Wakeup techniques for improved connected mode discontinuous reception

A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

• receiving, from a base station while the UE is in a discontinuous reception state, an indication that a grant of resources will be transmitted by the base station to the UE, the indication including a time for the UE to wake up to listen for the grant of resources;
• monitoring for the grant of resources based at least in part on receiving the indication that the grant of resources will be transmitted;
• and
• receiving the grant of resources from the base station.

A method for wireless communication at a base station, comprising:

• identifying that a buffer contains data for transmission to a user equipment (UE);
• transmitting, to the UE and based at least in part on the identifying, an indication that a grant of resources will be subsequently transmitted to the UE;
• and
• resetting a discontinuous reception cycle timer based at least in part on identifying that the grant of resources indicated by the transmitted indication was not received by the UE.

A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

• receiving, from a base station while the UE is in a discontinuous reception state, an indication that a grant of resources will be transmitted by the base station to the UE;
• monitoring for the grant of resources based at least in part on receiving the indication that the grant of resources will be transmitted;
• identifying that the grant of resources indicated by the received indication was not received by the UE;
• and
• resetting a discontinuous reception cycle timer based at least in part on the identification.