KT Corporation
Method and apparatus for changing connection state of terminal

Abstract:

Provided are a method and apparatus for changing a connection state by user equipment in a light connection state using a paging message. The method of changing a connection state by user equipment may include receiving, from a base station, an radio resource control (RRC) message including instruction information for instructing state transition into a light connection state, configuring the connection state of the user equipment in the light connection state based on the instruction information, receiving a paging message for the user equipment, and determining to change the connection state of the user equipment based on a user equipment identifier included in the paging message.