how to stop paging

I have a general question about the Paging procedure, specifically about how to stop paging. In libbsc, we have Paging management that receives a request to Page from the MSC and then repeatedly Pages the MS on all BTSes N times or until told to stop. In the NITB, we have code closely tied to the BSC and all BTS management, so that when we receive a Paging Response, we can right away stop sending Paging Commands on all BTSes. So can the standalone-BSC: it stops paging when it received a Paging Response. In OsmoMSC with Iu- and A-interfaces, that's not possible. Looking in 08.08, there seems to be no A-interface message that tells the BSCs "thank you, you can stop paging now". If one BSC or RNC has relayed back a Paging Response from one of the cells, the MSC has no way to tell the other base stations that it's fine to stop sending dozens of Pagings out for "minutes", which would be useless now anyway because the MS has called back via another base station already. Is that a fact of life? We continue Paging in all cells where the MS is not visible? Should the BSC/RNC part of the network page only once, so that "stop paging" is a no-op? Of course we first check which LAC the MS was first seen on and page only there. Is the idea to send paging to one cell, and that cell stops Paging by itself when it received a Paging Response that it relays to the MSC? But IIRC Paging is supposed to spread out across other base stations if at first it didn't succeed -- I recall to have read that in HNB-GW specs or somewhere close to that. Our OsmoHNBGW so far simply Pages everywhere. The practical reason I'm asking is that in the msc_vlr tests, I so far explicitly check whether the "stop paging" function was called. Now on the Iu branch, without libbsc, there is no such function. Should I drop those checks because we will never have that? Or should I add some shim function we call just for the tests so far, which will at some point tell the base stations that Paging has concluded? Thanks for any hints, ~N -- - Neels Hofmeyr <nhofmeyr(a)sysmocom.de> http://www.sysmocom.de/ ======================================================================= * sysmocom - systems for mobile communications GmbH * Alt-Moabit 93 * 10559 Berlin, Germany * Sitz / Registered office: Berlin, HRB 134158 B * Geschäftsführer / Managing Directors: Harald Welte