Patent ID: 11902935
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A base station in a communication system, the base station comprising:
a transceiver; and
a controller coupled with the transceiver and configured to:
determine configuration information associated with a paging early indication (PEI);
transmit the configuration information;
determine downlink control information (DCI) associated with the configuration information;
transmit the DCI,
wherein the DCI includes an indication field for the PEI,
wherein each bit included in the indication field indicates one user equipment (UE) subgroup among N UE subgroups,
wherein a plurality of UEs monitoring a same paging occasion (PO) is divided into the N UE subgroups,
wherein a bit for a UE subgroup to which a UE belongs included in the indication field indicates whether a PO corresponding to the bit among M POs is associated with monitoring; and
transmit a paging message on the PO in case that the bit indicates the PO associated with monitoring,
wherein the configuration information includes information associated with a value of M.