Signal determination method and apparatus, communication device, and storage medium

Abstract

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a signal determination method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium. A user equipment (UE) determines, according to a communication protocol specification or configuration information of a network device, whether a wake-up signal associated with discontinuous transmission of a cell is valid or invalid.

Description

Signal determination method, device, communication equipment and storage medium Technical Field

[0001] The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communication technology but is not limited to the field of wireless communication technology, and in particular to a signal determination method, apparatus, communication device, and storage medium. Background Art

[0002] The main application scenarios for fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication technology include enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC), and massive machine-type communications (mMTC). eMBB aims to enable users to access multimedia content, services, and data, and demand for it is growing rapidly. Typical applications of URLLC include industrial automation, power automation, remote medical operations (surgery), and traffic safety. Typical characteristics of mMTC include high connection density, small data volumes, latency-insensitive services, low module costs, and long lifespans.

[0003] Summary of the Invention

[0004] Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a signal determination method, apparatus, communication device, and storage medium.

[0005] According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, a signal determination method is provided. 1. A signal determination method, executed by a user equipment (UE), includes:

[0006] According to the communication protocol provisions or the configuration information of the network device, it is determined whether the wake-up signal associated with the discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid.

[0007] In one embodiment, determining whether the wake-up signal associated with discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid includes:

[0008] Determine whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission.

[0009] In one embodiment, the determining whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission includes at least one of the following:

[0010] determining, when the cell is configured with discontinuous transmission of the cell, whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell;

[0011] It is determined that when the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission and the configuration of the cell discontinuous transmission is in an activated state, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission.

[0012] In one embodiment, determining whether the wake-up signal associated with discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid includes:

[0013] It is determined whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain.

[0014] In one embodiment, the determining whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the listening period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell have an overlapping period in the time domain includes at least one of the following:

[0015] determining whether the wake-up signal in the monitoring period is valid or invalid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain;

[0016] It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid.

[0017] In one embodiment, when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, determining whether the wake-up signal in the monitoring period is valid or invalid includes at least one of the following:

[0018] determining, when the listening period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, whether the wake-up signal sent during a period in the listening period of the wake-up signal during which the listening period and the inactive period do not overlap in the time domain is valid or invalid;

[0019] It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during the overlapping period.

[0020] In one embodiment, the duration of the overlapping period is shorter than the duration of the monitoring period;

[0021] or,

[0022] The duration of the overlapping period is equal to the duration of the monitoring period.

[0023] In one embodiment, the method further comprises at least one of the following:

[0024] Determining that the wake-up signal is valid, and monitoring the wake-up signal within a period in which the wake-up signal is valid;

[0025] Determine that the wake-up signal is invalid, and do not monitor the wake-up signal during a period in which the wake-up signal is invalid.

[0026] In one embodiment, the method further comprises at least one of the following:

[0027] Determining that the wake-up signal is invalid, and monitoring a physical downlink channel PDCCH during a continuous period of discontinuous reception of the UE after the monitoring period of the wake-up signal;

[0028] Determine that the wake-up signal is invalid, and monitor a paging message at a paging occasion after a monitoring period of the wake-up signal.

[0029] In one embodiment, the wake-up signal includes at least one of the following:

[0030] A first wake-up signal, used to indicate whether the UE is awakened within a predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration;

[0031] The second wake-up signal is used to indicate whether the UE wakes up within a predetermined paging occasion.

[0032] According to a second aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, a signal determination method is provided, which is executed by a network device and includes:

[0033] Configuration information is sent, where the configuration information is used to indicate whether a wake-up signal associated with discontinuous transmission of a cell is valid or invalid.

[0034] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate:

[0035] When the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid.

[0036] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0037] When the cell is configured with discontinuous transmission of the cell, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell;

[0038] When the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission and the configuration of the cell discontinuous transmission is in an activated state, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission.

[0039] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate:

[0040] When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid.

[0041] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0042] When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the monitoring period is valid or invalid;

[0043] When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid.

[0044] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0045] determining, when the listening period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, whether the wake-up signal sent during a period in the listening period of the wake-up signal during which the listening period and the inactive period do not overlap in the time domain is valid or invalid;

[0046] It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during the overlapping period.

[0047] In one embodiment, the duration of the overlapping period is shorter than the duration of the monitoring period;

[0048] or,

[0049] The duration of the overlapping period is equal to the duration of the monitoring period.

[0050] In one embodiment, the wake-up signal includes at least one of the following:

[0051] A first wake-up signal is used to indicate whether the user equipment UE wakes up within a predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration period;

[0052] The second wake-up signal is used to indicate whether the UE wakes up within a predetermined paging occasion.

[0053] According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, a signal determination apparatus is provided, which is configured in a user equipment (UE) and includes:

[0054] The processing module is configured to determine whether the wake-up signal associated with the discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid according to the communication protocol provisions or the configuration information of the network device.

[0055] In one embodiment, the processing module is specifically configured as follows:

[0056] Determine whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission.

[0057] In one embodiment, the processing module is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0058] determining, when the cell is configured with discontinuous transmission of the cell, whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell;

[0059] It is determined that when the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission and the configuration of the cell discontinuous transmission is in an activated state, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission.

[0060] In one embodiment, the processing module is specifically configured as follows:

[0061] It is determined whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain.

[0062] In one embodiment, the processing module is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0063] determining whether the wake-up signal in the monitoring period is valid or invalid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain;

[0064] It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid.

[0065] In one embodiment, the processing module is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0066] determining, when the listening period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, whether the wake-up signal sent during a period in the listening period of the wake-up signal during which the listening period and the inactive period do not overlap in the time domain is valid or invalid;

[0067] It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during the overlapping period.

[0068] In one embodiment, the duration of the overlapping period is shorter than the duration of the monitoring period;

[0069] or,

[0070] The duration of the overlapping period is equal to the duration of the monitoring period.

[0071] In one embodiment, the processing module is further configured to do at least one of the following:

[0072] Determining that the wake-up signal is valid, and monitoring the wake-up signal within a period in which the wake-up signal is valid;

[0073] Determine that the wake-up signal is invalid, and do not monitor the wake-up signal during a period in which the wake-up signal is invalid.

[0074] In one embodiment, the processing module is further configured to do at least one of the following:

[0075] Determining that the wake-up signal is invalid, and monitoring a physical downlink channel PDCCH during a continuous period of discontinuous reception of the UE after the monitoring period of the wake-up signal;

[0076] Determine that the wake-up signal is invalid, and monitor a paging message at a paging occasion after a monitoring period of the wake-up signal.

[0077] In one embodiment, the wake-up signal includes at least one of the following:

[0078] A first wake-up signal, used to indicate whether the UE is awakened within a predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration;

[0079] The second wake-up signal is used to indicate whether the UE wakes up within a predetermined paging occasion.

[0080] According to a fourth aspect of the present disclosure, a signal determination apparatus is provided, which is provided in a network device and includes:

[0081] The transceiver module is configured to send configuration information, where the configuration information is used to indicate whether the wake-up signal associated with the discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid.

[0082] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate:

[0083] When the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid.

[0084] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0085] When the cell is configured with discontinuous transmission of the cell, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell;

[0086] When the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission and the configuration of the cell discontinuous transmission is in an activated state, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission.

[0087] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate:

[0088] When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid.

[0089] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0090] When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the monitoring period is valid or invalid;

[0091] When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid.

[0092] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0093] determining, when the listening period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, whether the wake-up signal sent during a period in the listening period of the wake-up signal during which the listening period and the inactive period do not overlap in the time domain is valid or invalid;

[0094] It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during the overlapping period.

[0095] In one embodiment, the duration of the overlapping period is shorter than the duration of the monitoring period;

[0096] or,

[0097] The duration of the overlapping period is equal to the duration of the monitoring period.

[0098] In one embodiment, the wake-up signal includes at least one of the following:

[0099] A first wake-up signal is used to indicate whether the user equipment UE wakes up within a predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration period;

[0100] The second wake-up signal is used to indicate whether the UE wakes up within a predetermined paging occasion.

[0101] According to a fifth aspect of the present disclosure, a communication system is provided, including a network device and a user equipment (UE), wherein:

[0102] The UE executes the signal determination method provided in the first aspect;

[0103] The network device executes the signal determination method provided in the second aspect.

[0104] In a sixth aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, a communication device is provided, comprising a processor, a transceiver, a memory, and an executable program stored in the memory and capable of being run by the processor, wherein the processor executes the signal determination method provided in the first aspect or the second aspect when running the executable program.

[0105] In a seventh aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, a computer storage medium is provided, wherein the computer storage medium stores an executable program; after the executable program is executed by a processor, the signal determination method provided in the first aspect or the second aspect can be implemented.

[0106] The signal determination method, apparatus, communication device, and storage medium provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure. The UE determines whether a wake-up signal associated with discontinuous transmission of a cell is valid or invalid based on the provisions of the communication protocol or the configuration information of the network device. In this way, the UE can determine whether a wake-up signal associated with discontinuous transmission of a cell is valid or invalid based on the provisions of the communication protocol or the indication of the configuration information. This can reduce the situation where the UE does not monitor the wake-up signal and / or monitors the wake-up signal ineffectively due to uncertainty as to whether the wake-up signal is valid.

[0107] The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure should be understood that the above general description and the following detailed description are merely exemplary and explanatory and cannot limit the embodiments of the present disclosure. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0108] The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the present invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the embodiments of the present invention.

[0109] FIG1 is a schematic structural diagram of a wireless communication system according to an exemplary embodiment;

[0110] FIG2 is a schematic diagram showing a timing sequence of a wake-up signal according to an exemplary embodiment;

[0111] FIG3 is a schematic diagram showing a timing sequence of a wake-up signal according to an exemplary embodiment;

[0112] FIG4 is a schematic diagram showing a flow chart of a signal determination process according to an exemplary embodiment;

[0113] FIG5 is a schematic diagram showing a flow chart of a signal determination process according to an exemplary embodiment;

[0114] FIG6 is a schematic diagram showing a flow chart of a signal determination process according to an exemplary embodiment;

[0115] FIG7 is a schematic diagram showing a flow chart of a signal determination process according to an exemplary embodiment;

[0116] FIG8 is a schematic structural diagram of a signal determination device according to an exemplary embodiment;

[0117] FIG9 is a schematic structural diagram of a signal determination device according to an exemplary embodiment;

[0118] FIG10 is a schematic structural diagram of a UE according to an exemplary embodiment;

[0119] Fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram showing a communication device according to an exemplary embodiment. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0120] Exemplary embodiments are described in detail herein, with examples illustrated in the accompanying drawings. In the following description, when referring to the drawings, identical numerals in different figures represent identical or similar elements, unless otherwise indicated. The embodiments described in the following exemplary embodiments are not intended to represent all possible implementations consistent with the present invention. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatuses and methods consistent with certain aspects of the present invention.

[0121] The terms used in the embodiments of the present disclosure are for the purpose of describing specific embodiments only and are not intended to limit the embodiments of the present disclosure. The singular forms "a," "the," and "the" used in the present disclosure are also intended to include the plural forms unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It should also be understood that the term "and / or" used herein refers to and includes any or all possible combinations of one or more associated listed items.

[0122] It should be understood that although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used to describe various information in the embodiments of the present disclosure, such information should not be limited to these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish information of the same type from each other. For example, without departing from the scope of the embodiments of the present disclosure, the first information may also be referred to as the second information, and similarly, the second information may also be referred to as the first information. Depending on the context, the word "if" as used herein may be interpreted as "at the time of" or "when" or "in response to determining".

[0123] Please refer to Figure 1, which shows a schematic diagram of the structure of a wireless communication system provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in Figure 1, the wireless communication system is a communication system based on cellular mobile communication technology, and the wireless communication system may include: a plurality of UEs 11 and a plurality of network devices 12.

[0124] The wireless communication system may be a fourth generation mobile communication technology (4G) system, also known as a long term evolution (LTE) system; or, the wireless communication system may be a 5G system, also known as a new radio (NR) system or a 5G NR system. Alternatively, the wireless communication system may be a next generation system of the 5G system. The access network in the 5G system may be referred to as an NG-RAN (New Generation-Radio Access Network). Alternatively, an MTC system.

[0125] UE 11 may refer to a device that provides voice and / or data connectivity to a user. UE 11 may communicate with one or more core networks via a Radio Access Network (RAN). UE 11 may be an IoT UE, such as a sensor device, a mobile phone (or "cellular" phone), and a computer with an IoT UE. For example, it may be a fixed, portable, pocket-sized, handheld, computer-built-in, or vehicle-mounted device. For example, a station (STA), a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, a mobile station, a mobile station, a remote station, an access point, a remote terminal, an access terminal, a user terminal, a user agent, a user device, or a user equipment (UE). Alternatively, UE 11 may be a device of an unmanned aerial vehicle. Alternatively, UE 11 may be a vehicle-mounted device, such as a driving computer with wireless communication capabilities, or a wireless communication device connected to an external driving computer. Alternatively, the UE 11 may also be a roadside device, for example, a street lamp, a traffic light, or other roadside device with a wireless communication function.

[0126] The network device 12 may include an access network device. Optionally, the network device 12 may also include a core network device. Among them, the access network device may be an evolved access device (eNB) adopted in a 4G system. Alternatively, it may be an access device (gNB) adopting a centralized distributed architecture in a 5G system. When the access network device adopts a centralized distributed architecture, it generally includes a centralized unit (CU) and at least two distributed units (DU). The centralized unit is provided with a protocol stack of a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer, a radio link layer control protocol (RLC) layer, and a media access control (MAC) layer; the distributed unit is provided with a physical (PHY) layer protocol stack. The embodiment of the present disclosure does not limit the specific implementation method of the access network device.

[0127] A wireless connection can be established between the network device 12 and the UE 11 via a wireless air interface. In different implementations, the wireless air interface is a wireless air interface based on the fourth generation mobile communication network technology (4G) standard; or, the wireless air interface is a wireless air interface based on the fifth generation mobile communication network technology (5G) standard, for example, the wireless air interface is a new air interface; or, the wireless air interface can also be a wireless air interface based on the next generation mobile communication network technology standard of 5G.

[0128] 5G technology was introduced in 3GPP standard Release 15 (R15). 5G base stations consume four times more energy than Long Term Evolution (LTE) base stations, making network energy conservation an important means for operators to reduce the cost of operating 5G systems.

[0129] In 3GPP standard release 16 (R16), as shown in Figure 2, a wake-up signal (WUS) is introduced to save energy for user equipment (UE) in the Radio Resource Control (RRC) connected state. An offset value (offset) before the UE's connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) duration defines a monitoring period (duration) for sending the WUS signal. During this WUS monitoring duration, the WUS signal, i.e., DCI 2-6, is sent and scrambled by the Power Saving Radio Network Temporary Identity (PS-RNTI) to indicate whether the UE should wake up and monitor the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) during the next UE C-DRX duration.

[0130] In 3GPP standard release 17 (R17), as shown in Figure 3, a paging wake-up signal (Paging WUS) was introduced to save energy for UEs in RRC idle / RRC inactive states. That is, the Paging WUS, also known as the Paging Early Indication (PEI), is sent at a certain moment before the Paging Occasion (PO) to indicate whether the UE is monitoring paging scheduling information at the PO. The PEI is DCI 2-7, scrambled by the Paging Early Indication Radio Network Temporary Identity (PEI-RNTI).

[0131] In 3GPP Release 18 (R18), the Network Energy Saving (NES) project was launched to reduce network energy consumption. The standard supports four NES functions:

[0132] SSB-less SCell

[0133] Cell discontinuous transmission / reception (cell DTX / DRX);

[0134] Antenna port adaptation;

[0135] Physical downlink shared channel transmission power adaptation (PDSCH transmission power adaptation).

[0136] For base stations, R18 UEs, and legacy UEs, RACH, paging, and SIB functions in idle / inactive states are not affected by the NES mode. UEs can obtain the Cell DTX / DRX configuration information configured by the network and operate based on the Cell DTX / DRX configuration. The Cell DTX / DRX configuration information may include the cycle, offset, and on-duration.

[0137] In one possible implementation, cell discontinuous transmission (Cell DTX) may include an active period and a non-active period. During the active period, the base station performs normal communication transmission within the cell; during the non-active period, the base station may be in a dormant state and does not transmit communication within the cell.

[0138] When the network enters energy-saving mode (NES mode), the cell periodically stops transmitting and / or receiving at regular intervals, i.e., cell DTX / DRX. However, the Master Information Block (MIB), System Information Block (SIB), paging, and Random Access Channel (RACH) can be sent and received.

[0139] During the cell DTX non-active period, the network speed may not send PDSCH, PUSCH scheduling, PDSCH, SPS, etc.

[0140] At that time, in the network energy saving mode, whether the UE needs to monitor the WUS is not defined. Here, the WUS may include: the UE DRX WUS associated with the connected UE and the paging WUS associated with the idle UE / inactive UE.

[0141] As shown in FIG4 , an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a signal determination method, which is executed by a UE and includes:

[0142] Step 401: Determine whether a wake-up signal associated with discontinuous transmission of a cell is valid or invalid according to a communication protocol provision or configuration information of a network device.

[0143] In a possible implementation, the network device may be an access network device or a core network device. Signal determination between the core network device and the UE may be implemented through the access network device.

[0144] In one possible implementation, the wake-up signal associated with the discontinuous transmission of the cell includes, but is not limited to, at least one of the following:

[0145] A wake-up signal sent by a network device in a cell with cell discontinuous transmission enabled;

[0146] A wake-up signal sent by a network device during the active period of discontinuous transmission of the cell;

[0147] A wake-up signal sent by a network device during the non-active period of discontinuous transmission in a cell.

[0148] In one embodiment, the wake-up signal includes at least one of the following:

[0149] A first wake-up signal, used to indicate whether the UE is awakened within a predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration;

[0150] The second wake-up signal is used to indicate whether the UE wakes up within a predetermined paging occasion.

[0151] In one possible implementation, the first wake-up signal may be monitored by a UE in an RRC connected state.

[0152] In a possible implementation, the second wake-up signal may be monitored by a UE in an RRC non-connected state, where the RRC non-connected state may include at least one of the following: an RRC idle state and an RRC inactive state.

[0153] Here, the first wake-up signal may be a UE connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) WUS (abbreviated as C-DRX WUS or DRX WUS or UE DRX WUS), which is used to indicate whether the UE wakes up and monitors the PDCCH within a predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration. Here, the predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration may be a UE discontinuous reception duration adjacent to the UE DRX WUS.

[0154] Here, the first wake-up signal may be a paging wake-up signal (Paging WUS), namely PEI, used to instruct the UE whether to wake up and monitor paging scheduling information within a predetermined paging occasion. Here, the predetermined paging occasion may be a paging occasion adjacent to the PEI.

[0155] In a possible implementation, the wake-up signal being invalid may include: the wake-up signal is not used to wake up the UE.

[0156] In one possible implementation, the UE DRX WUS is invalid, that is, the UE DRX WUS is not used to indicate whether the UE wakes up and monitors the PDCCH within a predetermined UE DRX duration. Therefore, the UE may no longer monitor the UE DRX WUS.

[0157] In one possible implementation, the PEI is invalid, that is, the PEI is not used to indicate whether the UE wakes up and monitors the paging scheduling information within a predetermined paging occasion. Therefore, the UE may no longer monitor the PEI.

[0158] In one possible implementation, the communication protocol may specify whether the wake-up signal associated with the cell discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid. For example, the communication protocol may specify that the wake-up signal sent by the network device during the active period of the cell discontinuous transmission is invalid.

[0159] In one possible implementation, the network device may send configuration information to the UE, indicating whether the wake-up signal associated with the cell discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid. For example, the configuration information may indicate that the wake-up signal sent by the network device during the active period of the cell discontinuous transmission is invalid.

[0160] The wake-up signal may have a listening period, which may be pre-configured by the network device or specified by the communication protocol. The network device may send the wake-up signal during the listening period.

[0161] In one possible implementation, the monitoring period may include a monitoring period for a UE DRX WUS. In one possible implementation, the monitoring period may include a time period between the monitoring start time of the PEI and the start time of a PO associated with the PEI. The PO associated with the PEI may include the first PO after the PEI, i.e., a PO adjacent to the PEI after the PEI.

[0162] If the wake-up signal is valid, the UE may monitor the wake-up information signal during the monitoring period of the wake-up signal.

[0163] In this way, the UE can determine whether the wake-up signal associated with the cell's discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid through the provisions of the communication protocol or the indication of the configuration information. This can reduce the situation where the UE does not monitor the wake-up signal and / or monitors the wake-up signal ineffectively due to uncertainty about whether the wake-up signal is valid.

[0164] In one embodiment, determining whether the wake-up signal associated with discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid includes:

[0165] Determine whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission.

[0166] The communication protocol may specify, or the configuration information sent by the network side may indicate, whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the cell is configured with cell discontinuous transmission.

[0167] In a possible implementation, no matter the wake-up signal is valid or invalid, the network device may still send the wake-up signal.

[0168] In one possible implementation, if the wake-up signal is invalid, the network device may not send the wake-up signal.

[0169] In one embodiment, the determining whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission includes at least one of the following:

[0170] determining, when the cell is configured with discontinuous transmission of the cell, whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell;

[0171] It is determined that when the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission and the configuration of the cell discontinuous transmission is in an activated state, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission.

[0172] In one possible implementation, cell discontinuous transmission may be activated upon configuration. That is, if a cell is configured with cell discontinuous transmission, the cell may communicate using cell discontinuous transmission. The communication protocol may specify, or the configuration information sent by the network may indicate, that when a cell is configured with cell discontinuous transmission, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during the inactive period of cell discontinuous transmission.

[0173] In one possible implementation, the cell-configured discontinuous transmission needs to be activated. That is, if a cell is configured with discontinuous transmission, the configuration needs to be activated (for example, via an activation instruction). After the configuration is activated, the cell can communicate using discontinuous transmission. The communication protocol may specify, or the configuration information sent by the network side may indicate, that when a cell is configured with discontinuous transmission and the configuration is activated, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during the inactive period of discontinuous transmission.

[0174] Exemplarily, if the wake-up signal (UE DRX WUS and / or PEI) is valid during the inactive period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, then:

[0175] 1: UE DRX WUS is not affected by the cell DTX operation, that is, during the cell DTX inactive period, UE DRX WUS is sent normally. The UE can monitor UE DRX WUS during the cell DTX inactive period.

[0176] 2: PEI is not affected by the cell's discontinuous transmission operation. That is, during the cell's discontinuous transmission inactive period, PEI is sent normally. The UE can monitor PEI during the cell's discontinuous transmission inactive period.

[0177] Exemplarily, the UE determines whether the PEI is affected by the cell discontinuous transmission operation based on the indication of the network device configuration information. If so, the UE does not monitor the PEI during the cell discontinuous transmission inactive period.

[0178] In one embodiment, determining whether the wake-up signal associated with discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid includes:

[0179] It is determined whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain.

[0180] Here, the wake-up signal includes UE DRX WUS and PEI.

[0181] In a possible implementation, as shown in FIG2 , the monitoring period may include a UE DRX WUS monitoring period (ie, a PS-RNTI monitoring period). The UE DRX WUS monitoring period may be configured by the network device for the UE.

[0182] In one possible implementation, as shown in Figure 3, the monitoring period may include: the time period between the monitoring start time of the PEI (i.e., the PEI-RNTI monitoring start time) and the start time of the PEI-associated PO. The PEI-associated PO may include: the first PO after the PEI, i.e., the PO after the PEI and adjacent to the PEI.

[0183] The UE may determine whether the wake-up signal is valid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain according to the provisions of the communication protocol or the instructions of the configuration information sent by the network device.

[0184] In one embodiment, the duration of the overlapping period is shorter than the duration of the monitoring period;

[0185] or,

[0186] The duration of the overlapping period is equal to the duration of the monitoring period.

[0187] Here, the duration of the overlapping period is less than the duration of the monitoring period, that is, part of the monitoring period for the wake-up signal overlaps with the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission. The duration of the overlapping period is equal to the duration of the monitoring period, that is, the entire monitoring period for the wake-up signal overlaps with the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission, that is, the monitoring period for the wake-up signal falls within the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission.

[0188] In one embodiment, the determining whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the listening period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell have an overlapping period in the time domain includes at least one of the following:

[0189] determining whether the wake-up signal in the monitoring period is valid or invalid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain;

[0190] It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid.

[0191] The UE may determine, according to the provisions of the communication protocol or the instructions of the configuration information sent by the network device, the period during which the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain.

[0192] For example, if the monitoring period of the UE DRX WUS falls within the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission, and / or a portion of the monitoring period of the UE DRX WUS falls within the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission, the UE considers that the UE DRX WUS transmission in the monitoring period of the UE DRX WUS is invalid, and the UE may not monitor the UE DRX WUS. The UE may monitor the PDCCH during the next UE DRX continuous period.

[0193] For example, if a portion of the UE DRX WUS monitoring period falls within the inactive period of discontinuous cell transmission, the UE considers the WUS transmission in the UE DRX WUS monitoring period to be valid and monitors the WUS (i.e., PS-RNTI-scrambled DCI 2-6) during the WUS monitoring period. The UE can decide whether to monitor the PDCCH in the next UE DRX continuous period based on the WUS indication.

[0194] For example, if the paging wake-up signal (paging WUS) (ie PEI) start time falls within the non-activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, or part of the time from the PEI start time to the PO reception falls within the non-activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, or the entire time from the PEI start time to the PO reception falls within the non-activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, the UE considers that the PEI transmission in the PEI is invalid. The UE may not monitor the PEI and monitor the PDCCH in the next PO.

[0195] For example, if part of the time from the start time of the paging wake-up signal (paging WUS) (i.e., PEI) to the reception of PO falls within the non-activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, the UE considers that the PEI is valid and starts to monitor the PEI (i.e., PEI-RNTI encrypted DCI 2-7) at the start time of the PEI, and determines whether to monitor the PDCCH in the next PO based on the WUS indication.

[0196] For example, based on the network side configuration indication, for scenarios such as a portion of the time from the start time of the paging wake-up signal (paging WUS) (i.e., PEI) to the reception of the PO falls within the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission, and / or the entire time from the start time of the PEI to the reception of the PO falls within the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission, whether the PEI is affected by the cell's discontinuous transmission operation. If so, the PEI is not monitored during the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission.

[0197] In the above example, the period from the PEI start time to the PO reception is the PEI monitoring period.

[0198] In one embodiment, when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, determining whether the wake-up signal in the monitoring period is valid or invalid includes at least one of the following:

[0199] determining, when the listening period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, whether the wake-up signal sent during a period in the listening period of the wake-up signal during which the listening period and the inactive period do not overlap in the time domain is valid or invalid;

[0200] It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during the overlapping period.

[0201] The communication protocol may stipulate, or the configuration information sent by the network device may indicate: whether the wake-up signal is valid during the overlapping period of the wake-up signal listening period and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission, and / or whether the wake-up signal is valid in the non-overlapping part of the wake-up signal listening period.

[0202] For example, if part of the time from the start time of the paging wake-up signal (paging WUS) (ie PEI) to the reception of PO falls within the non-activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, the UE considers the PEI to be valid and will monitor the PEI (ie PEI-RNTI scrambled DCI 2-7) after the start time of the PEI and during the activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, that is, the PEI is valid during the activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, and the UE can monitor the PEI in the intersection of the monitoring period of the PEI and the activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell. The UE can decide whether to monitor the PDCCH during the next PO based on the PEI indication.

[0203] As shown in FIG5 , an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a signal determination method, which is executed by a UE and includes at least one of the following:

[0204] Step 501a: Determine that the wake-up signal is invalid, and monitor the PDCCH during a continuous period of discontinuous reception of the UE after the monitoring period of the wake-up signal;

[0205] Step 501b: Determine that the wake-up signal is invalid, and monitor a paging message at a paging opportunity after the monitoring period of the wake-up signal.

[0206] The duration of UE discontinuous reception after the monitoring period of the wake-up signal may be a predetermined duration of UE discontinuous reception associated with the wake-up signal.

[0207] The paging opportunity after the monitoring period of the wake-up signal may be a predetermined paging opportunity associated with the wake-up signal. Monitoring the paging message may include: monitoring paging scheduling information of the paging message, and then receiving the paging message according to the paging scheduling information.

[0208] In one possible implementation, the wake-up signal may be a UE DRX WUS. If the UE DRX WUS is invalid, that is, the UE DRX WUS is not used to instruct the UE whether to wake up and monitor the PDCCH during the UE discontinuous reception period after the UE DRX WUS. Therefore, the UE cannot determine whether to monitor the PDCCH during the UE discontinuous reception period after the UE DRX WUS based on the UE DRX WUS. To reduce the possibility of the UE missing scheduling information sent by the network device, the UE may wake up and monitor the PDCCH during the UE discontinuous reception period after the UE DRX WUS. In this way, the possibility of missing scheduling information sent by the network device due to the invalid wake-up signal can be reduced.

[0209] In one possible implementation, the wake-up signal may be a PEI. If the PEI is invalid, that is, the PEI is not used to instruct the UE whether to wake up and listen for paging messages within the PO following the PEI. Therefore, the UE cannot determine whether to listen for paging messages within the PO following the PEI based on the PEI. To reduce the possibility of the UE missing paging messages sent by network devices, the UE may wake up and listen for paging messages within the PO following the PEI. This can reduce the possibility of missing paging messages sent by network devices due to an invalid wake-up signal.

[0210] As shown in FIG6 , an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a signal determination method, which is executed by a UE and includes at least one of the following:

[0211] Step 601a: Determine whether the wake-up signal is valid, and monitor the wake-up signal within a valid period of the wake-up signal;

[0212] Step 601b: Determine that the wake-up signal is invalid, and do not monitor the wake-up signal during a period when the wake-up signal is invalid.

[0213] The UE may determine the period during which the wake-up signal is valid and / or invalid based on the communication protocol or configuration information.

[0214] For example, the UE may determine, based on the communication protocol or configuration information, that the wake-up signal is valid during an inactive period of discontinuous transmission of the cell. The inactive period of discontinuous transmission of the cell may be a period during which the wake-up signal is valid. The UE may monitor the wake-up signal during the period during which the wake-up signal is valid, i.e., the inactive period of discontinuous transmission of the cell.

[0215] In a possible implementation, the UE may monitor the wake-up signal during a valid period of the wake-up signal, which may include: the UE may monitor the wake-up signal during an intersection of a valid period of the wake-up signal and a monitoring period of the wake-up signal.

[0216] For example, the UE may determine, based on the communication protocol or configuration information, that the wake-up signal is ineffective during an inactive period of discontinuous cell transmission. The inactive period of discontinuous cell transmission may be a period during which the wake-up signal is ineffective. The UE may not monitor the wake-up signal during the period during which the wake-up signal is ineffective, i.e., the inactive period during discontinuous cell transmission.

[0217] In a possible implementation, the network device may send the wake-up signal within a valid period of the wake-up signal.

[0218] In one possible implementation, the network device may not send the wake-up signal during a period when the wake-up signal is invalid.

[0219] As shown in FIG7 , an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a signal determination method, which is executed by a network device and includes:

[0220] Step 701: Send configuration information, where the configuration information is used to indicate whether a wake-up signal associated with discontinuous transmission of a cell is valid or invalid.

[0221] In a possible implementation, the network device may be an access network device or a core network device. Signal determination between the core network device and the UE may be implemented through the access network device.

[0222] In one possible implementation, the wake-up signal associated with the discontinuous transmission of the cell includes, but is not limited to, at least one of the following:

[0223] A wake-up signal sent by a network device in a cell with cell discontinuous transmission enabled;

[0224] A wake-up signal sent by a network device during the active period of discontinuous transmission of the cell;

[0225] A wake-up signal sent by a network device during the non-active period of discontinuous transmission in a cell.

[0226] In one embodiment, the wake-up signal includes at least one of the following:

[0227] A first wake-up signal, used to indicate whether the UE is awakened within a predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration;

[0228] The second wake-up signal is used to indicate whether the UE wakes up within a predetermined paging occasion.

[0229] In one possible implementation, the first wake-up signal may be monitored by a UE in an RRC connected state.

[0230] In a possible implementation, the second wake-up signal may be monitored by a UE in an RRC non-connected state, where the RRC non-connected state may include at least one of the following: an RRC idle state and an RRC inactive state.

[0231] Here, the first wake-up signal may be a UE connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) WUS (abbreviated as C-DRX WUS or DRX WUS or UE DRX WUS), which is used to indicate whether the UE wakes up and monitors the PDCCH within a predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration. Here, the predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration may be a UE discontinuous reception duration adjacent to the UE DRX WUS.

[0232] Here, the first wake-up signal may be a paging wake-up signal (Paging WUS), namely PEI, used to instruct the UE whether to wake up and monitor paging scheduling information within a predetermined paging occasion. Here, the predetermined paging occasion may be a paging occasion adjacent to the PEI.

[0233] In a possible implementation, the wake-up signal being invalid may include: the wake-up signal is not used to wake up the UE.

[0234] In one possible implementation, the UE DRX WUS is invalid, that is, the UE DRX WUS is not used to indicate whether the UE wakes up and monitors the PDCCH within a predetermined UE DRX duration. Therefore, the UE may no longer monitor the UE DRX WUS.

[0235] In one possible implementation, the PEI is invalid, that is, the PEI is not used to indicate whether the UE wakes up and monitors the paging scheduling information within a predetermined paging occasion. Therefore, the UE may no longer monitor the PEI.

[0236] In one possible implementation, the network device may send configuration information to the UE, indicating whether the wake-up signal associated with the cell discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid. For example, the configuration information may indicate that the wake-up signal sent by the network device during the active period of the cell discontinuous transmission is invalid.

[0237] The wake-up signal may have a listening period, which may be pre-configured by the network device or specified by the communication protocol. The network device may send the wake-up signal during the listening period.

[0238] In one possible implementation, the monitoring period may include a monitoring period for a UE DRX WUS. In one possible implementation, the monitoring period may include a time period between the monitoring start time of the PEI and the start time of a PO associated with the PEI. The PO associated with the PEI may include the first PO after the PEI, i.e., a PO adjacent to the PEI after the PEI.

[0239] If the wake-up signal is valid, the UE may monitor the wake-up information signal during the monitoring period of the wake-up signal.

[0240] In this way, the UE can determine whether the wake-up signal associated with the cell discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid through the indication of the configuration information, which can reduce the situation where the UE does not monitor the wake-up signal and / or monitors the wake-up signal ineffectively due to uncertainty about whether the wake-up signal is valid.

[0241] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate:

[0242] When the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid.

[0243] The configuration information sent by the network side may indicate whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the cell is configured with cell discontinuous transmission.

[0244] In a possible implementation, no matter the wake-up signal is valid or invalid, the network device may still send the wake-up signal.

[0245] In one possible implementation, if the wake-up signal is invalid, the network device may not send the wake-up signal.

[0246] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0247] When the cell is configured with discontinuous transmission of the cell, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell;

[0248] When the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission and the configuration of the cell discontinuous transmission is in an activated state, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission.

[0249] In one possible implementation, cell discontinuous transmission may be activated upon configuration. That is, if a cell is configured with cell discontinuous transmission, the cell may communicate using cell discontinuous transmission. The configuration information sent by the network side may indicate whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during the inactive period of cell discontinuous transmission when the cell is configured with cell discontinuous transmission.

[0250] In one possible implementation, the cell-configured discontinuous transmission needs to be activated. That is, if the cell is configured with discontinuous transmission, the configuration needs to be activated (for example, by an activation instruction). After the configuration is activated, the cell can communicate using discontinuous transmission. The configuration information sent by the network side may indicate that when the cell is configured with discontinuous transmission and the configuration is activated, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during the inactive period of discontinuous transmission.

[0251] Exemplarily, if the wake-up signal (UE DRX WUS and / or PEI) is valid during the inactive period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, then:

[0252] 1: UE DRX WUS is not affected by the cell DTX operation, that is, during the cell DTX inactive period, UE DRX WUS is sent normally. The UE can monitor UE DRX WUS during the cell DTX inactive period.

[0253] 2: PEI is not affected by the cell's discontinuous transmission operation. That is, during the cell's discontinuous transmission inactive period, PEI is sent normally. The UE can monitor PEI during the cell's discontinuous transmission inactive period.

[0254] Exemplarily, the UE determines whether the PEI is affected by the cell discontinuous transmission operation based on the indication of the network device configuration information. If so, the UE does not monitor the PEI during the cell discontinuous transmission inactive period.

[0255] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate:

[0256] When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid.

[0257] Here, the wake-up signal includes UE DRX WUS and PEI.

[0258] In a possible implementation, as shown in FIG2 , the monitoring period may include a UE DRX WUS monitoring period (ie, a PS-RNTI monitoring period). The UE DRX WUS monitoring period may be configured by the network device for the UE.

[0259] In one possible implementation, as shown in Figure 3, the monitoring period may include: the time period between the monitoring start time of the PEI (i.e., the PEI-RNTI monitoring start time) and the start time of the PEI-associated PO. The PEI-associated PO may include: the first PO after the PEI, i.e., the PO after the PEI and adjacent to the PEI.

[0260] The UE may determine, based on an instruction of the configuration information sent by the network device, whether the wake-up signal is valid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain.

[0261] In one embodiment, the duration of the overlapping period is shorter than the duration of the monitoring period;

[0262] or,

[0263] The duration of the overlapping period is equal to the duration of the monitoring period.

[0264] Here, the duration of the overlapping period is less than the duration of the monitoring period, that is, part of the monitoring period for the wake-up signal overlaps with the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission. The duration of the overlapping period is equal to the duration of the monitoring period, that is, the entire monitoring period for the wake-up signal overlaps with the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission, that is, the monitoring period for the wake-up signal falls within the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission.

[0265] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0266] When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the monitoring period is valid or invalid;

[0267] When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid.

[0268] The UE may determine, based on the instructions of the configuration information sent by the network device, when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the period during which the wake-up signal is valid or invalid.

[0269] For example, if the monitoring period of the UE DRX WUS falls within the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission, and / or a portion of the monitoring period of the UE DRX WUS falls within the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission, the UE considers that the UE DRX WUS transmission in the monitoring period of the UE DRX WUS is invalid, and the UE may not monitor the UE DRX WUS. The UE may monitor the PDCCH during the next UE DRX continuous period.

[0270] For example, if a portion of the UE DRX WUS monitoring period falls within the inactive period of discontinuous cell transmission, the UE considers the WUS transmission in the UE DRX WUS monitoring period to be valid and monitors the WUS (i.e., PS-RNTI-scrambled DCI 2-6) during the WUS monitoring period. The UE can decide whether to monitor the PDCCH in the next UE DRX continuous period based on the WUS indication.

[0271] For example, if the paging wake-up signal (paging WUS) (ie PEI) start time falls within the non-activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, or part of the time from the PEI start time to the PO reception falls within the non-activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, or the entire time from the PEI start time to the PO reception falls within the non-activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, the UE considers that the PEI transmission in the PEI is invalid. The UE may not monitor the PEI and monitor the PDCCH in the next PO.

[0272] For example, if part of the time from the start time of the paging wake-up signal (paging WUS) (i.e., PEI) to the reception of PO falls within the non-activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, the UE considers that the PEI is valid and starts to monitor the PEI (i.e., PEI-RNTI encrypted DCI 2-7) at the start time of the PEI, and determines whether to monitor the PDCCH in the next PO based on the WUS indication.

[0273] For example, based on the network side configuration indication, for scenarios such as part of the time from the start time of the paging wake-up signal (paging WUS) (i.e., PEI) to the reception of the PO falls within the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission, and / or the entire time from the start time of the PEI to the reception of the PO falls within the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission, whether the PEI is affected by the cell's discontinuous transmission operation. If so, the PEI is not monitored during the inactive period of the cell's discontinuous transmission.

[0274] In the above example, the period from the PEI start time to the PO reception is the PEI monitoring period.

[0275] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0276] determining, when the listening period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, whether the wake-up signal sent during a period in the listening period of the wake-up signal during which the listening period and the inactive period do not overlap in the time domain is valid or invalid;

[0277] It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during the overlapping period.

[0278] The configuration information sent by the network device may indicate whether the wake-up signal is valid during the overlapping period of the wake-up signal monitoring period and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission, and / or whether the wake-up signal is valid during the non-overlapping part of the wake-up signal monitoring period.

[0279] For example, if part of the time from the start time of the paging wake-up signal (paging WUS) (ie PEI) to the reception of PO falls within the non-activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, the UE considers the PEI to be valid and will monitor the PEI (ie PEI-RNTI scrambled DCI 2-7) after the start time of the PEI and during the activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, that is, the PEI is valid during the activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, and the UE can monitor the PEI in the intersection of the monitoring period of the PEI and the activated period of discontinuous transmission of the cell. The UE can decide whether to monitor the PDCCH during the next PO based on the PEI indication.

[0280] In one embodiment, the UE determines that the wake-up signal is invalid, and monitors a physical downlink channel PDCCH during a continuous period of UE discontinuous reception after a monitoring period of the wake-up signal;

[0281] In one embodiment, the UE determines that the wake-up signal is invalid, and monitors a paging message in a paging occasion after the monitoring period of the wake-up signal.

[0282] The duration of UE discontinuous reception after the monitoring period of the wake-up signal may be a predetermined duration of UE discontinuous reception associated with the wake-up signal.

[0283] The paging opportunity after the monitoring period of the wake-up signal may be a predetermined paging opportunity associated with the wake-up signal. Monitoring the paging message may include: monitoring paging scheduling information of the paging message, and then receiving the paging message according to the paging scheduling information.

[0284] In one possible implementation, the wake-up signal may be a UE DRX WUS. If the UE DRX WUS is invalid, that is, the UE DRX WUS is not used to instruct the UE whether to wake up and monitor the PDCCH during the UE discontinuous reception period after the UE DRX WUS. Therefore, the UE cannot determine whether to monitor the PDCCH during the UE discontinuous reception period after the UE DRX WUS based on the UE DRX WUS. To reduce the possibility of the UE missing scheduling information sent by the network device, the UE may wake up and monitor the PDCCH during the UE discontinuous reception period after the UE DRX WUS. In this way, the possibility of missing scheduling information sent by the network device due to the invalid wake-up signal can be reduced.

[0285] In one possible implementation, the wake-up signal may be a PEI. If the PEI is invalid, that is, the PEI is not used to instruct the UE whether to wake up and listen for paging messages within the PO following the PEI. Therefore, the UE cannot determine whether to listen for paging messages within the PO following the PEI based on the PEI. To reduce the possibility of the UE missing paging messages sent by network devices, the UE may wake up and listen for paging messages within the PO following the PEI. This can reduce the possibility of missing paging messages sent by network devices due to an invalid wake-up signal.

[0286] In one embodiment, the UE determines that the wake-up signal is valid, and monitors the wake-up signal within a period in which the wake-up signal is valid;

[0287] In one embodiment, the UE determines that the wake-up signal is invalid, and does not monitor the wake-up signal during a period in which the wake-up signal is invalid.

[0288] The UE may determine the period during which the wake-up signal is valid and / or invalid based on the configuration information.

[0289] For example, the UE may determine, based on the configuration information, that the wake-up signal is valid during an inactive period of discontinuous transmission of the cell, and the inactive period of discontinuous transmission of the cell may be a period during which the wake-up signal is valid. The UE may monitor the wake-up signal during the period during which the wake-up signal is valid, i.e., the inactive period of discontinuous transmission of the cell.

[0290] In a possible implementation, the UE may monitor the wake-up signal during a valid period of the wake-up signal, which may include: the UE may monitor the wake-up signal during an intersection of a valid period of the wake-up signal and a monitoring period of the wake-up signal.

[0291] For example, the UE may determine, based on the configuration information, that the wake-up signal is invalid during an inactive period of discontinuous transmission of the cell. The inactive period of discontinuous transmission of the cell may be a period during which the wake-up signal is invalid. The UE may not monitor the wake-up signal during the period during which the wake-up signal is invalid, i.e., the inactive period during discontinuous transmission of the cell.

[0292] In a possible implementation, the network device may send the wake-up signal within a valid period of the wake-up signal.

[0293] In one possible implementation, the network device may not send the wake-up signal during a period when the wake-up signal is invalid.

[0294] The following provides multiple specific examples in combination with any of the above embodiments:

[0295] Example 1: The manner in which an RRC connected UE receives a WUS in a network energy saving (NES) mode may include but is not limited to at least one of the following:

[0296] Mode 1: UE connected discontinuous reception wake-up signal (UE C-DRX WUS) (abbreviated as UE DRX WUS or DRX WUS or WUS) is not affected by the cell discontinuous transmission (cell DTX) operation, that is, during the cell DTX non-active period, UE C-DRX WUS is sent normally.

[0297] Mode 2: If the WUS monitoring duration falls within the cell DTX inactive period, and / or part of the WUS monitoring duration falls within the cell DTX inactive period, the UE considers the WUS transmission in the WUS monitoring duration invalid and does not monitor the WUS. It monitors the PDCCH during the following UE C-DRX duration.

[0298] Method 3: If part of the WUS monitoring period falls within the cell DTX inactive period, the UE considers the WUS transmission in the WUS monitoring period valid and monitors the WUS (i.e., PS-RNTI scrambled DCI 2-6) during the WUS monitoring period. Based on the WUS indication, the UE decides whether to monitor the PDCCH during the following UE C-DRX duration.

[0299] Mode 4: Based on the network side configuration indication, if the WUS listening period falls within the cell DTX inactive period and / or part of the WUS listening period falls within the cell DTX inactive period, whether the WUS is valid, that is, whether the UE monitors the WUS during the WUS listening period, that is, the PS-RNTI scrambled DCI 2-6.

[0300] Example 2: How an RRC idle UE / RRC inactive UE receives a WUS in network energy saving mode

[0301] Mode 1: The paging wake-up signal (ie, PUS) (ie, PEI) is not affected by the cell DTX operation, that is, during the cell DTX inactive period, the UE paging wake-up signal (ie, PEI) is sent normally.

[0302] Mode 2: If the paging wake-up signal (i.e., PEI) start time falls within the cell DTX inactive period, or part of the time from the paging wake-up signal (i.e., PEI) start time to the PO reception falls within the cell DTX inactive period, or the entire time from the paging wake-up signal (i.e., PEI) start time to the PO reception falls within the cell DTX inactive period, the UE considers the PEI transmission in the paging wake-up signal (i.e., PEI) invalid and monitors the PDCCH in the following PO period.

[0303] Method 3.1: If part of the time between the paging wake-up signal (PEI) start time and the PO reception falls within the cell DTX inactive period, the UE considers the paging wake-up signal (PEI) valid and starts monitoring the PEI (i.e., PEI-RNTI scrambled DCI 2-7) at the paging wake-up signal (PEI) start time. Based on the WUS indication, the UE decides whether to monitor the PDCCH during the subsequent PO period.

[0304] Method 3.2: If part of the time between the paging wake-up signal (PEI) start time and the PO reception falls within the cell DTX inactive period, the UE considers the paging wake-up signal (PEI) valid and monitors the PEI (i.e., PEI-RNTI scrambled DCI 2-7) after the paging wake-up signal (PEI) start time and during the cell DTX active period. Based on the WUS indication, the UE decides whether to monitor the PDCCH during the subsequent PO period.

[0305] Mode 4: Based on the network side configuration, it is determined whether the paging wake-up signal (i.e., PEI) is affected by the cell DTX operation. If so, the PEI is not monitored during the cell DTX inactive period.

[0306] Mode 5: Based on the network configuration, if part of the time from the start of the paging wake-up signal (i.e., PEI) to the reception of the PO falls within the cell DTX inactive period, and / or the entire time from the start of the paging wake-up signal (i.e., PEI) to the reception of the PO falls within the cell DTX inactive period, the paging wake-up signal (i.e., PEI) is determined to be affected by the cell DTX operation. If so, the PEI is not monitored during the cell DTX inactive period.

[0307] As shown in FIG8 , an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a signal determination apparatus 100, which is provided in a user equipment UE and includes:

[0308] The processing module 110 is configured to determine whether the wake-up signal associated with the discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid according to the communication protocol provisions or the configuration information of the network device.

[0309] In one embodiment, the processing module is specifically configured as follows:

[0310] Determine whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission.

[0311] In one embodiment, the processing module is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0312] determining, when the cell is configured with discontinuous transmission of the cell, whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell;

[0313] It is determined that when the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission and the configuration of the cell discontinuous transmission is in an activated state, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission.

[0314] In one embodiment, the processing module is specifically configured as follows:

[0315] It is determined whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain.

[0316] In one embodiment, the processing module is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0317] determining whether the wake-up signal in the monitoring period is valid or invalid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain;

[0318] It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid.

[0319] In one embodiment, the processing module is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0320] determining, when the listening period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, whether the wake-up signal sent during a period in the listening period of the wake-up signal during which the listening period and the inactive period do not overlap in the time domain is valid or invalid;

[0321] It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during the overlapping period.

[0322] In one embodiment, the duration of the overlapping period is shorter than the duration of the monitoring period;

[0323] or,

[0324] The duration of the overlapping period is equal to the duration of the monitoring period.

[0325] In one embodiment, the processing module is further configured to do at least one of the following:

[0326] Determining that the wake-up signal is valid, and monitoring the wake-up signal within a period in which the wake-up signal is valid;

[0327] Determine that the wake-up signal is invalid, and do not monitor the wake-up signal during a period in which the wake-up signal is invalid.

[0328] In one embodiment, the processing module is further configured to do at least one of the following:

[0329] Determining that the wake-up signal is invalid, and monitoring a physical downlink channel PDCCH during a continuous period of discontinuous reception of the UE after the monitoring period of the wake-up signal;

[0330] Determine that the wake-up signal is invalid, and monitor a paging message at a paging occasion after a monitoring period of the wake-up signal.

[0331] In one embodiment, the wake-up signal includes at least one of the following:

[0332] A first wake-up signal, used to indicate whether the UE is awakened within a predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration;

[0333] The second wake-up signal is used to indicate whether the UE wakes up within a predetermined paging occasion.

[0334] As shown in FIG9 , an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a signal determination apparatus 200, which is provided in a network device and includes:

[0335] The transceiver module 210 is configured to send configuration information, where the configuration information is used to indicate whether the wake-up signal associated with the discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid.

[0336] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate:

[0337] When the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid.

[0338] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0339] When the cell is configured with discontinuous transmission of the cell, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell;

[0340] When the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission and the configuration of the cell discontinuous transmission is in an activated state, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission.

[0341] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate:

[0342] When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid.

[0343] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0344] When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the monitoring period is valid or invalid;

[0345] When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid.

[0346] In one embodiment, the configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

[0347] determining, when the listening period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, whether the wake-up signal sent during a period in the listening period of the wake-up signal during which the listening period and the inactive period do not overlap in the time domain is valid or invalid;

[0348] It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during the overlapping period.

[0349] In one embodiment, the duration of the overlapping period is shorter than the duration of the monitoring period;

[0350] or,

[0351] The duration of the overlapping period is equal to the duration of the monitoring period.

[0352] In one embodiment, the wake-up signal includes at least one of the following:

[0353] A first wake-up signal is used to indicate whether the user equipment UE wakes up within a predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration period;

[0354] The second wake-up signal is used to indicate whether the UE wakes up within a predetermined paging occasion.

[0355] An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication device, including:

[0356] processor;

[0357] a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

[0358] The processor is configured to implement the signal determination method of any embodiment of the present disclosure when running executable instructions.

[0359] In one embodiment, the communication equipment may include, but is not limited to, at least one of: a network control relay and a network device. The network device may include a core network or access network device. The access network device may include an access network device; the core network may include an AMF and an SMF.

[0360] The processor may include various types of storage media, which are non-temporary computer storage media that can continue to store information after the user device loses power.

[0361] The processor may be connected to the memory via a bus or the like, and may be configured to read an executable program stored in the memory, for example, at least one of the methods shown in FIG. 4 to FIG. 7 .

[0362] The present disclosure also provides a computer storage medium storing a computer executable program, which, when executed by a processor, implements the signal determination method of any embodiment of the present disclosure, such as at least one of the methods shown in Figures 4 to 7.

[0363] Regarding the device or storage medium in the above embodiment, the specific manner in which each module performs operations has been described in detail in the embodiment of the method and will not be elaborated here.

[0364] Figure 10 is a block diagram of a UE 800 according to an exemplary embodiment. For example, the UE 800 may be a mobile phone, a computer, a digital broadcast user equipment, a messaging device, a game console, a tablet device, a medical device, a fitness device, a personal digital assistant, etc.

[0365] 10 , UE 800 may include one or more of the following components: a processing component 802 , a memory 804 , a power component 806 , a multimedia component 808 , an audio component 810 , an input / output (I / O) interface 812 , a sensor component 814 , and a communication component 816 .

[0366] The processing component 802 generally controls the overall operation of the UE 800, such as operations associated with display, phone calls, data communications, camera operation, and recording operations. The processing component 802 may include one or more processors 820 to execute instructions to perform all or part of the steps of the above-described method. In addition, the processing component 802 may include one or more modules to facilitate interaction between the processing component 802 and other components. For example, the processing component 802 may include a multimedia module to facilitate interaction between the multimedia component 808 and the processing component 802.

[0367] The memory 804 is configured to store various types of data to support operations on the UE 800. Examples of such data include instructions for any application or method operating on the UE 800, contact data, phone book data, messages, pictures, videos, etc. The memory 804 can be implemented by any type of volatile or non-volatile storage device, or a combination thereof, such as static random access memory (SRAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), read-only memory (ROM), magnetic memory, flash memory, magnetic disk, or optical disk.

[0368] The power component 806 provides power to various components of the UE 800. The power component 806 may include a power management system, one or more power supplies, and other components associated with generating, managing, and distributing power to the UE 800.

[0369] The multimedia component 808 includes a screen that provides an output interface between the UE 800 and the user. In some embodiments, the screen may include a liquid crystal display (LCD) and a touch panel (TP). If the screen includes a touch panel, the screen may be implemented as a touch screen to receive input signals from the user. The touch panel includes one or more touch sensors to sense touches, slides, and gestures on the touch panel. The touch sensor may not only sense the boundaries of a touch or slide action, but also detect the duration and pressure associated with the touch or slide operation. In some embodiments, the multimedia component 808 includes a front camera and / or a rear camera. When the UE 800 is in an operating mode, such as a shooting mode or a video mode, the front camera and / or the rear camera may receive external multimedia data. Each front camera and rear camera may be a fixed optical lens system or have focal length and optical zoom capabilities.

[0370] The audio component 810 is configured to output and / or input audio signals. For example, the audio component 810 includes a microphone (MIC) that is configured to receive external audio signals when the UE 800 is in an operating mode, such as a call mode, a recording mode, and a voice recognition mode. The received audio signals may be further stored in the memory 804 or transmitted via the communication component 816. In some embodiments, the audio component 810 further includes a speaker for outputting audio signals.

[0371] I / O interface 812 provides an interface between processing component 802 and peripheral interface modules, such as a keyboard, click wheel, buttons, etc. These buttons may include but are not limited to: a home button, volume buttons, a start button, and a lock button.

[0372] The sensor assembly 814 includes one or more sensors for providing various aspects of the status assessment of the UE 800. For example, the sensor assembly 814 can detect the open / closed state of the device 800, the relative positioning of components, such as the display and keypad of the UE 800. The sensor assembly 814 can also detect changes in the position of the UE 800 or a component of the UE 800, the presence or absence of user contact with the UE 800, the orientation or acceleration / deceleration of the UE 800, and changes in the temperature of the UE 800. The sensor assembly 814 may include a proximity sensor configured to detect the presence of nearby objects without any physical contact. The sensor assembly 814 may also include an optical sensor, such as a CMOS or CCD image sensor, for use in imaging applications. In some embodiments, the sensor assembly 814 may also include an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetic sensor, a pressure sensor, or a temperature sensor.

[0373] The communication component 816 is configured to facilitate wired or wireless communication between the UE 800 and other devices. The UE 800 can access a wireless network based on a communication standard, such as WiFi, 2G or 3G, or a combination thereof. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component 816 receives a broadcast signal or broadcast-related information from an external broadcast management system via a broadcast channel. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component 816 also includes a near field communication (NFC) module to facilitate short-range communication. For example, the NFC module can be implemented based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, infrared data association (IrDA) technology, ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, Bluetooth (BT) technology and other technologies.

[0374] In an exemplary embodiment, UE800 may be implemented by one or more application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal processors (DSPs), digital signal processing devices (DSPDs), programmable logic devices (PLDs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, or other electronic components to perform the above methods.

[0375] In an exemplary embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions is also provided, such as a memory 804 including instructions, which can be executed by the processor 820 of the UE 800 to perform the above 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.

[0376] As shown in Figure 11, an embodiment of the present disclosure shows the structure of an access device. For example, the communication device 900 can be provided as a network device. The communication device can be various network elements such as the aforementioned access network element and / or network function.

[0377] 11 , communication device 900 includes a processing component 922, which further includes one or more processors, and memory resources represented by memory 932 for storing instructions, such as applications, that can be executed by processing component 922. The applications stored in memory 932 may include one or more modules, each corresponding to a set of instructions. Furthermore, processing component 922 is configured to execute instructions to perform any of the aforementioned methods applied to the access device, such as the methods shown in any of Figures 4 to 7 .

[0378] The communication device 900 may also include a power supply component 926 configured to perform power management of the communication device 900, a wired or wireless network interface 950 configured to connect the communication device 900 to a network, and an input / output (I / O) interface 958. The communication device 900 may operate based on an operating system stored in the memory 932, such as Windows Server™, Mac OS X™, Unix™, Linux™, FreeBSD™, or the like.

[0379] In the absence of contradiction, each step in the above-mentioned embodiment or example can be implemented as an independent embodiment, and the steps can be arbitrarily combined. For example, a solution after removing some steps in a certain embodiment or example can also be implemented as an independent embodiment, and the order of the steps in a certain embodiment or example can be arbitrarily exchanged. In addition, the optional methods or optional examples in a certain embodiment or example can be arbitrarily combined; in addition, the embodiments or examples can be arbitrarily combined. For example, some or all steps of different embodiments or examples can be arbitrarily combined, and a certain embodiment or example can be arbitrarily combined with the optional methods or optional examples of other embodiments or examples.

[0380] Other embodiments of the present invention will readily occur to those skilled in the art after considering the specification and practicing the invention disclosed herein. This disclosure is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the invention that follow from the general principles of the invention and include common knowledge or customary techniques in the art not disclosed herein. The description and examples are to be considered as exemplary only, with the true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.

[0381] It should be understood that the present invention is not limited to the exact construction 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 invention is limited only by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A signal determination method, wherein: The method is executed by a user equipment UE, including: According to the communication protocol provisions or the configuration information of the network device, it is determined whether the wake-up signal associated with the discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein The determining whether the wake-up signal associated with the discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid includes: Determine whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the cell is configured with discontinuous transmission of the cell.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein: The determining whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission includes at least one of the following: Determine whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission when the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission; It is determined that when the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission and the configuration of the cell discontinuous transmission is in an activated state, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein The determining whether the wake-up signal associated with the discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid includes: It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein: The determining whether the wake-up signal is valid or invalid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain includes at least one of the following: Determine whether the wake-up signal in the monitoring period is valid or invalid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell have an overlapping period in the time domain; It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission is valid or invalid.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein: The determining whether the wake-up signal in the monitoring period is valid or invalid when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the non-activation period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain includes at least one of the following: Determine whether the wake-up signal is sent during a period in the time domain during which the listening period and the non-activation period of the non-continuous transmission of the cell overlap in the time domain, and whether the wake-up signal is sent during a period in the time domain during which the listening period and the non-activation period do not overlap in the time domain, is valid or invalid; It is determined that when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid in the overlapping period.

7. The method according to any one of claims 4 to 6, wherein: The duration of the overlapping period is shorter than the duration of the monitoring period; or, The duration of the overlapping period is equal to the duration of the monitoring period.

8. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein: The method further comprises at least one of the following: Determining that the wake-up signal is valid, and monitoring the wake-up signal within a time period in which the wake-up signal is valid; It is determined that the wake-up signal is invalid, and the wake-up signal is not monitored during a period in which the wake-up signal is invalid.

9. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein: The method further comprises at least one of the following: Determining that the wake-up signal is invalid, monitoring a physical downlink channel PDCCH during a continuous period of discontinuous reception of the UE after the monitoring period of the wake-up signal; It is determined that the wake-up signal is invalid, and a paging message is monitored at a paging occasion after a monitoring period of the wake-up signal.

10. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein: The wake-up signal includes at least one of the following: A first wake-up signal, used to indicate whether the UE wakes up within a predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration; The second wake-up signal is used to indicate whether the UE wakes up within a predetermined paging occasion.

11. A signal determination method, wherein: Executed by network devices, including: Configuration information is sent, where the configuration information is used to indicate whether a wake-up signal associated with discontinuous transmission of a cell is valid or invalid.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein: The configuration information is used to indicate: When the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein: The configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following: When the cell is configured with discontinuous transmission of the cell, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of discontinuous transmission of the cell; When the cell is configured with the cell discontinuous transmission and the configuration of the cell discontinuous transmission is in an activated state, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during an inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein: The configuration information is used to indicate: When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal is valid or invalid.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein: The configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following: When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the monitoring period is valid or invalid; When the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell have an overlapping period in the time domain, the wake-up signal in the inactive period of the discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein: The configuration information is used to indicate at least one of the following: Determine whether the wake-up signal is sent during a period in the time domain during which the listening period and the non-activation period of the non-continuous transmission of the cell overlap in the time domain, and whether the wake-up signal is sent during a period in the time domain during which the listening period and the non-activation period do not overlap in the time domain, is valid or invalid; Determine when the monitoring period of the wake-up signal and the inactive period of the cell discontinuous transmission have an overlapping period in the time domain When the wake-up signal is valid or invalid during the overlapping period.

17. The method according to any one of claims 14 to 16, wherein: The duration of the overlapping period is shorter than the duration of the monitoring period; or, The duration of the overlapping period is equal to the duration of the monitoring period.

18. The method according to any one of claims 11 to 17, wherein: The wake-up signal includes at least one of the following: A first wake-up signal, used to indicate whether the user equipment UE wakes up within a predetermined UE discontinuous reception duration period; The second wake-up signal is used to indicate whether the UE wakes up within a predetermined paging occasion.

19. A signal determination device, wherein: Set in the user equipment UE, including: The processing module is configured to determine whether the wake-up signal associated with the discontinuous transmission of the cell is valid or invalid according to the communication protocol provisions or the configuration information of the network device.

20. A signal determination device, wherein: Set in network devices, including: The transceiver module is configured to send configuration information, where the configuration information is used to indicate whether a wake-up signal associated with discontinuous transmission of a cell is valid or invalid.

21. A communication system, comprising a network device and a user equipment UE, wherein: The UE executes the signal determination method provided by any one of claims 1 to 10; The network device executes the signal determination method provided in any one of claims 11 to 18.

22. A communication device comprising a processor, a transceiver, a memory, and an executable program stored in the memory and capable of being run by the processor, wherein: When the processor runs the executable program, the signal determination method provided in any one of claims 1 to 10 or 11 to 18 is executed.

23. A computer storage medium storing an executable program; after the executable program is executed by a processor, the signal determination method provided in any one of claims 1 to 10 or 11 to 18 can be implemented.

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