Embodiment
The reason of this problem appears in analysis, bundle relevant with present AUC and HLR, HLR and AC (Authentication Center, AUC) fits together, an AC belongs to a HLR, AUC and HLR bind mutually, have caused the binding relationship between IMSI and HLR, owing to all be that AUC and HLR bind together use in the existing system.
Now simply AUC and HLR are divided into two entities and also can bring some new problems, need route to AUC such as authentication request, the position is upgraded need route to HLR, and two routing iinformation striking resemblances that message adopts, all come addressing with IMSI, adopt CN 200910163064.2 can solve addressing issue, but the forwarding of a large amount of message exist certain reliability hidden danger and signal resource waste.
In the technical scheme that the embodiment of the invention provides, AC and homing position center (HLR or HSS) are separated, be the relation of one-to-many or multi-to-multi between AC and the homing position center, at this moment, for MSC/VLR (Visited Mobile Switching Center/Visitor LocationRegister, mobile switching centre/customer location register), SGSN (Service GPRSSupporting Node, Serving GPRS Support Node), CSCF (Call Session ControlFunction, CSCF), MME (mobile management entity, Mobility ManagementEntity) or aaa server (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting, authentication and authorization charging), when needs during to HLR or HSS addressing, can obtain the address information of HLR or HSS from AC, can reach the effect of ONE HLR or ONE HSS, thoroughly untie the coupling between card and homing position central apparatus.
Need to prove that the fixture body in the embodiment of the invention can be SIM card or UIM card or usim card or ISIM card etc.
AUC also need preserve the address information at the homing position center of current use mobile identification number correspondence, as HLR GT address except the authorization data of preserving the user.
Further, receive in AUC before the authentication request message of conversation control entity transmission, described method also comprises:
Conversation control entity adopts the mode of mobile identification number addressing, the destination address of described mobile identification number correspondence is translated into the address of AUC, and (this translation action can be conversation control entity, also can be other entities on the network, as STP/ENUM/DNS/SLF etc.), described authentication request message is routed to AUC.
Under concrete application scenarios, described conversation control entity carries out addressing according to the address information at the described homing position center that receives to the homing position center and comprises:
When conversation control entity sends position updating request or registration request, use the address information at the homing position center of carrying in the described authentication response message, described position updating request is routed to the homing position center.
As shown in Figure 1, the implementation method of a kind of mobile communication business that provides for the embodiment of the invention stores the address information at the homing position center of mobile identification number correspondence in the AUC, and described method comprises:
Step 101: AUC receives the authentication request message that conversation control entity sends, the mobile identification number of carrying user terminal in the described authentication request message;
Step 102: AUC returns authentication response message according to described mobile identification number to described conversation control entity, carry the address information at homing position center of the mobile identification number correspondence of described user terminal in the described authentication response message, so that described conversation control entity carries out addressing according to the address information at the described homing position center that receives to the homing position center.
In embodiments of the present invention, AC carries the address at the homing position center of user terminal in authentication response message, conversation control entity upgrade in follow-up position or during registration (in different systems, corresponding different network entities, call is different), use this address to carry out addressing as the address at homing position center.
Under concrete application scenarios, conversation control entity uses the mobile identification number addressing to the message that sends to AC, use the homing position centre address addressing that receives (owing in authentication response message, obtained the address at the homing position center of mobile identification number correspondence to the message that sends to the homing position center, thereby can change original IMSI/IMN/IMPI addressing system, use the address at the homing position center that obtains to carry out addressing).Such card belongs to which HLR or HSS can appointment, only need tell the address of this HLR or HSS the AC of card ownership to get final product, thereby realized the decoupling zero between card and the homing position center, being convenient to operator distributes telephone numbers, changes card more flexibly, mends card, or even card is mended in the strange land, greatly reduce management difficulty and the cost of card, also do not exist simultaneously signaling the to transmit reliability hidden danger of bringing, the problem of the circuitous wasting of resources of signaling.
AUC and mobile location centre Chinese are separated from each other, and are the relation of one-to-many or multi-to-multi between the two.
Under the different network architectures, described conversation control entity comprises mobile switching center MSC/VLR, Serving GPRS Support Node SGSN, CSCF CSCF, mobile management entity MME or authentication and authorization charging AAA.
Described homing position center is HLR or HSS (Home Subscriber Server, home subscribed services device).
It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that described mobile identification number can be IMSI, MIN or IMPI.
As shown in Figure 2, with the position more new technological process be example, the implementation method of the another kind of mobile communication business that the embodiment of the invention provides stores the address information at the homing position center of mobile identification number correspondence in the AUC, described method comprises:
Step 201: visit ground MSC/VLR sends authentication request message to AUC, carries the mobile identification number IMSI of user terminal in the described authentication request message;
In this step, can adopt the mode (described mobile identification number addressing is specifically as follows with IMSI as the GT addressing) of mobile identification number IMSI addressing, the destination address of international mobile subscriber identity IMSI correspondence is translated into the address of AUC, thus make AUC with authentication request message can be routed to AUC after separate at the homing position center.
Step 202: AUC returns authentication response message to visit ground MSC/VLR, and described authentication response message is carried the homing position centre address (in the embodiment of the invention, the homing position center can be HLR) of described mobile identification number IMSI correspondence;
Visit ground MSC/VLR records the address information at the homing position center of carrying described mobile identification number correspondence in the described authentication response message.
Need to prove that AUC stores the corresponding relation at mobile identification number IMSI and homing position center.
Also need to prove, step 201,202 purpose is to be returned to visit ground MSC/VLR by AUC the homing position centre address of user terminal mobile identification number IMSI correspondence, the embodiment of the invention with the position more new technological process be that example describes, but be not limited to more new technological process of above-mentioned position, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that, authentication request message adopts mobile identification number to be addressed to AUC, other positions are upgraded, registration, destructurings etc. need the request message to the homing position center, adopt homing position centre address information to be addressed to the homing position center.After that is to say AC and separating at the homing position center, mobile identification number can be used as the addressing foundation of AC, no longer be suitable as the addressing foundation at homing position center, some conversation control entity still with mobile identification number as the addressing at homing position center according to the time, AC can be forwarded to non-authentication message the homing position center of mobile identification number correspondence by technology among the CN 200910163064.2, detail is no longer carefully stated here, in detail referring to CN 200910163064.2.
Step 203: when described MSC/VLR initiates position updating request to the homing position center, described MSC/VLR with the address at the homing position center of carrying in the described authentication response message as the destination address addressing;
Need to prove that the embodiment of the invention is updated to example with the position and describes, the destination address of described location update request message is revised as the address at the homing position center of carrying in the described authentication response message.It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the communication process (as register flow path) for other, the present invention is suitable equally, and the destination address that is about to homing position center requests message is revised as the homing position centre address that carries in the authentication response message.
Step 204: the homing position center receives described location update request message, can handle according to existing procedure, upgrades response to described MSC/VLR home position.
Need to prove, in embodiments of the present invention, can operate according to following principle: for being the message of route with Subscriber Number MSISDN, all will not relate to AC, and can handle according to the mode of prior art; The message that is routed to AC adopts the mobile identification number addressing; After the authentication, route to the homing position center adopts the homing position centre address that carries in the authentication response message to carry out addressing, concrete, session control equipments such as MSC, VLR, SGSN are when sending that the position is upgraded and be addressed to the message at homing position center with mobile identification number before other, and destination address is filled in the homing position centre address that AC returns in authentication response message.
AUC separates with the homing position center in the embodiment of the invention, store the address information at the homing position center of mobile identification number correspondence in the AUC, and the address information with the homing position center of mobile identification number correspondence in authentication response message returns to MSC/VLR (under other the network architecture, conversation control entity herein can also be SGSN, CSCF, MME or AAA), make MSC/VLR to initiate operations such as position renewal to the homing position center as destination address with the address information at the homing position center of described mobile identification number correspondence, realized the decoupling zero between card and the homing position center, being convenient to operator distributes telephone numbers more flexibly, change card, mend card, or even card is mended in the strange land, greatly reduce management difficulty and the cost of card, also do not exist signaling to transmit the reliability hidden danger of bringing simultaneously, the problem of the circuitous wasting of resources of signaling.
The implementation method of the another kind of mobile communication business that Fig. 3 passes through for the embodiment of the invention is applied to the SAE network architecture, stores the address information of the HSS of mobile identification number correspondence in the AUC, and described method comprises:
Step 301:MME sends AIR authentication request message, the mobile identification number of carrying user terminal in the described authentication request message to AUC;
In this step, the destination address of mobile identification number correspondence can be translated into the address of AUC, thus make AUC with authentication request message can be routed to AUC after separate at the homing position center.
Step 302: AUC returns the AIA authentication response message to MME, and described authentication response message is carried the address (concrete, described homing position center can be HSS in embodiments of the present invention) at the homing position center of described mobile identification number correspondence;
Need to prove that AUC stores the address information (can realize by the corresponding relation of storage mobile identification number and HSS) of the HSS that uses this mobile identification number.
Also need to prove, step 201,202 purpose are to be returned to MME by AUC the HSS address of user terminal mobile identification number correspondence, the embodiment of the invention with the position more new technological process be that example describes, but be not limited to more new technological process of above-mentioned position, it will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that in the position registration waits the authentication process under other the scene all can realize above-mentioned purpose.
Step 303: when described MME will initiate position updating request to HSS, MME was with the HSS address of carrying in the described authentication response message destination address as location update request message;
Step 304: the homing position center receives described location update request message, can handle according to existing procedure, upgrades response to described MME home position.
The embodiment of the invention is at the SAE network architecture, AUC separates with HSS, store the address information of the HSS of mobile identification number correspondence in the AUC, AUC returns to MME with the address information of the HSS of mobile identification number correspondence in authentication response message, make MME to initiate operations such as position renewal to HSS as destination address with the address information at the homing position center of described mobile identification number correspondence, realized the decoupling zero between card and the HSS, being convenient to operator distributes telephone numbers more flexibly, change card, mend card, or even card is mended in the strange land, greatly reduce management difficulty and the cost of card, also do not exist signaling to transmit the reliability hidden danger of bringing simultaneously, the problem of the circuitous wasting of resources of signaling.
Further, when user terminal during by network insertions such as WIFI, WIMAX, EVDO, fixed broadbands, aaa server in the network carries out the Authentication Authorization operation, the embodiment of the invention also can be applied to above-mentioned scene, realization flow and Fig. 3 are similar, and just this moment, conversation control entity was aaa server.
When aaa server is initiated authentication request, obtain the address information of HSS from AUC.Concrete, the 3GPP aaa server initiate authentication request scene can for: when the new authentication information of a cover of given user terminal need issue from HSS, authentication request was initiated by the 3GPP aaa server; A new trust or non-trust non-3GPP/IP insert the user and insert the 3GPP aaa server for authentication, perhaps when one of them user of 3GPP aaa server registration needs one to overlap new authentication information, also can initiate authentication request by the 3GPP aaa server; When the 3GPP aaa server detected VPLMN or access network change, authentication request will be initiated by the 3GPP aaa server.
When aaa server sends the registration request to HSS, with the HSS address of carrying in the authentication response message destination address as login request message, will register and ask to be routed to HSS.Concrete, following scene needs 3GPP AAA Server initiatively to initiate login request message:
1) for a given non-3GPP user, goes to register current 3GPP aaa server address in HSS.Access information (for example: STa, SWm, S6b session are terminated) or OCS (Online Charging System) that 3GPP AAA Server prepares deletion non-3GPP user initiate a chain rupture, chain breaking process on the horizon of 3GPP aaa server notice HSS, this moment, HSS went to register this non-3GPP user;
2) after a new user was differentiated by 3GPP aaa server identity, the 3GPP aaa server was initiated login request message.
3) for download user business list when needed to the 3GPP aaa server.Because a user's of some reason subscription data is lost, need this moment the 3GPP aaa server initiatively to initiate login request message to HSS.
The implementation method of the another kind of mobile communication business that Fig. 4 passes through for the embodiment of the invention is applied to the IMS network architecture, stores the address information of the HSS of mobile identification number correspondence in the AUC, comprising:
Step 401: serving CSCF sends AIR authentication request message, the mobile identification number of carrying user terminal in the described authentication request message to AUC;
In this step, the destination address of mobile identification number correspondence can be translated into the address of AUC, thus make AUC with authentication request message can be routed to AUC after separate at the homing position center.
Step 402: AUC returns the AIA authentication response message to serving CSCF, described authentication response message is carried the address (concrete, described homing position center can be HSS in embodiments of the present invention) at the homing position center of described mobile identification number correspondence;
Need to prove that AUC stores the address information (can realize by the corresponding relation of storage mobile identification number and HSS) of the HSS that uses this mobile identification number.
Also need to prove, step 201,202 purpose are to be returned to serving CSCF by AUC the HSS address of user terminal mobile identification number correspondence, the embodiment of the invention is that example describes with the register flow path, but be not limited to above-mentioned register flow path, it will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the authentication process under other scene all can realize above-mentioned purpose.
Step 403: when described serving CSCF will be initiated when request registration to HSS, serving CSCF is with the HSS address of carrying in the described authentication response message destination address as login request message;
Step 404:HSS receives described login request message, can handle according to existing procedure, returns the registration response to described serving CSCF.
The embodiment of the invention is at the IMS network architecture, AUC separates with HSS, store the address information of the HSS of mobile identification number correspondence in the AUC, AUC returns to serving CSCF with the address information of the HSS of mobile identification number correspondence in authentication response message, make serving CSCF to initiate operation such as registration request grade as destination address to HSS with the address information at the homing position center of described mobile identification number correspondence, realized the decoupling zero between card and the HSS, being convenient to operator distributes telephone numbers more flexibly, change card, mend card, or even card is mended in the strange land, greatly reduce management difficulty and the cost of card, also do not exist signaling to transmit the reliability hidden danger of bringing simultaneously, the problem of the circuitous wasting of resources of signaling.
The implementation method of the above-mentioned a kind of communication service that provides with the embodiment of the invention with respect to, the embodiment of the invention also provides a kind of implement device and system of communication service.
As shown in Figure 5, the implement device structural representation of a kind of mobile communication business that provides for the embodiment of the invention, described implement device is the AC of AUC, stores the address information at the homing position center of mobile identification number correspondence in the described AUC, and described AUC comprises:
Request receiving element 501 is used for receiving the authentication request message that conversation control entity sends, the mobile identification number of carrying user terminal in the described authentication request message;
Response transmitting element 502, when being used for returning authentication response message to described conversation control entity, carry the address information at the homing position center of described mobile identification number correspondence, so that described conversation control entity carries out addressing according to the address information at the described homing position center that receives to the homing position center.
As shown in Figure 6, the implement device structural representation of the another kind of mobile communication business that provides for the embodiment of the invention, described device is conversation control entity, comprising:
Request transmitting unit 601 is used for sending authentication request message to AUC, and described authentication request message is carried the mobile identification number of user terminal;
Response receiving element 602, be used for receiving the authentication response message that AUC returns, record the address information at the described homing position center of carrying in the described authentication response message, when described conversation control entity sends message to the homing position center, use the address information at the described homing position center that receives to carry out addressing to the homing position center.
The concrete modes that are used for adopting the mobile identification number addressing of described request transmitting element 601 are translated into the address of AUC with the destination address of described mobile identification number correspondence, and described authentication request message is routed to AUC.
Described conversation control entity also comprises:
Routing unit 603, when being used for to homing position center transmission position updating request, with the address information at the homing position center of carrying in the described authentication response message destination address as position updating request, described position updating request is routed to the homing position center.
Described conversation control entity comprises: mobile switching center MSC/VLR, Serving GPRS Support Node SGSN, CSCF CSCF, mobile management entity MME or authentication and authorization charging AAA.
As shown in Figure 7, the realization system configuration schematic diagram of a kind of mobile communication business that provides for the embodiment of the invention comprises:
AUC 701 is used for receiving the authentication request message that conversation control entity 702 sends, the mobile identification number of carrying user terminal in the described authentication request message; Return authentication response message according to described mobile identification number to described conversation control entity 702, carry the address information at the homing position center of described mobile identification number correspondence in the described authentication response message; Store the address information at the homing position center of mobile identification number correspondence in the described AUC 701;
Conversation control entity 702 is used for sending authentication request message to AUC 701, and described authentication request message is carried the mobile identification number of user terminal; Receive the authentication response message that AUC 701 returns, record the address information at the described homing position center of carrying in the described authentication response message; When sending message to the homing position center, use the address information at the described homing position center that receives to carry out addressing to the homing position center.
The embodiment of the invention provides a kind of implementation method of mobile communication business, device and system, AUC sends to conversation control entity with the address information at homing position center, make conversation control entity to the addressing of homing position center the time, change original IMSI/MIN/IMPI addressing system, addressing is carried out in the address at the homing position center that use is obtained, thereby make and to separate between card and the homing position center, being convenient to operator distributes telephone numbers more flexibly, change card, mend card, or even card is mended in the strange land, greatly reduce management difficulty and the cost of card, also do not exist signaling to transmit the reliability hidden danger of bringing simultaneously, the problem of the circuitous wasting of resources of signaling.
One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or part of step that realizes in above-described embodiment method is to instruct relevant hardware to finish by program, described program can be stored in the computer read/write memory medium.Described storage medium, as: ROM/RAM, magnetic disc, CD etc.
The above only is preferred implementation of the present invention; should be pointed out that for those skilled in the art, under the prerequisite that does not break away from the principle of the invention; can also make some improvements and modifications, these improvements and modifications also should be considered as protection scope of the present invention.