In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is at least one method and apparatus to perform receiving or determining at least one of a
beacon, a
synchronization signal, or a reference
signal, the at least one of the
beacon, the
synchronization signal, or the reference
signal comprising an indication of a
paging occurrence, wherein at least one of the
beacon, the
synchronization signal or the reference
signal comprises a pseudo
noise sequence as an indication of
paging occurrence, and wherein the at least one of the beacon, the synchronization signal or the reference signal is addressed to all user equipments in a group or a subset of user equipments in at least one
cell of the communication network, and wherein at least one of the beacon, synchronization signal, or reference signal comprises
paging arrival for a common cause, and wherein at least one
user equipment in the one or a subset of
user equipment is in one of
sleep mode or shutdown; and wherein there is wakeup or boot from a
sleep mode to decode at least one of the beacon, the synchronization signal or the reference signal and receive paging occurrences based on at least one of the beacon, the synchronization signal or the reference signal.