US 12,302,283 B2
Method and network node for paging
Rui Fan, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/641,177
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Sep. 11, 2019, PCT No. PCT/CN2019/105429
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/046766, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0346059 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 68/00 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 68/005 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0015 (2013.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.02)] 14 Claims
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1. A method performed by a network node, the method comprising:
determining, for current paging occasion (PO), a reference terminal device that has the worst radio link quality among one or more terminal devices needed to be paged at the current PO or a subsequent PO in current paging time window (PTW);
determining, from multiple terminal devices needed to be paged in the current PTW, one or more target terminal devices to be paged at the current PO together with the reference terminal device, based at least on radio link qualities of the multiple terminal devices; and
paging the one or more target terminal devices and the reference terminal device at the current PO, using link adaptation based on the reference terminal device, wherein the one or more target terminal devices are determined based further on last POs of the multiple terminal devices, and wherein the determined one or more target terminal devices comprise at least one fourth terminal device for which a last PO is the current PO.