Design and Implementation of an Extensible Online Charging Architecture for the Open IMS Playground

Author

Chen, Shengyao ; Weik, Peter

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. FOKUS, Berlin

fYear

2007

fDate

21-23 May 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper outlines the design and implementation of a prototypical IMS online charging architecture compliant to 3GPP Rel. 6 specifications for the Open IMS Playground of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS. It describes the integration of an IMS Gateway Function (IMS GWF) into a SIP application server to be able to carry out IMS session control for prepaid subscribers as well as service level credit management. After a brief introduction to the IMS charging concepts, the paper explains the design of the integrated IMS GWF and of the extendable Online Charging Server. It highlights the implementation details of the two components and gives some deployment and operation details. The implemented IMS online charging architecture was validated with the real-time supervision of an IMS voice call service between two subscribers.

Keywords

IP networks; multimedia communication; network servers; signalling protocols; extensible online charging architecture; gateway function; open IMS playground; service level credit management; session control; Authorization; Concrete; Context; IP networks; Multimedia communication; Protocols; Prototypes; Time factors; Credit Control; Diameter; IMS; Online Charging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities, 2007. TridentCom 2007. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lake Buena Vista, FL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0739-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0739-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444685

Filename

4444685