Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services Support; Overcharging Protection On Loss Of Coverage - Cisco ASR 5000 Series Administration Manual

GGSN Support in GPRS/UMTS Wireless Data Services
Important:
Configuration Guide.

Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services Support

Multimedia services are taking on an ever-increasing role in the wireless carriers' plans for an application centric service
model. As such, any next generation GGSN platform must be capable of supporting the requirements of multimedia
service delivery, including:
Higher bandwidth requirements of streaming audio and video delivery
Efficient broadcast and multicast mechanisms, to conserve resources in the RAN
MBMS represents the evolutionary approach to multicast and broadcast service delivery. MBMS uses spectrum
resources much more efficiently than Multicast-over-Unicast by optimizing packet replication across all critical
components in the bearer path. Thus, services requiring largely uni-directional multicast flows towards the UE are
particularly well suited to the MBMS approach. These would include news, event streaming, suitably
encoded/compressed cable/radio programs, video-on-demand, multi-chat / group-push-to-talk/video-conferencing
sessions with unicast uplink and multicast downlink connections, and other applications.
For MBMS functionality, the system supports the Gmb interface, which is used signal to the BM-SC
Important:
Feature Configuration Guide.

Overcharging Protection on Loss of Coverage

This solution provides the ability to configure mobile carriers to maximize their network solutions and balancing the
requirements to accurately bill their customer.
Considerin a scenario where a mobile is streaming or downloading very large files from external sources and the mobile
goes out of radio coverage. If this download is happening on Background/Interactive traffic class then the GGSN is
unaware of such loss of connectivity as SGSN does not perform the Update PDP Context procedure to set QoS to 0kbps
(this is done when traffic class is either Streaming or Conversational only). The GGSN continues to forward the
downlink packets to SGSN. In the loss of radio coverage, the SGSN will do paging request and find out that the mobile
is not responding; SGSN will then drops the packets. In such cases, the G-CDR will have increased counts but S-CDR
will not. This means that when operators charge the subscribers based on G-CDR the subscribers may be overcharged.
This feature is implemented to avoid the overcharging in such cases.
This implementation is based on Cisco-specific private extension to GTP messages and/or any co-relation of G-CDRs
and S-CDRs. It also does not modify any RANAP messages.
Important:
Enhanced Feature Configuration Guide.
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For more information on this feature, refer MIP NAT Traversal chapter in System Enhanced Feature
For more information on this feature, refer Multicast Broadcast Service chapter in System Enhanced
For more information on this feature, refer Subscriber Overcharging Protection chapter in System
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