Framework for managing failures in outbound messages

A policy and charging rules node (PCRN) comprising:

• at least one interface;
• a memory;
• and
• a processor in communication with the at least one interface and the memory configured to:
• transmit, via the at least one interface, a first message for installing at least one service data flow (SDF) rule to a first device;
• wait for a period of time to receive an indication of whether installation of the at least one SDF rule was successful;
• and
• based on the indication of whether installation of the at least one SDF rule was successful, determine whether a second message for managing at least a subset of the at least one SDF rule should be transmitted to a second device.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for execution by a policy and charging rules node (PCRN), the medium comprising:

• instructions for transmitting a first message for installing a plurality of service data flow (SDF) rules to a first device;
• instructions for waiting for a period of time to receive an indication of whether installation of the plurality of SDF rules was successful;
• instructions for determining, based on the indication indicating that installation of the plurality of SDF rules was successful, that a second message should be transmitted to a second device for installing the plurality of SDF rules at the second device;
• instructions for determining, based on the indication indicating that installation of the plurality of SDF rules was not successful:
• that a third message should be transmitted to a third device for uninstalling at least one of the plurality of SDF rules from the third device, and
• that a fourth message should be transmitted to the second device for installing a subset of the plurality of SDF rules at the second device.