Reducing battery consumption at a user equipment

An apparatus for reducing battery consumption at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

• means for configuring a 10 ms transmission mode on an uplink (UL) channel at the UE;
• means for indicating configuration of the 10 ms transmission mode to a base station in communication with the UE;
• means for compressing a 20 ms transmission associated with a 20 ms transmission time interval (TTI) into a 10 ms compressed transmission;
• means for transmitting the 10 ms compressed transmission during a first 10 ms of the 20 ms TTI;
• and
• means for performing a discontinuous transmission (DTX) of the UL channel during a second 10 ms of the 20 ms TTI.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code for reducing battery consumption at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

• code for configuring a 10 ms transmission mode on an uplink (UL) channel at the UE;
• code for indicating configuration of the 10 ms transmission mode to a base station in communication with the UE;
• code for compressing a 20 ms transmission associated with a 20 ms transmission time interval (TTI) into a 10 ms compressed transmission;
• code for transmitting the 10 ms compressed transmission during a first 10 ms of the 20 ms TTI;
• and
• code for performing a discontinuous transmission (DTX) of the UL channel during a second 10 ms of the 20 ms TTI.

An apparatus for reducing battery consumption at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

• a transmission mode configuring component to configure a 10 ms transmission mode on an uplink (UL) channel at the UE;
• a transmission mode indicating component to indicate configuration of the 10 ms transmission mode to a base station in communication with the UE;
• a compression component to compress a 20 ms transmission associated with a 20 ms transmission time interval (TTI) into a 10 ms compressed transmission;
• a transmission component to transmit the 10 ms compressed transmission during a first 10 ms of the 20 ms TTI;
• and
• a discontinuous transmission (DTX) component to perform a discontinuous transmission (DTX) of the UL channel during a second 10 ms of the 20 ms TTI.