Accounting adjustment for packet drops occurring in mobile networks
AssigneeJuniper Networks, Inc.
InventorVenkatesh PADEBETTU
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Abstract
A network device may receive information associated with a protocol data unit (PDU) session of a subscriber, and may determine whether the information associated with the PDU session indicates that one or more packet drops occurred during the PDU session. The network device may generate an accounting adjustment container based on one or more packet drops occurring during the PDU session, and may provide the accounting adjustment container to a peer endpoint to cause the peer endpoint to utilize the accounting adjustment container to calculate a usage report for the subscriber.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a network device, information associated with a protocol data unit (PDU) session of a subscriber;
- determining, by the network device, whether the information associated with the PDU session indicates that one or more packet drops occurred during the PDU session;
- generating, by the network device, an accounting adjustment container based on one or more packet drops occurring during the PDU session;
- and
- providing, by the network device, the accounting adjustment container to a peer endpoint to cause the peer endpoint to utilize the accounting adjustment container to calculate a usage report for the subscriber.
A network device, comprising:
- one or more memories;
- and
- one or more processors to:
- receive information associated with a protocol data unit (PDU) session of a subscriber;
- determine whether the information associated with the PDU session indicates that one or more packet drops occurred during the PDU session;
- and
- selectively:
- prevent an accounting adjustment container from being generated based on no packet drops occurring during the PDU session;
- or
- generate the accounting adjustment container based on one or more packet drops occurring during the PDU session, and provide the accounting adjustment container to a peer endpoint to cause the peer endpoint to utilize the accounting adjustment container to calculate a usage report for the subscriber.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions comprising:
- one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a network device, cause the network device to:
- receive information associated with a protocol data unit (PDU) session of a subscriber;
- determine whether the information associated with the PDU session indicates that one or more packet drops occurred during the PDU session;
- generate an accounting adjustment container based on one or more packet drops occurring during the PDU session;
- and
- provide the accounting adjustment container to a peer endpoint,
- wherein the accounting adjustment container causes the peer endpoint to utilize the accounting adjustment container to calculate a usage report for the subscriber and to provide the usage report to a core network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.