2. IPDR Overview
0 Provides information about IP based service usage,
performance and other activities
0 Provides usage measurement for next generation
services
0 Created by cable modems, enhanced multimedia
terminal adapters, set-top boxes etc.
0 Used by OSS and BSS applications
7. IPDR Adoption Status by
Standard Bodies and Industry Forums
1.ATIS
2. ANSI adopted IPDR/SP as an ANS
3. Cable Labs adopted IPDR/SP as a mandatory part of:
DOCSIS® 2.0 and 3.0
Open Cable™ OCP 1.1
4. 3GPP adopted IPDR/SP
5. Harmonization at ITU as part of the NGN
8. Different Accounting Model
Per time
Fee paid based on eating period ($50 per period)
On demand availability
($4.00 to watch a PPV at 6 pm)
Per application
Fee paid on the basis on what is eaten
($2 per GB of BitTorrent traffic)
9. Different Accounting Model(Contd.)
Per Volume
Fee paid based on the amount eaten ($2.00 per GB)
Flat rate tiering
Amount you can eat based on the fee you prepaid
($40 per month of “bronze” level bandwidth)
Flat rate
All you can eat ($50 per month)
10. The Model driven IPDR Approach
Service
Definition
Service
Definition
Data Model
Service
Data Encoding
Service
Data Transport
• Service Definition
(Subset of W3C XML-Schema 1.0)
Alternative Encoding:
• XML Document
• XDR based binary encoding
• Others (e.g. RADIUS, Diameter AVP)
Alternative Transport:
• File based exchange (of XML or XDR)
• Streaming (XDR only)
• Others (e.g. RADIUS UDP, Diameter TCP/SCTP)
