Introduction
Purpose and scope
This document is aimed to specify B/OSS (PortaBilling) to HSS/PCRF (Greenisis EPC solution by our customer Kleos R&D SASU) provisioning in details enough to implement the same by interoperability parties. This document will be the base for interoperability test (IOT) afterwards.
The document includes the description of protocols used at reference points:
- Transport and application layer protocols used
- Methods to interact
- Data structure to use within methods
The document is designed to cover typical user scenarios encouraging going through use cases one by one from description level to API design level.
The other than “B/OSS to HSS/PCRF provisioning” reference points (like Gy, Ga, etc) are out of scope.
Collaborators
Business Department
Development Department
Testing and Support Departments
Definitions, acronyms and abbreviation
| B/OSS | Business and Operations support systems combined |
| LTE | Long Term Evolution, a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals |
| EPC | Evolved Packet Core, the latest evolution of the 3GPP core network architecture. |
| HSS | Home Subscriber Server, the concatenation of the HLR (Home Location Register - user identification, addressing and profile) and the AuC (Authentication Center) |
| PCRF | Policy and Charging Rules Function, PCRF server manages the service policy and sends QoS setting information for each user session and accounting rule information. |
References
- HSS&PCRF-BOSS Interface Proposal_Appendix E V7 25062015.docx
- 3GPP TS 23.008, 3GPP TS 33.401
- Similar project in the past with Huawei equipment
Overview
LTE (Long Term Evolution) is becoming the new standard for building wireless networks. Numerous benefits in terms of radio technology (which are beyond the scope of this document) allow service providers to deploy the LTE network rapidly and at reduced cost.
PortaBilling can serve as the B/OSS system for LTE services, i.e. it manages customer data (including unified balance), service configuration details, product/rate tables, and so on for LTE just like for other services (VoIP or DSL Internet access).
PortaBilling can also provision customer data into HSS (to allow centralized user authentication across the network) and PCRF (to allocate the correct policy/QoS parameters to the customer).
On PortaBilling side a standard Event Scripts Framework is used (triggered upon creation of a new account, product or service feature change, etc.). The data are provisioned into HSS and PCRF using SOAP as a provisioning protocol.
This document is the step forward to make PortaBilling provisioning customer data to Greenisis EPC platform.
Specifiations
Create "Business requirements" Create "Software requirements" Create "Design requirements"