Handling of measurement relaxation and other activity skipping

An apparatus, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory comprising computer program code,
• the at least one memory and computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:
• determine whether at least one radio link quality-based condition for relaxation of a measurement is satisfied;
• determine whether at least one user equipment activity-based additional condition is satisfied;
• in response to determining that both the at least one radio link quality-based condition and the at least one user equipment activity-based additional condition are satisfied, determine that relaxation for the measurement is allowed to be performed;
• receive a configuration of both of:
• the at least one radio link quality-based condition, and the at least one user equipment activity-based additional condition;
• receive a signal;
• determine whether relaxation for the measurement is allowed to be performed based on:
• the at least one radio link quality-based condition being satisfied, receiving a wake up signal that indicates to enter the relaxation of the measurement, receiving a dormancy indication that indicates to enter the relaxation of the measurement on a bandwidth part, and determining that a layer 1 reference signal received power measurement or reporting is allowed to be skipped;
• determine whether relaxation for the measurement is not allowed to be performed based on:
• receiving a wake up signal that indicates to stop the relaxation of the measurement, and receiving a dormancy indication that indicates to stop the relaxation of the measurement on a bandwidth part;
• based on a determination that the relaxation for the measurement is allowed to be performed, perform a relaxed measurement of the signal;
• determine, prior to activating the relaxation for the measurement, whether at least one user equipment activity other than the measurement is scheduled to be performed during a period allocated for the relaxed measurement;
• delay or skip the relaxation for the measurement when the at least one user equipment activity other than the measurement is not allowed to be skipped during that period;
• determine an upper bound for a relaxation level of the measurement, wherein the upper bound is determined based on a periodicity of a layer 1 measurement and a periodicity of a layer 1 measurement reporting;
• and
• receive a configuration indicating whether the radio link quality-based condition both the radio link quality-based condition and the at least one user equipment activity-based additional condition is to be evaluated to determine the relaxation of the measurement,
• wherein the at least one user equipment activity-based additional condition comprises that at least one user equipment activity and the measurement is allowed to be skipped or relaxed,
• wherein the determining of whether the at least one user equipment activity-based additional condition is satisfied is based on:
• whether a wake up signal ordering the apparatus to monitor a downlink control signal during a discontinuous reception on duration is received, whether a wake up signal indicating the apparatus to skip monitoring of a downlink control signal during a discontinuous reception on duration is received, whether a wake up signal indicating the apparatus to activate the relaxation of the measurement is received, whether a wake up signal ordering the user equipment to stop relaxing or skipping the measurement is received, whether a dormancy indication indicating that a bandwidth part has become non-dormant is received, whether a dormancy indication indicating that a bandwidth part has become dormant is received, whether a dormancy indication indicating the apparatus to activate the relaxation of the measurement is received, whether a dormancy indication ordering the apparatus to stop relaxing or skipping the measurement on the associated bandwidth part is received, and whether a layer 1 reference signal received power measurement or report is allowed to be skipped, and
• wherein the at least one radio link quality-based condition is related low mobility of the user equipment, a location of the user equipment, a detection error rate of the user equipment, and power of a signal received by the user equipment.