Signal listening method and apparatus, signal sending method and apparatus, terminal, and network side device

Abstract

The present application relates to the technical field of communications, and discloses a signal listening method and apparatus, a signal sending method and apparatus, a terminal, and a network side device. The signal listening method in embodiments of the present application comprises: a terminal listens for a wake-up signal; and on the basis of the detected wake-up signal, the terminal determines whether to listen for paging, the wake-up signal carrying at least one of the following: paging occasion indication information and group wake-up indication information, wherein the paging occasion indication information is used for indicating a target paging occasion, and a group indicated by the group wake-up indication information includes a group divided for a terminal corresponding to a paging occasion group, or a group divided for a terminal corresponding to the target paging occasion, wherein the paging occasion group is a paging occasion group associated with the wake-up signal.

Description

Signal monitoring methods, signal transmission methods, devices, terminals, and network-side equipment

[0001] Cross-references to related applications

[0002] This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202410578081.7, filed on May 10, 2024, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. Technical Field

[0003] This application belongs to the field of communication technology, specifically relating to a signal monitoring method, signal transmission method, apparatus, terminal, and network-side equipment. Background Technology

[0004] In some related technologies, there is no correlation between the wake-up signal and the paging timing. In other words, the terminal needs to listen for the wake-up signal at all network-configured timings, and the wake-up signal needs to carry the subgroup indication information of all terminals or all paging timings. This results in a relatively poor indication effect of the wake-up signal. Summary of the Invention

[0005] This application provides a signal monitoring method, a signal transmission method, an apparatus, a terminal, and a network-side device, which can solve the problem of the indication effect of wake-up signals.

[0006] Firstly, a signal monitoring method is provided, including:

[0007] The terminal listens for wake-up signals.

[0008] The terminal determines whether to listen for paging based on the detected wake-up signal, wherein the wake-up signal carries at least one of the following:

[0009] Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information;

[0010] The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target;

[0011] The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0012] Secondly, a signal transmission method is provided, including:

[0013] The network-side device sends a wake-up signal, the wake-up signal carrying at least one of the following:

[0014] Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information;

[0015] The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target;

[0016] The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0017] Thirdly, a signal monitoring device is provided, comprising:

[0018] The monitoring module is used to listen for wake-up signals;

[0019] The first determining module is used to determine whether to listen for paging based on the detected wake-up signal, wherein the wake-up signal carries at least one of the following:

[0020] Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information;

[0021] The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target;

[0022] The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0023] Fourthly, a signal transmitting device is provided, comprising:

[0024] The sending module is used to send a wake-up signal, the wake-up signal carrying at least one of the following:

[0025] Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information;

[0026] The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target;

[0027] The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0028] Fifthly, a signal monitoring device is provided, the device being configured to perform the steps of the signal monitoring method as provided in the embodiments of this application.

[0029] In a sixth aspect, a signal transmitting apparatus is provided, the apparatus being configured to perform the steps of the signal transmitting method as provided in the embodiments of this application.

[0030] In a seventh aspect, a terminal is provided, the terminal including a processor and a memory, the memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the signal monitoring method provided in the embodiments of this application.

[0031] Eighthly, a terminal is provided, including a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used to listen for a wake-up signal; the processor is used to determine whether to listen for paging based on the listened wake-up signal, the wake-up signal carrying at least one of the following: paging timing indication information and group wake-up indication information; wherein the paging timing indication information is used to indicate a target paging timing; the group indicated by the group wake-up indication information includes: a group divided for a terminal corresponding to a paging timing group, or a group divided for a terminal corresponding to the target paging timing, the paging timing group being the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0032] In a ninth aspect, a network-side device is provided, the network-side device including a processor and a memory, the memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the signal transmission method provided in the embodiments of this application.

[0033] In a tenth aspect, a network-side device is provided, including a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used to send a wake-up signal, the wake-up signal carrying at least one of the following: paging timing indication information and group wake-up indication information; wherein the paging timing indication information is used to indicate a target paging timing; the group indicated by the group wake-up indication information includes: a group divided for a terminal corresponding to a paging timing group, or a group divided for a terminal corresponding to the target paging timing, the paging timing group being the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0034] Eleventhly, a readable storage medium is provided, on which a program or instructions are stored, which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the signal monitoring method provided in the embodiments of this application, or implement the steps of the signal transmission method provided in the embodiments of this application.

[0035] In a twelfth aspect, a wireless communication system is provided, comprising: a terminal and a network-side device, wherein the terminal can be used to perform the steps of the signal monitoring method provided in the embodiments of this application, and the network-side device can be used to perform the steps of the signal transmission method provided in the embodiments of this application.

[0036] In a thirteenth aspect, a chip is provided, the chip including a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface being coupled to the processor, the processor being used to run programs or instructions to implement the signal monitoring method provided in the embodiments of this application, or to implement the signal transmission method provided in the embodiments of this application.

[0037] In a fourteenth aspect, a computer program / program product is provided, which is stored in a storage medium and is executed by at least one processor to implement the steps of the signal monitoring method provided in the embodiments of this application, or the computer program / program product is executed by at least one processor to implement the steps of the signal transmission method provided in the embodiments of this application.

[0038] In this embodiment, the terminal listens for a wake-up signal. The terminal determines whether to listen for paging based on the listened-up wake-up signal. The wake-up signal carries at least one of the following: paging timing indication information and group wake-up indication information. The paging timing indication information indicates a target paging timing. The group indicated by the group wake-up indication information includes: a group defined for the terminal corresponding to the paging timing group, or a group defined for the terminal corresponding to the target paging timing, where the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal. Because the paging timing indication information indicates a target paging timing, the wake-up signal can be flexibly associated with the paging timing to achieve group wake-up indication of a specific paging timing, thereby improving the indication effect of the wake-up signal. In addition, since the groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, and the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal, it is also possible to associate the wake-up signal with a group of paging timings. In this way, this group of paging timings can share the wake-up signal timing resources where the wake-up signal is located, so that the wake-up signal can indicate the group corresponding to the paging timing, thereby improving the indication effect of the wake-up signal. Attached Figure Description

[0039] Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a system provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0040] Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of a low-power operating principle provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0041] Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of a signal provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0042] Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of another signal provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0043] Figure 5 is a flowchart of a signal monitoring method provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0044] Figure 6 is a schematic diagram of a timing relationship provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0045] Figure 7 is a schematic diagram of another timing relationship provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0046] Figure 8 is a flowchart of a signal transmission method provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0047] Figure 9 is a structural diagram of a signal monitoring device provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0048] Figure 10 is a structural diagram of a signal transmitting device provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0049] Figure 11 is a structural diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0050] Figure 12 is a structural diagram of a terminal provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0051] Figure 13 is a structural diagram of a network-side device provided in an embodiment of this application. Detailed Implementation

[0052] The technical solutions of the embodiments of this application will be clearly described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Obviously, the described embodiments are only some, not all, of the embodiments of this application. All other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of this application are within the scope of protection of this application.

[0053] The terms "first," "second," etc., used in this application are used to distinguish similar objects and not to describe a specific order or sequence. It should be understood that such terms can be used interchangeably where appropriate so that embodiments of this application can be implemented in orders other than those illustrated or described herein, and the objects distinguished by "first" and "second" are generally of the same class, not limited in number; for example, the first object can be one or more. Furthermore, "or" in this application indicates at least one of the connected objects. For example, the scope of protection for "A or B" covers at least three scenarios: Scenario 1: including A but not B; Scenario 2: including B but not A; Scenario 3: including both A and B. In addition, the terms "A and / or B," "at least one of A and B," and "at least one of A or B" also cover at least the above three scenarios. The character " / " generally indicates that the preceding and following objects are in an "or" relationship.

[0054] The term "instruction" in this application can be either a direct instruction (or explicit instruction) or an indirect instruction (or implicit instruction). A direct instruction can be understood as one in which the sender explicitly informs the receiver of specific information, the operation to be performed, or the requested result, etc., in the instruction sent. An indirect instruction can be understood as one in which the receiver determines the corresponding information based on the instruction sent by the sender, or makes a judgment and determines the operation to be performed or the requested result, etc., based on the judgment result.

[0055] It is worth noting that the technologies described in this application are not limited to Long Term Evolution (LTE) / LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) systems, but can also be used in other wireless communication systems, such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA), or other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in this application are often used interchangeably, and the described technologies can be used with the systems and radio technologies mentioned above, as well as with other systems and radio technologies. The following description describes New Radio (NR) systems for illustrative purposes, and the term NR is used in most of the following description; however, these technologies can also be applied to systems other than NR systems, such as 6th generation (6G) radio systems. th Generation 6G communication system.

[0056] Figure 1 shows a block diagram of a wireless communication system applicable to an embodiment of this application. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network-side device 12. The terminal 11 can be a mobile phone, tablet computer, laptop computer, notebook computer, personal digital assistant (PDA), handheld computer, netbook, ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), mobile internet device (MID), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) device, robot, wearable device, flight vehicle, vehicle user equipment (VUE), shipboard equipment, pedestrian user equipment (PUE), smart home (home devices with wireless communication capabilities, such as refrigerators, televisions, washing machines, or furniture), game console, personal computer (PC), ATM, or self-service machine, etc. Wearable devices include: smartwatches, smart bracelets, smart headphones, smart glasses, smart jewelry (smart bracelets, smart chains, smart rings, smart necklaces, smart anklets, smart anklets, etc.), smart wristbands, smart clothing, etc. Among these, in-vehicle devices can also be referred to as in-vehicle terminals, in-vehicle controllers, in-vehicle modules, in-vehicle components, in-vehicle chips, or in-vehicle units, etc. It should be noted that the specific type of terminal 11 is not limited in this application embodiment. Network-side equipment 12 can include access network equipment or core network equipment, wherein access network equipment can also be referred to as Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment, radio access network function, radio access network unit, or satellite. Access network equipment can include base stations, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) access points (APs), or Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) nodes, etc.The term "base station" can be referred to as Node B (NB), Evolved Node B (eNB), Next Generation Node B (gNB), New Radio Node B (NR Node B), Access Point, Relay Base Station (RBS), Serving Base Station (SBS), Base Transceiver Station (BTS), Radio Base Station, Radio Transceiver, Basic Service Set (BSS), Extended Service Set (ESS), Home Node B (HNB), Home Evolved Node B, Transmit / Receive Point (TRP), or any other suitable term in the relevant field, as long as the same technical effect is achieved. The term "base station" is not limited to any specific technical terminology. It should be noted that this application embodiment only uses a base station in an NR system as an example for description and does not limit the specific type of base station.

[0057] Core network equipment, also known as core network nodes, core network functions, or core network elements, includes, but is not limited to, at least one of the following: Mobility Management Entity (MME), Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), Session Management Function (SMF), User Plane Function (UPF), Policy Control Function (PCF), Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF), Edge Application Server Discovery Function (EASDF), Unified Data Management (UDM), Unified Data Repository (UDR), Home Subscriber Server (HSS), Centralized network configuration (CNC), Network Repository Function (NRF), Network Exposure Function (NEF), Local NEF (or L-NEF), and Binding Support. The core network functions include: BSF (Block Network Function), Application Function (AF), Location Management Function (LMF), Gateway Mobile Location Centre (GMLC), and Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF). It should be noted that this application embodiment only uses core network equipment in the NR system as an example and does not limit the specific type of core network equipment. If the name of the core network equipment mentioned in this application embodiment changes in subsequent protocol versions (e.g., 6G), it will still be within the scope of protection of this application.

[0058] Optionally, the core network equipment can be implemented by one or more functional modules in a single device, or by multiple devices working together; this application does not specifically limit this. It is understood that the aforementioned functional modules can be network elements in hardware devices, software functional modules running on dedicated hardware, or virtualized functional modules instantiated on a platform (e.g., a cloud platform).

[0059] In some embodiments, the terminal is configured with a low-power receiver, namely a low-power wake-up radio (LP-WUR) or an almost zero-power wake-up radio (AZP-WUR). The basic working principle of the LP-WUR is that the receiver includes a first module and a second module, as shown in Figure 2. The first module is the main communication module, used for transmitting and receiving mobile communication data. The second module is a low-power receiving module (also called a low-power wake-up receiving module), used to receive the wake-up signal (WUS) and the low-power synchronization signal (LP-SS), such as receiving the low-power wake-up signal (LP-WUS). The low-power wake-up signal is used to wake up the receiver's main communication module, and the low-power synchronization signal is used to provide time reference information and other information for receiving the low-power wake-up signal. For example, it is used for performing Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurements of the serving cell, and can also provide wake-up link management, such as determining whether to activate / deactivate the LP-WUR or disable MR based on the measurement results. As shown in Figure 2, in power-saving mode, the terminal activates the low-power receiver module to listen for LP-WUS and disables the main communication module. When downlink data arrives, the network sends a wake-up signal to wake up the terminal. After the terminal detects the wake-up signal through the low-power receiver module, it triggers the main communication module to turn on after a series of checks. At this time, the low-power receiver module transitions from the active state to the off state. The low-power wake-up receiver module can be continuously or intermittently activated, and when activated, it can receive both low-power wake-up signals and low-power synchronization signals.

[0060] In some embodiments, to reduce the receiving activity of the terminal in standby mode, thereby effectively shutting down the radio frequency (RF) and modem modules and significantly reducing the power consumption of communication reception, this can be achieved by introducing the aforementioned low-power receiver into the terminal's receiving module. In one embodiment, this near-zero power receiver does not require complex signal detection (such as amplification, filtering, quantization, etc.) of the RF module and signal processing of the modem, relying solely on passive matched filtering and low-power signal processing.

[0061] In some embodiments, the wake-up signal is a relatively simple on-off keying signal, the time-domain pattern of which is shown in Figure 3. This allows the receiver to detect the wake-up notification through simple energy detection and subsequent possible sequence detection and recognition. In another embodiment, the low-power wake-up signal can be a frequency-shift keying (FSK) signal, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal, or a hybrid signal of OFDM with on-off keying (OOK) or FSK. Furthermore, while the terminal activates the low-power receiver to receive the wake-up signal, the main receiver module can maintain a low power consumption level, thereby achieving power saving by receiving the wake-up signal.

[0062] In some embodiments, WUS reception can be applied to terminals in the Radio Resource Control (RRC) idle or inactive state (RRC_idle / inactive), or to terminals in the RRC connected state (RRC_connected), thereby enabling terminal energy saving.

[0063] In some embodiments, the OOK signal can be generated using OFDM signal generation, for example, by transmitting or not transmitting an OFDM modulated sequence to represent ON / OFF in the time domain. The OOK signal can be received using a low-power receiver.

[0064] In some embodiments, the OFDM modulation sequence at ON level can carry information through different sequences. For example, two sequences can represent 0 and 1 information respectively, or four sequences can represent 00, 01, 10, and 11 information respectively, as shown in Figure 4. Part of the information is modulated by OOK, and the other part of the information is carried by the ON level OFDM sequence.

[0065] Furthermore, the difference between wake-up signals and paging early indication (PEI) lies in the different ways the information is carried; the former is a signal, while the latter is a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). In addition, the differences in the group wake-up indication methods provided in the embodiments of this application are given below.

[0066] The signal monitoring method, transmission method, apparatus, terminal, and network-side device provided in this application will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and through some embodiments and application scenarios.

[0067] Please refer to Figure 5, which is a flowchart of a signal monitoring method provided in an embodiment of this application. As shown in Figure 5, it includes the following steps:

[0068] Step 501: The terminal listens for the wake-up signal;

[0069] Step 502: The terminal determines whether to listen for paging based on the detected wake-up signal, wherein the wake-up signal carries at least one of the following:

[0070] Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information;

[0071] The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target;

[0072] The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0073] In some implementations, the wake-up signal may be WUS or LP-WUS.

[0074] In some implementations, the terminal may listen for the wake-up signal while in an idle state.

[0075] In some implementations, the aforementioned wake-up signal can be used in the Radio Resource Control (RRC) disconnected state.

[0076] The aforementioned target paging occasion can be one or more paging occasions (PO), or it can be one or more sets of paging occasions.

[0077] In one embodiment, the paging timing indication information is used to indicate the target paging timing, which may indicate that the indication information carried by the wake-up signal is for the target paging timing. For example, the wake-up signal carries group wake-up information for the target paging timing.

[0078] Optionally, the paging timing indication information used to indicate the target paging timing may indicate that the terminal is listening for paging at the target paging timing. Alternatively, the paging timing indication information used to indicate the target paging timing may indicate that the terminal of the packet to be woken up, as indicated by the packet wake-up indication information, is listening for paging at the target paging timing.

[0079] The groups in the above-mentioned group wake-up indication information can be divided into any number of groups. For example, if there is only one group, it can be considered as no grouping. If the number of groups is greater than one, it can be considered as the presence of groups.

[0080] The group indicated by the above-mentioned group wake-up indication information may include the group to be woken up, and may indicate one or more groups.

[0081] Optionally, in some embodiments, if the group wake-up indication information is indicated in a bitmap manner, the group wake-up indication information indicates the group information to be woken up and / or the group information not to be woken up.

[0082] The group indicated by the above-mentioned group wake-up instruction information can be a wake-up group, that is, the group to be woken up or the group that has been woken up.

[0083] The groups indicated by the aforementioned group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or, the groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing can be understood as follows:

[0084] The aforementioned group wake-up indication information indicates at least one group among the groups divided for the terminal corresponding to the paging time group; or

[0085] The group indicated by the aforementioned group wake-up indication information is at least one of the groups divided among the groups corresponding to the terminal at the target paging time.

[0086] The grouping of terminals corresponding to a paging time group refers to grouping all terminals associated with all paging times included in the paging time group; that is, grouping all terminals corresponding to the paging time group. A paging time group includes at least one paging time. For example, if a paging time group includes N paging times, and each paging time corresponds to M terminals, then the grouping of terminals corresponding to the paging time group is a grouping of N*M terminals, resulting in H groups, where N, M, and H are positive integers.

[0087] Because the wake-up indication information includes groups for terminals corresponding to a paging time group, this allows terminals within that paging time group to listen to all wake-up signal opportunities associated with that group. Compared to the fixed one-to-one relationship between wake-up signals and paging times, this method provides terminals with more wake-up signal listening opportunities. In other words, it enables terminals associated with a paging time group to share wake-up signal listening opportunities. If there is no need to send a wake-up signal on wake-up signal listening time 1, that time can be shared with other paging times that require it, thereby improving the efficiency of wake-up signal indication. Furthermore, the network can flexibly configure the number of paging times included in a paging time group to control the sharing range of associated wake-up signal opportunities.

[0088] The aforementioned grouping of terminals corresponding to the target paging time refers to grouping the terminals corresponding to the target paging time into groups. For example, if the target paging time is one paging time, and this one paging time corresponds to M terminals, then the grouping of terminals corresponding to the target paging time is to group these M terminals, resulting in J groups, where M and J are positive integers.

[0089] Since the group wake-up indication information includes groups assigned to terminals corresponding to the target paging time, the group wake-up indication information can be configured to indicate the target paging time. This method allows the wake-up signal to be dynamically associated with any one or more target paging times within the paging time group. This avoids the limitation of a one-to-one association between the wake-up signal and the paging time, effectively utilizing the idle low-power wake-up signal occasion (LP-WUS occasion, LO) to indicate other POs. Furthermore, it enables dynamic association of target paging times within a reasonable range (i.e., within the paging time group), avoiding excessive overhead caused by the wake-up signal carrying too many bits.

[0090] It should be noted that the technical effects achieved according to the embodiments of this application are not achievable in some technologies (including PEI). Specifically, in some technologies, PEI cannot achieve the effect of dynamically associating and indicating the target paging time within a certain paging time range (i.e., within the paging time group) given in the embodiments of this application, nor can it achieve the effect of dividing all terminals associated with the paging time group into groups given in this embodiment. In PEI, groups can only be formed for the terminals associated with each PO, that is, the groups are independent between POs.

[0091] It is understandable that if the target paging timing indicated by the paging timing indication information is not the paging timing associated with the terminal, it means that the wake-up signal does not indicate to wake up the terminal for paging listening. In other words, the terminal ignores the indication of the wake-up signal or processes it as if no wake-up signal was heard.

[0092] In some embodiments, the wake-up signal carries paging timing indication information, thus associating the wake-up signal with the paging timing and improving the indication effect of the wake-up signal. In this embodiment, the group indicated by the group wake-up indication information may include groups defined for terminals corresponding to a paging timing group, enabling some or all groups in the terminals corresponding to the paging timing group to listen for paging at the target paging timing. Alternatively, in this embodiment, the group indicated by the group wake-up indication information may include groups defined for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, enabling some or all groups in the terminals corresponding to the target paging timing to listen for paging at the target paging timing. Alternatively, in this embodiment, the wake-up signal may not carry group wake-up indication information; for example, the wake-up signal wakes up the terminals that hear the wake-up signal to listen for paging at the target paging timing.

[0093] In some implementations, the wake-up signal carries group wake-up indication information, which allows the wake-up signal to be associated with a paging timing group or a target paging timing, thereby waking up all or part of the terminals corresponding to the paging timing group or the target paging timing. Specifically, when the wake-up signal carries the paging timing indication information, the woken terminal listens for paging at the target paging timing; when the wake-up signal does not carry the paging timing indication information, the woken terminal listens for paging at one or more of the most recent paging timings.

[0094] The paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal can be agreed upon by the protocol or configured by the network-side device, and the paging timing group includes one or more paging timings.

[0095] In some implementations, if the packet indicated by the packet wake-up indication information includes the packet to which the terminal belongs, the terminal listens for paging. Alternatively, if the packet wake-up indication information indicates that the packet to be woken up includes the packet to which the terminal belongs, the terminal listens for paging.

[0096] In some implementations, if the packet to be woken up by the packet wake-up instruction does not include the packet to which the terminal belongs, the terminal will not listen for paging. Alternatively, if the packet to be woken up by the packet wake-up instruction does not include the packet to which the terminal belongs, the terminal will not listen for paging.

[0097] In this embodiment, since the paging timing indication information is used to indicate the target paging timing, the wake-up signal can be flexibly associated with the paging timing. This enables the wake-up signal to indicate the grouped wake-up of a specific paging timing, thereby improving the indication effect of the wake-up signal and reducing its overhead. Furthermore, since the grouped wake-up indication information indicates groups that are either groups assigned to terminals corresponding to a paging timing group or groups assigned to terminals corresponding to a target paging timing, and the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal, this also enables the wake-up signal to be associated with a group of paging timings. This allows the group of paging timings to share the wake-up signal timing resources where the wake-up signal resides, enabling the wake-up signal to indicate the group corresponding to the paging timing, thereby improving the indication effect of the wake-up signal.

[0098] In some implementations, the target paging timing can be a paging timing within a specific range. In this way, the paging timing indication information can be used to dynamically indicate or associate the target paging timing within the specific range of paging timings in the wake-up signal, and the grouped wake-up indication information of the wake-up signal can be associated with the target paging timing.

[0099] As an optional implementation, the target paging timing is at least one paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0100] Since the target paging timing is at least one paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal, the wake-up signal can flexibly indicate the target paging timing in the paging timing group, thereby improving the flexibility of indicating the paging timing.

[0101] As an optional implementation, the terminal listening for wake-up signals includes:

[0102] The terminal listens for the wake-up signal on the wake-up group when the wake-up signal is received;

[0103] The wake-up signal timing group includes at least one wake-up signal timing, and the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal includes the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

[0104] The aforementioned wake-up signal timing can be a low-power wake-up signal occasion (LP-WUS occasion, LO). One LO can include one or more wake-up signal monitoring occasions (LP-WUS monitoring occasion, LP-WUS MO), or a group of LP-WUS MOs. The aforementioned wake-up signal occasion group can be a group of LOs.

[0105] The aforementioned terminal may listen for wake-up signals on all or part of the wake-up signal timings in the wake-up signal timing group. For example, if a wake-up signal indicating that the terminal should be woken up is detected at the first wake-up signal timing, the terminal will stop listening.

[0106] Since the aforementioned wake-up signal timing group includes at least one wake-up signal timing, the terminal's listening to the wake-up signal on the wake-up signal timing group can also be understood as listening to the wake-up signal on at least one wake-up signal timing.

[0107] It is understood that the wake-up signal associated paging timing group mentioned in the embodiments of this application can be replaced with the wake-up signal timing group associated paging timing group, which will not be elaborated further.

[0108] The paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal mentioned above includes the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group, which can be either the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group or the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group. These two are equivalent and can be substituted for each other. That is, the paging timing group mentioned above can be the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

[0109] The aforementioned grouping of terminals corresponding to the paging timing group can be the grouping of terminals corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group. Furthermore, the aforementioned wake-up signal timing group, including the paging timing associated with each wake-up timing, can be the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group. For example, the grouping indicated by the group wake-up indication information is a grouping of all terminals corresponding to the paging timing associated with the wake-up signal timing.

[0110] The paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group can be agreed upon by the protocol or configured by the network-side device. For example, taking the wake-up signal timing as LO as an example, as shown in Figure 6, a group of LOs includes 4 LOs, one LO includes 8 LP-WUS MOs, and a group of LOs is associated with 4 paging timings.

[0111] In this embodiment, since the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal includes the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group, it is possible to dynamically associate the wake-up signal timing group with the paging timing within the paging timing group. The paging timings within the paging timing group share the same wake-up signal timing group, that is, the wake-up signal corresponding to the wake-up signal timing group can indicate any paging timing within the paging timing group, thereby improving the flexibility of indication.

[0112] Furthermore, since the wake-up signal timing group is dynamically associated with the paging timing group, this avoids the limitation of a one-to-one association between wake-up signal timing and paging timing, effectively utilizing the possibility of using idle wake-up signal timing to indicate other paging timings. In addition, dynamic association can be achieved within a reasonable range, avoiding excessive overhead caused by the wake-up signal carrying too many bits.

[0113] It should be noted that the embodiments of this application do not limit the terminal listening to the wake-up signal to include the terminal listening to the wake-up signal at the wake-up signal timing group. For example, in some embodiments, the feature of the wake-up signal timing group may not exist, such as the terminal listening to the wake-up signal at the wake-up signal timing.

[0114] Optionally, the number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal opportunity group is greater than or equal to the number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group.

[0115] Since the number of wake-up signal opportunities contained in the wake-up signal timing group is greater than or equal to the number of paging opportunities contained in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group, more wake-up signals can be transmitted on the wake-up signal timing group, so that each wake-up signal does not need to indicate too many paging opportunities, thereby reducing the overhead of the wake-up signal.

[0116] It should be noted that, in the embodiments of this application, the number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal opportunity group is not limited to being greater than or equal to the number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group. For example, in some embodiments, the number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal opportunity group may also be less than the number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group.

[0117] As an optional implementation, at least one of the following is configured by the network-side device or agreed upon by the protocol:

[0118] The number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal timing group;

[0119] The number of paging opportunities contained in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group;

[0120] The paging timing range corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0121] The number of paging opportunities for the target paging opportunity;

[0122] The paging timing range corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal;

[0123] The number of paging opportunities contained in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0124] The paging timing range corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the aforementioned wake-up signal timing group can be understood as the paging timing range associated with the aforementioned wake-up signal timing group.

[0125] The number of paging opportunities mentioned above refers to the number of paging opportunities that the paging opportunity indication information can carry, that is, the number of paging opportunities that the paging opportunity indication information can indicate.

[0126] The paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal mentioned above can be equivalent to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group mentioned above.

[0127] It is understood that at least one of the above is for the purpose of enabling the terminal and the network to determine the association between the wake-up signal timing group and the paging timing group. From the terminal's perspective, the terminal can determine the wake-up signal timing group it needs to listen to, and can determine the paging timing group associated with that wake-up signal timing group. In one case, the paging timing group mentioned in this application embodiment refers to the range of paging timings that the wake-up signal can dynamically indicate or associate with.

[0128] In this embodiment, due to the above-mentioned network-side device configuration or protocol agreement, the terminal can better parse the above-mentioned paging timing indication information or group wake-up indication information based on the above-mentioned at least one, so as to improve the reliability of wake-up signal transmission.

[0129] As an optional implementation, the method further includes:

[0130] The terminal determines the resource location of the wake-up signal associated with it.

[0131] The aforementioned terminal determines the resource location of the wake-up signal timing group associated with the terminal by determining the time-frequency domain location of the wake-up signal timing group associated with the terminal.

[0132] In some implementations, the resource location of the wake-up signal group associated with the terminal is determined by the terminal as follows:

[0133] The terminal determines the resource location of the wake-up signal associated with the terminal based on target information, wherein the target information includes at least one of the following:

[0134] The offset information between the wake-up signal timing group and its associated paging timing group, the wake-up signal listening cycle information of the terminal, the time range of the wake-up signal timing group, and the identity information of the terminal.

[0135] The aforementioned offset information may include at least one of the following:

[0136] The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0137] The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the last paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0138] The offset between the start or end position of the system frame where the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group is located and the start position of the paging frame where the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group is located.

[0139] The offset between the start or end position of the system frame containing the target wake-up signal in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the paging frame containing the last paging signal in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

[0140] The aforementioned target wake-up signal timing may include at least one of the following:

[0141] The first wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group, and the last wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group.

[0142] For example, taking the wake-up signal timing as LO as an example, as shown in Figure 7, the above offset information is the first offset or the second offset in Figure 7.

[0143] In other words, there is a specific relationship between the wake-up signal timing group and its associated paging timing group; this relationship is a definite one. This relationship can be determined by at least one of the above methods, such as by the offset between the two.

[0144] The wake-up signal monitoring period information of the aforementioned terminal can be configured by the network-side device or agreed upon by the protocol. This period information explicitly or implicitly indicates the resource location of the group when a wake-up signal is present.

[0145] The time range of the aforementioned wake-up signal timing group can be configured by the network-side device or agreed upon by the protocol. This time range can be the listening duration or listening period of the wake-up signal timing group. The time range of the wake-up signal timing group is related to the resource location of the aforementioned wake-up signal timing group; therefore, the resource location of the wake-up signal timing group can be determined based on this time information.

[0146] The aforementioned terminal identification information may be the terminal's identification information, and the resource location of the wake-up signal timing group may be associated with the terminal's identification information. Alternatively, the resource location of the wake-up signal timing associated with the terminal may be calculated based on the terminal's identification information.

[0147] Since the resource location of the wake-up signal timing group is determined based on the above target information, there is no need to configure the resource location of the wake-up signal timing group, thus reducing configuration overhead.

[0148] It should be noted that the embodiments of this application are not limited to determining the resource location of the wake-up signal timing group associated with the terminal based on target information. For example, the resource location of the wake-up signal timing group can be configured by the network side device or agreed upon by the protocol.

[0149] As an optional implementation, the paging timing indication information includes index information of the target paging timing, wherein the index information is absolute index information, or the index information is relative index information in the paging timing group.

[0150] The aforementioned absolute index can refer to the index or label of all paging opportunities configured on the network side device, from the first to the last paging opportunity.

[0151] The aforementioned relative index information refers to the index obtained by numbering paging times within a paging time group, or the index information of paging time grouping.

[0152] In this embodiment, the index information of the target paging timing can more reliably indicate the target paging timing.

[0153] Optionally, the relative index information is group index information, which is: index information of paging timing groups obtained by grouping all paging timings included in the paging timing group according to the number of paging timings included in the target paging timing, wherein the number of paging timing groups is:

[0154] The number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group divided by the number of paging opportunities included in the target paging opportunity.

[0155] For example, if a paging timing group includes 4 paging timings and the target paging timing includes 2 paging timings, then there are 2 paging timing groups. If the index is "0", it corresponds to paging timing group 0, and if the index is "1", it corresponds to paging timing group 1. In this way, the above paging timing indication information only needs to indicate "0" or "1" to indicate two paging timings, so as to save the overhead of wake-up signals.

[0156] In some implementations, the paging timing may not be divided into groups. For example, a paging timing group may include four paging timings, and the relative index information mentioned above may be the index corresponding to these four paging timings, such as index 0 to 3. That is, the relative index information mentioned above may be at least one of the indexes 0 to 3, to indicate at least one paging timing.

[0157] As an optional implementation, the group wake-up indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0158] Code point information, bitmap information, sequence information;

[0159] The code point information is used to indicate one or more packets, each bit in the bitmap information is used to indicate one or more packets, and the sequence information is used to indicate one or more packets.

[0160] The code point information mentioned above can also be simply referred to as code point. This code point information is used to indicate one or more packets; it can be understood that each code point corresponds to one or more packets.

[0161] Each bit mentioned above is used to indicate one or more packets, which can be understood as each bit in the bitmap information corresponding to one or more packets.

[0162] The sequence information mentioned above can also be simply referred to as a sequence. The sequence information is used to indicate one or more groups. It can be understood that each sequence corresponds to one or more groups.

[0163] In the above embodiments, groups can be indicated in multiple ways to improve the flexibility of wake-up signal indication.

[0164] Optionally, the candidate values ​​of the code point information include common code points used to indicate all groups;

[0165] And / or, the bitmap information includes common bits for indicating all packets;

[0166] And / or, the sequence information includes a common sequence for indicating all groups.

[0167] The aforementioned common code point, common bit, or common sequence is used to indicate all packets corresponding to the wake-up signal, that is, all terminals corresponding to the wake-up signal, and these terminals are listening for paging. Since all codes are indicated by a single code point, a single bit, or a single sequence, the overhead of the wake-up signal can be saved.

[0168] As an optional implementation, the group to which the terminal belongs is configured by the network-side device or agreed upon by the protocol. Furthermore, the terminal may be in one or more groups.

[0169] In this embodiment, the terminal listens for a wake-up signal. The terminal determines whether to listen for paging based on the listened-up wake-up signal. The wake-up signal carries at least one of the following: paging timing indication information and group wake-up indication information. The paging timing indication information indicates a target paging timing. The group indicated by the group wake-up indication information includes: a group defined for the terminal corresponding to the paging timing group, or a group defined for the terminal corresponding to the target paging timing, where the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal. Because the paging timing indication information indicates a target paging timing, the wake-up signal can be flexibly associated with the paging timing to achieve group wake-up indication of a specific paging timing, thereby improving the indication effect of the wake-up signal. In addition, since the groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, and the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal, it is also possible to associate the wake-up signal with a group of paging timings. In this way, this group of paging timings can share the wake-up signal timing resources where the wake-up signal is located, so that the wake-up signal can indicate the group corresponding to the paging timing, thereby improving the indication effect of the wake-up signal.

[0170] Please refer to Figure 8, which is a flowchart of a signal transmission method provided in an embodiment of this application. As shown in Figure 8, it includes the following steps:

[0171] Step 801: The network-side device sends a wake-up signal, the wake-up signal carrying at least one of the following:

[0172] Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information;

[0173] The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target;

[0174] The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0175] Optionally, the network-side device sending the wake-up signal includes:

[0176] The network-side device sends a wake-up signal on the group when the wake-up signal is received;

[0177] The wake-up signal timing group includes at least one wake-up signal timing, and the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal includes the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

[0178] Optionally, the target paging timing is at least one paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0179] Optionally, the number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal opportunity group is greater than or equal to the number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group.

[0180] Optionally, at least one of the following is configured by the network-side device or agreed upon by the protocol:

[0181] The number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal timing group;

[0182] The number of paging opportunities contained in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group;

[0183] The paging timing range corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0184] The number of paging opportunities for the target paging opportunity;

[0185] The paging timing range or number of paging timings associated with the wake-up signal.

[0186] Optionally, the method further includes:

[0187] The network-side device determines the resource location of the wake-up signal associated with the terminal.

[0188] Optionally, the network-side device determines the resource location of the wake-up signal associated with the terminal by including:

[0189] The network-side device determines the resource location of the wake-up signal group associated with the terminal based on target information, wherein the target information includes at least one of the following:

[0190] The offset information between the wake-up signal timing group and its associated paging timing group, the wake-up signal listening cycle information of the terminal, the time range of the wake-up signal timing group, and the identity information of the terminal.

[0191] Optionally, the offset information includes at least one of the following:

[0192] The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0193] The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the last paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0194] The offset between the start or end position of the system frame where the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group is located and the start position of the paging frame where the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group is located.

[0195] The offset between the start or end position of the system frame containing the target wake-up signal in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the paging frame containing the last paging signal in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

[0196] Optionally, the timing of the target wake-up signal includes at least one of the following:

[0197] The first wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group, and the last wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group.

[0198] Optionally, the paging timing indication information includes index information of the target paging timing, wherein the index information is absolute index information, or the index information is relative index information in the paging timing group.

[0199] Optionally, the relative index information is group index information, which is: index information of paging timing groups obtained by grouping all paging timings included in the paging timing group according to the number of paging timings included in the target paging timing, wherein the number of paging timing groups is:

[0200] The number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group divided by the number of paging opportunities included in the target paging opportunity.

[0201] Optionally, the group wake-up indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0202] Code point information, bitmap information, sequence information;

[0203] The code point information is used to indicate one or more packets, each bit in the bitmap information is used to indicate one or more packets, and the sequence information is used to indicate one or more packets.

[0204] Optionally, the candidate values ​​of the code point information include common code points used to indicate all groups;

[0205] And / or, the bitmap information includes common bits for indicating all packets;

[0206] And / or, the sequence information includes a common sequence for indicating all groups.

[0207] It should be noted that this embodiment is an implementation of the network-side device corresponding to the embodiment shown in Figure 5. For the specific implementation, please refer to the relevant description of the embodiment shown in Figure 5. In order to avoid repeated description, this embodiment will not be repeated.

[0208] The signal monitoring method provided in this application can be executed by a signal monitoring device. This application uses an example of a signal monitoring device executing the signal monitoring method to illustrate the signal monitoring device provided in this application.

[0209] The signal transmission method provided in this application can be executed by a signal transmission device. This application uses an example of a signal transmission device executing the signal transmission method to illustrate the signal transmission device provided in this application.

[0210] The following example illustrates the method provided in this application embodiment, using the wake-up signal timing as LO:

[0211] Example 1:

[0212] In this embodiment, LP-WUS carries paging timing indication information, as follows:

[0213] Target PO indication information, and packet wake-up indication information based on the target PO.

[0214] The terminal listens for wake-up signals on its associated LO. There are two methods for determining the associated LO: Method 1: Determine the associated LO based on the associated PO and the relationship between the LO and PO. Method 2: Determine the associated LO based on the terminal's own identity information.

[0215] In one embodiment, taking LP-WUS as an example, LP-WUS carries paging occasion indication information, which indicates the target PO. That is, LP-WUS carries the association relationship with the target PO, thereby dynamically indicating which PO is currently associated with LP-WUS. Optionally, LP-WUS carries index information of the target PO. This index information can be a relative index or an absolute index. An absolute index refers to the numbers of all POs configured in the network, from the first to the last. A relative index refers to the index obtained by numbering the POs associated with the LO group. For example, if LP-WUS is configured to dynamically indicate a range of 4 consecutive POs, then the relative index refers to the relative index of these 4 POs, which is PO0 to 3. The network configuration or protocol specifies the range of POs that LP-WUS can dynamically indicate or associate. It should be noted that the relationship between LP-WUS and LO is that LO (LP-WUS occasion) is the LP-WUS timing, which can be understood as the temporal location of LP-WUS. LP-WUS refers to the information content transmitted at the LP-WUS time-domain location. Furthermore, a LO can include multiple LP-WUS monitoring occasions (LP-WUS MOs), meaning a LO contains multiple LP-WUS monitoring occasions; in essence, a LO is a collection of multiple LP-WUS monitoring occasions. As shown in Figure 6, network configuration or protocol agreements allow LP-WUS on a set of LOs (4 LOs) to dynamically indicate a set of POs (4 POs) within a specific range.

[0216] Optionally, the network side configures the offset between the first LO in the LO group and the first PO in the PO group, or the network configures the offset between the last LO in the LO group and the first PO in the PO group. This offset can take into account the transition delay from when the terminal receives LP-WUS to when it can listen to the PO.

[0217] Optionally, the number of LOs contained in the LO group must be greater than or equal to the number of POs contained in the associated PO group.

[0218] Furthermore, the network-side configuration or protocol specifies the number of target POs indicated by LP-WUS within the dynamic PO indication range. It should be noted that the PO group dynamically associated with LP-WUS does not mean that LP-WUS carries group wake-up indication information for all POs in the entire PO group; rather, LP-WUS carries or indicates indication information for at least one target PO within the PO group. For example, if the number of target POs indicated by LP-WUS is 2, it means that LP-WUS can indicate the first two or the last two of four consecutive candidate POs. This can be understood as the first two POs forming one target PO group, and the last two POs forming another. Optionally, LP-WUS can carry index information for the target PO group. For example, in the above example, LP-WUS can use 1 bit to indicate which of the two target PO groups. An index of "0" corresponds to target PO group 0, and an index of "1" corresponds to target PO group 1. That is, the relative index of the target PO group needs to be determined based on the number of dynamically candidate POs and the size of the target PO group indicated by LP-WUS. In another embodiment, LP-WUS can indicate the indices of any two target POs among the dynamically candidate POs. At this point, the relative indices of the four candidate POs are 0 to 3. Therefore, an index for one target PO requires two bits, while an index indicating two target POs requires four bits. This method requires even more LP-WUS bits.

[0219] The purpose of the LP-WUS (Portable Pathway for Wake-up) indicator is to determine which target PO the packet wake-up indication information carried in the LP-WUS is for. In other words, the LP-WUS needs to carry both the indication information for the target PO and the packet wake-up indication information corresponding to that target PO. For example, the LP-WUS consists of 8 bits, with 2 bits indicating any one of the four dynamic candidate POs, and the remaining 6 bits indicating the packet indication information corresponding to that target PO.

[0220] In this embodiment, the specific group wake-up indication method for the 6-bit group wake-up indication information is not specifically limited. For example, optionally, the group wake-up indication method includes any of the following:

[0221] 1) Indicates the index information of the packets that need to be woken up. For example, 6 bits can indicate 2^6 = 64 packets. This method can carry a large number of packets, but its drawback is that it cannot indicate two packets simultaneously. Unless the 6 bits are split into two 3-bit blocks to indicate the index information of two separate packets, this method can only carry 2^3 * 2 = 16 packets. This method does not preclude the design of using a common packet index to wake up multiple packets. Optionally, this packet method requires configuring Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) or not configuring CRC.

[0222] 2) Indicating the sequence information corresponding to the group. This method uses a sequence selection approach, employing a 6-bit sequence to select sequences with better detection performance and assigning them to different groups to achieve group indication. This method does not preclude the design of associating a single sequence with multiple groups for activation.

[0223] 3) A bitmap-based indication method is used to assign 6 bits to 6 packets, meaning each bit corresponds to one packet. If the bit corresponding to a packet is "0", it indicates that the packet should not be woken up (i.e., the terminal associated with the packet does not need to listen for paging); if it is "1", it indicates that the packet should be woken up (i.e., the terminal associated with the packet needs to listen for paging). The packet indication information carried in LP-WUS is used to instruct the terminal associated with the woken-up packet to listen for paging.

[0224] This embodiment enables the network to dynamically associate a set of LOs with a set of POs, thus avoiding the limitations of a one-to-one association between LOs and POs and effectively utilizing the possibility of idle LOs to indicate other POs. Furthermore, it allows for dynamic association within a reasonable range, avoiding excessive overhead caused by LP-WUS carrying too many bits.

[0225] Example 2:

[0226] In this embodiment, all terminals of multiple POs associated with LP-WUS are jointly grouped, and LP-WUS does not indicate the PO index, as follows:

[0227] At least one PO associated with LP-WUS is grouped uniformly, meaning that instead of grouping each PO independently, the terminals of all associated POs are grouped together.

[0228] The PO associated with an LP-WUS is determined through network configuration or protocol agreement. All terminals associated with the PO are grouped together. In other words, the group of the terminal is not determined by the index of the PO, but by the group index of the terminal in the network configuration or by formulas such as UE ID.

[0229] For example, as shown in Figure 7, the network configuration associates LO groups with PO groups. This embodiment does not limit how the association between the LO group and the PO group is specifically determined. For instance, it can be determined by configuring at least one of the following: the offset between the LO group and the PO group (e.g., the first offset or the second offset in the figure), the number of LOs contained in the LO group, and the number of POs contained in the PO group. Alternatively, the association between the LO group and the PO group can be determined by the terminal identifier or a specific formula.

[0230] Optionally, the number of LOs contained in the LO group is at least 1.

[0231] Optionally, the number of LOs in the LO group must be greater than or equal to the number of POs in the associated PO group. In the example below, the LO group has 4 LOs, and the associated PO group has 4 POs, which are equal. All terminals associated with these 4 POs are grouped, for example, into 64 groups. If the group wake-up indication method 1) described above (i.e., the method of indicating the wake-up group index) is used, then the group indication information carried in the LP-WUS on the LO group requires log264 = 6 bits. It is understandable that the terminals associated with the PO group need to determine the location of the LO group to be monitored based on the association relationship between the LO group and the PO group. The terminal needs to monitor all LOs in the LO group using LP-WUS.

[0232] The embodiments of this application can achieve at least one of the following:

[0233] The wake-up signal dynamically indicates or associates a target PO within a specific range of POs, and the grouped wake-up indication information of the wake-up signal is associated with the target PO.

[0234] The wake-up signal carries a grouped wake-up indication information, wherein the group is a group divided for all terminals of the PO associated with the LO where the wake-up signal is located.

[0235] The embodiments of this application can more reasonably realize the dynamic association and indication of LO with PO. For example, by dynamically associating and indicating LO with PO (PO group) within a reasonable range, it is possible to realize the listening sharing of LO associated with PO within a certain range without excessively increasing the information bits of LP-WUS or the listening power consumption of the terminal.

[0236] This application provides a signal monitoring device. As an example, the signal monitoring device can be a communication device or a component within a communication device, such as a chip. The communication device can be a terminal, a network-side device, or a server, etc. Exemplarily, the terminal can be, but is not limited to, the type of terminal 11 listed above, and the network-side device can be, but is not limited to, the type of network-side device 12 listed above. This application does not impose specific limitations on these aspects.

[0237] This application provides a signal transmitting device. As an example, the signal transmitting device may be a communication device or a component within a communication device, such as a chip. The communication device may be a terminal, a network-side device, or a server, etc. Exemplarily, the terminal may include, but is not limited to, the type of terminal 11 listed above, and the network-side device may include, but is not limited to, the type of network-side device 12 listed above. This application does not impose specific limitations.

[0238] A signal monitoring device or signal transmitting device may include a receiving module, a transmitting module, and a processing module. These modules can be implemented in software or hardware. When implemented in hardware, the processing module can be implemented by a processor. For example, the processor can include general-purpose processors, special-purpose processors, such as a Central Processing Unit (CPU), microprocessor, Digital Signal Processor (DSP), Artificial Intelligence (AI) processor, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Network Processor (NP), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), or other programmable logic devices, gate circuits, transistors, discrete hardware components, etc. The receiving and transmitting modules can be implemented by a communication interface, which may include one or more of the following: transceiver, pins, circuits, bus, radio frequency unit, etc.

[0239] Specifically, referring to Figure 9, when the signal monitoring device is a terminal or a component within a terminal, the signal monitoring device 900 includes:

[0240] Monitoring module 901 is used to listen for wake-up signals;

[0241] The first determining module 902 is used to determine whether to listen for paging based on the detected wake-up signal, wherein the wake-up signal carries at least one of the following:

[0242] Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information;

[0243] The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target;

[0244] The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0245] Optionally, the monitoring module 901 is used to listen for the wake-up signal on the group when the wake-up signal is received;

[0246] The wake-up signal timing group includes at least one wake-up signal timing, and the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal includes the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

[0247] Optionally, the target paging timing is at least one paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0248] Optionally, the number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal opportunity group is greater than or equal to the number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group.

[0249] Optionally, at least one of the following may be configured by the network-side device or agreed upon by the protocol:

[0250] The number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal timing group;

[0251] The number of paging opportunities contained in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group;

[0252] The paging timing range corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0253] The number of paging opportunities for the target paging opportunity;

[0254] The paging timing range corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal;

[0255] The number of paging opportunities contained in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0256] Optionally, the device further includes:

[0257] The second determining module is used to determine the resource location of the wake-up signal associated with the terminal.

[0258] Optionally, the second determining module is used to determine the resource location of the wake-up signal group associated with the terminal based on target information, wherein the target information includes at least one of the following:

[0259] The offset information between the wake-up signal timing group and its associated paging timing group, the wake-up signal listening cycle information of the terminal, the time range of the wake-up signal timing group, and the identity information of the terminal.

[0260] Optionally, the offset information includes at least one of the following:

[0261] The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0262] The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the last paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0263] The offset between the start or end position of the system frame where the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group is located and the start position of the paging frame where the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group is located.

[0264] The offset between the start or end position of the system frame containing the target wake-up signal in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the paging frame containing the last paging signal in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

[0265] Optionally, the timing of the target wake-up signal includes at least one of the following:

[0266] The first wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group, and the last wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group.

[0267] Optionally, the paging timing indication information includes index information of the target paging timing, wherein the index information is absolute index information, or the index information is relative index information in the paging timing group.

[0268] Optionally, the relative index information is group index information, which is: index information of paging timing groups obtained by grouping all paging timings included in the paging timing group according to the number of paging timings included in the target paging timing, wherein the number of paging timing groups is:

[0269] The number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group divided by the number of paging opportunities included in the target paging opportunity.

[0270] Optionally, the group wake-up indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0271] Code point information, bitmap information, sequence information;

[0272] The code point information is used to indicate one or more packets, each bit in the bitmap information is used to indicate one or more packets, and the sequence information is used to indicate one or more packets.

[0273] Optionally, the candidate values ​​of the code point information include common code points used to indicate all groups;

[0274] And / or, the bitmap information includes common bits for indicating all packets;

[0275] And / or, the sequence information includes a common sequence for indicating all groups.

[0276] Optionally, if the group wake-up indication information indicates that the group to be woken up includes the group where the terminal is located, the terminal listens for paging.

[0277] Optionally, the group to which the terminal belongs is configured by the network-side device or agreed upon by the protocol.

[0278] The aforementioned signal monitoring device can improve the indication effect of wake-up signals.

[0279] The signal monitoring device provided in this application embodiment can implement the various processes implemented in the method embodiment of FIG5 and achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be described again here.

[0280] Referring to Figure 10, when the signal transmitting device is a network-side device or a component within a network-side device, the signal transmitting device 1000 includes:

[0281] The sending module 1001 is used to send a wake-up signal, the wake-up signal carrying at least one of the following:

[0282] Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information;

[0283] The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target;

[0284] The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0285] Optionally, the sending module 1001 is used to send a wake-up signal on the wake-up signal group;

[0286] The wake-up signal timing group includes at least one wake-up signal timing, and the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal includes the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

[0287] Optionally, the target paging timing is at least one paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0288] Optionally, the number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal opportunity group is greater than or equal to the number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group.

[0289] Optionally, at least one of the following is configured by the network-side device or agreed upon by the protocol:

[0290] The number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal timing group;

[0291] The number of paging opportunities contained in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group;

[0292] The paging timing range corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0293] The number of paging opportunities for the target paging opportunity;

[0294] The paging timing range or number of paging timings associated with the wake-up signal.

[0295] Optionally, the device further includes:

[0296] The determination module is used to determine the resource location of the wake-up signal associated with the terminal.

[0297] Optionally, determining the resource location of the wake-up signal group associated with the terminal includes:

[0298] The resource location of the wake-up signal associated with the terminal is determined based on target information, wherein the target information includes at least one of the following:

[0299] The offset information between the wake-up signal timing group and its associated paging timing group, the wake-up signal listening cycle information of the terminal, the time range of the wake-up signal timing group, and the identity information of the terminal.

[0300] Optionally, the offset information includes at least one of the following:

[0301] The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0302] The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the last paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0303] The offset between the start or end position of the system frame where the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group is located and the start position of the paging frame where the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group is located.

[0304] The offset between the start or end position of the system frame containing the target wake-up signal in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the paging frame containing the last paging signal in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

[0305] Optionally, the timing of the target wake-up signal includes at least one of the following:

[0306] The first wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group, and the last wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group.

[0307] Optionally, the paging timing indication information includes index information of the target paging timing, wherein the index information is absolute index information, or the index information is relative index information in the paging timing group.

[0308] Optionally, the relative index information is group index information, which is: index information of paging timing groups obtained by grouping all paging timings included in the paging timing group according to the number of paging timings included in the target paging timing, wherein the number of paging timing groups is:

[0309] The number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group divided by the number of paging opportunities included in the target paging opportunity.

[0310] Optionally, the group wake-up indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0311] Code point information, bitmap information, sequence information;

[0312] The code point information is used to indicate one or more packets, each bit in the bitmap information is used to indicate one or more packets, and the sequence information is used to indicate one or more packets.

[0313] Optionally, the candidate values ​​of the code point information include common code points used to indicate all groups;

[0314] And / or, the bitmap information includes common bits for indicating all packets;

[0315] And / or, the sequence information includes a common sequence for indicating all groups.

[0316] The aforementioned signal transmitting device can improve the indication effect of the wake-up signal.

[0317] The signal transmitting device provided in this application embodiment can implement the various processes implemented in the method embodiment of FIG8 and achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be described again here.

[0318] As shown in Figure 11, this application embodiment also provides a communication device 1100, including a processor 1101 and a memory 1102. The memory 1102 stores a program or instructions that can run on the processor 1101. For example, when the communication device 1100 is a terminal, the program or instructions executed by the processor 1101 implement the various steps of the above-described signal monitoring method or signal transmission method embodiments and achieve the same technical effect. When the communication device 1100 is a network-side device, the program or instructions executed by the processor 1101 implement the various steps of the above-described signal monitoring method or signal transmission method embodiments and achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, further details are omitted here.

[0319] This application also provides a terminal, including a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is used to run programs or instructions to implement the steps in the method embodiment shown in FIG5. This terminal embodiment corresponds to the above-described terminal-side method embodiment, and all implementation processes and methods of the above-described method embodiments can be applied to this terminal embodiment and can achieve the same technical effect. The terminal can be the signal monitoring device shown in FIG9. Specifically, FIG12 is a schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a terminal implementing an embodiment of this application.

[0320] The terminal 1200 includes, but is not limited to, at least some of the following components: radio frequency unit 1201, network module 1202, audio output unit 1203, input unit 1204, sensor 1205, display unit 1206, user input unit 1207, interface unit 1208, memory 1209, and processor 1210.

[0321] Those skilled in the art will understand that terminal 1200 may also include a power supply (such as a battery) for powering various components. The power supply can be logically connected to processor 1210 through a power management system, thereby enabling functions such as charging, discharging, and power consumption management through the power management system. The terminal structure shown in Figure 12 does not constitute a limitation on the terminal. The terminal may include more or fewer components than shown, or combine certain components, or have different component arrangements, which will not be elaborated here.

[0322] It should be understood that, in this embodiment, the input unit 1204 may include a graphics processor 12041 and a microphone 12042. The graphics processor 12041 processes image data of still images or videos obtained by an image capture device (such as a camera) in video capture mode or image capture mode. The display unit 1206 may include a display panel 12061, which may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light-emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 1207 includes a touch panel 12071 and at least one of other input devices 12072. The touch panel 12071 is also called a touch screen. The touch panel 12071 may include a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 12072 may include, but are not limited to, physical keyboards, function keys (such as volume control buttons, power buttons, etc.), trackballs, mice, and joysticks, which will not be described in detail here.

[0323] In this embodiment, after receiving downlink data from the network-side device, the radio frequency unit 1201 can transmit it to the processor 1210 for processing; in addition, the radio frequency unit 1201 can send uplink data to the network-side device. Typically, the radio frequency unit 1201 includes, but is not limited to, antennas, amplifiers, transceivers, couplers, low-noise amplifiers, duplexers, etc.

[0324] The memory 1209 can be used to store software programs or instructions, as well as various data. The memory 1209 may primarily include a first storage area for storing programs or instructions and a second storage area for storing data. The first storage area may store the operating system, application programs or instructions required for at least one function (such as sound playback, image playback, etc.). Furthermore, the memory 1209 may include volatile memory or non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be read-only memory (ROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), or flash memory. Volatile memory can be random access memory (RAM), static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDRSDRAM), enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory (ESDRAM), synchronous link dynamic random access memory (SLDRAM), and direct memory bus RAM (DRRAM). The memory 1209 in this embodiment includes, but is not limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

[0325] Processor 1210 may include one or more processing units; optionally, processor 1210 integrates an application processor and a modem processor, wherein the application processor mainly handles operations involving the operating system, user interface, and applications, and the modem processor mainly handles wireless communication signals, such as a baseband processor. It is understood that the aforementioned modem processor may also not be integrated into processor 1210.

[0326] The radio frequency unit 1201 is used to listen for wake-up signals;

[0327] Processor 1210 is configured to determine whether to listen for paging based on the detected wake-up signal, the wake-up signal carrying at least one of the following:

[0328] Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information;

[0329] The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target;

[0330] The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0331] Optionally, the listening wake-up signal includes:

[0332] Listen for the wake-up signal on the wake-up signal group;

[0333] The wake-up signal timing group includes at least one wake-up signal timing, and the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal includes the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

[0334] Optionally, the target paging timing is at least one paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0335] Optionally, the number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal opportunity group is greater than or equal to the number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group.

[0336] Optionally, at least one of the following may be configured by the network-side device or agreed upon by the protocol:

[0337] The number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal timing group;

[0338] The number of paging opportunities contained in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group;

[0339] The paging timing range corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0340] The number of paging opportunities for the target paging opportunity;

[0341] The paging timing range corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal;

[0342] The number of paging opportunities contained in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0343] Optionally, the processor 1210 is also used for:

[0344] Determine the resource location of the wake-up signal associated with the terminal.

[0345] Optionally, determining the resource location of the wake-up signal group associated with the terminal includes:

[0346] The resource location of the wake-up signal associated with the terminal is determined based on target information, wherein the target information includes at least one of the following:

[0347] The offset information between the wake-up signal timing group and its associated paging timing group, the wake-up signal listening cycle information of the terminal, the time range of the wake-up signal timing group, and the identity information of the terminal.

[0348] Optionally, the offset information includes at least one of the following:

[0349] The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0350] The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the last paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0351] The offset between the start or end position of the system frame where the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group is located and the start position of the paging frame where the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group is located.

[0352] The offset between the start or end position of the system frame containing the target wake-up signal in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the paging frame containing the last paging signal in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

[0353] Optionally, the timing of the target wake-up signal includes at least one of the following:

[0354] The first wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group, and the last wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group.

[0355] Optionally, the paging timing indication information includes index information of the target paging timing, wherein the index information is absolute index information, or the index information is relative index information in the paging timing group.

[0356] Optionally, the relative index information is group index information, which is: index information of paging timing groups obtained by grouping all paging timings included in the paging timing group according to the number of paging timings included in the target paging timing, wherein the number of paging timing groups is:

[0357] The number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group divided by the number of paging opportunities included in the target paging opportunity.

[0358] Optionally, the group wake-up indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0359] Code point information, bitmap information, sequence information;

[0360] The code point information is used to indicate one or more packets, each bit in the bitmap information is used to indicate one or more packets, and the sequence information is used to indicate one or more packets.

[0361] Optionally, the candidate values ​​of the code point information include common code points used to indicate all groups;

[0362] And / or, the bitmap information includes common bits for indicating all packets;

[0363] And / or, the sequence information includes a common sequence for indicating all groups.

[0364] Optionally, if the group wake-up indication information indicates that the group to be woken up includes the group where the terminal is located, the terminal listens for paging.

[0365] Optionally, the group to which the terminal belongs is configured by the network-side device or agreed upon by the protocol.

[0366] The aforementioned terminals can improve the indication effect of wake-up signals.

[0367] It is understood that the implementation process of each implementation method mentioned in this embodiment can refer to the relevant description of the signal monitoring method embodiment and achieve the same or corresponding technical effects. To avoid repetition, it will not be described again here.

[0368] This application also provides a network-side device, including a processor and a communication interface. The communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is used to run programs or instructions to implement the steps of the method embodiment shown in FIG8. This network-side device embodiment corresponds to the above-described network-side device method embodiment. All implementation processes and methods of the above-described method embodiments can be applied to this network-side device embodiment and can achieve the same technical effect.

[0369] Specifically, this application embodiment also provides a network-side device, which can be the signal transmitting device shown in FIG10. As shown in FIG13, the network-side device 1300 includes: an antenna 1301, a radio frequency device 1302, a baseband device 1303, a processor 1304, and a memory 1305. The antenna 1301 is connected to the radio frequency device 1302. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 1302 receives information through the antenna 1301 and sends the received information to the baseband device 1303 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 1303 processes the information to be transmitted and sends it to the radio frequency device 1302, which processes the received information and then transmits it through the antenna 1301.

[0370] The method executed by the network-side device in the above embodiments can be implemented in the baseband device 1303, which includes a baseband processor.

[0371] The baseband device 1303 may include at least one baseband board, on which multiple chips are disposed, as shown in FIG13. One of the chips is, for example, a baseband processor, which is connected to the memory 1305 via a bus interface to call the program in the memory 1305 to execute the network-side device operation shown in the above method embodiment.

[0372] The network-side device may also include a network interface 1306, such as a Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI).

[0373] Specifically, the network-side device 1300 in this application embodiment further includes: instructions or programs stored in memory 1305 and executable on processor 1304. Processor 1304 calls the instructions or programs in memory 1305 to execute the methods executed by each module shown in FIG10 and achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be described in detail here.

[0374] Radio frequency device 1302 is used to transmit a wake-up signal, the wake-up signal carrying at least one of the following:

[0375] Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information;

[0376] The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target;

[0377] The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0378] Optionally, sending the wake-up signal includes:

[0379] Send a wake-up signal on the wake-up signal group;

[0380] The wake-up signal timing group includes at least one wake-up signal timing, and the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal includes the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

[0381] Optionally, the target paging timing is at least one paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

[0382] Optionally, the number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal opportunity group is greater than or equal to the number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group.

[0383] Optionally, at least one of the following is configured by the network-side device or agreed upon by the protocol:

[0384] The number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal timing group;

[0385] The number of paging opportunities contained in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group;

[0386] The paging timing range corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0387] The number of paging opportunities for the target paging opportunity;

[0388] The paging timing range or number of paging timings associated with the wake-up signal.

[0389] Optionally, the processor 1304 is configured to determine the resource location of the wake-up signal associated with the terminal.

[0390] Optionally, determining the resource location of the wake-up signal group associated with the terminal includes:

[0391] The resource location of the wake-up signal associated with the terminal is determined based on target information, wherein the target information includes at least one of the following:

[0392] The offset information between the wake-up signal timing group and its associated paging timing group, the wake-up signal listening cycle information of the terminal, the time range of the wake-up signal timing group, and the identity information of the terminal.

[0393] Optionally, the offset information includes at least one of the following:

[0394] The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0395] The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the last paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group;

[0396] The offset between the start or end position of the system frame where the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group is located and the start position of the paging frame where the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group is located.

[0397] The offset between the start or end position of the system frame containing the target wake-up signal in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the paging frame containing the last paging signal in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

[0398] Optionally, the timing of the target wake-up signal includes at least one of the following:

[0399] The first wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group, and the last wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group.

[0400] Optionally, the paging timing indication information includes index information of the target paging timing, wherein the index information is absolute index information, or the index information is relative index information in the paging timing group.

[0401] Optionally, the relative index information is group index information, which is: index information of paging timing groups obtained by grouping all paging timings included in the paging timing group according to the number of paging timings included in the target paging timing, wherein the number of paging timing groups is:

[0402] The number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group divided by the number of paging opportunities included in the target paging opportunity.

[0403] Optionally, the group wake-up indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0404] Code point information, bitmap information, sequence information;

[0405] The code point information is used to indicate one or more packets, each bit in the bitmap information is used to indicate one or more packets, and the sequence information is used to indicate one or more packets.

[0406] Optionally, the candidate values ​​of the code point information include common code points used to indicate all groups;

[0407] And / or, the bitmap information includes common bits for indicating all packets;

[0408] And / or, the sequence information includes a common sequence for indicating all groups.

[0409] The aforementioned network-side devices can improve the indication effect of wake-up signals.

[0410] It is understood that the implementation process of each implementation method mentioned in this embodiment can refer to the relevant description of the signal transmission method embodiment and achieve the same or corresponding technical effects. To avoid repetition, it will not be described again here.

[0411] This application also provides a readable storage medium storing a program or instructions. When the program or instructions are executed by a processor, they implement the various processes of the above-described signal monitoring method or signal sending method embodiments and achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, they will not be described again here.

[0412] The processor mentioned above is the processor in the terminal described in the above embodiments. The readable storage medium includes computer-readable storage media, such as computer read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), magnetic disk, or optical disk. In some examples, the readable storage medium may be a non-transient readable storage medium.

[0413] This application embodiment also provides a chip, which includes a processor and a communication interface. The communication interface is coupled to the processor. The processor is used to run programs or instructions to implement the various processes of the above-described signal monitoring method or signal sending method embodiments, and can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be described again here.

[0414] It should be understood that the chip mentioned in the embodiments of this application may also be referred to as a system-on-a-chip, system chip, chip system, or system-on-a-chip, etc.

[0415] This application also provides a computer program / program product, which is stored in a storage medium and executed by at least one processor to implement the various processes of the above-described signal monitoring method or signal transmission method embodiments, and can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be described again here.

[0416] This application also provides a wireless communication system, including: a terminal and a network-side device. The terminal can be used to perform the steps of the signal monitoring method provided in this application, and the network-side device can be used to perform the steps of the signal transmission method provided in this application.

[0417] It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprising," "including," or any other variations thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements includes not only those elements but also other elements not expressly listed, or elements inherent to such a process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitations, an element defined by the phrase "comprising one..." does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that includes that element. Furthermore, it should be noted that the scope of the methods and apparatuses in the embodiments of this application is not limited to performing functions in the order shown or discussed, but may also include performing functions substantially simultaneously or in the reverse order, depending on the functions involved. For example, the described methods may be performed in a different order than described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. Additionally, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

[0418] From the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the methods of the above embodiments can be implemented by means of computer software products plus necessary general-purpose hardware platforms, and of course, they can also be implemented by hardware. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM, RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk, etc.) and includes several instructions to cause the terminal or network-side device to execute the methods described in the various embodiments of this application.

[0419] The embodiments of this application have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, this application is not limited to the specific embodiments described above. The specific embodiments described above are merely illustrative and not restrictive. Those skilled in the art can make many other implementations under the guidance of this application without departing from the spirit and scope of the claims. All of these implementations are within the protection scope of this application.

Claims

1. A signal monitoring method, comprising: The terminal listens for wake-up signals. The terminal determines whether to listen for paging based on the detected wake-up signal, wherein the wake-up signal carries at least one of the following: Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information; The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target; The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, The terminal listening wake-up signal includes: The terminal listens for the wake-up signal on the wake-up group when the wake-up signal is received; The wake-up signal timing group includes at least one wake-up signal timing, and the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal includes the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein, The target paging timing is at least one paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

4. The method of claim 2 or 3, wherein, The number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal timing group is greater than or equal to the number of paging opportunities included in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

5. The method of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein, At least one of the following is configured by the network-side device or agreed upon by the protocol: The number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal timing group; The number of paging opportunities contained in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group; The paging timing range corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group; The number of paging opportunities for the target paging opportunity; The paging timing range corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal; The number of paging opportunities contained in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal.

6. The method according to any one of claims 2 to 5, wherein the method further comprises: The terminal determines the resource location of the wake-up signal associated with it.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein, The terminal determines the resource location of the wake-up signal group associated with the terminal by including: The terminal determines the resource location of the wake-up signal associated with the terminal based on target information, wherein the target information includes at least one of the following: The offset information between the wake-up signal timing group and its associated paging timing group, the wake-up signal listening cycle information of the terminal, the time range of the wake-up signal timing group, and the identity information of the terminal.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein, The offset information includes at least one of the following: The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group; The offset between the start or end position of the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the last paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group; The offset between the start or end position of the system frame where the target wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group is located and the start position of the paging frame where the first paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group is located. The offset between the start or end position of the system frame containing the target wake-up signal in the wake-up signal timing group and the start position of the paging frame containing the last paging signal in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein, The target wake-up signal timing includes at least one of the following: The first wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group, and the last wake-up signal timing in the wake-up signal timing group.

10. The method of any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein, The paging timing indication information includes index information of the target paging timing, wherein the index information is absolute index information, or the index information is relative index information in the paging timing group.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein, The relative index information is grouped index information, which is: index information of paging timing groups obtained by grouping all paging timings included in the target paging timing group according to the number of paging timings included in the target paging timing, wherein the number of paging timing groups is: The number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group divided by the number of paging opportunities included in the target paging opportunity.

12. The method of any one of claims 1 to 11, wherein, The group wake-up indication information includes at least one of the following: Code point information, bitmap information, sequence information; The code point information is used to indicate one or more packets, each bit in the bitmap information is used to indicate one or more packets, and the sequence information is used to indicate one or more packets.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein, The candidate values ​​of the code point information include common code points used to indicate all groups; And / or, the bitmap information includes common bits for indicating all packets; And / or, the sequence information includes a common sequence for indicating all groups.

14. The method of any one of claims 1 to 13, wherein, If the group wake-up indication information indicates that the group to be woken up includes the group where the terminal is located, the terminal listens for paging.

15. The method of any one of claims 1 to 14, wherein, The group to which the terminal belongs is configured by the network-side equipment or agreed upon by the protocol.

16. A signal transmission method, comprising: The network-side device sends a wake-up signal, the wake-up signal carrying at least one of the following: Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information; The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target; The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein, The network-side device sends a wake-up signal including: The network-side device sends a wake-up signal on the group when the wake-up signal is received; The wake-up signal timing group includes at least one wake-up signal timing, and the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal includes the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

18. The method of claim 16 or 17, wherein, The target paging timing is at least one paging timing in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

19. The method of claim 17 or 18, wherein, The number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal timing group is greater than or equal to the number of paging opportunities included in the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

20. The method of any one of claims 17 to 19, wherein, At least one of the following is configured by the network-side device or agreed upon by the protocol: The number of wake-up signal opportunities included in the wake-up signal timing group; The number of paging opportunities contained in the paging opportunity group associated with the wake-up signal opportunity group; The paging timing range corresponding to the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group; The number of paging opportunities for the target paging opportunity; The paging timing range or number of paging timings associated with the wake-up signal.

21. The method of any one of claims 16 to 20, wherein, The paging timing indication information includes index information of the target paging timing, wherein the index information is absolute index information, or the index information is relative index information in the paging timing group.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein, The relative index information is grouped index information, which is: index information of paging timing groups obtained by grouping all paging timings included in the target paging timing group according to the number of paging timings included in the target paging timing, wherein the number of paging timing groups is: The number of paging opportunities included in the paging opportunity group divided by the number of paging opportunities included in the target paging opportunity.

23. The method of any one of claims 16 to 22, wherein, The group wake-up indication information includes at least one of the following: Code point information, bitmap information, sequence information; The code point information is used to indicate one or more packets, each bit in the bitmap information is used to indicate one or more packets, and the sequence information is used to indicate one or more packets.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein, The candidate values ​​of the code point information include common code points used to indicate all groups; And / or, the bitmap information includes common bits for indicating all packets; And / or, the sequence information includes a common sequence for indicating all groups.

25. A signal monitoring device, comprising: The monitoring module is used to listen for wake-up signals; The first determining module is used to determine whether to listen for paging based on the detected wake-up signal, wherein the wake-up signal carries at least one of the following: Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information; The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target; The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein, The monitoring module is used to listen for the wake-up signal on the group when the wake-up signal is received; The wake-up signal timing group includes at least one wake-up signal timing, and the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal includes the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

27. The apparatus of claim 26, further comprising: The second determining module is used to determine the resource location of the wake-up signal associated with the terminal.

28. A signal transmitting device, comprising: The sending module is used to send a wake-up signal, the wake-up signal carrying at least one of the following: Paging timing indication information, group wake-up indication information; The paging timing indication information is used to indicate the timing of paging the target; The groups indicated by the group wake-up indication information include: groups divided for terminals corresponding to the paging timing group, or groups divided for terminals corresponding to the target paging timing, wherein the paging timing group is the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal.

29. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein, The sending module is used to send a wake-up signal on the wake-up signal timing group; The wake-up signal timing group includes at least one wake-up signal timing, and the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal includes the paging timing group associated with the wake-up signal timing group.

30. A terminal comprising a processor and a memory, the memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the signal monitoring method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 15.

31. A network-side device, comprising a processor and a memory, the memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the signal transmission method as claimed in any one of claims 16 to 24.

32. A readable storage medium storing a program or instructions that, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the signal monitoring method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 15, or the steps of the signal transmission method as claimed in any one of claims 16 to 24.

33. A computer program product stored in a storage medium, the computer program product being executed by at least one processor to implement the steps of the signal monitoring method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 15, or to implement the steps of the signal transmission method as claimed in any one of claims 16 to 24.

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