Spending Limit Policy Components

A spending limit policy component implements the business logic that decides which counter status to return to the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) (3G/4G) or Policy Control Function (PCF) (5G) for a given set of circumstances. Pricing administrators define the business rules and decisions by creating policy tables inside the policy counter components.

Each policy table associates a decision table with a results column. The decision table can consist of zero or more normalizer columns and at least one row for a possible decision. Each index in the table represents a value for a normalized parameter and the result column indicates the policy to apply if the conditions in the row have been met.

Policy counter components typically have one policy table that contains a balance distribution normalizer set up with one or more parameter values. More complex policy components based on many variable conditions can contain multiple tables.