“…However, the access procedures requires listening to the control channel and exchanging signal for random access, synchronization, and resource reservation [6,15], resulting in a challenge to realize the long-lasting battery limited devices activities [14,16]. As per the state-of-the-art, extensive efforts are made to improve the energy efficiency of IoT devices such as discontinuous reception (DRX) [17], power-saving mode (PSM) [18], lightweight communications protocols [19,20], low-power radio transceivers [19,21], idle listening [22], and duty cycling [20,23]. These methods imply an inherent trade-off between reachability and energy saving of the devices [24].…”