Unified paging early indication design

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

• one or more memories;
• and
• one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more memories comprising instructions executable by the one or more processors individually or collectively to cause the UE to:
• receive a paging early indication (PEI), the PEI indicating whether at least one UE in a UE group or a UE sub-group including the UE is to be paged in a paging occasion,
• wherein the PEI is a sequence-based PEI, and
• wherein the PEI is received based at least in part on a sequence configuration of the UE by a network node;
• and
• selectively process a paging physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) associated with the paging occasion based at least in part on the PEI.

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

• one or more memories;
• and
• one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more memories comprising instructions executable by the one or more processors individually or collectively to cause the UE to:
• receive a paging early indication (PEI), the PEI indicating whether at least one UE in a UE group or a UE sub-group including the UE is to be paged in a paging occasion,
• wherein the PEI is a sequence-based PEI, and
• wherein the PEI is received based at least in part on a distributed resource block allocation associated with the sequence-based PEI, and
• wherein the PEI is received based at least in part on a reference control resource set (CORESET) and a corresponding interleaved control channel element (CCE) to resource element group (REG) mapping for distributed CCE allocation associated with a set of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates;
• and
• selectively process a paging PDCCH associated with the paging occasion based at least in part on the PEI.

A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

• receiving a paging early indication (PEI), the PEI indicating whether at least one UE in a UE group or a UE sub-group including the UE is to be paged in a paging occasion, at least one of:
• wherein a sequence on which the PEI is based is a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH)-based sequence, and wherein the PEI is received in a PDCCH candidate of a plurality of PDCCH candidates, wherein each PDCCH candidate of the plurality of PDCCH candidates is associated with a corresponding set of UEs of a plurality of sets of UEs
• wherein the PEI is received based at least in part on a sequence configuration configured on the UE by a network node, or
• wherein the PEI is received based at least in part on a distributed resource block allocation associated with the sequence, and wherein the PEI is received based at least in part on a reference control resource set (CORESET) and a corresponding interleaved control channel element (CCE) to resource element group (REG) mapping for distributed CCE allocation associated with a set of PDCCH candidates;
• and
• selectively processing a paging PDCCH associated with the paging occasion based at least in part on the PEI.