Reducing UE awake time after WUS reception for non-paged UEs

1 . A method, comprising:

receiving, by a user equipment in a sleep state, a wake up signal;

monitoring, by the user equipment responsive to reception of the wake up signal, one or more paging occasions, the monitoring comprising:

receiving a paging message;

determining the received paging message is not addressed to the user equipment; and

determining whether another paging occasion should be monitored based at least on paging records in the paging message; and

reentering by the user equipment the sleep state in response to a determination it is not necessary to monitor another paging occasion.

2 . An apparatus, comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus at least to perform:

receiving, by a user equipment in a sleep state, a wake up signal;

monitoring, by the user equipment responsive to reception of the wake up signal, one or more paging occasions, the monitoring comprising:

receiving a paging message;

determining the received paging message is not addressed to the user equipment; and

determining whether another paging occasion should be monitored based at least on paging records in the paging message; and

reentering by the user equipment the sleep state in response to a determination it is not necessary to monitor another paging occasion.

3 . The apparatus according to claim 2 , where in the determining whether another paging occasion should be monitored comprises determining it is not necessary to monitor another paging occasion based on a number of paging records in the paging message being less than a number of maximum paging records per paging message.

4 . The apparatus according to claim 2 , where determining whether another paging occasion should be monitored comprises determining another paging occasion should be monitored based on a number of paging records in the paging message being equal to a maximum number of paging records per paging message.

5 . The apparatus according to claim 2 , where determining whether another paging occasion should be monitored comprises determining another paging occasion should be monitored based on a number of paging records in the paging message being equal to a maximum number of paging records per paging message and paging records in the paging message are different from paging records as in a previous paging message.

6 . The apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the one or more memories further store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus at least to perform: monitoring another paging occasion.

7 . The apparatus according to claim 2 , where determining whether another paging occasion should be monitored comprises determining it is not necessary to monitor another paging occasion based on a number of paging records in the paging message being equal to a maximum number of paging records per paging message and paging records in the paging message are the same as paging records as in a previous paging message.

8 . The apparatus according to claim 3 , where the number of maximum paging records per paging message is configured by a network to which the user equipment communicates.

9 . The apparatus according to claim 8 , where the network configures the number of paging records in the paging message to be used as a threshold for determining a paging monitoring decision, the paging monitoring decision comprising the determining whether another paging occasion should be monitored based at least on paging records in the paging message.

10 . The apparatus according to claim 8 , where the number of maximum paging records per paging message is configured by the network using one of dedicated or broadcast signaling.

11 . The apparatus according to claim 3 , where the number of maximum paging records per paging message is determined by the user equipment based on a coding rate employed for the paging message and paging record size for the paging message.

12 . An apparatus, comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus at least to perform:

receiving, at a network node from a user equipment, indication of a capability to transition out of a sleep state via a wake up signal to return to a sleep state based on paging message monitoring;

determining, by the network node based on the capability and on a need to transmit a paging message to the user equipment, a sleep state of the user equipment; and

transmitting, by the network node to the user equipment, either a wake up signal or paging message based on the determined sleep state.

13 . The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the determining the sleep state is based on information about paging messages transmitted to other user equipment.

14 . The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the information comprises a maximum number of paging records per paging message.

15 . The apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein the information comprises indication whether paging records in a previous paging message are different from paging records in a current paging message.

16 . The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein transmitting the wake up signal to the user equipment is performed in response to one of the following:

a number of paging records in a previous paging message is less than a maximum number of configured or determined paging records for per paging message; or

a number of paging records in the previous paging message is equal to the maximum number of configured or determined paging records per paging message and paging records in the previous paging message are the same as paging records in a paging message transmitted prior to the previous paging message.

17 . The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the determining the sleep state is based at least on a received indication the user equipment is in a sleep state.

18 . The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein transmitting the paging message to the user equipment is based on a determination the user equipment is not in a sleep state and is instead in an awake state.

19 . The apparatus according to claim 18 , wherein the determination the user equipment is not in the sleep state and is instead in the awake state is made because a wake up signal has been transmitted to the user equipment after one paging occasion but prior to a next paging occasion occurring.