Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a first user-equipment (UE). The method generally includes applying a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration for the first UE, monitoring for first signaling from a second UE indicating that the second UE has data to send to the first UE, the first signaling being transmitted using a plurality of transmit beams during a DRX cycle of the DRX configuration, selecting one or more transmit beams of the plurality of transmit beams based on the monitoring of the first signaling, and communicating in accordance with the selection.