Policy Control Function (PCF)

Overview

The Oracle Communications Policy Management solution is enhanced to add Policy Control Function that extends the functionality of PCRF as part of 5G core network. The Policy Control Function is a functional element for policy control decision and flows based charging control functionalities. The PCF provides the following functions:

• Policy rules for application and service data flow detection, gating, QoS, and flow based charging to the SMF.
• Access and Mobility Management related policies to the AMF.

Configuring PCF Parameters

1. Click PCF on the left navigation pane. The Global Configurations, Service Configurations, Policy Configurations and Session Viewer appear underneath.
2. On selecting Global Configurations, the parameters of Global Configurations appear on the right pane.
3. Click Edit to modify the parameters.
4. On selecting Service Configurations,the different PCF services appear underneath the Service Configurations. Different services are: the functionalities of Service Configurations appear underneath. The functionalities are Session Management Service, Access and Mobility Service, User Service, Policy Authorization Service and UE Policy Service.
5. On selecting a service, the configurable parameters of the functionality appear on the right pane.
6. Click Edit to modify the parameters.
7. On selecting Policy Configurations, the policy types of Policy Configurations appear underneath. The policy types are Common, SM Policy, AM Policy and UE Policy.
8. On selecting a policy type, the respective functionalities appear underneath, and on selecting a functionality the configurable parameters of the functionality appear on the right pane.
9. Click Edit to modify the parameters.
10. On selecting Session Viewer, the parameters of Session Viewer appear on the right pane.
11. Click Edit to modify the parameters.
12. Click Save.

Note:

For details refer to Cloud Native Policy Control Function User's Guide.