Methods and apparatuses for monitoring NPDCCH in NBIoT are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a first control signal scheduling a data transmission; and monitoring a second control signal from a start time slot to an end time slot, wherein the start time slot is a gap period behind the last time slot for receiving the first control signal, and the end time slot is a time period ahead of the first time slot for the data transmission.

A measurement method includes obtaining, by a terminal device, a plurality of pieces of information including first information and/or second information, where the first information is used to indicate that at least one quality value of a radio link between the terminal device and a network device is less than or equal to a first threshold, and the second information is used to indicate that the at least one quality value of the radio link between the terminal device and the network device is greater than or equal to a second threshold; and determining, based on the first information and/or the second information, whether to perform radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement relaxation.

A first wireless device receives, from a second wireless device, one or more messages indicating one or more location areas where the first wireless device continuously monitors for one or more sidelink signals. The first wireless device determines that the first wireless device is located in the one or more location areas. Based on the determining, the first wireless device starts continuous monitoring of a control channel for the one or more sidelink signals from a third wireless device. The first wireless device receives, from the third wireless device and based on the starting continuous monitor, the one or more sidelink signals.

A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE), the UE receives an indication from a base station, wherein the indication is indicative of monitoring a power saving signal in one or more monitoring occasions and at least one monitoring occasion of the one or more monitoring occasions is associated with a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) ON duration and is within Active Time associated with the UE. The UE does not monitor and/or skips monitoring the power saving signal in the at least one monitoring occasion. The UE monitors Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) during the DRX ON duration.

A method for supporting Sidelink (SL) Discontinuous Reception (DRX) operation is provided. A User Equipment (UE) maintains SL DRX configuration which includes one of a transmission pattern and a reception pattern that the UE expects to perform transmission and reception to a peer UE. The UE exchanges the SL DRX configuration with the peer UE. Based on the exchange of the SL DRX configuration, the UE determines when to perform transmission or reception to or from the peer UE during an SL DRX operation. Based on the determination, the UE performs transmission or reception to or from the peer UE during the SL DRX operation.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the user equipment (UE) may adjust an operational mode of a circuit of the UE by selecting one or more parameters (e.g., power level or clock frequency or both). Adjusting parameter values may result in avoiding increased temperature. The UE may set an operational mode of a circuit based on a determination or a prediction of a number of blind decodes to be performed, a number of pending receive packets, or a number of transmitting UEs from which the UE will receive traffic. The UE may efficiently reduce unnecessary power expenditures and decrease temperature.

A method for power saving, comprising: establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a wireless device, transmitting, to the wireless device, configuration information indicating a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle time, a DRX on time period, and an offset time, transmitting an enhanced wake-up signal (EWUS) monitoring occasion for a DRX cycle, the EWUS monitoring occasion based on the offset time and the DRX on time period, determining that the wireless device can skip monitoring one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions, transmitting, during a first DRX cycle, a EWUS for the wireless device during the EWUS monitoring occasion associated with the first DRX cycle, the EWUS indicating that the wireless device can skip the one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions, and skipping transmitting the EWUS to the wireless device during the one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions.

A technique for power saving, comprising establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a wireless system, entering an RRC connected mode based on the established RRC connection, receiving, from the wireless system, configuration information indicating a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle time, a DRX on time period, and an offset time, determining an enhanced wake-up signal (EWUS) monitoring occasion for a DRX cycle based on the offset time and the DRX on time period, monitoring, during a first DRX cycle, for an EWUS during the EWUS monitoring occasion associated with the first DRX cycle, receiving, from the wireless system, the EWUS during the EWUS monitoring occasion, determining that the EWUS indicates that the wireless device skip one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions, and skipping monitoring for the EWUS based on the indicated skipped one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions.

A technique for power saving for a wireless device, the technique including determining, by a first wireless device, a set of resources for communicating directly with a second wireless device the set of resources including a first set of paging resources, establishing a sidelink session with the second wireless device based on the set of resources, entering, by the first wireless device, a reduced power state, monitoring, by the first wireless device and based on the paging schedule, the first set of paging resources, receiving, from the second wireless device, a paging message, exiting the reduced power state based on the received paging message, and monitoring, based on the received paging message, the set of resources.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods related to systems and methods of target wake time for peer-to-peer communication. In one aspect, a first wireless communication devices configures a subfield indicating to extend a restricted target wake time (rTWT) for peer-to-peer communication. The first wireless communication device sends a message including the subfield to a second wireless communication device.