Based on the 5G Service-Based Architecture (SBA), the Converged Charging System (CCS) provides real-time billing and monetization capabilities. It integrates the Charging Data Function (CDF) and Charging Gateway Function (CGF) to support online, offline, and convergent charging models, enabling diverse 5G services such as voice, data, IoT, and network slicing for Industry 4.0.
The Charging Function (CHF) receives Nchf interface messages sent from the SMF and handles the routing and forwarding of these messages..
The Charging Data Function (CDF) collects billing messages, generates corresponding Charging Data Records (CDRs), and sends them to the Charging Gateway Function (CGF), which processes the CDRs and generates billing files for the BOSS to collect through the file interface. Meanwhile, the CHF supports forwarding billing request messages sent by the SMF to the BOSS and relays the BOSS responses back to the SMF.
Features
Support billing session flow with Nchf_Converged Charging interface
Forwarding Nchf connection messages
Support processing 4G access user billing information
Responsible for generating CHF-CDR tickets
Routing of billing messages through NRF dynamic discovery
Forwarding billing messages to the attributed provincial OCS
Fault/exception scenarios carry corresponding response codes to SMF
Support static configuration based on SUPI (similar to IMSI for 4G) number segment
Provide quota to SMF according to system configuration when BOSS is abnormal
Operations Support System(OSS) / Business Support System(BSS), re-architected and made available on the public cloud. The multi-tenant BSS suite allows customers to focus on their business without deploying and managing enterprise software.
Communication Service Providers (CSP) can design marketing plans, manage subscribers, and deploy their services — without having to install any software on premise.
It offers the functions on the public cloud including:
Customer Care, Order handling, Customer Self-care, Product Catalog, Convergent Charging Engine, Voucher, Top-up, Billing & Payment, Policy Control, 5G Enablement.
AAA, an intelligent service and policy control framework, facilitates access controls to networks and optimizes the utilization of resources.
▫ Authentication: to identify valid subscribers
▫ Authorization: to handles user requests for access to computer resources
▫ Accounting: to record the activities of subscribers which will be related to the billing
It can be used for the administration platform with billing function, applied in campus, hotel, enterprises and government, helping service providers control how subscribers access and consume IP data services.
Operations Support System(OSS) / Business Support System(BSS), re-architected and made available on the public cloud. The multi-tenant BSS suite allows customers to focus on their business without deploying and managing enterprise software.
Communication Service Providers (CSP) can design marketing plans, manage subscribers, and deploy their services — without having to install any software on premise.
It offers the functions on the public cloud including:
Customer Care, Order handling, Customer Self-care, Product Catalog, Convergent Charging Engine, Voucher, Top-up, Billing & Payment, Policy Control, 5G Enablement.
AAA, an intelligent service and policy control framework, facilitates access controls to networks and optimizes the utilization of resources.
▫ Authentication: to identify valid subscribers
▫ Authorization: to handles user requests for access to computer resources
▫ Accounting: to record the activities of subscribers which will be related to the billing
It can be used for the administration platform with billing function, applied in campus, hotel, enterprises and government, helping service providers control how subscribers access and consume IP data services.
