Paging monitoring determination method, information sending method, device, terminal and equipment

Abstract

The invention discloses a paging monitoring determination method, an information sending method, a device, a terminal and equipment, and belongs to the technical field of communication, the paging monitoring determination method of the embodiment of the invention comprises the steps that the terminal monitors first information, the first information comprises at least one of WUS and PEI, the terminal sends the first information to the terminal according to at least one of the first information, and the terminal sends the first information to the terminal according to the at least one of the first information; determining whether to monitor paging; wherein the terminal is configured with any one of the following items: configuration information of the WUS; the configuration information of the WUS and the configuration information of the PEI.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present application belongs to the field of communication technology, and specifically relates to a paging monitoring determination method, an information sending method, an apparatus, a terminal and a device. Background Art

[0002] In mobile communications, even if a terminal is not paged, the terminal still needs to monitor paging periodically according to its own paging cycle, that is, monitor paging in all paging cycles, resulting in poor power saving effect of the terminal. Summary of the invention

[0003] The embodiments of the present application provide a paging monitoring determination method, an information sending method, an apparatus, a terminal and a device, which can solve the problem of poor power saving effect of the terminal.

[0004] In a first aspect, a paging monitoring determination method is provided, including:

[0005] The terminal monitors first information, where the first information includes at least one of a wake up signal (WUS) and a paging early indicator (PEI):

[0006] The terminal determines, according to at least one item of the first information, whether to monitor paging;

[0007] The terminal is configured with any of the following:

[0008] Configuration information of the WUS;

[0009] Configuration information of the WUS and configuration information of the PEI.

[0010] In a second aspect, a method for sending information is provided, comprising:

[0011] The network side device sends first information, where the first information includes:

[0012] WUS, or, WUS and PEI.

[0013] In a third aspect, a paging monitoring determination device is provided, including:

[0014] A monitoring module, configured to monitor first information, where the first information includes at least one of a wake-up signal WUS and a paging advance indication PEI:

[0015] A determination module, configured to determine whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information;

[0016] The terminal is configured with any of the following:

[0017] Configuration information of the WUS;

[0018] Configuration information of the WUS and configuration information of the PEI.

[0019] In a third aspect, an information sending device is provided, including:

[0020] The first sending module is used to send first information, where the first information includes:

[0021] WUS, or, WUS and PEI.

[0022] In a fifth aspect, a terminal is provided, which includes a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores a program or instruction that can be run on the processor, and when the program or instruction is executed by the processor, the steps of the paging monitoring determination method provided in the embodiment of the present application are implemented.

[0023] In a sixth aspect, a terminal is provided, comprising a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used to monitor first information, the first information comprising at least one of a wake-up signal WUS and a paging advance indication PEI: the communication interface or the processor is used to determine whether to monitor paging based on at least one item of the first information; wherein the terminal is configured with any one of the following: configuration information of the WUS; configuration information of the WUS and configuration information of the PEI.

[0024] In the seventh aspect, a network side device is provided, which includes a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores programs or instructions that can be run on the processor, and when the program or instructions are executed by the processor, the steps of the information sending method provided in the embodiment of the present application are implemented.

[0025] In an eighth aspect, a network side device is provided, including a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used to send first information, and the first information includes: a wake-up signal WUS, or a wake-up signal WUS and a paging advance indication PEI.

[0026] In the ninth aspect, a readable storage medium is provided, on which a program or instruction is stored. When the program or instruction is executed by a processor, the steps of the paging monitoring determination method provided in the embodiment of the present application are implemented, or when the program or instruction is executed by a processor, the steps of the information sending method provided in the embodiment of the present application are implemented.

[0027] In the tenth aspect, a chip is provided, which includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, the processor is used to run a program or instruction to implement the paging monitoring determination method provided in the embodiment of the present application, or the processor is used to run a program or instruction to implement the information sending method provided in the embodiment of the present application.

[0028] In the eleventh aspect, a computer program / program product is provided, which is stored in a storage medium, and the program / program product is executed by at least one processor to implement the steps of the paging monitoring determination method provided in the embodiment of the present application, or the program / program product is executed by at least one processor to implement the steps of the information sending method provided in the embodiment of the present application.

[0029] In the twelfth aspect, a wireless communication system is provided, including: a terminal and a network side device, wherein the terminal can be used to execute the steps of the terminal side paging monitoring determination method provided in the embodiment of the present application, and the network side device can be used to execute the steps of the network side device side information sending method provided in the embodiment of the present application.

[0030] In an embodiment of the present application, the terminal monitors the first information, and the first information includes at least one of WUS and PEI: the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to at least one of the first information; wherein the terminal is configured with any of the following: configuration information of the WUS; configuration information of the WUS and configuration information of the PEI. In this way, by determining whether to monitor paging according to at least one of the first information, the terminal can avoid monitoring paging in all paging cycles, thereby saving power consumption of the terminal, and thus improving the power saving effect of the terminal. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0031] Figure 1 is a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which the embodiments of the present application can be applied;

[0032] Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a terminal provided in an embodiment of the present application;

[0033] Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of a signal provided in an embodiment of the present application;

[0034] Figure 4 It is a schematic diagram of a grouping provided in an embodiment of the present application;

[0035] Figure 5 is a flow chart of a paging monitoring determination method provided by an embodiment of the present application;

[0036] Figure 6 is a flow chart of an information sending method provided by an embodiment of the present application;

[0037] Figure 7 is a schematic diagram of an association relationship between an indication and a group provided in an embodiment of the present application;

[0038] Figure 8 is another schematic diagram of an association relationship between an indication and a group provided in an embodiment of the present application;

[0039] Fig. 9 is another schematic diagram of an association relationship between an indication and a group provided in an embodiment of the present application;

[0040] Fig.10 is a schematic diagram of a wake-up allocation indication provided in an embodiment of the present application;

[0041] Fig.11 is a structural diagram of a paging monitoring determination device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

[0042] Fig.12 is a structural diagram of an information sending device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

[0043] Fig.13 is a structural diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

[0044] Fig.14 is a structural diagram of a terminal provided in an embodiment of the present application;

[0045] Fig.15 It is a structural diagram of a network side device provided in an embodiment of the present application. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0046] The following will be combined with the drawings in the embodiments of the present application to clearly describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in this field belong to the scope of protection of this application.

[0047] The terms "first", "second", etc. of the present application are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not used to describe a specific order or sequence. It should be understood that the terms used in this way are interchangeable where appropriate, so that the embodiments of the present application can be implemented in an order other than those illustrated or described herein, and the objects distinguished by "first" and "second" are generally of one type, and the number of objects is not limited, for example, the first object can be one or more. In addition, "or" in the present application represents at least one of the connected objects. For example, "A or B" covers three schemes, namely, Scheme 1: including A but not including B; Scheme 2: including B but not including A; Scheme 3: including both A and B. The character " / " generally indicates that the objects associated with each other are in an "or" relationship.

[0048] The term "indication" in this application can be a direct indication (or explicit indication) or an indirect indication (or implicit indication). A direct indication can be understood as the sender explicitly informing the receiver of specific information, operations to be performed, or request results in the sent indication; an indirect indication can be understood as the receiver determining the corresponding information according to the indication sent by the sender, or making a judgment and determining the operation to be performed or the request result according to the judgment result.

[0049] It is worth noting that the technology described in the embodiments of the present application is not limited to the Long Term Evolution (LTE) / LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) system, but can also be used in other wireless communication systems, such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) or other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in the embodiments of the present application are often used interchangeably, and the described technology can be used for the systems and radio technologies mentioned above as well as for other systems and radio technologies. The following description describes a New Radio (NR) system for illustrative purposes, and NR terminology is used in most of the following descriptions, but these technologies can also be applied to systems other than NR systems, such as the 6th generation (6 th Generation, 6G) communication system.

[0050] Figure 1A block diagram of a wireless communication system applicable to an embodiment of the present application is shown. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network side device 12. Among them, the terminal 11 can be a mobile phone, a tablet computer (Tablet Personal Computer), a laptop computer (Laptop Computer), a notebook computer, a personal digital assistant (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA), a handheld computer, a netbook, an ultra-mobile personal computer (Ultra-mobile Personal Computer, UMPC), a mobile Internet device (Mobile Internet Device, MID), an augmented reality (Augmented Reality, AR), a virtual reality (Virtual Reality, VR) device, a robot, a wearable device (Wearable Device), an aircraft (flight vehicle), a vehicle-mounted device (Vehicle User Equipment, VUE), a ship-mounted device, a pedestrian terminal (Pedestrian User Equipment, PUE), a smart home (home appliances with wireless communication functions, such as refrigerators, televisions, washing machines or furniture, etc.), a game console, a personal computer (Personal Computer, PC), a teller machine or a self-service machine and other terminal side devices. Wearable devices include: smart watches, smart bracelets, smart headphones, smart glasses, smart jewelry (smart bracelets, smart bracelets, smart rings, smart necklaces, smart anklets, smart anklets, etc.), smart wristbands, smart clothing, etc. Among them, the vehicle-mounted device can also be called a vehicle-mounted terminal, a vehicle-mounted controller, a vehicle-mounted module, a vehicle-mounted component, a vehicle-mounted chip or a vehicle-mounted unit, etc. It should be noted that the specific type of the terminal 11 is not limited in the embodiment of the present application. The network side device 12 may include an access network device or a core network device, wherein the access network device may also be referred to as a radio access network (Radio Access Network, RAN) device, a radio access network function or a radio access network unit. The access network device may include a base station, a wireless local area network (Wireless Local Area Network, WLAN) access point (Access Point, AP) or a wireless fidelity (Wireless Fidelity, WiFi) node, etc.Among them, the base station may be referred to as a Node B (NB), an evolved Node B (eNB), a next generation Node B (gNB), a New Radio Node B (NR Node B), an access point, a Relay Base Station (RBS), a Serving Base Station (SBS), a Base Transceiver Station (BTS), a radio base station, a radio transceiver, a Basic Service Set (BSS), an Extended Service Set (ESS), a Home Node B (HNB), a Home Evolved Node B, a Transmission Reception Point (TRP) or other appropriate terms in the field. As long as the same technical effect is achieved, the base station is not limited to specific technical terms. It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present application, only the base station in the NR system is used as an example for introduction, and the specific type of the base station is not limited.

[0051] The core network equipment may include but is not limited to at least one of the following: core network node, core network function, mobility management entity (Mobility Management Entity, MME), access mobility management function (Access and Mobility Management Function, AMF), session management function (Session Management Function, SMF), user plane function (User Plane Function, UPF), policy control function (Policy Control Function, PCF), policy and charging rules function unit (Policy and Charging Rules Function, PCRF), edge application service discovery function (Edge Application Server Discovery Function, EASDF), unified data management (Unified Data Management, UDM), unified data storage (Unified Data Repository, UDR), home user server (Home Subscriber Server, HSS), centralized network configuration (CNC), network storage function (Network Repository Function, NRF), network exposure function (Network Exposure Function, NEF), local NEF (Local NEF, or L-NEF), binding support function (Binding Support Function, BSF), application function (Application Function, AF), etc. It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present application, only the core network device in the NR system is introduced as an example, and the specific type of the core network device is not limited.

[0052] In some embodiments, the terminal is configured with a low power receiver, namely a low power wake up radio (LP-WUR) or an almost zero power wake up radio (AZP-WUR). The basic working principle of LP-WUR is that the receiving end includes a first module and a second module, as shown in FIG. Figure 2As shown, the first module is the main communication module, which is used for sending and receiving mobile communication data, and the second module is a low-power receiving module (also called a low-power wake-up receiving module), which is used to receive WUS, for example: a low power wake-up signal (LP-WUS). The terminal turns on the low-power receiving module to monitor WUS and turns off the main communication module in an energy-saving state. When downlink data arrives, the network will send WUS to the terminal. After the terminal monitors WUS through the low-power receiving module, it triggers the main communication module from off to on after a series of judgments, and at this time the low-power receiving module enters the off state from the working state. The low-power wake-up receiving module can be turned on continuously or intermittently, and can receive a low-power wake-up signal when it is turned on.

[0053] In some embodiments, in order to reduce the receiving activity of the terminal in the standby state, the radio frequency (RF) and baseband modem (MODEM) modules are truly turned off to greatly reduce the power consumption of communication reception, which can be achieved by introducing the above-mentioned low-power receiver in the receiving module of the terminal. In one embodiment, this near-zero-power receiver does not require complex RF module signal detection (such as amplification, filtering, quantization, etc.) and MODEM signal processing, but only relies on passive matching filtering and signal processing with low power consumption.

[0054] In some embodiments, WUS is some relatively simple on-off keying signals, and the time domain pattern of the on-off keying signal is as follows: Figure 3 As shown, the receiver can obtain the wake-up notification through simple energy detection and subsequent possible sequence detection and identification processes. In another embodiment, the low-power wake-up signal can be a frequency-shift keying (FSK) signal, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal, or a hybrid signal of OFDM and on-off keying (OOK) or FSK. In addition, while the terminal turns on the low-power receiver to receive the wake-up signal, the main receiver module can maintain operation at a lower power consumption level, thereby achieving power saving by receiving the wake-up signal.

[0055] In some embodiments, the reception of WUS can be applied to a terminal in a radio resource control idle state or an inactive state (RRC_idle / inactive) or a terminal in a radio resource control connected state (RRC_connected), thereby achieving terminal energy saving.

[0056] In some embodiments, the OOK signal may be generated in an OFDM signal generation manner, for example, by sending or not sending an OFDM modulated sequence to indicate ON / OFF in the time domain. The OOK signal may be received using a receiver with lower power consumption.

[0057] For a terminal in idle state, the terminal can measure the synchronization signal block (SSB) and perform paging reception in each paging cycle. Paging reception includes the terminal monitoring the paging physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) at its associated paging occasion (PO), and further receiving the paging physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) after monitoring the paging PDCCH. Among them, multiple terminals can be associated with one PO, so the terminal may be mistakenly awakened to monitor the paging PDCCH and paging PDSCH because other terminals in the same group are paged, and the terminal will not go to sleep until it is confirmed that the paging PDSCH does not have the terminal identification of the terminal. Therefore, since the terminal performs paging PDCCH / PDSCH detection in each paging cycle, and since there are multiple associated terminals in a PO group, the terminal may be mistakenly awakened, which will cause unnecessary monitoring power consumption of the terminal.

[0058] In some embodiments, the terminal receives PEI before receiving paging PDCCH, and the terminal determines whether to monitor the subsequent paging PDCCH according to the content indicated in the PEI downlink control information (DCI). The advantage is that the terminal can determine in advance whether to receive paging PDCCH according to PEI. If PEI indicates that the terminal does not receive paging PDCCH, the terminal does not need to detect one or more SSBs between PEI and PO in the future, thereby achieving power saving.

[0059] In some embodiments, PEI also has the function of further grouping the terminal group of a PO. For example, PEI is associated with and indicates a PO. PEI carries 8 bits of information for further terminal grouping indication of PO. Each bit corresponds to a subgroup, that is, a total of 8 subgroups can be indicated for early paging indication. Therefore, the terminals associated with a PO are further divided into 8 groups, and PEI indication is performed for each group, which can reduce the probability of false wake-up of the terminal, thereby reducing the paging monitoring power consumption of the terminal.

[0060] Specific PEI indicator domains are as follows Figure 4 As shown, Figure 4 One PEI indicates 4 PO indexes 0 to 3, and each PO can be divided into a maximum of 8 groups.

[0061] In some embodiments, a PEI subgroup (PEI subgroup) is divided into a maximum of 8 groups for one PO. Two grouping methods may be included, one is grouping based on the terminal identifier (UE-ID), and the other is grouping based on the subgroup index (subgroup index) where the core network directly indicates the terminal. If the grouping is based on UE_ID, the number of groups is modulo using UE_ID. In some cases, because a cell supports both core network grouping and UE_ID-based grouping, the number of core network groups is in front. For example, a cell has 6 groups in total, and UE_ID occupies 4 groups. The core network (CN) allocates 0,1, and the UE_ID-based grouping is 2,3,4,5. That is, when a cell supports both core network grouping and UE_ID-based grouping, the number of core network groups needs to be added after the UE_ID-based grouping. For example, the calculation based on the UE_ID grouping is 0, and the CN grouping is therefore 2. If it is allocated by the core network, the core network directly tells the terminal which group the terminal is in. In addition, in some cases, it can be combined with the UE-ID-based grouping in PEI to know how the grouping further groups these UE-IDs. And the grouping based on UE-ID may be supported by the terminal by default.

[0062] In conjunction with the accompanying drawings, a paging monitoring determination method, information sending method, apparatus, terminal and device provided in an embodiment of the present application are described in detail through some embodiments and their application scenarios.

[0063] See also Figure 5 , Figure 5 is a flow chart of a paging monitoring determination method provided by an embodiment of the present application, such as Figure 5 As shown, the following steps are included:

[0064] Step 501: The terminal monitors first information, where the first information includes at least one of WUS and PEI:

[0065] Step 502: The terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information;

[0066] The terminal is configured with any of the following:

[0067] Configuration information of the WUS;

[0068] Configuration information of the WUS and configuration information of the PEI.

[0069] That the first information includes at least one of WUS and PEI can be understood as: the terminal monitors at least one of WUS and PEI.

[0070] The above-mentioned determination of whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information may be to determine whether to monitor paging according to the monitoring result of at least one item of the first information, or may be to determine whether to monitor paging according to the indication content of at least one item of the first information, or may be to determine whether to monitor paging according to the monitoring result and indication content of at least one item of the first information. The above-mentioned monitoring result indicates whether WUS or PEI is monitored.

[0071] For example, when the first information includes WUS and PEI, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the monitoring result or indication content of at least one of WUS and PEI;

[0072] For another example, when the first information includes WUS, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the monitoring result or instruction content of WUS.

[0073] Optionally, the configuration information of the WUS may explicitly or implicitly indicate that the terminal needs to monitor the WUS, and the configuration information of the PEI may explicitly or implicitly indicate that the terminal needs to monitor the PEI.

[0074] In one embodiment, when the terminal is configured with the configuration information of the WUS, it does not mean that the terminal must monitor the WUS. Similarly, when the terminal is configured with the configuration information of the PEI, it does not mean that the terminal must monitor the PEI. Specifically, whether the terminal monitors the WUS or the PEI depends on the terminal implementation.

[0075] Optionally, paging includes: at least one of paging PDCCH and paging PDSCH.

[0076] The above-mentioned WUS configuration information and PEI configuration information are configured before step 501 .

[0077] Optionally, step 501 may include at least one of the following:

[0078] When the terminal is configured with the configuration information of the WUS, monitoring the WUS;

[0079] When the terminal is configured with the configuration information of the WUS and the configuration information of the PEI, monitoring the WUS;

[0080] When the terminal is configured with the configuration information of the WUS and the configuration information of the PEI, monitoring the WUS and the PEI;

[0081] When the terminal is configured with the configuration information of the WUS and the configuration information of the PEI, it monitors the PEI.

[0082] In addition, the PEI may be monitored when the terminal is configured with the configuration information of the PEI.

[0083] In some implementations, the WUS and PEI may be the WUS or PEI associated with the terminal monitored by the terminal according to the PO grouping. For example, the WUS is associated with the PEI.

[0084] In some implementations, three network configuration possibilities may be included, one is that the network is not configured with PEI but only with WUS, in which case the terminal monitors WUS, another is that both PEI and WUS are configured in the network, in which case the terminal may monitor PEI and WUS jointly or separately; the third is that WUS is not configured but only with PEI, in which case the terminal only monitors PEI.

[0085] In the embodiment of the present application, the above steps can determine whether to monitor paging according to at least one item in the first information, which can avoid the terminal monitoring paging in all paging cycles, thereby saving terminal power consumption and improving the power saving effect of the terminal.

[0086] As an optional implementation manner, the WUS carries at least one of the following:

[0087] Packet-based wake-up indication;

[0088] Whether to monitor PEI instructions;

[0089] The packet-based wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the packet.

[0090] The above-mentioned group-based wake-up indication may include one or more group-based wake-up indications, that is, the number of groups may be one or more, and if there is only one group, it can be understood that no grouping is performed, that is, there is no WUS grouping.

[0091] In the embodiment of the present application, the wake-up indication may also be referred to as wake-up indication information.

[0092] The above-mentioned packet-based wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the group, which can be understood as being used to indicate whether the terminal associated with the group monitors paging. In addition, waking up the terminal may also include waking up the terminal to monitor or transmit information other than paging information, such as system information update, initiating random access, monitoring SSB, etc.

[0093] The above indication of whether to monitor PEI can be understood as that the indication carried by WUS is used to instruct the terminal whether to monitor PEI.

[0094] In this implementation, the above-mentioned group-based wake-up indication can be used to group terminals, thereby reducing the terminal's false call rate and saving terminal power consumption; and the indication of whether to monitor PEI can be used to flexibly instruct the terminal to monitor or not monitor PEI according to the situation.

[0095] Optionally, the packet-based wake-up indication includes at least one of the following:

[0096] M wake-up indications of first groups, where the first groups are divided based on terminal identifiers, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1;

[0097] The wake-up indication of Q second groups is allocated by the core network, and Q is an integer greater than or equal to 0.

[0098] Optionally, when Q is 0, it indicates that the WUS does not carry the wake-up indication of the second packet.

[0099] Optionally, the order in which the WUS carries the first grouping indication and the second grouping indication is: the second grouping wake-up indication comes first and the first grouping wake-up indication comes later.

[0100] The above-mentioned first group and second group can also be called WUS groups. For example: the mth WUS group wake-up indication (bit) is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the mth WUS group, and the value of m is 0 to M-1; for example: the qth WUS group wake-up indication (bit) is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the qth WUS group, and the value of q is 0 to Q-1.

[0101] In some implementations, when the terminal supports WUS packet indication based on core network allocation, an index of a WUS packet based on core network allocation is allocated to the terminal by Non-Access-Stratum (NAS) signaling.

[0102] In the above implementation, the wake-up indication can be implemented in the first group or the second group to reduce the probability of the terminal being woken up by mistake. For example, there are 100 terminals, which are divided into 10 WUS groups for separate wake-up indications, and the wake-up probability of each terminal is 1%. Then, for each terminal, the probability of being woken up by mistake is reduced from 1-(1-1%)%^100=63% without grouping to 1-(1-1%)^10=9.5%. In this way, the power consumption of the terminal caused by the false call can be reduced.

[0103] In some implementations, the WUS may also carry an indication of the availability of a tracking reference signal (TRS).

[0104] In some embodiments, the second grouping index of the terminal carried by the WUS is the same as the grouping index of the terminal carried by the PEI based on the core network allocation.

[0105] As an optional implementation manner, the WUS is associated with K POs, where K is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0106] Optionally, the K POs associated with the WUS may be agreed upon by protocol or configured by network-side equipment, and the value of K is configured by the network-side equipment or agreed upon by protocol.

[0107] In one embodiment, K is 1, that is, one WUS is associated with one PO, which is equivalent to the WUS instructing the terminal on the associated PO whether to monitor paging.

[0108] In this implementation, WUS can be associated with K POs, thereby providing wake-up instructions to the terminals associated with the K POs to save power consumption.

[0109] As an optional implementation manner, the terminals associated with the first PO are divided into M first groups; or,

[0110] The terminals associated with the first PEI group are divided into M first groups;

[0111] Among them, the first PO is the PO associated with the WUS, the first PEI group is the group contained in the PEI associated with the WUS, the first group is divided based on the terminal identifier, the WUS carries a wake-up indication based on the first group, and the wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the group, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0112] Among them, the above-mentioned first grouping and wake-up indication refer to the corresponding description of the above implementation method, which will not be repeated here.

[0113] Among them, the division method of the terminals associated with the above-mentioned first PO into M first groups can be agreed upon in the protocol or configured by the network side equipment, and the division method of the terminals associated with the above-mentioned first PEI group into M first groups can be agreed upon in the protocol or configured by the network side equipment.

[0114] In this implementation, it is possible to divide the wake-up indications of the terminals associated with the first PO carried in the WUS into M first groups, or to divide the wake-up indications of the terminals associated with the first PEI group carried in the WUS into M first groups, so as to realize more flexible awakening of the corresponding terminals and reduce the probability of false awakening.

[0115] Optionally, the groups contained in the PEI associated with the WUS include:

[0116] All PEI groups corresponding to the second PO; or, PEI groups divided based on terminal identifiers in the PEI groups corresponding to the second PO;

[0117] Wherein, the second PO includes at least one of the following:

[0118] The PO associated with the WUS;

[0119] Some or all of the POs associated with the PEI.

[0120] The fact that the groups included in the PEI associated with the WUS include all PEI groups corresponding to the second PO can be understood as further dividing the terminals associated with all PEI groups corresponding to the second PO into multiple WUS groups.

[0121] Among them, the above-mentioned WUS and the above-mentioned PEI have a correlation relationship.

[0122] The groups included in the PEI associated with the above WUS include the PEI groups divided based on the terminal identifier in the PEI groups corresponding to the second PO, which can be understood as further dividing the terminals associated with the PEI groups divided based on the terminal identifier in the corresponding PEI groups into multiple WUS groups.

[0123] In this implementation, all PEI groups corresponding to the second PO or PEI groups (associated terminals) divided based on terminal identifiers in the PEI groups corresponding to the second PO can be further divided into multiple WUS groups, that is, the M first groups carried by the WUS are further terminal groups of the associated terminals of the associated PEI, thereby achieving further grouped wake-up indications to further reduce the probability of false wake-up.

[0124] Optionally, in the above multiple implementations, the division method of the M first groups includes at least one of the following:

[0125] Perform a first operation on the terminal identifier to obtain a first operation result, and then perform a modulo operation on M using the first operation result. The modulo operation result plus a constant I is a group index of the terminal corresponding to the terminal identifier, where the value range of the group index is 0 to M+I-1, and the constant I is an integer greater than or equal to 0;

[0126] The terminals are divided or allocated into M first groups in sequence from small to large or from large to small according to the terminal identifiers.

[0127] Optionally, the value of the above constant I may be agreed upon by the protocol or configured on the network side.

[0128] Optionally, when the WUS is configured to carry the wake-up indication of the second group described in the above embodiment, the constant I may be equal to Q, that is, the number of the second groups. Alternatively, the constant I may also be 0.

[0129] In some implementations, the first operation includes:

[0130] rounding operation on (UE_ID / (N*Ns)); or,

[0131] Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumPerPO)), or,

[0132] Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumforUEID));

[0133] The above rounding operation may be rounding down or rounding up. For example, the above first operation includes:

[0134] floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns)); or,

[0135] floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumPerPO)), or,

[0136] floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumforUEID)).

[0137] Among them, N represents the number of paging frames (PF) in the paging cycle, Ns represents the number of POs in a PF, subgroupsNumPerPO represents the number of PEI groups into which a PO-associated terminal is divided, and subgroupsNumforUEID represents the number of PEI groups into which a terminal associated with a PO is divided based on the terminal identification.

[0138] In this way, the division into M first groups can be achieved in the following manner. For example, taking the rounding operation as rounding down as an example, the division into M first groups can be achieved in the following manner:

[0139] According to floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns)) mod M, the terminals associated with the PO are divided into M first groups; or

[0140] Dividing the terminals associated with one or more PEI groups into M first groups according to floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumPerPO))mod M; or

[0141] According to floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumforUEID)) mod M, the terminals associated with one or more UE-ID-based PEI groups are divided into M first groups.

[0142] For example: the associated terminals of the paging occasion associated with the wake-up signal are divided into M first groups according to floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns))mod M, or the associated terminals of the PEI group associated with the wake-up signal are divided into M first groups according to floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumPerPO))mod M or floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumforUEID))mod M.

[0143] The above-mentioned dividing or allocating into M first groups in order from small to large or from large to small according to the terminal identifiers may be:

[0144] The terminals associated with the first PO or the first PEI group are divided into M segments according to the size of the terminal identifier, so as to divide the terminals associated with the first PO or the first PEI group into M first groups. (If the terminals cannot be evenly divided, the number of terminals associated with the last first group can float.

[0145] Here, the allocation refers to the allocation of the associated terminal to the corresponding group, for example, terminal 0 is allocated to the first group 0, terminal 1 is allocated to the first group 1, etc. The above division refers to dividing the associated terminals into multiple groups, for example, terminal 0 to terminal n are allocated to the first group 0, terminal n+1 to terminal 2n+1 are allocated to the first group 1, etc.

[0146] In the above implementation, it is possible to determine the first group associated with the above terminals based on a plurality of division methods, thereby supporting the WUS to wake up the associated terminals more flexibly, so as to further reduce the probability of false wake-up.

[0147] Optionally, the first grouping index associated with the terminal is obtained in the following manner:

[0148] A first operation is performed on the terminal identifier of the terminal to obtain a first operation result, and then a modulo operation is performed on M using the first operation result, and the result of the modulo operation is a first grouping index associated with the terminal.

[0149] The first operation mentioned above can be found in the corresponding description of the above implementation mode and will not be elaborated here.

[0150] In some implementations, the index of the group associated with the terminal may also be determined according to any of the following formulas:

[0151] WUS_SubgroupID=(floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumPerPO))mod M);

[0152] WUS_SubgroupID=(floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns*or subgroupsNumforUEID))mod M);

[0153] WUS_SubgroupID=(floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns))mod M).

[0154] Wherein, WUS_SubgroupID represents the index of the first group associated with the terminal, and M is the number of first groups or the number of first groups into which the terminals associated with a PO are divided.

[0155] In some implementations, the index of the group associated with the terminal may also be determined according to any of the following formulas:

[0156] WUS_SubgroupID=(floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumPerPO))mod M)+Q;

[0157] WUS_SubgroupID=(floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns*or subgroupsNumforUEID))mod M)+Q;

[0158] WUS_SubgroupID=(floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns))mod M)+Q.

[0159] Wherein, WUS_SubgroupID represents the index of the first group associated with the terminal. Q is the number of WUS groups configured by the network device based on the core network allocation, that is, the number of second groups, or the number of second groups into which the terminal associated with a PO is divided. It can be understood that the WUS group index of the terminal based on the core network allocation is notified by the core network.

[0160] Optionally, the wake-up signal indication bit carried in the WUS corresponds one-to-one to the packet carried by the WUS. The terminal determines the wake-up indication bit in the WUS that it needs to detect according to its own WUS packet index.

[0161] In one embodiment, the WUS packet index is the same as the wake-up indication bit index.

[0162] In the above implementation, it is possible to determine the first group associated with the above terminal based on the above first operation, thereby supporting the WUS to wake up the associated terminal more flexibly to further reduce the probability of false wakeup.

[0163] Optionally, the terminal determines, according to at least one item of the first information, whether to monitor paging, including:

[0164] In a case where the packets carried by the WUS include the first packet and the second packet, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to a wake-up indication of the second packet associated with the terminal.

[0165] In this implementation, it can be achieved that when the packet corresponding to the WUS-bearing wake-up indication includes the second packet allocated based on the core network and the first packet based on the terminal identifier, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication based on the second packet allocated based on the core network carried in the WUS. That is, when the packet corresponding to the WUS-bearing wake-up indication includes the second packet allocated based on the core network and the first packet based on the terminal identifier, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication based on the second packet allocated based on the core network, and ignores the wake-up indication based on the first packet based on the terminal identifier.

[0166] It is understandable that if the terminal is not allocated the second grouping index or the terminal does not support the second grouping allocated based on the core network, the terminal can only determine whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the first grouping based on the terminal identifier.

[0167] Therefore, the implicit premise in the above implementation is that the terminal is allocated the second grouping index.

[0168] The terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the second group associated with it, which can be that the terminal supports the second group, that is, the terminal supports the second group allocated based on the core network, and determines whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the second group associated with it. It should be noted that in some implementations, it can be a default that the terminal supports the first group based on the terminal identification.

[0169] In this implementation, since the packets carried by the WUS include the first packet and the second packet, whether to monitor paging is determined based on the wake-up indication of the second packet associated with the terminal. In this way, the second packet allocated by the core network can be used preferentially to achieve a consistent understanding between the terminal and the core network on whether to monitor paging, thereby avoiding accidental wake-up of the terminal and further saving power.

[0170] Optionally, the terminal determines, according to at least one item of the first information, whether to monitor paging, including:

[0171] When the first information includes the WUS and the PEI, and the WUS carries the wake-up indication of the second group, and the PEI only carries the paging advance indication information of the PEI group divided based on the terminal identity, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal.

[0172] The above-mentioned PEI only carries the paging advance indication information of the PEI group divided based on the terminal identity, which can be understood as that the paging advance indication information carried by the PEI only has the paging advance indication information of the PEI group divided based on the terminal identity.

[0173] In this implementation, when WUS carries the wake-up indication of the second group and PEI does not carry the paging advance indication information based on the PEI group allocated by the core network, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging based on the wake-up indication of the second group. In this way, the second group allocated by the core network can be used preferentially to achieve a consistent understanding between the terminal and the core network on whether to monitor paging, thereby avoiding accidental wake-up of the terminal and further saving power.

[0174] For example: when the terminal is configured with the configuration information of WUS and the configuration information of PEI, the packet carried by WUS includes the second packet allocated based on the core network, the packet carried by PEI includes only the PEI packet based on the terminal (excluding the PEI packet allocated based on the core network), and the terminal supports the packet allocated based on the core network, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication based on the second packet carried in WUS. That is to say, in this case, the terminal only monitors LP-WUS, not PEI, and the terminal determines whether to monitor paging only according to the wake-up indication of the second packet in LP-WUS.

[0175] Optionally, when the first information includes the WUS and the PEI, and the WUS carries the wake-up indication of the second packet, and the PEI carries paging advance indication information of the PEI packet allocated by the core network, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information, including:

[0176] The terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal; or,

[0177] The terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network and carried by the PEI associated with the terminal; or,

[0178] The terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal and the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network and carried by the PEI associated with the terminal.

[0179] In one embodiment, the above-mentioned determination of whether to monitor paging based on the wake-up indication of the second group associated with it and the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network carried by the PEI associated with it can be that when the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal wakes up the terminal, and the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network carried by the PEI associated with the terminal also wakes up the terminal, it is determined to monitor paging, otherwise, it is determined not to monitor paging; or it can be that when the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal and the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network carried by the PEI associated with the terminal are It may be that when any one of the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network wakes up the terminal, it is determined to monitor paging; or it may be that when any one of the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal and the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network and carried by the PEI associated with the terminal does not wake up the terminal, it is determined not to monitor paging; or it may be that when the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal does not wake up the terminal, or the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network and carried by the PEI associated with the terminal does not wake up the terminal, it is determined not to monitor paging.

[0180] In this implementation, it is possible to support any of the above items to determine whether to monitor paging, so as to improve compatibility with scenarios or services.

[0181] For example, when the packet carried by the WUS includes a second packet allocated based on the core network, the packet carried by the PEI includes a PEI packet allocated based on the core network, and the terminal supports both the second packet allocated based on the core network and the PEI packet allocated based on the CN, the terminal determines whether to monitor the paging including any of the following:

[0182] The terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the second packet wake-up indication carried by the WUS based on the core network allocation, or,

[0183] The terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the PEI packet wake-up indication carried by the PEI and allocated by the core network, or,

[0184] The terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the packet wake-up indication based on the core network allocation and carried by WUS and PEI respectively.

[0185] As an optional implementation manner, before the terminal monitors the first information, the method further includes:

[0186] The terminal acquires paging configuration information, where the paging configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0187] Indication information used to indicate whether to monitor both the WUS and the PEI;

[0188] Configuration information of the WUS.

[0189] The indication information for indicating whether the WUS and the PEI are both listening may be to indicate to the terminal whether the WUS and the PEI are both listening in an explicit or implicit manner. For example, the indication information indicates whether the interaction between PEI and WUS is enabled. If the interaction between PEI and WUS is enabled, it indicates that both the WUS and the PEI are listening. If the interaction between PEI and WUS is not enabled, it indicates that both the WUS and the PEI do not need to be listening.

[0190] The configuration information of the WUS may be the configuration information of the WUS described in the above implementation mode, or may be configuration information different from the configuration information of the WUS described in the above implementation mode, and this is not limited.

[0191] The WUS configuration information may include WUS configuration information related to paging, for example: the WUS configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0192] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PO are divided; (It can be understood as the number of WUS groups into which a PO is divided)

[0193] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group are divided;

[0194] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group of a PO are divided;

[0195] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with the PEI grouping based on the terminal identification of a PO are divided;

[0196] The number of WUS groups allocated by the core network;

[0197] The number of WUS groups divided based on terminal identification;

[0198] The number of bits in the WUS that carry the wake-up indication information.

[0199] In one embodiment, the number of WUS groups allocated and divided by the core network can be understood as the number of WUS groups associated with a PO and allocated by the core network, that is, the number of second groups associated with a PO, which is the Q value.

[0200] In one embodiment, the number of WUS groups divided based on terminal identification can be understood as the number of WUS groups based on terminal identification associated with a PO, that is, the number of first groups associated with a PO, which is the value of M.

[0201] In one embodiment, the number of bits carrying the wake-up indication information in the WUS may be 1, 2, 4, or 8.

[0202] In one embodiment, the number of WUS groups allocated and divided by the core network is the second number of groups, that is, the value of Q. It can be understood that the number of WUS groups allocated and divided by the core network is the number of WUS groups allocated and divided by the core network carried in each WUS.

[0203] In one embodiment, the number of WUS groups divided based on the terminal identification is the number of the first groups mentioned above, that is, the value of M.

[0204] In one embodiment, the number of bits carrying the wake-up indication information in the WUS is equal to the number of WUS packets carried in the WUS.

[0205] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with the above-mentioned one PO are divided may be referred to as the number of WUS groups of one PO, abbreviated as WUSSubgorupNumPerPO;

[0206] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with the above-mentioned one PEI group are divided can be referred to as the number of WUS groups of one PEI group, that is, the number of WUS groups into which or included in or associated with which the terminals associated with each PEI group are divided, referred to as WUSSubgroupNumPerPEISubgroup;

[0207] The number of WUS subgroups into which the terminals associated with the PEI group of the above-mentioned PO are divided can be referred to as the number of WUS subgroups of the PEI group of a PO, that is, the number of WUS subgroups into which the terminals associated with (all) PEI groups in a PO are further divided, referred to as WUSSubgroupNumofPEISubgroupperPO;

[0208] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with the PEI grouping based on terminal identification of the above-mentioned one PO are divided can be referred to as the number of WUS groups based on UE-ID PEI grouping of one PO, referred to as WUSSubgroupNumofUE-IDbasedPEISubgroupperPO;

[0209] The number of WUS groups allocated and divided by the core network can be referred to as CNbasedWUSSubgroupNum.

[0210] The number of WUS groups divided based on the terminal identity can be referred to as WUSSubgroupNumforUE-ID.

[0211] In one embodiment, at least one of the following:

[0212] 1) If PEI grouping includes UE_ID-based PEI grouping in the PEI configuration, the WUS adopts the UE_ID-based grouping.

[0213] 2) If the PEI grouping in the PEI configuration includes the PEI grouping based on the core network allocation, the WUS adopts the grouping based on the core network allocation.

[0214] 3) If the PEI grouping includes the PEI grouping based on UE_ID and the PEI grouping based on the core network allocation in the PEI configuration, the LP-WUS adopts the grouping based on UE_ID and the grouping allocated by the core network.

[0215] The above-mentioned LP-WUS adopting means that the LP-WUS is carried, or the LP-WUS is configured.

[0216] In this implementation, the paging configuration information can enable the terminal to better learn about the paging configuration, so that the terminal can more accurately obtain its own paging and reduce the probability of false wake-up.

[0217] In some implementations, part or all of the above paging configuration information may be pre-configured or agreed upon by a protocol.

[0218] In addition, in some implementations, the configuration information of the WUS may further configure the number of POs associated with the WUS, that is, the value of K in the implementations above.

[0219] Optionally, the network side device may support or not support WUS packets allocated based on the core network. If the network side device does not support WUS packets allocated based on the core network, the WUS sent by the network side device does not carry WUS packets allocated based on the core network.

[0220] Optionally, before obtaining the grouping ID assigned by the core network, the terminal reports the terminal capabilities to the network side node (including the base station and / or the core network node), and the capabilities include whether the terminal supports the WUS grouping capability assigned by the core network or whether it supports the WUS grouping capability.

[0221] Optionally, the number of WUS groups into which the one PO-associated terminal is divided is equal to the sum of the following two items:

[0222] The number of WUS groups allocated by the core network;

[0223] The number of WUS groups divided based on terminal identification.

[0224] For example, it can be described as:

[0225] CNbasedWUSSubgroupNum=WUSSubgorupNumPerPO-WUSSubgroupNumforUE-ID.

[0226] In this implementation, it can be achieved that the number of WUS groups into which a PO-associated terminal is divided is equal to the number of WUS groups allocated by the core network plus the number of WUS groups divided based on the terminal identifier, so that WUS supports two types of grouping, making WUS grouping more flexible, thereby improving the flexibility of wake-up and reducing the probability of false wake-up.

[0227] As an optional implementation manner, in a first case, the first information includes the PEI, and the first case includes at least one of the following:

[0228] The terminal monitors the WUS;

[0229] The WUS indicates waking up the terminal;

[0230] The WUS indicates monitoring of the PEI;

[0231] The terminal obtains an indication that both the WUS and the PEI should monitor.

[0232] It should be noted that, in the first case, the first information includes the PEI, which can be understood as: in the first case, the terminal monitors the PEI.

[0233] The above-mentioned terminal monitoring WUS can be understood as the terminal can determine whether to wake up according to whether WUS is detected. For example, if the terminal detects WUS, it means that the wake-up signal indicates to wake up the terminal, otherwise it means that the terminal is not woken up.

[0234] Optionally, waking up the terminal refers to the terminal monitoring paging.

[0235] Optionally, waking up the terminal may be that the terminal main communication module is turned from off to on, and at this time the low-power receiving module enters the off state from the working state, or the low-power wake-up receiving module can be turned on continuously or intermittently, and can receive the low-power wake-up signal when turned on. Alternatively, waking up the terminal may be that the terminal switches from a sleep state to a wake-up state.

[0236] The WUS instructing the terminal to wake up may be that the wake-up indication bit corresponding to the terminal in the WUS takes a value of 1 or 0. The instructing the terminal to wake up may indicate instructing the terminal to monitor information including paging.

[0237] This implementation can determine whether to monitor PEI according to the content monitored by the terminal, thereby further saving power consumption of the terminal.

[0238] As an optional implementation manner, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information, including at least one of the following:

[0239] In the second case, determining to monitor paging;

[0240] In a third case, it is determined not to monitor paging;

[0241] The second situation includes at least one of the following:

[0242] The WUS and the PEI both indicate waking up the terminal;

[0243] At least one of the WUS and the PEI indicates waking up the terminal;

[0244] The third situation includes at least one of the following:

[0245] Neither the WUS nor the PEI indicates waking up the terminal;

[0246] At least one of the WUS and the PEI does not indicate waking up the terminal.

[0247] Optionally, waking up the terminal refers to the terminal monitoring paging.

[0248] In this implementation, it is possible to determine whether to monitor paging based on monitoring at least one of the WUS and the PEI. For example, at least one of the following is included:

[0249] In a case where both the WUS and the PEI indicate waking up the terminal, the terminal determines to monitor paging;

[0250] In a case where at least one of the WUS and the PEI indicates waking up the terminal, the terminal determines to monitor paging;

[0251] In a case where neither the WUS nor the PEI indicates waking up the terminal, the terminal determines not to monitor paging;

[0252] In a case where at least one of the WUS and the PEI does not indicate waking up the terminal, the terminal determines not to monitor paging;

[0253] The above-mentioned instruction to wake up the terminal may be to wake up a group associated with the terminal.

[0254] In this implementation, it is possible to determine whether to monitor paging based on at least one of the WUS and the PEI, so as to achieve flexible indication of paging.

[0255] As an optional implementation manner, when the first information includes WUS and PEI, determining whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information includes:

[0256] In the case that the terminal does not monitor the PEI, the terminal determines not to monitor paging; or,

[0257] In the case that the terminal fails to monitor the PEI, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the monitoring result or indication information of the WUS.

[0258] Alternatively, in a case where the first information includes WUS and PEI, determining whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information includes:

[0259] Determine whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information and network side configuration information;

[0260] Wherein, when the terminal fails to monitor the PEI, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the network side configuration information.

[0261] In one embodiment, when the terminal monitors the WUS and the terminal does not monitor the PEI, the terminal determines not to monitor the paging;

[0262] In one embodiment, when the terminal monitors the WUS and does not monitor the PEI, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the monitoring result or indication information of the WUS;

[0263] In one embodiment, when the terminal monitors the WUS and does not monitor the PEI, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the network side configuration information.

[0264] In one embodiment, when the terminal does not monitor the WUS and the terminal does not monitor the PEI, the terminal determines not to monitor the paging;

[0265] In one embodiment, when the terminal does not monitor the WUS and the terminal does not monitor the PEI, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the monitoring result or indication information of the WUS;

[0266] In one embodiment, when the terminal does not monitor the WUS and the terminal does not monitor the PEI, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the network side configuration information.

[0267] For example, the terminal failing to monitor the PEI includes: the terminal is configured with WUS and PEI monitoring, the terminal performs a monitoring action, but fails to monitor the PEI.

[0268] The above-mentioned determination of whether to monitor paging according to the monitoring result or indication information of the WUS may be that if the terminal monitors the WUS, it is determined to monitor paging, or it may be that if the indication information of the WUS indicates monitoring paging, it is determined to monitor paging.

[0269] The above network side configuration information may be pre-acquired network side configuration information, or network side configuration information dynamically sent down by the network side, and the network side configuration information is used to indicate whether the terminal monitors paging.

[0270] In this implementation, when the terminal does not monitor the PEI, it can be implemented to flexibly determine whether to monitor the paging, thereby preventing the terminal from missing its own paging.

[0271] As an optional implementation manner, the PO associated with the WUS is the same as the PO associated with the PEI; or,

[0272] The PEI-associated PO includes the WUS-associated PO.

[0273] The PO associated with the WUS and the PO associated with the PEI may be the same as that associated with the WUS and the PEI in a network configuration;

[0274] The PO associated with the PEI includes the PO associated with the WUS, and the paging occasions associated with the PEI configured by the network include the PO associated with the WUS, for example, the PO associated with and indicated by the PEI is more than the paging occasions associated with the WUS.

[0275] In this implementation, since the PO associated with the WUS is the same as the PO associated with the PEI or the PO associated with the PEI includes the PO associated with the WUS, this can support WUS and PEI to jointly indicate whether the terminal monitors paging to reduce the probability of false wake-up.

[0276] In one embodiment, the WUS is a low power consumption WUS, namely, LP-WUS.

[0277] In an embodiment of the present application, the terminal monitors the first information, and the first information includes at least one of WUS and PEI: the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to at least one of the first information; wherein the terminal is configured with any of the following: configuration information of the WUS; configuration information of the WUS and configuration information of the PEI. In this way, by determining whether to monitor paging according to at least one of the first information, the terminal can avoid monitoring paging in all paging cycles, thereby saving power consumption of the terminal, and thus improving the power saving effect of the terminal.

[0278] See also Figure 6 , Figure 6is a flow chart of a method for sending information provided by an embodiment of the present application, such as Figure 6 As shown, the following steps are included:

[0279] Step 601: The network side device sends first information, where the first information includes:

[0280] WUS, or, WUS and PEI.

[0281] Optionally, the WUS carries at least one of the following:

[0282] Packet-based wake-up indication;

[0283] Whether to monitor PEI instructions;

[0284] The packet-based wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the packet.

[0285] Optionally, the packet-based wake-up indication includes at least one of the following:

[0286] M wake-up indications of first groups, where the first groups are divided based on terminal identifiers, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1;

[0287] The wake-up indication of Q second groups is allocated by the core network, and Q is an integer greater than or equal to 0.

[0288] Optionally, the WUS is associated with K paging occasions PO, where K is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0289] Optionally, the terminals associated with the first PO are divided into M first groups; or,

[0290] The terminals associated with the first PEI group are divided into M first groups;

[0291] Among them, the first PO is the PO associated with the WUS, the first PEI group is the group contained in the PEI associated with the WUS, the first group is divided based on the terminal identifier, the WUS carries a wake-up indication based on the first group, and the wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the group, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0292] Optionally, the groups contained in the PEI associated with the WUS include:

[0293] All PEI groups corresponding to the second PO; or, PEI groups divided based on terminal identifiers in the PEI groups corresponding to the second PO;

[0294] Wherein, the second PO includes at least one of the following:

[0295] The PO associated with the WUS;

[0296] Some or all of the POs associated with the PEI.

[0297] Optionally, the division manner of the M first groups includes at least one of the following:

[0298] Perform a first operation on the terminal identifier to obtain a first operation result, and then perform a modulo operation on M using the first operation result. The modulo operation result plus a constant I is a group index of the terminal corresponding to the terminal identifier, where the value range of the group index is 0 to M+I-1, and the constant I is an integer greater than or equal to 0;

[0299] The terminals are divided or allocated into M first groups in sequence from small to large or from large to small according to the terminal identifiers.

[0300] Optionally, the first operation includes:

[0301] rounding operation on (UE_ID / (N*Ns)); or,

[0302] Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumPerPO)), or,

[0303] Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumforUEID));

[0304] Among them, N represents the number of paging frames PF in the paging cycle, Ns represents the number of PO in a PF, subgroupsNumPerPO represents the number of PEI groups into which a PO-associated terminal is divided, and subgroupsNumforUEID represents the number of PEI groups into which a terminal associated with a PO is divided based on the terminal identification.

[0305] Optionally, before the network side device sends the first information, the method further includes:

[0306] The network side device sends paging configuration information, where the paging configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0307] Indication information used to indicate whether both the WUS and the PEI monitor;

[0308] Configuration information of the WUS.

[0309] Optionally, the configuration information of the WUS includes at least one of the following:

[0310] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PO are divided;

[0311] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group are divided;

[0312] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group of a PO are divided;

[0313] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with the PEI grouping based on the terminal identification of a PO are divided;

[0314] The number of WUS groups allocated by the core network;

[0315] The number of WUS groups divided based on terminal identification;

[0316] The number of bits in the WUS that carry the wake-up indication information.

[0317] Optionally, the PO associated with the WUS is the same as the PO associated with the PEI; or,

[0318] The PEI-associated PO includes the WUS-associated PO.

[0319] It should be noted that this embodiment is Figure 5 The implementation of the corresponding network side device in the embodiment shown in the figure can be found in the specific implementation of Figure 5 To avoid repeated description, the related description of the embodiment shown in the present invention will not be repeated in detail.

[0320] The method provided in the embodiments of the present application is illustrated below by means of multiple embodiments:

[0321] Embodiment 1:

[0322] This embodiment mainly describes further grouping of LP-WUS. The grouping method is to further implement LP-WUS grouping for UEs associated with all (or part of) PEI groups of a PO.

[0323] The following are relevant formulas for calculating the PF / PO and PEI grouping associated with the terminal provided in the embodiments of the present application.

[0324] (SFN+PF_offset)mod T=(T div N)*UE_ID mod N)

[0325] i_s=floor(UE_ID / N)mod Ns

[0326] i po =((UE ID modN)×N s +i s )mod POnumPerPEI

[0327]

[0328] Among them, SFN represents the radio frame index, PF_offset represents the paging frame offset, T represents the paging cycle, i_s represents the number of the PO associated with a PF, i po It represents the paging frame index, Ns represents the number of POs in a PF, POnumPerPEI represents the number of POs associated with a PEI, SubgroupID represents the group identifier, subgroupsNumPerPO represents the number of PEI groups into which a PO-associated terminal is divided, and subgroupsNumforUEID represents the number of PEI groups into which a terminal associated with a PO is divided based on the terminal identifier.

[0329] like Figure 7 As shown, under given parameters, the relationship between the terminal LP-WUS and the PEI and PO is shown as the dotted line. Figure 7 Describes the association relationship between PEI, LP-WUS and PO: one LP-WUS indicates one PO, and one PEI indicates two POs. In other words, the POs associated with the LP-WUS indication are a subset of the POs associated with the PEI indication. Therefore, Figure 7 You can see that each PO corresponds to a LP-WUS, and the corresponding configuration is as follows:

[0330] T=16, N=T / 2, Ns=2, PF_offset=0, PEI

[0331] subgroupsNumForUEID=subgroupsNumPerPO=4

[0332] WUSSubgroupsNumofPEISubgroupperPO=

[0333] WUSSubgroupsNumofUE_IDbasedPEISubgroupperPO=2

[0334] Under the above configuration, further, based on Figure 8 Let's discuss the specific UE grouping. For example, for a PO0 associated UE, it can be further divided into 4 PEI groups by PEI. The UE-ID of each PEI group is as follows: Figure 8 As shown. Further, for the associated UEs of the 4 PEI groups, they are further divided into 2 LP-WUS groups: LP-WUS_subgroup0 and LP-WUS_subgroup1 according to the following formula. Where M is the number of WUS groups based on UE-ID, Figure 8Where M=2.

[0335] Method: LP-WUS grouping is performed on UEs associated with PEI subgroups (PEI subgroups) divided based on terminal identity (UE-ID based subgroup) and PEI subgroups (PEI subgroups) assigned by the core network (CN assigned subgroup).

[0336] LP-WUS_SubgroupID=(floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumPerPO))mod M)or

[0337] Method 2: Only UEs associated with the UE-ID based PEI subgroup are further grouped by LP-WUS.

[0338] LP-WUS_SubgroupID=(floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumforUEID))mod M)

[0339] In the above configuration, Figure 8 A specific LP-WUS grouping example is given:

[0340] Among them, for the UE of PO0, grouping is performed by PEI: PEI groups 0 to 3, a total of four PEI groups. Further, for the UEs associated with these four PEI groups, LP-WUS grouping is further performed: LP-WUS groups p0 and 1. The specific method of grouping UEs with different UE-IDs is performed according to the above method 2.

[0341] Beneficial effects of this embodiment: Since the terminal granularity paging probability (per UE paging rate) is relatively low, for example, 0.01%, 0.1%, 1%, after the associated UEs of each PO are grouped into PEIs, the probability of each PEI group being awakened is also relatively low, and the probability of multiple PEI groups being awakened is even lower, for example, each PEI group is Figure 8As shown in the figure, the probability of each UE being awakened is 1%, and the probability of each PEI group being awakened is 1-99%*99%=1.99%. The probability of multiple PEI groups being awakened at the same time is greater than or equal to 1.99%*1.99%=0.0396%, that is, in most cases a single PEI group is awakened. Based on this analysis, all PEI groups are further grouped by LP-WUS. Although each LP-WUS group is associated with half of the terminals of all PEI groups, since the probability of all PEI groups being awakened is quite low, in most cases, a PEI group is further divided into two LP-WUS groups. Therefore, the UE grouping is more refined, and the probability of each UE being awakened by mistake due to the awakening of the UE in the same group is further reduced. For example, for a UE with UE-ID 0, under the PEI grouping, the probability of the UE being awakened by mistake is 1.99%-1%=0.99%. Further through LP-WUS grouping, since the probability of two PEI groups being awakened at the same time is very low and negligible, the probability of the UE being woken up by mistake is close to 0%. Therefore, even when the number of LP-WUS groups is less than the number of PEI groups, the LP-WUS grouping can further help reduce the probability of the UE being woken up by mistake. Of course, it is understandable that when the number of LP-WUS groups is higher than the PEI grouping, the probability of the UE being woken up by mistake must be reduced compared to when there is no LP-WUS grouping. I will not go into details here.

[0342] In summary, through PEI and LP-WUS grouping, UE grouping is further refined, which further reduces the probability of UE being falsely awakened, thereby reducing terminal power consumption caused by false awakening.

[0343] In addition, in one embodiment, the UE skips monitoring of the PEI and determines whether to monitor the PO associated with itself according to the detection of the LP-WUS, such as Fig. 9 As shown. Since LP-WUS groups UEs at the PO level, even if PEI monitoring is skipped, the terminal's grouping indication information will not be lost. However, it is understandable that since PEI monitoring is skipped and only LP-WUS grouping is relied upon, the probability of false wake-up of the terminal will increase.

[0344] In this embodiment, the terminal uses the following formula to determine its own LP-WUS group.

[0345] LP-WUS_SubgroupID=(floor(UE_ID / (N*Ns))mod M)

[0346] In addition, the wake-up packet indication carried by LP-WUS may be as shown in Table 1:

[0347] Table 1:

[0348]

[0349] In another embodiment, the LP-WUS carries an indication of whether to monitor the PEI, so that the network can dynamically determine whether the UE needs to monitor the PEI according to the number of UEs in the group, ie, the false alarm rate (FAR).

[0350] Embodiment 2:

[0351] This embodiment mainly describes that LP-WUS and PEI independently perform grouping instructions on terminals associated with PO, as follows:

[0352] In one embodiment, the terminal can detect LP-WUS and PEI according to the implementation. For example, when the network side device configures both PEI and LP-WUS for the terminal, the terminal can choose to monitor LP-WUS and / or PEI according to its own situation. In this case, the wake-up packet indications of LP-WUS and PEI are preferably independent of each other, that is, there is no mutual correlation relationship, so as to provide convenience and flexibility for the monitoring implementation of the terminal.

[0353] This embodiment, based on the above, provides a solution in which LP-WUS and PEI independently perform grouping instructions for terminals associated with PO, such as Fig.10 As shown, Fig.10 The 0 and 1 in the bit represent the value of the bit. Both LP-WUS and PEI use a bitmap to indicate the wake-up packet.

[0354] LP-WUS indicates >= 2 groups and PEI indicates groups;

[0355] LP-WUS group 0 is indicated by the first bit and LP-WUS group 1 is indicated by the second bit.

[0356] When the UE monitors PEI and LP-WUS:

[0357] Option 1: The UE wakes up only when the LP-WUS and PEI of all its associated packets are "1", or

[0358] Option 2: The UE wakes up when one of its associated packets is "1".

[0359] Embodiment three:

[0360] This embodiment mainly describes the LP-WUS and / or PEI carrying CN group indication, which is specifically as follows:

[0361] In one embodiment, the priority of the CN-based group wake-up indication (hereinafter referred to as CN group indication) is higher than the UE-ID-based group indication. That is, the terminal preferentially follows the CN-based group wake-up indication.

[0362] In one embodiment, the network side device configures LP-WUS to carry CN grouping indication (and UE-ID-based grouping indication), and PEI to carry CN grouping indication (and UE-ID-based grouping indication). Terminal 0 supports these two types of CN grouping indication. The specific behavior of Terminal 0 is as follows:

[0363] Mode 1: Terminal 0 determines whether to monitor paging according to the CN-allocated packet wake-up indication carried by the wake-up signal, or,

[0364] Mode 2: Terminal 0 determines whether to monitor paging according to the packet wake-up indication based on CN allocation carried by PEI, or,

[0365] Mode 3: Terminal 0 determines whether to monitor paging according to the CN-allocated packet wake-up indications carried by LP-WUS and PEI respectively.

[0366] In one embodiment, according to the above-mentioned method 3, the monitoring order of the terminal is: the terminal first detects the indication information of the CN group of the corresponding index in the LP-WUS according to the LP-WUSCN group index assigned by the CN. The terminal continues to monitor the corresponding CN group indication information carried in the PEI. The terminal determines whether to monitor the paging according to at least one of the following:

[0367] In a case where both the wake-up signal and the paging advance indication indicate waking up the terminal, the terminal determines to monitor the paging;

[0368] In a case where at least one of a wake-up signal and a paging advance indication indicates waking up the terminal, the terminal determines to monitor paging;

[0369] In a case where neither the wake-up signal nor the paging advance indication indicates waking up the terminal, the terminal determines not to monitor paging;

[0370] In a case where at least one of the wake-up signal and the paging advance indication does not indicate waking up the terminal, the terminal determines not to monitor paging.

[0371] In another embodiment, for UE1, UE1 supports CN group indication in PEI, but does not support CN group indication in LP-WUS. The network configuration carries CN group indication or CN+UE-ID-based group indication in PEI, and only carries UE-ID-based group indication or CN+UE-ID-based group indication in LP-WUS. In this scenario, the terminal detects the UE-ID-based group indication associated with itself in LP-WUS; when terminal 1 detects the UE-ID-based group indication wake-up in LP-WUS, UE1 continues to monitor PEI, and determines whether to monitor paging based on the CN group indication of UE1 carried in PEI.

[0372] In another embodiment, for UE2, UE2 does not support CN grouping indication in PEI, nor does it support CN grouping indication in LP-WUS. The network configuration PEI only carries UE-ID-based grouping indication or carries CN and UE-ID-based grouping indication, and LP-WUS only carries UE-ID-based grouping indication or carries CN and UE-ID-based grouping indication. In this scenario, the terminal detects the UE-ID-based grouping indication associated with itself in LP-WUS and / or PEI; the terminal determines whether to monitor paging based on the UE-ID-based grouping indication in LP-WUS and / or the UE-ID-based grouping indication in PEI.

[0373] In another embodiment, for UE3, UE3 does not support CN grouping indication in PEI, but supports CN grouping indication in LP-WUS. The network configuration carries UE-ID based grouping indication or CN and UE-ID based grouping indication in PEI, and carries CN grouping indication or CN and UE-ID based grouping indication in LP-WUS. In this scenario, the terminal detects the CN grouping indication associated with itself in LP-WUS; terminal 3 determines whether to monitor paging according to the CN grouping indication in LP-WUS. Optionally, in this scheme, terminal 3 only monitors LP-WUS but not PEI. That is, optionally, when the terminal supports CN grouping in LP-WUS but does not support CN grouping in PEI, the terminal only monitors LP-WUS but not PEI.

[0374] In the above embodiment, the grouping based on UE-ID is supported by the terminal by default.

[0375] In the embodiment of the present application, the terminal can realize the design of jointly determining the paging monitoring behavior according to the monitoring of PEI and WUS, which is as follows:

[0376] (intersection) when both the wake-up signal and the paging advance indication indicate to wake up the terminal, the terminal determines to monitor the paging; or,

[0377] (Union) when at least one of the wake-up signal and the paging advance indication indicates waking up the terminal, the terminal determines to monitor the paging; or,

[0378] (intersection) when neither the wake-up signal nor the paging advance indication indicates to wake up the terminal, the terminal determines not to monitor paging; or,

[0379] (Union) When at least one of the wake-up signal and the paging advance indication does not indicate waking up the terminal, the terminal determines not to monitor paging.

[0380] In the embodiment of the present application, a joint planning of WUS and PEI grouping is designed to achieve further power saving. In addition, the design of how the terminal jointly determines the paging monitoring behavior based on the monitoring of PEI and WUS is also standardized to avoid the situation where the network side and the terminal understand inconsistently and enhance communication reliability.

[0381] The paging monitoring determination method provided in the embodiment of the present application may be executed by a paging monitoring determination device. In the embodiment of the present application, the paging monitoring determination method is executed by a paging monitoring determination device as an example to illustrate the paging monitoring determination device provided in the embodiment of the present application.

[0382] See also Fig.11 , Fig.11 is a structural diagram of a paging monitoring determination device provided in an embodiment of the present application, such as Fig.11 As shown, the paging monitoring determination device 1100 includes:

[0383] The monitoring module 1101 is configured to monitor first information, where the first information includes at least one of a wake-up signal WUS and a paging advance indication PEI:

[0384] A determination module 1102, configured to determine whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information;

[0385] The terminal is configured with any of the following:

[0386] Configuration information of the WUS;

[0387] Configuration information of the WUS and configuration information of the PEI.

[0388] Optionally, the WUS carries at least one of the following:

[0389] Packet-based wake-up indication;

[0390] Whether to monitor PEI instructions;

[0391] The packet-based wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the packet.

[0392] Optionally, the packet-based wake-up indication includes at least one of the following:

[0393] M wake-up indications of first groups, where the first groups are divided based on terminal identifiers, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1;

[0394] The wake-up indication of Q second groups is allocated by the core network, and Q is an integer greater than or equal to 0.

[0395] Optionally, the WUS is associated with K paging occasions PO, where K is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0396] Optionally, the terminals associated with the first PO are divided into M first groups; or,

[0397] The terminals associated with the first PEI group are divided into M first groups;

[0398] Among them, the first PO is the PO associated with the WUS, the first PEI group is the group contained in the PEI associated with the WUS, the first group is divided based on the terminal identifier, the WUS carries a wake-up indication based on the first group, and the wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the group, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0399] Optionally, the groups contained in the PEI associated with the WUS include:

[0400] All PEI groups corresponding to the second PO; or, PEI groups divided based on terminal identifiers in the PEI groups corresponding to the second PO;

[0401] Wherein, the second PO includes at least one of the following:

[0402] The PO associated with the WUS;

[0403] Some or all of the POs associated with the PEI.

[0404] Optionally, the division manner of the M first groups includes at least one of the following:

[0405] Perform a first operation on the terminal identifier to obtain a first operation result, and then perform a modulo operation on M using the first operation result. The modulo operation result plus a constant I is a group index of the terminal corresponding to the terminal identifier, where the value range of the group index is 0 to M+I-1, and the constant I is an integer greater than or equal to 0;

[0406] The terminals are divided or allocated into M first groups in sequence from small to large or from large to small according to the terminal identifiers.

[0407] Optionally, the first grouping index associated with the terminal is obtained in the following manner:

[0408] A first operation is performed on the terminal identifier of the terminal to obtain a first operation result, and then a modulo operation is performed on M using the first operation result, and the result of the modulo operation is a first grouping index associated with the terminal.

[0409] Optionally, the first operation includes:

[0410] rounding operation on (UE_ID / (N*Ns)); or,

[0411] Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumPerPO)), or,

[0412] Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumforUEID));

[0413] Among them, N represents the number of paging frames PF in the paging cycle, Ns represents the number of PO in a PF, subgroupsNumPerPO represents the number of PEI groups into which a PO-associated terminal is divided, and subgroupsNumforUEID represents the number of PEI groups into which a terminal associated with a PO is divided based on the terminal identification.

[0414] Optionally, the determination module 1002 is used to: when the group carried by the WUS includes the first group and the second group, determine whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the second group to which it is associated.

[0415] Optionally, the determination module 1102 is used to: when the group carried by the WUS includes the first group and the second group, determine whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal.

[0416] Optionally, when the first information includes the WUS and the PEI, and the WUS carries the wake-up indication of the second packet, and the PEI carries paging advance indication information including a PEI packet allocated by the core network, the determination module 1102 is used to:

[0417] determining whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the associated second group; or,

[0418] Determine whether to monitor paging according to the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network and carried by the PEI associated with the terminal; or,

[0419] Determine whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal and the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network and carried by the PEI associated with the terminal.

[0420] Optionally, the device further comprises:

[0421] The acquisition module is used to acquire paging configuration information, where the paging configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0422] Indication information used to indicate whether to monitor both the WUS and the PEI;

[0423] Configuration information of the WUS.

[0424] Optionally, the configuration information of the WUS includes at least one of the following:

[0425] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PO are divided;

[0426] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group are divided;

[0427] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group of a PO are divided;

[0428] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with the PEI grouping based on the terminal identification of a PO are divided;

[0429] The number of WUS groups allocated by the core network;

[0430] The number of WUS groups divided based on terminal identification;

[0431] The number of bits in the WUS that carry the wake-up indication information.

[0432] Optionally, the number of WUS groups into which the one PO-associated terminal is divided is equal to the sum of the following two items:

[0433] The number of WUS groups allocated by the core network;

[0434] The number of WUS groups divided based on terminal identification.

[0435] Optionally, in a first case, the first information includes the PEI, and the first case includes at least one of the following:

[0436] The terminal monitors the WUS;

[0437] The WUS indicates waking up the terminal;

[0438] The WUS indicates monitoring of the PEI;

[0439] The terminal obtains an indication that both the WUS and the PEI should monitor.

[0440] Optionally, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information, including at least one of the following:

[0441] In the second case, determining to monitor paging;

[0442] In a third case, it is determined not to monitor paging;

[0443] The second situation includes at least one of the following:

[0444] The WUS and the PEI both indicate waking up the terminal;

[0445] At least one of the WUS and the PEI indicates waking up the terminal;

[0446] The third situation includes at least one of the following:

[0447] Neither the WUS nor the PEI indicates waking up the terminal;

[0448] At least one of the WUS and the PEI does not indicate waking up the terminal.

[0449] Optionally, when the first information includes WUS and PEI, determining whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information includes:

[0450] In the case that the terminal does not monitor the PEI, the terminal determines not to monitor paging; or,

[0451] In the case that the terminal fails to monitor the PEI, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the monitoring result or indication information of the WUS.

[0452] Optionally, when the first information includes WUS and PEI, determining whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information includes:

[0453] Determine whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information and network side configuration information;

[0454] Wherein, when the terminal fails to monitor the PEI, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the network side configuration information.

[0455] Optionally, the PO associated with the WUS is the same as the PO associated with the PEI; or,

[0456] The PEI-associated PO includes the WUS-associated PO.

[0457] The above-mentioned paging monitoring determination device can improve the power saving effect of the terminal.

[0458] In the embodiment of the present application, the paging monitoring determination device can be an electronic device, such as an electronic device with an operating system, or a component in the electronic device, such as an integrated circuit or a chip. For example, the electronic device can be a terminal, or it can be other devices other than a terminal. Exemplarily, the terminal can include but is not limited to the types of terminals listed in the embodiment of the present application, and other devices can be servers, network attached storage (Network Attached Storage, NAS), etc., which are not specifically limited in the embodiment of the present application.

[0459] The paging monitoring determination device provided in the embodiment of the present application can achieve Figure 5 The various processes implemented by the method embodiment shown achieve the same technical effect and will not be described again here to avoid repetition.

[0460] See also Fig.12 , Fig.12 is a structural diagram of another information sending device provided in an embodiment of the present application, such as Fig.12 As shown, the information sending device 1200 includes:

[0461] The first sending module 1201 is configured to send first information, where the first information includes:

[0462] The wake-up signal WUS, or the wake-up signal WUS and the paging advance indication PEI.

[0463] Optionally, the WUS carries at least one of the following:

[0464] Packet-based wake-up indication;

[0465] Whether to monitor PEI instructions;

[0466] The packet-based wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the packet.

[0467] Optionally, the packet-based wake-up indication includes at least one of the following:

[0468] M wake-up indications of first groups, where the first groups are divided based on terminal identifiers, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1;

[0469] The wake-up indication of Q second groups is allocated by the core network, and Q is an integer greater than or equal to 0.

[0470] Optionally, the WUS is associated with K paging occasions PO, where K is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0471] Optionally, the terminals associated with the first PO are divided into M first groups; or,

[0472] The terminals associated with the first PEI group are divided into M first groups;

[0473] Among them, the first PO is the PO associated with the WUS, the first PEI group is the group contained in the PEI associated with the WUS, the first group is divided based on the terminal identifier, the WUS carries a wake-up indication based on the first group, and the wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the group, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0474] Optionally, the groups contained in the PEI associated with the WUS include:

[0475] All PEI groups corresponding to the second PO; or, PEI groups divided based on terminal identifiers in the PEI groups corresponding to the second PO;

[0476] Wherein, the second PO includes at least one of the following:

[0477] The PO associated with the WUS;

[0478] Some or all of the POs associated with the PEI.

[0479] Optionally, the division manner of the M first groups includes at least one of the following:

[0480] Perform a first operation on the terminal identifier to obtain a first operation result, and then perform a modulo operation on M using the first operation result. The modulo operation result plus a constant I is a group index of the terminal corresponding to the terminal identifier, where the value range of the group index is 0 to M+I-1, and the constant I is an integer greater than or equal to 0;

[0481] The terminals are divided or allocated into M first groups in sequence from small to large or from large to small according to the terminal identifiers.

[0482] Optionally, the first operation includes:

[0483] rounding operation on (UE_ID / (N*Ns)); or,

[0484] Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumPerPO)), or,

[0485] Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumforUEID));

[0486] Among them, N represents the number of paging frames PF in the paging cycle, Ns represents the number of PO in a PF, subgroupsNumPerPO represents the number of PEI groups into which a PO-associated terminal is divided, and subgroupsNumforUEID represents the number of PEI groups into which a terminal associated with a PO is divided based on the terminal identification.

[0487] Optionally, the device further comprises:

[0488] The second sending module is configured to send paging configuration information, where the paging configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0489] Indication information used to indicate whether both the WUS and the PEI monitor;

[0490] Configuration information of the WUS.

[0491] Optionally, the configuration information of the WUS includes at least one of the following:

[0492] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PO are divided;

[0493] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group are divided;

[0494] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group of a PO are divided;

[0495] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with the PEI grouping based on the terminal identification of a PO are divided;

[0496] The number of WUS groups allocated by the core network;

[0497] The number of WUS groups divided based on terminal identification;

[0498] The number of bits in the WUS that carry the wake-up indication information.

[0499] Optionally, the PO associated with the WUS is the same as the PO associated with the PEI; or,

[0500] The PEI-associated PO includes the WUS-associated PO.

[0501] The above-mentioned information sending device can improve the power saving effect of the terminal.

[0502] The time determination device in the embodiment of the present application may be an electronic device, such as an electronic device with an operating system, or a component in the electronic device, such as an integrated circuit or a chip. The electronic device may be a terminal or a network side device.

[0503] The time determination device provided in the embodiment of the present application can achieve Figure 6 The various processes implemented by the method embodiment shown achieve the same technical effect and will not be described again here to avoid repetition.

[0504] Optional, such as Fig.13 As shown, an embodiment of the present application also provides a communication device 1300, including a processor 1301 and a memory 1302, and the memory 1302 stores a program or instruction that can be executed on the processor 1301. When the program or instruction is executed by the processor 1301, the various steps of the above-mentioned paging monitoring determination embodiment are implemented, and the same technical effect can be achieved. To avoid repetition, it will not be repeated here.

[0505] The embodiment of the present application also provides a terminal, including a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used to monitor first information, and the first information includes at least one of a wake-up signal WUS and a paging advance indication PEI: the communication interface or the processor is used to determine whether to monitor paging according to at least one of the first information; wherein the terminal is configured with any of the following: configuration information of the WUS; configuration information of the WUS and configuration information of the PEI. Specifically, Fig.14 A schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a terminal for implementing an embodiment of the present application.

[0506] The terminal 1400 includes but is not limited to: a radio frequency unit 1401, a network module 1402, an audio output unit 1403, an input unit 1404, a sensor 1405, a display unit 1406, a user input unit 1407, an interface unit 1408, a memory 1409 and at least some of the components of the processor 1410.

[0507] Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal 1400 may also include a power source (such as a battery) for supplying power to each component, and the power source may be logically connected to the processor 1410 through a power management system, thereby implementing functions such as managing charging, discharging, and power consumption management through the power management system. Fig.14 The communication device structure shown in the figure does not constitute a limitation on the communication device. The communication device may include more or fewer components than shown in the figure, or combine certain components, or arrange the components differently, which will not be described in detail here.

[0508] It should be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, the input unit 1404 may include a graphics processing unit (GPU) 14041 and a microphone 14042, and the graphics processing unit 14041 processes the image data of a static picture or video obtained by an image capture device (such as a camera) in a video capture mode or an image capture mode. The display unit 1406 may include a display panel 14061, and the display panel 14061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, etc. The user input unit 1407 includes a touch panel 14071 and at least one of other input devices 14072. The touch panel 14071 is also called a touch screen. The touch panel 14071 may include two parts: a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 14072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which will not be repeated here.

[0509] In the embodiment of the present application, after receiving downlink data from the network side device, the radio frequency unit 1401 can transmit the data to the processor 1410 for processing; in addition, the radio frequency unit 1401 can send uplink data to the network side device. Generally, the radio frequency unit 1401 includes but is not limited to an antenna, an amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, etc.

[0510] The memory 1409 can be used to store software programs or instructions and various data. The memory 1409 may mainly include a first storage area for storing programs or instructions and a second storage area for storing data, wherein the first storage area may store an operating system, an application program or instruction required for at least one function (such as a sound playback function, an image playback function, etc.), etc. In addition, the memory 1409 may include a volatile memory or a non-volatile memory, or the memory 1409 may include both volatile and non-volatile memories. Among them, the non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), or a flash memory. The volatile memory may be a random access memory (RAM), a static random access memory (SRAM), a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), a double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDRSDRAM), an enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory (ESDRAM), a synchronous link dynamic random access memory (SLDRAM) and a direct memory bus random access memory (DRRAM). The memory 1409 in the embodiment of the present application includes but is not limited to these and any other suitable types of memory.

[0511] The processor 1410 may include one or more processing units; optionally, the processor 1410 integrates an application processor and a modem processor, wherein the application processor mainly processes operations related to an operating system, a user interface, and application programs, and the modem processor mainly processes wireless communication signals, such as a baseband processor. It is understandable that the modem processor may not be integrated into the processor 1410.

[0512] The radio frequency unit 1401 is configured to monitor first information, where the first information includes at least one of a wake-up signal WUS and a paging advance indication PEI:

[0513] The radio frequency unit 1401 or the processor 1410 is configured to determine whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information;

[0514] The terminal is configured with any of the following:

[0515] Configuration information of the WUS;

[0516] Configuration information of the WUS and configuration information of the PEI.

[0517] Optionally, the WUS carries at least one of the following:

[0518] Packet-based wake-up indication;

[0519] Whether to monitor PEI instructions;

[0520] The packet-based wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the packet.

[0521] Optionally, the packet-based wake-up indication includes at least one of the following:

[0522] M wake-up indications of first groups, where the first groups are divided based on terminal identifiers, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1;

[0523] The wake-up indication of Q second groups is allocated by the core network, and Q is an integer greater than or equal to 0.

[0524] Optionally, the WUS is associated with K paging occasions PO, where K is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0525] Optionally, the terminals associated with the first PO are divided into M first groups; or,

[0526] The terminals associated with the first PEI group are divided into M first groups;

[0527] Among them, the first PO is the PO associated with the WUS, the first PEI group is the group contained in the PEI associated with the WUS, the first group is divided based on the terminal identifier, the WUS carries a wake-up indication based on the first group, and the wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the group, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0528] Optionally, the groups contained in the PEI associated with the WUS include:

[0529] All PEI groups corresponding to the second PO; or, PEI groups divided based on terminal identifiers in the PEI groups corresponding to the second PO;

[0530] Wherein, the second PO includes at least one of the following:

[0531] The PO associated with the WUS;

[0532] Some or all of the POs associated with the PEI.

[0533] Optionally, the division manner of the M first groups includes at least one of the following:

[0534] Perform a first operation on the terminal identifier to obtain a first operation result, and then perform a modulo operation on M using the first operation result. The modulo operation result plus a constant I is a group index of the terminal corresponding to the terminal identifier, where the value range of the group index is 0 to M+I-1, and the constant I is an integer greater than or equal to 0;

[0535] The terminals are divided or allocated into M first groups in sequence from small to large or from large to small according to the terminal identifiers.

[0536] Optionally, the first grouping index associated with the terminal is obtained in the following manner:

[0537] A first operation is performed on the terminal identifier of the terminal to obtain a first operation result, and then a modulo operation is performed on M using the first operation result, and the result of the modulo operation is a first grouping index associated with the terminal.

[0538] Optionally, the first operation includes:

[0539] rounding operation on (UE_ID / (N*Ns)); or,

[0540] Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumPerPO)), or,

[0541] Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumforUEID));

[0542] Among them, N represents the number of paging frames PF in the paging cycle, Ns represents the number of PO in a PF, subgroupsNumPerPO represents the number of PEI groups into which a PO-associated terminal is divided, and subgroupsNumforUEID represents the number of PEI groups into which a terminal associated with a PO is divided based on the terminal identification.

[0543] Optionally, determining whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information includes:

[0544] In a case where the packets carried by the WUS include the first packet and the second packet, it is determined whether to monitor paging according to a wake-up indication of the second packet associated with the terminal.

[0545] Optionally, determining whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information includes:

[0546] When the first information includes the WUS and the PEI, and the WUS carries the wake-up indication of the second group, and the PEI only carries the paging advance indication information of the PEI group divided based on the terminal identity, it is determined whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal.

[0547] Optionally, when the first information includes the WUS and the PEI, and the WUS carries the wake-up indication of the second packet, and the PEI carries paging advance indication information of the PEI packet allocated by the core network, determining whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information includes:

[0548] determining whether to monitor paging according to a wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal; or,

[0549] Determine whether to monitor paging according to the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network and carried by the PEI associated with the terminal; or,

[0550] Determine whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal and the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network and carried by the PEI associated with the terminal.

[0551] Optionally, before the terminal monitors the first information, the radio frequency unit 1401 is further configured to:

[0552] Acquire paging configuration information, where the paging configuration information includes at least one of the following:

[0553] Indication information used to indicate whether to monitor both the WUS and the PEI;

[0554] Configuration information of the WUS.

[0555] Optionally, the configuration information of the WUS includes at least one of the following:

[0556] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PO are divided;

[0557] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group are divided;

[0558] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group of a PO are divided;

[0559] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with the PEI grouping based on the terminal identification of a PO are divided;

[0560] The number of WUS groups allocated by the core network;

[0561] The number of WUS groups divided based on terminal identification;

[0562] The number of bits in the WUS that carry the wake-up indication information.

[0563] Optionally, the number of WUS groups into which the one PO-associated terminal is divided is equal to the sum of the following two items:

[0564] The number of WUS groups allocated by the core network;

[0565] The number of WUS groups divided based on terminal identification.

[0566] Optionally, in a first case, the first information includes the PEI, and the first case includes at least one of the following:

[0567] The terminal monitors the WUS;

[0568] The WUS indicates waking up the terminal;

[0569] The WUS indicates monitoring of the PEI;

[0570] The terminal obtains an indication that both the WUS and the PEI should monitor.

[0571] Optionally, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information, including at least one of the following:

[0572] In the second case, determining to monitor paging;

[0573] In a third case, it is determined not to monitor paging;

[0574] The second situation includes at least one of the following:

[0575] The WUS and the PEI both indicate waking up the terminal;

[0576] At least one of the WUS and the PEI indicates waking up the terminal;

[0577] The third situation includes at least one of the following:

[0578] Neither the WUS nor the PEI indicates waking up the terminal;

[0579] At least one of the WUS and the PEI does not indicate waking up the terminal.

[0580] Optionally, when the first information includes WUS and PEI, determining whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information includes:

[0581] In the case that the terminal does not monitor the PEI, the terminal determines not to monitor paging; or,

[0582] In the case that the terminal fails to monitor the PEI, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the monitoring result or indication information of the WUS.

[0583] Optionally, when the first information includes WUS and PEI, determining whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information includes:

[0584] Determine whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information and network side configuration information;

[0585] Wherein, when the terminal fails to monitor the PEI, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the network side configuration information.

[0586] Optionally, the PO associated with the WUS is the same as the PO associated with the PEI; or,

[0587] The PEI-associated PO includes the WUS-associated PO.

[0588] The terminal can improve the power saving effect of the terminal.

[0589] It can be understood that the implementation process of each implementation method mentioned in this embodiment can refer to the relevant description of the above-mentioned method embodiment, and achieve the same or corresponding technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be repeated here.

[0590] An embodiment of the present application further provides a network side device, including a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used to send first information, and the first information includes: a wake-up signal WUS, or a wake-up signal WUS and a paging advance indication PEI.

[0591] like Fig.15 As shown, the network side device 1500 includes: an antenna 1501, a radio frequency device 1502, a baseband device 1503, a processor 1504 and a memory 1505. The antenna 1501 is connected to the radio frequency device 1502. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 1502 receives information through the antenna 1501 and sends the received information to the baseband device 1503 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 1503 processes the information to be sent and sends it to the radio frequency device 1502. The radio frequency device 1502 processes the received information and sends it out through the antenna 1501.

[0592] The method executed by the wireless access network device in the above embodiment may be implemented in the baseband device 1503, which includes a baseband processor.

[0593] The baseband device 1503 may include, for example, at least one baseband board on which a plurality of chips are arranged. Fig.15 As shown, one of the chips is, for example, a baseband processor, which is connected to the memory 1505 through a bus interface to call the program in the memory 1505 to execute the network device operations shown in the above method embodiment.

[0594] The radio access network device may further include a network interface 1506, which is, for example, a common public radio interface (CPRI).

[0595] Specifically, the network side device 1500 of the embodiment of the present invention further includes: instructions or programs stored in the memory 1505 and executable on the processor 1504, and the processor 1504 calls the instructions or programs in the memory 1505 to execute Figure 5 The methods executed by the modules shown achieve the same technical effects, and therefore will not be described here in detail to avoid repetition.

[0596] The radio frequency device 1502 is used to send first information, where the first information includes:

[0597] The wake-up signal WUS, or the wake-up signal WUS and the paging advance indication PEI.

[0598] Optionally, the WUS carries at least one of the following:

[0599] Packet-based wake-up indication;

[0600] Whether to monitor PEI instructions;

[0601] The packet-based wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the packet.

[0602] Optionally, the packet-based wake-up indication includes at least one of the following:

[0603] M wake-up indications of first groups, where the first groups are divided based on terminal identifiers, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1;

[0604] The wake-up indication of Q second groups is allocated by the core network, and Q is an integer greater than or equal to 0.

[0605] Optionally, the WUS is associated with K paging occasions PO, where K is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0606] Optionally, the terminals associated with the first PO are divided into M first groups; or,

[0607] The terminals associated with the first PEI group are divided into M first groups;

[0608] Among them, the first PO is the PO associated with the WUS, the first PEI group is the group contained in the PEI associated with the WUS, the first group is divided based on the terminal identifier, the WUS carries a wake-up indication based on the first group, and the wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the group, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0609] Optionally, the groups contained in the PEI associated with the WUS include:

[0610] All PEI groups corresponding to the second PO; or, PEI groups divided based on terminal identifiers in the PEI groups corresponding to the second PO;

[0611] Wherein, the second PO includes at least one of the following:

[0612] The PO associated with the WUS;

[0613] Some or all of the POs associated with the PEI.

[0614] Optionally, the division manner of the M first groups includes at least one of the following:

[0615] Perform a first operation on the terminal identifier to obtain a first operation result, and then perform a modulo operation on M using the first operation result. The modulo operation result plus a constant I is a group index of the terminal corresponding to the terminal identifier, where the value range of the group index is 0 to M+I-1, and the constant I is an integer greater than or equal to 0;

[0616] The terminals are divided or allocated into M first groups in sequence from small to large or from large to small according to the terminal identifiers.

[0617] Optionally, the first operation includes:

[0618] rounding operation on (UE_ID / (N*Ns)); or,

[0619] Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumPerPO)), or,

[0620] Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumforUEID));

[0621] Among them, N represents the number of paging frames PF in the paging cycle, Ns represents the number of PO in a PF, subgroupsNumPerPO represents the number of PEI groups into which a PO-associated terminal is divided, and subgroupsNumforUEID represents the number of PEI groups into which a terminal associated with a PO is divided based on the terminal identification.

[0622] Optionally, before sending the first information, the radio frequency device 1502 is further used to:

[0623] Sending paging configuration information, the paging configuration information including at least one of the following:

[0624] Indication information used to indicate whether both the WUS and the PEI monitor;

[0625] Configuration information of the WUS.

[0626] Optionally, the configuration information of the WUS includes at least one of the following:

[0627] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PO are divided;

[0628] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group are divided;

[0629] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group of a PO are divided;

[0630] The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with the PEI grouping based on the terminal identification of a PO are divided;

[0631] The number of WUS groups allocated by the core network;

[0632] The number of WUS groups divided based on terminal identification;

[0633] The number of bits in the WUS that carry the wake-up indication information.

[0634] Optionally, the PO associated with the WUS is the same as the PO associated with the PEI; or,

[0635] The PEI-associated PO includes the WUS-associated PO.

[0636] The above network side equipment can improve the power saving effect of the terminal.

[0637] An embodiment of the present application also provides a readable storage medium, on which a program or instruction is stored. When the program or instruction is executed by a processor, each process of the above-mentioned paging monitoring determination method or information sending method embodiment is implemented, and the same technical effect can be achieved. To avoid repetition, it will not be repeated here.

[0638] The processor is the processor in the terminal described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium, such as a computer read-only memory ROM, a random access memory RAM, a magnetic disk or an optical disk. In some examples, the readable storage medium may be a non-transient readable storage medium.

[0639] An embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, which includes a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is used to run programs or instructions to implement the various processes of the above-mentioned paging monitoring determination method or information sending method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be repeated here.

[0640] It should be understood that the chip mentioned in the embodiments of the present application can also be called a system-level chip, a system chip, a chip system or a system-on-chip chip, etc.

[0641] The embodiments of the present application further provide a computer program / program product, which is stored in a storage medium and is executed by at least one processor to implement the various processes of the above-mentioned paging monitoring determination method or information sending method embodiments, and can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be repeated here.

[0642] An embodiment of the present application also provides a wireless communication system, including: a terminal and a network side device, wherein the terminal can be used to execute the steps of the terminal side paging monitoring determination method provided in the embodiment of the present application, and the network side device can be used to execute the steps of the network side device side information sending method provided in the embodiment of the present application.

[0643] It should be noted that, in this article, the terms "comprise", "include" or any other variant thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, so that a process, method, article or device including a series of elements includes not only those elements, but also other elements not explicitly listed, or also includes elements inherent to such process, method, article or device. In the absence of further restrictions, an element defined by the sentence "comprises one..." does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in the process, method, article or device including the element. In addition, it should be pointed out that the scope of the method and device in the embodiment of the present application is not limited to performing functions in the order shown or discussed, and may also include performing functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in reverse order according to the functions involved, for example, the described method may be performed in an order different from that described, and various steps may also be added, omitted or combined. In addition, the features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

[0644] Through the description of the above implementation methods, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the above-mentioned embodiment methods can be implemented by means of a computer software product plus a necessary general hardware platform, and of course, can also be implemented by hardware. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM, RAM, disk, CD, etc.), including several instructions to enable a terminal or a network-side device to execute the methods described in each embodiment of the present application.

[0645] The embodiments of the present application are described above in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, but the present application is not limited to the above-mentioned specific implementation methods. The above-mentioned specific implementation methods are merely illustrative and not restrictive. Under the guidance of the present application, ordinary technicians in this field can also make many forms of implementation methods without departing from the purpose of the present application and the scope of protection of the claims, and these implementation methods are all within the protection of the present application.

Claims

1. A paging monitoring determination method, characterized in that: include: The terminal monitors first information, where the first information includes at least one of a wake-up signal WUS and a paging advance indication PEI: The terminal determines, according to at least one item of the first information, whether to monitor paging; The terminal is configured with any of the following: Configuration information of the WUS; Configuration information of the WUS and configuration information of the PEI.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that The WUS carries at least one of the following: Packet-based wake-up indication; Whether to monitor PEI instructions; The packet-based wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the packet.

3. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that The packet-based wake-up indication includes at least one of the following: M wake-up indications of first groups, where the first groups are divided based on terminal identifiers, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1; The wake-up indication of Q second groups is allocated by the core network, and Q is an integer greater than or equal to 0.

4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that The WUS is associated with K paging occasions PO, where K is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that The terminals associated with the first PO are divided into M first groups; or, The terminals associated with the first PEI group are divided into M first groups; Among them, the first PO is the PO associated with the WUS, the first PEI group is the group contained in the PEI associated with the WUS, the first group is divided based on the terminal identifier, the WUS carries a wake-up indication based on the first group, and the wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the group, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

6. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that The groups included in the PEI associated with the WUS include: All PEI groups corresponding to the second PO; or, PEI groups divided based on terminal identifiers in the PEI groups corresponding to the second PO; Wherein, the second PO includes at least one of the following: The PO associated with the WUS; Some or all of the POs associated with the PEI.

7. The method according to claim 3, 5 or 6, characterized in that: The division method of the M first groups includes at least one of the following: Perform a first operation on the terminal identifier to obtain a first operation result, and then perform a modulo operation on M using the first operation result. The modulo operation result plus a constant I is a group index of the terminal corresponding to the terminal identifier, where the value range of the group index is 0 to M+I-1, and the constant I is an integer greater than or equal to 0; The terminals are divided or allocated into M first groups in sequence from small to large or from large to small according to the terminal identifiers.

8. The method according to claim 3, 5, 6 or 7, characterized in that The first grouping index associated with the terminal is obtained in the following manner: A first operation is performed on the terminal identifier of the terminal to obtain a first operation result, and then a modulo operation is performed on M using the first operation result, and the result of the modulo operation is a first grouping index associated with the terminal.

9. The method according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that The first operation includes: rounding operation on (UE_ID / (N*Ns)); or, Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumPerPO)), or, Rounding operation of (UE_ID / (N*Ns*subgroupsNumforUEID)); Among them, N represents the number of paging frames PF in the paging cycle, Ns represents the number of PO in a PF, subgroupsNumPerPO represents the number of PEI groups into which a PO-associated terminal is divided, and subgroupsNumforUEID represents the number of PEI groups into which a terminal associated with a PO is divided based on the terminal identification.

10. The method according to claim 3, characterized in that In a case where the packet carried by the WUS includes the first packet and the second packet, the terminal determines, according to at least one item of the first information, whether to monitor paging, including: In a case where the packets carried by the WUS include the first packet and the second packet, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to a wake-up indication of the second packet associated with the terminal.

11. The method according to claim 3 or 10, characterized in that The terminal determines, according to at least one item of the first information, whether to monitor paging, including: When the first information includes the WUS and the PEI, and the WUS carries the wake-up indication of the second group, and the PEI only carries the paging advance indication information of the PEI group divided based on the terminal identity, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal.

12. The method according to claim 3 or 10, characterized in that In a case where the first information includes the WUS and the PEI, and the WUS carries the wake-up indication of the second packet, and the PEI carries paging advance indication information including the PEI packet allocated by the core network, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information, including: The terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal; or, The terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network and carried by the PEI associated with the terminal; or, The terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the wake-up indication of the second group associated with the terminal and the paging advance indication information of the PEI group assigned by the core network and carried by the PEI associated with the terminal.

13. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 12, characterized in that Before the terminal monitors the first information, the method further includes: The terminal acquires paging configuration information, where the paging configuration information includes at least one of the following: Indication information used to indicate whether to monitor both the WUS and the PEI; Configuration information of the WUS.

14. The method according to claim 13, characterized in that The WUS configuration information includes at least one of the following: The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PO are divided; The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group are divided; The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group of a PO are divided; The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with the PEI grouping based on the terminal identification of a PO are divided; The number of WUS groups allocated by the core network; The number of WUS groups divided based on terminal identification; The number of bits in the WUS that carry the wake-up indication information.

15. The method according to claim 14, characterized in that The number of WUS groups into which a PO associated terminal is divided is equal to the sum of the following two items: The number of WUS groups allocated by the core network; The number of WUS groups divided based on terminal identification.

16. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 15, characterized in that In a first case, the first information includes the PEI, and the first case includes at least one of the following: The terminal monitors the WUS; The WUS indicates waking up the terminal; The WUS indicates monitoring of the PEI; The terminal obtains an indication that both the WUS and the PEI should monitor.

17. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 16, characterized in that The terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information, including at least one of the following: In a second case, determining to monitor paging; In a third case, it is determined not to monitor paging; The second situation includes at least one of the following: The WUS and the PEI both indicate waking up the terminal; At least one of the WUS and the PEI indicates waking up the terminal; The third situation includes at least one of the following: Neither the WUS nor the PEI indicates waking up the terminal; At least one of the WUS and the PEI does not indicate waking up the terminal.

18. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 16, characterized in that In a case where the first information includes WUS and PEI, determining whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information includes: In the case that the terminal does not monitor the PEI, the terminal determines not to monitor paging; or, In the case that the terminal fails to monitor the PEI, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the monitoring result or indication information of the WUS.

19. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 16, characterized in that In a case where the first information includes WUS and PEI, determining whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information includes: Determine whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information and network side configuration information; Wherein, when the terminal fails to monitor the PEI, the terminal determines whether to monitor paging according to the network side configuration information.

20. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 19, characterized in that The PO associated with the WUS is the same as the PO associated with the PEI; or, The PEI-associated PO includes the WUS-associated PO.

21. A method for sending information, characterized in that: include: The network side device sends first information, where the first information includes: The wake-up signal WUS, or the wake-up signal WUS and the paging advance indication PEI.

22. The method according to claim 21, characterized in that The WUS carries at least one of the following: Packet-based wake-up indication; Whether to monitor PEI instructions; The packet-based wake-up indication is used to indicate whether to wake up the terminal associated with the packet.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein: The packet-based wake-up indication includes at least one of the following: M wake-up indications of first groups, where the first groups are divided based on terminal identifiers, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1; The wake-up indication of Q second groups is allocated by the core network, and Q is an integer greater than or equal to 0.

24. The method according to any one of claims 21 to 23, characterized in that Before the network side device sends the first information, the method further includes: The network side device sends paging configuration information, where the paging configuration information includes at least one of the following: Indication information used to indicate whether both the WUS and the PEI monitor; Configuration information of the WUS.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein: The WUS configuration information includes at least one of the following: The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PO are divided; The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group are divided; The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with a PEI group of a PO are divided; The number of WUS groups into which the terminals associated with the PEI grouping based on the terminal identification of a PO are divided; The number of WUS groups allocated by the core network; The number of WUS groups divided based on terminal identification; The number of bits in the WUS that carry the wake-up indication information.

26. A paging monitoring determination device, characterized in that: include: A monitoring module, configured to monitor first information, where the first information includes at least one of a wake-up signal WUS and a paging advance indication PEI: A determination module, configured to determine whether to monitor paging according to at least one item of the first information; The terminal is configured with any of the following: Configuration information of the WUS; Configuration information of the WUS and configuration information of the PEI.

27. An information sending device, characterized in that: include: The first sending module is used to send first information, where the first information includes: The wake-up signal WUS, or the wake-up signal WUS and the paging advance indication PEI.

28. A terminal, characterized in that: It includes a processor and a memory, the memory stores a program or instruction that can be run on the processor, and when the program or instruction is executed by the processor, the steps of the paging monitoring determination method according to any one of claims 1 to 19 are implemented.

29. A network side device, characterized in that: It includes a processor and a memory, the memory stores a program or instruction that can be run on the processor, and when the program or instruction is executed by the processor, the steps of the information sending method as described in any one of claims 20 to 24 are implemented.

30. A readable storage medium, characterized in that: The readable storage medium stores a program or instruction, and when the program or instruction is executed by the processor, the steps of the paging monitoring determination method as described in any one of claims 1 to 20 are implemented, or when the program or instruction is executed by the processor, the steps of the information sending method as described in any one of claims 21 to 25 are implemented.

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