| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to the field of paging in telecommunications. When the "wake up" paging channel is used for another service, e.g. Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS), then certain mobiles expecting a "wake up" page will be woken up unnecessarily, reducing battery life. It is likely that a small group of terminals will have regular paging cycles which coincide with the MBMS paging signals, and therefore receive a large number of unnecessary wake ups. This will considerably reduce the battery life of this group of terminals. The aim of the invention is for a large number of terminals to receive a small number of unnecessary wake ups, therefore spreading a smaller reduction in battery life over more users. Three methods are described; using different values of cycle length for regular and MBMS paging, MBMS paging having a variable cycle and a different paging indicator for the two pages. |
