Signaling optimization during short messaging for internet of things devices in a mobility network

A method, comprising:

• in response to receiving request data indicative of a request to transmit a message from a messaging server to an Internet of things device that is in a power saving mode and cannot receive messages, determining, by network equipment comprising a processor, a retransmission time for a retransmission of the request data, wherein determining the retransmission time comprises:
• predicting, based on historical traffic data of associated with a user equipment served by the network equipment, respective predicted traffic for future time periods associated with the user equipment, wherein the user equipment is not an Internet of things type of device, and
• selecting the retransmission time to correspond to a future time period of the future time periods having a predicted traffic not greater than a defined threshold;
• and
• facilitating, by the network equipment, communicating the retransmission time to the messaging server.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a control plane device, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• in response to receiving request data indicative of a request to transmit a message from short message service center equipment to an Internet of things device that is in a low power usage mode and is unreachable, determining timing data comprising a retransmission time for a retransmission of the request data, wherein determining the timing data comprises:
• predicting, based on historical traffic data of associated with a user equipment served by the control plane device, respective predicted traffic for future time periods associated with the user equipment, wherein the user equipment is not an Internet of things type of device, and
• selecting the retransmission time to correspond to a future time period of the future time periods having a predicted traffic less than a defined threshold amount of traffic;
• and
• conveying the timing data to the short message service center equipment.