METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE RECEIVE DIVERSITY CONTROL FOR POWER REDUCTION

摘要

Methods and devices performing the method for wireless communications are disclosed, where the method includes retrieving historical communications information for a plurality of receive chains for receiving communications from a wireless node; determining a number of receive chains from the plurality of receive chains to enable in a discontinuous reception mode based on the historical communications information; and enabling the number of receive chains to receive a communication from the wireless node in a communications cycle. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.