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▀ Rel. 7 Gx Interface
If PCRF does not provide a new usage threshold in the usage monitoring information as a result of CCR from
PCEF when the usage threshold is reached, the usage monitoring is stopped at PCEF and no usage status is
reported.
In the non-standard Volume Reporting over Gx implementation, usage monitoring will be stopped once the
threshold is breached, else the monitoring will continue. There will be no further usage reporting until the CCA
is received.
 Usage Monitoring Disabled: If the PCRF explicitly disables the usage monitoring with Usage-Monitoring-
Support AVP set to USAGE_MONITORING_DISABLED, the PCEF stops monitoring and reports the usage
information (when the monitoring was enabled) to PCRF if the usage monitoring is disabled by PCRF as a
result of CCR from PCEF which is not related to reporting usage, other external triggers, or a PCRF internal
trigger. If the PCRF does not provide a new usage threshold as a result of CCR from PCEF when the usage
threshold is reached, the usage monitoring is stopped at PCEF and no further usage status is reported.
 IP CAN Session Termination: When the IP CAN session is terminated, the accumulated subscriber usage
information is reported to PCRF in the CCR-T from PCEF. If PCC usage level information is enabled by
PCRF, the PCC usage will also be reported.
 PCC Rule Removal: When the PCRF deactivates the last PCC rule associated with a usage monitoring key, the
PCEF sends a CCR with the data usage for that monitoring key. If the PCEF reports the last PCC rule
associated with a usage monitoring key is inactive, the PCEF reports the accumulated usage for that monitoring
key within the same CCR command if the Charging-Rule-Report AVP was included in a CCR command;
otherwise, if the Charging-Rule-Report AVP was included in an RAA command, the PCEF sends a new CCR
command to report accumulated usage for the usage monitoring key. In 12.0 and later releases, usage reporting
on last rule deactivation using rule deactivation time set by PCRF is supported.
Releases prior to 14.0, when PCC rule was tried to be removed while waiting for access side update bearer
response, the charging rules were not removed. In 14.0 and later releases, on receiving message from PCRF,
the rule that is meant for removal is marked and then after the access side procedure is complete the rule is
removed.
 PCRF Requested Usage Report: In 10.2 and later releases, the accumulated usage since the last report is sent
even in case of immediate reporting, the usage is reset after immediate reporting and usage monitoring
continued so that the subsequent usage report will have the usage since the current report. In earlier releases the
behavior was to accumulate the so far usage in the next report.
 Release 12.2 onwards, usage reporting on bearer termination can be added. When a bearer is deleted due to some
reason, the rules associated with the bearer will also be removed. So, the usage will be reported on the
monitoring key(s) whose associated rule is the last one that is removed because of bearer termination.
 Revalidation Timeout: In the non-standard implementation, if usage monitoring and reporting is enabled and a
revalidation timeout occurs, the PCEF sends a CCR to request PCC rules and reports all accumulated usage for
all enabled monitoring keys since the last report (or since usage reporting was enabled if the usage was not yet
reported) with the accumulated usage at IP-CAN session level (if enabled) and at service data flow level (if
enabled) This is the default behavior.
In the case of standard implementation, this must be enabled by CLI configuration.
Important:
implementation of Volume Reporting over Gx. In 10.2 and later releases, this is configurable in the standard
implementation. This is not supported in 10.0 release for standard based volume reporting.
Once the usage is reported, the usage counter is reset to zero. The PCEF continues to track data usage from the zero
value after the threshold is reached and before a new threshold is provided by the PCRF. If a new usage threshold is not
provided by the PCRF in the acknowledgement of an IP-CAN Session modification where its usage was reported, then
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The Usage Reporting on Revalidation Timeout feature is available by default in non-standard
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