Method and apparatus for supporting machine-type communications

作者: Behrouz Aghili , Rocco Digirolamo , Diana Pani , Mahmoud Watfa , Christopher R. Cave

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摘要: A method and apparatus for supporting machine-type communications (MTC) are disclosed. wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may configure itself to operate in a mobile-originated-only mode. The WTRU perform no, or subset of, radio resource control (RRC) idle and/or non-access stratum (NAS) idle/standby state procedures the For example, cell reselection but not paging monitoring Alternatively, location update. operation mode be triggered explicitly implicitly. if an inactivity timer expires. switch accordance with pre-configured schedule. After transition of mode, send message network indicating such switch.