Paging for Longer Paging Cycles

Abstract

A radio network node receives a page request from a core network node. The page request indicates to page a wireless communication device. The radio network node determines a next occurrence of a monitoring window during which the wireless communication device will monitor a paging channel associated with the radio network node. If the amount of time until the next occurrence of the monitoring window exceeds an amount of time that the radio network node can store the page request, the radio network node discards the page request and sends a response to the core network node indicating that the page request was discarded; the response includes a paging timer value that indicates when the core network node should repeat the page request.

1 . A radio network node comprising one or more processors and memory, the memory containing instructions executable by the one or more processors, whereby the radio network node is operable to:
 receive a page request from a core network node, the page request indicating to page a wireless communication device;   determine a next occurrence of a monitoring window during which the wireless communication device monitors a paging channel associated with the radio network node;   determine that an amount of time until the next occurrence of the monitoring window exceeds an amount of time that the radio network node can store the page request;   discard the page request; and,   send a response to the core network node, the response indicating that the radio network node discarded the page request without sending the page request to the wireless communication device, the response including a paging timer value that indicates when the core network node is to repeat the page request.   
     
     
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