eDRX

3GPP Rel13. GSM (GRPS, EDGE and EC-GSM-IoT) and LTE (Cat-M1, NB-IoT)

ENABLE A MULTITUDE OF IOT EXTENDED LONG DRX OPTIMIZED FOR LOW ACTIVITY
USE CASES USE CASES
POWER SAVING MODE
(Alarms, Sensors, Meters, etc.) EVEN COMBINED WITH
GSM AND LTE
EXTENDED COVERAGE

EXTENDED DRX
Extended sleep cycles in idle mode to Significantly improved DL reachability
eliminate unnecessary receiver activations

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DRX ... DRX ...

POWER
POWER

Extended DRX
Paging Occasion

Paging Occasion
TIME
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eDRX details
eDRX
With the extended DRX feature DRX cycles ranging from a few eDRX cycle lengths
seconds to around 52 minutes are introduced. ~1.9 seconds
Compared to using the power saving mode feature, eDRX will ensure ~3.8 seconds
a certain reachability period to the device. ~7.5 seconds

For reachability periods of several minutes or lower, eDRX is more ~12.2 seconds

efficient than using PSM ~24.5 seconds

~49 seconds
Reduced idle mode procedures ~1.63 minutes
It is of no use to introduce extended DRX cycles if the current, ~3.25 minutes

frequent idle mode procedures are kept. Hence, as part of eDRX ~6.5 minutes

comes also a set of reduced idle mode procedures to optimize the ~13 minutes

energy efficiency of the device. ~26 minutes

~52 minutes
Extended DRX supports more use cases
Long battery time ( but not multi years.)
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