QUALCOMM Incorporated
Discontinuous reception operation for new radio multicast communications

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, such as a user equipment (UE) may receive, in an active duration of a multicast discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, downlink control information indicating resources of a downlink data channel for a multicast message for a plurality of UE. The UE may monitor the indicated resources for the multicast message, as well as transmit, based on the monitoring the indicated resources, a feedback message corresponding to the multicast message. The UE may initiate a multicast feedback timer based on the monitoring the indicated resources for the multicast message, the multicast feedback timer indicating a time for monitoring for a retransmission of the multicast message. The multicast feedback timer may be different than a unicast feedback timer associated with unicast messages for the UE. In some examples, the UE may initiate a multicast retransmission timer following the multicast feedback timer. The multicast retransmission timer may be different than a unicast retransmission timer associated with the unicast messages.