NETWORK-BASED POLICY CONTROL FOR HYBRID ACCESSES

摘要

The present invention faces the issue of coordinating the policy control for a hybrid access gateway, HAG, and a hybrid customer premises equipment, HCPE, which may access a core network through a fixed network and a mobile network. The present invention provides for a method of controlling these policies and basically comprising: transmitting, from a policy server to a configuration server, configuration data to obtain a first policy to be applied at the HCPE to trigger traffic distribution at the HCPE; obtaining at the configuration server, and by using the received configuration data, the first policy to be applied at the HCPE; installing, from the configuration server to the HCPE, the first policy to trigger traffic distribution at the HCPE; and installing, from the policy server to the HAG, a second policy to be applied at the HAG to trigger traffic distribution at the HAG.

主权项

1. A method of controlling policies for accesses to a core network, through a fixed network and a mobile network, for a hybrid customer premises equipment (HCPE), the method comprising:
establishing a communication session, by the HCPE with a network gateway, through at least one of the fixed network and the mobile network; receiving, at a policy server from the network gateway, information about the communication session; transmitting, from the policy server to a configuration server, subscription data for the HCPE, the subscription data associated with a first policy to be applied at the HCPE to trigger traffic distribution at the HCPE; obtaining, by the configuration server, the first policy associated with the subscription data and to be applied at the HCPE; installing, from the configuration server to the HCPE, the first policy to trigger traffic distribution at the HCPE; transmitting, from the HCPE to a Hybrid Access Gateway, (HAG), traffic addressing the core network; establishing a protocol session, by the HAG with the policy server, for the HCPE; and installing, from the policy server to the HAG, a second policy to be applied at the HAG to trigger traffic distribution at the HAG.