Mobile broadband (MBB) services have been experiencing explosive growth. With this background, the operating modes of the traditional packet switched (PS) networks face various challenges, and measures must be taken to implement refined operation. - The ratio of traffic volume to revenue varies according to
service types. For example, point to point (P2P) services such as BitTorrent (BT) services use a large amount of network resources, but bring only a moderate amount of revenue for carriers. Therefore, to increase their revenue, carriers must implement service-specific policy and charging control (PCC). - A large
number of service providers (SPs) or content providers (CPs) are making excessive amount of money by providing services on the broadband networks, but carriers who own these broadband networks only obtain limited rental from the SPs or CPs. To make the most out of their investment on broadband networks and improve their profitability, carriers must implement service-specific PCC. - A large number of low-ARPU subscribers subscribe to monthly
packages with no traffic limit. These subscribers use a large amount of network resources but do not increase carriers revenue. Therefore, to efficiently allocate network resources and increase carriers revenue, PCC needs to be implemented for these subscribers when the network resource usage reaches a specified threshold.  Figure 1 PCC based on service types http://localhost:7904/pages/31185319/04/31185319/04/resources/figure/fig_0_03001_g_u_e.png |