Resource processing method and device, terminal, network side equipment and medium

Abstract

The invention discloses a resource processing method and device, a terminal, network side equipment and a medium, and belongs to the technical field of communication, and the resource processing method comprises the steps that the terminal determines a first signal based on first configuration information, and the first signal is used for notifying or requesting the network side equipment to activate a flexible transmission resource, notifying or requesting the network side equipment to deactivate the flexible transmission resources; and the terminal sends the first signal to the network side equipment.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] This application belongs to the field of communication technologies, and particularly relates to a resource processing method, apparatus, terminal, network-side device, and medium. Background Art

[0002] To improve the utilization rate of transmission resources, the network can configure flexible transmission resources. For flexible transmission resources, physical random access channel (PRACH) detection is only performed on the flexible transmission resources when they are in the active state, and when they are in the non-active state, PRACH detection does not need to be performed on the flexible transmission resources. At this time, the flexible transmission resources can also be used for scheduling other uplink transmissions.

[0003] However, there is currently no solution on how to activate or deactivate flexible transmission resources. Summary of the Invention

[0004] Embodiments of this application provide a resource processing method, apparatus, terminal, network-side device, and medium, which can solve the problem of how to activate or deactivate flexible transmission resources.

[0005] In a first aspect, a resource processing method is provided, which is executed by a terminal. The method includes: the terminal determines a first signal based on first configuration information, and the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate flexible transmission resources, notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources; the terminal sends the first signal to the network-side device.

[0006] In a second aspect, a resource processing method is provided, which is executed by a network-side device. The method includes: the network-side device receives the first signal sent by the terminal, the first signal is determined by the terminal based on first configuration information, and the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate flexible transmission resources, notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources; the network-side device activates or deactivates flexible transmission resources based on the first signal.

[0007] In a third aspect, a resource processing apparatus is provided. The resource processing apparatus includes: a determination module and a sending module; the determination module is configured to determine a first signal based on first configuration information, and the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate flexible transmission resources, notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources; the sending module is configured to send the first signal to the network-side device.

[0008] In a fourth aspect, a resource processing apparatus is provided. The resource processing apparatus includes: a receiving module and a processing module; the receiving module is configured to receive a first signal sent by a terminal, where the first signal is determined by the terminal based on first configuration information, and the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting a network-side device to activate flexible transmission resources, or notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources; the processing module is configured to activate or deactivate the flexible transmission resources based on the first signal.

[0009] In a fifth aspect, a terminal is provided. The terminal includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores a program or instructions that can be run on the processor. When the program or instructions are executed by the processor, the steps of the method described in the first aspect are implemented.

[0010] In a sixth aspect, a terminal is provided, including a processor and a communication interface. The processor is configured to determine a first signal based on first configuration information, where the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting a network-side device to activate flexible transmission resources, or notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources; the communication interface is configured to send the first signal to the network-side device.

[0011] In a seventh aspect, a network-side device is provided. The network-side device includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores a program or instructions that can be run on the processor. When the program or instructions are executed by the processor, the steps of the method described in the second aspect are implemented.

[0012] In an eighth aspect, a network-side device is provided, including a processor and a communication interface. The communication interface is configured to receive a first signal sent by a terminal, where the first signal is determined by the terminal based on first configuration information, and the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting a network-side device to activate flexible transmission resources, or notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources; the processor is configured to activate or deactivate the flexible transmission resources based on the first signal.

[0013] In a ninth aspect, a readable storage medium is provided. The readable storage medium stores a program or instructions. When the program or instructions are executed by a processor, the steps of the method described in the first aspect are implemented, or the steps of the method described in the second aspect are implemented.

[0014] In a tenth aspect, a wireless communication system is provided, including: a terminal and a network-side device. The terminal can be used to execute the steps of the method described in the first aspect, and the network-side device can be used to execute the steps of the method described in the second aspect.

[0015] In an eleventh aspect, a chip is provided, the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to run a program or an instruction to implement the method described in the first aspect, or to implement the method described in the second aspect.

[0016] In a twelfth aspect, a computer program / program product is provided, the computer program / program product is stored in a storage medium, and the program / program product is executed by at least one processor to implement the steps of the method described in the first aspect, or to implement the steps of the method described in the second aspect.

[0017] In an embodiment of the present application, the terminal may determine a first signal based on first configuration information, and the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting the network side device to activate flexible transmission resources, notifying or requesting the network side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources; and the terminal may send the first signal to the network side device. Through this solution, since the terminal can first determine the first signal for notifying or requesting the network side device to activate flexible transmission resources, or for notifying or requesting the network side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources based on the configuration information, and then send the first signal to the network side device to enable the network side device to activate or deactivate flexible transmission resources, a specific solution for activating or deactivating flexible transmission resources is provided. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0018] Figure 1 is a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which embodiments of the present application can be applied;

[0019] Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of physical random access channel transmission opportunity (PRACH Occasion, RO) resources at a certain moment in the related art;

[0020] Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of 2 actually transmitted SSBs associated with 1 RO in the related art;

[0021] Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of an RO set determined according to the PRACH repetition times in the related art;

[0022] Figure 5 is a flowchart of a resource processing method provided by an embodiment of the present application;

[0023] Figure 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a resource processing device provided by an embodiment of the present application;

[0024] Figure 7 is a schematic structural diagram of another resource processing device provided by an embodiment of the present application;

[0025] Figure 8 It is a schematic diagram of a communication device provided by an embodiment of the present application;

[0026] Figure 9 It is a schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a terminal provided by an embodiment of the present application;

[0027] Figure 10 It is a schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a network-side device provided by an embodiment of the present application. Detailed implementation manners

[0028] Next, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art belong to the scope of protection of the present application.

[0029] The terms "first", "second", etc. in the present application are used to distinguish similar objects, rather than to describe a specific order or sequence. It should be understood that such terms can be interchanged under appropriate circumstances, 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 usually of the same type, and the number of objects is not limited. For example, the first object can be one or multiple. In addition, "or" in the present application means at least one of the connected objects. For example, "A or B" covers three scenarios, namely, Scenario 1: including A and not including B; Scenario 2: including B and not including A; Scenario 3: including both A and B. The character " / " generally indicates an "or" relationship between the associated objects before and after.

[0030] The term "indication" in the present application can be either a direct indication (or an explicit indication) or an indirect indication (or an implicit indication). Among them, a direct indication can be understood as that the sender clearly informs the receiver of specific information, operations to be performed, or request results, etc. in the sent indication; an indirect indication can be understood as that the receiver determines the corresponding information according to the indication sent by the sender, or makes a judgment and determines the operations to be performed or request results, etc. according to the judgment result.

[0031] It should be noted that the technology described in the embodiments of this application is not limited to the Long Term Evolution (LTE) / LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) system, and 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 this application are often used interchangeably, and the described technology can be used in the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, as well as in other systems and radio technologies. The following description describes the New Radio (NR) system for example purposes, and the NR terminology is used in most of the following descriptions, but these technologies can also be applied to systems other than the NR system, such as the 6th Generation (6 th Generation, 6G) communication system.

[0032] Figure 1A block diagram of a wireless communication system to which embodiments of the present application can be applied 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 personal computer, a laptop computer, a notebook computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a handheld computer, a netbook, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a mobile internet device (MID), an augmented reality (AR), a virtual reality (VR) device, a robot, a wearable device, a flight vehicle, a vehicle user equipment (VUE), a shipborne device, a pedestrian user equipment (PUE), a smart home (home appliances with wireless communication functions, such as refrigerators, TVs, washing machines or furniture, etc.), a game console, a personal computer (PC), a teller machine or a self-service machine, etc. Wearable devices include: smart watches, smart bracelets, smart earphones, smart glasses, smart jewelry (smart bracelets, smart bracelets, smart rings, smart necklaces, smart anklets, smart ankle chains, etc.), smart wristbands, smart clothing, etc. Among them, the vehicle user equipment can also be called a vehicle terminal, a vehicle controller, a vehicle module, a vehicle component, a vehicle chip or a vehicle unit, etc. It should be noted that the specific type of the terminal 11 is not limited in the embodiments of the present application. The network-side device 12 can include an access network device or a core network device. Among them, the access network device can also be called a radio access network (RAN) device, a radio access network function or a radio access network unit. The access network device can include a base station, a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP) or a wireless fidelity (WiFi) node, etc.Among them, the base station can be referred to as Node B (NB), Evolved Node B (eNB), the next generation Node B (gNB), New Radio Node B (NR Node B), access point, Relay Base Station (RBS), Serving Base Station (SBS), Base Transceiver Station (BTS), radio base station, radio transceiver, Basic Service Set (BSS), Extended Service Set (ESS), home Node B (HNB), home evolved Node B, Transmission Reception Point (TRP), or some other suitable term in the art. 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 this application, only the base station in the NR system is taken as an example for introduction, and the specific type of the base station is not limited.

[0033] Next, with reference to the accompanying drawings, the resource processing method, device, terminal, network-side device, and medium provided by the embodiments of this application will be described in detail through some embodiments and their application scenarios.

[0034] Currently, the configuration parameters of the PRACH resource and the Synchronization Signal Block RO (SSB-RO) are configured in System Information Block (SIB) 1. In NR, a cell can configure multiple frequency-division multiplexed ROs in the time-domain position for transmitting the PRACH. At a certain moment, the number of frequency-division multiplexed ROs that can be performed can be: {1, 2, 4, 8}, and specifically, it can be configured through the high-layer parameter msg1-FDM.

[0035] The random access preamble (i.e., Preamble) can only be transmitted on the time-domain resources configured by the parameter PRACHConfigurationIndex and the frequency-domain resources configured by the parameter msg1-FDM. The PRACH frequency-domain resource n RA ∈{0, 1, …, M - 1}, where M is equal to the high-layer parameter msg1-FDM. At the initial access, the PRACH frequency-domain resource n RANumber the resources in ascending order starting from the RO resource with the lowest frequency within the initial active uplink bandwidth part (i.e.), otherwise, the PRACH frequency-domain resource n_RA is numbered in ascending order starting from the RO resource with the lowest frequency within the initial active uplink bandwidth part (i.e., active uplink bandwidth part). For example, as Figure 2 shown, the number of frequency-division multiplexed ROs at a certain moment is 8 (i.e., the parameter msg1-FDM = 8), and the RO resources are numbered RO#0 to RO#7 in ascending order of frequency.

[0036] In NR, there is an association relationship between ROs and the actually transmitted SSBs. The ROs are associated with the SSBs in the order of frequency domain (e.g., from low frequency to high frequency) first and then time domain. One SSB can be associated with multiple consecutive ROs, or multiple SSBs can be associated with one RO. At this time, different SSBs correspond to different Preambles, which are configured by the network through the parameter ssb-perRACH-OccasionAndCB-PreamblesPerSSB. For example, one SSB can be associated with 8 consecutive ROs, or 8 SSBs can be associated with one RO. After all SSBs are associated with ROs in one round, an SSB-RO mapping cycle (i.e., SSB-RO mapping cycle) is formed. The association period (i.e., association period) from one SSB to ROs may contain one or more SSB-RO mapping cycles; the association pattern period (i.e., association pattern period) from one SSB to ROs may contain one or more SSB-RO association periods; the mapping from SSBs to ROs is repeated in cycles with the association pattern period, and the maximum association pattern period is 160 ms.

[0037] Generally, the base station can use different beams to transmit different SSBs, where the number of SSBs is configured by the parameter ssb-PositionsInBurst. For Frequency Range (FR) 2, the maximum number of SSBs is 64. The terminal selects the RO associated with the SSB with good signal, or the combination of the associated RO and preamble, according to the intensity of the received downlink beam / SSB to send Msg1 (i.e., Message 1). In this way, the network can determine the SSB selected by the terminal based on the RO of the received Preamble, or the combination of RO and preamble, and send Msg2 on the downlink beam corresponding to this SSB to ensure the reception quality of the downlink signal.

[0038] For example, as Figure 2As shown in the figure, the number of frequency-division multiplexed ROs at a moment is 8, and the number of actually transmitted SSBs is 4, namely SSB#0, SSB#1, SSB#2, SSB#3, and each SSB is associated with 2 ROs. If the terminal determines to send a PRACH / Msg1 on the RO corresponding to SSB#0, then the terminal selects one RO from RO#0 and RO#1 to send the PRACH.

[0039] For another example, as Figure 3 shown in the figure, the number of frequency-division multiplexed ROs at a moment is 2, and the number of actually transmitted SSBs is 8, namely SSB#0, SSB#1,..., SSB#7, and every 2 SSBs are associated with 1 RO. When multiple SSBs share one RO, the Preamble sets associated with these multiple SSBs are different, that is, the same Preamble cannot belong to the Preamble sets associated with different SSBs at the same time; taking RO#0 as an example, assume that RO#0 has a total of 60 Preambles, among which the preambles with indices (i.e., index) from 0 to 29 can be associated with SSB#0, and the preambles with indices from 30 to 59 can be associated with SSB#1.

[0040] Before sending the PRACH, the terminal can first select an SSB with an RSRP (Reference Signal Receiving Power) higher than the threshold according to the received reference signal receiving power of the beam (or SSB); if the RSRPs of multiple SSBs are all higher than the threshold, the terminal can select any one of the SSBs with an RSRP higher than the threshold; if there is no SSB with an RSRP higher than the threshold, then the terminal can select an SSB based on the implementation.

[0041] Based on the network configuration, the terminal can obtain the correspondence between SSBs and ROs. After selecting an SSB, the RO corresponding to the selected SSB will be used as the RO for sending the PRACH / Preamble / Msg1. If the selected SSB is associated with multiple ROs, then the terminal can select one of the ROs to send the PRACH / Preamble / Msg1.

[0042] For example, as Figure 2 shown in the figure, assume that the terminal selects SSB#1, then the terminal can select one from RO#2 and RO#3 to send the PRACH / Msg1.

[0043] For another example, as Figure 3As shown, if the terminal selects SSB#1, then the terminal can select the available RO (i.e., RO#0 and RO#4) associated with SSB#1 that is closest to the current system time for PRACH / Msg1 transmission. Among the selected ROs, the terminal selects a preamble from the preamble set associated with the selected SSB for PRACH transmission. If one RO is associated with 2 SSBs, then in the available preamble set associated with the SSB in one RO, the preambles are divided into two subsets, with each subset corresponding to one SSB. The terminal will select a certain preamble sequence from the preamble subset corresponding to the selected SSB for PRACH / Msg1 transmission.

[0044] PRACH repeated transmission is introduced in Rel-18 to enhance uplink coverage. For PRACH repeated transmission, the terminal needs to repeatedly transmit the preamble on multiple ROs at different time domain positions associated with the same SSB, and the number of repetitions can be {2, 4, 8}. After determining the PRACH repetition count, the terminal needs to determine the RO set (i.e., RO group), and the number of valid ROs in the RO group is equal to the PRACH repetition count. Assume the PRACH repetition count is N, and the RO group determination rule is: First, determine the starting RO of the RO group, and then determine the remaining N - 1 ROs of the RO group. The remaining N - 1 ROs of each RO group are the ROs associated with the same SSB, the same frequency position, and the same preamble set as the starting RO.

[0045] For example, as Figure 4 shown, assume the PRACH repetition count is 2, then for SSB#0, the RO sets that can be determined are: the first RO set, the second RO set, the third RO set, and the fourth RO set.

[0046] To control the network's PRACH detection complexity and network power consumption or control the overhead of PRACH resources, flexible PRACH resources need to be configured. For flexible PRACH resources, they only need to be activated when needed. In this way, when not activated, the network does not need to perform PRACH detection on flexible ROs, and at this time, the resources of flexible ROs can also be used for scheduling other uplink transmissions, improving resource utilization. Additionally, the network may not need to detect some resources on flexible ROs. Although the network cannot use such flexible ROs for scheduling other uplink channels in this case, it can reduce the network reception complexity to a certain extent and save network power consumption.

[0047] To improve the utilization rate of transmission resources, the network can be configured with flexible RO (i.e., flexible RO). For flexible RO, PRACH detection is only performed on the flexible RO when it is in the active state, while in the non-active state, PRACH detection is not required on the flexible RO. At this time, the flexible transmission resources can also be used to schedule other uplink transmissions. However, there is currently no solution for how to activate or deactivate flexible RO.

[0048] To solve the above problems, in the resource processing method provided in the embodiments of the present application, the terminal can determine a first signal based on the first configuration information. The first signal is used for any of the following: notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate the flexible RO, notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate the flexible RO; and the terminal can send the first signal to the network-side device. Through this solution, since the terminal can first determine the first signal for notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate the flexible RO, or for notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate the flexible RO based on the configuration information, and then send the first signal to the network-side device to enable the network-side device to activate or deactivate the flexible RO, a specific solution for activating or deactivating the flexible RO is provided.

[0049] The embodiments of the present application provide a resource processing method. Figure 5 The flowchart of the resource processing method provided in the embodiments of the present application is shown. As Figure 5 shown, the resource processing method provided in the embodiments of the present application may include the following steps 501 to 504.

[0050] Step 501: The terminal determines a first signal based on the first configuration information.

[0051] Wherein, the first signal is used for any of the following: notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resources, notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resources.

[0052] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the flexible transmission resources may be any PRACH resources that can be activated or deactivated; for example, the flexible transmission resources may be the above flexible RO, or some or all of the preambles on the flexible RO.

[0053] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above flexible transmission resource may also be at least one of time-frequency resources, demodulation reference signal (DMRS) resources, and sequences used for other signal transmissions. For example, the flexible transmission resource may be: a flexible physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission opportunity (i.e., flexible PUSCH occasion), a flexible paging opportunity (i.e., flexible paging occasion), a flexible message A physical uplink shared channel transmission opportunity (i.e., flexible MsgA PUSCH occasion), a flexible physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission opportunity (i.e., flexible PDSCH occasion), or a flexible physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission opportunity (i.e., flexible PDCCH occasion), etc. At this time, the above first signal may be used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate the sending and receiving of relevant signals and channels, and notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate the sending and receiving of relevant signals and channels.

[0054] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, activating the above flexible transmission resource may be understood as at least one of the following: allowing the terminal to send a PRACH signal on the flexible transmission resource, and allowing the network to detect a PRACH signal on the flexible transmission resource.

[0055] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, deactivating the above flexible transmission resource may be understood as at least one of the following: not allowing the terminal to send a PRACH signal on the flexible transmission resource, and not allowing the network to detect a PRACH signal on the flexible transmission resource.

[0056] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above first configuration information may include at least one of the following 1.1 to 1.6:

[0057] 1.1. Synchronization reference configuration information, which is used to configure the synchronization reference object of the signal;

[0058] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above synchronization reference object may include at least one of the following:

[0059] SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS sent on the first carrier;

[0060] SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on the second carrier;

[0061] SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a co-frequency carrier of the second carrier;

[0062] SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on the third carrier;

[0063] SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a co-frequency carrier of the third carrier;

[0064] Global Positioning System (GPS) timing;

[0065] Among them, any two of the above-mentioned first carrier, the above-mentioned second carrier, and the above-mentioned third carrier may be the same or different.

[0066] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above-mentioned first carrier may be the downlink carrier corresponding to the carrier where the above-mentioned flexible transmission resource is located except for the above-mentioned flexible transmission resource, the above-mentioned second carrier may be the downlink carrier corresponding to the carrier where the flexible transmission resource is located, and the above-mentioned third carrier may be any other carrier.

[0067] 1.2. Signal form configuration information, which is used to configure the signal into a signal of the first form;

[0068] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above-mentioned signal of the first form may include at least one of the following:

[0069] PRACH;

[0070] Sounding Reference Signal (SRS);

[0071] Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH);

[0072] PUSCH;

[0073] Other activation signals that trigger downlink signal transmission or downlink channel transmission;

[0074] Other on-demand signals.

[0075] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above-mentioned PUSCH may be a Configured Grant (CG) PUSCH.

[0076] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above-mentioned other activation signals that trigger downlink signal transmission or downlink channel transmission may be activation signals that trigger SSB transmission.

[0077] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, when the terminal receives the activation signal for triggering the SSB transmission, it can be considered that the corresponding flexible transmission resource has been activated.

[0078] It should be noted that the SSB in the embodiments of the present application may also be any module including at least one of synchronization signals, broadcast signals, broadcast channels, and other system message downlink broadcast channels.

[0079] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above-mentioned other on-demand signals may be on-demand SSBs.

[0080] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, when the terminal receives the above-mentioned on-demand SSB, it can be considered that the corresponding flexible transmission resource has been activated.

[0081] 1.3. Resource configuration information, which is used to configure the resources of the signal;

[0082] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the resources of the above-mentioned signal may include at least one of the following: time domain resources, frequency domain resources, sequence resources, and spatial domain resources.

[0083] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the configuration of the resources of the above-mentioned signal may include at least one of the following:

[0084] Configuring the resources of the above-mentioned signal in the same serving cell as the above-mentioned flexible transmission resource;

[0085] Configuring the resources of the above-mentioned signal in different serving cells from the above-mentioned flexible transmission resource;

[0086] Configuring the resources of the above-mentioned signal in the same bandwidth part (BWP) as the above-mentioned flexible transmission resource;

[0087] Configuring the resources of the above-mentioned signal in different BWPs from the above-mentioned flexible transmission resource;

[0088] Configuring the resources of the above-mentioned signal on the same carrier as the above-mentioned flexible transmission resource;

[0089] Configuring the resources of the above-mentioned signal on different carriers from the above-mentioned flexible transmission resource;

[0090] Configuring the resources of the above-mentioned signal in the same frequency band as the above-mentioned flexible transmission resource;

[0091] Configuring the resources of the above-mentioned signal in different frequency bands from the above-mentioned flexible transmission resource;

[0092] Configuring the second association relationship between the resources of the above-mentioned signal and different flexible transmission resources;

[0093] Configure the resources of the above signals as resources for activating or deactivating other on-demand signals.

[0094] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the terminal may activate the flexible transmission resources corresponding to one or more secondary cells (SCs) through the activation signal on the primary secondary cell (PScell) or the PScell.

[0095] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the terminal may activate the flexible transmission resources corresponding to one or more active bandwidth parts (BWPs) through the activation signal on the initial BWP (i.e., the Initial BWP).

[0096] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the terminal may activate the flexible transmission resources corresponding to one or more supplementary carriers through the activation signal on the normal uplink carrier (i.e., the normal UL carrier).

[0097] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, for the scenario of multiple frequency bands (i.e., bands) in a single cell, the terminal may activate the flexible transmission resources on one or more other bands among the multiple bands through the activation signal on a certain band among the multiple bands.

[0098] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the resources of the above other on-demand signals may be the activation signal resources of the on demand SSB.

[0099] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above second association relationship may include at least one of the following:

[0100] The resources of the above signals to the cell where the flexible transmission resources are located;

[0101] The resources of the above signals to the carrier where the flexible transmission resources are located;

[0102] The resources of the above signals to the frequency band where the flexible transmission resources are located;

[0103] The resources of the above signals to the type of the flexible transmission resources;

[0104] The resources of the above signals to the types of different preamble groups (which may also be referred to as preamble sets, i.e., preamble group) in the flexible transmission resources;

[0105] Different functional combinations (i.e., feature combination) of the resources of the above signals to flexible transmission resources.

[0106] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the type of the above flexible transmission resources may be: flexible transmission resources not limited to different service types.

[0107] Exemplarily, the flexible transmission resources for Internet of Things (IoT) services and the flexible transmission resources for Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) services may be different flexible transmission resources. At this time, the resources of the above first signal may be reserved independently. For example, for each associated SSB, different preamble identifiers on the normal RO are reserved to activate the flexible transmission resources of these two types of services.

[0108] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, for different preamble groups in the flexible transmission resources, different resources of the above first signal, such as preamble identifiers on the normal RO, may be reserved independently for the activation of the corresponding preamble group.

[0109] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, for the PRACH resources on the flexible transmission resources used to indicate a certain functional combination (for example, the functional combination supporting the PRACH repetition function and the Msg3 repetition function), the corresponding specific resources of the above first signal (for example, preamble set 1 on the normal RO) may be used for activation; for the flexible transmission resources used to indicate another functional combination (for example, the functional combination of Reduced Capability (RedCap) terminal function and small data transmission function), the corresponding specific another group of resources of the above first signal (for example, preamble set 2 on the normal RO) is used for activation.

[0110] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the association relationship between the resources of the above signal and the reference signal may satisfy at least one of the following:

[0111] The resources of the above signal are associated with the index of the same reference signal;

[0112] The resources of the above signal are associated with the indices of multiple reference signals.

[0113] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above reference signals include but are not limited to: SSB, Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS), TRS, MsgA, MsgA PUSCH, PRACH, or CG PUSCH. The reference signal may include the reference signal of one cell or the reference signals of multiple cells. The included cells may have the same frequency band or different frequency bands, and may also be within the same band or different bands.

[0114] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the association between the above reference signal and the resource of the above first signal also includes but is not limited to: the association between SSB and the resource of the first signal, the association between CSI-RS and the resource of the first signal, the association between TRS and the resource of the first signal, the association between the PRACH resource and the resource of the first signal, the association between the MsgA resource and the resource of the first signal, the association between the MsgA PUSCH resource and the resource of the first signal, and the association between CG PUSCH and the resource of the first signal.

[0115] Exemplarily, assuming that the above reference signal is SSB, then N preambles can be reserved on the normal RO and are respectively mapped one-to-one to N SSB indices; where N can be configured by the network or determined in advance. For example, N can be the number of SSBs associated with the RO (when the number of SSBs is less than 1, N can be 1).

[0116] Exemplarily again, within a certain number of preambles allocated or default on the normal RO, one or more preamble indices are reserved for each SSB index associated with the RO for the transmission of the above first signal; for example, the reserved preamble index can be a specific preamble index in the Contention Free Random Access (CFRA) preamble.

[0117] 1.4. Power configuration information, which is used to configure the power parameters of the signal;

[0118] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above power parameters may include at least one of the following: initial power, power ramp step.

[0119] 1.5. Repetition count configuration information, which is used to configure the repetition count of signal transmission;

[0120] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the number of repetitions of the above signal transmission may include at least one of the following: the number of repetitions of each signal transmission, the maximum number of repetitions of signal transmission.

[0121] 1.6. Spatial domain parameter configuration information, which is used to configure the first association relationship between the signal and the second signal.

[0122] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above second signal may include but is not limited to at least one of the following: SSB, CSI-RS, SRS, PRACH.

[0123] In the embodiments of the present application, since the above first configuration information may include at least one of the above 1.1 to 1.6, the above first signal may be determined based on different first configuration information, thereby improving the flexibility of determining the first signal.

[0124] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above first signal may include at least one of the following 2.1 to 2.5:

[0125] 2.1. Different first time resource and second time resource, where the first time resource is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource, and the second time resource is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource;

[0126] 2.2. Different first frequency domain resource and second frequency domain resource, where the first frequency domain resource is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource, and the second frequency domain resource is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource;

[0127] 2.3. Different first spatial resource and second spatial resource, where the first spatial resource is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource, and the second spatial resource is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource;

[0128] For example, the above first signal associated with two different reference signal indexes may cause one of the reference signal indexes to be used to notify or request the network side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource, and the other reference signal index to be used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource.

[0129] 2.4. Different first signal sequence and second signal sequence, where the first signal sequence is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource, and the second signal sequence is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource;

[0130] 2.5. The third signal and the fourth signal. The third signal is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource, and the fourth signal resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource.

[0131] In the embodiments of the present application, since the above first signal may include at least one of the above 2.1 to 2.5, the network-side device can be notified or requested to activate the flexible transmission resource, or the network-side device can be notified or requested to deactivate the flexible transmission resource through different first signals, thereby improving the flexibility of designing the first signal.

[0132] Step 502: The terminal sends a first signal to the network-side device.

[0133] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above first signal may be a PRACH signal. Exemplarily, the above step 502 may be specifically implemented through the following step 502a.

[0134] Step 502a: The terminal uses the PRACH resource to send a PRACH signal to the network-side device.

[0135] Among them, the above PRACH resource may include at least one of the following:

[0136] A group of PRACH preambles on the first transmission resource;

[0137] Part of the first transmission resource;

[0138] Extra independently configured transmission resources;

[0139] Part of the specific PRACH preambles on the flexible transmission resource;

[0140] Part of the flexible transmission resource;

[0141] Among them, the above first transmission resource is a transmission resource other than the above flexible transmission resource.

[0142] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, a starting preamble index may be configured in the preambles on the RO except for those used for contention-based random access (CBRA) and CFRA, as the first preamble for activating the flexible transmission resource. When the number M of SSBs mapped to an RO is greater than 1, M consecutive preambles starting from the starting preamble index are mapped to the M SSBs one by one. The terminal can determine which preamble to select to activate the flexible transmission resource according to the SSB measurement.

[0143] In the embodiments of the present application, when the first signal is a PRACH signal, the terminal can use different PRACH resources to send the PRACH signal to the network-side device, so the flexibility of sending the first signal can be further improved.

[0144] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the first signal is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resources. Exemplarily, step 502 can be specifically implemented by the following step 502b.

[0145] Step 502b: When a first condition is satisfied, the terminal sends a first signal to the network-side device.

[0146] Wherein, the first condition may include at least one of the following:

[0147] The terminal performs random access on the first transmission resource;

[0148] The number of times the terminal fails to receive a random access response message on the first transmission resource reaches a first number;

[0149] The terminal measures the reference signal associated with the first transmission resource, and the signal quality parameter of the measured reference signal fails to meet the first threshold requirement;

[0150] The terminal still fails to complete random access after performing the second number of PRACH retransmissions on the first transmission resource;

[0151] The terminal still fails to complete random access after successively performing 2-step random access and 4-step random access;

[0152] The historical transmission times of the first signal are less than or not greater than a third number;

[0153] The TA of the terminal for sending the first signal is a valid TA;

[0154] The duration between the current moment of the system and the moment when the terminal last sent the first signal is greater than or not less than a first duration;

[0155] The power of the terminal for sending the PRACH signal on the first transmission resource is greater than or not less than a first power threshold;

[0156] The terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is different from the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource;

[0157] The terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is different from the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource, and the number of random access response messages received by the terminal within a second duration is greater than or not less than a first quantity threshold;

[0158] The terminal has triggered the transmission of an activation signal or a deactivation signal for network energy saving;

[0159] The terminal has detected a demand signal;

[0160] The duration between the current moment of the system and the moment when the terminal last sent a signal to deactivate the above flexible transmission resources is greater than or not less than a third duration;

[0161] The duration of the most recent activation of the above flexible transmission resources is greater than or not less than a fourth duration;

[0162] Wherein, the above first transmission resource is a transmission resource other than the above flexible transmission resources.

[0163] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above first number, the above second number, and the above third number can all be any numbers configured according to actual usage requirements, and any two of the first number, the second number, and the third number can be the same or different.

[0164] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above signal quality parameters may include, but are not limited to: Reference Signal Receiving Power (RSRP), Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ), or Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR), etc.

[0165] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above first threshold requirement corresponds to the above signal quality parameter.

[0166] For example, when the SS-RSRP measured by all SSBs associated with normal RO is lower than an SS-RSRP threshold, the terminal may send the above first signal.

[0167] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above first duration, the above second duration, and the above third duration can all be any durations configured according to actual usage requirements, and any two of the first duration, the second duration, and the third duration can be the same or different.

[0168] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above second duration can be the length of a Random Access Response window (RAR window), or the length of multiple RAR windows, or a window additionally configured by the network, or a window specified by an additional protocol (for example, 10 ms).

[0169] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above first quantity threshold may be configured by the network, or specified by the protocol, or related to at least one of the number of SSBs associated with the normal RO and the number of configured preambles.

[0170] For example, the first quantity threshold may be the value obtained by rounding down the total number of preambles configured on the normal RO divided by the number of SSBs associated with the normal RO.

[0171] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above first power threshold may be PCmax.

[0172] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the activation signal for network energy saving may be the activation signal for activating the on-demand specific signal.

[0173] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above specific signal may be at least one of the following: SSB, paging, PDSCH, PDCCH, PRS, TRS signal / channel.

[0174] For example, when the terminal sends an uplink wake-up signal (i.e., the above specific signal) for activating the on-demand SSB, the terminal may send an uplink activation signal (i.e., the above first signal) for activating the flexible transmission resource.

[0175] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above on-demand signal may include but is not limited to: SSB, paging, PDSCH, PDCCH, PRS, TRS signal / channel.

[0176] For example, when the on demand SSB is detected and the network does not need to save energy at this time, the corresponding flexible transmission resource may be activated.

[0177] In the embodiments of the present application, since the terminal may send a first signal to the network-side device to notify or request the network-side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource when the above first condition is satisfied, the terminal may send the activation signal of the flexible transmission resource under different conditions, thereby improving the flexibility of sending the activation signal to avoid resource conflicts in sending the activation signal.

[0178] Optionally, in the embodiments of the present application, the above first signal is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the above flexible transmission resource. Exemplarily, step 502 may be specifically implemented by the following step 502c.

[0179] Step 502c: When the second condition is satisfied, the terminal sends a first signal to the network-side device.

[0180] Among them, the above second condition may include at least one of the following:

[0181] The terminal performs random access on the first transmission resource;

[0182] The number of times the terminal fails to receive a random access response message on the first transmission resource does not reach the first number;

[0183] The terminal measures the reference signal associated with the first transmission resource, and the signal quality parameter of the measured reference signal meets the first threshold requirement;

[0184] The terminal performs the second number of PRACH retransmissions on the first transmission resource;

[0185] The terminal performs 2-step random access and does not trigger 4-step random access;

[0186] The historical transmission times of the first signal are greater than or not less than the third number;

[0187] The TA of the first signal sent by the terminal is an invalid TA;

[0188] The duration between the current moment of the system and the moment when the terminal last sent the first signal is less than or not greater than the first duration;

[0189] The power of the PRACH signal sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource is less than or not greater than the first power threshold;

[0190] The terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is the same as the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource;

[0191] The terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is different from the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource, and the number of random access response messages received by the terminal within the second duration is less than or not greater than the first quantity threshold;

[0192] The terminal does not trigger the sending of an activation signal or a deactivation signal for network energy saving;

[0193] The terminal does not detect an on-demand signal;

[0194] The duration between the current moment of the system and the moment when the terminal last sent a signal to activate the above flexible transmission resource is greater than or not less than the fifth duration;

[0195] Among them, the above first transmission resource is a transmission resource other than the above flexible transmission resource.

[0196] For the specific description of step 502c, reference may be specifically made to the relevant description in step 502b above. To avoid repetition, it will not be elaborated here.

[0197] In the embodiment of the present application, since when the above second condition is satisfied, the terminal can send a first signal to the network-side device for notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate the above flexible transmission resource, the terminal can send the deactivation signal of the flexible transmission resource under different conditions, thereby improving the flexibility of sending the deactivation signal to avoid resource conflicts in sending the deactivation signal.

[0198] Step 503: The network-side device receives the first signal sent by the terminal.

[0199] Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, the above first signal may be a PRACH signal. Exemplarily, step 503 may be specifically implemented by the following step 503a.

[0200] Step 502a: The network-side device uses the PRACH resource to receive the PRACH signal sent by the terminal.

[0201] Wherein, the above PRACH resource may include at least one of the following:

[0202] A group of PRACH preambles on the first transmission resource;

[0203] Part of the first transmission resource;

[0204] Extra independently configured transmission resources;

[0205] Part of the specific PRACH preambles on the flexible transmission resource;

[0206] Part of the flexible transmission resource;

[0207] Wherein, the above first transmission resource is a transmission resource other than the above flexible transmission resource. Step 504: The network-side device activates or deactivates the flexible transmission resource based on the first signal.

[0208] Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, when the above first signal is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource, the terminal can activate the flexible transmission resource according to the notification or request of the first signal.

[0209] Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, when the above first signal is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the above flexible transmission resource, the terminal can deactivate the flexible transmission resource according to the notification or request of the first signal.

[0210] For other descriptions in the functional embodiments themselves, specific references may be made to the relevant descriptions in the above embodiments. To avoid repetition, they will not be elaborated here.

[0211] In the resource processing method provided in the embodiments of the present application, since the terminal can first determine, based on the configuration information, a first signal for notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate flexible transmission resources, or for notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources, and then send the first signal to the network-side device, the network-side device can, after receiving the first signal, activate or deactivate the flexible transmission resources based on the first signal, thereby providing a specific solution for activating or deactivating flexible transmission resources.

[0212] In the resource processing method provided in the embodiments of the present application, the execution subject may be a resource processing device. In the embodiments of the present application, taking the resource processing device executing the resource processing method as an example, the resource processing device provided in the embodiments of the present application is described.

[0213] Combined with Figure 6 , the embodiments of the present application provide a resource processing device 60, and the resource processing device 60 may include: a determination module 61 and a sending module 62.

[0214] Among them, the determination module 61 may be used to determine, based on the first configuration information, a first signal for any one of the following: notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate flexible transmission resources, notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources. The sending module 62 may be used to send the first signal to the network-side device.

[0215] In a possible implementation manner, the above first configuration information may include at least one of the following: synchronization reference configuration information for configuring a synchronization reference object of a signal; signal form configuration information for configuring the signal as a signal of a first form; resource configuration information for configuring resources of the signal; power configuration information for configuring power parameters of the signal; repetition count configuration information for configuring the repetition count of signal transmission; spatial domain parameter configuration information for configuring a first association relationship between the signal and a second signal.

[0216] In a possible implementation, the above synchronization reference objects may include at least one of the following: SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a first carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a second carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a co-frequency band carrier of the second carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a third carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a co-frequency band carrier of the third carrier; GPS timing. Among them, any two of the first carrier, the second carrier, and the third carrier may be the same or different.

[0217] In a possible implementation, the above signals of the first form may include at least one of the following: PRACH; SRS; PUCCH; PUSCH; other activation signals for triggering downlink signal transmission or downlink channel transmission; other on-demand signals.

[0218] In a possible implementation, the resources of the above signals may include at least one of the following: time domain resources, frequency domain resources, sequence resources, spatial domain resources.

[0219] In a possible implementation, the above power parameters may include at least one of the following: initial power, power ramp step.

[0220] In a possible implementation, the repetition times of the above signal transmission may include at least one of the following: the repetition times of each signal transmission, the maximum repetition times of signal transmission.

[0221] In a possible implementation, the above second signals may include at least one of the following: SSB, CSI-RS, SRS, PRACH.

[0222] In a possible implementation, the resources of the above configuration signals may include at least one of the following: the resources for configuring the signals are in the same serving cell as the above flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signals are in different serving cells from the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signals are in the same BWP as the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signals are in different BWPs from the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signals are in the same carrier as the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signals are in different carriers from the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signals are in the same frequency band as the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signals are in different frequency bands from the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signals have a second association relationship with different flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signals are resources for activating or deactivating other on-demand signals.

[0223] In a possible implementation manner, the above second association relationship may include at least one of the following: the resource of the above signal to the cell where the flexible transmission resource is located; the resource of the signal to the carrier where the flexible transmission resource is located; the resource of the signal to the frequency band where the flexible transmission resource is located; the resource of the signal to the type of the flexible transmission resource; the resource of the signal to the types of different preamble groups in the flexible transmission resource; the resource of the signal to different function combinations of the flexible transmission resource.

[0224] In a possible implementation manner, the association relationship between the resource of the above signal and the reference signal may satisfy at least one of the following: the resource of the signal is associated with the index of the same reference signal; the resource of the signal is associated with the indexes of multiple reference signals.

[0225] In a possible implementation manner, the above first signal may be a PRACH signal. The sending module 62 may specifically be used to send the PRACH signal to the network-side device by using the PRACH resource. Among them, the PRACH resource may include at least one of the following: a group of PRACH preambles on the first transmission resource; a part of the first transmission resource; an independently configured additional transmission resource; a part of specific PRACH preambles on the flexible transmission resource; a part of the flexible transmission resource. Among them, the first transmission resource is a transmission resource other than the above flexible transmission resource.

[0226] In a possible implementation, the above first signal is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource. The sending module 62 can specifically be used to send the first signal to the network-side device when a first condition is met. The first condition may include at least one of the following: the terminal performs random access on a first transmission resource; the number of times the terminal fails to receive a random access response message on the first transmission resource reaches a first number; the terminal measures a reference signal associated with the first transmission resource, and the signal quality parameter of the measured reference signal fails to meet a first threshold requirement; the terminal still fails to complete random access after performing a second number of PRACH retransmissions on the first transmission resource; the terminal still fails to complete random access after successively performing two-step random access and four-step random access; the historical transmission times of the first signal are less than or not greater than a third number; the TA of the terminal sending the first signal is a valid TA; the duration between the current moment of the system and the moment when the terminal last sent the first signal is greater than or not less than a first duration; the power of the terminal sending a PRACH signal on the first transmission resource is greater than or not less than a first power threshold; the terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is different from the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource; the terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is different from the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource, and the number of random access response messages received by the terminal within a second duration is greater than or not less than a first quantity threshold; the terminal has triggered the sending of an activation signal or a deactivation signal for network energy saving; the terminal detects a demand signal; the duration between the current moment of the system and the moment when the terminal last sent a signal to deactivate the flexible transmission resource is greater than or not less than a third duration; the duration of the last activation of the flexible transmission resource is greater than or not less than a fourth duration. The first transmission resource is a transmission resource other than the flexible transmission resource.

[0227] In a possible implementation, the above first signal is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the above flexible transmission resource. The sending module 62 can specifically be used to send the first signal to the network-side device when a second condition is met. The second condition may include at least one of the following: the terminal performs random access on a first transmission resource; the number of times the terminal fails to receive a random access response message on the first transmission resource does not reach a first number; the terminal measures a reference signal associated with the first transmission resource, and a signal quality parameter of the measured reference signal meets a first threshold requirement; the terminal performs a second number of PRACH retransmissions on the first transmission resource; the terminal performs two-step random access and does not trigger four-step random access; the historical transmission number of the first signal is greater than or not less than a third number; the TA of the terminal sending the first signal is an invalid TA; the duration between the current system time and the time when the terminal last sent the first signal is less than or not greater than a first duration; the power of the terminal sending a PRACH signal on the first transmission resource is less than or not greater than a first power threshold; the terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is the same as the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource; the terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is different from the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource, and the number of random access response messages received by the terminal within a second duration is less than or not greater than a first quantity threshold; the terminal does not trigger the sending of an activation signal or a deactivation signal for network energy saving; the terminal does not detect an on-demand signal; the duration between the current system time and the time when the terminal last sent a signal to activate the flexible transmission resource is greater than or not less than a fifth duration. The first transmission resource is a transmission resource other than the flexible transmission resource.

[0228] In a possible implementation, the above first signal may include at least one of the following: a first time resource and a second time resource that are different from each other, where the first time resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource, and the second time resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first frequency-domain resource and a second frequency-domain resource that are different from each other, where the first frequency-domain resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second frequency-domain resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first spatial resource and a second spatial resource that are different from each other, where the first spatial resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second spatial resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first signal sequence and a second signal sequence that are different from each other, where the first signal sequence is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second signal sequence is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a third signal and a fourth signal, where the third signal is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the fourth signal resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource.

[0229] In the resource processing device provided in the embodiments of the present application, since the resource processing device can first determine, based on the configuration information, a first signal for notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, or for notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource, and then send the first signal to the network-side device so that the network-side device activates or deactivates the flexible transmission resource, a specific solution for activating or deactivating the flexible transmission resource is provided.

[0230] The resource processing device in the embodiments of the present application may be an electronic device, such as an electronic device with an operating system, or a component in an electronic device, such as an integrated circuit or a chip. The electronic device may be a terminal. Exemplarily, the terminal may include, but is not limited to, the types of the above-listed terminal 11, and the embodiments of the present application do not make specific limitations.

[0231] The resource processing device provided in the embodiments of the present application can implement each process implemented by the above method embodiments on the terminal side and achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described here again.

[0232] Combined with Figure 7 , the embodiments of the present application provide another resource processing device 70, and the resource processing device 70 may include: a receiving module 71 and a processing module 72.

[0233] Among them, the receiving module 71 can be used to receive a first signal sent by a terminal. The first signal is determined by the terminal based on first configuration information, and the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting a network-side device to activate flexible transmission resources, or notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources. The processing module 72 can be used to activate or deactivate the flexible transmission resources based on the first signal.

[0234] In a possible implementation manner, the above first configuration information may include at least one of the following: synchronization reference configuration information, which is used to configure a synchronization reference object of a signal; signal form configuration information, which is used to configure the signal as a signal of a first form; resource configuration information, which is used to configure resources of the signal; power configuration information, which is used to configure power parameters of the signal; repetition count configuration information, which is used to configure the repetition count of signal transmission; spatial domain parameter configuration information, which is used to configure a first association relationship between the signal and a second signal.

[0235] In a possible implementation manner, the above synchronization reference object may include at least one of the following: SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS sent on a first carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS sent on a second carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS sent on a co-frequency band carrier of the second carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS sent on a third carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS sent on a co-frequency band carrier of the third carrier; GPS timing. Among them, any two of the first carrier, the second carrier, and the third carrier may be the same or different.

[0236] In a possible implementation manner, the above signal of the first form may include at least one of the following: PRACH; SRS; PUCCH; PUSCH; other activation signals for triggering downlink signal transmission or downlink channel transmission; other on-demand signals.

[0237] In a possible implementation manner, the above resources of the signal may include at least one of the following: time domain resources, frequency domain resources, sequence resources, spatial domain resources.

[0238] In a possible implementation manner, the above power parameters may include at least one of the following: initial power, power ramp step size.

[0239] In a possible implementation manner, the above repetition count of signal transmission may include at least one of the following: the repetition count of each signal transmission, the maximum repetition count of signal transmission.

[0240] In a possible implementation, the above second signal may include at least one of the following: SSB, CSI-RS, SRS, PRACH.

[0241] In a possible implementation, the resources of the above configuration signal may include at least one of the following: the resources for configuring the signal and the above flexible transmission resources are in the same serving cell; the resources for configuring the signal and the flexible transmission resources are in different serving cells; the resources for configuring the signal and the flexible transmission resources are in the same BWP; the resources for configuring the signal and the flexible transmission resources are in different BWPs; the resources for configuring the signal and the flexible transmission resources are in the same carrier; the resources for configuring the signal and the flexible transmission resources are in different carriers; the resources for configuring the signal and the flexible transmission resources are in the same frequency band; the resources for configuring the signal and the flexible transmission resources are in different frequency bands; the resources for configuring the signal and the second association relationship of different flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are the resources for activating or deactivating other on-demand signals.

[0242] In a possible implementation, the above second association relationship may include at least one of the following: the resources of the above signal to the cell where the flexible transmission resources are located; the resources of the signal to the carrier where the flexible transmission resources are located; the resources of the signal to the frequency band where the flexible transmission resources are located; the resources of the signal to the type of the flexible transmission resources; the resources of the signal to the types of different preamble groups in the flexible transmission resources; the resources of the signal to different functional combinations of the flexible transmission resources.

[0243] In a possible implementation, the association relationship between the resources of the above signal and the reference signal may satisfy at least one of the following: the resources of the signal are associated with the index of the same reference signal; the resources of the signal are associated with the indices of multiple reference signals.

[0244] In a possible implementation, the above first signal may be a PRACH signal. The receiving module 71 may specifically be used to receive the PRACH signal sent by the terminal using the PRACH resources. Among them, the PRACH resources may include at least one of the following: a group of PRACH preambles on the first transmission resources; part of the first transmission resources; extra independently configured transmission resources; part of the specific PRACH preambles on the flexible transmission resources; part of the flexible transmission resources. Among them, the first transmission resources are the transmission resources other than the above flexible transmission resources.

[0245] In a possible implementation, the above first signal may include at least one of the following: a first time resource and a second time resource that are different from each other, where the first time resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource, and the second time resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first frequency-domain resource and a second frequency-domain resource that are different from each other, where the first frequency-domain resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second frequency-domain resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first spatial resource and a second spatial resource that are different from each other, where the first spatial resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second spatial resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first signal sequence and a second signal sequence that are different from each other, where the first signal sequence is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second signal sequence is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a third signal and a fourth signal, where the third signal is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the fourth signal resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource.

[0246] In the resource processing device provided in the embodiments of the present application, since the resource processing device can activate or deactivate the flexible transmission resource based on the first signal sent by the terminal for notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, or for notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource, a specific solution for activating or deactivating the flexible transmission resource is provided.

[0247] The resource processing device in the embodiments of the present application may be an electronic device, such as an electronic device with an operating system, or a component in an electronic device, such as an integrated circuit or a chip. The electronic device may be other devices except the terminal. Exemplarily, the other devices may be a server, a Network Attached Storage (NAS), etc., and the embodiments of the present application do not make specific limitations.

[0248] The resource processing device provided in the embodiments of the present application can implement each process implemented by the above method embodiments of the network-side device and achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, it will not be elaborated here.

[0249] Such as Figure 8As shown in the figure, an embodiment of the present application further provides a communication device 800, including a processor 801 and a memory 802. A program or instruction that can run on the processor 801 is stored on the memory 802. For example, when the communication device 800 is a terminal, when the program or instruction is executed by the processor 801, each step of the above-mentioned method embodiment on the terminal side is implemented, and the same technical effect can be achieved. When the communication device 800 is a network-side device, when the program or instruction is executed by the processor 801, each step of the above-mentioned method embodiment on the network-side device is implemented, and the same technical effect can be achieved. To avoid repetition, it will not be elaborated here.

[0250] An embodiment of the present application further provides a terminal, including 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 steps in the above-mentioned method embodiment on the terminal side. Among them, the processor is used to determine a first signal based on the first configuration information. The first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate flexible transmission resources, notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources; the communication interface is used to send the first signal to the network-side device. This terminal embodiment corresponds to the above-mentioned method embodiment on the terminal side. Each implementation process and implementation method of the above-mentioned method embodiment can be applied to this terminal embodiment, and the same technical effect can be achieved. Specifically, Figure 9 A schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a terminal for implementing an embodiment of the present application.

[0251] The terminal 1000 includes, but is not limited to, at least some components such as a radio frequency unit 1001, a network module 1002, an audio output unit 1003, an input unit 1004, a sensor 1005, a display unit 1006, a user input unit 1007, an interface unit 1008, a memory 1009, and a processor 1010.

[0252] Those skilled in the art can understand that the terminal 1000 may further include a power supply (such as a battery) for supplying power to each component. The power supply can be logically connected to the processor 1010 through a power management system, so as to implement functions such as management of charging, discharging, and power consumption management through the power management system. Figure 9 The terminal structure shown in the figure does not limit the terminal. The terminal may include more or fewer components than shown in the figure, or combine some components, or have different component arrangements, which will not be elaborated here.

[0253] It should be understood that in the embodiments of the present application, the input unit 1004 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 10041 and a microphone 10042. The graphics processor 10041 processes the image data of static pictures or videos obtained by an image capture device (such as a camera) in the video capture mode or the image capture mode. The display unit 1006 may include a display panel 10061, and the display panel 10061 may be configured in the form of, for example, a liquid crystal display, an organic light-emitting diode, etc. The user input unit 1007 includes at least one of a touch panel 10071 and other input devices 10072. The touch panel 10071 is also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 10071 may include two parts: a touch detection device and a touch controller. The other input devices 10072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, which will not be elaborated here.

[0254] In the embodiments of the present application, after receiving downlink data from a network-side device, the radio frequency unit 1001 may transmit it to the processor 1010 for processing; in addition, the radio frequency unit 1001 may send uplink data to the network-side device. Generally, the radio frequency unit 1001 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, an amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low-noise amplifier, a duplexer, etc.

[0255] The memory 1009 can be used to store software programs or instructions as well as various data. The memory 1009 may mainly include a first storage area for storing programs or instructions and a second storage area for storing data. Among them, the first storage area can store an operating system, application programs or instructions required for at least one function (such as a sound playback function, an image playback function, etc.). In addition, the memory 1009 can include volatile memory or non-volatile memory. Among them, the non-volatile memory can be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable PROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. The volatile memory can be a Random Access Memory (RAM), a Static RAM (SRAM), a Dynamic RAM (DRAM), a Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), a Double Data Rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), an Enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), a Synch link DRAM (SLDRAM), and a Direct Rambus RAM (DRRAM). The memory 1009 in the embodiments of the present application includes but is not limited to these and any other suitable types of memory.

[0256] The processor 1010 may include one or more processing units; optionally, the processor 1010 integrates an application processor and a modem processor. Among them, the application processor mainly processes operations related to the operating system, user interface, and application programs, etc., and the modem processor mainly processes wireless communication signals, such as a baseband processor. It can be understood that the above modem processor may not be integrated into the processor 1010.

[0257] Among them, the processor 1010 can be used to determine a first signal based on the first configuration information, and the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate flexible transmission resources, notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources. The radio frequency unit 1001 can be used to send the first signal to the network-side device.

[0258] In a possible implementation, the above first configuration information may include at least one of the following: synchronization reference configuration information for configuring a synchronization reference object of a signal; signal form configuration information for configuring the signal as a signal of a first form; resource configuration information for configuring resources of the signal; power configuration information for configuring power parameters of the signal; repetition count configuration information for configuring the number of repetitions of signal transmission; and spatial domain parameter configuration information for configuring a first association relationship between the signal and a second signal.

[0259] In a possible implementation, the above synchronization reference object may include at least one of the following: SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a first carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a second carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a co-frequency band carrier of the second carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a third carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a co-frequency band carrier of the third carrier; and GPS timing. Among them, any two of the first carrier, the second carrier, and the third carrier may be the same or different.

[0260] In a possible implementation, the above signal of the first form may include at least one of the following: PRACH; SRS; PUCCH; PUSCH; other activation signals for triggering downlink signal transmission or downlink channel transmission; and other on-demand signals.

[0261] In a possible implementation, the above resources of the signal may include at least one of the following: time domain resources, frequency domain resources, sequence resources, and spatial domain resources.

[0262] In a possible implementation, the above power parameters may include at least one of the following: initial power and power ramp step.

[0263] In a possible implementation, the above number of repetitions of signal transmission may include at least one of the following: the number of repetitions of each signal transmission and the maximum number of repetitions of signal transmission.

[0264] In a possible implementation, the above second signal may include at least one of the following: SSB, CSI-RS, SRS, and PRACH.

[0265] In a possible implementation, the resources for the above configuration signal may include at least one of the following: the resources for configuring the signal are in the same serving cell as the above flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in different serving cells from the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in the same BWP as the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in different BWPs from the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in the same carrier as the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in different carriers from the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in the same frequency band as the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in different frequency bands from the flexible transmission resources; the second association relationship between the resources for configuring the signal and different flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are resources for activating or deactivating other on-demand signals.

[0266] In a possible implementation, the above second association relationship may include at least one of the following: the resources of the above signal to the cell where the flexible transmission resources are located; the resources of the signal to the carrier where the flexible transmission resources are located; the resources of the signal to the frequency band where the flexible transmission resources are located; the resources of the signal to the type of the flexible transmission resources; the resources of the signal to the types of different preamble groups in the flexible transmission resources; the resources of the signal to different functional combinations of the flexible transmission resources.

[0267] In a possible implementation, the association relationship between the resources of the above signal and the reference signal may satisfy at least one of the following: the resources of the signal are associated with the index of the same reference signal; the resources of the signal are associated with the indexes of multiple reference signals.

[0268] In a possible implementation, the above first signal may be a PRACH signal. The radio frequency unit 1001 may specifically be used to send the PRACH signal to the network side device using the PRACH resources. Among them, the PRACH resources may include at least one of the following: a group of PRACH preambles on the first transmission resources; part of the first transmission resources; additionally independently configured transmission resources; part of the specific PRACH preambles on the flexible transmission resources; part of the flexible transmission resources. Among them, the first transmission resources are transmission resources other than the above flexible transmission resources.

[0269] In a possible implementation manner, the above first signal is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource. The radio frequency unit 1001 can specifically be used to send the first signal to the network-side device when a first condition is met. The first condition may include at least one of the following: the terminal performs random access on a first transmission resource; the number of times the terminal fails to receive a random access response message on the first transmission resource reaches a first number; the terminal measures a reference signal associated with the first transmission resource, and the signal quality parameter of the measured reference signal fails to meet the first threshold requirement; the terminal still fails to complete random access after performing a second number of PRACH retransmissions on the first transmission resource; the terminal still fails to complete random access after successively performing two-step random access and four-step random access; the historical transmission times of the first signal are less than or not greater than a third number; the TA of the terminal sending the first signal is a valid TA; the time duration between the current moment of the system and the moment when the terminal last sent the first signal is greater than or not less than a first time duration; the power of the terminal sending a PRACH signal on the first transmission resource is greater than or not less than a first power threshold; the terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is different from the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource; the terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is different from the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource, and the number of random access response messages received by the terminal within a second time duration is greater than or not less than a first quantity threshold; the terminal has triggered the sending of an activation signal or a deactivation signal for network energy saving; the terminal detects a demand signal; the time duration between the current moment of the system and the moment when the terminal last sent a signal to deactivate the flexible transmission resource is greater than or not less than a third time duration; the time duration of the most recent activation of the flexible transmission resource is greater than or not less than a fourth time duration. The first transmission resource is a transmission resource other than the flexible transmission resource.

[0270] In a possible implementation, the above first signal is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the above flexible transmission resource. The radio frequency unit 1001 can be specifically used to send the first signal to the network-side device when the second condition is met. The second condition may include at least one of the following: the terminal performs random access on the first transmission resource; the number of times the terminal fails to receive a random access response message on the first transmission resource does not reach the first number; the terminal measures the reference signal associated with the first transmission resource, and the signal quality parameter of the measured reference signal meets the first threshold requirement; the terminal performs the second number of PRACH retransmissions on the first transmission resource; the terminal performs two-step random access and does not trigger four-step random access; the historical transmission times of the first signal are greater than or not less than the third number; the TA of the terminal sending the first signal is an invalid TA; the duration between the current system time and the time when the terminal last sent the first signal is less than or not greater than the first duration; the power of the terminal sending the PRACH signal on the first transmission resource is less than or not greater than the first power threshold; the terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is the same as the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource; the terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is different from the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource, and the number of random access response messages received by the terminal within the second duration is less than or not greater than the first quantity threshold; the terminal does not trigger the sending of an activation signal or a deactivation signal for network energy saving; the terminal does not detect an on-demand signal; the duration between the current system time and the time when the terminal last sent a signal to activate the flexible transmission resource is greater than or not less than the fifth duration. The first transmission resource is a transmission resource other than the flexible transmission resource.

[0271] In a possible implementation, the above first signal may include at least one of the following: a first time resource and a second time resource that are different from each other, where the first time resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource, and the second time resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first frequency-domain resource and a second frequency-domain resource that are different from each other, where the first frequency-domain resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second frequency-domain resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first spatial resource and a second spatial resource that are different from each other, where the first spatial resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second spatial resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first signal sequence and a second signal sequence that are different from each other, where the first signal sequence is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second signal sequence is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a third signal and a fourth signal, where the third signal is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the fourth signal resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource.

[0272] In the terminal provided in the embodiments of the present application, since the terminal can first determine, based on the configuration information, a first signal for notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, or for notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource, and then send the first signal to the network-side device, so that the network-side device activates or deactivates the flexible transmission resource, a specific solution for activating or deactivating the flexible transmission resource is provided.

[0273] It can be understood that the implementation processes of the various implementation manners mentioned in this embodiment may refer to the relevant descriptions of the above method embodiments on the terminal side and achieve the same or corresponding technical effects. To avoid repetition, they will not be elaborated here.

[0274] The embodiments of the present application further provide a network-side device, including a processor and a communication interface. The communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to run programs or instructions to implement the steps of the above method embodiments of the network-side device. Among them, the communication interface is used to receive the first signal sent by the terminal. The first signal is determined by the terminal based on the first configuration information, and the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; the processor is used to activate or deactivate the flexible transmission resource based on the first signal. This embodiment of the network-side device corresponds to the above method embodiments of the network-side device. The various implementation processes and implementation manners of the above method embodiments can be applied to this embodiment of the network-side device and can achieve the same technical effects.

[0275] Specifically, the embodiments of the present application further provide a network-side device. As Figure 10 shown, the network-side device 100 includes: an antenna 11, a radio frequency device 12, a baseband device 13, a processor 14, and a memory 15. The antenna 11 is connected to the radio frequency device 12. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 12 receives information through the antenna 11 and sends the received information to the baseband device 13 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 13 processes the information to be sent and sends it to the radio frequency device 12. After processing the received information, the radio frequency device 12 sends it out through the antenna 11.

[0276] In the above embodiments, the method executed by the network-side device can be implemented in the baseband device 13, and the baseband device 13 includes a baseband processor.

[0277] The baseband device 13 may include, for example, at least one baseband board, and a plurality of chips are arranged on the baseband board. As Figure 10 shown, one of the chips is, for example, a baseband processor, which is connected to the memory 15 through a bus interface to call the program in the memory 15 and execute the network device operations shown in the above method embodiments.

[0278] The network-side device may further include a network interface 16, and this interface is, for example, a Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI).

[0279] Specifically, the network-side device 100 of the embodiments of the present application further includes: instructions or programs stored on the memory 15 and executable on the processor 14. The processor 14 calls the instructions or programs in the memory 15 to execute Figure 7 the methods executed by the respective modules shown, and achieves the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, they will not be elaborated here.

[0280] Among them, the radio frequency device 12 can be used to receive a first signal sent by a terminal. The first signal is determined by the terminal based on first configuration information, and the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate flexible transmission resources, notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources. The processor 14 can be used to activate or deactivate the flexible transmission resources based on the first signal.

[0281] In a possible implementation, the above first configuration information may include at least one of the following: synchronization reference configuration information for configuring a synchronization reference object of a signal; signal form configuration information for configuring the signal as a signal of a first form; resource configuration information for configuring resources of the signal; power configuration information for configuring power parameters of the signal; repetition count configuration information for configuring the number of repetitions of signal transmission; and spatial domain parameter configuration information for configuring a first association relationship between the signal and a second signal.

[0282] In a possible implementation, the above synchronization reference object may include at least one of the following: SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a first carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a second carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a co-frequency band carrier of the second carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a third carrier; SSB, CSI-RS, and TRS transmitted on a co-frequency band carrier of the third carrier; and GPS time synchronization. Any two of the first carrier, the second carrier, and the third carrier may be the same or different.

[0283] In a possible implementation, the above signal of the first form may include at least one of the following: PRACH; SRS; PUCCH; PUSCH; other activation signals for triggering downlink signal transmission or downlink channel transmission; and other on-demand signals.

[0284] In a possible implementation, the above resources of the signal may include at least one of the following: time domain resources, frequency domain resources, sequence resources, and spatial domain resources.

[0285] In a possible implementation, the above power parameters may include at least one of the following: initial power and power ramp step.

[0286] In a possible implementation, the above number of repetitions of signal transmission may include at least one of the following: the number of repetitions of each signal transmission and the maximum number of repetitions of signal transmission.

[0287] In a possible implementation, the above second signal may include at least one of the following: SSB, CSI-RS, SRS, and PRACH.

[0288] In one possible implementation, the resources for the above configuration signal may include at least one of the following: the resources for configuring the signal are in the same serving cell as the above flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in different serving cells from the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in the same BWP as the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in different BWPs from the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in the same carrier as the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in different carriers from the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in the same frequency band as the flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are in different frequency bands from the flexible transmission resources; the second association relationship between the resources for configuring the signal and different flexible transmission resources; the resources for configuring the signal are resources for activating or deactivating other on-demand signals.

[0289] In one possible implementation, the above second association relationship may include at least one of the following: the resources of the above signal to the cell where the flexible transmission resources are located; the resources of the signal to the carrier where the flexible transmission resources are located; the resources of the signal to the frequency band where the flexible transmission resources are located; the resources of the signal to the type of the flexible transmission resources; the resources of the signal to the types of different preamble groups in the flexible transmission resources; the resources of the signal to different functional combinations of the flexible transmission resources.

[0290] In one possible implementation, the association relationship between the resources of the above signal and the reference signal may satisfy at least one of the following: the resources of the signal are associated with the index of the same reference signal; the resources of the signal are associated with the indices of multiple reference signals.

[0291] In one possible implementation, the above first signal may be a PRACH signal. The radio frequency device 12 may specifically be used to receive the PRACH signal sent by the terminal using the PRACH resources. Among them, the PRACH resources may include at least one of the following: a group of PRACH preambles on the first transmission resources; part of the first transmission resources; additionally independently configured transmission resources; part of the specific PRACH preambles on the flexible transmission resources; part of the flexible transmission resources. Among them, the first transmission resources are transmission resources other than the above flexible transmission resources.

[0292] In a possible implementation, the above first signal may include at least one of the following: a first time resource and a second time resource that are different from each other, where the first time resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the above flexible transmission resource, and the second time resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first frequency-domain resource and a second frequency-domain resource that are different from each other, where the first frequency-domain resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second frequency-domain resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first spatial resource and a second spatial resource that are different from each other, where the first spatial resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second spatial resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first signal sequence and a second signal sequence that are different from each other, where the first signal sequence is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second signal sequence is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a third signal and a fourth signal, where the third signal is used to notify or request the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the fourth signal resource is used to notify or request the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource.

[0293] In the network-side device provided in the embodiments of the present application, since the network-side device can activate or deactivate the flexible transmission resource based on the first signal sent by the terminal for notifying or requesting the network-side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, or for notifying or requesting the network-side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource, a specific solution for activating or deactivating the flexible transmission resource is provided.

[0294] It can be understood that the implementation processes of the various implementation manners mentioned in this embodiment can refer to the relevant descriptions of the above method embodiments of the network-side device and achieve the same or corresponding technical effects. To avoid repetition, they will not be elaborated here.

[0295] The embodiments of the present application further provide a readable storage medium, on which a program or instruction is stored. When the program or instruction is executed by a processor, it implements each process of the above resource processing method embodiment and can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be elaborated here.

[0296] Among them, the processor is the processor in the terminal described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes computer-readable storage media, such as computer read-only memory ROM, random access memory RAM, magnetic disks, or optical discs, etc. In some examples, the readable storage medium may be a non-transitory readable storage medium.

[0297] Another embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, which includes a processor and a communication interface. The communication interface is coupled to the processor. The processor is used to run programs or instructions to implement each process of the above-mentioned resource processing method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be elaborated here.

[0298] It should be understood that the chip mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as a system-on-chip, system chip, chip system, or system-on-chip, etc.

[0299] Another embodiment of the present application further provides a computer program / program product. The computer program / program product is stored in a storage medium. The computer program / program product is executed by at least one processor to implement each process of the above-mentioned resource processing method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be elaborated here.

[0300] An embodiment of the present application further provides a communication system, including: a terminal and a network-side device. The terminal can be used to execute the steps of the above-mentioned terminal-side method, and the network-side device can be used to execute the steps of the above-mentioned network-side device method.

[0301] It should be noted that in this article, the terms "include", "comprise" or any other variation thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, so that a process, method, article or device including a series of elements not only includes those elements, but also includes other elements not expressly listed, or further includes elements inherent to such process, method, article or device. Without further limitation, an element defined by the statement "including a..." does not exclude the existence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article or device including the element. In addition, it should be pointed out that the scope of the methods and devices in the embodiments 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 a reverse order according to the functions involved. For example, the described methods may be performed in an order different from that described, and various steps may be added, omitted or combined. In addition, the features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

[0302] Through the description of the above embodiments, 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, they can also be implemented by hardware. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM, RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk, etc.) and includes several instructions for causing a terminal or a network-side device to execute the methods described in various embodiments of the present application.

[0303] The embodiments of the present application have been described above in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. However, the present application is not limited to the above specific embodiments. The above specific embodiments are merely illustrative and not restrictive. Under the inspiration of the present application, those of ordinary skill in the art can also make many forms of embodiments without departing from the purpose of the present application and the scope protected by the claims. These embodiments are all within the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A resource processing method, It is characterized in that The method comprises: The terminal determines a first signal based on the first configuration information, where the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting a network side device to activate flexible transmission resources, notifying or requesting a network side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources; The terminal sends the first signal to the network side device.

2. The method according to claim 1, It is characterized in that The first configuration information includes at least one of the following: Synchronous reference configuration information, wherein the synchronous reference configuration information is used to configure a synchronous reference object of a signal; Signal format configuration information, where the signal format configuration information is used to configure the signal into a signal of a first format; Resource configuration information, the resource configuration information is used to configure the resources of the signal; Power configuration information, where the power configuration information is used to configure power parameters of the signal; Repetition number configuration information, where the repetition configuration information is used to configure the number of repetitions of signal transmission; Spatial parameter configuration information, where the spatial parameter configuration information is used to configure a first association relationship between the signal and the second signal.

3. The method according to claim 2, It is characterized in that The synchronization reference object includes at least one of the following: A synchronization signal block SSB, a channel state information reference signal CSI-RS, and a tracking reference signal TRS transmitted on the first carrier; SSB, CSI-RS and TRS sent on the second carrier; SSB, CSI-RS and TRS transmitted on the same-band carrier of the second carrier; SSB, CSI-RS and TRS transmitted on the third carrier; SSB, CSI-RS and TRS transmitted on the co-band carrier of the third carrier; Global Positioning System GPS timing; Any two carriers among the first carrier, the second carrier and the third carrier are the same or different.

4. The method according to claim 2, It is characterized in that The first form of the signal includes at least one of the following: Physical Random Access Channel PRACH; Channel sounding reference signal SRS; Physical uplink control channel PUCCH; Physical uplink shared channel PUSCH; Other activation signals that trigger downlink signal transmission or downlink channel transmission; Other signals on demand.

5. The method according to claim 2, It is characterized in that The signal resources include at least one of the following: time domain resources, frequency domain resources, sequence resources, and space domain resources.

6. The method according to claim 2, It is characterized in that The power parameter includes at least one of the following: initial power, power ramp-up step length.

7. The method according to claim 2, It is characterized in that The number of repetitions of signal sending includes at least one of the following: the number of repetitions of each signal sending, and the maximum number of repetitions of signal sending.

8. The method according to claim 2, It is characterized in that The second signal includes at least one of the following: SSB, CSI-RS, SRS, PRACH.

9. The method according to claim 2, It is characterized in that The resource of the configuration signal includes at least one of the following: The resource for configuring the signal and the flexible transmission resource are in the same serving cell; configuring the signal resource and the flexible transmission resource in different serving cells; The resource of the signal and the flexible transmission resource are configured in the same bandwidth part BWP; configuring the signal resource and the flexible transmission resource to be in different BWPs; The resource for configuring the signal and the flexible transmission resource are on the same carrier; Configuring the signal resource and the flexible transmission resource to be on different carriers; The resource for configuring the signal and the flexible transmission resource are in the same frequency band; configuring the signal resource and the flexible transmission resource to be in different frequency bands; configuring a second association relationship between the resource of the signal and different flexible transmission resources; The resources of the signal are configured as resources used to activate or deactivate other on-demand signals.

10. The method according to claim 9, It is characterized in that The second association relationship includes at least one of the following: The signal resource to the cell where the flexible transmission resource is located; The signal resource to the carrier where the flexible transmission resource is located; The signal resource to the frequency band where the flexible transmission resource is located; the type of resource of the signal to the flexible transmission resource; the signal resources to the types of different preamble groups in the flexible transmission resources; The signal resources are transformed into different functional combinations of flexible transmission resources.

11. The method according to claim 2, It is characterized in that The association relationship between the signal resource and the reference signal satisfies at least one of the following: The resources of the signal are associated to the same reference signal index; The signal resources are associated with indexes of multiple reference signals.

12. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 11, It is characterized in that The first signal is a PRACH signal; The terminal sending the first signal to the network side device includes: The terminal sends the PRACH signal to the network side device using the PRACH resource; The PRACH resource includes at least one of the following: a set of PRACH preambles on a first transmission resource; a portion of a first transmission resource; Additional independently configurable transmission resources; Partially specific PRACH preambles on flexible transmission resources; Some flexible transmission resources; The first transmission resource is a transmission resource other than the flexible transmission resource.

13. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 11, It is characterized in that The first signal is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the flexible transmission resource; The terminal sending the first signal to the network side device includes: When the first condition is met, the terminal sends the first signal to the network side device; The first condition includes at least one of the following: The terminal performs random access on the first transmission resource; The number of times that the terminal fails to receive a random access response message on the first transmission resource reaches a first number; The terminal measures a reference signal associated with the first transmission resource, and a signal quality parameter of the measured reference signal fails to meet a first threshold requirement; The terminal still fails to complete random access after performing a second number of PRACH repetition transmissions on the first transmission resource; The terminal has not completed random access after performing 2-step random access and 4-step random access in sequence; The historical number of times the first signal is sent is less than or not greater than the third number; A time advance TA at which the terminal sends the first signal is a valid TA; The duration between the current time of the system and the time when the terminal last sent the first signal is greater than or not less than the first duration; The power of sending the PRACH signal by the terminal on the first transmission resource is greater than or not less than a first power threshold; The terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is different from the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource; The terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is different from the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource, and the number of random access response messages received by the terminal within the second duration is greater than or not less than the first number threshold; The terminal has triggered to send an activation signal or a deactivation signal for network energy saving; The terminal detects an on-demand signal; The duration between the current time of the system and the time when the terminal last sent a signal to deactivate the flexible transmission resource is greater than or not less than a third time; The duration of the last activation of the flexible transmission resource is greater than or not less than the fourth duration; The first transmission resource is a transmission resource other than the flexible transmission resource.

14. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 11, It is characterized in that The first signal is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the flexible transmission resource; The terminal sending the first signal to the network side device includes: When the second condition is met, the terminal sends the first signal to the network side device; The second condition includes at least one of the following: The terminal performs random access on the first transmission resource; The number of times that the terminal fails to receive the random access response message on the first transmission resource does not reach the first number; The terminal measures a reference signal associated with the first transmission resource, and a signal quality parameter of the measured reference signal meets a first threshold requirement; The terminal performs a second number of PRACH repetition transmissions on the first transmission resource; The terminal performs 2-step random access and does not trigger 4-step random access; The historical number of times the first signal is sent is greater than or not less than the third number; The TA from which the terminal sends the first signal is an invalid TA; The duration between the current time of the system and the time when the terminal last sent the first signal is less than or not greater than the first duration; The power of sending the PRACH signal by the terminal on the first transmission resource is less than or not greater than the first power threshold; The terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is the same as the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource; The terminal receives a random access response message, and the preamble identifier in the random access response message is different from the preamble identifier sent by the terminal on the first transmission resource, and the number of random access response messages received by the terminal within the second duration is less than or not greater than the first number threshold; The terminal does not trigger sending an activation signal or a deactivation signal for network energy saving; The terminal fails to detect an on-demand signal; The duration between the current time of the system and the time when the terminal last sent a signal to activate the flexible transmission resource is greater than or not less than a fifth duration; The first transmission resource is a transmission resource other than the flexible transmission resource.

15. The method according to claim 1, It is characterized in that The first signal includes at least one of the following: a first time resource and a second time resource that are different from each other, the first time resource is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second time resource is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first frequency domain resource and a second frequency domain resource that are different from each other, the first frequency domain resource is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second frequency domain resource is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first space resource and a second space resource that are different from each other, the first space resource is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second space resource is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first signal sequence and a second signal sequence that are different from each other, the first signal sequence is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second signal sequence is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; A third signal and a fourth signal, the third signal is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the fourth signal resource is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource.

16. A resource processing method, It is characterized in that The method comprises: The network side device receives a first signal sent by the terminal, where the first signal is determined by the terminal based on the first configuration information, and the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting the network side device to activate flexible transmission resources, notifying or requesting the network side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources; The network side device activates or deactivates the flexible transmission resource based on the first signal.

17. The method according to claim 16, It is characterized in that The first configuration information includes at least one of the following: Synchronous reference configuration information, wherein the synchronous reference configuration information is used to configure a synchronous reference object of a signal; Signal format configuration information, where the signal format configuration information is used to configure the signal into a signal of a first format; Resource configuration information, the resource configuration information is used to configure the resources of the signal; Power configuration information, where the power configuration information is used to configure power parameters of the signal; Repetition number configuration information, where the repetition configuration information is used to configure the number of repetitions of signal transmission; Spatial parameter configuration information, where the spatial parameter configuration information is used to configure a first association relationship between the signal and the second signal.

18. The method according to claim 17, It is characterized in that The synchronization reference object includes at least one of the following: SSB, CSI-RS and TRS sent on the first carrier; SSB, CSI-RS and TRS sent on the second carrier; SSB, CSI-RS and TRS transmitted on the same-band carrier of the second carrier; SSB, CSI-RS and TRS transmitted on the third carrier; SSB, CSI-RS and TRS transmitted on the co-band carrier of the third carrier; GPS timing; Any two carriers among the first carrier, the second carrier and the third carrier are the same or different.

19. The method according to claim 17, It is characterized in that The first form of the signal includes at least one of the following: PRACH; SRS; PUCCH; PUSCH; Other activation signals that trigger downlink signal transmission or downlink channel transmission; Other signals on demand.

20. The method according to claim 17, It is characterized in that The signal resources include at least one of the following: time domain resources, frequency domain resources, sequence resources, and space domain resources.

21. The method according to claim 17, It is characterized in that The power parameter includes at least one of the following: initial power, power ramp-up step length.

22. The method according to claim 17, It is characterized in that The number of repetitions of signal sending includes at least one of the following: the number of repetitions of each signal sending, and the maximum number of repetitions of signal sending.

23. The method according to claim 17, It is characterized in that The second signal includes at least one of the following: SSB, CSI-RS, SRS, PRACH.

24. The method according to claim 17, It is characterized in that The resource of the configuration signal includes at least one of the following: The resource for configuring the signal and the flexible transmission resource are in the same serving cell; configuring the signal resource and the flexible transmission resource in different serving cells; Configuring the signal resource and the flexible transmission resource to be in the same BWP; configuring the signal resource and the flexible transmission resource to be in different BWPs; The resource for configuring the signal and the flexible transmission resource are on the same carrier; Configuring the signal resource and the flexible transmission resource to be on different carriers; The resource for configuring the signal and the flexible transmission resource are in the same frequency band; configuring the signal resource and the flexible transmission resource to be in different frequency bands; configuring a second association relationship between the resource of the signal and different flexible transmission resources; The resources of the signal are configured as resources used to activate or deactivate other on-demand signals.

25. The method according to claim 17, It is characterized in that The association relationship between the signal resource and the reference signal satisfies at least one of the following: The resources of the signal are associated to the same reference signal index; The signal resources are associated with indexes of multiple reference signals.

26. The method according to any one of claims 16 to 24, It is characterized in that The first signal is a PRACH signal; The network side device receives a first signal sent by a terminal, including: The network side device receives the PRACH signal sent by the terminal using the PRACH resource; The PRACH resource includes at least one of the following: a set of PRACH preambles on a first transmission resource; a portion of a first transmission resource; Additional independently configurable transmission resources; Partially specific PRACH preambles on flexible transmission resources; Some flexible transmission resources; The first transmission resource is a transmission resource other than the flexible transmission resource.

27. The method according to claim 16, It is characterized in that The first signal includes at least one of the following: a first time resource and a second time resource that are different from each other, the first time resource is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second time resource is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first frequency domain resource and a second frequency domain resource that are different from each other, the first frequency domain resource is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second frequency domain resource is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first space resource and a second space resource that are different from each other, the first space resource is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second space resource is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; a first signal sequence and a second signal sequence that are different from each other, the first signal sequence is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the second signal sequence is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource; A third signal and a fourth signal, the third signal is used to notify or request the network side device to activate the flexible transmission resource, and the fourth signal resource is used to notify or request the network side device to deactivate the flexible transmission resource.

28. A resource processing device, It is characterized in that The device comprises: a determination module and a sending module; The determination module is used to determine a first signal based on the first configuration information, where the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting a network side device to activate flexible transmission resources, notifying or requesting a network side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources; The sending module is used to send the first signal to the network side device.

29. A resource processing device, It is characterized in that The device comprises: a receiving module and a processing module; The receiving module is configured to receive a first signal sent by a terminal, where the first signal is determined by the terminal based on first configuration information, and the first signal is used for any one of the following: notifying or requesting a network side device to activate flexible transmission resources, or notifying or requesting a network side device to deactivate flexible transmission resources; The processing module is used to activate or deactivate the flexible transmission resource based on the first signal.

30. A terminal, It is characterized in that It comprises 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 resource processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 15 are implemented.

31. A network side device, It is 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 resource processing method as described in any one of claims 16 to 27 are implemented.

32. A readable storage medium, It is characterized in that The readable storage medium stores a program or instruction, and when the program or instruction is executed by the processor, it implements the resource processing method as described in any one of claims 1 to 15, or implements the steps of the resource processing method as described in any one of claims 16 to 27.

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