The invention discloses a
paging method, which comprises the following steps: acquiring an interface
Paging message from a
core network by the network equipment, wherein the interface
Paging message contains the corresponding Group-ID of
machine-type communication MTC equipment in the group, and sending a
radio resource control protocol RRC
Paging message to the MTC equipment in the group by the network equipment according to the Group-ID, wherein the RRC Paging message contains the corresponding Group-ID of
machine-type communication MTC equipment in the group. According to the method, by
paging aiming at the MTC equipment, the load of
paging channel is reduced and the paging efficiency is increased. When the number of MTC equipment is more, the use ratio of resource can be efficiently increased and the signaling cost can be lowered. By arranging a special P-RNTI (
radio network temporary identifier) of MTC, the interference on the traditional LTE (long term evolution) UE (
user equipment) paging can be avoided. According to the characteristics of the MTC equipment, the paging configuration information can be specially designed for the MTC equipment, thereby bringing more flexibility for optimizing the MTC
system.