8.30 Charging Characteristics

29.2743GPP3GPP Evolved Packet System (EPS)Evolved General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunnelling Protocol for Control plane (GTPv2-C)Release 18Stage 3TS

The charging characteristics information element is defined in 3GPP TS 32.251 [8] and is a way of informing both the SGW and PGW of the rules for producing charging information or informing the PGW to inhibit the establishment of the Gx session based on operator configured triggers. For the encoding of this information element see 3GPP TS 32.298 [9].

Bits

Octets

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

1

Type = 95 (decimal)

2 to 3

Length = n

4

Spare

Instance

5 to 6

Charging Characteristics value

7 to (n+4)

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

Figure 8.30-1: Charging Characteristics