Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Accessing Oracle Communications Documentation
• Document Revision History

1 Overview of Elastic Charging Engine

• About Elastic Charging Engine
  • How ECE Charges Usage Requests for Online Network Mediation System
  • How ECE Charges Usage Requests for Offline Network Mediation System
  • About ECE and PDC
  • About ECE and BRM
  • About ECE and Policy Clients
  • How ECE Processes Policy Requests for Online Network Mediation Software
• Integrating Charging Applications with ECE

2 ECE System Architecture

• Overview of ECE System Architecture
• About Core ECE Components in the Cluster
• About Diameter Gateway
• About RADIUS Gateway
• About Elastic Charging Server
  • About High Availability with Elastic Charging Server
• About the Elastic Charging Client
• About Elastic Charging Controller
• About configLoader
• About Pricing Updater
• About Customer Updater
• About External Manager Gateway
• About BRM Gateway
• About Rated Event Publisher
• About Rated Event Formatter
• About ECE as a Subscriber Profile Repository
• About ECE Request Types

3 Understanding Charging Scenarios

• Charging Overview
• About Online Charging Scenarios
• About Offline Charging Scenarios
• About Synchronizing BRM and ECE Customer Data
• About Usage-Charging Attributes
• About Pricing Components
• About Rating
• About Rerating
• About Advice of Charge
• About Advice of Promotion
• About Multiple-Service Credit Control
• About Event-Based Charging
• About Session-Based Charging
  • About Midsession Rated Events
• About Discounts
• About Balance Management
• About Charge Distribution
• About Reservation Validity
• About First-Usage Validity
  • Granting First Usage Resources During Rating
• About Reverse Rating
• About Policy-Driven Charging
• About Subscription Products and Member Products
• Event Charging with Unit Reservation
• Session Charging with Unit Reservation
• Immediate Event Charging
• Server Initiated Reauthorization Requests
• About Taxation Support
• About Using Closed User Group Profiles to Determine a Price
• About Assigning Balance Impacts to Bill Items
• About Processing Delayed Usage Requests
• About Redirecting Subscriber Sessions to a Service Portal

4 About Usage Requests

• Usage Request Overview
• How Network Mediation Systems Create and Submit Usage Requests

5 About Usage Responses

• Understanding Usage Responses

6 About Notifications

• Overview of Notifications in ECE
  • About In-Session Notifications
  • About External Notifications
• About Notifications Used by BRM
• About Notifications Used by Policy Clients
  • Spending Limit Notifications
  • Subscriber Preference Notifications
• About Service Events that Trigger External Notifications
  • About Top-Up Notifications
  • About Billing Notifications
• About Breach-Type Notifications
  • About Threshold Breach Notifications
  • About Credit Ceiling Breach Notifications
  • About Credit Floor Breach Notifications
• About the Notification Framework
  • Transforming the Service Event Java Payload into XML

A Specifications and Standards Compliance in ECE

• About Specifications and Standards Compliance

Glossary