USER EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR POWER SAVING

1 . A method performed by a user equipment (UE) for a power saving operation, the method comprising:

receiving a radio resource control (RRC) configuration from a base station (BS), the RRC configuration configuring a set of one or more time durations;

beginning monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions;

receiving an indicator on the PDCCH from the BS via downlink control information (DCI), the indicator indicating a first time duration among the set of one or more time durations; and

skipping monitoring the PDCCH on one or more of the plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions within the first time duration after receiving the indicator.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

resuming monitoring the PDCCH on the plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions after the first time duration is over.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first time duration is one of a number of the plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions, a number of time units, a number of paging occasions (POs), or a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the time units comprise one of slots, symbols, hyper system frames, system frames, radio frames, seconds, or milliseconds.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first time duration is determined based on a timer configured by the RRC configuration.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions are determined according to a search space configured by the BS.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the DCI comprises a DCI format 1_0.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the DCI further indicates a UE group.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the UE group is formed based on at least one of a UE identifier (ID) or UE assistance information.

10 . The method of claim 8 ,

wherein the UE belongs to the UE group.

11 . A user equipment (UE) for performing a power saving operation, the UE comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one memory storing one or more computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the UE to perform operations comprising:

receiving a radio resource control (RRC) configuration from a base station (BS), the RRC configuration configuring a set of one or more time durations;

beginning monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions;

receiving an indicator on the PDCCH from the BS via downlink control information (DCI), the indicator indicating a first time duration among the set of one or more time durations; and

skipping monitoring the PDCCH on one or more of the plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions within the first time duration after receiving the indicator.

12 . The UE of claim 11 , the operations further comprising:

resuming monitoring the PDCCH on the plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions after the first time duration is over.

13 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the first time duration is one of a number of the plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions, a number of time units, a number of paging occasions (POs), or a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles.

14 . The UE of claim 13 , wherein the time units comprise one of slots, symbols, hyper system frames, system frames, radio frames, seconds, or milliseconds.

15 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the first time duration is determined based on a timer configured by the RRC configuration.

16 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions are determined according to a search space configured by the BS.

17 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the DCI comprises a DCI format 1_0.

18 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the DCI further indicates a UE group.

19 . The UE of claim 18 , wherein the UE group is formed based on at least one of a UE identifier (ID) or UE assistance information.

20 . The UE of claim 18 , wherein the UE belongs to the UE group.