Chapter 6 Prepaid Billing Solution

Generic Call Flow

Table 6-10 Vendor-Specific Attributes for the Cisco Prepaid Billing Solution

 

 

Source

 

VSA Name

Type

(Call Flow)

Description

 

 

 

 

CRB_USER_TYPE

Int8

4s

Type of user:

crb-entity-type

 

 

1. Prepaid user

 

 

2. Post-paid with no credit limit

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Post-paid with credit limit

 

 

 

4. Invalid user

 

 

 

The source for this VSA value

 

 

 

could be from the Subscriber

 

 

 

profile or from the billing server

 

 

 

 

CRB_DURATION

Int32

4s, 8s

Downlink quota received by the

crb-duration

 

 

AAA client

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CRB_TOTAL_VOLUME

 

 

Total Volume quota received by

crb-total-volume

 

 

the AAA client

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CRB_UPLINK_VOLUME

 

 

Uplink volume quota received by

crb-uplink-volume

 

 

the AAA client

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CRB_DOWNLINK_VOLUME

 

 

Uplink Volume quota received

crb-downlink-volume

 

 

by the AAA client

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CRB_TOTAL_PACKETS

 

 

Downlink Packet quota received

crb-total-packets

 

 

by the AAA client

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CRB_UPLINK_PACKETS

 

 

Uplink Packet quota received by

crb-uplink-packets

 

 

the AAA client

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CRB_DOWNLINK_PACKETS

 

 

Uplink Volume quota received

crb-downlink-packets

 

 

by the AAA client

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CRB_SESSION_ID

String

 

Additional field if session ID is

crb-session-id

 

 

required. This VSA provides the

 

 

real time billing-specific session

 

 

 

 

 

 

ID. This VSA duplicates the

 

 

 

contents of the technology-

 

 

 

specific session ID or the

 

 

 

contents of RADIUS attributes

 

 

 

44 or 50. The NAS can use this

 

 

 

VSA to generate a unique

 

 

 

session ID. If this VSA is not

 

 

 

present, then RADIUS attribute

 

 

 

44 is used instead.

 

 

 

If this is a string AV Pair-type

 

 

 

attribute, the name is the string

 

 

 

attribute name.

 

 

 

 

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