Power state indication
The power state indication system addresses the energy efficiency challenges in 5G communication systems by allowing the network to monitor the power state of the main radio, enabling optimized energy usage and extended battery life.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- PCT/CN2023/132473
- Authority / Receiving Office
- WO · WO
- Patent Type
- Applications
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2023-11-17
- Publication Date
- 2025-05-22
AI Technical Summary
Current communication systems, particularly 5G devices, face challenges in energy efficiency, as they consume significant power, especially in RRC connected states, and lack efficient mechanisms to reduce power consumption in idle/inactive states.
The implementation of a power state indication system, where a first apparatus determines the power state of its main radio and indicates this state to a second apparatus, allowing the network to be aware of the power state of the main radio, thereby optimizing energy usage.
This solution enables reduced power consumption by allowing the main radio to enter sleep modes only when necessary, thereby prolonging battery life and improving user experience, especially for devices with limited energy sources.
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Abstract
Description
POWER STATE INDICATION
[0001] FIELDS
[0002] Various example embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to the field of telecommunication, and in particular, to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage medium for power state indication.BACKGROUND
[0003] Communication systems such as fifth generation (5G) systems are designed and developed targeting for both mobile telephony and vertical use cases. Besides latency, reliability, and availability, user equipment (UE) energy efficiency is also a concerning aspect for the communication systems. Currently, devices such as UE may need to be recharged per week or day, depending on individual’s usage time. In general, 5G devices consume tens of milliwatts in radio resource control (RRC) idle / inactive state and hundreds of milliwatts in RRC connected state. Designs to prolong battery life is a necessity for improving energy efficiency as well as for better user experience.
[0004] Energy efficiency is even more critical for UEs without a continuous energy source, e.g., UEs using small rechargeable and single coin cell batteries. Among vertical use cases, sensors and actuators are deployed extensively for monitoring, measuring, charging, etc. Generally, their batteries are not rechargeable and expected to last at least few years. Currently, UEs need to periodically wake up once per discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, which dominates the power consumption in periods with no signaling or data traffic. If UEs are able to wake up only when they are addressed, e.g., by paging, power consumption could be dramatically reduced. This can be achieved by using a wake-up signal to trigger or wake-up a main radio of the UE. A separate receiver of the UE may have the ability to monitor wake-up signal with ultra-low power consumption. Main radio works for downlink reception as well as uplink transmission. Main radio is also responsible for cell (re) selection evaluation to ensure e.g., that the UE is camping on the best cell. Main radio can be set to different power state, such as a sleep mode.SUMMARY
[0005] In a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a first apparatus. The first apparatus comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the first apparatus to: determine a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus; and indicate, to a second apparatus, the determined power state of the main radio.
[0006] In a second aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a second apparatus. The second apparatus comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the second apparatus to: receive, from a first apparatus, an indication of a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus.
[0007] In a third aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method. The method comprises: determining a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus; and indicating, to a second apparatus, the determined power state of the main radio.
[0008] In a fourth aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method. The method comprises: receiving, from a first apparatus, an indication of a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus.
[0009] In a fifth aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a first apparatus. The first apparatus comprises means for determining a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus; and means for indicating, to a second apparatus, the determined power state of the main radio.
[0010] In a sixth aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a second apparatus. The second apparatus comprises means for receiving, from a first apparatus, an indication of a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus.
[0011] In a seventh aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium comprises instructions stored thereon for causing an apparatus to perform at least the method according to the third aspect or the fourth aspect.
[0012] It is to be understood that the Summary section is not intended to identify key or essential features of embodiments of the present disclosure, nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the present disclosure. Other features of the present disclosure will become easily comprehensible through the following description.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0013] Some example embodiments will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, where:
[0014] FIG. 1 illustrates an example communication environment in which example embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented;
[0015] FIG. 2 illustrates an example block diagram of a first apparatus with a main radio and a wake-up receiver;
[0016] FIG. 3 illustrates an example signaling flow of power state indication of a main radio of a first apparatus according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0017] FIG. 4 illustrates another example signaling flow of power state indication of the main radio according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0018] FIG. 5 illustrates a flowchart of a method implemented at a first apparatus according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0019] FIG. 6 illustrates a flowchart of a method implemented at a second apparatus according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0020] FIG. 7 illustrates a flowchart of a method implemented at a first apparatus according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0021] FIG. 8 illustrates a flowchart of a method implemented at a second apparatus according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0022] FIG. 9 illustrates a simplified block diagram of a device that is suitable for implementing example embodiments of the present disclosure; and
[0023] FIG. 10 illustrates a block diagram of an example computer readable medium in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure.
[0024] Throughout the drawings, the same or similar reference numerals represent the same or similar element.DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0025] Principle of the present disclosure will now be described with reference to some example embodiments. It is to be understood that these embodiments are described only for the purpose of illustration and help those skilled in the art to understand and implement the present disclosure, without suggesting any limitation as to the scope of the disclosure. Embodiments described herein can be implemented in various manners other than the ones described below.
[0026] In the following description and claims, unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skills in the art to which this disclosure belongs.
[0027] References in the present disclosure to “one embodiment, ” “an embodiment, ” “an example embodiment, ” and the like indicate that the embodiment described may include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic, but it is not necessary that every embodiment includes the particular feature, structure, or characteristic. Moreover, such phrases are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment. Further, when a particular feature, structure, or characteristic is described in connection with an embodiment, it is submitted that it is within the knowledge of one skilled in the art to affect such feature, structure, or characteristic in connection with other embodiments whether or not explicitly described.
[0028] It shall be understood that although the terms “first, ” “second” and the like may be used herein to describe various elements, these elements should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one element from another. For example, a first element could be termed a second element, and similarly, a second element could be termed a first element, without departing from the scope of example embodiments. As used herein, the term “and / or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the listed terms.
[0029] As used herein, “at least one of the following: <a list of two or more elements>” and “at least one of <a list of two or more elements>” and similar wording, where the list of two or more elements are joined by “and” or “or” , mean at least any one of the elements, or at least any two or more of the elements, or at least all the elements.
[0030] As used herein, unless stated explicitly, performing a step “in response to A” does not indicate that the step has to be performed immediately after “A” occurs and one or more intervening steps may be included.
[0031] The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments. As used herein, the singular forms “a” , “an” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises” , “comprising” , “has” , “having” , “includes” and / or “including” , when used herein, specify the presence of stated features, elements, and / or components etc., but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, elements, components and / or combinations thereof.
[0032] As used in this application, the term “circuitry” may refer to one or more or all of the following:
[0033] (a) hardware-only circuit implementations (such as implementations in only analog and / or digital circuitry) and
[0034] (b) combinations of hardware circuits and software, such as (as applicable) :
[0035] (i) a combination of analog and / or digital hardware circuit (s) with software / firmware and
[0036] (ii) any portions of hardware processor (s) with software (including digital signal processor (s) ) , software, and memory (ies) that work together to cause an apparatus, such as a mobile phone or server, to perform various functions) and
[0037] (c) hardware circuit (s) and or processor (s) , such as a microprocessor (s) or a portion of a microprocessor (s) , that requires software (e.g., firmware) for operation, but the software may not be present when it is not needed for operation.
[0038] This definition of circuitry applies to all uses of this term in this application, including in any claims. As a further example, as used in this application, the term circuitry also covers an implementation of merely a hardware circuit or processor (or multiple processors) or portion of a hardware circuit or processor and its (or their) accompanying software and / or firmware. The term circuitry also covers, for example and if applicable to the particular claim element, a baseband integrated circuit or processor integrated circuit for a mobile device or a similar integrated circuit in server, a cellular network device, or other computing or network device.
[0039] As used herein, the term “communication network” refers to a network following any suitable communication standards, such as 6G, New Radio (NR) , Long Term Evolution (LTE) , LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) , Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) , High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) , Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) and so on. Furthermore, the communications between a terminal device and a network device in the communication network may be performed according to any suitable generation communication protocols, including, but not limited to, the first generation (1G) , the second generation (2G) , 2.5G, 2.75G, the third generation (3G) , the fourth generation (4G) , 4.5G, the fifth generation (5G) communication protocols, and / or any other protocols either currently known or to be developed in the future. Embodiments of the present disclosure may be applied in various communication systems. Given the rapid development in communications, there will of course also be future type communication technologies and systems with which the present disclosure may be embodied. It should not be seen as limiting the scope of the present disclosure to only the aforementioned system.
[0040] As used herein, the term “network device” refers to a node in a communication network via which a terminal device accesses the network and receives services therefrom. The network device may refer to a base station (BS) or an access point (AP) , for example, a node B (NodeB or NB) , an evolved NodeB (eNodeB or eNB) , an NR NB (also referred to as a gNB) , a Remote Radio Unit (RRU) , a radio head (RH) , a remote radio head (RRH) , a relay, an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node, a low power node such as a femto, a pico, a non-terrestrial network (NTN) or non-ground network device such as a satellite network device, a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite and a geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) satellite, an aircraft network device, and so forth, depending on the applied terminology and technology. In some example embodiments, radio access network (RAN) split architecture comprises a Centralized Unit (CU) and a Distributed Unit (DU) at an IAB donor node. An IAB node comprises a Mobile Terminal (IAB-MT) part that behaves like a UE toward the parent node, and a DU part of an IAB node behaves like a base station toward the next-hop IAB node.
[0041] The term “terminal device” refers to any end device that may be capable of wireless communication. By way of example rather than limitation, a terminal device may also be referred to as a communication device, user equipment (UE) , a Subscriber Station (SS) , a Portable Subscriber Station, a Mobile Station (MS) , or an Access Terminal (AT) . The terminal device may include, but not limited to, a mobile phone, a cellular phone, a smart phone, voice over IP (VoIP) phones, wireless local loop phones, a tablet, a wearable terminal device, a personal digital assistant (PDA) , portable computers, desktop computer, image capture terminal devices such as digital cameras, gaming terminal devices, music storage and playback appliances, vehicle-mounted wireless terminal devices, wireless endpoints, mobile stations, laptop-embedded equipment (LEE) , laptop-mounted equipment (LME) , USB dongles, smart devices, wireless customer-premises equipment (CPE) , an Internet of Things (IoT) device, a watch or other wearable, a head-mounted display (HMD) , a vehicle, a drone, a medical device and applications (e.g., remote surgery) , an industrial device and applications (e.g., a robot and / or other wireless devices operating in an industrial and / or an automated processing chain contexts) , a consumer electronics device, a device operating on commercial and / or industrial wireless networks, and the like. The terminal device may also correspond to a Mobile Termination (MT) part of an IAB node (e.g., a relay node) . In the following description, the terms “terminal device” , “communication device” , “terminal” , “user equipment” and “UE” may be used interchangeably.
[0042] As used herein, the term “resource, ” “transmission resource, ” “resource block, ” “physical resource block” (PRB) , “uplink resource, ” or “downlink resource” may refer to any resource for performing a communication, for example, a communication between a terminal device and a network device, such as a resource in time domain, a resource in frequency domain, a resource in space domain, a resource in code domain, or any other resource enabling a communication, and the like. In the following, unless explicitly stated, a resource in both frequency domain and time domain will be used as an example of a transmission resource for describing some example embodiments of the present disclosure. It is noted that example embodiments of the present disclosure are equally applicable to other resources in other domains.
[0043] As discussed above, energy efficiency is very critical for UEs without a continuous energy source, e.g., UEs using small rechargeable and single coin cell batteries. In some mechanisms, a wake-up signal (WUS) (also called low power WUS, LP-WUS) may be applied to trigger (e.g. wake-up) a main radio (MR) of a device. A separate receiver such as a low-power (LP) wake-up receiver (WUR) of the device may have the ability to monitor wake-up signals with ultra-low power consumption. Main radio works for downlink reception including e.g., synchronization signal block (SSB) / system information / paging / data / control signaling transmission and reception as well as for uplink transmission including e.g., data and control signaling transmission. Main radio is also responsible for cell (re) selection evaluation to ensure e.g. that the UE is camping on the best cell. Main radio may be set in different power state. For example, the main radio may be turned off or set to (deep) sleep unless it is turned on.
[0044] In some mechanisms, if an enter condition of using LP-WUS is fulfilled, whether the MR of a device enters a sleep mode or not enter any sleep is up to UE implementation. For example, whether UE’s MR enters an ultra-deep sleep or deep sleep, or not enter any sleep, is up to UE implementation. However, the network (NW) does not know about the power state of the MR such as the sleep mode or a normal mode. Furthermore, the NW cannot know how these different power states may impact the system performance.
[0045] In order to solve at least part of the above problems or other potential problems, a solution on power state indication is proposed. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a first apparatus such as a terminal device determines a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus. For example, the power state may be a sleep mode or a no sleep mode. The first apparatus indicates, to a second apparatus such as a network device, the determined power state of the main radio. In this way, the second apparatus such as a network device can know the power state of the main radio of the first apparatus. For example, the power state may be a specific type of sleep mode. The second apparatus can thus be aware of the sleep mode of the main radio.
[0046] FIG. 1 illustrates an example communication environment 100 in which example embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented. In the communication environment 100, a plurality of communication devices, including a first apparatus 110 and a second apparatus 120, can communicate with each other.
[0047] In the example of FIG. 1, the first apparatus 110 may include a terminal device and the second apparatus 120 may include a network device serving the terminal device. The serving area of the second apparatus 120 may be called as a cell 102.
[0048] It is to be understood that the number of devices and their connections shown in FIG. 1 are only for the purpose of illustration without suggesting any limitation. The communication environment 100 may include any suitable number of devices configured to implementing example embodiments of the present disclosure. Although not shown, it would be appreciated that one or more additional devices may be located in the cell 102, and one or more additional cells may be deployed in the communication environment 100. It is noted that although illustrated as a network device, the second apparatus 120 may be another device than a network device. Although illustrated as a terminal device, the first apparatus 110 may be a device other than a terminal device.
[0049] In the following, for the purpose of illustration, some example embodiments are described with the first apparatus 110 operating as a terminal device and the second apparatus 120 operating as a network device. However, in some example embodiments, operations described in connection with a terminal device may be implemented at a network device or other device, and operations described in connection with a network device may be implemented at a terminal device or other device.
[0050] In some example embodiments, if the first apparatus 110 is a terminal device and the second apparatus 120 is a network device, a link from the second apparatus 120 to the first apparatus 110 is referred to as a downlink (DL) , while a link from the first apparatus 110 to the second apparatus 120 is referred to as an uplink (UL) . In DL, the second apparatus 120 is a transmitting (TX) device (or a transmitter) and the first apparatus 110 is a receiving (RX) device (or a receiver) . In UL, the first apparatus 110 is a TX device (or a transmitter) and the second apparatus 120 is a RX device (or a receiver) .
[0051] Communications in the communication environment 100 may be implemented according to any proper communication protocol (s) , comprising, but not limited to, cellular communication protocols of the first generation (1G) , the second generation (2G) , the third generation (3G) , the fourth generation (4G) , the fifth generation (5G) , the sixth generation (6G) , and the like, wireless local network communication protocols such as Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 and the like, and / or any other protocols currently known or to be developed in the future. Moreover, the communication may utilize any proper wireless communication technology, comprising but not limited to: Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) , Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) , Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) , Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) , Time Division Duplex (TDD) , Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) , Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple (OFDM) , Discrete Fourier Transform spread OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM) and / or any other technologies currently known or to be developed in the future.
[0052] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus 110 includes a main radio and a wake-up receiver such as a LP-WUR (LR) . FIG. 2 illustrates an example block diagram of the first apparatus 110 with a main radio 210 (for example, a NR transceiver) and an LP-WUR 220 (also referred to as a LP-WUS receiver) . The LP-WUR 220 may monitor WUS (s) 230 from the network such as the second apparatus 120.
[0053] In some embodiments, the LP-WUR 220 may be operated in an always ‘on’ manner with very low power consumption. For example, the LP-WUR 220 may monitor the WUS 230 during an idle / inactive mode and a connected mode. The LP-WUR 220 may consume significantly less power compared to the main radio 210, by applying a simple WUS 230 and the use of dedicated hardware for its monitoring. For example, the LP-WUR 220 may be only able to or configured to receive the WUS 230.
[0054] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus 120 such as a network device may trigger the first apparatus 110 to wake-up when needed in an event-driven manner, by transmitting a certain WUS 230 to the first apparatus 110. The WUS 230 may be monitored by the LP-WUR 220, for example, an ultra-low power receiver. In response to receiving the WUS (s) 230, the LP-WUR 220 may trigger the wake-up of the ordinary NR transceiver and communication / normal operation may start. For example, the LP-WUR 220 such as the ultra-low power receiver wakes up the main radio 210. The main radio 210 thus may be switched into an on state or a no sleep mode. Otherwise, the main radio 210 may be turned off or kept in a sleep mode, such as a deep sleep mode or an ultra-deep sleep mode.
[0055] As used herein, the turned off state, the turned-on state, sleep mode, a specific sleep mode among a plurality of different sleep modes, or no sleep mode of the main radio 210 may be referred to as a power state of the main radio 210. As used herein, the term “no sleep mode” may refer to a power state or mode in which the main radio 210 of the first apparatus 110 performs a channel monitoring and a channel measurement. The “no sleep mode” may also be referred to as a “normal mode” or “turned-on state” . The channel monitoring may refer to physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring, physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) monitoring or any other suitable monitoring. Examples of the channel measurement may include but not limited to a radio resource management (RRM) measurement, a radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement, a beam failure detection (BFD) measurement, a channel state information (CSI) measurement, a beam management (BM) measurement, and / or the like.
[0056] As used herein, the term “deep sleep mode” may refer to a power state or mode in which the main radio 210 of the first apparatus 110 performs a channel measurement without the channel monitoring. For example, in the deep sleep mode, the main radio 210 may perform RRM / RLM / BFD / CSI / BM measurements. As used herein, the term “ultra-deep sleep mode” may refer to a power state or mode in which the main radio 210 of the first apparatus 110 does not perform any channel monitoring or channel measurement. In the ultra-deep sleep mode, the main radio 210 is turned off. For example, the ultra-deep sleep state may be entered when predefined condition (e.g. quality of CSI-reference signal (RS) , LP-search space (SS) and / or SSB is better than the threshold) is fulfilled. As used herein, the term “ultra-deep sleep mode” and the term “deep sleep mode” may be individually or collectively referred to as a “sleep mode” .
[0057] Several power states of the main radio 210 has been described. In some example embodiments, if an entry condition of LP WUR 220 to monitor WUS 230 is fulfilled, the first apparatus 110 may determine whether to switch the main radio 210 into the deep sleep mode, the ultra-deep sleep mode or the no sleep mode based on implementation of the first apparatus 110. By switching the main radio 210 between different power states, power saving of the first apparatus 110 can be achieved. Such an entry condition may comprise a predetermined time of inactivity in communication, for example.
[0058] As discussed, according to embodiments of the present disclosure, the first apparatus indicates a power state of the main radio 210 of the first apparatus 110 to the second apparatus 120. In this way, the network can be aware of the power state of the main radio 210. FIG. 3 illustrates an example signaling flow 300 of power state indication according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure. For the purpose of discussion, the signaling flow 300 will be described with reference to FIG. 1, for example, by using the first apparatus 110 and the second apparatus 120.
[0059] In operation, the first apparatus 110 determines (310) a power state of the main radio 210 of the first apparatus 110. The determined power state may be a sleep mode or a no-sleep mode. The sleep mode of the main radio 210 may be among a plurality of different sleep modes. By way of example, the plurality of sleep modes may include but not limited to a deep sleep mode, an ultra-deep sleep mode, and the like.
[0060] The first apparatus 110 indicates, to the second apparatus 120, the determined power state of the main radio. For example, the first apparatus 110 transmits (320) an indication of the power state to the second apparatus 120. The second apparatus 120 receives (330) the indication. As used herein, the indication of the power state may be referred to as a “power state indication” .
[0061] Alternatively, or in addition, in some example embodiments, the first apparatus 110 may determine (310) a sleep mode, among the plurality of different sleep modes, of the main radio 210. The first apparatus 110 may indicate to the second apparatus 120 the determined sleep mode of the main radio 210. As used herein, an indication of the sleep mode may be referred to as a “sleep mode indication” .
[0062] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus 110 may be configured with WUSs such as the WUS 230. In some example embodiments, if WUS monitoring condition is fulfilled, the first apparatus 110 may start WUS monitoring and determines (310) a sleep mode of the main radio 210 among the plurality of sleep modes. The first apparatus 110 may cause the main radio 210 to enter the determined sleep mode where power of the first apparatus 110 can be saved. The first apparatus 110 may indicate the selected sleep mode to the second apparatus 120.
[0063] Alternatively, or in addition, if WUS monitoring condition is not fulfilled anymore, the first apparatus 110 may stop WUS monitoring and determine (310) to switch the main radio 210 to the no sleep mode. The main radio 210 of the first apparatus 110 thus may enter the no sleep mode. The first apparatus 110 may also indicate the no sleep mode to the second apparatus 120.
[0064] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus 110 may include a main radio and a wake-up receiver, such as the main radio 210 and the LP-WUR 220 in FIG. 2. The LP-WUR 220 may monitor the WUS 230. Monitoring the WUS 230 may comprise monitoring one or more WUSs sent by the second apparatus 120 to the first apparatus 110 according to a WUS configuration. Alternatively, in some example embodiments, the WUS 230 may be monitored by the main radio 210 or by a further receiver of the first apparatus 110.
[0065] In some example embodiments, the determined power state was applied by the main radio 210 while a predetermined event took place at the first apparatus 110. In an example embodiment, the predetermined event may include a failure of a network connection of the first apparatus 110 taking place. By way of example, the failure may be a random access failure, a handover failure, a radio link failure (RLF) , a connection establishment or reestablishment failure, a cross radio access technology (RAT) RLF, and / or the like. It is to be understood that the failure of the network connection of the first apparatus 110 may be any suitable failure, such as a predefined failure type or a configured failure type. Scope of the present disclosure is not limited here.
[0066] In another example embodiment, the predetermined event may include at least one WUS such as the WUS 230 being monitored by the first apparatus 110. For example, the first apparatus 110 may be configured to monitor with the WUS 230. A wake-up receiver such as LP-WUR 220 of the first apparatus 110 may monitor the WUS 230.
[0067] In a further example embodiment, the predetermined event may include at least one measurement result being logged by the first apparatus 110. For example, the first apparatus 110 may be configured to record or log the measurement result.
[0068] Several predetermined events have been described. It is to be understood that example events are only for the purpose of illustration, without suggesting any limitation. Any suitable predetermined events may be applied. Scope of the present disclosure is not limited here.
[0069] In some example embodiments, if the predetermined event took place, the first apparatus 110 may transmit (320) the indication to the second apparatus 120. The indication may indicate the power state of the main radio 210 at the time the predetermined event took place. Alternatively, or in addition, the indication may indicate that the predetermined event took place while the power state was applied by the main radio 210. For example, if the failure took place while the main radio 210 is in a certain sleep mode, the first apparatus 110 may indicate to the second apparatus 120 that when the failure took place, the main radio 210 was in the certain sleep mode. For another example, if the measurement log was recorded or logged while the main radio 210 is in a certain sleep mode, the first apparatus 110 may indicate to the second apparatus 120 that the measurement log was logged while the main radio 210 was in the certain sleep mode. For another example, if the WUS 230 was, is or will be monitored by the first apparatus 110 (e.g. by the LP-WUR 220 of the first apparatus 110) while the main radio 210 was, is or will be in a certain sleep mode, the first apparatus 110 may indicate to the second apparatus 120 the certain sleep mode. As some examples, the indication may be transmitted before, during or after the WUS 230 is monitored.
[0070] Alternatively, or in addition, in some example embodiments, the first apparatus 110 may be configured to transmit (320) the indication of power state. For example, the second apparatus 120 may transmit a configuration for transmitting the indication to the first apparatus 110. In response to receiving the configuration, the first apparatus 110 may indicate the power state to the second apparatus 120.
[0071] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus 120 may transmit, to the first apparatus 110, configuration information for indicating the power state. The first apparatus 110 may receive the configuration information. In some example embodiments, in response to receiving the configuration information, the first apparatus 110 may transmit (320) the power state indication based on the configuration information. Alternatively, or in addition, in some example embodiments, the configuration information may indicate of the sleep mode indication. In response to receiving such configuration information, the first apparatus 110 may transmit (320) the sleep mode indication to the second apparatus 120 based on the configuration information.
[0072] In some example embodiments, the power state indication and / or the sleep mode indication may be included in any suitable signaling or message. In some example embodiments, the signaling or message for the power state indication or the sleep mode indication may be indicated by the configuration information. For example, the configuration information may indicate that the power state may be indicated in information of the first apparatus 110 such as UE information, or assistance information of the first apparatus 110 such as UE assistance information. For another example, the configuration information may indicate that that the power state may be indicated such as a radio resource control message, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) , a physical layer (PHY) level message such as uplink control information, or any other suitable message or signaling.
[0073] For a further example, the configuration information may indicate that the power state may be indicated in a measurement report or a measurement log. The measurement report or measurement log may be associated with a measurement result obtained by the main radio 210 or the LP-WUR 220. In such cases, the indication may indicate whether the associated measurement result is obtained while the power state of the main radio 210 is the sleep mode or a no sleep mode, or the measurement result is obtained while the power state of the main radio 210 is an ultra-deep sleep mode or a deep sleep mode. Alternatively, or in addition, the indication may indicate whether the measurement result is obtained by the main radio 210 or the LP-WUR 220.
[0074] It is to be understood that these described signaling or messages for the indication are only for the purpose of illustration, without suggesting any limitation. In some example embodiments, the first apparatus 110 may determine to use any one or more of the above signaling or messages for the indication, without the configuration information from the second apparatus 120. For example, the signaling or message for the indication may be specified or determined based on implementation of the first apparatus 110.
[0075] As mentioned, in some example embodiments, the power state may be indicated in a measurement report or a measurement log. By indicating the power state in the measurement report or measurement log, it may lead to no additional wake-up power consumption for transmitting the indication.
[0076] As used herein, the term “measurement report” may refer to information or message (s) including a result of a measurement reported to the second apparatus 120. The measurement report may be associated with an immediate channel measurement such as an immediate MDT. As used herein, the term “measurement” may be a measurement on a channel, and thus may be referred to as a “channel measurement” . As an example measurement, the first apparatus 110 may measure reference signal received power of a channel. The measurement may be called a radio signal measurement or a radio channel measurement.
[0077] The measurement report may include at least one of the power state of the main radio 210, the power state of the main radio 210 at a time point when the channel measurement for the measurement log took place, or a result of the channel measurement. In some example embodiments, the measurement report may include a channel measurement metric obtained by the main radio 210. In some example embodiments, the measurement report may include a channel measurement metric obtained by the LP-WUR 220. For example, if the channel measurement metric is lower than or equal to a threshold, the measurement report may include the channel measurement metric obtained by the LP-WUR 220. The channel measurement metric may be a signal quality such as reference signal received quality (RSRQ) , a signal power such as reference signal received power (RSRP) , a detection rate of the WUS 230, a detection rate of a synchronization signal, and / or the like. The threshold may be predefined or configured.
[0078] Examples of measurement or channel measurement may include but not limited to RRM measurement, RLM measurement, BFD measurement, CSI measurement, BM measurement, minimization of drive tests (MDT) related measurement, self organizing networks (SON) related measurement, and / or the like. In the following description, some example embodiments will be described with the channel measurement being the MDT related measurement or the SON related measurement. For example, the first apparatus 110 may be configured with MDT related measurement and / or SON related measurement. Alternatively, in some example embodiments, for the first apparatus 110 supporting LP-WUS or configured with LP-WUS, the second apparatus 120 may not configure legacy MDT and SON measurement for the first apparatus 110.
[0079] It is to be understood that these example measurements are only for the purpose of illustration, without suggesting any limitation. Example embodiments of the present disclosure may be applicable regardless of MDT and / or SON.
[0080] As used herein, the term “measurement log” may refer to information or message (s) including a result of a channel measurement recorded or logged by the first apparatus 110 and then reported to the second apparatus 120. The measurement log may be associated with a logged channel measurement such as a logged MDT.
[0081] In some example embodiments, if a measurement log including a measurement result is recorded or logged, the first apparatus 110 may transmit (320) the indication to the second apparatus 120. In an example, the first apparatus 110 may record the power state of the main radio 210 in the measurement log. In a further example, the first apparatus 110 may record the power state of the main radio 210 at a time point when the measurement result being obtained in the measurement log. For example, when the first apparatus 110 logs any MDT and / or SON related measurements, the first apparatus 110 may log whether the main radio 210 is in sleep mode (and / or in which sleep mode) and report it along with the measurements. In a still further example, the first apparatus 110 may record a channel measurement metric obtained by the LP-WUR 220 in the measurement log. These indications about the power state, or the sleep mode may be added to existing measurement logs.
[0082] In some example embodiments, if the channel measurement metric is lower than or equal to a threshold, the first apparatus 110 may record the channel measurement metric in the measurement log. The channel measurement metric may be a signal quality such as RSRQ, a signal power such as RSRP, a detection rate of the WUS 230, a detection rate of a synchronization signal, and / or the like. The threshold may be predefined or configured. By comparing the channel measurement metric with the threshold, less information may be transmitted in the measurement log, which lead to less power consumption.
[0083] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus 120 may transmit a configuration for recording or logging the measurement log to the first apparatus 110. In response to receiving the configuration for recording the measurement log, the first apparatus 110 may record the measurement log based on the configuration. Alternatively, or in addition, in some example embodiments, the first apparatus 110 may be configured to log and report the power state or sleep mode of the main radio 210.
[0084] As described, the power state may be indicated to the second apparatus 120 upon the failure of the network connection of the first apparatus 110 and / or the measurement log being recorded. In this way, the network may need the power state indication only when there is a performance issue. Therefore, less transmissions or less wake ups may be involved. It may thus lead to less power consumption.
[0085] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus 120 may receive a plurality of measurement reports or measurement logs associated with a plurality of measurements. The first apparatus 110 may indicate, to the second apparatus 120, whether the plurality of measurements is obtained by the main radio 210 or the LP-WUR 220. The second apparatus 120 may evaluate (340) performance of the first apparatus 110 based on a comparison between a first measurement result obtained by the main radio 210 and a second measurement result obtained by the LP-WUR 220. Additionally or alternatively, the second apparatus 120 may evaluate (340) performance of the first apparatus 110 based on a comparison between a first measurement result obtained by the main radio 210 when in the no sleep state and a second measurement result obtained by the main radio 210 when in a certain sleep state, such as in the deep sleep state.
[0086] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus 110 may indicate in an NR SON or MDT related measurement report or measurement log which measurements were done when the main radio 210 was in sleep mode and / or in which sleep mode. That is, the measurement report or measurement log may include legacy and LP-WUR measurements. In this way, the second apparatus 120 is able to know which are what measurements and hence may compare them.
[0087] Example embodiments regarding the power state indication have been described. With these example embodiments, the network can be informed about the power state or sleep mode of the first apparatus such as UE. In this way, the network can relate system performance issues to different power states or sleep modes, and thus can take effective action against these system performance issues. For example, the network can identify e.g. if more problems are occurring when WUR is used.
[0088] In order to solve at least part of the above problems or other potential problems, another solution on power state indication is proposed. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a first apparatus such as a terminal device receives, from a second apparatus such as a network device, a configuration of wake-up signals (WUSs) to be monitored by a wake-up receiver of the first apparatus. The first apparatus transmits, to the second apparatus, at least one indication indicating a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus that is applied while the wake-up receiver is monitoring the wake-up signals. In this way, the second network such as a network device can know the power state of the main radio of the first apparatus. For example, the power state may be a sleep mode. The second apparatus can thus be aware of the main radio being in a sleep mode.
[0089] FIG. 4 illustrates an example signaling flow 400 of power state indication according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure. For the purpose of discussion, the signaling flow 400 will be described with reference to FIG. 1, for example, by using the first apparatus 110 and the second apparatus 120. In the following description, it is assumed that the first apparatus 110 may include a main radio and a wake-up receiver, such as the main radio 210 and the LP-WUR 220 in FIG. 2.
[0090] In operation, the second apparatus 120 transmits (410) , to the first apparatus 110, a configuration of WUSs such as WUS 230 to be monitored by a WUR of the first apparatus 110, such as the LP-WUR 220. The first apparatus 110 receives (420) the configuration.
[0091] The first apparatus 110 transmits (460) , to the second apparatus 120, at least one indication indicating a power state of the main radio 210 that is applied while the LP-WUR 220 is monitoring the WUS (s) 230. The second apparatus 120 receives (470) the at least one indication.
[0092] In some example embodiments, the at least one indication may include an indication whether the power state of the main radio 210 is a sleep mode or a no sleep mode. In another example embodiment, the at least one indication may include an indication that the power state of the main radio 210 is an ultra-deep sleep mode or a deep sleep mode.
[0093] Alternatively, or in addition, in some example embodiments, the first apparatus 119 may perform (450) a channel measurement. The at least one indication may be associated with the channel measurement. For example, the at least one indication may include an indication whether a channel measurement is obtained while the power state of the main radio 210 is the sleep mode or a no sleep mode. For another example, the at least one indication may include an indication that the channel measurement is obtained while the power state of the main radio 210 is an ultra-deep sleep mode or a deep sleep mode. For a further example, the at least one indication may include an indication whether the channel measurement is obtained by the main radio 210 or the LP-WUR 220.
[0094] Examples of the channel measurement may include but not limited to RRM measurement, RLM measurement, BFD measurement, CSI measurement, BM measurement, MDT related measurement, SON related measurement, and / or the like. In the following description, some example embodiments will be described with the channel measurement being the MDT related measurement or the SON related measurement. For example, the first apparatus 110 may be configured with MDT related measurement and / or SON related measurement. Alternatively, in some example embodiments, for the first apparatus 110 supporting LP-WUS or configured with LP-WUS, the second apparatus 120 may not configure legacy MDT and SON measurement for the first apparatus 110.
[0095] It is to be understood that these example embodiments are only for the purpose of illustration, without suggesting any limitation. Example embodiments of the present disclosure may be applicable regardless of MDT and / or SON.
[0096] In some example embodiments, the at least one indication may be associated with a failure of the first apparatus 110. For example, the at least one indication may include an indication what the power state of the main radio 210 is at a time point a failure of the first apparatus 110 took place. Examples of the failure of the first apparatus 110 may include but not limited to a random access failure, a handover failure, an RLF, a connection establishment or reestablishment failure, a cross RAT RLF, and / or the like. It is to be understood that the failure of the first apparatus 110 may be any suitable failure, such as a predefined failure type or a configured failure type. Scope of the present disclosure is not limited here.
[0097] Examples of the at least one indication have been described. It is to be understood that these example indications are only for the purpose of illustration, without suggesting any limitation. These indications may be transmitted separately, or in any suitable combination. Any suitable indication can be applied. Scope of the present disclosure is not limited here.
[0098] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus 110 may transmit (460) the at least one indication to the second apparatus 120 under several situations or conditions. In an example embodiment, the first apparatus 110 may detect a trigger for monitoring the wake-up signals for the LP-WUR 220, the monitoring being based on the received configuration. The first apparatus 110 may switch the power state of the main radio 210 into a sleep mode. In response to switching the power state into the sleep mode, the first apparatus 110 may transmit (460) the at least one indication to the second apparatus 120. In other words, the first apparatus 110 may transmit (460) the at least one indication to the second apparatus 120 based on the power state of the main radio 210 being a sleep mode.
[0099] Alternatively, or in addition, in some embodiments, if a failure of the first apparatus 110 such as a random access failure, a handover failure, a RLF, a (re) connection establishment failure, a RAT RLF or any other suitable failure takes place, the first apparatus 110 may transmit (460) the at least one indication to the second apparatus 120. In such cases, the at least one indication may indicate the power state of the main radio 210 at a time point the failure took place.
[0100] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus 120 may transmit (430) configuration information for transmitting the at least one indication to the first apparatus 110. The first apparatus 110 may receive (440) the configuration information. In some example embodiments, in response to receiving (440) the configuration information, the first apparatus 110 may transmit (460) the at least one indication based on the configuration information.
[0101] In some example embodiments, the configuration information may indicate a signaling or message for transmitting the at least one indication. For example, the configuration information may indicate that the at least one indication may be included in information of the first apparatus 110 such as UE information, or assistance information of the first apparatus 110 such as UE assistance information. For another example, the configuration information may indicate that the at least one indication may be included in a message, such as a radio resource control message, an MAC CE, a PHY level message such as uplink control information, or any other suitable message or signaling.
[0102] For a further example, the configuration information may indicate that the at least one indication may be included in a measurement report or a measurement log. The measurement report or measurement log may be associated with a channel measurement obtained by the main radio 210 or the LP-WUR 220. In such cases, the at least one indication may indicate whether the associated channel measurement is obtained while the power state of the main radio 210 is the sleep mode or a no sleep mode, or the channel measurement is obtained while the power state of the main radio 210 is an ultra-deep sleep mode or a deep sleep mode. Alternatively, or in addition, the at least one indication may indicate whether the channel measurement is obtained by the main radio 210 or the LP-WUR 220.
[0103] It is to be understood that these example signaling or messages for the at least one indication are only for the purpose of illustration, without suggesting any limitation. In some example embodiments, the first apparatus 110 may determine to use any one or more of the above signaling or messages for the at least one indication, without the configuration information from the second apparatus 120. For example, the signaling or message for the at least one indication may be specified or determined based on implementation of the first apparatus 110.
[0104] As mentioned, in some example embodiments, the at least one indication may be included in a measurement report or a measurement log. By including the at least one indication in the measurement report or measurement log, it may lead to no additional wake-up power consumption for transmitting the at least one indication.
[0105] As used herein, the term “measurement report” may refer to information or message (s) including a result of a channel measurement reported to the second apparatus 120. The measurement report may be associated with an immediate channel measurement such as an immediate MDT.
[0106] The measurement report may include at least one of the power state of the main radio 210, the power state of the main radio 210 at a time point when the channel measurement for the measurement log took place, or a result of the channel measurement. In some example embodiments, the measurement report may include a channel measurement metric obtained by the LP-WUR 220. For example, if the channel measurement metric is lower than or equal to a threshold, the measurement report may include the channel measurement metric obtained by the LP-WUR 220. The channel measurement metric may be a signal quality such as RSRQ, a signal power such as RSRP, a detection rate of the WUS 230, a detection rate of a synchronization signal, and / or the like. The threshold may be predefined or configured.
[0107] As used herein, the term “measurement log” may refer to information or message (s) including a result of a channel measurement recorded or logged by the first apparatus 110 and then reported to the second apparatus 120. The measurement log may be associated with a logged channel measurement such as a logged MDT.
[0108] In some example embodiments, if a measurement log is recorded, the first apparatus 110 may transmit (460) the at least one indication to the second apparatus 120. In an example, the first apparatus 110 may record a result of the channel measurement in the measurement log. In another example, the first apparatus 110 may record the power state of the main radio 210 in the measurement log. In a further example, the first apparatus 110 may record the power state of the main radio 210 at a time point when the channel measurement took place in the measurement log. For example, when the first apparatus 110 logs any MDT and / or SON related measurements, the first apparatus 110 may log whether the main radio 210 is in sleep mode and report it along with the measurements. In a still further example, the first apparatus 110 may record a channel measurement metric obtained by the LP-WUR 220 in the measurement log. These indications about the power state, or the sleep mode may be added to existing measurement logs.
[0109] In some example embodiments, if the channel measurement metric is lower than or equal to a threshold, the first apparatus 110 may record the channel measurement metric in the measurement log. The channel measurement metric may be a signal quality such as RSRQ, a signal power such as RSRP, a detection rate of the WUS 230, a detection rate of a synchronization signal, and / or the like. The threshold may be predefined or configured. By comparing the channel measurement metric with the threshold, less information may be transmitted in the measurement log, which lead to less power consumption.
[0110] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus 120 may transmit a configuration for recording the measurement log to the first apparatus 110. In response to receiving the configuration for recording the measurement log, the first apparatus 110 may record the measurement log based on the configuration. Alternatively, or in addition, in some example embodiments, the first apparatus 110 may be configured to log and report the power state or sleep mode of the main radio 210.
[0111] Example embodiments regarding transmitting the at least one indication based on the failure of the first apparatus 110 and / or the measurement log being recorded have been described. In this way, the network may need the at least one indication only when there is a performance issue. Therefore, less transmissions or less wake ups may be involved. It may thus lead to less power consumption.
[0112] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus 120 may receive a plurality of measurement reports or measurement logs associated with a plurality of channel measurements. The at least one indication may indicate whether the plurality of channel measurements are obtained by the main radio 210 or the LP-WUR 220. The second apparatus 120 may evaluate (480) performance of the first apparatus 110 based on a comparison between a first channel measurement obtained by the main radio 210 and a second channel measurement obtained by the LP-WUR 220. Additionally or alternatively, the second apparatus 120 may evaluate (480) performance of the first apparatus 110 based on a comparison between a first measurement result obtained by the main radio 210 when in the no sleep state and a second measurement result obtained by the main radio 210 when in a certain sleep state, such as in the deep sleep state.
[0113] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus 110 may indicate in an NR SON or MDT related measurement report or measurement log which measurements were done when the main radio 210 was in sleep mode and / or in which sleep mode. That is, the measurement report or measurement log may include legacy and LP-WUR measurements. In this way, the second apparatus 120 is able to know which are what measurements and hence may compare them.
[0114] Example embodiments regarding the power state indication have been described. With these example embodiments, the network can be informed about the power state or sleep mode of the first apparatus such as UE. In this way, the network can relate system performance issues to different power states or sleep modes, and thus can take effective action against these system performance issues. For example, the network can identify e.g. if more problems are occurring when WUR is used.
[0115] In some example embodiments, the power state indication may be related to an idle mode (such as RRC_IDLE mode) , an inactive mode (such as RRC_INACTIVE mode) or a connected mode (such as RRC_CONNECTED mode) . For example, the first apparatus 110 may be in an idle or inactive mode or a connected mode. If the first apparatus 110 in an idle or inactive mode or a connected mode switches the power state or sleep mode of the main radio 210, the first apparatus 110 may transmit the at least one indication to the second apparatus 120. If a failure of the first apparatus 110 happens during an idle or inactive mode or a connected mode, or if a measurement log associated with these modes are recorded, the first apparatus 110 may transmit the at least one indication to the second apparatus 120. Details regarding the power states switching or sleep mode switching in the idle or inactive mode or connected mode will be described.
[0116] For the first apparatus 110 in an idle or inactive mode or a connected mode, the first apparatus 110 transmitting (460) the at least one indication may let the network know whether the first apparatus 110 monitors WUSs by the LP-WUR 220 or the main radio 210. In this way, the network may only send LP-WUS when the first apparatus 110 monitors LP-WUS. The resource consumption can thus be reduced. When the LP-WUS is not sent, another apparatus such as another UE monitoring LP-WUS which is the same group with the first apparatus 110 (the first apparatus 110 may also referred to as a target paging UE) , the first apparatus may not be waken up as a result of false wake-up. In this way, false wake-up rate can be reduced.
[0117] With LP-WUS / WUR, the main receiver 210 of the first apparatus 110 may enter ultra-deep sleep state. Such ultra-deep sleep state may be entered when predefined condition (e.g., quality of LP-SS and / or SSB is better than the threshold) is fulfilled. An operation like Mobile Initiated Communication Only (MICO) , where both monitoring of the downlink and RRM measurements are stopped until there is a subsequent uplink transmission, is however not feasible for LP-WUS / WUR. This may be because the point with LP-WUS / WUR is to reduce power consumption of the first apparatus 110 while maintaining some downlink monitoring functionality. This is not possible if either the first apparatus 110 stops monitoring in downlink or if the first apparatus 110 does not detect that it has moved into a new cell / area and therefore apply the incorrect configuration for downlink monitoring.
[0118] The functionality to be supported over Uu interface in RRC_IDLE and RRC_INACTIVE may include Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) selection, system information (SI) reception, cell re-selection mobility, and paging, etc. Therefore, it is feasible to introduce LP-WUS / WUR as a power saving feature for RRC_IDLE and RRC_INACTIVE, while ultra-deep sleep state as a power saving state for RRC_IDLE and RRC_INACTIVE.
[0119] Paging reception in RRC_IDLE and RRC_INACTIVE is supported both with discontinuous reception (DRX) , and from Rel-17 and Rel-18, respectively, with extended DRX (eDRX) . LP-WUS / WUR functionality where WUR monitors LP-WUSs may also be supported with or without duty-cycled operation, i.e., as ‘continuous’ or as ‘duty-cycled’ . Since the LP-WUS / WUR feature is introduced to lower the energy consumption of the first apparatus 110, it is for these two options feasible to introduce support for the LP-WUR option which may introduce the energy consumption reduction of the first apparatus 110.
[0120] Currently, paging monitoring in RRC_IDLE / INACTIVE mode is based on the configured idle DRX (I-DRX) , as well as paging early indicator (PEI) is also designed as ‘duty-cycled’ associated with legacy PO. The specification impact for ‘continuous’ and ‘duty-cycled’ depends on the detailed design. While a potential benefit of ‘continuous’ is shorter downlink latency. That is, since the UE monitors the downlink continuously the downlink latency could potentially be shorter.
[0121] In some embodiments, after waking up by LP-WUS, the legacy paging monitoring procedure may be triggered for the main receiver 210. That is, if the first apparatus 110 detects LP-WUS it would start up its main receiver 210 to monitor legacy paging, i.e., the PDCCH scheduling of the paging message on PDSCH, and at first after finding its own PagingRecord in the paging message the first apparatus 110 may determine that it is being paged. In this case, the downlink latency will be determined by the periodicity of the legacy paging occasions (POs) .
[0122] In some case, ‘continuous’ may not have latency benefit compared to ‘duty-cycled’ . That is, even if LP-WUS is immediately received using ‘continuous’ , the first apparatus 110 might anyway need to wait for the subsequent PO (i.e., maybe a same PO as if ‘duty-cycled’ is used) .
[0123] On the other hand, after wakening up by LP-WUS, the main receiver 210 may also monitor legacy PEI defined in release (Rel) -17, if it is configured by network and it is supported by the first apparatus 110. Especially for the case that LP-WUS does not have full coverage compared to legacy signalling, e.g. SSB, main receiver 210 needs to wake up to perform legacy operation out of LP-WUS coverage. In this case, network may still configure PEI for the use of fallback mechanism to save power consumption of the first apparatus 110 for paging monitoring. It means, the network may configure and transmit both LP-WUS and PEI for the first apparatus 110, especially when the network is not aware of the first apparatus 110’s entry / exit of LP-WUS monitoring. From the perspective of the first apparatus 110, LP-WUS may be used together with PEI if both LP-WUS and PEI are configured, to achieve more power saving gain.
[0124] Similar as in RRC_IDLE / INACTIVE, there are two mechanisms to monitor LP-WUS for LP-WUS in RRC_CONNECTED, i.e. ‘continuous’ and ‘duty-cycled’ mode. For ‘continuous’ , LP-WUS is monitored continuously in time, while for ‘duty-cycled’ , LP-WUS is monitored based on a defined duty cycle, which is similar as DRX mechanism. The WUS configuration may indicate is the WUS motoring to be performed based on “Continuous” or based on “duty cycle” -approach. ‘Continuous’ may be expected to have lower latency than ‘duty-cycled’ , but both solutions will have the same lower latency bound from the MR (main radio) transition time as described above, and, in the same way as for legacy connected DRX (C-DRX) , the duty cycle length for ‘duty-cycled’ would be defined or configured based on the downlink latency requirement. Therefore, any performance comparison of these two LP-WUS monitoring mechanisms, or any down selection between them, should be considered based on the downlink latency requirement.
[0125] As described above, in order to save power consumption of the first apparatus 110 for PDCCH monitoring and guarantee the latency, the basic design is that: when the main radio 210 is in a sleep state, LP-WUR 220 may remain active to monitor LP-WUS. When LP-WUS is received by LP-WUR 220, it will trigger the main radio 210 to wake up to monitor PDCCH.
[0126] The first apparatus 110 in an idle or inactive mode or a connected mode transmits the at least one indication to the second apparatus 120. The network can thus be aware of the power state or the sleep mode of the main radio 210. The network may know whether the first apparatus 110 monitors WUS by the LP-WUR 220 or the main radio 210. In this way, the network may only send LP-WUS when the first apparatus 110 monitors LP-WUS. The resource consumption can thus be reduced. When the LP-WUS is not sent, the other apparatus such as another UE monitoring LP-WUS, which is the same group with the first apparatus 110 (the first apparatus 110 may also referred to as a target paging UE) , the first apparatus may not be waken up as a result of false wake-up. In this way, false wake-up rate can be reduced.
[0127] FIG. 5 shows a flowchart of an example method 500 implemented at a first apparatus in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure. For the purpose of discussion, the method 500 will be described from the perspective of the first apparatus 110 in FIG. 1.
[0128] At block 510, the first apparatus 110 determines a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus.
[0129] At block 520, the first apparatus 110 indicates, to a second apparatus, the determined power state of the main radio.
[0130] In some example embodiments, the determined power state was applied by the main radio while a predetermined event took place at the first apparatus.
[0131] In some example embodiments, the predetermined event comprises at least one of: a failure in a network connection of the first apparatus taking place, at least one wake-up signal being monitored by the first apparatus, or at least one measurement result being logged by the first apparatus.
[0132] In some example embodiments, the method 500 further comprises: in accordance with a determination that the predetermined event took place, indicate, to the second apparatus, at least one of: the power state, or that the predetermined event took place while the power state was applied by the main radio.
[0133] In some example embodiments, the power state is one of a sleep mode or a no-sleep mode.
[0134] In some example embodiments, the power state indicates a sleep mode of the main radio among a plurality of different sleep modes.
[0135] In some example embodiments, the method 500 further comprises: log at least one measurement result in a measurement log, the measurement log including at least one of: the power state of the main radio, or the power state of the main radio at a time point the at least one measurement result was obtained; and transmitting, to the second apparatus, the measurement log.
[0136] In some example embodiments, the method 500 further comprises: in accordance with a determination that the measurement metric is lower than or equal to a threshold, log the measurement metric in the measurement log.
[0137] In some example embodiments, the method 500 further comprises: receiving, from the second apparatus, a configuration for logging the measurement log.
[0138] In some example embodiments, the method 500 further comprises: receiving, from the second apparatus, configuration information for indicating the power state; and indicating the power state to the second apparatus based on the configuration information.
[0139] In some example embodiments, the configuration information indicates that the power state is indicated in at least one of: information of the first apparatus, assistance information of the first apparatus, a radio resource control message, a medium access control control element, uplink control information, a measurement report, or a measurement log.
[0140] FIG. 6 shows a flowchart of an example method 600 implemented at a second apparatus in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure. For the purpose of discussion, the method 600 will be described from the perspective of the second apparatus 120 in FIG. 1.
[0141] At block 610, the second apparatus 120 receives, from a first apparatus, an indication of a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus.
[0142] In some example embodiments, the indication further indicate that a predetermined event took place while the power state was applied by the main radio, the predetermined event comprising at least one of: a failure in a network connection of the first apparatus taking place, at least one wake-up signal being monitored by the first apparatus, or at least one measurement result being logged by the first apparatus.
[0143] In some example embodiments, the power state is one of a sleep mode or a no-sleep mode, and the sleep mode being one among a plurality of different sleep modes.
[0144] In some example embodiments, the method 600 further comprises: transmitting, to the first apparatus, configuration information for indicating the power state, the configuration information indicating that the power state is indicated in at least one of: information of the first apparatus, assistance information of the first apparatus, a radio resource control message, a medium access control control element, uplink control information, a measurement report, or a measurement log.
[0145] In some example embodiments, the method 600 further comprises: evaluating performance of the first apparatus based on a comparison between a first measurement result obtained by the main radio and a second measurement result obtained by a wake-up receiver of the first apparatus.
[0146] In some example embodiments, a first apparatus capable of performing any of the method 500 (for example, the first apparatus 110 in FIG. 1) may comprise means for performing the respective operations of the method 500. The means may be implemented in any suitable form. For example, the means may be implemented in a circuitry or software module. The first apparatus may be implemented as or included in the first apparatus 110 in FIG. 1.
[0147] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus comprises means for determining a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus; and means for indicating, to a second apparatus, the determined power state of the main radio.
[0148] In some example embodiments, the determined power state was applied by the main radio while a predetermined event took place at the first apparatus.
[0149] In some example embodiments, the predetermined event comprises at least one of: a failure in a network connection of the first apparatus taking place, at least one wake-up signal being monitored by the first apparatus, or at least one measurement result being logged by the first apparatus.
[0150] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus further comprises: means for in accordance with a determination that the predetermined event took place, indicating, to the second apparatus, at least one of: the power state, or that the predetermined event took place while the power state was applied by the main radio.
[0151] In some example embodiments, the power state is one of a sleep mode or a no-sleep mode.
[0152] In some example embodiments, the power state indicates a sleep mode of the main radio among a plurality of different sleep modes.
[0153] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus further comprises: means for logging at least one measurement result in a measurement log, the measurement log including at least one of: the power state of the main radio, or the power state of the main radio at a time point the at least one measurement result was obtained; and means for transmitting, to the second apparatus, the measurement log.
[0154] In some example embodiments, the measurement log further includes a measurement metric obtained by a wake-up receiver of the first apparatus, the first apparatus further comprises: in accordance with a determination that the measurement metric is lower than or equal to a threshold, log the measurement metric in the measurement log.
[0155] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus further comprises: means for receiving, from the second apparatus, a configuration for logging the measurement log.
[0156] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus further comprises: means for receiving, from the second apparatus, configuration information for indicating the power state; and means for indicating the power state to the second apparatus based on the configuration information.
[0157] In some example embodiments, the configuration information indicates that the power state is indicated in at least one of: information of the first apparatus, assistance information of the first apparatus, a radio resource control message, a medium access control control element, uplink control information, a measurement report, or a measurement log.
[0158] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus further comprises means for performing other operations in some example embodiments of the method 500 or the first apparatus 110. In some example embodiments, the means comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the performance of the first apparatus.
[0159] In some example embodiments, a second apparatus capable of performing any of the method 600 (for example, the second apparatus 120 in FIG. 1) may comprise means for performing the respective operations of the method 600. The means may be implemented in any suitable form. For example, the means may be implemented in a circuitry or software module. The second apparatus may be implemented as or included in the second apparatus 120 in FIG. 1.
[0160] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus comprises means for receiving, from a first apparatus, an indication of a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus.
[0161] In some example embodiments, the indication further indicate that a predetermined event took place while the power state was applied by the main radio, the predetermined event comprising at least one of: a failure in a network connection of the first apparatus taking place, at least one wake-up signal being monitored by the first apparatus, or at least one measurement result being logged by the first apparatus.
[0162] In some example embodiments, the power state is one of a sleep mode or a no-sleep mode, and the sleep mode being one among a plurality of different sleep modes.
[0163] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus further comprises: means for transmitting, to the first apparatus, configuration information for indicating the power state, the configuration information indicating that the power state is indicated in at least one of: information of the first apparatus, assistance information of the first apparatus, a radio resource control message, a medium access control control element, uplink control information, a measurement report, or a measurement log.
[0164] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus further comprises: means for evaluating performance of the first apparatus based on a comparison between a first measurement result obtained by the main radio and a second measurement result obtained by a wake-up receiver of the first apparatus.
[0165] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus further comprises means for performing other operations in some example embodiments of the method 600 or the second apparatus 120. In some example embodiments, the means comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the performance of the second apparatus.
[0166] FIG. 7 shows a flowchart of an example method 700 implemented at a first apparatus in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure. For the purpose of discussion, the method 700 will be described from the perspective of the first apparatus 110 in FIG. 1.
[0167] At block 710, the first apparatus 110 receives, from a second apparatus, a configuration of wake-up signals to be monitored by a wake-up receiver of the first apparatus.
[0168] At block 720, the first apparatus 110 transmits, to the second apparatus, at least one indication indicating a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus that is applied while the wake-up receiver is monitoring the wake-up signals.
[0169] In some example embodiments, the method 700 further comprises: detecting a trigger for monitoring the wake-up signals for the wake-up receiver, the monitoring being based on the received configuration; switching the power state of the main radio into a sleep mode; and in response to switching the power state into the sleep mode, transmitting the at least one indication to the second apparatus.
[0170] In some example embodiments, the at least one indication comprises at least one of: an indication whether the power state is a sleep mode or a no sleep mode, an indication whether a channel measurement is obtained while the power state is the sleep mode or a no sleep mode, an indication that the power state is one of: an ultra-deep sleep mode, or a deep sleep mode, an indication that the channel measurement is obtained while the power state is one of: an ultra-deep sleep mode, or a deep sleep mode, an indication whether the channel measurement is obtained by the main radio or the wake-up receiver, or an indication what the power state of the main radio is at a time point a failure of the first apparatus took place.
[0171] In some example embodiments, in a no sleep mode, the main radio performs a channel monitoring and the channel measurement, in a deep sleep mode, the main radio performs the channel measurement without the channel monitoring, and in an ultra-deep sleep mode, the main radio does not perform the channel monitoring or the channel measurement.
[0172] In some example embodiments, the method 700 further comprises: recording a measurement log including at least one of: the power state of the main radio, the power state of the main radio at a time point that a channel measurement for the measurement log took place, or a result of the channel measurement; and transmitting, to the second apparatus, the measurement log.
[0173] In some example embodiments, the method 700 further comprises: in accordance with a determination that the channel measurement metric is lower than or equal to a threshold, recording the channel measurement metric in the measurement log.
[0174] In some example embodiments, the method 700 further comprises: in response to receiving, from the second apparatus, a configuration for recording the measurement log, recording the measurement log based on the configuration.
[0175] In some example embodiments, the method 700 further comprises: receiving, from the second apparatus, configuration information for transmitting the at least one indication; and transmitting the at least one indication to the second apparatus based on the configuration information.
[0176] In some example embodiments, the configuration information indicates that the at least one indication is in at least one of: information of the first apparatus, assistance information of the first apparatus, a radio resource control message, a medium access control control element, uplink control information, a measurement report, or a measurement log.
[0177] In some example embodiments, the method 700 further comprises: transmitting the at least one indication to the second apparatus based on at least one of: the power state of the main radio being a sleep mode, receiving configuration information for transmitting the at least one indication, a measurement log being recorded, or a failure of the first apparatus.
[0178] In some example embodiments, the at least one indication is transmitted based on a failure of the first apparatus, the failure comprising at least one of: a random access failure, a handover failure, a radio link failure, a connection establishment or reestablishment failure, or a cross radio access technology radio link failure, and wherein the at least one indication indicates the power state of the main radio at a time point the failure took place.
[0179] FIG. 8 shows a flowchart of an example method 800 implemented at a second apparatus in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure. For the purpose of discussion, the method 800 will be described from the perspective of the second apparatus 120 in FIG. 1.
[0180] At block 810, the second apparatus 120 transmits, to a first apparatus, a configuration of wake-up signals to be monitored by a wake-up receiver of the first apparatus.
[0181] At block 820, the second apparatus 120 receives, from the first apparatus, at least one indication indicating a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus that is applied while the wake-up receiver is monitoring the wake-up signals.
[0182] In some example embodiments, the at least one indication comprises at least one of: an indication whether the power state is a sleep mode or a no sleep mode, an indication whether a channel measurement is obtained while the power state is the sleep mode or the no sleep mode, an indication that the power state is one of: an ultra-deep sleep mode, or a deep sleep mode, an indication that the channel measurement is obtained while power state is one of: an ultra-deep sleep mode, or a deep sleep mode, an indication of whether the channel measurement is obtained by the main radio or the wake-up receiver, or an indication what the power state is at a time point a failure of the first apparatus took place.
[0183] In some example embodiments, the method 800 further comprises: transmitting, to the first apparatus, configuration information for transmitting the at least one indication.
[0184] In some example embodiments, the configuration information indicates that the at least one indication is in at least one of: information of the first apparatus, assistance information of the first apparatus, a radio resource control message, a medium access control control element, uplink control information, a measurement report, or a measurement log.
[0185] In some example embodiments, the method 800 further comprises: transmitting, to the first apparatus, a configuration for recording a channel measurement log, the channel measurement log including at least one of: the power state of the main radio, the power state of the main radio at a time point a channel measurement for the measurement log took place, a result of the channel measurement, or a channel measurement metric obtained by the wake-up receiver.
[0186] In some example embodiments, the method 800 further comprises: evaluating performance of the first apparatus based on a comparison between a first channel measurement obtained by the main radio and a second channel measurement obtained by the wake-up receiver.
[0187] In some example embodiments, a first apparatus capable of performing any of the method 700 (for example, the first apparatus 110 in FIG. 1) may comprise means for performing the respective operations of the method 700. The means may be implemented in any suitable form. For example, the means may be implemented in a circuitry or software module. The first apparatus may be implemented as or included in the first apparatus 110 in FIG. 1.
[0188] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus comprises means for receiving, from a second apparatus, a configuration of wake-up signals to be monitored by a wake-up receiver of the first apparatus; and means for transmitting, to the second apparatus, at least one indication indicating a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus that is applied while the wake-up receiver is monitoring the wake-up signals.
[0189] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus further comprises: means for detecting a trigger for monitoring the wake-up signals for the wake-up receiver, the monitoring being based on the received configuration; means for switching the power state of the main radio into a sleep mode; and means for in response to switching the power state into the sleep mode, transmitting the at least one indication to the second apparatus.
[0190] In some example embodiments, the at least one indication comprises at least one of: an indication whether the power state is a sleep mode or a no sleep mode, an indication whether a channel measurement is obtained while the power state is the sleep mode or a no sleep mode, an indication that the power state is one of: an ultra-deep sleep mode, or a deep sleep mode, an indication that the channel measurement is obtained while the power state is one of: an ultra-deep sleep mode, or a deep sleep mode, an indication whether the channel measurement is obtained by the main radio or the wake-up receiver, or an indication what the power state of the main radio is at a time point a failure of the first apparatus took place.
[0191] In some example embodiments, in a no sleep mode, the main radio performs a channel monitoring and the channel measurement, in a deep sleep mode, the main radio performs the channel measurement without the channel monitoring, and in an ultra-deep sleep mode, the main radio does not perform the channel monitoring or the channel measurement.
[0192] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus further comprises: means for recording a measurement log including at least one of: the power state of the main radio, the power state of the main radio at a time point that a channel measurement for the measurement log took place, or a result of the channel measurement; and means for transmitting, to the second apparatus, the measurement log.
[0193] In some example embodiments, the measurement log further includes a channel measurement metric obtained by the wake-up receiver, the first apparatus further comprises: means for in accordance with a determination that the channel measurement metric is lower than or equal to a threshold, recording the channel measurement metric in the measurement log.
[0194] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus further comprises: means for in response to receiving, from the second apparatus, a configuration for recording the measurement log, recording the measurement log based on the configuration.
[0195] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus further comprises: means for receiving, from the second apparatus, configuration information for transmitting the at least one indication; and means for transmitting the at least one indication to the second apparatus based on the configuration information.
[0196] In some example embodiments, the configuration information indicates that the at least one indication is in at least one of: information of the first apparatus, assistance information of the first apparatus, a radio resource control message, a medium access control control element, uplink control information, a measurement report, or a measurement log.
[0197] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus further comprises: means for transmitting the at least one indication to the second apparatus based on at least one of: the power state of the main radio being a sleep mode, receiving configuration information for transmitting the at least one indication, a measurement log being recorded, or a failure of the first apparatus.
[0198] In some example embodiments, the at least one indication is transmitted based on a failure of the first apparatus, the failure comprising at least one of: a random access failure, a handover failure, a radio link failure, a connection establishment or reestablishment failure, or a cross radio access technology radio link failure, and wherein the at least one indication indicates the power state of the main radio at a time point the failure took place.
[0199] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus further comprises means for performing other operations in some example embodiments of the method 700 or the first apparatus 110. In some example embodiments, the means comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the performance of the first apparatus.
[0200] In some example embodiments, a second apparatus capable of performing any of the method 800 (for example, the second apparatus 120 in FIG. 1) may comprise means for performing the respective operations of the method 800. The means may be implemented in any suitable form. For example, the means may be implemented in a circuitry or software module. The second apparatus may be implemented as or included in the second apparatus 120 in FIG. 1.
[0201] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus comprises means for transmitting, to a first apparatus, a configuration of wake-up signals to be monitored by a wake-up receiver of the first apparatus; and means for receiving, from the first apparatus, at least one indication indicating a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus that is applied while the wake-up receiver is monitoring the wake-up signals.
[0202] In some example embodiments, the at least one indication comprises at least one of: an indication whether the power state is a sleep mode or a no sleep mode, an indication whether a channel measurement is obtained while the power state is the sleep mode or the no sleep mode, an indication that the power state is one of: an ultra-deep sleep mode, or a deep sleep mode, an indication that the channel measurement is obtained while power state is one of: an ultra-deep sleep mode, or a deep sleep mode, an indication of whether the channel measurement is obtained by the main radio or the wake-up receiver, or an indication what the power state is at a time point a failure of the first apparatus took place.
[0203] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus further comprises: means for transmitting, to the first apparatus, configuration information for transmitting the at least one indication.
[0204] In some example embodiments, the configuration information indicates that the at least one indication is in at least one of: information of the first apparatus, assistance information of the first apparatus, a radio resource control message, a medium acces s control control element, uplink control information, a measurement report, or a measurement log.
[0205] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus further comprises: means for transmitting, to the first apparatus, a configuration for recording a channel measurement log, the channel measurement log including at least one of: the power state of the main radio, the power state of the main radio at a time point a channel measurement for the measurement log took place, a result of the channel measurement, or a channel measurement metric obtained by the wake-up receiver.
[0206] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus further comprises: means for evaluating performance of the first apparatus based on a comparison between a first channel measurement obtained by the main radio and a second channel measurement obtained by the wake-up receiver.
[0207] In some example embodiments, the second apparatus further comprises means for performing other operations in some example embodiments of the method 800 or the second apparatus 120. In some example embodiments, the means comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the performance of the second apparatus.
[0208] FIG. 9 is a simplified block diagram of a device 900 that is suitable for implementing example embodiments of the present disclosure. The device 900 may be provided to implement a communication device, for example, the first apparatus 110 or the second apparatus 120 as shown in FIG. 1. As shown, the device 900 includes one or more processors 910, one or more memories 920 coupled to the processor 910, and one or more communication modules 940 coupled to the processor 910.
[0209] The communication module 940 is for bidirectional communications. The communication module 940 has one or more communication interfaces to facilitate communication with one or more other modules or devices. The communication interfaces may represent any interface that is necessary for communication with other network elements. In some example embodiments, the communication module 940 may include at least one antenna.
[0210] The processor 910 may be of any type suitable to the local technical network and may include one or more of the following: general purpose computers, special purpose computers, microprocessors, digital signal processors (DSPs) and processors based on multicore processor architecture, as non-limiting examples. The device 900 may have multiple processors, such as an application specific integrated circuit chip that is slaved in time to a clock which synchronizes the main processor.
[0211] The memory 920 may include one or more non-volatile memories and one or more volatile memories. Examples of the non-volatile memories include, but are not limited to, a Read Only Memory (ROM) 924, an electrically programmable read only memory (EPROM) , a flash memory, a hard disk, a compact disc (CD) , a digital video disk (DVD) , an optical disk, a laser disk, and other magnetic storage and / or optical storage. Examples of the volatile memories include, but are not limited to, a random access memory (RAM) 922 and other volatile memories that will not last in the power-down duration.
[0212] A computer program 930 includes computer executable instructions that are executed by the associated processor 910. The instructions of the program 930 may include instructions for performing operations / acts of some example embodiments of the present disclosure. The program 930 may be stored in the memory, e.g., the ROM 924. The processor 910 may perform any suitable actions and processing by loading the program 930 into the RAM 922.
[0213] The example embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented by means of the program 930 so that the device 900 may perform any process of the disclosure as discussed with reference to FIG. 3 to FIG. 8. The example embodiments of the present disclosure may also be implemented by hardware or by a combination of software and hardware.
[0214] In some example embodiments, the program 930 may be tangibly contained in a computer readable medium which may be included in the device 900 (such as in the memory 920) or other storage devices that are accessible by the device 900. The device 900 may load the program 930 from the computer readable medium to the RAM 922 for execution. In some example embodiments, the computer readable medium may include any types of non-transitory storage medium, such as ROM, EPROM, a flash memory, a hard disk, CD, DVD, and the like. The term “non-transitory, ” as used herein, is a limitation of the medium itself (i.e., tangible, not a signal) as opposed to a limitation on data storage persistency (e.g., RAM vs. ROM) .
[0215] FIG. 10 shows an example of the computer readable medium 1000 which may be in form of CD, DVD or other optical storage disk. The computer readable medium 1000 has the program 930 stored thereon.
[0216] Generally, various embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented in hardware or special purpose circuits, software, logic or any combination thereof. Some aspects may be implemented in hardware, and other aspects may be implemented in firmware or software which may be executed by a controller, microprocessor or other computing device. Although various aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure are illustrated and described as block diagrams, flowcharts, or using some other pictorial representations, it is to be understood that the block, apparatus, system, technique or method described herein may be implemented in, as non-limiting examples, hardware, software, firmware, special purpose circuits or logic, general purpose hardware or controller or other computing devices, or some combination thereof.
[0217] Some example embodiments of the present disclosure also provide at least one computer program product tangibly stored on a computer readable medium, such as a non-transitory computer readable medium. The computer program product includes computer-executable instructions, such as those included in program modules, being executed in a device on a target physical or virtual processor, to carry out any of the methods as described above. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, libraries, objects, classes, components, data structures, or the like that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The functionality of the program modules may be combined or split between program modules as desired in various embodiments. Machine-executable instructions for program modules may be executed within a local or distributed device. In a distributed device, program modules may be located in both local and remote storage media.
[0218] Program code for carrying out methods of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages. The program code may be provided to a processor or controller of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus, such that the program code, when executed by the processor or controller, cause the functions / operations specified in the flowcharts and / or block diagrams to be implemented. The program code may execute entirely on a machine, partly on the machine, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the machine and partly on a remote machine or entirely on the remote machine or server.
[0219] In the context of the present disclosure, the computer program code or related data may be carried by any suitable carrier to enable the device, apparatus or processor to perform various processes and operations as described above. Examples of the carrier include a signal, computer readable medium, and the like.
[0220] The computer readable medium may be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium. A computer readable medium may include but not limited to an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specific examples of the computer readable storage medium would include an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM) , a read-only memory (ROM) , an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory) , an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) , an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.
[0221] Further, although operations are depicted in a particular order, this should not be understood as requiring that such operations be performed in the particular order shown or in sequential order, or that all illustrated operations be performed, to achieve desirable results. In certain circumstances, multitasking and parallel processing may be advantageous. Likewise, although several specific implementation details are contained in the above discussions, these should not be construed as limitations on the scope of the present disclosure, but rather as descriptions of features that may be specific to particular embodiments. Unless explicitly stated, certain features that are described in the context of separate embodiments may also be implemented in combination in a single embodiment. Conversely, unless explicitly stated, various features that are described in the context of a single embodiment may also be implemented in a plurality of embodiments separately or in any suitable sub-combination.
[0222] Although the present disclosure has been described in languages specific to structural features and / or methodological acts, it is to be understood that the present disclosure defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific feature s or acts described above. Rather, the specific features and acts described above are disclosed as example forms of implementing the claims.
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1.A first apparatus comprising:at least one processor; andat least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the first apparatus to:determine a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus; andindicate, to a second apparatus, the determined power state of the main radio.2.The first apparatus of claim 1, wherein the determined power state was applied by the main radio while a predetermined event took place at the first apparatus.3.The first apparatus of claim 2, wherein the predetermined event comprises at least one of:a failure in a network connection of the first apparatus taking place,at least one wake-up signal being monitored by the first apparatus, orat least one measurement result being logged by the first apparatus.4.The first apparatus of claim 2 or claim 3, wherein the first apparatus is caused to:in accordance with a determination that the predetermined event took place, indicate, to the second apparatus, at least one of: the power state, or that the predetermined event took place while the power state was applied by the main radio.5.The first apparatus of any of claims 1-4, wherein the power state is one of a sleep mode or a no-sleep mode.6.The first apparatus of any of claims 1-5, wherein the power state indicates a sleep mode of the main radio among a plurality of different sleep modes.7.The first apparatus of any of claims 1-6, wherein the first apparatus is caused to:log at least one measurement result in a measurement log, the measurement log including at least one of: the power state of the main radio, or the power state of the main radio at a time point the at least one measurement result was obtained; andtransmit, to the second apparatus, the measurement log.8.The first apparatus of claim 7, wherein the measurement log further includes a measurement metric obtained by a wake-up receiver of the first apparatus, and the first apparatus is further caused to:in accordance with a determination that the measurement metric is lower than or equal to a threshold, log the measurement metric in the measurement log.9.The first apparatus of claim 7 or claim 8, wherein the first apparatus is further caused to:receive, from the second apparatus, a configuration for logging the measurement log.10.The first apparatus of any of claims 1-9, wherein the first apparatus is caused to:receive, from the second apparatus, configuration information for indicating the power state; andindicate the power state to the second apparatus based on the configuration information.11.The first apparatus of any of claims 1 to 10, wherein the power state is indicated in at least one of:information of the first apparatus,assistance information of the first apparatus,a radio resource control message,a medium access control control element,uplink control information,a measurement report, ora measurement log.12.A second apparatus comprising:at least one processor; andat least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the second apparatus to:receive, from a first apparatus, an indication of a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus.13.The second apparatus of claim 12, wherein the indication further indicates that a predetermined event took place while the power state was applied by the main radio, the predetermined event comprising at least one of:a failure in a network connection of the first apparatus taking place,at least one wake-up signal being monitored by the first apparatus, orat least one measurement result being logged by the first apparatus.14.The second apparatus of claim 12 or 13, wherein the power state is one of a sleep mode or a no-sleep mode, and the sleep mode being one among a plurality of different sleep modes.15.The second apparatus of any of claims 12-14, wherein the second apparatus is caused to:transmit, to the first apparatus, configuration information for indicating the power state, the configuration information indicating that the power state is indicated in at least one of:information of the first apparatus,assistance information of the first apparatus,a radio resource control message,a medium access control control element,uplink control information,a measurement report, ora measurement log.16.The second apparatus of any of claims 12-15, wherein the second apparatus is caused to:evaluate performance of the first apparatus based on a comparison between a first measurement result obtained by the main radio and a second measurement result obtained by a wake-up receiver of the first apparatus.17.A method comprising:determining, at a first apparatus, a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus; andindicating, to a second apparatus, the determined power state of the main radio.18.A method comprising:receiving, at a second apparatus from a first apparatus, an indication of a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus.19.A first apparatus comprising:means for determining a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus; andmeans for indicating, to a second apparatus, the determined power state of the main radio.20.A second apparatus comprising:means for receiving, from a first apparatus, an indication of a power state of a main radio of the first apparatus.21.A computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon for causing an apparatus at least to perform the method of any of claim 17 or claim 18.
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