Connected State relatively long while supporting data services, so efficient power‐saving
mechanisms for the Connected State are becoming more significant in order to prolong
battery life of a handset. Discontinuous reception (DRX) has been a dominant approach for
power saving in the Idle State and Connected State. In this study, a novel counter‐driven
adaptive DRX (CDA‐DRX) scheme is proposed and analysed. The CDA‐DRX scheme is …