Methods, systems, and devices related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to controlling activation of a BWP upon transitioning between dormancy behavior and non-dormancy behavior. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transitioning, by a terminal, a serving node from dormancy behavior to non-dormancy behavior. The method also includes activating, by the terminal, a set of resource blocks in response to transitioning the serving node from the dormancy behavior to the non-dormancy behavior. In another exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes detecting, by a terminal, that a dormancy timer has expired. The method also includes, responsive to detecting that the dormancy timer has expired, transitioning, by the terminal, a serving node from non-dormancy behavior to dormancy behavior.