Coordination of paging occasions on a common paging channel by dividing a large ptm group of ues into paging subgroups having a paging occasion associated with each subgroup

摘要

A method of paging a plurality of users by synchronizing user equipment (UE) specific paging and Point-to-Multipoint (PtM) user group paging to reduce power consumption when the UE is in a discontinuous reception state. The UE identities are defined such that paging occasions and common paging channels are synchronized for multiple users within a PtM user group whose number exceeds a threshold, whereby multiple paging occasions are created for such a large PtM user group by defining paging subgroups of the UEs within the PtM user group and generating for a particular paging channel and one of the paging occasions a corresponding paging identity for the UEs in each paging subgroup.