Content for  TS 23.502  Word version:  19.1.0

Based on local policies or the value of the AM Policy Association indicator received from UDM, the AMF decides to establish AM Policy Association with the (V-)PCF as defined in clause 6.1.2.1.2 of TS 23.503, then steps 2 to 3 are performed under the conditions described below.

[Conditional] If the AMF has not yet obtained access and mobility related policy information for the UE or if the access and mobility related policy information in the AMF is no longer valid, the AMF requests the PCF to apply operator policies for the UE from the PCF. The AMF sends Npcf_AMPolicyControl_Create to the (V-)PCF to establish an AM Policy Association with the (V-)PCF. The request includes the following information: SUPI, Internal Group (see clause 5.9.7 of TS 23.501), subscription notification indication and if available, Service Area Restrictions, RFSP index, Subscribed UE-AMBR, List of Subscribed UE-Slice-MBR, the Allowed NSSAI, Partially Allowed NSSAI, S-NSSAI(s) rejected partially in the RA, Rejected S-NSSAI(s) for the RA, Pending NSSAI, Target NSSAI (see clause 5.3.4.3.3 of TS 23.501), Network Slice Replacement supported for the UE (see clause 5.15.19 of TS 23.501), GPSI, which are retrieved from the UDM during the update location procedure and may include Access Type and RAT Type, PEI, ULI, UE time zone and Serving Network (PLMN ID, or PLMN ID and NID, see clause 5.34 of TS 23.501). When AMF utilizes an NWDAF, it may add the NWDAF serving the UE identified by the NWDAF instance ID. Per NWDAF service instance the Analytics ID(s) are also included.

The PCF may invoke the Nudr_DM_Query service to the UDR. And the UDR may response with the requested policy control subscription data as in clause 6.2.1.3 of TS 23.503 and/or application data as in clause 6.2.1.6 of TS 23.503. In non-roaming case, if the PCF determines that the policy decision depends on the status of the policy counters available at the CHF and such reporting is not established for the subscriber, the PCF initiates an Initial Spending Limit Report Retrieval as defined in clause 4.16.8.2. If policy counter status reporting is already established for the subscriber and the PCF determines that the status of additional policy counters is required, the PCF initiates an Intermediate Spending Limit Report Retrieval as defined in clause 4.16.8.3. In non-roaming case, the PCF may request notifications from the UDR on changes in the subscription information by invoking Nudr_DM_Subscribe service operation, Data Set "Policy Data" and Data Subset "Access and Mobility policy control data" as defined in clause 6.2.1.3 of TS 23.503 and/or Data set "application data" and Data Subset "AM influence information" as defined in clause 6.2.1.6 of TS 23.503. The (V)-PCF responds to the Npcf_AMPolicyControl_Create service operation. The (V)-PCF provides access and mobility related policy information (e.g. Service Area Restrictions) as defined in clause 6.5 of TS 23.503. In addition, (V)-PCF can provide Policy Control Request Trigger of AM Policy Association to AMF. In the non-roaming case, the PCF may subscribe to Analytics from NWDAF as defined in clause 6.1.1.3 of TS 23.503.

[Conditional] The AMF deploys the access and mobility related policy information which includes storing the Service Area Restrictions and Policy Control Request Trigger(s) of the AM Policy Association, provisioning Service Area Restrictions to the UE and provisioning the RFSP index, the UE-AMBR, List of UE-Slice-MBR, Service Area Restrictions to the NG-RAN as defined in TS 23.501 and request for notification of SM Policy association establishment and termination to a list of (DNN, S-NSSAI)(s) together with PCF for the UE binding information.

[Conditional] The PCF determines internally that the new status of the UE context requires new policies, potentially triggered by an AF as described in clause 4.15.6.9 or by a notification from the UDR or optionally, the CHF provides a Spending Limit Report to the PCF as described in clause 4.16.8. This may be triggered by obtaining pertinent analytics information from an NWDAF as described in clause 6.1.1.3 of TS 23.503.

The (V-)PCF in case of roaming and PCF in a non-roaming case makes a policy decision. The PCF may also decide to subscribe to a new Analytics ID from NWDAF as described in clause 6.1.1.3 of TS 23.503.

The (V-)PCF in the roaming case and the PCF in a non-roaming case sends Npcf_AMPolicyControl_UpdateNotify including AM Policy Association ID associated with the SUPI defined in TS 29.507. The policy update may include Service Area Restrictions, UE-AMBR, RFSP index value and RFSP Index in Use Validity Time, access stratum time distribution indication, Uu time synchronization error budget, clock quality detail level and optionally clock quality acceptance criteria. If an AF has previously subscribed to event request for allocation of service area coverage outcome in step 1, the (V-)PCF checks if the allocated service area coverage was changed and sends a respective notification to the AF using Npcf_AMPolicyAuthorization_Notify as defined in clause 6.1.3.18 of TS 23.503.

The AMF deploys and stores the updated access and mobility related policy information, which includes storing the Service Area Restrictions and Policy Control Request Trigger of AM Policy Association, provisioning of the Service Area Restrictions to the UE, provisioning the RFSP index, UE-AMBR, Service Area Restrictions to the NG-RAN, optionally the access stratum time distribution indication, Uu time synchronization error budget, clock quality detail level and optionally clock quality acceptance criteria to the NG-RAN and request for notification of SM Policy association establishment and termination to a list of (DNN, S-NSSAI)(s) together with PCF for the UE binding information.

The AMF decides to terminate the AM Policy Association due to the reasons listed in clause 4.16.3.1 then if a AM Policy Association was established with the (V-)PCF steps 2 to 3 are performed.

The AMF sends the Npcf_AMPolicyControl_Delete service operation including AM Policy Association ID to the (V-)PCF.

The (V-)PCF removes the policy context for the UE and replies to the AMF with an Acknowledgement including success or failure. In the non-roaming case, the PCF may unsubscribe to analytics from NWDAF. The (V-)PCF may deregister from the BSF as the PCF that handles the AM Policy Association for this UE. This is performed by using the Nbsf_Management_Deregister service operation, providing the Binding Identifier that was obtained earlier from the BSF when performing the Nbsf_Management_Register service operation. If the PCF has subscribed to the policy counter status to the CHF, it invokes the procedure defined in clause 4.16.8 to unsubscribe to policy counter status reporting. Optionally, based on operator policies, as described in clause 6.1.1.4 of TS 23.503, the PCF may store the policy counters and their statuses of spending limits information into the UDR by invoking Nudr_DM_Update.

The AMF removes the AM Policy Association for this UE, including the Access and Mobility Control Policy related to the UE. The AMF deletes the subscription to AMF detected events requested for that Policy Association.