Paging indication method, paging indication apparatus, terminal, and readable storage medium

Abstract

To provide a paging indication method, a paging indication apparatus, a terminal, and a readable storage medium.SOLUTION: A paging indication method includes obtaining paging advance indication information, and determining first content according to the paging advance indication information. The first content comprises at least one of monitoring behaviors in N paging occasions after the paging advance indication information, first configuration information related to the N paging occasions, and whether a first signal is available.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

Technical Field

[0001] (Cross - reference to related applications) This application claims the priority of a Chinese patent application with application number 202011331595.0, filed with the Chinese Patent Office on November 24, 2020, and all of the content of the same application is incorporated herein by reference. This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and specifically, to a paging indication method, apparatus, terminal, and readable storage medium.

Background Art

[0002] In a mobile communication system, a user equipment (UE) is also called a terminal, and establishes a service connection by periodically monitoring paging messages. Within each paging cycle, the terminal calculates the resource position corresponding to its paging opportunity, and further detects whether there is a paging physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) scrambled by a paging radio network temporary identity (P - RNTI) on this paging occasion (PO). If the paging PDCCH is detected, the corresponding scheduled physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) is decoded to obtain the paging message therein.

[0003] In related technologies, by receiving a paging early indication transmitted by the network side, it is necessary to early determine whether it is necessary to perform paging monitoring at the related PO, and power consumption such as measurement and paging PDCCH demodulation can be reduced. However, at the same time, the transmission of the paging early indication causes a large amount of network overhead, leading to problems such as a decrease in the reliability of paging PDCCH / PDSCH detection and demodulation.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED BY THE INVENTION

[0004] Embodiments of the present application solve the problem of increasing network overhead in related technologies, and provide a paging indication method, a paging indication device, a terminal, and a readable storage medium that can guarantee the reliability of demodulation and detection of a paging physical downlink control channel and a paging physical downlink shared channel.

MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEM

[0005] According to a first aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a paging indication method, the method including: obtaining paging early indication information for indicating first content; and determining the first content based on the paging early indication information, wherein the first content includes at least one of monitoring actions in N paging occasions after the paging early indication information, first configuration information related to the N paging occasions, and availability of a first signal, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0006] According to a second aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a paging indication device, the device including: an acquisition module for obtaining paging early indication information; and a determination module for determining first content based on the paging early indication information, wherein the first content includes at least one of monitoring actions in N paging occasions after the paging early indication information, first configuration information related to the N paging occasions, and availability of a first signal, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0007] According to a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a terminal, which includes a processor, a memory, and a program or instruction stored in the memory and executable on the processor. When the program or instruction is executed by the processor, the steps of the paging instruction method according to the first aspect are realized.

[0008] According to a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a readable storage medium, in which a program or instruction is stored. When the program or instruction is executed by a processor, the steps of the paging instruction method according to the first aspect are realized.

[0009] According to a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a chip, which includes a processor and a communication interface. The communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor runs a program or instruction and is used to realize the steps of the paging instruction method according to the first aspect.

Advantages of the Invention

[0010] In an embodiment of the present application, the terminal obtains paging early indication (PEI) information for instructing first content, determines the first content based on the paging early indication information, where the first content includes at least one of monitoring actions in N paging occasions after the paging early indication information, first configuration information related to the N paging occasions, and the availability of a first signal, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1. The terminal can determine the monitoring actions in the N paging occasions according to the paging early indication information transmitted or broadcast from the network side without being instructed by one piece of paging early indication information before each paging occasion whether monitoring is required, and further reduces the network overhead caused by the transmission of the paging early indication information. In addition, the first configuration information related to the N paging occasions and / or the availability of the first signal can also be determined according to the paging early indication information, which ensures the reliability of demodulation and detection of the paging physical downlink control channel (paging PDCCH) and the paging physical downlink shared channel (paging PDSCH), and further enables the balance between power saving of the terminal and performance overhead.

[0011] The above and / or additional aspects and advantages of the present application will become apparent and easier to understand from the description of the embodiments in conjunction with the following drawings, where

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[0013] In order to more clearly understand the above objects, features and advantages of the present application, the following will provide a more detailed description of the present application while combining the drawings and the modes for carrying out the invention. It should be noted that, unless there is a conflict, the embodiments of the present application and the features in the embodiments can be combined with each other.

[0014] In order to facilitate a full understanding of the present application, more specific details are described in the following description. However, since the present application can also be implemented by adopting other methods different from those described herein, the protection scope of the present application is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed below.

[0015] Hereinafter, several embodiment paging indication methods, paging indication devices, terminals and readable storage media according to the present application will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 8.

[0016] In one embodiment of the present application, FIG. 1 shows one of the flowcharts of the paging indication method of the embodiment of the present application, including the following steps.

[0017] Step 102, obtain paging early indication information.

[0018] Step 104, determine the first content based on the paging early indication information.

[0019] Here, the first content includes at least one of the monitoring actions in the N paging occasions after the paging early indication information, the first configuration information related to the N paging occasions, and the availability of the first signal. The value of N is a positive integer that is 1 or greater and less than or equal to the maximum number of paging occasions configured in PF.

[0020] In this embodiment, the terminal determines the monitoring actions in the N paging occasions based on the paging early indication information sent by the network side, and without indicating whether monitoring is required by one paging early indication information before each paging occasion, further reduces the network overhead caused by the transmission of the paging early indication information. Note that it is also possible to determine the first configuration information and / or the availability of the first signal related to the N paging occasions based on the paging early indication information, ensuring the reliability of the demodulation and detection of the paging physical downlink control channel (paging PDCCH) and the paging physical downlink shared channel (paging PDSCH), and further enabling the balance between the energy saving of the terminal and the performance overhead.

[0021] It should be noted that a paging occasion (PO) is a set of monitoring occasions (multiple MOs) of the paging PDCCH and may be composed of multiple slots. For each terminal (UE), it only needs to detect one paging occasion related to it in one paging cycle (DRX cycle). The network is configured to uniformly allocate UEs in the idle state to multiple POs according to the terminal identity information. The UE can know the PO where it is located based on the protocol convention. The first signal is a TRS / CSI-RS reference signal. Here, the configuration information of the TRS / CSI-RS reference signal may be configured by the system message.

[0022] Furthermore, the N paging occasions may be N consecutive paging occasions or N non - consecutive paging occasions.

[0023] In the above embodiment, by notifying the UE whether it is necessary to monitor subsequent POs according to the paging early indication information, before monitoring the PO, one or more SSBs are received based on the channel quality to save the power consumption required for performing synchronization channel measurement, etc., energy saving of the terminal can be realized. Also, by instructing the next one or more paging occasions with one paging early indication information according to this embodiment, the network overhead is reduced, and both the network overhead and the energy saving of the terminal are made compatible.

[0024] In one embodiment of the present application, furthermore, each paging occasion among the N paging occasions is related to W paging groups, where W is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0025] In this embodiment, different UEs are assigned to the same PO, that is, there is a possibility that multiple UEs are related to the same PO. In order to further reduce the probability of mis - awakening among multiple UEs within the same PO, the UEs related to each of the N POs are further divided into W paging groups. That is, the N POs may be divided into a total of N×W paging groups, where W is the number of paging groups into which the UEs related to one PO are divided.

[0026] It should be noted that when W = 1, there is only one paging group for the UEs related to the PO, that is, this PO is not packetized.

[0027] In this embodiment, by further packetizing the PO, the probability of the terminal being mis - awakened by the network is reduced, and the energy consumption of the terminal is further saved.

[0028] In one embodiment of the present application, further, the monitoring action includes at least one of whether to monitor the paging PDCCH of the paging group related to the terminal, whether to monitor the paging of the paging group related to the terminal, and whether to monitor the system information update of the paging group related to the terminal.

[0029] Here, the paging group related to the terminal is at least one paging group among at least one paging group related to at least one paging occasion among N paging occasions.

[0030] It should be noted that the paging occasion related to the terminal is one (or more) of the N paging occasions. When there are W paging groups in the paging occasion related to this terminal, the terminal is further assigned to one (or more) paging groups among the W groups. That is, the number of paging groups related to the terminal may be one or more.

[0031] In this embodiment, when the paging early indication information obtained by the terminal indicates that it is necessary to monitor the paging physical downlink control channel (paging PDCCH), the terminal blindly detects the physical downlink control channel PDCCH scrambled by the paging - radio network temporary identifier (P - RNTI). When the terminal detects this paging PDCCH, it further receives and decodes the scheduled physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based on the downlink control information (DCI) in the PDCCH. When the terminal does not detect the paging PDCCH, it considers that there is no paging message for itself and enters the corresponding sleep state according to the paging cycle. When the paging early indication information received by the terminal indicates that it is not necessary to monitor the paging physical downlink control channel, it does not monitor the subsequent paging PDCCH and enters the corresponding sleep state according to the paging cycle. Similarly, when the paging early indication information received by the terminal indicates that it is necessary to monitor paging and / or system information update, it receives the corresponding paging and / or ETWS, CMAS, etc.

[0032] It should be noted that when W = 1, that is, when PO is not packetized, at this time, it is not necessary to perform the monitoring behavior for each paging group. That is, the monitoring behavior includes at least one of whether to monitor the paging physical downlink control channel in the paging occasion related to the terminal, whether to monitor the paging in the paging occasion related to the terminal, and whether to monitor the system information update in the paging occasion related to the terminal.

[0033] In one embodiment of the present application, further, the first configuration information includes at least one of the minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and the first paging occasion among the N paging occasions, the value of N, and the indexes of the N paging occasions.

[0034] In this embodiment, the network may configure the indexes of all paging occasions in each paging cycle, and the paging early indication information determines the indicated N paging occasions by dynamically indicating the indexes of the indicated N paging occasions. The first paging occasion may be any one of the N paging occasions.

[0035] Specifically, the first paging occasion may be the paging occasion closest to the related paging early indication information among the N paging occasions, that is, the first paging occasion may be the earliest (or the first-called) paging occasion among the N paging occasions. Note that the first paging occasion may also be the latest paging occasion, and is not limited here.

[0036] In one embodiment, the value of N is related to the number of paging occasions configured in one paging frame PF. The first configuration information determines the indication relationship between the paging early indication information and the subsequent N paging occasions, and by satisfying the minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and the first paging occasion among the N paging occasions, the N paging occasions are dynamically and flexibly indicated, reducing the network overhead caused by the transmission of the paging early indication information. Additionally, by leaving a sufficient time distance between the paging early indication information and the N paging occasions it indicates, the measurement of related reference signals can be performed, ensuring the reliability of the demodulation and detection of the paging physical downlink control channel and the paging physical downlink shared channel, and achieving both energy saving and performance overhead reduction for the terminal.

[0037] Specifically, for example, the terminal receives the paging early indication information, and the paging early indication information is related to and indicates the subsequent N paging occasions PO, and includes at least one of the following.

[0038] 1. Non-common information, that is, information that needs to be independently configured for different POs, and the non-common information includes the monitoring actions in the N POs after the paging early indication information.

[0039] The monitoring action includes whether to monitor the paging PDCCH on the PO related to the terminal, where the paging PDCCH includes paging and system message update indications such as whether to monitor paging on the PO related to the terminal and whether to monitor system message updates on the PO related to the terminal.

[0040] Specifically, the PO related to the terminal is at least one of the N POs. When the paging early indication information also indicates the paging packet of the paging occasion, for the terminal, it is related to at least one paging group in at least one of the N POs. The monitoring indication includes whether to monitor the paging PDCCH of the paging group related to the terminal, whether to monitor the paging of the paging group related to the terminal, and whether to monitor the system information update of the paging group related to the terminal.

[0041] 2. Common information, that is, information that the N POs can be uniformly configured, and the common information includes the following.

[0042] (1) Whether TRS / CSI-RS can be used, and the configuration information of TRS / CSI-RS may be configured by the system message.

[0043] (2) The value of N. When one PF contains 4 POs, the value of N may be 4.

[0044] (3) The number W of paging groups divided on one PO, for example, W = 4.

[0045] (4) As shown in Figure 4, the minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and the subsequent related N POs may be 3 SSB periods. Here, when the SSB period is 20 s, the minimum time interval needs to satisfy at least 60 ms or more. Note that the minimum time interval may be 60 ms, 80 ms, or 120 ms.

[0046] (5) The indexes of the N POs, which indicate the indicated N POs based on the indexes of the N POs indicated by the paging early indication information.

[0047] In one embodiment of the present application, FIG. 2 shows Part II of the flowchart of the paging indication method according to the embodiment of the present application, and the paging indication method further includes the following steps.

[0048] Step 202, obtain the second configuration information, Here, the second configuration information is configured by the network side and / or agreed upon by the protocol.

[0049] Furthermore, the second configuration information includes at least one of the minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and the second paging occasion among the N paging occasions, the time domain position of the paging early indication information, the frequency domain position of the paging early indication information, the value of N, the candidate value of N, the value of the number of paging groups W related to the paging occasion, and the indication relationship between the paging early indication information and the N paging occasions.

[0050] Specifically, similar to the first paging occasion, the second paging occasion may be any one of the N paging occasions. Specifically, the second paging occasion may be the paging occasion closest to the related paging early indication information among the N paging occasions, that is, the second paging occasion may be the earliest (or the first-called) paging occasion among the N paging occasions. Note that the second paging occasion may also be the latest paging occasion, and is not limited here.

[0051] Here, different UEs are assigned to the same PO, that is, multiple UEs may be related to the same PO. In order to further reduce the probability of mis - wake - up among multiple UEs within the same PO, the UEs related to each of the N POs are further divided into W paging groups, that is, the N POs may be divided into a total of N×W paging groups, where W is the number of paging groups into which the UEs related to one PO are divided.

[0052] Step 204: Determine the first content based on the second configuration information and the paging early indication information.

[0053] As can be understood, the second configuration information may be obtained by the network side according to the configuration and / or protocol agreement before obtaining the paging early indication information.

[0054] In one embodiment of the present application, specifically, the network side constitutes (1) the minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and the second paging occasion among the N paging occasions, (2) the time - domain position of the paging early indication information, (3) the frequency - domain position of the paging early indication information, (4) the value of N (N is the number of POs indicated by one paging early indication information), and (5) the value of W (the number of paging groups divided within one PO).

[0055] In one embodiment, the network side may broadcast the second configuration information of (1)-(5) above to the terminal in a message such as System Information Block 1 (SIB1) or Master Information Block (MIB) or Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH). In addition, the indication relationship between the paging early indication information and the N paging occasions may be agreed upon by the protocol.

[0056] In this embodiment, the terminal does not receive one paging early indication information before each paging occasion, but determines the monitoring behavior in N paging occasions, the availability of the first configuration information and / or the first signal related to the N paging occasions by receiving the second configuration information and the paging early indication information, reduces the network overhead caused by the transmission of the paging early indication information, and ensures the reliability of the demodulation and detection of the paging physical downlink control channel and the paging physical downlink shared channel.

[0057] As can be understood, the terminal may obtain the first configuration information by the paging early indication information, or may obtain the first configuration information by the second configuration information. Here, in the first configuration information and the second configuration information, a part is the same. For example, the minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and N paging occasions, and the value of N are the same. When the configuration obtained by the terminal from the second configuration information does not match the content of the same configuration obtained from the paging early indication information, it is equivalent to that the paging early indication information updates this non-matching configuration according to the configuration of this collision indicated by the paging early indication information. For example, if the second configuration information indicates that the minimum time interval is 60 ms, but the paging early indication information indicates that the minimum time interval is 80 ms, the terminal performs a monitoring operation in the subsequent paging opportunity with a minimum time interval of 80 ms. Here, the candidate value of N refers to the fact that the network side can configure various candidate values of N, for example, N = 1, 2, 4, 8. Then, by obtaining the paging early indication message, the value of N is further determined. For example, the paging early indication message indicates that the value of N is 4.

[0058] In one embodiment of this application, further, the minimum time interval needs to satisfy at least one of the following.

[0059] (1) The minimum time interval needs to be at least the transmission period of K or more synchronization signal blocks, where K is a positive integer greater than or equal to 0. Here, as can be understood, the transmission period of the synchronization signal block is the reception period of the synchronization signal block. For example, if there are two transmission periods between three synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) and the network side configures the transmission period to be 20 ms, the minimum time interval needs to satisfy being greater than at least 40 ms.

[0060] (2) The minimum time interval is related to at least one of the channel quality of the serving cell, the signal strength, the coverage performance, the terminal position, and the terminal movement rate.

[0061] Specifically, taking an example, the minimum time interval is related to the channel quality of the serving cell. The network device constitutes a plurality of minimum time intervals, and the terminal side selects the corresponding minimum time interval based on the channel quality measured by itself. For example, when the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is -6 dB, the channel quality at this time is relatively poor, and the corresponding minimum time interval satisfies the transmission period of three or more SSBs. When the SNR is 0 dB, the channel quality is relatively good at this time, and the corresponding minimum time interval satisfies the transmission period of one or more SSBs.

[0062] In addition, in another embodiment, the minimum time interval needs to satisfy being greater than or equal to the processing delay of the paging early indication information. The processing delay refers to the time interval required from when the terminal receives the paging early indication information to when demodulation or detection is completed.

[0063] In one embodiment of the present application, further, the time domain position of the paging early indication information is (1) The time domain position of the paging early indication information is before N paging occasions and satisfies the minimum time interval, and (2) The start time of the time domain position of the paging early indication information is the end time of the time domain of the synchronization signal block, and (3) It is necessary to conform to at least one of the following: the end time of the time domain position of the paging early indication information is the start time of the time domain of the synchronization signal block.

[0064] In one embodiment of the present application, further, the indication relationship between the paging early indication information and the paging occasion includes either (1) different paging early indication information indicating the same paging occasion or (2) the same paging occasion being indicated only by the same paging early indication information. Here, the first content indicated by the same paging early indication information is the same.

[0065] For example, according to (1), PEI1 indicates PO1 and PO2, and PEI2 indicates PO2 and PO3. Here, PEI1 and PEI2 may indicate the same one PO, that is, PO1. Further, for example, if both PEI1 and PEI2 also indicate PO1 and PO2, PEI1 and PEI2 may be considered as paging early indication information that is repeatedly transmitted. However, at least one of the time domain position, frequency domain position, and related SSB index where PEI1 and PEI2 are located is different.

[0066] Further, for example, according to (2), if the same PO is indicated only via one PEI, that is, PO1 via PEI1, then PO1 cannot be indicated via a PEI other than PEI1. Further, for example, one PO may be indicated by PEI1 and PEI2, the first content indicated by PEI1 and PEI2 is the same, and PEI1 and PEI2 may be regarded as one repetition.

[0067] In one embodiment of the present application, further, the paging early indication information is carried by downlink control information (DCI) or a sequence.

[0068] In this embodiment, the paging early indication information may be physical layer control information, or may be a reference signal or a sequence, etc. The terminal can obtain the paging early indication information by detecting the downlink control information (DCI) of the physical downlink control channel transmitted by the network device, or by detecting the sequence transmitted by the network device.

[0069] In one embodiment of the present application, further, when the paging early indication information is carried by the downlink control information (DCI), the first content indication method includes at least one of a bitmap and a bit string.

[0070] Specifically, when indicating the first content in the form of a bit string, the bit string includes target bits, and the target bits include at least a plurality of code points, and the code points indicate whether the UE associated with the paging group needs to monitor the corresponding PDCCH. Thereby, the terminal determines whether it is necessary to monitor the PDCCH corresponding to the paging group related to the paging opportunity indicated by the paging early indication information based on the code points of the target bits. Here, different code points correspond to different paging groups or different terminals within the same paging group. Thereby, the indication of the monitoring task by the target bits is realized, the number of bits required for the paging early indication information is saved, and it is beneficial to reduce the performance loss.

[0071] Specifically, for example, the paging early indication information indicates that the UEs related to the PO are divided into four paging groups, and the target bits indicate whether the four paging groups need to monitor the paging PDCCH, specifically as shown in Table 1 below.

[0072]

Table 1

[0073] It should be noted that groups or terminals represented by different code points may be reasonably set according to the paging configuration information of the network device.

[0074] For example, in Method 1, for two or more paging groups, from code point 1 to code point N×W, it is respectively indicated that the terminals of one of the N×W paging groups need to monitor the corresponding PDCCH. Code point N×W + 1 indicates that the terminals of all N×W paging groups also need to monitor the corresponding PDCCH, or indicates that the terminals of all N POs also need to monitor the corresponding PDCCH.

[0075] In Method 2, for three or more paging groups, from code point 1 to code point N×W, it is respectively indicated that the terminals of one of the N×W paging groups need to monitor the corresponding PDCCH. From code point N×W + 1 to N×W + X, it is respectively indicated that the terminals of any two of the N×W paging groups need to monitor the corresponding PDCCH, where X is the number of different combinations of any two of the N×W paging groups. Code point N×W + X + 1 indicates that the terminals of all N×W paging groups also need to monitor the corresponding PDCCH, or indicates that the terminals of all N POs also need to monitor the corresponding PDCCH.

[0076] In one embodiment of the present application, when the paging early indication information is carried by the downlink control information (DCI), the paging early indication information is used to indicate that the indication fields of the first contents are arranged in a preset arrangement order, where the preset arrangement order includes at least one of arranging according to a paging occasion associated with the paging early indication information, arranging according to a content type of the first contents, and arranging in ascending or descending order of the value of N.

[0077] In one embodiment of the present application, the downlink control information (DCI) of the PDCCH is divided into N+1 information blocks, where the N information blocks respectively correspond to monitoring actions in the N paging occasions, and the first or N+1 information block carries first configuration information, i.e., availability of a first signal, related to the N paging occasions.

[0078] In another embodiment, the configuration according to the content type of the first content is to first configure whether to monitor a paging PDCCH in N POs, then configure whether to monitor paging in N POs, and further configure whether to monitor system information updates, etc. in N POs.

[0079] Arranging in ascending or descending order of the value of N means first arranging the first content pointing to the first PO, then arranging the first content pointing to the second PO, and inferring based on this.

[0080] Specifically, taking an example, it is stipulated by the protocol that the time domain position of the paging early indication information needs to satisfy the minimum time interval, and the time domain end position of the paging early indication information needs to satisfy that it is the start position of the time domain of the SSB. The paging early indication information indicates the subsequent consecutive N POs. It should also satisfy that one PO can only be indicated by one paging early indication information. The upper layer constructs candidate time intervals, numbers them, and carries the selected time interval number in the paging early indication information.

[0081] As shown in FIG. 5, the network device carries in SIB1 the paging configuration information that the number of paging groups divided by a terminal on one PO is 4, denoted as PO1, PO2, PO3, and PO4 respectively, and the candidate values of N are 2, 4, and 8.

[0082] As shown in FIG. 5, the paging early indication information represented by a one-way arrow indicates whether to monitor the paging PDCCH of N×W paging groups (where W represents the number of paging groups divided by a UE on one PO, and there are a total of N×W subgroups for N POs) and whether to use TRS / CSI-RS. After obtaining the paging early indication information, the terminal checks that the minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and the subsequent related N POs is three times the period of the SSB, the period of the SSB is 20 ms, indicating that the time interval is 60 ms and the value of N is 4.

[0083] Regarding the method of paging configuration information, it includes adopting Method 1, which maps the paging configuration information using a bit string. As shown in Figure 5, the paging configuration information is packetized and arranged according to the PO, and the DCI of the PDCCH is divided into N+1 = 5 information blocks. Here, 4 information blocks carry the respective non-common information of 4 POs. The first information block carries the common information. Here, information block 1 indicates whether TRS / CSI-RS can be used with 1 bit. "0" represents non-usable, and "1" represents usable. Information block 2 corresponds to PO1 and is mapped in the form of a bit string. 3 bits are used to indicate whether 4 groups of PO1 need to monitor the paging PDCCH. Information blocks 3, 4, and 5 correspond to PO2, PO3, and PO4 respectively, are mapped in the bit string form, and 3 bits are used respectively to indicate whether 4 groups of PO2, PO3, and PO4 need to monitor the paging PDCCH, specifically in the same indication method as information block 2. Therefore, a total of 13 bits are needed for indication.

[0084] Method 2: Adopt a bitmap to map the paging configuration information. The paging configuration information is packetized and arranged according to the PO, and the DCI of the PDCCH is divided into N+1 = 5 information blocks. Here, 4 information blocks carry the respective non-common information of 4 POs. The first information block carries the common information. Here, information block 1 indicates whether TRS / CSI-RS can be used with 1 bit. "0" represents non-usable, and "1" represents usable. It indicates the minimum time interval number with 2 bits and indicates the value number of N with 2 bits. Information blocks 2, 3, 4, and 5 correspond to PO1, PO2, PO3, and PO4 respectively, are mapped in the bitmap form, and 4 bits are used respectively to indicate whether 4 groups in PO1, PO2, PO3, and PO4 need to monitor the paging PDCCH. "0" represents monitoring, and "1" represents non-monitoring. Therefore, a total of 5 + 4×4 = 21 bits are needed for indication.

[0085] In one embodiment of the present application, FIG. 3 shows the third of the flowchart of the paging indication method of the embodiment of the present application, including the following steps.

[0086] Step 302, when receiving a plurality of early paging indication information with inconsistent first content, determine that the early paging indication information is invalid.

[0087] Here, a plurality of early paging indication information with inconsistent first content indicates the same N paging occasions.

[0088] In this embodiment, the terminal does not wish to receive a plurality of early paging indication information with inconsistent first content, and a plurality of early paging indication information with inconsistent first content indicates the same N paging occasions. When receiving a plurality of early paging indication information with inconsistent first content, determine that the early paging indication information is invalid. The monitoring behavior of the terminal at this time may be monitoring or non-monitoring, or the specific terminal monitoring behavior at this time is determined by the network side or protocol convention.

[0089] For example, when PEI1 and PEI2 jointly indicate PO1, the UE does not wish that the content indicated by the received PEI1 and PEI2 is inconsistent. Therefore, an error case is defined.

[0090] Specifically, taking an example, a plurality of PEIs (PEI1 and PEI2) indicate the same N POs, that is, the downlink control information (DCI) of a plurality of MOs in the same DRX cycle indicated by the PEI needs to be consistent.

[0091] In one embodiment of the present application, FIG. 6 shows a structural block diagram of a paging indication device according to an embodiment of the present application. The paging indication device 1000 includes an acquisition module 1002 for acquiring paging early indication information, and a determination module 1004 for determining first content based on the paging early indication information. Here, the first content includes at least one of monitoring actions in N paging occasions after the paging early indication information, first configuration information related to the N paging occasions, and the availability of a first signal. The value of N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to the maximum number of paging occasions configured in PF.

[0092] In this embodiment, the terminal determines monitoring actions in N paging occasions based on paging early indication information transmitted or broadcast from the network side, and reduces the network overhead caused by the transmission of paging early indication information without indicating whether monitoring is required by one paging early indication information before each paging occasion. In addition, the first configuration information related to the N paging occasions and / or the availability of the first signal can also be determined based on the paging early indication information, which guarantees the reliability of demodulation and detection of the paging physical downlink control channel and the paging physical downlink shared channel, and further enables the balance between power saving of the terminal and performance overhead.

[0093] Optionally, each of the N paging occasions is related to W paging groups, where W is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0094] Optionally, the monitoring behavior includes at least one of whether to monitor the paging physical downlink control channel PDCCH of the paging group related to the terminal, whether to monitor the paging of the paging group related to the terminal, and whether to monitor the system information update of the paging group related to the terminal. Here, the paging group related to the terminal is at least one paging group among the paging groups related to at least one paging occasion among N paging occasions.

[0095] Optionally, the first configuration information includes at least one of the minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and the first paging occasion among N paging occasions, the value of N, and the index of N paging occasions.

[0096] Optionally, the acquisition module 1002 is also used to acquire the second configuration information, and the determination module 1004 is also used to determine the first content based on the second configuration information and the paging early indication information. Here, the second configuration information includes at least one of the minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and the second paging occasion among N paging occasions, the time domain position of the paging early indication information, the frequency domain position of the paging early indication information, the value of N, the candidate value of N, the value of the number of paging groups W related to the paging occasion, and the indication relationship between the paging early indication information and the paging occasion.

[0097] Optionally, the minimum time interval satisfies at least one of the following: the minimum time interval is greater than or equal to K synchronous signal block transmission periods, where K is a positive integer greater than or equal to 0; and the minimum time interval is related to at least one of the channel quality of the serving cell, the signal strength, the coverage performance, the terminal position, and the terminal movement rate.

[0098] Optionally, the time domain position of the paging early indication information satisfies at least one of the following conditions: the time domain position of the paging early indication information is before N paging occasions and satisfies the minimum time interval; the start time of the time domain position of the paging early indication information is the end time of the time domain of the synchronization signal block; and the end time of the time domain position of the paging early indication information is the start time of the time domain of the synchronization signal block.

[0099] Optionally, the indication relationship includes either one of the following: different paging early indication information indicates the same paging occasion; and the same paging occasion is indicated only by the same paging early indication information, where the first content indicated by the same paging early indication information is the same.

[0100] Optionally, when the determination module 1004 receives a plurality of paging early indication information with inconsistent first content, it is also used to determine that the paging early indication information is invalid, where the plurality of paging early indication information with inconsistent first content indicates the same N paging occasions.

[0101] Optionally, the paging early indication information is carried by downlink control information DCI or a sequence.

[0102] Optionally, when the paging early indication information is carried by downlink control information DCI, the indication method of the first content includes at least one of a bitmap and a bit string.

[0103] Optionally, when paging early indication information is carried by downlink control information DCI, the paging early indication information is used to indicate that the indication field of the first content is arranged in a preset arrangement order, where the preset arrangement order includes at least one of being arranged according to the paging occasion related to the paging early indication information, being arranged according to the content type of the first content, and being arranged in ascending or descending order of the value of N.

[0104] In this embodiment, each module of the paging indication device 1000 realizes the steps of the paging indication method in any one of the above embodiments when executing its respective function. Therefore, the paging indication device also simultaneously includes all the beneficial effects of the paging indication method in any one of the above embodiments, which will not be described further here.

[0105] Specifically, the paging indication device in the embodiments of the present application may be a device, or may be a component, integrated circuit, or chip in a terminal. This device may be a mobile electronic device or a non-mobile electronic device. Exemplarily, the mobile electronic device may be a mobile phone, tablet computer, notebook computer, palmtop computer, in-vehicle electronic device, wearable device, ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), netbook, or personal digital assistant (PDA), etc., and the non-mobile electronic device may be a server, network-attached storage (NAS), personal computer (PC), television (TV), deposit and payment machine, or self-service machine, etc. The embodiments of the present application are not specifically limited.

[0106] In one embodiment of the present application, as shown in FIG. 7, a terminal 1200 is provided, including a processor 1204, a memory 1202, and a program or instruction stored in the memory 1202 and executable on the processor 1204. When the program or instruction is executed by the processor 1204, to implement the steps of the paging instruction method provided in any one of the above embodiments, this terminal 1200 includes all beneficial effects of the paging instruction method provided in any one of the above embodiments, which will not be described further herein.

[0107] The remote device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device having an operating system. This operating system may be an Android (registered trademark) operating system, an iOS operating system, or other possible operating systems, and the embodiments of the present application do not specifically limit it.

[0108] FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a terminal 1400 for implementing the embodiment of the present application.

[0109] This terminal 1400 includes components such as, but not limited to, a radio frequency unit 1402, a network module 1404, an audio output unit 1406, an input unit 1408, a sensor 1410, a display unit 1412, a user input unit 1414, an interface unit 1416, a memory 1418, and a processor 1420.

[0110] As can be understood by those skilled in the art, the terminal 1400 may further include a power source (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to each component. The power source may be logically connected to the processor 1420 by a power management system, whereby functions such as charge and discharge management and power consumption management can be realized by the power management system. The terminal structure shown in FIG. 8 does not constitute a limitation on the terminal. The terminal may include more or fewer components than the number of components shown, or a combination of some components, or a configuration of different components. In the embodiments of the present application, the terminal includes, but is not limited to, a mobile terminal, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palmtop computer, in-vehicle electronic equipment, a wearable device, and a pedometer. Here, the processor 1420 is used to obtain paging early indication information and determine the first content based on the paging early indication information. Here, the first content includes at least one of monitoring actions in N paging occasions after the paging early indication information, first configuration information related to the N paging occasions, and the availability of the first signal. The value of N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to the maximum number of paging occasions configured in PF.

[0111] In this embodiment, the terminal determines the monitoring actions in N paging occasions according to the paging early indication information transmitted or broadcast from the network side, and reduces the network overhead caused by the transmission of the paging early indication information without instructing whether monitoring is required by one paging early indication information before each paging occasion. In addition, the first configuration information and / or the availability of the first signal related to the N paging occasions can also be determined according to the paging early indication information, ensuring the reliability of the demodulation and detection of the paging physical downlink control channel (paging PDCCH) and the paging physical downlink shared channel (paging PDSCH).

[0112] Furthermore, each of the N paging occasions is associated with W paging groups, where W is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1.

[0113] Furthermore, the monitoring behavior includes at least one of whether to monitor the paging physical downlink control channel PDCCH of the paging group associated with the terminal, whether to monitor the paging of the paging group associated with the terminal, and whether to monitor the system information update of the paging group associated with the terminal.

[0114] Optionally, the first configuration information includes at least one of the minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and the first paging occasion among the N paging occasions, the value of N, and the index of the N paging occasions.

[0115] Furthermore, the processor 1420 is also used to obtain the second configuration information and determine the first content based on the second configuration information and the paging early indication information. Here, the second configuration information includes at least one of the minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and the second paging occasion among the N paging occasions, the time domain position of the paging early indication information, the frequency domain position of the paging early indication information, the value of N, the candidate value of N, the value of the number of paging groups W associated with the paging occasion, and the indication relationship between the paging early indication information and the paging occasion.

[0116] Furthermore, the minimum time interval satisfies at least one of the following conditions: the minimum time interval is greater than or equal to K synchronous signal block transmission periods, where K is a positive integer greater than or equal to 0, and the minimum time interval is related to at least one of the channel quality of the serving cell, the signal strength, the coverage performance, the terminal position, and the terminal movement rate.

[0117] Furthermore, the time domain position of the paging early indication information satisfies at least one of the following conditions: the time domain position of the paging early indication information is before N paging occasions and satisfies the minimum time interval; the start time of the time domain position of the paging early indication information is the end time of the time domain of the synchronization signal block; the end time of the time domain position of the paging early indication information is the start time of the time domain of the synchronization signal block.

[0118] Furthermore, the indication relationship includes either one of the following: different paging early indication information indicates the same paging occasion; the same paging occasion is indicated only by the same paging early indication information, where the first content indicated by the same paging early indication information is the same.

[0119] Furthermore, when the processor 1420 receives a plurality of paging early indication information with inconsistent first content, it is also used to determine that the paging early indication information is invalid, where the plurality of paging early indication information with inconsistent first content indicates the same N paging occasions.

[0120] Furthermore, the paging early indication information is carried by downlink control information DCI or a sequence.

[0121] Furthermore, when the paging early indication information is carried by downlink control information DCI, the indication method of the first content includes at least one of a bitmap and a bit string.

[0122] Furthermore, when paging early indication information is carried by downlink control information DCI, the paging early indication information is used to indicate that the indication fields of the first content are arranged in a preset arrangement order, where the preset arrangement order includes at least one of being arranged according to the paging occasion related to the paging early indication information, being arranged according to the content type of the first content, and being arranged in ascending or descending order of the value of N.

[0123] It should be understood that in the embodiments of the present application, the radio frequency unit 1402 may be used for transmitting and receiving information or signals during a call. Specifically, it may receive downlink data of the base station or transmit uplink data to the base station. The radio frequency unit 1402 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, etc.

[0124] The network module 1404 provides wireless broadband Internet access for the user and supports, for example, sending and receiving emails by the user, browsing web pages, and accessing streaming media.

[0125] The audio output unit 1406 can convert the audio data received by the radio frequency unit 1402 or the network module 1404 or stored in the memory 1418 into an audio signal and output it as sound. And the audio output unit 1406 can also provide audio output related to specific functions executed by the terminal 1400 (for example, call signal reception sound, message incoming sound, etc.). The audio output unit 1406 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, etc.

[0126] The input unit 1408 is used to receive audio or video signals. The input unit 1408 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 5082 and a microphone 5084. The graphics processor 5082 processes still image or video image data obtained by an image capture device (e.g., a camera) in video capture mode or image capture mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 1412, stored in the memory 1418 (or other storage media), or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 1402 or the network module 1404. The microphone 5084 can receive sound and process the sound as audio data, and the processed audio data may be output after being converted into a format that can be transmitted to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 1402 in the call mode of the phone.

[0127] The terminal 1400 further includes at least one sensor 1410, such as a fingerprint sensor, a pressure sensor, an iris sensor, a molecular sensor, a gyroscope, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, an infrared sensor, an optical sensor, a motion sensor, and other sensors.

[0128] The display unit 1412 is used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user. The display unit 1412 may include a display panel 5122, and the display panel 5122 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like.

[0129] The user input unit 1414 may be used to receive input numerical or character information and generate key signal inputs for settings and function control by the user of the terminal. Specifically, the user input unit 1414 includes a touch panel 5142 and other input devices 5144. The touch panel 5142, also called a touch screen, can collect touch operations thereon or in its vicinity by the user. The touch panel 5142 may include two parts: a touch detection device and a touch controller. Here, the touch detection device detects the touch orientation by the user, detects the signal caused by the touch operation, and distributes the signal to the touch controller. The touch controller receives the touch information from the touch detection device, converts it into touch point coordinates, then transmits it to the processor 1420, and receives and executes the commands transmitted from the processor 1420. The other input devices 5144 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control buttons, switch buttons, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and an operation lever, which will not be further described here.

[0130] Furthermore, the touch panel 5142 may be covered on the display panel 5122. When the touch panel 5142 detects a touch operation thereon or in its vicinity, it distributes it to the processor 1420 to determine the type of touch event. Then, the processor 1420 provides the corresponding visual output on the display panel 5122 according to the type of touch event. The touch panel 5142 and the display panel 5122 may be two independent members or integrated as one member.

[0131] The interface unit 1416 is an interface for connecting an external device and the terminal 1400. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headphone port interface, an external power supply (or battery charger) port interface, a wired or wireless data port interface, a memory card port interface, a port interface for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input / output (I / O) port interface, a video I / O port interface, an earphone port interface, and the like. The interface unit 1416 may be used to receive an input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from the external device and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the terminal 1400, or may be used to transmit data between the terminal 1400 and the external device.

[0132] The memory 1418 may be used to store software programs and various data. The memory 1418 may mainly include a program storage area and a data storage area. Here, the program storage area can store an operating system, an application program required for at least one function (e.g., a voice playback function, an image playback function, etc.), and the data storage area can store data created by using the mobile terminal (e.g., audio data, a phone book, etc.). Note that the memory 1418 may include a high-speed random access memory, and may also include a non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk memory device, a flash memory device, or other volatile solid-state memory devices.

[0133] Processor 1420 runs or executes software programs and / or modules stored in memory 1418, calls data stored in memory 1418, executes various functions of terminal 1400, and processes data to monitor the entire terminal 1400. Processor 1420 may include one or more processing units. Processor 1420 may integrate an application processor and a modem processor. Here, the application processor is mainly for processing the operating system, user interface, application programs, etc., and the modem processor is mainly for processing functions related to wireless communication.

[0134] In one embodiment of this application, a readable storage medium is provided, on which a program or instruction is stored. When this program or instruction is executed by a processor, the steps of the paging instruction method provided in any one of the above embodiments are realized.

[0135] In this embodiment, the readable storage medium can realize each process of the paging instruction method according to the embodiment of this application, and can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition of the description, it will not be described further here.

[0136] Here, the processor is the processor in the communication device provided 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 disk, or optical disk.

[0137] The embodiments of the present application further provide a chip, the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor runs a program or instructions and is used to implement each process of the embodiment of the above paging instruction method and can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition of the description, it will not be described further here.

[0138] It should be understood that the chip referred to in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as a system-level chip, a system-on-chip, a chip system, or a system-on-a-chip, etc.

[0139] It should be noted that in this specification, the term "including", "comprising" or any other variation thereof is intended to cover non-exclusive "including", whereby a process, method, article or device comprising a series of elements includes not only those elements but also other elements not expressly listed or elements inherent to such a process, method, article or device. In the case of elements defined by the phrase "comprising one...", the presence of other same elements in the process, method, article or device comprising this element is not excluded when there are no further limitations. It should be pointed out that the scope of the methods and devices in the embodiments of the present application is not limited to executing functions in the order illustrated or discussed, and may include executing functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in a reverse order based on the relevant functions. For example, a method described in a different procedure from that described can be executed, and various steps can be added, omitted or combined. Also, features described with reference to some examples can be combined in other examples.

[0140] As can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the description of the above embodiments, the method of the above embodiments can be implemented in the form of software and the necessary general-purpose hardware platform. Of course, it may also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a more preferred embodiment. Based on such an understanding, the technical solution of this application may, in essence, be embodied in the form of a software product even if the part that contributes to the prior art is so. This computer software product is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM / RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk), and contains some instructions for causing a terminal (which may be a mobile phone, computer, server, air conditioner, or network device, etc.) to execute the methods of the embodiments of this application.

[0141] The above has described the embodiments of this application in conjunction with the drawings, but this application is not limited to the forms for implementing the above invention. The forms for implementing the above invention are merely exemplary and not restrictive. Those skilled in the art can make many forms without departing from the spirit of this application and the scope of the claims, and all of them belong to the protection scope of this application.

[0142] The above are only the preferred embodiments of this application and are not intended to limit this application. For those skilled in the art, various changes and variations are possible for this application. Any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the scope of the spirit and principle of this application should all be included within the protection scope of this application.

Claims

1. A paging indication method, comprising: a terminal obtaining paging early indication information for indicating first content; and the terminal determining the first content based on the paging early indication information, wherein the first content includes at least one of monitoring actions in N paging occasions after the paging early indication information, first configuration information related to the N paging occasions, and availability of a first signal, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1.

2. Each of the N paging occasions is related to W paging groups, where W is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1. The paging indication method according to Claim 1.

3. The monitoring action includes at least one of whether to monitor a paging physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of a paging group related to the terminal, whether to monitor paging of a paging group related to the terminal, and whether to monitor system information update of a paging group related to the terminal, where the paging group related to the terminal is at least one paging group among the paging groups related to at least one of the N paging occasions. The paging indication method according to Claim 2.

4. The first configuration information includes at least one of a minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and a first paging occasion among the N paging occasions, the value of N, and an index of the N paging occasions. The paging indication method according to Claim 1.

5. further comprising: the terminal obtaining second configuration information configured by the network side and / or agreed upon by a protocol; and the terminal determining the first content based on the second configuration information and the paging early indication information. Here, the second configuration information includes at least one of a minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and a second paging occasion among the N paging occasions, a time domain position of the paging early indication information, a frequency domain position of the paging early indication information, a value of N, a candidate value of N, a value of the number W of paging groups related to the paging occasion, and an indication relationship between the paging early indication information and the paging occasion. The paging indication method according to any one of claims 1 to 4.

6. The minimum time interval is equal to or greater than K synchronous signal block transmission periods, where K is a positive integer greater than or equal to 0, and / or The minimum time interval is related to at least one of the channel quality of the serving cell, signal strength, coverage performance, terminal position, and terminal movement rate. The paging indication method according to claim 5.

7. The time domain position of the paging early indication information is The time domain position of the paging early indication information is before the N paging occasions and satisfies the minimum time interval, and The start time of the time domain position of the paging early indication information is the end time of the time domain of the synchronous signal block, and The paging indication method according to claim 5, which satisfies at least one of the end time of the time domain position of the paging early indication information being the start time of the time domain of the synchronous signal block.

8. The indication relationship includes either the different paging early indication information indicating the same paging occasion or the same paging occasion being able to be indicated only by the same paging early indication information. Here, the first content indicated by the same paging early indication information is the same. The paging indication method according to claim 5.

9. When the terminal receives a plurality of paging early indication information with inconsistent first contents, it further includes determining that the paging early indication information is invalid. Here, the plurality of paging early indication information with inconsistent first contents indicates the same N paging occasions. The paging indication method according to any one of claims 1 to 4.

10. The paging early indication information is carried by downlink control information DCI or a sequence, and is the paging indication method according to any one of claims 1 to 4.

11. When the paging early indication information is carried by downlink control information DCI, the indication method of the first content includes at least one of a bitmap and a bit string, and is the paging indication method according to claim 10.

12. When the paging early indication information is carried by downlink control information DCI, the paging early indication information is used to indicate that it is arranged in a preset arrangement order of the indication field of the first content. Here, the preset arrangement order includes at least one of being arranged according to the paging occasion related to the paging early indication information, being arranged according to the content type of the first content, and being arranged in ascending or descending order of the value of N, and is the paging indication method according to claim 10.

13. A paging indication device, An acquisition module for acquiring paging early indication information, And a determination module for determining the first content based on the paging early indication information, Here, the first content includes at least one of monitoring actions in N paging occasions after the paging early indication information, first configuration information related to the N paging occasions, and the availability of a first signal, and N is a positive integer of 1 or more, and is a paging indication device.

14. Each of the N paging occasions is related to W paging groups, Here, W is a positive integer of 1 or more, and is the paging indication device according to claim 13.

15. The monitoring action includes at least one of whether to monitor the paging physical downlink control channel PDCCH of the paging group related to the terminal, whether to monitor the paging of the paging group related to the terminal, and whether to monitor the system information update of the paging group related to the terminal. Here, the paging group related to the terminal is at least one paging group among at least one paging group related to at least one paging occasion among the N paging occasions. The paging indication device according to claim 14.

16. The first configuration information includes at least one of a minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and a first paging occasion among the N paging occasions, the value of N, and an index of the N paging occasions. The paging indication device according to claim 13.

17. The acquisition module is also used to acquire second configuration information. The determination module is also used to determine the first content based on the second configuration information and the paging early indication information. Here, the second configuration information includes at least one of a minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and the N paging occasions, a time domain position of the paging early indication information, a frequency domain position of the paging early indication information, the value of N, a candidate value of N, a value of the number W of paging groups related to the paging occasion, and an indication relationship between the paging early indication information and the paging occasion. The paging indication device according to any one of claims 13 to 16.

18. The minimum time interval is equal to or greater than K synchronous signal block transmission periods, where K is a positive integer greater than or equal to 0, and / or The minimum time interval is related to at least one of channel quality of a serving cell, signal strength, coverage performance, terminal position, and terminal movement rate. The paging indication device according to claim 17.

19. The time domain position of the paging early indication information is the time domain position of the paging early indication information is before the N paging occasions and satisfies the minimum time interval, the start time of the time domain position of the paging early indication information is the end time of the time domain of the synchronous signal block, and the end time of the time domain position of the paging early indication information is the start time of the time domain of the synchronous signal block. The paging indication device according to claim 17.

20. The indication relationship includes either one of the following: different paging early indication information indicating the same paging occasion, and the same paging occasion can be indicated only by the same paging early indication information. The paging indication device according to claim 17, wherein the first content indicated by the same paging early indication information is the same.

21. When the determination module receives a plurality of pieces of paging early indication information whose first contents do not match, it is also used to determine that the paging early indication information is invalid. The paging indication device according to any one of claims 13 to 16, wherein a plurality of pieces of paging early indication information whose first contents do not match indicate the same N paging occasions.

22. The paging indication device according to any one of claims 13 to 16, wherein the paging early indication information is carried by downlink control information DCI or a sequence.

23. The paging indication device according to claim 22, wherein when the paging early indication information is carried by downlink control information DCI, the indication method of the first content includes at least one of a bitmap and a bit string.

24. When the paging early indication information is carried by downlink control information DCI, the paging early indication information is used to indicate that the indication field of the first content is arranged in a preset arrangement order. Here, the preset arrangement order includes at least one of being arranged according to the paging occasion related to the paging early indication information, being arranged according to the content type of the first content, and being arranged in ascending or descending order of the value of N. The paging indication device according to claim 22.

25. A terminal including a processor, a memory, and a program or instruction stored in the memory and executable on the processor, and when the program or instruction is executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the paging indication method according to any one of claims 1 to 12.

26. A readable storage medium in which a program or instructions are stored, and when the program or the instructions are executed by a processor, the paging instruction method according to any one of claims 1 to 12 is realized.

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