User equipment initiated discontinuous operation in a wireless communications network

摘要

An apparatus and method for initiating discontinuous reception (DRX) operation in a user equipment (UE) are disclosed herein. Applications running on the UE are monitored by the UE to identify one or more inactivity trigger events associated with the application(s). The UE includes an application-radio cross layer to process the application information, including the inactivity trigger event, for use by a radio layer. The radio layer of the UE determines initiation of the DRX operation in accordance with the application information, including the inactivity trigger event, provided by the application-radio cross layer and device characteristics information.

主权项

1. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprising:
transceiver circuitry; and processing circuitry, the processing circuitry to configure the transceiver circuitry to: transmit a radio-resource control (RRC) request message with an extended idle mode discontinuous reception (DRX) information element (IE), the extended idle mode DRX IE to include one or more proposed parameters for extended idle mode DRX; and decode an RRC accept message; and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to: apply, in response to receipt of the RRC accept message:
one or more different parameters for extended idle mode DRX, when an extended idle mode DRX IE is included in the RRC accept message that includes the one or more different parameters, the one or more different parameters being different from the one or more proposed parameters;the proposed parameters for extended idle mode DRX when an extended idle mode DRX IE is included in the RRC accept message that does not include one or more different parameters for the proposed parameters; andnon-extended idle mode DRX parameters for regular DRX when the RRC accept message does not include an extended idle mode DRX IE, and configure the transceiver circuitry to monitor a control channel discontinuously, based on the applied parameters.