4.23.14 Pause of charging

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When I-SMF is involved for a PDU Session, the procedure for pause of charging in home routed roaming case defined in clause 4.4.4 is applied by replacing the H-SMF with SMF and V-SMF with I-SMF.

When a Local UPF (PSA) is involved, the SMF stops or starts the usage reporting including usage reporting at the Local UPF (PSA) via the I-SMF.

For a PDU Session, if charging has been paused previously, in addition to the conditions for stopping pause of charging as described in clause 4.4.4, the charging is unpaused in the following case:

– When the SMF receives Nsmf_PDUSession_Create Request from a new I-SMF or Nsmf_PDUSession_CreateSMContext request from AMF.