| CPC H04W 68/02 (2013.01) | 20 Claims |

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1. A method performed by a first base station in a mobile communication system, the method comprising:
receiving, from a second base station, a radio access network (RAN) paging message on an Xn interface, the RAN paging message including an inactive-radio network temporary identifier (I-RNTI) for a user equipment (UE) and information indicating a size of downlink (DL) data;
determining to trigger a mobile terminated small data transmission (MT-SDT) paging for the UE based on the size of the DL data; and
transmitting, to the UE, a paging message including the I-RNTI and an MT-SDT indication.
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