 18: Communication rates corresponding to video services between 00 and 21:00.

Step 102: Generate a communication bill corresponding to the user ID to be processed and the session ID to be processed and send it to the accounting system, so that the accounting system can check the communication bill corresponding to the user ID to be processed The account is debited.

After the billing processing device performs billing processing according to the obtained base station identifier to be processed, the session identifier to be processed and the preset communication rate, a communication bill corresponding to the user identifier to be processed and the session identifier to be processed is generated And send it to the accounting system, so that the accounting system debits the account corresponding to the user ID to be processed. It should be noted that the accounting system mentioned in the embodiment of the present invention may be the accounting system deployed in the core network in the prior art, or it may be an accounting system deployed separately for the charging process of the access network. This embodiment does not limit it.

In the charging processing method based on the base station direct architecture provided in this embodiment, the management control center receives the charging request message sent by at least one base station after learning that a communication interaction of the user equipment is completed, and queries all the received charging request messages , obtaining the base station identifier to be processed and the average traffic information corresponding to the user identifier to be processed, the session identifier to be processed and the time identifier to be processed, and performing charging processing according to the preset communication rate corresponding to the session identifier, In this way, the management, control and charging of business data for communication and interaction based on the base station direct architecture is realized.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart of another embodiment of the charging processing method based on the base station direct architecture of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the method includes:

Step 200, receiving a charging request message sent by at least one base station, the charging request message is sent by the base station after learning that a communication interaction of the user equipment is completed, and the charging request message includes: user ID, session ID and the base station identifier, as well as the flow information and time stamp corresponding to the communication interaction;

Step 201, query all the charging request messages received, obtain the base station identification and average flow information corresponding to the user identification to be processed, the session identification to be processed and the time identification to be processed, according to the preset and The communication rate corresponding to the session identifier is charged;

Step 202: Generate a communication bill corresponding to the user ID to be processed and the session ID to be processed and send it to the billing system, so that the billing system can check the bill corresponding to the user ID to be processed The account is debited;

After step 202, the method also includes the following steps:

Step 203, receiving network management information sent by at least one base station, the network management information including base station identification and corresponding service traffic distribution information and resource utilization information;

Based on the above embodiment, further, since the resource utilization of each base station changes dynamically with the service load, a time period is set in advance at each base station so that the base station reports the network management information in time to reflect the resource utilization according to the preset time. If the load condition of the base station changes frequently, the reporting period may be shorter; if the load condition of the base station changes slowly, the reporting period may be longer. Each base station sends network management information to the billing processing device at a preset time, and the network management information specifically includes base station identifiers and corresponding service flow distribution information and resource utilization information.

Step 204, adjust the communication fee rate corresponding to the session identifier according to the network management information.

The billing processing device analyzes the received network management information to obtain the base station identification and the corresponding service flow distribution information and resource utilization information, so as to dynamically adjust the communication rate according to the network management information, such as analyzing the resource utilization of the video communication service reported by each base station Rate, if the number of base stations whose resource utilization rate exceeds the preset threshold reaches a preset threshold, the communication rate corresponding to the video communication service will be raised.

In the charging processing method based on the base station direct architecture provided in this embodiment, the management control center receives the charging request message sent by at least one base station after learning that a communication interaction of the user equipment is completed, and queries all the received charging request messages , obtaining the base station identifier to be processed and the average traffic information corresponding to the user identifier to be processed, the session identifier to be processed and the time identifier to be processed, and performing charging processing according to the preset communication rate corresponding to the session identifier, In this way, the management, control and billing of service data based on the communication interaction under the base station direct architecture is realized, and the billing processing device in this embodiment dynamically adjusts the communication fee rate according to the network management information sent by each base station, and more reasonably realizes the communication based on The business data for communication interaction under the direct communication architecture of the base station is managed, controlled and billed.

Those of ordinary skill in the art can understand that all or part of the steps for realizing the above-mentioned method embodiments can be completed by hardware related to program instructions, and the aforementioned program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. When the program is executed, the It includes the steps of the above method embodiments; and the aforementioned storage medium includes: ROM, RAM, magnetic disk or optical disk and other various media that can store program codes.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of the billing processing device of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 5, the billing processing device includes: a receiving module 11, an acquisition module 12, a billing module 13 and a sending module 14, wherein the receiving module 11 is used to receive a charging request message sent by at least one base station. The charging request message is sent by the base station after knowing that a communication interaction of the user equipment is over. The charging request message includes: user identification, session identification and base station identification, and The traffic information and time identifier corresponding to the communication interaction; the obtaining module 12 is used to query all the charging request messages received, and obtain the pending user identifier corresponding to the pending session identifier and the pending time identifier. The processed base station identification and average traffic information; the billing module 13 is used to perform charging processing according to the preset communication rate corresponding to the session identification; the sending module 14 is used to generate the user identification to be processed and the session identification to be processed The corresponding communication bill is sent to the accounting system, so that the accounting system can debit the account corresponding to the user identification to be processed.

For the functions and processing flow of each module in the billing processing device provided in this embodiment, reference may be made to the method embodiment shown above. The implementation principles and technical effects thereof are similar, and will not be repeated here.

Fig. 6 is a structural diagram of another embodiment of the billing processing device of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 6, based on the embodiment shown in Fig. 5, the billing processing device further includes: an adjustment module 15, and the receiving module 11 is also used to The network management information sent by at least one base station, the network management information includes base station identification and corresponding service flow distribution information and resource utilization information; the adjustment module 15 is used to adjust the communication rate according to the network management information.

For the functions and processing flow of each module in the billing processing device provided in this embodiment, reference may be made to the method embodiment shown above. The implementation principles and technical effects thereof are similar, and will not be repeated here.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of the billing processing system based on the base station direct architecture of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 7, the system includes: a management control center 2 and a plurality of base stations 3, and the management control center 2 includes billing processing Device 1, wherein the billing processing device 1 is the billing processing device provided by the embodiment of the present invention, and the management control center 2 and the base station 3 are the management control center and multiple base stations involved in the embodiment of the present invention.

The function and processing flow of each module in the billing processing system based on the base station direct architecture provided in this embodiment can refer to the method embodiment shown above, and its implementation principle and technical effect are similar, and will not be repeated here.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention, rather than to limit them; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those of ordinary skill in the art should understand that: it can still be Modifications are made to the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments, or equivalent replacements are made to some of the technical features; and these modifications or replacements do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions deviate from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the various embodiments of the present invention.

Claims (3)

1. A billing processing method based on base station direct architecture, characterized in that, comprising: Receive a charging request message sent by at least one base station, where the charging request message is sent by the base station after learning that a communication interaction of the user equipment has ended, and the charging request message includes: a user identifier, a session identifier, and a base station identifier , and traffic information and time identifier corresponding to the communication interaction; Query all the charging request messages received, obtain the pending base station ID and average flow information corresponding to the pending user ID, pending session ID and pending time ID, and The corresponding communication rate is billed; generating a communication bill corresponding to the user ID to be processed and the session ID to be processed and sending it to the accounting system for the accounting system to debit the account corresponding to the user ID to be processed fee processing; receiving network management information sent by at least one base station, where the network management information includes base station identifiers and corresponding service flow distribution information and resource utilization information; Adjusting the communication rate according to the network management information. 2. A billing processing device, characterized in that it comprises: The receiving module is configured to receive a charging request message sent by at least one base station, the charging request message is sent by the base station after learning that a communication interaction of the user equipment is completed, and the charging request message includes: user identification, A session identifier and a base station identifier, as well as flow information and time identifiers corresponding to the communication interaction; An acquisition module, configured to inquire about all billing request messages received, and acquire base station identifiers to be processed and average flow information corresponding to user identifiers to be processed, session identifiers to be processed, and time identifiers to be processed; A billing module, configured to perform billing processing according to a preset communication rate corresponding to the session identifier; A sending module, configured to generate a communication bill corresponding to the user ID to be processed and the session ID to be processed and send it to the accounting system, so that the accounting system can compare the user ID to be processed The corresponding account will be debited; The receiving module is further configured to receive network management information sent by at least one base station, where the network management information includes base station identifiers and corresponding service traffic distribution information and resource utilization information; An adjustment module, configured to adjust the communication rate according to the network management information. 3. A billing processing system based on base station direct architecture, comprising: a management control center and multiple base stations, wherein the management control center includes the billing processing device according to claim 2.