A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which channel quality indicator (CQI) requirements for reporting a CQI are received, whether the CQI is to be reported periodically is determined based on the CQI requirements, and a wake-up time based on the determination is scheduled. CQI reporting requirements, such as CQI scheduling information may be used to plan a UE discontinuous reception (DRX) wake-up time and adaptively shorten a duration the UE is awake when transmission of a CQI report is not required at a first subframe of a DRX on-duration. The shorter UE awake duration results in reduced power consumption.