Charging method and device

A charging method, comprising:

• receiving, by a Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) server, a request message transmitted by a Mobile Edge Computing Gateway (MEC-GW) to make a statistic of local traffic information of a User Equipment (UE), wherein the request message is transmitted by the MEC-GW to the MEC server upon reception of an instruction message transmitted by a Packet data network Gateway (P-GW) to charge the UE for the local traffic;
• determining, by the MEC server, information to be reported among the local traffic information of the UE, according to the request message;
• and
• making and then transmitting, by the MEC server, a statistic of the information to be reported, to the MEC-GW, so that the MEC-GW generates and then transmits a charging data bill of the local traffic of the UE to a Charging Gateway (CG) according to reported information.

A charging apparatus, comprising:

• at least one processor and a memory;
• wherein the memory is configured to store computer readable program codes, and the at least one processor is configured to execute the computer readable program codes to:
• determine that a user Equipment (UE) is to be charged for a local traffic;
• transmit a request message to a Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) server to make a statistic of local traffic information of the UE upon determining that the UE is to be charged for the local traffic;
• and
• transmit a charging data bill of the local traffic of the UE to a Charging Gateway (CG).