A New Online Charging System Based on Context of Mobile Users

摘要

This paper studies the potential commercial applications on the top of SDN/NFV network architecture, and proposes a new online charging system based on context of mobile users. The proposed system mainly consists of six core modules: (1) data collection, (2) context recognition, (3) data transmission and receive, (4) promotion rule trigger, (5) service deliver, and (6) promotion rule update. The proposed system collects information of mobile users from smartphones and uses such information to infer their contexts. When the system detects that the user's context has triggered a charging event, it will deliver a corresponding service to the user in an instant manner through the SDN/NFV network architecture.