Signaling overhead of Policy and online Charging Control for bearer sessions in LTE network

Author

Sou, Sok-Ian ; Jeng, Jeu-Yih ; Lee, Yinman

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan

fYear

2009

fDate

25-28 May 2009

Firstpage

593

Lastpage

597

Abstract

The convergence of radio access technologies with all-IP core network has gained significant attention recently. Through the all-IP based policy and charging control (PCC) architecture standardized in 3GPP R8, the charging rules are consistent with application-level and IP-level policy control. It is essential to investigate the signaling overhead incurred by PCC and the OCS management during the mid-session events, such as the handover and QoS changes. To address this issue, this paper investigates PCC and OCS traffic rate over LTE networks.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; IP networks; quality of service; radio access networks; telecommunication congestion control; IP-level policy control; LTE network; QoS; all-IP core network; online charging control; radio access technologies; signaling overhead; 3G mobile communication; Aggregates; Communication system control; Communication system traffic control; Consumer electronics; Downlink; Laboratories; Multimedia systems; Telecommunication control; Telecommunication traffic; Charging management; evolution packet core; handover process; policy control; service continuity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 2009. ISCE '09. IEEE 13th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2975-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2976-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCE.2009.5156916

Filename

5156916