Beam management for connected discontinuous reception with advanced grant indicator

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

• receiving, from a base station and while operating in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, a wakeup signal transmitted using a set of transmit beams in accordance with a beam sweeping configuration;
• determining, based at least in part on the wakeup signal, that data is available to be transmitted to the UE;
• transmitting a response signal to the base station indicating that the UE has received the wakeup signal;
• performing, based at least on transmitting the response signal, a beam management procedure to identify a second set of transmit beams for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal, the PDCCH signal indicating a grant of resources used to transmit the data to the UE;
• and
• receiving the data from the base station using the resources indicated by the grant.

An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

• a processor;
• memory in electronic communication with the processor;
• and
• instructions stored in the memory and operable, when executed by the processor, to cause the apparatus to:
• transmit, to a user equipment (UE) operating in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, a wakeup signal indicating that data is available to be transmitted to the UE, the wakeup signal transmitted using a set of transmit beams in accordance with a beam sweeping configuration;
• receive, from the UE and based at least in part on the wakeup signal, a response signal indicating that the UE has received the wakeup signal;
• perform, based at least on receiving the response signal, a beam management procedure to identify a second set of transmit beams for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal, the PDCCH signal indicating a grant of resources used to transmit the data to the UE;
• and
• transmit the data to the UE using the resources indicated by the grant.

An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

• a processor;
• memory in electronic communication with the processor;
• and
• instructions stored in the memory and operable, when executed by the processor, to cause the apparatus to:
• receive, from a base station and while operating in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, a wakeup signal transmitted using a set of transmit beams in accordance with a beam sweeping configuration;
• determine, at a user equipment (UE) based at least in part on the wakeup signal, that data is available to be transmitted to the UE;
• transmit a response signal to the base station indicating that the UE has received the wakeup signal;
• perform, based at least on transmitting the response signal, a beam management procedure to identify a second set of transmit beams for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal, the PDCCH signal indicating a grant of resources used to transmit the data to the UE;
• and
• receive the data from the base station using the resources indicated by the grant.