ETSI - TS 123 203
Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); LTE; Policy and charging control architecture
Organization: | ETSI |
Publication Date: | 1 September 2014 |
Status: | inactive |
Page Count: | 221 |
scope:
The present document specifies the overall stage 2 level functionality for Policy and Charging Control that encompasses the following high level functions for IP-CANs (e.g. GPRS, I-WLAN, Fixed Broadband, etc.):
- Flow Based Charging for network usage, including charging control and online credit control, for service data flows and application traffic;
- Policy control (e.g. gating control, QoS control, QoS signalling, etc.).
The present document specifies the Policy and Charging Control
functionality for Evolved 3GPP Packet Switched domain, including
both 3GPP accesses (GERAN/UTRAN/E-UTRAN
The present document specifies functionality for unicast bearers. Broadcast and multicast bearers, such as MBMS contexts for GPRS, are out of scope for the present release of this document.