AW: Operation management in the MSC code

[Harald Welte]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 04:15:58PM +0800, Holger Freyther wrote:

> Regarding new (SMS) code, the main lesson to learn is probably: Have
> Success/Failure/Timeout in mind and free the channel in any of these
> states...

sure. The current SMS implementation was always only a quick hack to make
it work at all.  

At some point, new code should be written with MAP SMS semantics in mind, i.e.
anticipate that SMS are sent from an external process by procedures that
resemble the SMS-MAP as defined in Section 4 of 03.47.  I'm not referring to
the actual encoding, but by the flow of events / procedures, i.e. :
* Forward MT SMS
* Forward MO SMS
* SC Alert

This basically means an external entity (the Service Center SC) sends a SMS to
the MSC, identifying the subscriber by its MSISDN.  The MSC needs to decide if
there is already a radio channel or if it needs to do paging. It does the
paging (if needed), delivers the message and if everything works fine, it
reports back to the SC.  The timer at the SC side is specified between 15 to
180 seconds in total.

MO-SMS is relatively similar, but in inverse direction.

The SC Alert seems to be used for notifying the SC that a MS (that previously
was unreachable or had a memory-full condition) is now available again.

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- Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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