1 Diameter Base Protocol
Learn how Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Elastic Charging Engine (ECE) Diameter Gateway maps the diameter messages for Diameter Base Protocol defined in RFC-3588.
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Section Compliance
Table 1-1 lists the compliance information for Diameter Base protocol sections.
Table 1-1 Diameter Base Protocol Section Compliance
| Section Number | Section | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Introduction |
Not applicable |
- |
|
1.1 |
Diameter Protocol |
Not applicable |
- |
|
1.1.1 |
Description of the document set |
Not applicable |
- |
|
1.2 |
Approach to extensibility |
Not applicable |
- |
|
1.2.1 |
Defining new attribute-value pair (AVP) values |
Not applicable |
- |
|
1.2.2 |
Creating new AVPs |
Not applicable |
- |
|
1.2.3 |
Creating new authentication applications |
Not applicable |
- |
|
1.2.4 |
Creating new accounting applications |
Not applicable |
- |
|
1.2.5 |
Application authentication procedures |
Not applicable |
- |
|
1.3 |
Terminology |
Not applicable |
- |
|
2 |
Protocol overview |
Not applicable |
- |
|
2.1 |
Transport |
Supported |
Supports Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Stream control transmission protocol (SCTP). |
|
2.1.1 |
Stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) guidelines |
Supported |
- |
|
2.2 |
Securing diameter messages |
Not supported |
- |
|
2.3 |
Diameter application compliance |
Supported |
- |
|
2.4 |
Application identifiers |
Supported |
- |
|
2.5 |
Connections vs Sessions |
No requirement |
- |
|
2.6 |
Peer table |
Supported |
- |
|
2.7 |
Realm-based routing table |
Not applicable |
- |
|
2.8 |
Role of diameter agents |
Not applicable |
- |
|
2.8.1 |
Relay agents |
Not applicable |
- |
|
2.8.2 |
Proxy agents |
Not applicable |
- |
|
2.8.3 |
Redirect agents |
Not applicable |
- |
|
2.8.4 |
Translation agents |
Not applicable |
- |
|
2.9 |
End-to-end security framework |
Not supported |
- |
|
2.10 |
Diameter path authorization |
Not supported |
- |
|
3 |
Diameter header |
Supported |
- |
|
3.1 |
Command codes |
Supported |
- |
|
3.2 |
Command code augmented backus–naur form (ABNF) specification |
No requirement |
- |
|
3.3 |
Diameter command naming conventions |
Supported |
- |
|
4 |
Diameter AVPs |
Supported |
- |
|
4.1 |
AVP header |
Supported |
- |
|
4.1.1 |
Optional header elements |
Supported |
- |
|
4.2 |
Basic AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
4.3 |
Derived AVP data formats |
Supported |
- |
|
4.4 |
Grouped AVP values |
Supported |
- |
|
4.4.1 |
Example AVP with a grouped data type |
No requirement |
- |
|
4.5 |
Diameter base protocol AVPs |
Supported |
- |
|
5 |
Diameter peers |
No requirement |
- |
|
5.1 |
Peer connections |
Supported |
- |
|
5.2 |
Diameter peer discovery |
Not supported |
Diameter Gateway does not support routing, proxy, or relay |
|
5.3 |
Capabilities exchange |
Supported |
- |
|
5.3.1 |
Capabilities-Exchange-Request |
Supported |
- |
|
5.3.2 |
Capabilities-Exchange-Answer |
Supported |
- |
|
5.3.3 |
Vendor-Id AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
5.3.4 |
Firmware-Revision AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
5.3.5 |
Host-IP-Address AVP |
Not supported |
- |
|
5.3.6 |
Supported-Vendor-Id AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
5.3.7 |
Product-Name AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
5.4 |
Disconnecting peer connections |
Partially supported |
Diameter Gateway does not generate this message but only responds to it. |
|
5.4.1 |
Disconnect-Peer-Request |
Partially supported |
Diameter Gateway does not generate this message but only responds to it. |
|
5.4.2 |
Disconnect-Peer-Answer |
Partially supported |
Diameter Gateway does not generate this message but only responds to it. |
|
5.4.3 |
Disconnect-Cause AVP |
Partially supported |
Diameter Gateway does not generate this message but only responds to it. |
|
5.5 |
Transport failure detection |
Supported |
- |
|
5.5.1 |
Device-Watchdog-Request |
Supported |
- |
|
5.5.2 |
Device-Watchdog-Answer |
Supported |
- |
|
5.5.3 |
Transport failure algorithm |
Supported |
- |
|
5.5.4 |
Failover and failback procedures |
Partially supported |
- |
|
5.6 |
Peer state machine |
Supported |
- |
|
5.6.1 |
Incoming connections |
Supported |
- |
|
5.6.2 |
Events |
Supported |
- |
|
5.6.3 |
Actions |
Supported |
- |
|
5.6.4 |
The election process |
Supported |
- |
|
6 |
Diameter message processing |
No requirement |
- |
|
6.1 |
Diameter request routing overview |
No requirement |
- |
|
6.1.1 |
Originating a request |
Supported |
- |
|
6.1.2 |
Sending a request |
Supported |
- |
|
6.1.3 |
Receiving requests |
Supported |
- |
|
6.1.4 |
Processing local requests |
Not supported |
- |
|
6.1.5 |
Request forwarding |
Not supported |
- |
|
6.1.6 |
Request routing |
Not applicable |
- |
|
6.1.7 |
Redirecting requests |
Not applicable |
- |
|
6.1.8 |
Relaying and proxying requests |
Not applicable |
- |
|
6.2 |
Diameter answer processing |
Supported |
- |
|
6.2.1 |
Processing received answers |
Supported |
- |
|
6.2.2 |
Relaying and proxying answers |
Not applicable |
Configurable per Diameter Gateway instance |
|
6.3 |
Origin-Host AVP |
Supported |
Configurable per Diameter Gateway instance |
|
6.4 |
Origin-Realm AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
6.5 |
Destination-Host AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
6.6 |
Destination-Realm AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
6.7 |
Routing AVPs |
Not applicable |
- |
|
6.7.1 |
Route-Record AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
6.7.2 |
Proxy-Info AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
6.7.3 |
Proxy-Host AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
6.7.4 |
Proxy-State AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
6.8 |
Auth-Application-Id AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
6.9 |
Acct-Application-Id AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
6.10 |
Inband-Security-Id AVP |
Supported |
Supports only 0, where 0 specifies NO_INBAND_SECURITY |
|
6.11 |
Vendor-Specific-Application-Id AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
6.12 |
Redirect-Host AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
6.13 |
Redirect-Host-Usage AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
6.14 |
Redirect-Max-Cache-Time AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
6.15 |
E2E-Sequence AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
7 |
Error handling |
Supported |
- |
|
7.1 |
Result-Code AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
7.1.1 |
Informational |
Supported |
- |
|
7.1.2 |
Success |
Supported |
- |
|
7.1.3 |
Protocol errors |
Supported |
- |
|
7.1.4 |
Transient Failures |
Supported |
- |
|
7.1.5 |
Permanent Failures |
Supported |
- |
|
7.2 |
Error bit |
Supported |
- |
|
7.3 |
Error-Message AVP |
Not supported |
- |
|
7.4 |
Error-Reporting-Host AVP |
Not supported |
- |
|
7.5 |
Failed-AVP AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
7.6 |
Experimental-Result AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
7.7 |
Experimental-Result-Code AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
8 |
Diameter user sessions |
No requirement |
- |
|
8.1 |
Authorization session state machine |
Supported |
- |
|
8.2 |
Accounting session state machine |
Not applicable |
- |
|
8.3 |
Server-Initiated Re-Auth |
Supported |
- |
|
8.3.1 |
Re-Auth-Request |
Supported |
- |
|
8.3.2 |
Re-Auth-Answer |
Supported |
- |
|
8.4 |
Session termination |
Supported |
- |
|
8.4.1 |
Session-Termination-Request |
Supported |
- |
|
8.4.2 |
Session-Termination-Answer |
Supported |
- |
|
8.5 |
Aborting a session |
Not supported |
- |
|
8.5.1 |
Abort-Session-Request |
Not supported |
- |
|
8.5.2 |
Abort-Session-Answer |
Not supported |
- |
|
8.6 |
Inferring session termination from Origin-State-Id |
Not supported |
- |
|
8.7 |
Auth-Request-Type AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
8.8 |
Session-Id AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
8.9 |
Authorization-Lifetime AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
8.10 |
Auth-Grace-Period AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
8.11 |
Auth-Session-State AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
8.12 |
Re-Auth-Request-Type AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
8.13 |
Session-Timeout AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
8.14 |
User-Name AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
8.15 |
Termination-Cause AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
8.16 |
Origin-State-Id AVP |
Not supported |
- |
|
8.17 |
Session-Binding AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
8.18 |
Session-Server-Failover AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
8.19 |
Multi-Round-Time-Out AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
8.20 |
Class AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
8.21 |
Event-Timestamp AVP |
Supported |
- |
|
9 |
Accounting |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.1 |
Server directed model |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.2 |
Protocol messages |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.3 |
Application document requirements |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.4 |
Fault resilience |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.5 |
Accounting records |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.6 |
Correlation of accounting records |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.7 |
Accounting Command-Codes |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.7.1 |
Accounting-Request |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.7.2 |
Accounting-Answer |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.8 |
Accounting AVPs |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.8.1 |
Accounting-Record-Type AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.8.2 |
Acct-Interim-Interval AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.8.3 |
Accounting-Record-Number AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.8.4 |
Acct-Session-Id AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.8.5 |
Acct-Multi-Session-Id AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.8.6 |
Accounting-Sub-Session-Id AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
9.8.7 |
Accounting-Realtime-Required AVP |
Not applicable |
- |
|
10 |
AVP occurrence table |
No requirement |
- |
|
10.1 |
Base protocol command AVP Table |
No requirement |
- |
|
10.2 |
Accounting AVP Table |
No requirement |
- |
|
11 |
IANA Considerations |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.1 |
AVP header |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.1.1 |
AVP code |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.1.2 |
AVP flags |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.2 |
Diameter header |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.2.1 |
Command codes |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.2.2 |
Command Flags |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.3 |
Application identifiers |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.4 |
AVP Values |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.4.1 |
Result-Code AVP Values |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.4.2 |
Accounting-Record-Type AVP Values |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.4.3 |
Termination-Cause AVP Values |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.4.4 |
Redirect-Host-Usage AVP Values |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.4.5 |
Session-Server-Failover AVP Values |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.4.6 |
Session-Binding AVP Values |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.4.7 |
Disconnect-Cause AVP Values |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.4.8 |
Auth-Request-Type AVP Values |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.4.9 |
Auth-Session-State AVP Values |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.4.10 |
Re-Auth-Request-Type AVP Values |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.4.11 |
Accounting-Realtime-Required AVP Values |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.5 |
Diameter TCP/SCTP port numbers |
No requirement |
- |
|
11.6 |
Naming authority pointer (NAPTR) Service Fields |
No requirement |
- |
|
12 |
Diameter Protocol Related Configurable Parameters |
Supported |
- |
|
13 |
Security considerations |
Not supported |
- |
|
13.1 |
IPsec usage |
Not supported |
- |
|
13.2 |
TLS usage |
Not supported |
- |
|
13.3 |
Peer-to-Peer Considerations |
Not supported |
- |
|
14 |
References |
No requirement |
- |
|
14.1 |
Normative References |
No requirement |
- |
|
14.2 |
Informative References |
No requirement |
- |
|
15 |
Acknowledgements |
No requirement |
- |
|
Appendix A |
Diameter service template |
No requirement |
- |
|
Appendix B |
NAPTR example |
No requirement |
- |
|
Appendix C |
Duplicate detection |
Supported |
- |