Communication method, device, equipment and readable storage medium

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a communication method, apparatus, device and readable storage medium, which relate to the field of communication. The method includes: determining the channel monitoring result of LBT (listen before talk); updating the LBT counter or timer according to the channel monitoring result and the corresponding perception beam identifier or beam set identifier. By synchronously determining the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the LBT channel monitoring result during the LBT channel monitoring result process, it is determined whether the beam corresponding to the channel monitoring result has changed, thereby avoiding the problem of low LBT accuracy caused by different beams corresponding to counts or timings on the same counter / timer, and solving the counting / timing of directional LBT.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present application relates to the field of communications, and in particular to a communication method, apparatus, device and readable storage medium. Background Art

[0002] The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) defines three major directions for 5G application scenarios: Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Massive Machine Type of Communication (mMTC), and Ultra Reliable & Low Latency Communication (URLLC).

[0003] When a terminal sends a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ-ACK message in an unlicensed frequency band, it first needs to perform channel monitoring in a Listen Before Talk (LBT) frequency band to which a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) belongs. Summary of the invention

[0004] The embodiments of the present application provide a communication method, apparatus, device and readable storage medium. The technical solution is as follows:

[0005] On the one hand, a communication method is provided, which is applied in a terminal, and the method includes:

[0006] Determine the channel monitoring results of LBT (Listen Before Talk);

[0007] An LBT counter or timer is updated according to the channel monitoring result and the corresponding sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier.

[0008] In another aspect, a communication device is provided, the device comprising:

[0009] The processing module is configured to determine a channel monitoring result of the listen-before-talk (LBT) method; and update an LBT counter or timer according to the channel monitoring result and a corresponding sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier.

[0010] In another aspect, a terminal is provided, the terminal comprising:

[0011] processor;

[0012] a transceiver coupled to the processor;

[0013] Among them, the processor is configured to load and execute executable instructions to implement the communication method as described in the above-mentioned embodiment of the present application.

[0014] On the other hand, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, which stores at least one instruction, at least one program, code set or instruction set, and the at least one instruction, at least one program, code set or instruction set is loaded and executed by a processor to implement the communication method as described in the above-mentioned embodiment of the present application.

[0015] The beneficial effects brought by the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present application include at least:

[0016] By synchronously determining the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to the LBT channel monitoring result during the LBT channel monitoring result, it is possible to determine whether the beam corresponding to the channel monitoring result has changed, thereby avoiding the problem of low LBT accuracy caused by different beam corresponding counts or timings on the same counter / timer, and solving the counting / timing of directional LBT. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0017] In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the drawings required for use in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings described below are only some embodiments of the present application. For ordinary technicians in this field, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without creative work.

[0018] Figure 1 is a block diagram of a communication system provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0019] Figure 2 is a flow chart of a communication method provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0020] Figure 3 is a flow chart of a communication method provided by another exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0021] Figure 4 is a flow chart of a communication method provided by another exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0022] Figure 5 is a structural block diagram of a communication device provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0023] Figure 6 is a block diagram of a terminal provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0024] Figure 7 It is a block diagram of an access network device provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0025] In order to make the objectives, technical solutions and advantages of the present application clearer, the implementation methods of the present application will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[0026] Figure 1 A block diagram of a communication system provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is shown. The communication system may include: a core network 11, an access network 12 and a terminal 13.

[0027] The core network 11 includes several core network devices 110. The core network device 110 includes devices such as Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), Session Management Function (SMF) and User Plane Function (UPF), among which AMF is used to control the access authority and switching functions of the terminal, and SMF is used to provide server continuity and uninterrupted user experience of the server, such as: IP address and anchor point changes.

[0028] The access network 12 includes several access network devices 120. The access network device 120 may be a base station, which is a device deployed in the access network to provide wireless communication functions for terminals. Base stations may include various forms of macro base stations, micro base stations, relay stations, access points, and the like. In systems using different wireless access technologies, the names of devices with base station functions may be different. For example, in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, it is called eNodeB or eNB; in the 5G New Radio (NR) system, it is called gNode B or gNB. With the evolution of communication technology, the name "base station" may be described and may change. For the convenience of the embodiments of the present disclosure, the above-mentioned devices that provide wireless communication functions for terminals are collectively referred to as access network devices.

[0029] The terminal 13 may include various handheld devices with wireless communication functions, vehicle-mounted devices, wearable devices, computing devices or other processing devices connected to a wireless modem, as well as various forms of terminals (User Equipment, UE), mobile stations (Mobile Station, MS), terminals (terminal devices), etc. For the convenience of description, the above-mentioned devices are collectively referred to as terminals. The access network device 120 and the terminal 13 communicate with each other through some air interface technology, such as a Uu interface.

[0030] Optionally, in the process of wireless communication between the terminal 13 and the access network device 120, wireless communication can be performed through an authorized frequency band or through an unauthorized frequency band. Optionally, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, wireless communication between the terminal 13 and the access network device 120 through an unauthorized frequency band is used as an example for description.

[0031] Currently, 3GPP is discussing support for extending NR supported frequencies from up to 52.6GHz to up to 71GHz. The frequency range of 52.6GHz-71GHz includes the unlicensed band of 60GHz. This band will adopt NR-U (NR-Unlicensed) technology, the main feature of which is that UE and gNB need to perform LBT (Listen-before-talk) before sending, and can only send data after detecting that the channel is idle. The sender generally needs to monitor the channel before sending a communication message. Only after the channel monitoring is successful, that is, it is determined that the monitored channel is not occupied by other senders, can the communication message be sent on the channel, which is the channel occupancy mechanism of LBT.

[0032] The transmitter performs channel monitoring with an LBT band (bandwidth) as a frequency unit. Schematically, an LBT band is 20 MHz. The uplink resources configured by the base station for the UE, that is, the uplink bandwidth part (BandWith Part, BWP) may include one or more LBT bands.

[0033] When monitoring LBT failure, the UE monitors at the granularity of BWP. If a continuous LBT failure is detected on a BWP of a serving cell (ServingCell), that is, the result of LBT channel monitoring is continuously a monitoring failure result, the UE will switch to another BWP of the serving cell configured with physical random access channel (PRACH) resources to initiate random access. At the same time, if the UE has available uplink carrier resources, an LBT failure media access control (Media Access Control, MAC) CE (Control Element) is generated, and the MAC CE will indicate the identities of all serving cells where LBT failure occurs. If the UE tries all BWPs of the serving cell and continuous LBT failure occurs, and if the serving cell is a special cell (SpecialCell, SpCell), the UE MAC layer indicates LBT failure to the radio resource control (Radio Resource Control, RRC) layer, and the UE indicates a radio link failure (Radio Link Failure, RLF) of the master cell group (Master Cell Group, MCG) / secondary cell group (Secondary Cell Group, SCG).

[0034] Among them, the judgment method of continuous LBT failure is as follows:

[0035] Each time the UE MAC layer receives an LBT failure instance indicated by the physical layer (PHY), the LBT counter (LBT_COUNTER) is incremented by 1 and the timer lbt-FailureDetectionTimer (representing the duration for which the LBT failure instance has not been received) is restarted.

[0036] When LBT_COUNTER ≥ lbt-FailureInstanceMaxCount (maximum count threshold), the continuous LBT failure of the current active BWP is triggered. When the UE changes the BWP, it will set LBT_COUNTER to 0 and stop lbt-FailureDetectionTimer. When lbt-FailureDetectionTimer times out, it means that no LBTfailure instance has been received for a period of time, then it is considered that the channel has improved and the LBT_COUNTER is cleared.

[0037] For the unlicensed frequency band, that is, the 60 GHz high frequency band, a very narrow beam can be used for communication transmission and reception, and the LBT situation in the direction of the beam will not affect the transmission, so there is no need for omnidirectional LBT monitoring.

[0038] To this end, 3GPP is discussing the introduction of directional LBT, that is, LBT is not omnidirectional monitoring, but only monitoring in a specific direction. The UE transmit beam and the sensing beam that monitors LBT include at least one of the following relationships: 1. One transmit beam corresponds to one sensing beam or beam set; 2. One sensing beam corresponds to one transmit beam or beam set. Among them, the beam width of the sensing beam or beam set mapped by the transmit beam needs to at least cover the beam width of the transmit beam.

[0039] In the related art, the judgment of continuous LBT failure is made within a BWP, and all beam directions are taken into account. Obviously, after the introduction of directional LBT, it is not appropriate to judge continuous LBT failure based on omnidirectional LBT failure. For example: according to the relevant protocol, when the physical layer detects LBT failure in one beam direction, it indicates the LBT failure instance to the MAC layer, and the MAC layer will increase the LBT_COUNTER count by 1; then, when the physical layer changes the beam monitoring direction, LBT failure occurs again, indicating the LBT failure instance to the MAC layer, and the MAC layer will increase the LBT_COUNTER count by 1. However, the two LBT failure instances come from two different LBT monitoring directions. By superimposing and counting the LBT times in multiple directions, it is obviously impossible to correctly determine which LBT monitoring direction actually has a continuous LBT failure.

[0040] In an embodiment of the present application, the LBT counter or timer is updated according to the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to the transmitting beam.

[0041] Figure 2 is a flow chart of a communication method provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, wherein the method is applied to Figure 1 The terminal shown in FIG. 1 is used as an example to illustrate. Figure 2 As shown, the method includes:

[0042] Step 201, determining a listen-before-talk (LBT) channel monitoring result.

[0043] Optionally, the channel monitoring result of LBT includes channel monitoring success or channel monitoring failure, wherein channel monitoring success is used to indicate that the channel monitored by LBT is idle and communication transmission is possible; channel monitoring failure is used to indicate that the channel monitored by LBT is busy and communication transmission is not possible.

[0044] Optionally, the physical layer monitors the LBT channel in a beam direction and indicates the LBT channel monitoring result to the MAC layer.

[0045] Step 202: Update the LBT counter according to the channel monitoring result and the corresponding sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier.

[0046] Optionally, since one transmitting beam corresponds to one sensing beam or one transmitting beam corresponds to one beam set, when one transmitting beam corresponds to one sensing beam, the LBT counter is updated according to the channel monitoring result and the corresponding sensing beam identifier; when one transmitting beam corresponds to one beam set, the LBT counter is updated according to the channel monitoring result and the corresponding beam set identifier.

[0047] Step 203: Update the timer according to the channel monitoring result and the corresponding sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier.

[0048] Optionally, since one transmitting beam corresponds to one sensing beam or one transmitting beam corresponds to one beam set, when one transmitting beam corresponds to one sensing beam, the timer is updated according to the channel monitoring result and the corresponding sensing beam identifier; when one transmitting beam corresponds to one beam set, the timer is updated according to the channel monitoring result and the corresponding beam set identifier.

[0049] In the embodiment of the present application, an example is taken where one transmission beam corresponds to one sensing beam or beam set.

[0050] Optionally, the LBT counter and / or timer is updated accordingly based on the channel monitoring result and the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the channel monitoring result.

[0051] Optionally, after receiving the channel monitoring result indicated by the physical layer, the MAC layer updates the LBT counter and / or timer according to the channel monitoring result and the corresponding perception beam identifier or beam set identifier.

[0052] To summarize, the embodiments of the present application synchronously determine the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to the LBT channel monitoring result during the LBT channel monitoring result, thereby determining whether the beam corresponding to the channel monitoring result has changed, avoiding the problem of low LBT accuracy caused by different beam corresponding counts or timings on the same counter / timer, and solving the counting / timing of directional LBT.

[0053] In the embodiments of the present application, the schemes for updating the counter / timer according to the channel monitoring results and the corresponding sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier are described respectively.

[0054] 1. Reset counter and / or stop timer solution

[0055] Figure 3 is a flow chart of a communication method provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application, wherein the method is applied to Figure 1 The terminal shown in FIG. 1 is used as an example to illustrate. Figure 3 As shown, the method includes:

[0056] Step 301, determining a channel monitoring result of the listen-before-talk (LBT) method.

[0057] Optionally, the channel monitoring result of LBT includes channel monitoring success or channel monitoring failure, wherein channel monitoring success is used to indicate that the channel monitored by LBT is idle and communication transmission is possible; channel monitoring failure is used to indicate that the channel monitored by LBT is busy and communication transmission is not possible.

[0058] Step 302: In response to a change in a sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier corresponding to a channel monitoring result, the LBT counter is reset to zero.

[0059] That is, if the sensing beam or beam set changes, set LBT_COUNTER=0.

[0060] Step 303: In response to a change in a sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier corresponding to a channel monitoring result, stop the timer.

[0061] That is, if the sensing beam or beam set changes, stop lbt-FailureDetectionTimer.

[0062] The above setting of LBT_COUNTER=0 and stopping of lbt-FailureDetectionTimer can be implemented either one or both, that is, the above steps 302 and 303 can only execute step 302, can only execute step 303, or can execute both steps 302 and 303 at the same time, which is not limited in this embodiment. That is, if the sensing beam or beam set changes, one or more of the following operations are performed: 1. Setting LBT_COUNTER=0; 2. Stopping lbt-FailureDetectionTimer.

[0063] Among them, the change of the sensing beam or beam set means that the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier targeted by the LBT channel monitoring is different from the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result, and it is determined that the sensing beam or beam set has changed.

[0064] That is, during the LBT channel monitoring process, there is an identification indication of the currently targeted perception beam or beam set, so that according to the perception beam identification or beam set identification corresponding to the received channel monitoring result, it can be determined whether the perception beam or beam set has changed.

[0065] Optionally, determining whether the sensing beam or beam set changes may be performed by at least one of the following situations:

[0066] First, when the transmission beam of the listen-before-speak LBT is switched from the first beam to the second beam, and the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the first beam is different from the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the second beam, it is determined that the perception beam or beam set has changed.

[0067] That is, the UE's transmit beam is switched from beam 1 to beam 2, and the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to beam 2 is different from the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to beam 1.

[0068] Second, when the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the transmit beam of the listen-before-speak LBT is switched from the first perception beam or beam set to the second perception beam or beam set, it is determined that the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier changes.

[0069] That is, the UE's transmit beam remains unchanged, but the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to the transmit beam is switched to a new sensing beam or beam set.

[0070] Optionally, in the scheme of resetting the counter and / or stopping the timer, at least one of the following implementations is included:

[0071] 1.1 The channel monitoring result of each LBT includes the corresponding sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier;

[0072] That is, no matter whether the channel monitoring result obtained by the physical layer in the beam direction is a successful channel monitoring or a failed channel monitoring, the physical layer will indicate the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result to the MAC layer. The MAC layer will then determine whether the perception beam or beam set targeted by the current channel monitoring has changed based on the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result, and update the LBT counter and / or timer based on the change of the perception beam or beam set.

[0073] Wherein, updating the LBT counter and / or timer according to the change of the sensing beam or beam set includes at least one of the following situations:

[0074] The first , channel monitoring is successful, and the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier has not changed;

[0075] That is, on the LBT monitoring channel, if the channel monitoring is successful, communication transmission can be carried out, and the sensing beam or beam set has not changed, the LBT counter does not need to be increased and / or the timer continues to count.

[0076] Optionally, when the channel monitoring is successful and the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier has not changed, the physical layer does not need to indicate the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier to the MAC layer; or, when the channel monitoring is successful and the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier has not changed, the physical layer indicates the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier to the MAC layer, but the MAC layer recognizes that the perception beam or beam set has not changed, and controls the LBT counter to not increase and / or the timer to continue timing.

[0077] Optionally, when the timing duration of the timer reaches a timing threshold, the timer is reset to zero, indicating that the channel monitoring result corresponding to the current LBT channel monitoring does not fail within the timing threshold, that is, the quality of the channel monitored by LBT is good, and the LBT timer is cleared at the same time.

[0078] The second , channel monitoring is successful, and the beam identifier or beam set identifier changes;

[0079] That is, on the LBT monitoring channel, the channel monitoring is successful, but because the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier changes, that is, the perception beam or beam set targeted by the current LBT channel monitoring is different from the perception beam or beam set for which the channel monitoring is successful, the LBT counter is set to zero and / or the timer is stopped.

[0080] Optionally, when channel monitoring is successful and the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier changes, the physical layer indicates the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier to the MAC layer, the MAC layer recognizes that the sensing beam or beam set has changed, and controls the LBT counter to be reset to zero and / or stops the timer.

[0081] Optionally, since the sensing beam or beam set changes, the MAC layer updates and replaces the sensing beam or beam set targeted by the current LBT channel monitoring with the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to the most recent channel monitoring result.

[0082] The third , channel monitoring failed, and the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier did not change;

[0083] That is, if channel monitoring fails on the LBT monitoring channel, the LBT monitoring channel cannot communicate, and the sensing beam or beam set has not changed, the LBT counter counts up by 1 and / or the timer restarts the timing process according to the LBT failureinstance indicated by the channel monitoring failure.

[0084] Optionally, when channel monitoring fails and the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier has not changed, the physical layer does not need to indicate the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier to the MAC layer, and only indicates the LBT failure instance to the MAC layer; alternatively, when channel monitoring fails and the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier has not changed, the physical layer indicates the LBT failure instance and the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier to the MAC layer, but the MAC layer recognizes that the perception beam or the beam set has not changed, and controls the LBT counter to count up by 1 and / or restart the timer according to the LBT failure instance.

[0085] The fourth , channel monitoring failed, and the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier changed.

[0086] That is, channel monitoring fails on the LBT monitoring channel, the LBT monitoring channel cannot carry out communication transmission, and the sensing beam or beam set changes, that is, the sensing beam or beam set targeted by the current LBT channel monitoring is different from the sensing beam or beam set where the channel monitoring fails, so the LBT counter is set to zero and / or the timer is stopped.

[0087] Optionally, when channel monitoring fails and the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier changes, the physical layer indicates the LBT failure instance and the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier to the MAC layer. The MAC layer recognizes that the sensing beam or beam set has changed, and controls the LBT counter to be reset to zero and / or stops the timer.

[0088] Optionally, since the sensing beam or beam set changes, the MAC layer updates and replaces the sensing beam or beam set targeted by the current LBT channel monitoring with the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to the most recent channel monitoring result.

[0089] When the LBT counter reaches a count threshold, it is determined that the continuous LBT failure of the sensing beam or beam set targeted by the current LBT channel monitoring occurs.

[0090] Optionally, if all candidate sensing beams or beam sets on the current active BWP trigger continuous LBT failure, the current BWP is triggered to fail continuously LBT, and the BWP is replaced to perform LBT channel monitoring.

[0091] Optionally, when it is determined that the continuous LBT of the current sensing beam or beam set fails, the random access process is triggered.

[0092] Optionally, when determining that the current sensing beam or beam set has a persistent LBT failure, the UE generates LBT failure indication information, such as MAC CE, and the indication information is used to indicate the sensing beam or beam set where the LBT failure occurs. Schematically, the indication information includes the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier where the LBT failure occurs, and optionally, the indication information also includes the current active BWP identifier and / or serving cell identifier.

[0093] When the duration of the timer reaches the timing threshold, the timer is reset to zero, indicating that the channel monitoring result corresponding to the current LBT channel monitoring does not fail within the timing threshold, that is, the quality of the channel monitored by LBT is good, and the LBT timer is cleared at the same time.

[0094] 1.2 In response to the LBT channel monitoring result, the LBT channel monitoring result is used to indicate that the channel monitoring has failed. There is a sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier.

[0095] That is, only when the channel monitoring result detected by the physical layer in the beam direction is a channel monitoring failure, the physical layer indicates to the MAC layer the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring failure. The MAC layer then determines whether the perception beam or beam set targeted by the statistics of the current LBT counter / timer has changed based on the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring failure, and updates the LBT counter and / or timer based on the change of the perception beam or beam set.

[0096] Wherein, updating the LBT counter and / or timer according to the change of the sensing beam or beam set includes at least one of the following situations:

[0097] The first , the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier has not changed;

[0098] That is, if channel monitoring fails on the LBT monitoring channel, the LBT monitoring channel cannot communicate, and the sensing beam or beam set has not changed, the LBT counter counts up by 1 and / or the timer restarts the timing process according to the LBT failureinstance indicated by the channel monitoring failure.

[0099] The second , sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier changes.

[0100] That is, channel monitoring fails on the LBT monitoring channel, the LBT monitoring channel cannot carry out communication transmission, and the perception beam or beam set changes, that is, the perception beam or beam set targeted by the current LBT channel monitoring is different from the perception beam or beam set at the time of the most recent channel monitoring failure, so the LBT counter is set to zero and / or the timer is stopped.

[0101] Optionally, since the sensing beam or beam set changes, the MAC layer updates and replaces the sensing beam or beam set targeted by the current LBT channel monitoring with the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to the most recent channel monitoring result.

[0102] When the LBT counter reaches a count threshold, it is determined that the continuous LBT failure of the sensing beam or beam set targeted by the current LBT channel monitoring occurs.

[0103] Optionally, if all candidate sensing beams or beam sets on the current active BWP trigger continuous LBT failure, the current BWP is triggered to fail continuously LBT, and the BWP is replaced to perform LBT channel monitoring.

[0104] Optionally, when it is determined that the continuous LBT of the current sensing beam or beam set fails, the random access process is triggered.

[0105] Optionally, when determining that the current sensing beam or beam set has a persistent LBT failure, the UE generates LBT failure indication information, such as MAC CE, and the indication information is used to indicate the sensing beam or beam set where the LBT failure occurs. Schematically, the indication information includes the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier where the LBT failure occurs, and optionally, the indication information also includes the current active BWP identifier and / or serving cell identifier.

[0106] When the timer reaches the timing threshold, the timer is reset to zero, indicating that the channel monitoring result corresponding to the current LBT channel monitoring does not fail within the timing threshold, that is, the quality of the channel monitored by LBT is good, and the LBT counter is reset to zero.

[0107] For counters:Optionally, in the above-mentioned reset counter and / or stop timer scheme, only one LBT counter is used at a time, that is, the LBT counter for the current sensing beam or beam set; or, the LBT counter includes a first LBT counter corresponding to a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and a second LBT counter corresponding to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); wherein the first LBT counter and the second LBT counter count respectively corresponding to PUCCH and PUSCH. Optionally, PUCCH and PUSCH respectively correspond to their own sensing beams or beam sets.

[0108] In schematic form, when the received channel monitoring result is a channel failure result corresponding to PUCCH, and the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the PUCCH changes, the first LBT counter corresponding to the PUCCH is reset to zero; when the received channel monitoring result is a channel failure result corresponding to PUCCH, and the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the PUCCH does not change, the first LBT counter corresponding to the PUCCH is counted and added by 1; when the received channel monitoring result is a channel failure result corresponding to PUSCH, and the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the PUSCH changes, the second LBT counter corresponding to the PUSCH is reset to zero; when the received channel monitoring result is a channel failure result corresponding to PUSCH, and the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the PUSCH does not change, the second LBT counter corresponding to the PUSCH is counted and added by 1.

[0109] For the timer: Optionally, in the above-mentioned reset counter and / or stop timer scheme, only one timer is used at a time, that is, a timer for the current sensing beam or beam set; or, the timer includes a first timer corresponding to PUCCH and a second timer corresponding to PUSCH; wherein the first timer and the second timer are respectively corresponding to PUCCH and PUSCH. Optionally, PUCCH and PUSCH respectively correspond to their own sensing beams or beam sets.

[0110] In schematic form, when the received channel monitoring result is a channel failure result corresponding to PUCCH, and the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the PUCCH changes, the first timer corresponding to the PUCCH stops timing; when the received channel monitoring result is a channel failure result corresponding to PUCCH, and the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the PUCCH does not change, the first timer corresponding to the PUCCH is restarted; when the received channel monitoring result is a channel failure result corresponding to PUSCH, and the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the PUSCH changes, the second timer corresponding to the PUSCH stops timing; when the received channel monitoring result is a channel failure result corresponding to PUSCH, and the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the PUSCH does not change, the second timer corresponding to the PUSCH is restarted.

[0111] 2. Configure multiple timers and / or counters

[0112] Figure 4 is a flow chart of a communication method provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application, wherein the method is applied to Figure 1 The terminal shown in FIG. 1 is used as an example to illustrate. Figure 4 As shown, the method includes:

[0113] Step 401, determining a channel monitoring result of the listen-before-talk (LBT) method.

[0114] Optionally, the channel monitoring result of LBT includes channel monitoring success or channel monitoring failure, wherein channel monitoring success is used to indicate that the channel monitored by LBT is idle and communication transmission is possible; channel monitoring failure is used to indicate that the channel monitored by LBT is busy and communication transmission is not possible.

[0115] Step 402: Update the LBT counter corresponding to at least one sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier according to the channel monitoring result.

[0116] That is, according to the channel monitoring result, the LBT counters corresponding to at least one sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier are updated, wherein different sensing beam identifiers or beam set identifiers correspond to different LBT counters.

[0117] In some embodiments, the LBT counter corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result is updated. That is, the channel monitoring result corresponds to the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier, and there is also a corresponding relationship between the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier and the LBT counter. According to the corresponding relationship between the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier and the LBT counter, the counting process of the corresponding LBT counter is updated.

[0118] Optionally, the UE includes a list of LBT counters corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier, such as:

[0119] sensing beam1 / beam set1 corresponds to LBT_COUNTERa

[0120] sensing beam2 / beam set2 corresponds to LBT_COUNTERb

[0121] sensing beam3 / beam set3 corresponds to LBT_COUNTERc

[0122] Then, according to the channel monitoring result and the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result, the LBT counter corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier is updated.

[0123] In some embodiments, when the channel monitoring result is used to indicate that the channel monitoring has failed, the LBT counter corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier is counted and increased by 1.

[0124] When the LBT counter count corresponding to a sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier reaches a count threshold, it is determined that the continuous LBT of the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier has failed.

[0125] Optionally, if all candidate sensing beams or beam sets on the current active BWP trigger continuous LBT failure, the current BWP is triggered to fail continuously LBT, and the BWP is replaced to perform LBT channel monitoring.

[0126] Optionally, when it is determined that the continuous LBT of the sensing beam or beam set fails, the random access procedure is triggered.

[0127] Optionally, when determining that the perception beam or beam set has a persistent LBT failure, the UE generates LBT failure indication information, such as MAC CE, and the indication information is used to indicate the perception beam or beam set where the LBT failure occurs. The UE reports the indication information through uplink resources, and illustratively, the indication information includes the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier where the LBT failure occurs, and optionally, the indication information also includes the current active BWP identifier and / or serving cell identifier.

[0128] Optionally, when the UE currently has available uplink resources and the uplink resources can accommodate the indication information, the indication information is reported through the uplink resources, such as: the uplink resources can accommodate the MAC CE and the MAC CE subheader.

[0129] In some embodiments, the indication information also includes a monitoring channel corresponding to the persistent LBT failure, and the monitoring channel includes PUCCH or PUSCH.

[0130] Optionally, when the sensing beam / beam set identifiers corresponding to the PUCCH and PUSCH channels are different, the indication information includes or does not include the monitoring channel corresponding to the continuous LBT failure.

[0131] sensing beam1 / beam set1 corresponds to LBT_COUNTERa

[0132] sensing beam2 / beam set2 corresponds to LBT_COUNTERb

[0133] sensing beam3 / beam set3 corresponds to LBT_COUNTERc

[0134] Among them, sensing beam1 / beam set1 is the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to PUCCH, sensing beam2 / beam set2 and sensing beam3 / beam set3 are the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to PUSCH. By including the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier in the indication information, the channel type where the continuous LBT failure occurs can be obtained.

[0135] Optionally, after a continuous LBT failure occurs in a sensing beam / beam set, a random access procedure is triggered, as well as a report of an LBT failure MAC CE, which also indicates whether it is a PUCCH LBT failure or a PUSCH LBT failure. BWP continuous LBT failure is triggered after all PUCCH sensing beams / beam sets have continuous LBT failures; and / or, BWP continuous LBT failure is also triggered after all PUSCH sensing beams have continuous LBT failures.

[0136] Step 403: Update a timer corresponding to at least one sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier according to the channel monitoring result.

[0137] That is, according to the channel monitoring result, a timer corresponding to at least one sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier is updated, wherein different sensing beam identifiers or beam set identifiers correspond to different timers.

[0138] In some embodiments, the timer corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result is updated. That is, the channel monitoring result corresponds to the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier, and there is also a corresponding relationship between the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier and the timer. According to the corresponding relationship between the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier and the timer, the timing process of the corresponding timer is updated.

[0139] Optionally, the UE includes a list of timers corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier, such as:

[0140] sensing beam1 / beam set1 corresponds to lbt-FailureDetectionTimer_a

[0141] sensing beam2 / beam set2 corresponds to lbt-FailureDetectionTimer_b

[0142] sensing beam3 / beam set3 corresponds to lbt-FailureDetectionTimer_c

[0143] Then, according to the channel monitoring result and the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result, the timer corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier is updated.

[0144] In some embodiments, when the channel monitoring result indicates that the channel monitoring has failed, the timer corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier is restarted, that is, the timer starts again from 0 or from a specified starting time point.

[0145] Optionally, when the timer corresponding to the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier reaches the timing threshold, the counter corresponding to the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier is set to zero, indicating that the channel monitoring result corresponding to the current LBT channel monitoring does not fail within the timing threshold, that is, the channel quality monitored by LBT is better.

[0146] Optionally, the MAC layer receives an LBT failure instance indicated by the physical layer, and simultaneously receives a sensing beam / beam set identifier corresponding to the LBT failure instance;

[0147] Alternatively, the physical layer does not inform the sensing beam / beam set at the time of LBT failure, but informs the MAC layer when determining or updating the currently used sensing beam / beam set.

[0148] Optionally, determining whether the sensing beam or beam set changes may be performed by at least one of the following situations:

[0149] First, when the transmission beam of the listen-before-speak LBT is switched from the first beam to the second beam, and the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the first beam is different from the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the second beam, it is determined that the perception beam or beam set has changed.

[0150] That is, the UE's transmit beam is switched from beam 1 to beam 2, and the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to beam 2 is different from the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to beam 1.

[0151] Second, when the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the transmit beam of the listen-before-speak LBT is switched from the first perception beam or beam set to the second perception beam or beam set, it is determined that the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier changes.

[0152] That is, the UE's transmit beam remains unchanged, but the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to the transmit beam is switched to a new sensing beam or beam set.

[0153] To summarize, the embodiments of the present application synchronously determine the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to the LBT channel monitoring result during the LBT channel monitoring result, thereby determining whether the beam corresponding to the channel monitoring result has changed, avoiding the problem of low LBT accuracy caused by different beam corresponding counts or timings on the same counter / timer, and solving the counting / timing of directional LBT.

[0154] Figure 5 is a structural block diagram of a communication device provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application, such as Figure 5 As shown, the device comprises:

[0155] The processing module 510 is configured to determine a channel monitoring result of the listen-before-talk (LBT) method; and update an LBT counter or timer according to the channel monitoring result and a corresponding sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier.

[0156] In an optional embodiment, the processing module 510 is further configured to reset the LBT counter to zero in response to a change in a sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result;

[0157] or,

[0158] The processing module 510 is further configured to stop the timer in response to a change in a sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result.

[0159] In an optional embodiment, each LBT channel monitoring result includes a corresponding sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier;

[0160] or,

[0161] The channel monitoring result in response to the LBT is used to indicate a channel monitoring failure, and the channel monitoring result of the LBT corresponds to a sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier.

[0162] In an optional embodiment, the processing module 510 is further configured to determine that the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier has changed when the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier targeted by the channel monitoring of the LBT is different from the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result.

[0163] In an optional embodiment, the processing module 510 is further configured to determine that the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier changes when the transmit beam of the LBT is switched from the first beam to the second beam, and the perception beam or the beam set corresponding to the first beam is different from the perception beam or the beam set corresponding to the second beam;

[0164] or,

[0165] The processing module 510 is further configured to determine that the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier changes when the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the transmit beam of the listen-before-speak LBT switches from a first perception beam or beam set to a second perception beam or beam set.

[0166] In an optional embodiment, the processing module 510 is further configured to update the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result to the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier targeted by the current listen-before-talk LBT channel monitoring.

[0167] In an optional embodiment, the LBT counter includes a first LBT counter corresponding to a physical uplink control channel PUCCH, and a second LBT counter corresponding to a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH;

[0168] The first counter and the second counter respectively count the PUCCH and the PUSCH.

[0169] In an optional embodiment, the timer includes a first timer corresponding to the PUCCH and a second timer corresponding to the PUSCH;

[0170] The first timer and the second timer respectively time the PUCCH and the PUSCH.

[0171] In an optional embodiment, the processing module 510 is further configured to update an LBT counter or timer corresponding to at least one sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier according to the channel monitoring result.

[0172] In an optional embodiment, the processing module 510 is further configured to add 1 to the LBT counter corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier when the channel monitoring result is used to indicate a channel monitoring failure.

[0173] In an optional embodiment, the processing module 510 is further configured to determine a continuous LBT failure of the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier when the LBT counter count corresponding to the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier reaches a counting threshold.

[0174] In an optional embodiment, the processing module 510 is further configured to trigger a random access procedure when it is determined that the continuous LBT of the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier fails.

[0175] In an optional embodiment, the processing module 510 is further configured to generate indication information for indicating a continuous LBT failure;

[0176] The device also includes:

[0177] The sending module 520 is used to report the indication information through uplink resources, where the indication information includes the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier.

[0178] In an optional embodiment, the indication information also includes a monitoring channel corresponding to the continuous LBT failure, and the monitoring channel includes PUCCH or PUSCH.

[0179] In an optional embodiment, the processing module 510 is further configured to trigger a continuous LBT failure of the current BWP if both the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier on the current bandwidth part BWP trigger a continuous LBT failure.

[0180] In an optional embodiment, the processing module 510 is further configured to restart the timer corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier when the channel monitoring result indicates that the channel monitoring fails.

[0181] In an optional embodiment, the processing module 510 is further configured to reset the counter corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier to zero when the timer corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier reaches a timing threshold.

[0182] To summarize, the embodiments of the present application synchronously determine the sensing beam or beam set corresponding to the LBT channel monitoring result during the LBT channel monitoring result, thereby determining whether the beam corresponding to the channel monitoring result has changed, avoiding the problem of low LBT accuracy caused by different beam corresponding counts or timings on the same counter / timer, and solving the counting / timing of directional LBT.

[0183] It should be noted that: the communication device provided in the above embodiment is only illustrated by the division of the above functional modules. In actual applications, the above functions can be assigned to different functional modules as needed, that is, the internal structure of the device is divided into different functional modules to complete all or part of the functions described above. In addition, the communication device provided in the above embodiment and the communication method embodiment belong to the same concept, and the specific implementation process is detailed in the method embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

[0184] Figure 6 A schematic diagram of the structure of a terminal provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is shown. The terminal includes: a processor 601 , a receiver 602 , a transmitter 603 , a memory 604 and a bus 605 .

[0185] The processor 601 includes one or more processing cores. The processor 601 executes various functional applications and information processing by running software programs and modules.

[0186] The receiver 602 and the transmitter 603 may be implemented as a communication component, which may be a communication chip.

[0187] The memory 604 is connected to the processor 601 via a bus 605 .

[0188] The memory 604 may be used to store at least one instruction, and the processor 601 may be used to execute the at least one instruction to implement each step in the above method embodiment.

[0189] In addition, the memory 604 can be implemented by any type of volatile or non-volatile storage device or a combination thereof, and the volatile or non-volatile storage device includes but is not limited to: a magnetic disk or an optical disk, an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), a static random access memory (SRAM), a read-only memory (ROM), a magnetic memory, a flash memory, and a programmable read-only memory (PROM).

[0190] In an exemplary embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions is also provided, such as a memory including instructions, and the instructions can be executed by a processor of a terminal to complete the method performed by the terminal side in the above communication method. For example, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium can be a ROM, a random access memory (RAM), a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, etc.

[0191] A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, when instructions in the non-transitory computer storage medium are executed by a processor of a terminal, enables the terminal to execute the above communication method.

[0192] Figure 7 FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an access network device 1100 according to an exemplary embodiment. The access network device 1100 may be a base station.

[0193] The access network device 1100 may include: a processor 1101, a receiver 1102, a transmitter 1103 and a memory 1104. The receiver 1102, the transmitter 1103 and the memory 1104 are respectively connected to the processor 1101 via a bus.

[0194] The processor 1101 includes one or more processing cores, and the processor 1101 executes the method performed by the access network device in the communication method provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure by running software programs and modules. The memory 1104 can be used to store software programs and modules. Specifically, the memory 1104 can store an operating system 1141 and an application module 1142 required for at least one function. The receiver 1102 is used to receive communication data sent by other devices, and the transmitter 1103 is used to send communication data to other devices.

[0195] An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a communication system, the system comprising: a terminal and an access network device;

[0196] The terminal includes Figure 5 The communication device provided in the embodiment shown; or, the terminal includes Figure 6 The terminal provided by the illustrated embodiment;

[0197] The access network equipment includes: Figure 7 The illustrated embodiment provides an access network device.

[0198] An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a communication system, the communication system comprising: a terminal and an access network device;

[0199] The terminal includes Figure 6 The terminal provided by the illustrated embodiment;

[0200] The access network equipment includes: Figure 7 The illustrated embodiment provides an access network device.

[0201] An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure also provides a computer-readable storage medium, in which at least one instruction, at least one program, a code set or an instruction set is stored. The at least one instruction, the at least one program, the code set or the instruction set is loaded and executed by the processor to implement the steps performed by the terminal or the access network device in the communication method provided by the above-mentioned various method embodiments.

[0202] It should be understood that the "plurality" mentioned in this article refers to two or more. "And / or" describes the association relationship of the associated objects, indicating that there can be three relationships. For example, A and / or B can mean: A exists alone, A and B exist at the same time, and B exists alone. The character " / " generally indicates that the associated objects are in an "or" relationship.

[0203] Those skilled in the art will readily appreciate other embodiments of the present disclosure after considering the specification and practicing the invention disclosed herein. The present disclosure is intended to cover any variations, uses or adaptations of the present disclosure that follow the general principles of the present disclosure and include common knowledge or customary techniques in the art that are not disclosed in the present disclosure. The description and examples are to be considered exemplary only, and the true scope and spirit of the present disclosure are indicated by the following claims.

[0204] It should be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the exact structures that have been described above and shown in the drawings, and that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the present disclosure is limited only by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A communication method, characterized in that: Applied in a terminal, the method includes: Determine a listen-before-talk (LBT) channel monitoring result, wherein the LBT channel monitoring result includes a corresponding sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier; In response to a change in a sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result, resetting the LBT counter to zero or stopping the timer; Among them, the change in the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result includes: the transmitting beam of the terminal is switched from the first beam to the second beam, and the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the first beam is different from the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the second beam; or, the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the transmitting beam of the terminal is switched from the first perception beam or beam set to the second perception beam or beam set.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that In response to the channel monitoring result of the LBT indicating that the channel monitoring fails, the channel monitoring result of the LBT corresponds to a sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier.

3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that: The method further comprises: The perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result is updated to the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier targeted by the current LBT channel monitoring.

4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that The LBT counter includes a first LBT counter corresponding to a physical uplink control channel PUCCH, and a second LBT counter corresponding to a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH; The first counter and the second counter respectively count the PUCCH and the PUSCH.

5. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that The timer includes a first timer corresponding to the PUCCH and a second timer corresponding to the PUSCH; The first timer and the second timer respectively time the PUCCH and the PUSCH.

6. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that The updating of the LBT counter or timer according to the channel monitoring result and the corresponding sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier includes: According to the channel monitoring result, an LBT counter or timer corresponding to at least one sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier is updated.

7. The method according to claim 6, characterized in that The updating, according to the channel monitoring result, of an LBT counter or a timer corresponding to at least one sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier includes: When the channel monitoring result is used to indicate that the channel monitoring fails, the LBT counter corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier is counted and added by 1.

8. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that The method further comprises: When the LBT counter count corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier reaches a count threshold, it is determined that the continuous LBT of the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier has failed.

9. The method according to claim 8, characterized in that The method further comprises: When it is determined that the continuous LBT of the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier fails, a random access process is triggered.

10. The method according to claim 9, characterized in that The method further comprises: generating an indication message for indicating a persistent LBT failure; The indication information is reported through uplink resources, and the indication information includes the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier.

11. The method according to claim 10, characterized in that The indication information also includes a monitoring channel corresponding to a persistent LBT failure, and the monitoring channel includes a PUCCH or a PUSCH.

12. The method according to claim 8, characterized in that The method further comprises: If both the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier on the current bandwidth part BWP triggers a continuous LBT failure, a continuous LBT failure of the current BWP is triggered.

13. The method according to claim 6, characterized in that The updating, according to the channel monitoring result, of an LBT counter or a timer corresponding to at least one sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier includes: When the channel monitoring result indicates that the channel monitoring fails, the timer corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier is restarted.

14. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that: The method further comprises: When the timer corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier reaches a timing threshold, the counter corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier is reset to zero.

15. A communication device, characterized in that: The device comprises: A processing module is configured to determine a channel monitoring result of a listen-before-talk (LBT) method, wherein the channel monitoring result of the LBT includes a corresponding sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier; in response to a change in the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result, reset the LBT counter to zero or stop the timer; Among them, the change in the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result includes: the terminal's transmitting beam is switched from a first beam to a second beam, and the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the first beam is different from the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the second beam; or, the perception beam or beam set corresponding to the terminal's transmitting beam is switched from the first perception beam or beam set to the second perception beam or beam set.

16. The device according to claim 15, characterized in that The channel monitoring result of the LBT includes a corresponding sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier; or, In response to the channel monitoring result of the LBT indicating that the channel monitoring fails, the channel monitoring result of the LBT corresponds to a sensing beam identifier or a beam set identifier.

17. The device according to claim 15, characterized in that The processing module is also configured to update the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier corresponding to the channel monitoring result to the perception beam identifier or beam set identifier targeted by the current LBT channel monitoring.

18. The device according to claim 15, characterized in that The LBT counter includes a first LBT counter corresponding to a physical uplink control channel PUCCH, and a second LBT counter corresponding to a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH; The first counter and the second counter respectively count the PUCCH and the PUSCH.

19. The device according to claim 15, characterized in that The timer includes a first timer corresponding to the PUCCH and a second timer corresponding to the PUSCH; The first timer and the second timer respectively time the PUCCH and the PUSCH.

20. The device according to claim 15, characterized in that The processing module is also configured to update an LBT counter or timer corresponding to at least one sensing beam identifier or beam set identifier according to the channel monitoring result.

21. The device according to claim 20, characterized in that The processing module is further configured to, when the channel monitoring result is used to indicate a channel monitoring failure, count up an LBT counter corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier by adding 1.

22. The device according to claim 21, characterized in that The processing module is further configured to determine that the continuous LBT failure of the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier occurs when the LBT counter count corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier reaches a count threshold.

23. The device according to claim 22, characterized in that The processing module is also configured to trigger a random access procedure when determining that the continuous LBT of the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier fails.

24. The device according to claim 23, characterized in that The processing module is further configured to generate indication information for indicating a continuous LBT failure; The device also includes: A sending module is used to report the indication information through uplink resources, wherein the indication information includes the perception beam identifier or the beam set identifier.

25. The device according to claim 24, characterized in that The indication information also includes a monitoring channel corresponding to a persistent LBT failure, and the monitoring channel includes a PUCCH or a PUSCH.

26. The device according to claim 22, characterized in that The processing module is further configured to trigger a continuous LBT failure of the current BWP if both the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier on the current bandwidth part BWP trigger a continuous LBT failure.

27. The device according to claim 20, characterized in that The processing module is further configured to restart the timer corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier when the channel monitoring result is used to indicate that the channel monitoring fails.

28. The device according to any one of claims 15 to 20, characterized in that The processing module is further configured to reset the counter corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier to zero when the timer corresponding to the sensing beam identifier or the beam set identifier reaches a timing threshold.

29. A terminal, characterized in that: The terminal comprises: processor; a transceiver connected to the processor; The processor is configured to load and execute executable instructions to implement the communication method according to any one of claims 1 to 14.

30. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that: The computer-readable storage medium stores at least one instruction, at least one program, a code set or an instruction set, and the at least one instruction, the at least one program, the code set or the instruction set is loaded and executed by the processor to implement the communication method as described in any one of claims 1 to 14.

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