Adaptive configured grant scheduling

A radio access network node, comprising:

• at least one processor configured to:
• transmit, to at least one user equipment, a configured grant activation configuration indicative of a configured grant control channel resource usable, by the at least one user equipment during scheduled discontinuous reception OFF periods at the radio access network node, to transmit, to the radio access network node, configured grant activation requests;
• receive, during a discontinuous reception OFF period according to the configured grant control channel resource, a configured grant activation request indicative of at least one protocol data unit corresponding to an uplink traffic flow to be transmitted from the at least one user equipment to the radio access network node;
• based on the uplink traffic flow, determine at least one determined traffic characteristic corresponding to the at least one user equipment, wherein the configured grant activation configuration comprises a number of configured grant occasions to be activated during respective discontinuous reception OFF periods based on the at least one determined traffic characteristic;
• responsive to the configured grant activation request, activate at least one radio receive function during at least one of the scheduled discontinuous reception OFF periods to result in at least one activated configured grant resource;
• and
• receive the at least one protocol data unit corresponding to the uplink traffic flow according to the at least one activated configured grant resource.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a radio access network node, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• associating one or more user equipment corresponding to a determined quality of service with a quality-of-service group of user equipment;
• transmitting, to the quality-of-service group of user equipment, a configured grant activation configuration indicative of a configured grant control channel resource usable during a discontinuous reception OFF period at the radio access network node to request activation of at least one receive radio function during one or more discontinuous OFF periods, wherein the configured grant activation configuration comprises a group preamble usable by the quality-of-service group of user equipment to transmit, to the radio access network node, a configured grant activation request indicative of at least one protocol data unit corresponding to an uplink traffic flow to be transmitted from at least one of the user equipment of the quality-of-service group of user equipment to the radio access network node;
• deactivating the at least one radio receive function during the discontinuous reception OFF period;
• receiving, according to the configured grant control channel resource, the group preamble from the at least one of the user equipment of the quality-of-service group of user equipment;
• responsive to the group preamble, activating the at least one radio receive function during at least one discontinuous reception OFF period to result in at least one activated configured grant resource;
• and
• receiving, from the at least one of the user equipment of the quality-of-service group of user equipment according to the at least one activated configured grant resource, at least one protocol data unit corresponding to an uplink traffic flow transmitted by the at least one of the user equipment of the quality-of-service group of user equipment.