Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information identifying a set of possible paging occasions and a set of connected mode communications. The UE may receive paging in a paging occasion, of the set of possible paging occasions, for which there is not a collision between the paging occasion and the set of connected mode communications and that is selected from the set of possible paging occasions based at least in part on a power utilization characteristic. Numerous other aspects are described.