An apparatus for wireless communication includes a receiver configured to receive a request for data associated with an Internet-of-things (IoT) service session with an IoT cloud server. The apparatus further includes a transmitter configured to transmit, based on receiving the request and prior to transmitting a response to the request, a message indicating a timing parameter associated with availability of the data. The receiver is further configured to receive an uplink grant at a time that is based on the timing parameter, and the transmitter is further configured to transmit the response to the request based on the uplink grant. The response includes at least a subset of the data.