Method for enabling multicast services and user equipment battery savings

摘要

A system and method for providing multicast services to UEs enhances battery life and provides for more efficient use of the radio resources. Each service, or a target group for a service, is assigned an identifier. The identifier is associated with a pointer to the transmission of data. Each UE searches for the identifier in order to know when the data will be transmitted. The UEs may receive the pointer from a number of different paging windows. The transmission of the data occurs after the last pointer is transmitted in order to guarantee that all the target UEs receive a pointer to the data prior to the transmission of the data.