Patent ID: 11917545
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A base station (BS), comprising:
a transceiver configured to transmit:
a first configuration for a paging occasion (PO) over slots in time, wherein the PO includes a number of PDCCH transmission occasions, and
a second configuration for a frame offset; and

a processor operably coupled to the transceiver, the processor configured to:
determine a first radio frame associated with the PO;
determine a number of X>1 PDCCH transmission occasions according to a search space set in a common search space (CSS);
determine a second radio frame associated with the number of X>1 PDCCH transmission occasions, wherein the second radio frame is before the first radio frame by a number of radio frames equal to the frame offset;
encode a downlink control information (DCI) format in one of the number of X>1 PDCCH transmission occasions, wherein the DCI format includes a field indicating either transmission or no transmission of PDCCHs in the PO; and
instruct the transceiver to either transmit or to skip transmission of PDCCHs in the PO based on the indication by the field in the DCI format.