DISCOVERY AND PAGING IN NEW RADIO-THINGS SIDELINK

Embodiments of a system and method for discovery and paging in new radio-things sidelink are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a nUE (network user equipment) selects a resource unit (RU) of a physical sidelink discovery channel (PSDCH) for broadcasting a discovery message, the RU being selected based on a nUE temporary identifier (temp ID) and a mapping between RUs and nUE temp IDs. The nUE encodes for broadcasting of the discovery message to multiple wearable user equipment (wUEs) in the selected RU of the PSDCH. The nUE encodes for broadcasting of discovery content in an available downlink (DL) subframe of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the discovery content being broadcast to a wUE from among the multiple wUEs for decoding at the wUE and for starting a random access procedure with the nUE.