Patent ID: 11889466
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A base station (BS) for wireless communication, the BS comprising:
a transceiver; and
a processor configured to transmit paging early indication (PEI)-related information through higher-layer signaling by controlling the transceiver, transmit downlink control information (DCI) for PEI associated with ‘M’ paging occasions (POs), and transmit paging DCI in a specific PO related to a first user equipment (UE) among the ‘M’ POs,
wherein each of the ‘M’ POs, respectively, relates to ‘N’ sub-groups,
wherein the specific PO related to the first UE is determined based on a UE_ID allocated to the first UE,
wherein the DCI for PEI includes a first field with a configurable size, and the BS configures the first field with a total of ‘M*N’ bits, based on a number of the POs per PEI being ‘M’ and a number of sub-groups per PO being ‘N’,
wherein the processor instructs the first UE to monitor the paging DCI by a bit value of a specific bit related to a specific sub-group to which the first UE belongs among the total ‘M*N’ bits,
wherein each of the number of the POs per PEI ‘M’ and the number of the sub-groups per PO ‘N’, is respectively indicated to the first UE based on the SIB including the PEI-related information transmitted through the higher-layer signaling, and
wherein an index of the specific sub-group to which the first UE belongs is determined based on the number of the sub-groups per PO ‘N’ and a modulo operation related to the UE ID allocated to the first UE.