Load Power Consumption Management in Discontinuous Reception
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Abstract
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method is implemented by a particular user equipment (UE) that is part of a group of UEs. The particular UE receives physical layer group signaling sent from a base station over a control channel on a first carrier. The particular UE determines, based on the group signaling, whether data will be transmitted by the base station to a UE in the group during a current DRX cycle over a second carrier that is different from the first carrier. Depending on the outcome of the determining, the particular UE performs one of the following: entering a DRX sleep mode for the rest of the DRX cycle; and starting or restarting a DRX inactivity timer of the particular UE and monitoring the control channel until the DRX inactivity timer expires.
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36 Claims
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19. A method implemented by a particular user equipment (UE) that is part of a group of UEs, the method characterized by:
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receiving physical layer group signaling sent from a base station over a control channel on a first carrier; determining, based on the group signaling, whether data will be transmitted by the base station to a UE in the group during a current discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle over a second carrier that is different from the first carrier; and performing one of the following depending on the outcome of the determining; entering a DRX sleep mode for the rest of the DRX cycle; and starting or restarting a DRX inactivity timer of the particular UE and monitoring the control channel until the DRX inactivity timer expires. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A particular user equipment (UE) that is configured to be part of a group of UEs, the particular UE characterized by:
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a receiver circuit configured to receive physical layer group signaling sent from a base station over a control channel on a first carrier; and one or more processing circuits configured to; determine, based on the group signaling, whether data will be transmitted by the base station to a UE in the group during a current discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle over a second carrier that is different from the first carrier; and perform one of the following depending on the outcome of the determining; enter a DRX sleep mode for the rest of the DRX cycle; and start or restart a DRX inactivity timer of the particular UE and monitor the control channel until the DRX inactivity timer expires. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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