WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS-DYNAMIC COVERAGE CLASS UPDATE AND ALIGNING COVERAGE CLASS PAGING GROUPS

摘要

Techniques are described herein that enhance the following: (1) how a wireless device conveys a change of its downlink (DL) coverage class (CC) to a network; and (2) how the network and the wireless device each perform a new paging group procedure to align coverage class paging groups within a given Extended Discontinuous Receive (eDRX) cycle for the wireless device. In addition, devices namely a wireless device, a radio access network node (e.g., Base Station Subsystem), and a core network node (e.g., Serving GPRS Support Node) that implement these techniques are described herein.

主权项

1. A wireless device configured to communicate with a Core Network (CN) node, the wireless device comprising:
a processor; and, a memory that stores processor-executable instructions, wherein the processor interfaces with the memory to execute the processor-executable instructions, whereby the wireless device is operable to:
determine a current downlink (DL) coverage class (CC) needs to be changed to a higher DL CC or a lower DL CC; and,based on the determination of the need to change the current DL CC to the higher DL CC, transmit an indication of the higher DL CC for the CN node by performing a cell update procedure.