“…However, T-SPS has a marginally better success rate than E-PS-SPS which can be overlooked considering the significant energy saving that E-PS-SPS can offer. Since LTE has a large scale deployment and will remain as a complementary technology for a long time, as outlined in the non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) version of 3GPP NR in the proposed road-map towards 5G [9], [10], SPS in LTE has been getting considerable attention even to this day signifying its usefulness. Additionally, SPS or a variant of it designed for LTE will remain relevant since it can also be compatible with new radio (NR) technology developed by 3GPP, as both technologies share a similar medium access control (MAC) layer skeleton [10].…”