What is Precise Paging?

Normally the MSC pages a MS indicating the LAC where the MS is registered.
The BSC sends this paging to all the cells belonging to the affected LAC. The
result of this behavior is that all cells where the MS is not present receive a
paging command that is useless.

The goal of Precise Paging is to decrease the signaling load by sending the first
paging only to the cell where the MS was last known and to its adjacent cells.

If there is no immediate paging response, and the supervision timer defined by

Precise Paging expanding delay expires then BSC pages the rest of the cells in
the original paging area. High hit rate (e.g. 85 %) can be achieved in the
network with high Smart phones penetration. Therefore, precise paging might
be better solution for CCCH bottleneck.

How this feature Reducing paging load?

Therere two ways to implement this behavior and reduce paging load:

Configuring the MSC to send the first paging with Cell Id instead of LAC and
activate Intelligent Selective Paging in BSC (BSS21324)
Activate (BSS21335) Precise Paging that creates a database inside the BSC
where the association between IMSI and last visited cell are stored.
MSC provides the IMSI to the BSC
BSC keeps stored in a IMSI # table (MSs last visited cell)
 BSC receives paging and checks IMSI in its database
If found, paging command is sent to the cell (stored) and its
adjacent cells
The location record is stored for a limited period configurable by Precise
Paging Location Records Living Time parameter.
Mobile's location is updated at the end of each connection (TCH or SDCCH)
when IMSI is known (if it is not known then there is no update).
For PS connection MS location is updated when MS context is created in
PCU(when TBF is established)
Update of MS location record in BSC database is impacted by setting of
periodical location update (Timer For Periodic MS Location Updating)

How repaging performed?

BSC might be configured by Precise Paging enabled for repagings

parameter to use Precise Paging for all pagings or only for the first
one.
If Precise Paging is applied for all pages (MSC/SGSN initiated),
paging repetition from MSC is also made in Precise Paging style.
If only the first paging message is handled in Precise Paging style
then the Precise Paging is repeated for the same MS again after the
location information of the MS has been updated first.