| CPC H04W 68/02 (2013.01) [H04W 72/232 (2023.01); H04W 76/20 (2018.02)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A wireless communication method, comprising:
receiving, by a terminal, a paging early indication (PEI) sent by a network device, wherein the terminal belongs to a terminal group in multiple terminal groups, the PEI indicates whether at least one terminal in the terminal group is to receive paging indication information, and wherein a paging cycle comprises a plurality of paging occasion (PO) groups;
determining, by the terminal, based on the PEI, whether to monitor a PO group in the plurality of PO groups; and
in response to determining to monitor the PO group based on the PEI, monitoring, by the terminal, the PO group to receive the paging indication information, wherein the monitoring the PO group comprises calculating an index of a paging occasion (PO) based on an index of the terminal group, a number of paging frames in the paging cycle, a number of POs in a paging frame, and a number of the multiple terminal groups, wherein the terminal group comprises more than one terminal.
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