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Distributed Software Development

NRTRDE Processing System Project Vision Gordan Kreković

5 Project Team Team members: Stefano Cucchiella Muhammad Siddique Vijaya Cherukuri (TL) Tibor Takač Gordan Kreković (PL) Project supervisor: Dr.sc. Igor Čavrak

Customer RING logo is a trademark of Ring Datacom d.o.o.

Service provider Operator A Operator B Operator C > home network: Operator A > visiting network: Operator B The usage by a subscriber in a visited network is captured in a file. Operator D The file has to be transferred to the home network. ??? TAP ~48h Roaming Data Exchange

This time frame is too long for efficient fraud detection!

Solution: NRTRDE! Near Real-Time Roaming Data Exchange –transfer of a NRTRDE file should occur within a time frame of 4 hours –carries information about the time and duration (volume) of events This process can be efficiently used for fraud detection, but a mobile operator should have NRTRDE processing system.

NRTRDE Processing System Service provider Operator A Operator B NRTRDE Processing System

NRTRDE Processing System (Requirements) Convert the ASN.1 files into ASCII CSV format Load data into a database schema Rate of each record from the loaded file Enable creation and modification of rating parameters for each roaming partner

NRTRDE Processing System (Requirements) Enable creation of differnt reports Generate a list of subscribers for suspension according to predefined criteria Enable modification of criteria and parameter values for subscriber suspension

NRTRDE Processing System (Architecture & Technologies) ASN.1 to CSV converter Administration Application Reports Rating engine ASN.1 (C, php,...) (PostgreSQL) (php, HTML/CSS,...) (UNIX)

Out of the scope The goal of this project is to develop NRTRDE processing systems –we are not solving NRTRDE files transfer problem Processing system will not syncronize with other operator's systems –parameters will not be automatically updated from external source

Hopes

Thank you!