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Error Handling and Data Synchronization in Policy and Charging Control Architecture in WiMAX

WiMAX 정책 제어 시스템의 정보 동기화

  • 설순욱 (한국기술교육대학교 전기전자통신공학부) ;
  • 조성수 (KT 종합기술원)
  • Received : 2013.01.08
  • Accepted : 2013.04.25
  • Published : 2013.05.31
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Abstract

In the Policy and Charging Control(PCC) architecture of the 3GPP and WiMAX forum, the Policy and Charging Rule Function(PCRF) controls and configures the policies of quality of services(QoS) and accounting to a Policy and Charging Rule Enforcement Function(PCEF). In this paper, we categorize the errors into three types that include a disconnection with peer entity, a delayed or no response and a response with failure result, and propose a scheme to automatically synchronize the data between the PCRF and the PCEF for each type of error. Also, we conduct a quantitative analysis to see how much it can help to maintain the cell capacity of the mobile VoIP service in a WiBro network, which is implemented in Korea according to the standards of WiMAX. We can see that our proposed scheme improves the performances of PCC by preventing the waste of radio resources, the overload of systems, the memory leakage of servers, the system shutdown, and so on. We have validated the scheme by implementation, and reflected it in WiMAX standard documents.

3GPP와 WiMAX의 Policy and Charging Control(PCC) 표준에서는 정책제어 시스템(Policy and Charging Rule Function, PCRF)이 정책적용 시스템(Policy and Charging Rule Enforcement Function, PCEF)에 품질 및 과금 정책을 설정하고 관리함으로써 네트워크 자원을 제어하는 아키텍처를 정의한다. 본 논문은 PCRF 시스템과 PCEF 시스템 사이에서 정책 정보 불일치로 인해 발생하는 오류의 유형을 규정하고, 각 오류의 유형에 따라 PCRF 시스템의 정책 정보와 PCEF 시스템의 정책 정보를 동기화 시키는 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 WiMAX 표준을 준용하여 한국에 구축된 WiBro 시스템에서 각 기지국의 mobile VoIP(mVoIP) 수용량 관점에서 제안한 방법의 성능을 정량적으로 분석하였다. 제안한 방법은 삭제되지 않은 정책 정보로 인한 네트워크 자원의 낭비를 줄이고, 불필요한 정보의 누적으로 인해 발생하는 시스템의 부하, 메모리 누수, 시스템 정지 등과 같은 문제점들을 방지하고, PCC 서비스를 안정적으로 유지시켜 줌으로써 시스템의 성능을 향상시킨다. 우리는 이 방법을 실제 구현을 통하여 검증하였으며, WiMAX 표준에 반영시켰다.

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