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Table of Contents
This document has 18 pages.

1 Changes in eG-CDR Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.1 Changes between release 2.0 and release 2.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2 Changes between release 10 CD9 and release 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3 Changes between release 10 CD8 and release 10 CD9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2 About this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.1 Scope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2 Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4 eG-CDR fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1 Metered data in CDRs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1.1 Supported ASN.1 eG-CDR fields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1.2 ASN.1 eG-CDR fields not supported by Flexi NG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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Table 1 ASN.1 eG-CDR fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Table 2 ASN.1 eG-CDR fields not supported by Flexi NG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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1 Changes in eG-CDR Description

Changes between document issues are cumulative. Therefore, the latest document
issue contains all changes made to previous issues.

1.1 Changes between release 2.0 and release 2.1

Changes between issues 2-1 and 2-2
Chapter eG-CDR fields:
• Cause for Record Closing field: updated the description of the value 19 Max
change condition
• Diagnostics field: added the following values:
• 59: CLI request
• 104: Abort session request
• PS Furnish Charging Information: this is a new field
• List of Service Data field:
• Charging Rule Base Name subfield: updated the note about which value is
reported
• updated DCCA values in the Service Condition Change subfield
• updated the description of QoS Information subfield
• added a new subfield, PS Furnish Charging Information
• specified which subfields are optional and which are mandatory
• Record Extensions field: updated the description of the Identifier subfield
• Section ASN.1 eG-CDR fields not supported by Flexi NG:
• removed the field PS Furnish Charging Information
• List of Traffic Data Volumes: renamed Data Volume Uplink to
Data Volume GPRS Uplink, and renamed Data Volume Downlink to
Data Volume GPRS Downlink

1.2 Changes between release 10 CD9 and release 2.0

Changes between issues 2-0 and 2-1
Chapter Supported ASN.1 eG-CDR fields:
• Description of the List of Service Data field: added that rating group zero is
used to report bearer-level metering.

Changes between issues 1-7 and 2-0

Chapter Overview: added GTP’ (Gz/Ga) to CDR transfer options.
Chapter Supported ASN.1 eG-CDR fields:
• Section Metered data in CDRs: updated the 3GPP specification and version
information and added a mention about the possibility to transfer CDRs through the
GTP’ (Ga/Gz) interface.
• Specified that the CDR fields are presented in the order they appear in the CDR.
• Description of the Charging ID field : specified that the value is generated by Flexi
NG and not the charging subsystem.

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• Description of the PDP Type field: added IPv4v6[Hex8D] to the list of supported
values.
• Description of the Cause for Record Closing field: removed note saying that
mediation software and billing systems should be able to decode all 3GPP-sup-
ported values to ensure compatibility with future releases (note moved to the begin-
ning of the chapter).
• Description of the Diagnostics field: removed value 105 (not supported yet).
• Description of the Access Point Name Selection Mode field: listed the sup-
ported values.
• Description of the Charging Rule Base Name field in List of Service
Data: updated the note about the first active rule base being reported when there
are multiple active rule bases to the following: “In the current implementation, the
rule base with the smallest configured PCC rule base indentifier is reported if
multiple rule bases are active.”
• Description of the Service Condition Change field in List of Service
Data: changed the description to the following: “Identifies the order of the container
within the lifetime of the PDP context”
• Description of the Local Sequence Number field in List of Service Data:
removed note saying that mediation software and billing systems should be able to
decode all 3GPP-supported values to ensure compatibility with future releases.
• Description of the Service Identifier field in List of Service Data:
added information about the value of the field always being 0 for RG0.
• Description of the Record Extensions field: specified that only one field is sup-
ported.

1.3 Changes between release 10 CD8 and release 10 CD9

Changes between issues 1-6 and 1-7
Chapter Supported ASN.1 eG-CDR fields:
• added information about the reporting of dual stack addresses to the description of
the Served PDP/PDN Address field.
• updated the description of the Dynamic Address Flag field.

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2 About this document

2.1 Scope
This document contains an overview of Flexi NG CDRs and information about the fields
in the eG-CDRs.

2.2 Audience
This document is targeted at operators and administrators who handle Flexi NG offline
charging data.

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3 Overview
Charging data records (CDRs) are used for gathering metering data. They contain infor-
mation about chargeable events such as call duration and data transfer.
eG-CDRs are generated in ASN.1 format using basic encoding rules (BER). When the
CDR file delivery mode is in use, the CDRs are written to CDR files. CDR files are stored
on Flexi NG hard disk in the /var/cdr_storage. The CDR files can be retrieved to
billing mediation through the Bp interface. The retrieving entity retrieves and deletes the
CDR files from Flexi NG. The transfer methods supported by Flexi NG are File Transfer
Protocol (FTP) and secure FTP (sFTP).
The file size limit for Flexi NG CDR files is 20 MB. The HD space available for CDRs is
30GB.
When the GTP’ delivery mode is in use, Flexi NG transfers the CDRs to a charging
gateway using the GTP’ (Gz/Ga) interface.

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4 eG-CDR fields

4.1 Metered data in CDRs

The metered data is collected in charging data records (CDRs) that are based on the
3GPP release 7, October 2007 (3GPP TS specifications 32.298 v7.5.1 for Ga/Gz inter-
face generated CDRs, and 3GPP TS specifications 32.251 v7.5.0 for Bp interface gen-
erated CDRs).
CDRs are encoded using the abstract syntax notation one (ASN.1) code generator and
basic encoding rules (BER). A CDR using ASN.1/BER encoding is opened when a PDP
context is activated. The encoding is done in a service blade. CDRs are stored as files
on Flexi NG hard disk and can be retrieved using FTP or sFTP (on pull mode, through
the BP interface). CDRs can also be transferred through the GTP’ (Ga/Gz) interface.

4.1.1 Supported ASN.1 eG-CDR fields

g Optional fields are included in eG-CDRs if there is data to report.

g Note that future releases increase the number of fields and values supported by Flexi
NG. In order to assure compatibility with future Flexi NG releases, the mediation
software and billing systems should be able to decode all 3GPP-supported values.

Flexi NG ASN.1 eG-CDRs support the following fields (presented in the order they
appear in the CDR):

Field Description
EGSNPDPRecord Mandatory. This field is not an actual eG-CDR field, but the
header of the record. Due to UDP packet size, the maximum size
of an eG-CDR cannot exceed 1500 bytes.
Record Type Mandatory. This field indicates the type of CDR (eG-CDR). The
value is 70.
Served IMSI Mandatory. This field indicates the international mobile subscriber
identity (IMSI) of the served subscriber.
GGSN Address Mandatory. This field indicates the IPv4 GGSN address of Flexi
NG (different for each session control (SC)).
Charging ID Mandatory. Flexi NG generates this field to indicate the PDP
context identifier for charging purposes.
SGSN Address Mandatory. This field indicates the IPv4 address of the SGSN in
the Gn interface. It is the current remote GTP-C address of the
session. Flexi NG currently supports one SGSN address per
CDR.

Table 1 ASN.1 eG-CDR fields

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Field Description
Access Point Optional. This field indicates the actual connected access point
Name Network name (APN). It includes only the network identifier part. The value
Identifier is received in the GPRS Tunneling Protocol’s (GTP) Create PDP
Context Request.
PDP Type Optional. This field indicates the PDP type. It consists of two
parts: organization (set to "IETF" [1]) and value (either IPv4
[Hex21], IPv6 [Hex57], or IPv4v6[Hex8D]).
Served PDP Optional. This field contains the IPv4 or IPv6 PDP address of the
Address UE and the session attributes. In case of IPv6, there can be cases
in which the second half of the address (the interface identifier, 64
bits) is set to ::1. The first half of the address (prefix, the other
64 bits) is never changed. In the dual stack (IPv4v6) case, this
field contains the IPv4 address, and IPv6 is not reported in the
CDR.
Dynamic Address Optional. This field indicates that the PDP address (reported in
Flag the Served PDP Address field) has been allocated dynamically.
This field is missing if the address is static, that is, part of PDP
context subscription.
Record Opening Mandatory. This field indicates the time when the CDR was
Time opened.
Duration Mandatory. This field indicates the time (in seconds) between the
opening and closing of the eG-CDR.
Cause for Record Mandatory. This field contains the reason for closing the CDR.
Closing The supported values are:
• 0: Normal release
• 4: Abnormal release
• 16: Volume limit
• 17: Time limit
• 18: SGSN change (change within the same SGSN PLMN ID)
• 19: Max change condition: a maximum number of service
containers in the CDR are filled. Flexi NG changes this
maximum number dynamically according to the amount of
available memory. For more information, see CDR creation
due to maximum number of change conditions in User guide.
• 22: RAT change
• 23: MS time zone change
• 24: SGSN PLMN ID change (change to a different SGSN
PLMN ID)

Table 1 ASN.1 eG-CDR fields (Cont.)

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Field Description
Diagnostics Optional. This field contains a more detailed deactivation reason.
Supported normal PDP context release values:
• 8: Normal PDP context release (deletion requested)
• 36: Session timer expired
• 37: Idle session timer expired
• 57: RADIUS disconnect
• 59: CLI request
• 70: OCS disconnected
Supported abnormal PDP context release values:
• 11: SGSN unreachable
• 30: Error Indication received from SGSN
• 35: Flexi NG configuration changed
• 42: Update PDP Context Request to SGSN failed
• 56: PDP context not found
• 71: TEID conflict: SGSN assigned the PDP context’s user
plane TEID to another PDP context
• 100: OCS was unreachable due to lack of transport connec-
tion
• 101: OCS did not respond within time allowed
• 102: OCS sent a result code in the CCA indicating an error
• 103: OCS sent an incomprehensible CCA
• 104: OCS sent an abort session request
Record Sequence Optional. This field contains a running sequence number
Number employed to link the partial records generated in the
SGSN/GGSN for a particular PDP context (identified by the
Charging ID and GGSN address pair). The Record Sequence
Number is not present in the CDR if it is the only CDR produced
during the lifetime of the PDP context, that is, if the only CDR gen-
erated for the PDP context is due to (either normal or abnormal)
PDP release. This applies also if the only CDR generated gets
split into several CDRs.
Node ID Optional. An operator-configurable identifier of the recording
entity.
Local Sequence Optional. This field includes a unique record number created by
Number this blade. The number is allocated sequentially in the blade.
Access Point Optional. This field indicates how the APN is selected. The value
Name Selection is taken from GTP. The supported values are:
Mode
• 0: MS or Network Provided Subscription Verified
• 1: MS Provided Subscription Not Verified
• 2: Network Provided Subscription Not Verified

Table 1 ASN.1 eG-CDR fields (Cont.)

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Field Description
Served MSISDN Optional. This field contains the mobile station integrated services
digital network number (MSISDN) of the served party. The term
"served" party is used to describe the mobile subscriber involved
in the transaction recorded. The value is received from GTP.
Charging Charac- Mandatory. The charging characteristics applied to the PDP
teristics context. Charging characteristics determine the charging profile
that is used. The value is received from HLR, and can be overwrit-
ten by Gx.
Charging Charac- Optional. This field contains information about how the charging
teristics Selection characteristics field is selected. The supported values are 0
Mode (SGSN-supplied) and 3 (home default).
SGSN PLMN Optional. This field contains the PLNM ID of the SGSN in the eG-
Identifier CDR (used only when received from GTP).
PS Furnish Optional. Contains the furnish charging information sent by the
Charging Informa- online charging system (OCS). This field reports the FCI for the
tion (FCI) whole bearer. The value is the current available value at the
moment of CDR creation. If no new FCI value has been received
since the generation of the last CDR, the value reported in the last
CDR is also reported in the new CDR.
This field contains one subfield:
• PS Free Format Data - Mandatory. This field contains the
free format data sent by OCS for the whole bearer. The value
is not cleared after a CDR is generated, unless overwritten or
removed by OCS. The maximum length of the field is 160
characters.
For more information, see Furnish charging information in the
Diameter Credit-Control Application document.
Served IMEISV Optional. This field contains the international mobile equipment
identity and software version number (IMEISV) of the served
party.
RAT Type Optional. This field indicates the valid radio access technology
type during the service data container recording interval (used
only when received from GTP). If the GTP Information Enrich-
ment feature is enabled and there is a configured RAT type value,
then this field is included in the eG-CDRs for the GTPv1 mes-
sages.
The supported RAT Type values are:
• 1: UTRAN
• 2: GERAN
• 3: WLAN
• 4: GAN
• 5: HSPA evolution

Table 1 ASN.1 eG-CDR fields (Cont.)

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Field Description
MS Time Zone Optional. This field indicates the time zone of the mobile station.
User Location Optional. This field contains the user location information (used
Information only when received from GTP). Flexi NG receives the value from
the SGSN when the CDR is opened. This field can be received in
both the Create and Update PDP context signals. The value
present in the CDR is the last known value.

Table 1 ASN.1 eG-CDR fields (Cont.)

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Field Description
List of Service Optional. One List of Service Data field contains one or more
Data service data containers. A service data container is identified by
a rating group when the granularity in the CDR is low, and by the
combination of a rating group and a service ID when the CDR
granularity is high. One CDR can contain multiple service data
containers for the same rating group or rating group/service ID. A
special rating group, rating group zero, is used to report bearer-
level metering.
Supported List of Service Data fields:
• Rating Group - mandatory. Contains the rating group identi-
fier.
• Charging Rule Base Name - optional. Reference to a group
of policy and charging control (PCC) rules predefined at the
policy and charging enforcement function (PCEF). This field
is included if any of the PCC rules that are reported to be in
use within this service data container were activated by using
the Charging Rule Base Name.
g In the current implementation, the first found rule base
name is reported in the CDR.
g Note that this field is not included in a rating group zero
container.
• Result Code - optional. Contains the result code after the
interconnection with the online charging system (OCS). The
value is the last known value sent by OCS for that rating
group. The most important values are 2001 (SUCCESS) and
4011 (CREDIT CONTROL NOT APPLICABLE).
• Local Sequence Number - optional. Identifies the order of
the container within the lifetime of the PDP context.
• Time of First Usage - optional. This field reports the time-
stamp of the first IP packet for this service data container
since the container was opened. In the case of rating group
zero, this field reports the time when the rating group zero
container was opened (the Time of First Usage value of the
first RG0 container in a CDR is the same as the opening time
of the CDR).
g Note that this field is always present for rating group zero.
For non-RG0 containers, this field is not included if both uplink
and downlink volumes are zero.
• Time of Last Usage - optional. This field reports the time-
stamp of the last IP packet for this service data container
since the container was opened. In the case of rating group
zero, this field reports the time when the rating group zero
container was closed (the Time of Last Usage value of the last
RG0 container in a CDR is the same as the closing time of the
CDR).
g Note that this field is always present for rating group zero.
For non-RG0 containers, this field is not included if both uplink
and downlink volumes are zero.

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Field Description
List of Service • Time Usage - optional. The duration of the service data con-
Data (continued) tainer. For more information about silence period (quota con-
sumption time) usage, see the Service awareness document.
For rating group zero, the Time Usage value always equals
the difference between the Time of First Usage and Time of
Last Usage values.
• Service Condition Change - mandatory. Abitmask field that
defines the reason(s) for closing the service data container.
Service Condition Change supports the following bit configu-
rations:
• 0: QoS change
• 1: Intra PLMN SGSN change
• 2: Inter PLMN SGSN change
• 3: Tariff Time Switch
• 4: PDP Context Release
• 5: RAT type change
• 6: Service idled out
• 8: Configuration change (used when Result Code
changes)
• 10: DCCA time threshold reached
• 11: DCCA volume threshold reached
• 13: DCCA time exhausted
• 14: DCCA volume exhausted
• 15: DCCA validity time expired
• 17: DCCA reauthorization request
• 18: DCCA failure handling: continue ongoing session
• 19: DCCA failure handling: retry and terminate ongoing
session
• 20: DCCA failure handling: terminate ongoing session
• 24: CDR closure
• 25: Offline time limit reached
• 26: Offline volume limit reached
g If no other bit in the container is set, 6: Service idled out
is set.
g Bit 24: Record closure is always set in the last List of
Service Data entry of each CDR. If a CDR is split into several
partial CDRs, this bit is set only in the last container of the last
split CDR.
• QoS Information - optional. Contains the GTPv1 negotiated
QoS applied for the PDP context. This field is not included in
a container if its value is the same as the QoS Information
value in the previous container for the same rating group/Ser-
vice ID in the CDR.
• SGSN Address - optional. Contains the valid SGSN IPv4
address during the service data container recording interval.
The value is the same as on the generic part of the CDR.

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Field Description
List of Service • SGSN PLMN Identifier - optional. Contains the valid public
Data (continued) land mobile network (PLMN) ID of the SGSN address defined
in the SGSN Address field above.
• Data Volume Flow Based Charging (FBC) Uplink -
optional. The number of octets received for this service data
container in the uplink direction.
• Data Volume FBC Downlink - optional. The number of
octets received for this service data container in the downlink
direction.
• Time of Report - mandatory. a time stamp that defines the
moment when the service data container is closed.
• RAT Type - optional. Contains the valid radio access technol-
ogy type during the service data container recording interval.
It is used only when received from GTP. If the GTP Informa-
tion Enrichment feature is enabled and there is a configured
RAT type value, then this field is included in the eG-CDRs for
the GTPv1 messages.
• Failure Handling Continue - optional. When this field is
included in a container, it means the data reported is not
reported to the on-line charging subsystem (OCS), because
the OCS failed. Note that once the OCS failed, this field
appears in all new containers generated.
• Service Identifier - optional. Contains the identifier of the
service used. Always present in CDRs for RG0. Might not be
present for other rating groups when Flexi NG is using low
granularity. For RG0, the value of this field is always 0.
• PS Furnish Charging Information (FCI) - optional. Contains
the FCI sent by OCS. Within one CDR, different rating groups
may have different values, but all instances of the same rating
group have the same value. This field is not included in RG0
containers (for RG0, FCI is reported on the CDR level).
This field contains one subfield:
• PS Free Format Data - mandatory. This field contains the
accumulative value of the free format data sent by OCS
for the RG. The value reported is not cleared after a CDR
is generated, unless the value is overwritten or removed
by OCS. The maximum length of the field is 160 charac-
ters.
• User Location Information - optional. Contains the user
location information of the user equipment. This field can be
sent by the SGSN in the create and update PDP context
signals. Contains the last known value for the service data
container.

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Field Description
Record Exten- Optional. The Record Extensions field contains a field called
sions Management Extensions that contains Nokia Siemens Networks
specific fields. Currently, the Management Extensions field
contains the following fields:
• Identifier - mandatory. Identifier of the (Nokia Siemens Net-
works) Management Extensions field.
• Information - mandatory. Contains a Nokia Siemens
Networks specific field. Currently, the following field is
included within the Information field:
• CDR Continue: Mandatory. Used when the CDR includes
too many containers to physically fit in one CDR, causing
the CDR to be split into several partial CDRs. The field
can have two values:
• 0: This is the last fragment of the split CDR
• 1: The split CDR is not finished and more segments
(CDRs) are still to be generated

Table 1 ASN.1 eG-CDR fields (Cont.)

4.1.2 ASN.1 eG-CDR fields not supported by Flexi NG

The following eG-CDR fields are not supported in the current Flexi NG release.
However, in order to be compatible with future Flexi NG releases, the mediation
software should be able to decode these fields.

Field Description
Network Initiated This field indicates that the PDP context is network initiated.
PDP Context

Table 2 ASN.1 eG-CDR fields not supported by Flexi NG

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Field Description
List of Traffic Data This field reports PDP level data. It includes the following fields:
Volumes
• QoS Requested - QoS desired by the mobile station at
PDP creation.
• QoS Negotiated - applied QoS accepted by the network.
• Data Volume GPRS Uplink - the number of octets trans-
mitted during the use of the packet data services in the
uplink direction.
• Data Volume GPRS Downlink - the number of octets
transmitted during the use of the packet data services in
the downlink direction.
• Change Condition - the reason for closing the container.
• Change Time - the time when the container was closed.
• Failure Handling Continue - included when the failure
handling procedure has been executed and new contain-
ers are opened.
• User Location Information - the user location information
of the MS. Note that this is not present if the location is
unknown.
IMS Signaling This field indicates if the PDP context is used for IP multimedia
Context subsystem (IMS) signaling.
External Charging This field contains the charging identifier received from a non-
Identifier GPRS external network entity.
CAMEL Information This field contains the customized applications for mobile
network enhanced logic (CAMEL) information sent by SGSN.
List of Service Data List of Service Data is a supported field, but the following sub-
fields are currently not supported:
• AF-Record-Information - indicates the AF charging iden-
tifier and associated flow identifiers.
• Event Based Charging Information - the number of
events and associated timestamps (each event is time-
stamped) during the service data container recording inter-
val. Note that this is not used for rating group zero.
g Candidate for future Flexi NG releases.
• Time Quota Mechanism - contains two other subfields
(time quota type and base time interval), included if
envelope reporting is required.
g Candidate for future Flexi NG releases.
Table 2 ASN.1 eG-CDR fields not supported by Flexi NG (Cont.)

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