Hierarchical mobility

An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

• a processor,
• memory in electronic communication with the processor;
• and
• instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
• identify a radio resource control state of a user equipment from a set of states that includes a radio resource control inactive state and a radio resource control idle state;
• identify a network area for communicating one or more network synchronization signals or one or more network paging signals associated with the network area based at least in part on the radio resource control state of the user equipment;
• and
• monitor, by the user equipment, for the one or more network synchronization signals or the one or more network paging signals associated with the network area based at least in part on identifying the network area.

An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

• a processor,
• memory in electronic communication with the processor;
• and
• instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
• identify a network area associated with a user equipment operating in a radio resource control inactive state or a radio resource control idle state;
• and
• transmit, by a base station, one or more network synchronization signals or one or more network paging signals within the network area based at least in part on the network area.