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5G Policy Overview
The MATRIXX Policy Application provides the business logic and integration into a third-party Policy Control Function (PCF) to support real-time policy decisions and rules. It enables your PCF to deliver flexible policy and charging control rules to your 5G network.
Implementing MATRIXX on an EPC/5GC Hybrid Core Network
If your environment uses a Policy Control Function (PCF)/Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) combination, you can configure MATRIXX to create a 5G session and as circumstances require, switch it to a 4G session or to create a 4G session and switch it to a 5G session. This strategy requires your subscribers to use dual-core evolved packet core (EPC)/5G user equipment.

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- About MATRIXX Policy
  MATRIXX Policy describes the tasks that must be completed to configure MATRIXX Policy Application functionality and provides overviews, recommendations, and conceptual discussions to help you understand these tasks. In addition, it describes the supported Diameter policy AVPs and MATRIXX Policy Application SubMan APIs.
- 5G Policy Overview
  The MATRIXX Policy Application provides the business logic and integration into a third-party Policy Control Function (PCF) to support real-time policy decisions and rules. It enables your PCF to deliver flexible policy and charging control rules to your 5G network.
  - Spending Limit Control
    Spending limit control is managed by the Nchf_SpendingLimitControl service (N28) which enables the Network Function (NF) to retrieve policy counter status information from the Charging Function (CHF).
  - 5G Policy Configuration
    MATRIXX Charging Application and MATRIXX Policy Application use policy configuration components for charging and rating.
  - Implementing MATRIXX on an EPC/5GC Hybrid Core Network
    If your environment uses a Policy Control Function (PCF)/Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) combination, you can configure MATRIXX to create a 5G session and as circumstances require, switch it to a 4G session or to create a 4G session and switch it to a 5G session. This strategy requires your subscribers to use dual-core evolved packet core (EPC)/5G user equipment.
- 3G/4G Policy Overview
  The 3G/4G MATRIXX Policy Application provides the business logic to support real-time policy decisions and rules. It allows charging and network quality of service (QoS) to be flexibly and dynamically linked to customer, service, and network parameters.
- 3G/4G Policy Configuration
  Policy configuration in My MATRIXX includes both session management and spending limit configuration.
- 3G/4G MATRIXX Policy Failover
  A MATRIXX Policy failover can be due to a hard failure or can be planned.
- Policy Profile Selection
  During policy profile selection, product offers are evaluated in descending order from highest to lowest priority. Policy profiles are collected for Sy and N28 policy counters, Gx command-level QoS, and N40 TIME_LIMIT and VOLUME_LIMIT usage triggers.
- Policy Processing Based on Quota Action
  You can configure a product offer so that Spending Limit Control/Sy policy components and Session Management/Gx components are applied when quota is authorized or denied.
- Spending Limit Policy Counter APIs
  The Sy policy counter APIs include MtxRequestDeviceEvaluatePolicyCounterSet and MtxRequestDeviceQuerySession.
- Diameter AVPs for MATRIXX Policy Application
  MATRIXX Engine supports the Sy and Gx interfaces for policy control.
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Implementing MATRIXX on an EPC/5GC Hybrid Core Network

If your environment uses a Policy Control Function (PCF)/Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) combination, you can configure MATRIXX to create a 5G session and as circumstances require, switch it to a 4G session or to create a 4G session and switch it to a 5G session. This strategy requires your subscribers to use dual-core evolved packet core (EPC)/5G user equipment.

Figure 1 shows a hybrid network set up to use both 4G and 5G capabilities. These diagrams show Subscriber A served by a hybrid EPC/5GC network and Subscriber B served by a legacy EPC. Both subscribers have open sessions.

Figure 1. Subscriber Session Using a 5G Network

Note: In mixed mode operation, no direct dependency exists between the 3G/4G and 5G protocols. Diameter Gy and N40 charging requests simply update the state of subscriber and balance databases. The Charging Server then notifies the respective PCF/PCRF client of changes to those databases over either N28 or Sy. The source could be Gy, N40, or even subscriber-management offer purchases, balance adjustments, and so forth.