Overview

“Signals for transitioning to a radio resource control (RRC) connected state and maintaining the RRC connected state could cause overheads (e.g., power consumption and delay) to a wireless device having small amount of data to transmit when in an RRC idle state or an RRC inactive state.”

See also https://ofinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/OFNO_14768-White-Sheet-M4_070121.pdf