Paging forwarding for a remote wireless device

A method, comprising:

• establish a relay link between a relay wireless device and a remote wireless device;
• provide access information of the remote wireless device to a cellular base station;
• receive, in a dedicated radio resource control (RRC) message from the cellular base station to the relay wireless device, paging information for the remote wireless device;
• provide paging occasion configuration information for the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device to the remote wireless device, wherein paging occasions between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device are configured based at least in part on relay link identification information for the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device;
• and
• provide the paging information to the remote wireless device via the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device, wherein the paging information is provided to the remote wireless device during a paging occasion configured according to the paging occasion configuration information for the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device.

A relay wireless device, comprising:

• a radio;
• and
• circuitry, the radio and the circuitry configured to:
• establish a relay link between a relay wireless device and a remote wireless device;
• provide access information of the remote wireless device to a cellular base station;
• receive, in a dedicated radio resource control (RRC) message from the cellular base station to the relay wireless device, paging information for the remote wireless device;
• provide paging occasion configuration information for the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device to the remote wireless device, wherein paging occasions between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device are configured based at least in part on relay link identification information for the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device;
• and
• provide the paging information to the remote wireless device via the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device, wherein the paging information is provided to the remote wireless device during a paging occasion configured according to the paging occasion configuration information for the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device.