| CPC H04W 76/28 (2018.02) [H04W 28/0268 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01)] | 15 Claims |

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1. A User Equipment (“UE”) apparatus comprising:
a transceiver that supports a PC5 interface; and
a processor that:
receives a first request from a first application to send data over the PC5 interface;
determines a first PC5 Discontinuous Reception (“DRX”) configuration for the first application based on at least one first Quality of Service (“QoS”) requirement;
determines to establish a first PC5 QoS Flow to transmit the data;
associates the first PC5 DRX configuration with the first PC5 QoS Flow; and
sends a second request to an Access Stratum (“AS”) layer to establish a first QoS Flow, wherein the second request indicates a first QoS parameter and the first PC5 DRX configuration.
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