REDUCING THE LOAD DUE TO REPORTING OF INFORMATION CHANGES TO A POLICY AND/OR CHARGING CONTROLLER IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

In one embodiment, a method is provided for reducing load due to user location change reporting for location-based policies and / or billing control services for the user in a mobile communication system, wherein the granularity of the user location is at a cell level Wherein the service area (or location or routing or tracking area) comprises a set of cells defined at a network operation level, and wherein the user location change The reporting may include: - granularity of reporting at the base station level, which causes the user location change to be reported at the time of a change of the serving base station, - a set of cells and / Or / RTI to be reported upon entry into or exit from the policy area including the serving areas, The granularity of the report at the region level and the granularity of the report at the cell level or at the service area level or at the policy area level, if the user is not currently active in the user plane, And a delayed user location change report until the activity is resumed.