Patent ID: 10869295

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present application provides a method and apparatus for receiving paging information, the method comprises: receiving paging indication information; determining whether one or more paging occasions have paging information required to be received by this UE, based on the paging indication information; receiving this paging information, when it is determined that one or more POs have paging information required to be received by this UE; ignoring this paging information, when it is determined that one or more POs do not have paging information required to be received by this UE. By doing this, a great number of work such as receiving, decoding and recognizing the paging information required to be received for other UEs is saved; reasonably configuring paging indication information can enable that the overhead for the processing work such as receiving paging indication information by the UE is far less than a great amount of overhead for processing the paging information for other UEs; thereby the efficiency for receiving the paging information is promoted, the system resources of the UE is saved, the power consumption of the UE is saved, and the duration of the UE is prolonged.