Gy Interface Support
▀ Features and Terminology
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Features and Terminology
This section describes features and terminology pertaining to Gy functionality.
Charging Scenarios
Important:
Online charging for events (“Immediate Event Charging” and “Event Charging with Reservation”) is
not supported. Only “Session Charging with Reservation” is supported.
Session Charging with Reservation
Session Charging with Unit Reservation is used for credit control of sessions.
Decentralized Unit Determination and Centralized Rating
In this scenario, the CTF requests the reservation of units prior to session supervision. An account debit operation is
carried out following the conclusion of session termination.
Centralized Unit Determination and Centralized Rating
In this scenario, the CTF requests the OCS to reserve units based on the session identifiers specified by the CTF. An
account debit operation is carried out following the conclusion of session.
Decentralized Unit Determination and Decentralized Rating
Important:
Decentralized Rating is not supported in this release. Decentralized Unit determination is done using
CLI configuration.
In this scenario, the CTF requests the OCS to assure the reservation of an amount of the specified number of monetary
units from the subscriber's account. An account debit operation that triggers the deduction of the amount from the
subscriber's account is carried out following the conclusion of session establishment.
Basic Operations
Important:
Immediate Event Charging is not supported in this release. “Reserve Units Request” and “Reserve
Units Response” are done for Session Charging and not for Event Charging.
Online credit control uses the basic logical operations “Debit Units” and “Reserve Units”.
Debit Units Request; sent from CTF to OCS: After receiving a service request from the subscriber, the CTF
sends a Debit Units Request to the OCS. The CTF may either specify a service identifier (centralised unit
determination) or the number of units requested (decentralised unit determination). For refund purpose, the
CTF sends a Debit Units Request to the OCS as well.