BRM Technical Overview

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CAGBU Enablement Team

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Rating

1 Rating engines
2 Entry points
3 Rated events flow

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 Rating Engines

For usage rating:

• Elastic Charging Server
BRM Server BRM
Database

Real-Time
For subscription rating: Discounting
Pipeline
Connection
Manager
DM
Oracle

• Connection Manager
• RT Discounting Pipeline
Rated Event
Kafka Loader

EM BRM Customer
Gateway Gateway Updater

Offline Rated Event

Mediation Elastic charging servers Formatter
Controller

Persistence
Radius Diameter HTTP/2 Database
Gateway Gateway Gateway
Elastic Charging Engine

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Subscription Rating

Subscription events include:

- Product purchase fees
- Recurring fees
- Bill-time discounts

Subscription events are:

- Rated the CM
- Discounted in RT discounting pipeline

Balances are synchronized in real-time with ECE via the EM Gateway.

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Rating

1 Rating engines
2 Entry points
3 Rated events flow

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 Entry points

Pricing Design Center BRM Server BRM

Database

PDC Transformation Connection DM

JMS
Application Engines Manager Oracle

Rated Event
Kafka Loader

Pricing EM BRM Customer

Updater Gateway Gateway Updater

Offline Rated Event

Mediation Elastic charging servers Formatter
Controller

Persistence
Radius Diameter HTTP/2 Database
Gateway Gateway Gateway
Elastic Charging Engine

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Entry points

Real-time interface:
• HTTP2 Gateway
• Diameter Gateway
• Radius Gateway

Batch CDR interface:

• OCOMC

ECE Java API:

• SDK is provided with sample usage scripts

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1 Rating engines
2 Entry points
3 Rated events flow

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 Initial or update request
Performs
rating

Elastic Charging Server

Persistence
DB
Enhancement

Aggregation
Collection

Processor

Processor
CDR
Cartridge

files

ECE
DC
RE Formatter
OCOMC Creates
reservation
in cache
REL
CCA
reply
Ro
CCC
Diameter
Gateway

PCEF
Gy Customer Updater AQ
Transforms BRM
Diameter request into
CCR-I or ECE API call Billing
CCR-U
Kafka BRM Gateway

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 Terminate request
Performs
rating
Transforms
request into Elastic Charging Server
ECE API call Persistence
DB
Enhancement

Aggregation
Collection

Processor

Processor
CDR
Cartridge

files

ECE
DC
Asynchronous
persistence of
balances and RE Formatter
rated event
OCOMC
Collects CDR
files
Creates REL
CCA event
reply in Rated
Ro
CCC Event cache
Diameter
Gateway

PCEF
Gy Customer Updater AQ
Transforms BRM
request into
Diameter ECE API call
CCR-T Billing
Kafka BRM Gateway

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 Persistence Event persisted
on physical
storage

Elastic Charging Server

Persistence
DB
Enhancement

Aggregation
Extracts
Collection

Processor

Processor
CDR
Cartridge

files event from

ECE
DC
Oracle DB
RE Formatter
OCOMC
Uses BRM CDR
plug-in to write REL
data and
Ro control files
CCC Creates
event in
Diameter BRM DB
Gateway

PCEF
Gy Customer Updater AQ
BRM

Billing
Kafka BRM Gateway

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 Top-up flow

Elastic Charging Server

Persistence
DB
Enhancement

Aggregation
Collection

Processor

Processor
CDR
Cartridge

files

ECE
DC
Balance
in BRM is
updated RE Formatter
OCOMC

REL
Balance in
Ro Diameter cache is
CCC updated
Gateway
synchronously

Calls
PCM_OP_
BILL_DEBIT EM Gateway
BRM

Billing

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Persistence Database

Transient event store:

• Event stored in binary format (POF)

• Events are deleted after extraction

NoSQL database can be used instead of the Oracle Database.

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Summary

• Real-time balance is in ECE

• Balance in BRM is updated asynchronously

• Balance update from BRM to ECE are synchronous

- Subscription events, bill-time discounts, etc

• Initiate and update part of AAA sessions are handled in ECE only
- Active session and reservation objects are in ECE cache only
- Not stored in BRM or Persistence Database

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