8.2.91 Additional Usage Reports Information

29.2443GPPInterface between the Control Plane and the User Plane nodesRelease 17TS

The Additional Usage Reports Information IE type shall be encoded as shown in Figure 8.2.91-1. It shall either indicate that additional usage reports will follow, or contain the total number of usage reports that need to be sent in all the additional PFCP Session Report Request messages after the PFCP Session Modification Response or PFCP Session Deletion Response (see clause 5.2.2.3.1).

Bits

Octets

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

1 to 2

Type = 126 (decimal)

3 to 4

Length = n

5

AURI

Number of Additional Usage Reports value

6

Number of Additional Usage Reports value

7 to (n+4)

These octet(s) is/are present only if explicitly specified

Figure 8.2.91-1: Additional Usage Reports Information

The Number of Additional Usage Reports value shall be encoded as an unsigned binary integer value on 15 bits. Bit 7 of Octet 5 is the most significant bit and bit 1 of Octet 6 is the least significant bit.

The bit 8 of octet 5 shall encode the AURI (Additional Usage Reports Indication) flag:

– when set to "1", it indicates that additional usage reports will follow. In this case, the Number of Additional Usage Reports value shall be set to "0" by the sender and ignored by the receiver;

– when set to "0", the Number of Additional Usage Reports value shall be set to the total number of additional usage reports to be sent in PFCP Session Report Request messages.