CN103888927B - Method, device, server and system for determining bandwidth fee - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a bandwidth fee determination method, device, server and system, comprising: receiving a first information report message carrying terminal information sent by an AAA server, and receiving a second information report message carrying service identification information sent by a service processing server message; based on the terminal information, determine the service bandwidth allocated for the terminal service corresponding to the service identification information according to a preset policy; when the service bandwidth is greater than the terminal subscription bandwidth of the terminal corresponding to the terminal information, determine the The bandwidth difference between the service bandwidth and the bandwidth of the terminal contract; sending a charging indication message carrying the bandwidth difference and service charging information to the charging server, the charging indication message is used to instruct the charging server based on The bandwidth difference and the service charging information determine the fee for providing the bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth difference. The method provided by the invention solves the problem of low service data transmission rate in the prior art.

Description

Method, device, server and system for determining bandwidth fee

technical field

The present invention relates to the field of wireless communication, in particular to a method, device, server and system for determining bandwidth charges.

Background technique

With the development of science and technology, the network has become an indispensable part of people's work, study and life. In the prior art, in a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network, wireless local area network), the network bandwidth allocated to user terminal services will not exceed the contracted bandwidth between the terminal and the operator. However, when the data transmission volume of some terminal services is large, that is, when the terminal service has a high demand for network bandwidth, such as downloading services, the lower contract bandwidth makes the data transmission rate of the terminal service lower, which in turn leads to lower terminal service processing efficiency. Low. Moreover, even if the network bandwidth allocated for user terminal services can exceed the terminal contracted bandwidth, the cost of providing bandwidth exceeding the terminal contracted bandwidth cannot be determined in the prior art.

Contents of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, device, server and system for determining a bandwidth fee to solve the problem of low service data transmission rate in the prior art.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a bandwidth fee determination method, including:

receiving the first information report message carrying terminal information sent by the authentication, authorization and statistics AAA server, and receiving the second information report message carrying service identification information sent by the service processing server;

Based on the terminal information, determine the service bandwidth allocated for the terminal service corresponding to the service identification information according to a preset strategy;

When the service bandwidth is greater than the terminal contract bandwidth of the terminal corresponding to the terminal information, determine the bandwidth difference between the service bandwidth and the terminal contract bandwidth;

Sending a charging indication message carrying the bandwidth difference and service charging information to the charging server, where the charging indication message is used to instruct the charging server to determine based on the bandwidth difference and the service charging information A fee for the bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth difference is provided.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a device for determining a bandwidth fee, including:

The receiving unit is configured to receive the first information report message carrying terminal information sent by the authentication, authorization and statistics AAA server, and receive the second information report message carrying service identification information sent by the service processing server;

A determining unit, configured to determine, based on the terminal information, the service bandwidth allocated for the terminal service corresponding to the service identification information according to a preset strategy; and when the service bandwidth is greater than the terminal subscription bandwidth of the terminal corresponding to the terminal information , determining the bandwidth difference between the service bandwidth and the terminal contract bandwidth;

a sending unit, configured to send a charging indication message carrying the bandwidth difference and service charging information to a charging server, where the charging indication message is used to instruct the charging server based on the bandwidth difference and the The service charging information determines the fee for providing the bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth difference.

An embodiment of the present invention provides an application server, including the above apparatus for determining a bandwidth charge.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a system for determining a bandwidth fee, including an authentication, authorization, and statistics AAA server, a service processing server, an application server, and a billing server, wherein:

The AAA server is configured to send a first information report message carrying terminal information to the application server;

The service processing server is configured to send a second information reporting message carrying service identification information to the application server;

The application server is configured to receive the first information reporting message and the second information reporting message; based on the terminal information, determine the service assigned to the terminal service corresponding to the service identification information according to a preset policy Bandwidth; when the service bandwidth is greater than the terminal contract bandwidth of the terminal corresponding to the terminal information, determine the bandwidth difference between the service bandwidth and the terminal contract bandwidth; send the billing server carrying the bandwidth difference and Charging indication message of service charging information;

The charging server is configured to receive the charging instruction message, and determine the fee for providing the bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth difference based on the bandwidth difference and the service charging information.

The beneficial effects of the present invention include:

In the method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the service bandwidth is determined according to the preset policy based on the terminal information, and the service bandwidth is allocated to the terminal service corresponding to the service identification information, and the service bandwidth can be greater than the terminal subscription bandwidth, that is, not subject to The limitation of contracted bandwidth improves the transmission efficiency of terminal service data compared with the situation in the prior art that the network bandwidth allocated for terminal services does not exceed the terminal contracted bandwidth, and when the service bandwidth is greater than the terminal contracted bandwidth, The billing server determines the fee for the bandwidth exceeding the contracted bandwidth of the terminal, and further realizes the determination of the fee for the bandwidth exceeding the contracted bandwidth of the terminal on the basis of improving the transmission efficiency of the terminal service data.

Description of drawings

The accompanying drawings are used to provide a further understanding of the present invention, and constitute a part of the description, and are used together with the embodiments of the present invention to explain the present invention, and do not constitute a limitation to the present invention. In the attached picture:

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a method for determining a bandwidth fee provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a detailed flowchart of a method for determining a bandwidth fee provided in Embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a structural diagram of a device for determining a bandwidth fee provided by Embodiment 2 of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a structural diagram of a system for determining a bandwidth fee provided by Embodiment 4 of the present invention.

Detailed ways

In order to provide an implementation plan for increasing the transmission rate of business data, the embodiments of the present invention provide a bandwidth fee determination method, device, server and system. The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the The described preferred embodiments are only used to illustrate and explain the present invention, not to limit the present invention. And in the case of no conflict, the embodiments in the present application and the features in the embodiments can be combined with each other.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for determining a bandwidth fee, as shown in FIG. 1 , which specifically includes:

Step 101, receiving a first information report message carrying terminal information sent by an AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) server, and receiving a second information report message carrying service identification information sent by a service processing server;

Step 102, based on the terminal information, determine the service bandwidth allocated for the terminal service corresponding to the service identification information according to a preset policy;

Step 103, when the service bandwidth is greater than the terminal contract bandwidth of the terminal corresponding to the terminal information, determine the bandwidth difference between the service bandwidth and the terminal contract bandwidth;

Step 104: Send a charging instruction message carrying the bandwidth difference and service charging information to the charging server, where the charging instruction message is used to instruct the charging server to determine to provide the service based on the bandwidth difference and the service charging information. The bandwidth difference corresponds to the cost of the bandwidth.

Wherein, the terminal information includes at least the terminal identifier, and may also include the terminal type, the terminal access field strength, and the terminal's contracted bandwidth, etc.; the service charging information includes at least the start time when the terminal service uses the service bandwidth and the terminal service End Time.

In step 104, the service identification information may also be carried in the charging instruction message, and the fee for providing the bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth difference determined by the charging server is the fee that the terminal service provider corresponding to the service identification information should pay.

Preferably, the charging indication message may be sent to the charging server after it is determined that the service bandwidth is allocated successfully. That is, before step 104, before sending the charging indication message carrying the bandwidth difference and service charging information to the charging server, it may also include:

Sending a bandwidth allocation instruction message carrying the service bandwidth and the service identification information to the AAA server, where the bandwidth allocation instruction message is used to instruct the AAA server to allocate the service bandwidth for the terminal service corresponding to the service identification information; and receiving the service bandwidth returned by the AAA server Confirm the response message.

The method, device, server and system provided by the present invention will be described in detail below with specific embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Example 1:

Figure 2 is a detailed flowchart of the method for determining the bandwidth fee provided by Embodiment 1 of the present invention, which specifically includes:

Step 201, the terminal sends a service authentication request to the access device, and the access device forwards the service authentication request to the AAA server.

Step 202, the AAA server receives the service authentication request, and returns an authentication success message carrying the terminal's subscription bandwidth to the access device after successful authentication, and the access device allocates bandwidth for the terminal service.

Step 203, the AAA server sends a first information report message carrying terminal information to the application server.

The terminal information includes at least a terminal identifier, and may also include terminal type, terminal access field strength, and the terminal's contracted bandwidth.

In step 202, the AAA server returns the authentication success message to the access device and in step 203, the AAA server sends the first information report message to the application server. An information report message, and then perform step 202 in which the AAA server returns an authentication success message to the access device, or it may be performed at the same time.

Step 204, the terminal starts to exchange service data.

At this time, the bandwidth used by the terminal for exchanging service data will not be greater than the contracted bandwidth of the terminal.

Step 205, the service processing server sends a second information reporting message carrying service identification information to the application server.

In step 206, the application server determines the service bandwidth allocated for the terminal service corresponding to the service identification information according to a preset policy.

The preset policy is established based on at least one of the following information:

The terminal user level, terminal type, terminal access field strength and terminal subscription bandwidth corresponding to the terminal identifier.

Among them, the higher the terminal user level, the greater the determined service bandwidth; the greater the terminal bandwidth demand represented by the terminal type, the greater the determined service bandwidth; the stronger the terminal access field strength, the greater the determined service bandwidth; the terminal contract bandwidth The larger the value, the greater the determined service bandwidth.

The application server may acquire the terminal user level corresponding to the terminal identifier from the charging server, and acquire the terminal type, terminal access field strength, and terminal subscription bandwidth from the first information report message sent by the AAA server.

Step 207: When the service bandwidth is greater than the terminal subscription bandwidth of the terminal corresponding to the terminal information, the application server sends a bandwidth allocation instruction message carrying the service bandwidth and the service identification information to the AAA server, and the AAA server is the service identification information corresponding to the service. The terminal service allocates the service bandwidth, and forwards the bandwidth allocation instruction message to the access device to adjust the terminal service bandwidth.

When the service bandwidth is not greater than the terminal subscription bandwidth of the terminal corresponding to the terminal information, the process ends.

Step 208: After the terminal service bandwidth is successfully adjusted, the access device returns a confirmation response message to the AAA server, and the AAA server forwards the confirmation response message to the application server.

Step 209: After the terminal service ends, the application server sends a charging instruction message to the charging server, which carries the bandwidth difference between the service bandwidth and the terminal's contracted bandwidth, service identification information and service charging information.

The service charging information includes the start time of the terminal service using the service bandwidth and the end time of the terminal service.

In step 210, the billing server determines, based on the bandwidth difference and the service charging information, that the bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth difference is provided and the terminal service provider corresponding to the service identification information needs to pay.

Step 211, the charging server returns a charging result delivery message to the application server, informing the application server of the charging result.

In addition, the access device can also report the terminal user's charging information to the AAA server, and the AAA server forwards the terminal user's charging information to the billing server, and the billing server determines the fee that the terminal user should pay. This part is the existing technology, so it will not be described in detail here.

It can be seen that using the bandwidth fee determination method provided in Embodiment 1 of the present invention improves the transmission efficiency of terminal service data compared with the prior art in which the network bandwidth allocated for terminal services does not exceed the terminal contract bandwidth, and, When the service bandwidth is greater than the terminal's contracted bandwidth, the billing server determines the fee for the bandwidth exceeding the terminal's contracted bandwidth, and further realizes the payment of the bandwidth exceeding the terminal's contracted bandwidth on the basis of improving the transmission efficiency of terminal business data. Determination of fees.

Example 2:

Based on the same inventive concept, according to the method for determining the bandwidth fee provided by the above-mentioned embodiments of the present invention, correspondingly, Embodiment 2 of the present invention also provides a device for determining the bandwidth fee. The structural diagram of the device is shown in FIG. 3 , specifically including:

The receiving unit 301 is configured to receive a first information report message carrying terminal information sent by the AAA server, and receive a second information report message carrying service identification information sent by the service processing server;

The determining unit 302 is configured to determine, based on the terminal information, according to a preset policy, the service bandwidth allocated for the terminal service corresponding to the service identification information; and when the service bandwidth is greater than the terminal subscription bandwidth of the terminal corresponding to the terminal information, determine the The bandwidth difference between the service bandwidth and the contracted bandwidth of the terminal;

The sending unit 303 is configured to send a charging instruction message carrying the bandwidth difference and service charging information to the charging server, the charging instruction message is used to instruct the charging server to use the bandwidth difference and the service charging information Determine the fee for providing the bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth difference.

Further, the charging indication message also carries the service identification information;

The charging instruction message is used to instruct the charging server to determine the fee for providing the bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth difference based on the bandwidth difference and the service charging information, specifically:

The charging instruction message is used to instruct the charging server to determine, based on the bandwidth difference and the service charging information, to provide the bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth difference, and to pay the service provider corresponding to the service identification information.

Further, the sending unit 303 is also configured to send a bandwidth allocation instruction carrying the service bandwidth and the service identification information to the AAA server before sending the charging instruction message carrying the bandwidth difference and service charging information to the charging server message, the bandwidth allocation instruction message is used to instruct the AAA server to allocate the service bandwidth for the terminal service corresponding to the service identification information;

The receiving unit is further configured to receive the confirmation response message returned by the AAA server.

Further, the terminal information includes a terminal identifier; the service charging information includes the start time of the terminal service using the service bandwidth and the end time of the terminal service; the preset policy is established based on at least one of the following information:

The terminal user level, terminal type, terminal access field strength, and terminal subscription bandwidth corresponding to the terminal identifier; the higher the terminal user level, the greater the determined service bandwidth; the greater the terminal bandwidth demand represented by the terminal type The greater the bandwidth of the service, the greater the bandwidth of the service; the stronger the access field strength of the terminal, the greater the bandwidth of the service; the larger the bandwidth of the terminal contract, the greater the bandwidth of the service.

The functions of the above units may correspond to the corresponding processing steps in the flow shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2 , and will not be repeated here.

Example 3:

Based on the same inventive concept, according to the method for determining a bandwidth fee provided by the above-mentioned embodiments of the present invention, correspondingly, Embodiment 3 of the present invention further provides an application server, including the above apparatus for determining a bandwidth fee.

Example 4:

Based on the same inventive concept, according to the method for determining the bandwidth fee provided by the above-mentioned embodiments of the present invention, correspondingly, Embodiment 4 of the present invention also provides a device system for determining the bandwidth fee. The schematic diagram of the system structure is shown in FIG. 401, business processing server 402, application server 403 and billing server 404, wherein:

The AAA server 401 is configured to send a first information report message carrying terminal information to the application server 403;

The service processing server 402 is configured to send a second information reporting message carrying service identification information to the application server 404;

The application server 403 is configured to receive the first information reporting message and the second information reporting message; based on the terminal information, determine the service bandwidth allocated for the terminal service corresponding to the service identification information according to a preset policy; when the service When the bandwidth is greater than the terminal contract bandwidth of the terminal corresponding to the terminal information, determine the bandwidth difference between the service bandwidth and the terminal contract bandwidth; send a charging instruction message carrying the bandwidth difference and service charging information to the charging server 404;

The charging server 404 is configured to receive the charging instruction message, and determine the fee for providing the bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth difference based on the bandwidth difference and the service charging information.

To sum up, in the solution provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the first information reporting message carrying terminal information sent by the AAA server is received, and the second information reporting message carrying service identification information sent by the service processing server is received; based on the terminal information, and determine the service bandwidth allocated to the terminal service corresponding to the service identification information according to a preset policy; when the service bandwidth is greater than the terminal subscription bandwidth of the terminal corresponding to the terminal information, determine that the service bandwidth is consistent with the terminal service The bandwidth difference of the contracted bandwidth; sending a charging instruction message carrying the bandwidth difference and service charging information to the charging server, the charging instruction message is used to instruct the charging server based on the bandwidth difference and service charging information The service charging information determines the fee for providing the bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth difference. The solution provided by the embodiment of the present invention solves the problem of low service data transmission rate in the prior art.

Obviously, those skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications to the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Thus, if these modifications and variations of the present invention fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention and equivalent technologies thereof, the present invention also intends to include these modifications and variations.

Claims (10)

1. a kind of bandwidth expense determines method, applied to WLAN, it is characterised in that including：

The first information reporting message for the carried terminal information that certification, mandate and statistics aaa server are sent is received, and is received Second information reporting message of the carrying service identification information that Service Process Server is sent；

Based on the end message, it is determined as what terminal traffic corresponding with the service identification information was distributed according to preset strategy Service bandwidth；

The preset strategy is at least established based on one of following information：

End-user ratings corresponding with the terminal iidentification, terminal type, terminal access field strength and the terminal unit contractual bandwidth； Wherein, the end-user ratings are higher, and the definite service bandwidth is bigger；The terminal bandwidth of the terminal type characterization needs Ask bigger, the definite service bandwidth is bigger；The terminal access field strength is stronger, and the definite service bandwidth is bigger；Institute State that terminal unit contractual bandwidth is bigger, the definite service bandwidth is bigger；

When the service bandwidth be more than the end message counterpart terminal terminal unit contractual bandwidth when, determine the service bandwidth with The bandwidth difference of the terminal unit contractual bandwidth；

The charging indication message for carrying the bandwidth difference and service charging information, the charging indication are sent to accounting server Message is used to indicate that the accounting server is based on the bandwidth difference and the service charging information determines to provide the bandwidth Difference corresponds to the expense of bandwidth.

2. the method as described in claim 1, it is characterised in that the charging indication message also carries the service identification letter Breath；

The charging indication message is used to indicate that the accounting server is based on the bandwidth difference and the service charging information Determine to provide the expense that the bandwidth difference corresponds to bandwidth, be specially：

The charging indication message is used to indicate that the accounting server is based on the bandwidth difference and the service charging information Determine that providing the bandwidth difference corresponds to bandwidth, and need what the corresponding terminal traffic supplier of the service identification information paid Expense.

3. the method as described in claim 1, it is characterised in that carry the bandwidth difference and industry being sent to accounting server It is engaged in before the charging indication message of charge information, further includes：

The bandwidth allocation instruction message for carrying the service bandwidth and the service identification information is sent to the aaa server, The bandwidth allocation instruction message is used to indicate the aaa server for terminal traffic corresponding with the service identification information point With the service bandwidth；

Receive the confirmation response message that the aaa server returns.

4. the method as described in claim 1, it is characterised in that the end message includes terminal iidentification；

The service charging information include the terminal traffic use the service bandwidth at the beginning of between and the terminal traffic End time.

A kind of 5. bandwidth expense determining device, it is characterised in that including：

Receiving unit, the first information of the carried terminal information sent for receiving certification, mandate and statistics aaa server report Message, and receive the second information reporting message of the carrying service identification information that Service Process Server is sent；

Determination unit, for based on the end message, being determined as according to preset strategy corresponding with the service identification information The service bandwidth of terminal traffic distribution；And when the service bandwidth is more than the terminal unit contractual band of the end message counterpart terminal When wide, the bandwidth difference of the service bandwidth and the terminal unit contractual bandwidth is determined；

The preset strategy is at least established based on one of following information：

End-user ratings corresponding with the terminal iidentification, terminal type, terminal access field strength and the terminal unit contractual bandwidth； Wherein, the end-user ratings are higher, and the definite service bandwidth is bigger；The terminal bandwidth of the terminal type characterization needs Ask bigger, the definite service bandwidth is bigger；The terminal access field strength is stronger, and the definite service bandwidth is bigger；Institute State that terminal unit contractual bandwidth is bigger, the definite service bandwidth is bigger；

Transmitting element, the charging indication that the bandwidth difference and service charging information are carried for being sent to accounting server disappear Breath, the charging indication message are used to indicate that the accounting server is based on the bandwidth difference and the service charging information is true The expense that the bandwidth difference corresponds to bandwidth is provided surely.

6. device as claimed in claim 5, it is characterised in that the charging indication message also carries the service identification letter Breath；

The charging indication message is used to indicate that the accounting server is based on the bandwidth difference and the service charging information Determine to provide the expense that the bandwidth difference corresponds to bandwidth, be specially：

The charging indication message is used to indicate that the accounting server is based on the bandwidth difference and the service charging information Determine that providing the bandwidth difference corresponds to bandwidth, and need what the corresponding terminal traffic supplier of the service identification information paid Expense.

7. device as claimed in claim 5, it is characterised in that the transmitting element is additionally operable to take to accounting server transmission Before charging indication message with the bandwidth difference and service charging information, sent to the aaa server and carry the industry The bandwidth allocation instruction message of bandwidth of being engaged in and the service identification information, the bandwidth allocation instruction message are used to indicate described Aaa server distributes the service bandwidth for terminal traffic corresponding with the service identification information；

The receiving unit, is additionally operable to receive the confirmation response message that the aaa server returns.

8. device as claimed in claim 5, it is characterised in that the end message includes terminal iidentification；

The service charging information include the terminal traffic use the service bandwidth at the beginning of between and the terminal traffic End time.

9. a kind of application server, it is characterised in that including any bandwidth expense determining devices of claim 5-8.

10. a kind of bandwidth expense determines system, it is characterised in that including certification, mandate and statistics aaa server, business processing Server, application server and accounting server, wherein：

The aaa server, for sending the first information reporting message of carried terminal information to the application server；

The Service Process Server, the second information reporting of service identification information is carried for being sent to the application server Message；

The application server, for receiving the first information reporting message, and the second information reporting message；It is based on The end message, is determined as the business band of terminal traffic distribution corresponding with the service identification information according to preset strategy It is wide；When the service bandwidth be more than the end message counterpart terminal terminal unit contractual bandwidth when, determine the service bandwidth with The bandwidth difference of the terminal unit contractual bandwidth；Sent to the accounting server and carry the bandwidth difference and service charging information Charging indication message；

The accounting server, for receiving the charging indication message, is believed based on the bandwidth difference and the service billing Breath determines to provide the expense that the bandwidth difference corresponds to bandwidth.