DYNAMIC STARTING OF THE DRX RETRANSMISSION TIMER FOR BOUNDED LATENCY APPLICATIONS

A method performed by a user equipment to eliminate or reduce a monitoring period for retransmission associated to Discontinuous Transmission (DRX). The method comprises receiving, from a network node, an indication of whether the monitoring period should be monitored by the User Equipment (UE). The method further comprises determining, based on the indication, whether to start a retransmission timer. In response to a determination that the retransmission timer should be started, the method further comprises starting the retransmission timer.