Discontinuous transmission method and apparatus, terminal, and network side device

Abstract

The present application relates to the technical field of communications, and discloses a discontinuous transmission (DTX) method and apparatus, a terminal, and a network side device. The discontinuous transmission method of embodiments of the present application comprises: a terminal receives first indication information, the first indication information being used for indicating at least one cell transmission mode, each cell transmission mode corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode comprising at least one of cell DTX and cell discontinuous reception (DRX); and the terminal performs transmission on the basis of the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

Description

Discontinuous transmission method, device, terminal and network side equipment

[0001] Cross-reference to Related Applications

[0002] The present application is based on the Chinese patent application No. 202410887848.4, filed on July 3, 2024, and claims the priority of the Chinese patent application No. 202410887848.4, the whole content of which is incorporated herein by reference. TECHNICAL FIELD

[0003] The present application relates to the field of communication technology, in particular to a discontinuous transmission method, device, terminal and network side equipment. BACKGROUND

[0004] In order to save energy of a communication system, cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX) are introduced. In some related technologies, the cell DTX and the cell DRX are cell granularity cell DTX and cell DRX, that is, the cell DTX and the cell DRX are used or turned off for the whole cell, which results in that the cell DTX and the cell DRX cannot be used in some cases, for example, in the case of high load, if the cell DTX and the cell DRX are used for the whole cell, the service transmission performance will be affected. It can be seen that the cell granularity cell DTX and the cell DRX result in poor energy saving effect of the communication system. SUMMARY

[0005] Embodiments of the present application provide a discontinuous transmission method, device, terminal and network side equipment, which can solve the problem of poor energy saving effect of the communication system.

[0006] In a first aspect, a discontinuous transmission method is provided, comprising:

[0007] A terminal receives first indication information, the first indication information being used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each cell transmission mode corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode including at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX);

[0008] The terminal performs transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

[0009] In a second aspect, a discontinuous transmission method is provided, comprising:

[0010] The network-side device sends first indication information to the terminal, the first indication information being used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode including at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX).

[0011] The network-side device performs transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

[0012] In a third aspect, a discontinuous transmission apparatus is provided, including:

[0013] A receiving module is configured to receive first indication information, the first indication information being used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode including at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX).

[0014] A processing module is configured to perform transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

[0015] In a fourth aspect, a discontinuous transmission apparatus is provided, including:

[0016] A sending module is configured to send first indication information to the terminal, the first indication information being used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode including at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX).

[0017] A processing module is configured to perform transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

[0018] In a fifth aspect, a discontinuous transmission apparatus is provided, the apparatus being configured to perform the steps of the discontinuous transmission method at the terminal-side as provided in the embodiments of the present application.

[0019] In a sixth aspect, a discontinuous transmission apparatus is provided, the apparatus being configured to perform the steps of the discontinuous transmission method at the network-side device as provided in the embodiments of the present application.

[0020] In a seventh aspect, a terminal is provided, including a processor and a memory, the memory storing programs or instructions executable on the processor, the programs or instructions being executed by the processor to implement the steps of the discontinuous transmission method at the terminal-side as provided in the embodiments of the present application.

[0021] In an eighth aspect, a terminal is provided, which includes a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is configured to receive first indication information, the first indication information being used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode including at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX); and perform transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

[0022] In a ninth aspect, a network-side device is provided, which includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing programs or instructions executable on the processor, and the programs or instructions, when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the discontinuous transmission method of the network-side device according to the embodiments of the present application.

[0023] In a tenth aspect, a network-side device is provided, which includes a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is configured to send first indication information to a terminal, the first indication information being used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode including at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX); and perform transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

[0024] In an eleventh aspect, a readable storage medium is provided, which stores programs or instructions, the programs or instructions, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the discontinuous transmission method of the terminal-side according to the embodiments of the present application, or implement the steps of the discontinuous transmission method of the network-side device according to the embodiments of the present application.

[0025] In a twelfth aspect, a wireless communication system is provided, which includes a terminal and a network-side device, the terminal being configured to perform the steps of the discontinuous transmission method of the terminal-side according to the embodiments of the present application, and the network-side device being configured to perform the steps of the discontinuous transmission method of the network-side device according to the embodiments of the present application.

[0026] In a thirteenth aspect, a chip is provided, which includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface being coupled to the processor, and the processor being configured to execute programs or instructions, implement the discontinuous transmission method of the terminal-side according to the embodiments of the present application, or implement the discontinuous transmission method of the network-side device according to the embodiments of the present application.

[0027] 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 terminal-side discontinuous transmission method provided in the embodiments of the present application, or is executed by at least one processor to implement the steps of the network-side discontinuous transmission method provided in the embodiments of the present application.

[0028] In the embodiments of the present application, the terminal receives first indication information, the first indication information is used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponds to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode includes at least one of cell DTX and cell DRX; and the terminal performs transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic. Since each cell transmission mode corresponds to at least one spatial characteristic, cell DTX and cell DRX with spatial characteristic granularity can be implemented, so that the cell DTX and the cell DRX can be used more flexibly, thereby improving the energy saving effect of the communication system. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0029] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system provided in the embodiments of the present application;

[0030] FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a discontinuous transmission method provided in the embodiments of the present application;

[0031] FIG. 3 is a flowchart of another discontinuous transmission method provided in the embodiments of the present application;

[0032] FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a scenario of a discontinuous transmission method provided in the embodiments of the present application;

[0033] FIG. 5 is a structural diagram of a discontinuous transmission apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present application;

[0034] FIG. 6 is a structural diagram of another discontinuous transmission apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present application;

[0035] FIG. 7 is a structural diagram of a communication device provided in the embodiments of the present application;

[0036] FIG. 8 is a structural diagram of a terminal provided in the embodiments of the present application;

[0037] FIG. 9 is a structural diagram of a network-side device provided in the embodiments of the present application. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0038] With reference to the drawings and the embodiments of the present application, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly described. Obviously, the described embodiments are only some of the embodiments of the present application, but not all of the embodiments of the present application. Based on the embodiments of the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art are within the scope of the present application.

[0039] The terms "first", "second", and the like in the present application are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not used to describe a specific order or sequence. It should be understood that the terms used in this way can be interchanged under appropriate circumstances, so that the embodiments of the present application can be implemented in an order other than those illustrated or described herein, and the objects distinguished by "first", "second" are generally a class, and are not limited to the number of objects, for example, the first object can be one or more. In addition, "or" in the present application means at least one of the connected objects. For example, the protection scope of "A or B" at least covers three schemes, namely, scheme one: including A and not including B; scheme two: including B and not including A; scheme three: including A and B. In addition, the terms "A and / or B", "at least one of A and B", "at least one of A or B" also at least cover the above three schemes, respectively. The character " / " generally represents that the objects before and after are in an "or" relationship.

[0040] The term "indication" in the present application can be a direct indication (or explicit indication) or an indirect indication (or implicit indication). Among them, the direct indication can be understood as the sender explicitly informing the receiver of the specific information, the operation to be performed or the requested result, etc. in the sent indication; the indirect indication can be understood as the receiver determines the corresponding information according to the indication sent by the sender, or judges and determines the operation to be performed or the requested result according to the judgment result.

[0041] It is worth noting that the technology described in the embodiments of the present application is 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 the embodiments of the present application are often used interchangeably, and the described technology can be used in the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, as well as in other systems and radio technologies. The following description describes a New Radio (NR) system for example purposes, and NR terminology is used in most of the following description, but these technologies can also be applied to systems other than NR systems, such as 6th Generation (6G) communication systems. th

[0042] ​FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which embodiments of the present application can be applied. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network side device 12. The terminal 11 can also be referred to as a user equipment (UE). The terminal 11 can be a terminal side device such as a mobile phone, a tablet personal computer, a laptop computer, a notebook computer, a personal digital assistant, a palm computer, a netbook, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a mobile Internet device (MID), an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a robot, a wearable device, a flight vehicle, a vehicle user equipment (VUE), a shipboard device, a pedestrian user equipment (PUE), a smart home (a home device with a wireless communication function such as a refrigerator, a television, a washing machine, or furniture), a game console, a personal computer (PC), a kiosk, or a self-service machine. The wearable device includes a smart watch, a smart bracelet, a smart earphone, smart glasses, smart jewelry (a smart bracelet, a smart necklace, a smart ring, a smart necklace, a smart anklet, a smart necklace, etc.), a smart wristband, smart clothing, etc. The vehicle-mounted device can also be referred to as a vehicle-mounted terminal, a vehicle-mounted controller, a vehicle-mounted module, a vehicle-mounted component, a vehicle-mounted chip, or a vehicle-mounted unit. It should be noted that the specific type of the terminal 11 is not limited in the embodiments of the present application. The network side device 12 can include an access network device or a core network device. The access network device can also be referred to as a radio access network (RAN) device, a radio access network function, a radio access network unit, or a satellite. The access network device can include a base station, a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP), or a wireless fidelity (WiFi) node.The base station can be referred to as a Node B (NB), an evolved Node B (eNB), a next generation Node B (gNB), a New Radio Node B (NR Node B), an access point, a relay base station (RBS), a serving base station (SBS), a base transceiver station (BTS), a radio base station, a radio transceiver, a basic service set (BSS), an extended service set (ESS), a home Node B (HNB), a home evolved Node B, a transmit / receive point (TRP), a non-terrestrial network (NTN) device (such as a satellite or a high altitude platform station, etc.), or some other suitable terminology in the art, so long as the same technical effect is achieved, and the base station is not limited to a specific technical term. It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present application, only the base station in the NR system is taken as an example for introduction, and the specific type of the base station is not limited.

[0043] The core network device can also be referred to as a core network node, a core network function, or a core network network element, etc., which includes but is not limited to at least one of the following: a mobility management entity (MME), an access and mobility management function (AMF), a session management function (SMF), a user plane function (UPF), a policy control function (PCF), a policy and charging rules function (PCRF), an edge application server discovery function (EASDF), a unified data management (UDM), a unified data repository (UDR), a home subscriber server (HSS), a centralized network configuration (CNC), a network repository function (NRF), a network exposure function (NEF), a local NEF (L-NEF), a binding support function (BSF), an application function (AF), a location management function (LMF), a gateway mobile location center (GMLC), a network data analytics function (NWDAF), a non-terrestrial network (NTN) device (such as a satellite or a high altitude platform station, etc.), and the like. It should be noted that only the core network device in the NR system is taken as an example for introduction in the embodiments of the present application, and the specific type of the core network device is not limited. If the name of the core network device mentioned in the embodiments of the present application changes in the subsequent protocol version (for example, 6G), it is also within the protection scope of the present application.

[0044] Optionally, the core network device can be implemented by one or more function modules in one device, or can be implemented by multiple devices together, and the embodiments of the present application do not make a specific limitation. It can be understood that the above function modules can be network elements in a hardware device, or software function modules running on a dedicated hardware, or virtualized function modules instantiated on a platform (for example, a cloud platform) and the like.

[0045] The non-continuous transmission method, device, terminal and network side device provided by the embodiments of the present application will be described in detail below in combination with the accompanying drawings and some embodiments and application scenarios.

[0046] Please refer to FIG. 2, which is a flow chart of a non-continuous transmission method provided by the embodiments of the present application, as shown in FIG. 2, including the following steps:

[0047] Step 201, the terminal receives first indication information, the first indication information is used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each cell transmission mode corresponds to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode includes at least one of cell DTX (Cell DTX) and cell DRX (Cell DRX).

[0048] The above first indication information can be first indication information received by the terminal and sent by the network side device.

[0049] The above cell transmission mode including at least one of cell DTX and DRX can be understood as that one cell transmission mode can be cell DTX or cell DRX, that is, cell DTX and cell DRX are indicated separately, or one cell transmission mode includes cell DTX and cell DRX, that is, cell DTX and cell DRX can be indicated together. And it can be that part of the cell transmission modes are cell DTX, part of the cell transmission modes are cell DRX, or part of the cell transmission modes include cell DTX and cell DRX.

[0050] In the embodiments of the present application, the cell transmission mode can also be called Cell DTX / DRX mode.

[0051] Each cell transmission mode corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic can be understood as that each cell transmission mode acts on at least one spatial characteristic or each cell transmission mode takes effect on at least one spatial characteristic. For example: cell transmission mode a corresponds to spatial characteristic a and spatial characteristic b, then cell transmission mode a takes effect on spatial characteristic a and spatial characteristic b, and does not take effect on the remaining spatial characteristics.

[0052] In the embodiments of the present application, one spatial characteristic corresponds to part of the resources of a cell or one spatial characteristic is part of the resources of a cell, such as the resources in a certain space of a cell, such as the resources in a certain direction of a cell, such as the resources of a certain beam of a cell, such as the resources of a certain panel of a cell, and the like.

[0053] In some embodiments, the above spatial characteristics include at least one of the following:

[0054] Beam direction, beam, quasi co-location (QCL), QCL resource (QCL source) spatial attribute, QCL resource spatial domain characteristic, transmission configuration indicator (TCI), TCI state, TRP, reference signal (RS), synchronization signal block (SSB), panel.

[0055] Among them, for the beam direction, at least one beam direction corresponding to each cell transmission mode can be implemented, so that the cell transmission mode can be managed, controlled or configured in the granularity of the beam direction;

[0056] For the beam, at least one beam corresponding to each cell transmission mode can be implemented, so that the cell transmission mode can be managed, controlled or configured in the granularity of the beam;

[0057] For the QCL, resources or objects with QCL relationship can be taken as a spatial characteristic, so that the cell transmission mode can be managed, controlled or configured in the granularity of the QCL;

[0058] For the QCL resource spatial attribute, at least one QCL resource spatial attribute corresponding to each cell transmission mode can be implemented, so that the cell transmission mode can be managed, controlled or configured in the granularity of the QCL resource spatial attribute;

[0059] For the QCL resource spatial domain characteristic, at least one QCL resource spatial domain characteristic corresponding to each cell transmission mode can be implemented, so that the cell transmission mode can be managed, controlled or configured in the granularity of the QCL resource spatial domain characteristic;

[0060] For the TCI, resources configured with the same TCI can be taken as a spatial characteristic, so that the cell transmission mode can be managed, controlled or configured in the granularity of the TCI;

[0061] For a TCI state, a resource or object of the same TCI state can be implemented as a spatial characteristic, so as to manage, control or configure a cell transmission mode in the granularity of a TCI state;

[0062] For a TRP, each cell transmission mode corresponds to at least one TRP, so as to manage, control or configure a cell transmission mode in the granularity of a TRP;

[0063] For an RS, a resource or object associated with the same RS can be implemented as a spatial characteristic, so as to manage, control or configure a cell transmission mode in the granularity of an RS;

[0064] For an SSB, a resource or object associated with the same SSB can be implemented as a spatial characteristic, so as to manage, control or configure a cell transmission mode in the granularity of an SSB;

[0065] For a panel, each cell transmission mode corresponds to at least one panel, so as to manage, control or configure a cell transmission mode in the granularity of a panel.

[0066] In addition, the cell in the embodiments of the present application can be understood as a cell, a cell group, a frequency layer, a tracking area (Tracking Area, TA), a TRP, etc.

[0067] In step 202, the terminal transmits based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

[0068] The terminal transmits based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic can include at least one of the following:

[0069] The terminal receives a downlink signal on a spatial characteristic corresponding to a cell DTX;

[0070] The terminal transmits an uplink signal on a spatial characteristic corresponding to a cell DRX.

[0071] In the embodiments of the present application, since each cell transmission mode corresponds to at least one spatial characteristic, cell DTX and cell DRX in the granularity of a spatial characteristic can be implemented, so that the cell DTX and the cell DRX can be more flexibly used to improve the energy saving effect of the communication system. For example, when the load on a certain spatial characteristic is relatively low, the cell transmission mode corresponding to the spatial characteristic is enabled or activated to save energy. For another example, when the load on a certain spatial characteristic is high, the cell transmission mode corresponding to the spatial characteristic is changed from an activated state to a deactivated state, so that energy saving and business performance can be guaranteed.

[0072] As an optional implementation, the first indication information further indicates the spatial characteristics corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0073] In this implementation, the spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell transmission mode can be indicated by the first indication information, which can be explicit or implicit indication. Since the first indication information further indicates the spatial characteristics corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode, additional information for indicating the spatial characteristics can be avoided, thereby saving transmission overhead, and the same or different spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell DTX, the cell DRX, and the cell DTX+cell DRX can be flexibly indicated, thereby improving the flexibility of cell configuration.

[0074] In some implementations, the spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell transmission mode can be configured by other information or pre-agreed, which is not limited.

[0075] As an optional implementation, for the cell transmission mode including the cell DTX and the cell DRX, the spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell DTX and the cell DRX are the same or different.

[0076] The same or different spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell DTX and the cell DRX can be indicated by the network side device to the cell DTX and the cell DRX respectively, or indicated to the cell DTX and the cell DRX uniformly. In the case of indicating the spatial characteristics respectively, the cell DTX and the cell DRX can have the same or different spatial characteristics. In the case of indicating the spatial characteristics uniformly, the spatial characteristics of the cell DTX and the cell DRX are the same. Specifically, the network side device can configure and indicate according to the situation. For example, the network side device indicates the TCI state of the cell DTX and the cell DRX respectively, such as {TCI state 1, TCI state 2}, wherein TCI state 1 corresponds to the cell DTX, and TCI state 2 corresponds to the cell DRX, or the cell DTX and the cell DRX use the same TCI state, such as only one TCI state, or TCI state 1=TCI state 2.

[0077] In this implementation, the spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell DTX and the cell DRX can be flexibly configured for the cell transmission mode including the cell DTX and the cell DRX.

[0078] In some implementations, for the cell transmission mode including the cell DTX or the cell DRX, the spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell DTX or the cell DRX are the spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell transmission mode.

[0079] As an optional implementation, the first indication information indicates the at least one cell transmission mode in a bitmap manner; or

[0080] The first indication information indicates index information corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0081] In the implementation of indicating the at least one cell transmission mode in a bitmap manner, each bit corresponds to one cell transmission mode, so as to save the overhead of the first indication information.

[0082] The index information indicated by the first indication information can be an index directly indicating the cell transmission mode, or can be an index corresponding to one or more cell transmission modes, and the correspondence is configured in advance through radio resource control (RRC) or medium access control control element (MAC CE), so as to save the overhead of the first indication information.

[0083] As an optional implementation, the method further includes:

[0084] The terminal receives activation indication information, and the activation indication information is used to activate or deactivate the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0085] The activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode can be respectively activating or deactivating the cell transmission modes, for example, activating one cell transmission mode and deactivating another cell transmission mode.

[0086] The activation indication information can directly indicate the activation of the cell transmission mode or the deactivation of the cell transmission mode, or can indicate activation information or deactivation information of the cell transmission mode, wherein the activation information can be information associated with the activation of the cell transmission mode or the activation time of the cell transmission mode, the activation of the corresponding spatial characteristics, etc., and the deactivation information can be information associated with the deactivation of the cell transmission mode or the deactivation time of the cell transmission mode, the deactivation of the corresponding spatial characteristics, etc.

[0087] In this implementation, the activation indication information can be used to flexibly activate or deactivate the cell transmission mode, so as to save energy and ensure the service transmission performance. For example, the network side device can flexibly update the activation state of the cell DTX or the cell DRX according to the service and the terminal distribution, so as to better save energy while ensuring the service transmission performance.

[0088] It should be noted that, in some embodiments, the cell transmission mode indicated by the first indication information can be activated by default, i.e., the activation indication information can not be needed; or the cell transmission mode indicated by the first indication information is activated or deactivated by the activation indication information, or is activated or deactivated by other information.

[0089] It should be noted that, in some embodiments, the cell transmission mode indicated by the first indication information can be activated by default, i.e., the activation indication information can not be needed; or the cell transmission mode indicated by the first indication information is activated or deactivated by the activation indication information, or is activated or deactivated by other information.

[0090] Optionally, the activation indication information comprises one of the following:

[0091] The second indication information and the third indication information;

[0092] The second indication information is used to indicate activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and the activated cell transmission mode is in an activated state on at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode, and the deactivated cell transmission mode is in a deactivated state on the at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode.

[0093] The third indication information is used to indicate activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on one or more spatial characteristics.

[0094] Through the second indication information, the terminal can determine the activation or deactivation state of the corresponding cell DTX and cell DRX, and can determine the activation state of the at least one cell DTX and cell DRX on the corresponding spatial characteristic according to the second indication information.

[0095] Through the second indication information, only the activation or deactivation of the cell transmission mode needs to be indicated, and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode does not need to be indicated, thereby saving transmission overhead.

[0096] In some embodiments, the second indication information or the third indication information is indicated in granularity of the cell transmission mode, or the second indication information or the third indication information is indicated in granularity of the cell DTX and the cell DRX.

[0097] For example, the second indication information can indicate activation or deactivation of the cell DTX or the cell DRX, or indicate activation or deactivation of the cell DTX and the cell DRX, and the terminal determines the activation or deactivation state of the cell DTX, the cell DRX, or the cell DTX and the cell DRX according to the indication of the second indication information. Alternatively, the first indication information indicates a cell transmission mode including the cell DTX and the cell DRX, and the second indication information can also indicate activation or deactivation of the cell DTX or the cell DRX, i.e., only the cell DTX or the cell DRX in the cell transmission mode can be activated or deactivated.

[0098] The third indication information used for indicating activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode on one or more spatial characteristics can be used for indicating activating or deactivating the cell transmission mode on a specific spatial characteristic, for example, a cell transmission mode is for three spatial characteristics, the third indication information can be used for activating or deactivating the cell transmission mode on all or part of the three spatial characteristics.

[0099] The third indication information can be used for more flexibly activating or deactivating the cell transmission mode, which is beneficial for better energy saving or guaranteeing the service transmission performance. For example, the third indication information is used for the activation or deactivation information of at least one spatial characteristic and at least one cell transmission mode, and the terminal determines the activation or deactivation state of the cell transmission mode corresponding to the spatial characteristic based on the third indication information.

[0100] Optionally, the third indication information indicates one spatial characteristic and indicates activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode, and the activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode represents activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode on the one spatial characteristic; or

[0101] The third indication information indicates a plurality of spatial characteristics and indicates activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode, and the activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode represents activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode on the plurality of spatial characteristics; or

[0102] The third indication information indicates activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activation or deactivation of each cell transmission mode.

[0103] The third indication information indicating one spatial characteristic and indicating activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode can be used for the third indication information indicating one spatial characteristic and a plurality of cell transmission modes, which represents that the plurality of cell transmission modes are in the activated or deactivated state on the spatial characteristic.

[0104] The third indication information indicating a plurality of spatial characteristics and indicating activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode can be used for the third indication information indicating a plurality of spatial characteristics and one cell transmission mode, which represents that the cell transmission mode is in the activated or deactivated state on the plurality of spatial characteristics, or the third indication information indicating a plurality of spatial characteristics and a plurality of cell transmission modes, which represents that each cell transmission mode in the plurality of cell transmission modes is in the activated or deactivated state on the plurality of spatial characteristics.

[0105] The third indication information indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and the spatial characteristics corresponding to the activation or deactivation of each cell transmission mode can be that the third indication information can indicate activation or deactivation of one or more cell transmission modes, and one or more spatial characteristics corresponding to each cell transmission mode, indicating that each cell transmission mode is in an activated or deactivated state on the corresponding spatial characteristics.

[0106] In the above embodiments, the third indication information can flexibly indicate activation or deactivation of the cell transmission mode in various ways to achieve better energy saving.

[0107] As an optional embodiment, the method further comprises:

[0108] The terminal receives fourth indication information, and the fourth indication information is used to indicate one or more spatial characteristics.

[0109] The one or more spatial characteristics include at least one of the following:

[0110] The spatial characteristics corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode;

[0111] The spatial characteristics corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode;

[0112] The spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode.

[0113] The spatial characteristics corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode can be understood as configuring the corresponding spatial characteristics for the at least one cell transmission mode or updating / adjusting the corresponding spatial characteristics through the fourth indication information. For example, the spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information can be updating or adjusting the spatial characteristics of the already configured cell transmission mode, and the spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information can be one or a subset of the multiple spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell transmission mode.

[0114] The spatial characteristics corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode can be that the spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information are the spatial characteristics corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode, or the spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information are the activated spatial characteristics, and the cell transmission mode corresponding to the spatial characteristics is activated, that is, the fourth indication information can activate the corresponding cell transmission mode in addition to indicating the spatial characteristics. For example, the spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information can be activating the spatial characteristics of the already configured cell transmission mode.

[0115] The spatial characteristics corresponding to the at least one deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode can be the spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information, or the spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information are deactivated spatial characteristics, and the cell transmission mode corresponding to the spatial characteristics is deactivated, that is, the fourth indication information can not only indicate spatial characteristics but also deactivate the corresponding cell transmission mode. For example, the spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information can be the spatial characteristics of the configured cell transmission mode.

[0116] In some embodiments, the spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information can be effective for the activated or deactivated cell transmission mode, or the fourth indication information can indicate the spatial characteristics and the activation or deactivation of the corresponding cell transmission mode at the same time. For example, the fourth indication information can indicate the activation or deactivation of one or more spatial characteristics, and the terminal determines the activation or deactivation state of the corresponding cell transmission mode based on the fourth indication information, wherein the spatial characteristics of the corresponding cell transmission mode are the one or more spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information.

[0117] In some embodiments, the spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information can be effective for all configured, activated or deactivated cell transmission modes, or can be effective for part of the configured, activated or deactivated cell transmission modes, and the part of the cell transmission modes are the cell transmission modes corresponding to the spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information. For example, the one or more spatial characteristics include at least one of the following:

[0118] part of the spatial characteristics in the spatial characteristics corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode;

[0119] part of the spatial characteristics in the spatial characteristics corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode;

[0120] part of the spatial characteristics corresponding to the partially activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode;

[0121] part of the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode;

[0122] part of the spatial characteristics corresponding to the partially deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode.

[0123] The fourth indication information can be used to indicate the activation or deactivation of the cell transmission mode based on the spatial characteristics, so that the information of the cell transmission mode is not carried when the indication is performed, thereby saving the transmission overhead. For example, the fourth indication information is used to indicate the activation or deactivation of at least one spatial characteristic or at least one or more spatial characteristics, and the terminal determines the activation or deactivation state of the cell transmission mode corresponding to the spatial characteristics based on the fourth indication information.

[0124] Optionally, the fourth indication information is also used to indicate the activation or deactivation of the one or more spatial characteristics, and the cell transmission mode corresponding to the activated spatial characteristics is in the activated state on the spatial characteristics, and the cell transmission mode corresponding to the deactivated spatial characteristics is in the deactivated state on the spatial characteristics; or,

[0125] The fourth indication information is also used to indicate the activation or deactivation of the cell transmission mode corresponding to the one or more spatial characteristics in the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0126] The fourth indication information is also used to indicate the activation or deactivation of the one or more spatial characteristics, which can be understood as that the activation or deactivation of the spatial characteristics is indicated in the fourth indication information, so that the spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information include the spatial characteristics corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode or the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode, and the information of the cell transmission mode is not required to be indicated, thereby saving the transmission overhead.

[0127] The fourth indication information is also used to indicate the activation or deactivation of the cell transmission mode corresponding to the one or more spatial characteristics in the at least one cell transmission mode, which can be understood as that the fourth indication information indicates the activation or deactivation of the corresponding cell transmission mode, and the information of the cell transmission mode is not required to be indicated, and only the activation or deactivation needs to be indicated, thereby saving the transmission overhead.

[0128] In some embodiments, the spatial characteristics indicated by the fourth indication information can be determined to be activated or deactivated in a default predefined manner, thereby better saving the transmission resources.

[0129] In some embodiments, when the fourth indication information indicates the spatial characteristics, the correspondence between the spatial characteristics and the cell transmission modes can be obtained through other indication information, or the spatial characteristics can be by default corresponding to multiple configured or enabled cell transmission modes. For example, the network side device indicates TCI state 1, and the configured cell transmission modes are activated or deactivated corresponding to TCI state 1. Alternatively, the network side device can also indicate TCI state 1 and TCI state 2, wherein TCI state 1 is the TCI state corresponding to the activation or deactivation of the configured cell DTX, and TCI state 2 is the TCI state corresponding to the activation or deactivation of the configured cell DRX.

[0130] In some embodiments, the fourth indication information can be indicated in the form of bitmap, each bit corresponding to a spatial characteristic or a group of spatial characteristics; or a spatial characteristic or a group of spatial characteristics can be directly indicated; or an index corresponding to one or more spatial characteristics can be indicated, wherein the correspondence between the index and the spatial characteristics can be configured in advance through RRC or MAC CE.

[0131] As an optional embodiment, the information that can be contained in the second indication information, the third indication information and the fourth indication information respectively can be flexibly configured by the network side device. For example, for the fourth indication information, the network side device can configure it to contain at least one of the following:

[0132] the spatial characteristics corresponding to the activated cell transmission modes in the at least one cell mode;

[0133] the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission modes in the at least one cell mode.

[0134] As an optional embodiment, the terminal transmits based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic, including at least one of the following:

[0135] for the activated cell DTX, the terminal receives the downlink signal according to the spatial characteristics corresponding to the activated cell DTX;

[0136] for the activated cell DRX, the terminal transmits the uplink signal according to the spatial characteristics corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

[0137] The downlink signal receiving according to the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX can be that the terminal receiving the downlink signal according to the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX, or receiving the downlink signal corresponding to the spatial characteristic.

[0138] The downlink signal can be any downlink signal that the terminal can receive, and is not limited.

[0139] The uplink signal transmitting according to the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX can be that the terminal transmitting the uplink signal according to the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX, or transmitting the uplink signal corresponding to the spatial characteristic.

[0140] The uplink signal can be any uplink signal that the terminal can receive, and is not limited.

[0141] In the above embodiments, the downlink signal receiving according to the activated cell DTX can improve the service transmission performance, and the uplink signal transmitting according to the activated cell DRX can improve the service transmission performance. In addition, the transmission behavior control can be performed according to the spatial characteristic, for example, the downlink signal receiving and the uplink signal transmitting can be performed according to the first indication information, the second indication information, the third indication information or the fourth indication information.

[0142] In some embodiments, for the activated cell transmission mode including the cell DTX and the cell DRX, the terminal receives or transmits the downlink signal or the uplink signal according to the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX or the activated cell DRX during the activated time of the cell DTX or the activated time of the cell DRX.

[0143] Optionally, the downlink signal includes at least one of the following:

[0144] The first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and the first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS);

[0145] The spatial characteristic of the control resource set (CORESET) where the first PDCCH is located matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX; the spatial characteristic corresponding to the first PDSCH matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX; and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the first CSI-RS matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX.

[0146] The PDSCH described above can be a dynamic grant (DG) PDSCH or a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCH.

[0147] In this embodiment, the PDCCH, PDSCH, and CSI-RS corresponding to the spatial characteristic can be received. For example, the following at least one item can be included:

[0148] The PDCCH is monitored, and the spatial characteristic of the CORESET where the PDCCH is located is the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX mode;

[0149] The PDSCH is received, and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the PDSCH is the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX mode;

[0150] The CSI-RS is received, and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the CSI-RS is the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX mode.

[0151] Optionally, for the activated cell DTX, the terminal does not expect, does not require, or is not allowed to receive the following at least one item:

[0152] The second PDCCH, the second PDSCH, and the second CSI-RS;

[0153] The spatial characteristic of the control resource set (CORESET) where the second PDCCH is located does not match the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX; the spatial characteristic corresponding to the second PDSCH does not match the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX; and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the second CSI-RS does not match the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX.

[0154] In this embodiment, the PDCCH, PDSCH, and CSI-RS that do not correspond to the spatial characteristic are not received, so as to save the power consumption of the terminal. In addition, since the terminal does not receive the downlink transmission that does not correspond to the spatial characteristic, the network side device can not send the downlink signal that does not correspond to the spatial characteristic of the terminal receiving the downlink, so as to also save the energy consumption of the network. For example, the following at least one item can be included:

[0155] The terminal does not expect to monitor the PDCCH, and the spatial characteristic of the CORESET where the PDCCH is located does not match the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX mode;

[0156] The terminal does not expect to receive the PDSCH, and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the PDSCH does not match the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX mode;

[0157] The terminal does not expect to receive the CSI-RS, and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the CSI-RS does not match the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX mode.

[0158] Optionally, the uplink signal includes at least one of:

[0159] A first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and a first sounding reference signal (SRS);

[0160] The spatial characteristic corresponding to the first PUCCH matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX; the spatial characteristic corresponding to the first PUSCH matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX; and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the first SRS matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

[0161] The above-mentioned first PUCCH can carry at least one of:

[0162] A hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK), channel state information (CSI), and a scheduling request (SR).

[0163] The above-mentioned PUSCH can include at least one of a dynamically scheduled PUSCH and a semi-statically configured PUSCH.

[0164] The above-mentioned SR can include at least one of a periodic SRS and an aperiodic SRS.

[0165] In this embodiment, the PUCCH, PUSCH, and SRS corresponding to the spatial characteristic can be transmitted. For example, at least one of the following is included:

[0166] transmit the PUCCH, a spatial characteristic corresponding to the PUCCH being a spatial characteristic corresponding to the active cell DRX;

[0167] transmit the PUSCH, a spatial characteristic corresponding to the PUSCH being a spatial characteristic corresponding to the active cell DRX;

[0168] transmit the SRS, a spatial characteristic corresponding to the SRS being a spatial characteristic corresponding to the active cell DRX.

[0169] Optionally, for the active cell DRX, the terminal does not expect, does not require, or is not allowed to transmit at least one of the following:

[0170] a second PUCCH, a second PUSCH, a second SRS;

[0171] wherein a spatial characteristic corresponding to the second PUCCH does not match a spatial characteristic corresponding to the active cell DRX; a spatial characteristic corresponding to the second PUSCH does not match a spatial characteristic corresponding to the active cell DRX; and a spatial characteristic corresponding to the second SRS does not match a spatial characteristic corresponding to the active cell DRX.

[0172] In this embodiment, the PUCCH, the PUSCH, and the SRS that do not correspond to the spatial characteristic are not transmitted, so as to save power consumption of the terminal. For example, the following at least one of the following can be included:

[0173] the terminal does not expect to transmit the PUCCH, a spatial characteristic corresponding to the PUCCH being different from a spatial characteristic corresponding to the active cell DRX;

[0174] the terminal does not expect to transmit the PUSCH, a spatial characteristic corresponding to the PUSCH being different from a spatial characteristic corresponding to the active cell DRX;

[0175] the terminal does not expect to transmit the SRS, a spatial characteristic corresponding to the SRS being different from a spatial characteristic corresponding to the active cell DRX.

[0176] As an optional embodiment, for the deactivated cell DRX, the terminal does not expect, does not require, or is not allowed to transmit at least one of the following:

[0177] a third PUCCH, a third PUSCH, a third SRS;

[0178] wherein a spatial characteristic corresponding to the third PUCCH matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX; a spatial characteristic corresponding to the third PUSCH matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX; and a spatial characteristic corresponding to the third SRS matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX.

[0179] In this embodiment, the cell DRX in the deactivated state can be implemented, and the terminal does not send the corresponding PUCCH, PUSCH and SRS, so as to save the power consumption of the terminal. For example, the following at least one item can be included:

[0180] The terminal does not expect, require or allow to send the PUCCH, and the spatial characteristics corresponding to the PUCCH are the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX;

[0181] The terminal does not expect, require or allow to send the PUSCH, and the spatial characteristics corresponding to the PUSCH are the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX;

[0182] The terminal does not expect, require or allow to send the SRS, and the spatial characteristics corresponding to the SRS are the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX.

[0183] Optionally, for the deactivated cell DTX, the terminal does not expect, require or allow to receive at least one of the following:

[0184] The third PDCCH, the third PDSCH and the third CSI-RS;

[0185] The spatial characteristics corresponding to the third PDCCH match the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX; the spatial characteristics corresponding to the third PDSCH match the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX; and the spatial characteristics corresponding to the third CSI-RS match the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX.

[0186] In this embodiment, the cell DTX in the deactivated state can be implemented, and the terminal does not receive the corresponding PDCCH, PDSCH and CSI-RS, so as to save the power consumption of the terminal. For example, the following at least one item can be included:

[0187] The terminal does not expect, require or allow to monitor the PDCCH, and the spatial characteristics of the CORESET where the PDCCH is located are the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX;

[0188] The terminal does not expect, require or allow to receive the PDSCH, and the spatial characteristics corresponding to the PDSCH are the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX;

[0189] The terminal does not expect, require or allow to receive the CSI-RS, and the spatial characteristics corresponding to the CSI-RS are the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX.

[0190] As an optional embodiment, for the deactivated cell DTX, the behavior of the terminal includes at least one of the following:

[0191] not triggering beam failure recovery for a spatial property corresponding to DTX of the deactivated cell;

[0192] not measuring a beam failure detection signal for a spatial property corresponding to DTX of the deactivated cell;

[0193] not counting a number of beam failure detections for a spatial property corresponding to DTX of the deactivated cell.

[0194] In this embodiment, beam failure recovery, beam failure detection signal, and beam failure detection number counting for DTX of the deactivated cell can be avoided for the terminal, so as to save terminal power consumption.

[0195] As an optional embodiment, the method further comprises at least one of the following:

[0196] The terminal receives first configuration information, and the first configuration information is used to configure a correspondence between the at least one cell transmission mode and a spatial property;

[0197] The terminal receives second configuration information, and the second configuration information is used to configure at least one of the following: a first signal corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode, and a second signal corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode, wherein a spatial property corresponding to the first signal matches a spatial property corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode, and a spatial property corresponding to the second signal matches a spatial property corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode;

[0198] The terminal receives third configuration information, and the third configuration information is used to configure information of a time domain resource set corresponding to a target cell transmission mode, wherein the target cell transmission mode is a cell transmission mode in the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0199] The correspondence between the cell transmission mode and the spatial property configured by the first configuration information can comprise at least one of the following:

[0200] One cell transmission mode corresponds to one spatial property;

[0201] One cell transmission mode corresponds to multiple spatial properties;

[0202] Multiple cell transmission modes correspond to one spatial property;

[0203] Multiple cell transmission modes correspond to multiple spatial properties;

[0204] Different cell transmission modes correspond to the same spatial property;

[0205] Different cell transmission modes correspond to different spatial properties.

[0206] The configured content can include at least one of the following:

[0207] The spatial characteristics corresponding to each cell transmission mode, different cell transmission modes can correspond to the same spatial characteristics or different spatial characteristics

[0208] The cell transmission mode corresponding to each spatial characteristic, different spatial characteristics can correspond to the same cell transmission mode or different cell transmission mode.

[0209] The spatial characteristics corresponding to each cell transmission mode can be determined through the first configuration information, so as to realize energy saving control with spatial characteristics as granularity. In some embodiments, the spatial characteristics corresponding to each cell transmission mode can also be configured through other manners, which is not limited.

[0210] The association between the at least one cell transmission mode in the activated or inactivated state and the behavior of the downlink signal or the uplink signal can be configured through the second configuration information, so as to realize more refined control and further improve the energy saving effect.

[0211] The target cell transmission mode can be any one of the at least one cell transmission mode, that is, any cell transmission mode can be configured with a corresponding time domain resource set.

[0212] The time domain resource set can be a set of time periods, or a set of time domain resources such as frames, subframes, time slots or symbols.

[0213] The information of the time domain resource set can be state information of the time domain resource set, or specific resource information of the time domain resource set.

[0214] In some embodiments, the information of the time domain resource set corresponding to the target cell transmission mode includes at least one of the following:

[0215] The spatial characteristics corresponding to each time domain resource in the time domain resource set of the target cell transmission mode;

[0216] The information of at least one time domain resource in the time domain resource set;

[0217] The activation or deactivation information of each time domain resource in the time domain resource set of the target cell transmission mode.

[0218] The spatial characteristics corresponding to each time domain resource in the target cell transmission mode in the time domain resource set can achieve spatial characteristic configuration in the granularity of time domain resources, to achieve more refined energy saving management, and be more conducive to energy saving. For example, the third configuration information includes at least one spatial characteristic, such as {spatial characteristic 1, spatial characteristic 2, …}, wherein each spatial characteristic corresponds to a period of the cell transmission mode, such as spatial characteristic 1 corresponding to the first period, spatial characteristic 2 corresponding to the second period, and so on.

[0219] The information of at least one time domain resource in the time domain resource set can indicate the time domain resources included in the time domain resource set, such as the second time domain resource set including a plurality of periods of at least one cell transmission mode.

[0220] The activation or deactivation information of each time domain resource in the target cell transmission mode in the time domain resource set can achieve activation or deactivation of the cell transmission mode in the granularity of time domain resources, to achieve more refined energy saving management, and be more conducive to energy saving, for example, the terminal determines the activation state or deactivation state of the corresponding spatial characteristic of the cell transmission mode in each period based on the spatial characteristic set of the third configuration information.

[0221] In the embodiments of the present application, the first indication information, the second indication information, the third indication information, the fourth indication information, the first configuration information, the second configuration information, and the third configuration information in the above embodiments can be a broadcast message, a dedicated RRC (dedicated RRC) message, a MAC CE, or information carried by a downlink control information (DCI), wherein the DCI can be a group common DCI or a dedicated DCI.

[0222] In the embodiments of the present application, the terminal receives first indication information, the first indication information is used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each cell transmission mode corresponds to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode includes at least one of cell DTX and cell DRX; the terminal transmits based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic. Since each cell transmission mode corresponds to at least one spatial characteristic, the spatial characteristic granularity of cell DTX and cell DRX can be achieved, so that the cell DTX and cell DRX can be more flexibly used to improve the energy saving effect of the communication system.

[0223] Please refer to FIG. 3, which is a flow chart of another non-continuous transmission method provided by the embodiments of the present application, as shown in FIG. 3, including the following steps:

[0224] Step 301, a network side device sends first indication information to a terminal, the first indication information is used for indicating at least one cell transmission mode, each cell transmission mode corresponds to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode includes at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX);

[0225] Step 302, the network side device transmits based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

[0226] Optionally, the first indication information further indicates the spatial characteristic corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0227] Optionally, for the cell transmission mode including cell DTX and cell DRX, the spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell DTX and the cell DRX are the same or different.

[0228] Optionally, the first indication information indicates the at least one cell transmission mode in the form of a bitmap; or

[0229] The first indication information indicates index information, and the index information corresponds to the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0230] Optionally, the method further includes:

[0231] The network side device sends activation indication information to the terminal, and the activation indication information is used for activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0232] Optionally, the activation indication information includes one of:

[0233] Second indication information, third indication information;

[0234] The second indication information is used for indicating activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode, and the activated cell transmission mode is in an activated state on the at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode, and the deactivated cell transmission mode is in a deactivated state on the at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode;

[0235] The third indication information is used for indicating activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode on one or more spatial characteristics.

[0236] Optionally, the third indication information indicates one spatial characteristic, and indicates activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode, and the activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode represents activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode on the one spatial characteristic; or

[0237] The third indication information indicates a plurality of spatial characteristics, and indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, where the activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode means activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on the plurality of spatial characteristics; or

[0238] The third indication information indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and the spatial characteristics corresponding to the activation or deactivation of each cell transmission mode.

[0239] Optionally, the method further comprises:

[0240] The network-side device sends fourth indication information to the terminal, where the fourth indication information is used to indicate one or more spatial characteristics.

[0241] The one or more spatial characteristics include at least one of the following:

[0242] The spatial characteristics corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode;

[0243] The spatial characteristics corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode;

[0244] The spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode.

[0245] Optionally, the fourth indication information is further used to indicate activation or deactivation of the one or more spatial characteristics, and the activated spatial characteristics correspond to the activated cell transmission mode on the spatial characteristics, and the deactivated spatial characteristics correspond to the deactivated cell transmission mode on the spatial characteristics; or,

[0246] The fourth indication information is further used to indicate activation or deactivation of the cell transmission mode corresponding to the one or more spatial characteristics in the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0247] Optionally, the network-side device performs transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic, including at least one of the following:

[0248] For the activated cell DTX, the network-side device performs downlink signal transmission according to the spatial characteristics corresponding to the activated cell DTX;

[0249] For the activated cell DRX, the network-side device performs uplink signal reception according to the spatial characteristics corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

[0250] Optionally, the downlink signal includes at least one of the following:

[0251] a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and a first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS);

[0252] The spatial characteristic of the first PDCCH corresponds to the spatial characteristic of the activated cell DTX, the spatial characteristic of the first PDSCH corresponds to the spatial characteristic of the activated cell DTX, and the spatial characteristic of the first CSI-RS corresponds to the spatial characteristic of the activated cell DTX.

[0253] Optionally, the uplink signal includes at least one of:

[0254] a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and a first sounding reference signal (SRS);

[0255] The spatial characteristic of the first PUCCH corresponds to the spatial characteristic of the activated cell DRX, the spatial characteristic of the first PUSCH corresponds to the spatial characteristic of the activated cell DRX, and the spatial characteristic of the first SRS corresponds to the spatial characteristic of the activated cell DRX.

[0256] Optionally, the method further includes at least one of:

[0257] The network-side device sends first configuration information to the terminal, and the first configuration information is used to configure the correspondence between the at least one cell transmission mode and the spatial characteristic;

[0258] The network-side device sends second configuration information to the terminal, and the second configuration information is used to configure at least one of the following: a first signal corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode and a second signal corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode, wherein the spatial characteristic of the first signal corresponds to the spatial characteristic of the activated cell transmission mode, and the spatial characteristic of the second signal corresponds to the spatial characteristic of the deactivated cell transmission mode;

[0259] The network-side device sends third configuration information to the terminal, and the third configuration information is used to configure information of a time domain resource set corresponding to a target cell transmission mode, wherein the target cell transmission mode is a cell transmission mode in the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0260] Optionally, the information of the time domain resource set corresponding to the target cell transmission mode includes at least one of:

[0261] The spatial characteristic of each time domain resource in the time domain resource set corresponding to the target cell transmission mode.

[0262] information of at least one time domain resource in the set of time domain resources;

[0263] activation or deactivation information of the target cell transmission mode on each time domain resource in the set of time domain resources.

[0264] Optionally, the spatial characteristics comprise at least one of:

[0265] beam direction, beam, quasi co-location (QCL), QCL resource spatial attribute, QCL resource spatial domain characteristic, transmission configuration indication (TCI), TCI state, transmission reception point (TRP), reference signal (RS), synchronization signal block (SSB), panel.

[0266] It should be noted that the embodiment is an implementation of a network side device corresponding to the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and the specific implementation can refer to the related description of the embodiment shown in FIG. 2. To avoid repeated description, the embodiment will not be described again.

[0267] The method provided by the embodiment of the application is exemplified below taking the spatial characteristics as beam direction or beam as an example:

[0268] There are different terminals in the network side device for communication, as shown in FIG. 4, UE group 1 has uplink service, UE group 2 has neither uplink service nor downlink service, and UE group 3 has both uplink service and downlink service. UE group 1 corresponds to beam 1 direction, UE group 2 corresponds to beam 2 direction, and UE group 3 corresponds to beam 3 direction.

[0269] For activation or deactivation of Cell DTX and Cell DRX under different beams, the network side device can send downlink signaling such as RRC, MAC CE or DCI to indicate the activation or deactivation information of the corresponding beam or Cell DTX / DRX.

[0270] In embodiment 1: the terminal receives the first indication information sent by the network side device, and the first indication information is used to indicate three cell transmission modes (which can be called Cell DTX / DRX), each cell transmission mode includes cell DTX and cell DRX, and each cell transmission mode corresponds to a spatial characteristic, for example as follows:

[0271] Cell transmission mode 1 corresponds to beam 1

[0272] Cell transmission mode 2 corresponds to beam 2

[0273] Cell transmission mode 3 corresponds to beam 3

[0274] The terminal receives second indication information sent by the network side device, and the second indication information indicates that the Cell DTX 1 and the cell transmission mode 2 are in an inactive state; or the second indication information indicates that the Cell DTX 1 and the cell transmission mode are in an active state. Then, the Cell DTX 1 corresponding to the beam 1 is in an inactive state, the Cell DTX 1 corresponding to the beam 1 is in an active state, the cell transmission mode 2 corresponding to the beam 2 is in an inactive state, and the cell transmission mode 3 corresponding to the beam 3 is in an active state.

[0275] In embodiment 2: the terminal receives first indication information of the network, and the first indication information is used to indicate three cell transmission modes (Cell DTX / DRX), each cell transmission mode includes a Cell DTX and a Cell DRX, and the three cell transmission modes are as follows:

[0276] Cell transmission mode 1;

[0277] Cell transmission mode 2;

[0278] Cell transmission mode 3.

[0279] The terminal receives third indication information sent by the network side device, and the third indication information indicates that the beam 1 and the Cell DTX 1 in the deactivated cell transmission mode 1, and then the Cell DTX 1 corresponds to the beam 1 and is in an inactive state; the third indication information can also indicate that the beam 1 and the Cell DTX 1 in the activated cell transmission mode 1, and then the Cell DTX 1 corresponds to the beam 1 and is in an active state.

[0280] The third indication information can also indicate the beam 2 and the three cell transmission modes 2, and then the three cell transmission modes 2 correspond to the beam 2 and are in an inactive state.

[0281] The third indication information can also indicate the beam 3 and the three cell transmission modes 3, and then the three cell transmission modes 3 correspond to the beam 3 and are in an active state.

[0282] The third indication information can include part or all of the indication information of the above-mentioned beam 1, beam 2, beam 3 and corresponding three cell transmission modes.

[0283] In embodiment 3: the terminal receives first indication information sent by the network side, and the first indication information is used to indicate three cell transmission modes (Cell DTX / DRX), each cell transmission mode includes a Cell DTX and a Cell DRX, and the three cell transmission modes are as follows:

[0284] Cell transmission mode 1;

[0285] Cell transmission mode 2;

[0286] Cell transmission mode 3.

[0287] The terminal also receives first configuration information, the first configuration information indicates the association relationship between the cell transmission mode 1-3 and the spatial characteristics beam 1-3, as follows:

[0288] The cell transmission mode 1 corresponds to the beam 1;

[0289] The cell transmission mode 2 corresponds to the beam 2;

[0290] The cell transmission mode 3 corresponds to the beam 3.

[0291] The terminal receives the fourth indication information sent by the network side device, the fourth indication information indicates the beam 1 and the activation information, then the cell transmission mode 1 corresponding to the beam 1 is in the active state; The fourth indication information can also indicate the beam 1 and the deactivation information of the Cell DTX 1 in the cell transmission mode 1, then the Cell DTX 1 in the cell transmission mode 1 corresponding to the beam 1 is in the inactive state; The fourth indication information can also indicate the beam 1 and the activation information of the Cell DRX 1, the Cell DRX 1 corresponding to the beam 1 is in the active state.

[0292] The fourth indication information indicates the beam 2 and the activation information, the cell transmission mode 2 corresponding to the beam 2 is in the active state.

[0293] The fourth indication information indicates the beam 3 and the deactivation information, the cell transmission mode 3 corresponding to the beam 3 is in the inactive state.

[0294] Among the above embodiments 1-3, there are at least one of the following beneficial effects:

[0295] The network deactivates the Cell DTX on the beam 1 to save energy for downlink transmission, that is, no downlink transmission is performed on the beam 1; At the same time, the Cell DRX is activated on the beam 1, that is, uplink transmission is performed on the beam 1, because the UE group 1 performs uplink transmission at this time, the network needs to normally receive the transmission of uplink service.

[0296] The network deactivates the Cell DTX and the Cell DRX on the beam 2, at this time, since the corresponding UE group 2 under the beam 2 has neither uplink service nor downlink service, the network can save energy by deactivating the Cell DTX and the Cell DRX.

[0297] The network activates Cell DTX and Cell DRX on beam 3, at this time, since the UE group 3 corresponding to beam 3 has both uplink and downlink data transmission, the network needs to ensure normal downlink transmission and uplink transmission, therefore, the network activates Cell DTX / DRX on beam 3.

[0298] It should be noted that the beam in the above embodiments can also be a TRP, a TCI state, a QCL, an SSB, and the like spatial characteristics.

[0299] In some embodiments, the network can also ensure data transmission by deactivating the Cell DTX or DRX mode of the TRP with data transmission. For example, the TRP activated only with Cell DTX will only transmit and not receive; the TRP activated only with Cell DRX will only receive and not transmit.

[0300] In some embodiments, the network can also save energy by activating the Cell DTX or DRX mode of the TRP without data transmission. Flexible updating of the activation state of the Cell DTX or DRX mode according to the distribution of data and users can enable the network to ensure data transmission performance while better saving energy.

[0301] By the method provided in the embodiments of the present application, the network can flexibly update the activation state of the Cell DTX or DRX mode according to the distribution of data and users, which can enable the network to ensure data transmission performance while better saving energy.

[0302] The execution subject of the discontinuous transmission method provided in the embodiments of the present application can be a discontinuous transmission device. In the embodiments of the present application, the discontinuous transmission device executing the discontinuous transmission method is taken as an example to illustrate the discontinuous transmission device provided in the embodiments of the present application.

[0303] The embodiments of the present application provide a discontinuous transmission device. As an example, the discontinuous transmission device can be a communication device or a component in a communication device, such as a chip. The communication device can be a terminal, a network side device, a server, or the like. For example, the terminal can include but is not limited to the types of the terminal 11 listed above, the network side device can include but is not limited to the types of the network side device 12 listed above, and the embodiments of the present application are not limited in this regard.

[0304] The discontinuous transmission apparatus or the discontinuous transmission apparatus can include a receiving module, a sending module and a processing module. The receiving module, the sending module and the processing module can be implemented by software or by hardware. When implemented by hardware, the processing module can be implemented by a processor, which can include a general-purpose processor, a special-purpose processor, a central processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor, a digital signal processor (DSP), an artificial intelligent (AI) processor, a graphics processing unit (GPU), an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a network processor (NP), a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, a gate circuit, a transistor, a discrete hardware component, etc. The receiving module and the sending module can be implemented by a communication interface, which can include a transceiver, a pin, a circuit, a bus, a radio frequency unit, etc.

[0305] Specifically, referring to FIG. 5, when the discontinuous transmission apparatus is a terminal or a component in the terminal, the discontinuous transmission apparatus 500 includes:

[0306] The receiving module 501 is configured to receive first indication information, the first indication information being used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode including at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX).

[0307] The processing module 502 is configured to perform transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

[0308] Optionally, the first indication information further indicates the spatial characteristic corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0309] Optionally, for the cell transmission mode including cell DTX and cell DRX, the spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell DTX and the cell DRX are the same or different.

[0310] Optionally, the first indication information indicates the at least one cell transmission mode in the form of a bitmap.

[0311] The first indication information indicates index information, and the index information corresponds to the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0312] Optionally, the receiving module 501 is further configured to receive activation indication information, and the activation indication information is used to activate or deactivate the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0313] Optionally, the activation indication information includes one of the following:

[0314] second indication information and third indication information;

[0315] The second indication information is used to indicate activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and the activated cell transmission mode is in an activated state on at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode, and the deactivated cell transmission mode is in a deactivated state on the at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode.

[0316] The third indication information is used to indicate activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on one or more spatial characteristics.

[0317] Optionally, the third indication information indicates one spatial characteristic, and indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and the activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode represents activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on the one spatial characteristic; or

[0318] The third indication information indicates a plurality of spatial characteristics, and indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and the activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode represents activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on the plurality of spatial characteristics; or

[0319] The third indication information indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and a spatial characteristic corresponding to activation or deactivation of each cell transmission mode.

[0320] Optionally, the receiving module 501 is further configured to receive fourth indication information, and the fourth indication information is used to indicate one or more spatial characteristics.

[0321] The one or more spatial characteristics include at least one of the following:

[0322] A spatial characteristic corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode;

[0323] A spatial characteristic corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode;

[0324] The spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode.

[0325] Optionally, the fourth indication information is further used for indicating to activate or deactivate the one or more spatial characteristics, and a cell transmission mode corresponding to an activated spatial characteristic is in an activated state on the spatial characteristic, and a cell transmission mode corresponding to a deactivated spatial characteristic is in a deactivated state on the spatial characteristic; or,

[0326] The fourth indication information is further used for indicating to activate or deactivate a cell transmission mode corresponding to the one or more spatial characteristics in the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0327] Optionally, the transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic comprises at least one of the following:

[0328] For an activated cell DTX, performing downlink signal reception according to a spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX;

[0329] For an activated cell DRX, performing uplink signal transmission according to a spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

[0330] Optionally, the downlink signal comprises at least one of the following:

[0331] A first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and a first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS);

[0332] The spatial characteristic of a control resource set (CORESET) where the first PDCCH is located matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX; the spatial characteristic corresponding to the first PDSCH matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX; and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the first CSI-RS matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX.

[0333] Optionally, for the activated cell DTX, the terminal does not expect, does not require, or is not allowed to receive at least one of the following:

[0334] A second PDCCH, a second PDSCH, and a second CSI-RS;

[0335] The spatial characteristic of a control resource set (CORESET) where the second PDCCH is located does not match the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX; the spatial characteristic corresponding to the second PDSCH does not match the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX; and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the second CSI-RS does not match the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX.

[0336] Optionally, the uplink signal comprises at least one of:

[0337] a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and a first sounding reference signal (SRS);

[0338] wherein a spatial property corresponding to the first PUCCH matches a spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DRX; a spatial property corresponding to the first PUSCH matches the spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DRX; and a spatial property corresponding to the first SRS matches the spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

[0339] Optionally, for the activated cell DRX, the terminal corresponding to the apparatus is not expected, not required, or not allowed to transmit at least one of:

[0340] a second PUCCH, a second PUSCH, and a second SRS;

[0341] wherein a spatial property corresponding to the second PUCCH does not match a spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DRX; a spatial property corresponding to the second PUSCH does not match the spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DRX; and a spatial property corresponding to the second SRS does not match the spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

[0342] Optionally, for the deactivated cell DRX, the terminal corresponding to the apparatus is not expected, not required, or not allowed to transmit at least one of:

[0343] a third PUCCH, a third PUSCH, and a third SRS;

[0344] wherein a spatial property corresponding to the third PUCCH matches a spatial property corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX; a spatial property corresponding to the third PUSCH matches the spatial property corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX; and a spatial property corresponding to the third SRS matches the spatial property corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX.

[0345] Optionally, for the deactivated cell DTX, the terminal corresponding to the apparatus is not expected, not required, or not allowed to receive at least one of:

[0346] a third PDCCH, a third PDSCH, and a third CSI-RS;

[0347] The third PDCCH corresponds to the spatial characteristic matched with the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX; the third PDSCH corresponds to the spatial characteristic matched with the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX; and the third CSI-RS corresponds to the spatial characteristic matched with the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX.

[0348] Optionally, for the deactivated cell DTX, the behavior of the terminal corresponding to the apparatus comprises at least one of the following:

[0349] not triggering the beam failure recovery of the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX;

[0350] not measuring the beam failure detection signal of the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX;

[0351] not counting the number of beam failure detections of the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX.

[0352] Optionally, the receiving module 501 is further configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0353] receive first configuration information, wherein the first configuration information is used to configure the correspondence between the at least one cell transmission mode and the spatial characteristic;

[0354] receive second configuration information, wherein the second configuration information is used to configure at least one of the following: the first signal corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode, and the second signal corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode, wherein the spatial characteristic corresponding to the first signal is matched with the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode, and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the second signal is matched with the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode;

[0355] receive third configuration information, wherein the third configuration information is used to configure the information of the time domain resource set corresponding to the target cell transmission mode, and the target cell transmission mode is a cell transmission mode in the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0356] Optionally, the information of the time domain resource set corresponding to the target cell transmission mode comprises at least one of the following:

[0357] the spatial characteristic corresponding to each time domain resource in the time domain resource set;

[0358] the information of at least one time domain resource in the time domain resource set;

[0359] the activation or deactivation information of the target cell transmission mode corresponding to each time domain resource in the time domain resource set.

[0360] Optionally, the spatial characteristics include at least one of the following:

[0361] Beam direction, beam, quasi co-location (QCL), QCL resource spatial attribute, QCL resource spatial domain characteristic, transmission configuration indication (TCI), TCI state, transmission reception point (TRP), reference signal (RS), synchronization signal block (SSB), panel.

[0362] The discontinuous transmission device can improve the energy saving effect.

[0363] The discontinuous transmission device provided by the embodiments of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiment of FIG. 2 and achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein.

[0364] Referring to FIG. 6, when the discontinuous transmission device is a network side device or a component in the network side device, the discontinuous transmission device 600 includes:

[0365] The sending module 601 is configured to send first indication information to a terminal, the first indication information being used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode including at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX).

[0366] The processing module 602 is configured to perform transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

[0367] Optionally, the first indication information further indicates the spatial characteristic corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0368] Optionally, for the cell transmission mode including cell DTX and cell DRX, the spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell DTX and the cell DRX are the same or different.

[0369] Optionally, the first indication information indicates the at least one cell transmission mode in the form of a bitmap; or

[0370] The first indication information indicates index information corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0371] Optionally, the sending module 601 is further configured to send activation indication information to the terminal, the activation indication information being used to activate or deactivate the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0372] Optionally, the activation indication information includes one of the following:

[0373] Second indication information, third indication information;

[0374] The second indication information is used for indicating activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and an activated cell transmission mode is in an activated state on at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode, and a deactivated cell transmission mode is in a deactivated state on the at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode.

[0375] The third indication information is used for indicating activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on one or more spatial characteristics.

[0376] Optionally, the third indication information indicates one spatial characteristic, and indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, where the activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode means activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on the one spatial characteristic; or

[0377] The third indication information indicates a plurality of spatial characteristics, and indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, where the activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode means activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on the plurality of spatial characteristics; or

[0378] The third indication information indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and a spatial characteristic corresponding to activation or deactivation of each cell transmission mode.

[0379] Optionally, the sending module 601 is further configured to send fourth indication information to the terminal, where the fourth indication information is used for indicating one or more spatial characteristics.

[0380] The one or more spatial characteristics include at least one of the following:

[0381] A spatial characteristic corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode;

[0382] A spatial characteristic corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode;

[0383] A spatial characteristic corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode.

[0384] Optionally, the fourth indication information is further used for indicating activation or deactivation of the one or more spatial characteristics, and an activated spatial characteristic corresponds to a cell transmission mode in an activated state on the spatial characteristic, and a deactivated spatial characteristic corresponds to a cell transmission mode in a deactivated state on the spatial characteristic; or

[0385] The fourth indication information is further used for indicating activation or deactivation of a cell transmission mode corresponding to the one or more spatial characteristics in the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0386] Optionally, the sending module 601 is further configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0387] sending first configuration information to the terminal, the first configuration information being used for configuring correspondence between the at least one cell transmission mode and the spatial characteristics;

[0388] sending second configuration information to the terminal, the second configuration information being used for configuring at least one of the following: a first signal corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode, a second signal corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode, wherein the first signal corresponds to spatial characteristics matching the spatial characteristics corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode, and the second signal corresponds to spatial characteristics matching the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode;

[0389] sending third configuration information to the terminal, the third configuration information being used for configuring information of a time domain resource set corresponding to a target cell transmission mode, the target cell transmission mode being a cell transmission mode in the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0390] Optionally, the information of the time domain resource set corresponding to the target cell transmission mode comprises at least one of the following:

[0391] spatial characteristics corresponding to each time domain resource in the time domain resource set;

[0392] information of at least one time domain resource in the time domain resource set;

[0393] activation or deactivation information of the target cell transmission mode for each time domain resource in the time domain resource set.

[0394] Optionally, the spatial characteristics comprise at least one of the following:

[0395] beam direction, beam, quasi co-location (QCL), QCL resource spatial attribute, QCL resource space domain characteristics, transmission configuration indication (TCI), TCI state, transmission and reception point (TRP), reference signal (RS), synchronization signal block (SSB), panel.

[0396] The discontinuous transmission apparatus can improve energy saving effect.

[0397] The discontinuous transmission apparatus provided by the embodiments of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiment of FIG. 3 and achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein.

[0398] As shown in FIG. 7, the embodiment of the present application further provides a communication device 700, comprising a processor 701 and a memory 702, wherein the memory 702 stores programs or instructions executable by the processor 701. For example, when the communication device 700 is a terminal, the programs or instructions are executed by the processor 701 to implement each step of the above-mentioned terminal-side discontinuous transmission method embodiment and achieve the same technical effects. When the communication device 700 is a network-side device, the programs or instructions are executed by the processor 701 to implement each step of the above-mentioned network-side discontinuous transmission method embodiment and achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein.

[0399] The embodiment of the present application further provides a terminal, comprising a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to run programs or instructions to implement the steps in the method embodiment shown in FIG. 2. The terminal embodiment corresponds to the above-mentioned terminal-side method embodiment, and each implementation process and implementation manner of the above-mentioned method embodiment can be applied to the terminal embodiment and achieve the same technical effects. The terminal can be the discontinuous transmission apparatus shown in FIG. 5. Specifically, FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal for implementing the embodiment of the present application.

[0400] The terminal 800 includes, but is not limited to, at least part of the following components: a radio frequency unit 801, a network module 802, an audio output unit 803, an input unit 804, a sensor 805, a display unit 806, a user input unit 807, an interface unit 808, a memory 809, and a processor 810.

[0401] Those skilled in the art can understand that the terminal 800 can further include a power supply (such as a battery) for supplying power to each component, and the power supply can be logically connected to the processor 810 through a power management system, so as to realize functions such as power management, discharge management, and power consumption management through the power management system. The terminal structure shown in FIG. 8 does not constitute a limitation on the terminal, and the terminal can include more or fewer components than those shown, or combine certain components, or have different component arrangements, which are not described herein.

[0402] It should be understood that in the embodiments of the present application, the input unit 804 can include a graphics processor 8041 and a microphone 8042, and the graphics processor 8041 processes image data of a still picture or a video obtained by an image capture device (such as a camera) in a video capture mode or an image capture mode. The display unit 806 can include a display panel 8061, which can be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light-emitting diode, etc. The user input unit 807 includes at least one of a touch panel 8071 and other input devices 8072. The touch panel 8071 is also called a touch screen. The touch panel 8071 can include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. The other input devices 8072 can include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, on-off keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, and the like, which will not be described here.

[0403] In the embodiments of the present application, after the radio frequency unit 801 receives the downlink data from the network side device, it can be transmitted to the processor 810 for processing. In addition, the radio frequency unit 801 can send uplink data to the network side device. Generally, the radio frequency unit 801 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, an amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, etc.

[0404] The memory 809 can be used to store software programs or instructions and various data. The memory 809 can mainly include a first storage area storing programs or instructions and a second storage area storing data, wherein the first storage area can store an operating system, application programs or instructions required by at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and the like. In addition, the memory 809 can include a volatile memory or a non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory can be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. The volatile memory can be a Random Access Memory (RAM), a Static RAM (SRAM), a Dynamic RAM (DRAM), a Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), a Double Data Rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), an Enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), a Synch link DRAM (SLDRAM), and a Direct Rambus RAM (DRRAM). The memory 809 in the embodiments of the present application includes but is not limited to these and any other suitable types of memory.

[0405] The processor 810 can include one or more processing units; optionally, the processor 810 integrates an application processor and a modem processor, wherein the application processor mainly processes operations related to an operating system, a user interface, and an application program, and the modem processor mainly processes wireless communication signals, such as a baseband processor. It can be understood that the above-mentioned modem processor can also not be integrated into the processor 810.

[0406] The radio frequency unit 801 is configured to receive first indication information, the first indication information is used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponds to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode includes at least one of a cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and a cell discontinuous reception (DRX); and perform transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

[0407] Optionally, the first indication information further indicates spatial characteristics corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0408] Optionally, for a cell transmission mode including cell DTX and cell DRX, spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell DTX and the cell DRX are the same or different.

[0409] Optionally, the first indication information indicates the at least one cell transmission mode in a bitmap manner; or

[0410] The first indication information indicates index information corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0411] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 801 is further configured to:

[0412] receive activation indication information, the activation indication information being used to activate or deactivate the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0413] Optionally, the activation indication information includes one of the following:

[0414] second indication information, third indication information;

[0415] The second indication information is used to indicate activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and an activated cell transmission mode is in an activated state on at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode, and a deactivated cell transmission mode is in a deactivated state on the at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode.

[0416] The third indication information is used to indicate activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on one or more spatial characteristics.

[0417] Optionally, the third indication information indicates one spatial characteristic, and indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, the activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode indicating activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on the one spatial characteristic; or

[0418] The third indication information indicates a plurality of spatial characteristics, and indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, the activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode indicating activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on the plurality of spatial characteristics; or

[0419] The third indication information indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and a spatial characteristic corresponding to activation or deactivation of each cell transmission mode.

[0420] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 801 is further configured to:

[0421] receiving fourth indication information, the fourth indication information being used for indicating one or more spatial characteristics;

[0422] wherein the one or more spatial characteristics comprise at least one of:

[0423] a spatial characteristic corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode;

[0424] a spatial characteristic corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode;

[0425] a spatial characteristic corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode.

[0426] Optionally, the fourth indication information is further used for indicating to activate or deactivate the one or more spatial characteristics, and a cell transmission mode corresponding to an activated spatial characteristic is in an activated state on the spatial characteristic, and a cell transmission mode corresponding to a deactivated spatial characteristic is in a deactivated state on the spatial characteristic; or,

[0427] the fourth indication information is further used for indicating to activate or deactivate a cell transmission mode corresponding to the one or more spatial characteristics in the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0428] Optionally, the transmitting based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic comprises at least one of:

[0429] for an activated cell DTX, receiving a downlink signal according to a spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX;

[0430] for an activated cell DRX, transmitting an uplink signal according to a spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

[0431] Optionally, the downlink signal comprises at least one of:

[0432] a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and a first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS);

[0433] wherein a spatial characteristic of a control resource set (CORESET) where the first PDCCH is located matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX, a spatial characteristic corresponding to the first PDSCH matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX, and a spatial characteristic corresponding to the first CSI-RS matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX.

[0434] Optionally, for the activated cell DTX, the terminal does not expect, does not require or is not allowed to receive at least one of the following:

[0435] a second PDCCH, a second PDSCH, a second CSI-RS;

[0436] wherein a spatial property of a control resource set CORESET where the second PDCCH is located does not match a spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DTX; a spatial property corresponding to the second PDSCH does not match the spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DTX; a spatial property corresponding to the second CSI-RS does not match the spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DTX.

[0437] Optionally, the uplink signal includes at least one of the following:

[0438] a first physical uplink control channel PUCCH, a first physical uplink shared channel PUSCH, a first sounding reference signal SRS;

[0439] wherein a spatial property corresponding to the first PUCCH matches a spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DRX; a spatial property corresponding to the first PUSCH matches the spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DRX; a spatial property corresponding to the first SRS matches the spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

[0440] Optionally, for the activated cell DRX, the terminal does not expect, does not require or is not allowed to transmit at least one of the following:

[0441] a second PUCCH, a second PUSCH, a second SRS;

[0442] wherein a spatial property corresponding to the second PUCCH does not match a spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DRX; a spatial property corresponding to the second PUSCH does not match the spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DRX; a spatial property corresponding to the second SRS does not match the spatial property corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

[0443] Optionally, for the deactivated cell DRX, the terminal does not expect, does not require or is not allowed to transmit at least one of the following:

[0444] a third PUCCH, a third PUSCH, a third SRS;

[0445] The third PUCCH corresponds to the spatial characteristic matched with the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX; the third PUSCH corresponds to the spatial characteristic matched with the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX; and the third SRS corresponds to the spatial characteristic matched with the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX.

[0446] Optionally, for the deactivated cell DTX, the terminal does not expect, does not require, or is not allowed to receive at least one of the following:

[0447] The third PDCCH, the third PDSCH, and the third CSI-RS;

[0448] The third PDCCH corresponds to the spatial characteristic matched with the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX; the third PDSCH corresponds to the spatial characteristic matched with the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX; and the third CSI-RS corresponds to the spatial characteristic matched with the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX.

[0449] Optionally, for the deactivated cell DTX, the behavior of the terminal includes at least one of the following:

[0450] The beam failure recovery of the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX is not triggered;

[0451] The beam failure detection signal of the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX is not measured;

[0452] The number of beam failure detections of the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX is not counted.

[0453] Optionally, the radio frequency unit 801 is further configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0454] Receive first configuration information, the first configuration information is used for configuring the correspondence relationship between the at least one cell transmission mode and the spatial characteristic;

[0455] Receive second configuration information, the second configuration information is used for configuring at least one of the following: the first signal corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode, and the second signal corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode, wherein the spatial characteristic corresponding to the first signal matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode, and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the second signal matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode;

[0456] Receive third configuration information, the third configuration information is used for configuring the information of the time domain resource set corresponding to the target cell transmission mode, and the target cell transmission mode is a cell transmission mode in the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0457] Optionally, the information of the time domain resource set corresponding to the target cell transmission mode comprises at least one of the following:

[0458] The spatial characteristics of the target cell transmission mode corresponding to each time domain resource in the time domain resource set;

[0459] Information of at least one time domain resource in the time domain resource set;

[0460] Activation or deactivation information of each time domain resource in the time domain resource set corresponding to the target cell transmission mode.

[0461] Optionally, the spatial characteristics comprise at least one of the following:

[0462] Beam direction, beam, quasi co-location (QCL), QCL resource spatial attribute, QCL resource spatial domain characteristics, transmission configuration indication (TCI), TCI state, transmission and reception point (TRP), reference signal (RS), synchronization signal block (SSB), panel.

[0463] The terminal can improve the energy saving effect.

[0464] It can be understood that the implementation process of each implementation mode mentioned in the embodiment can refer to the related description of the discontinuous transmission method embodiment, and achieve the same or corresponding technical effects. To avoid repetition, it will not be described here.

[0465] The embodiment of the application also provides a network side device, comprising a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface and the processor are coupled, the processor is used to run programs or instructions to realize the steps of the method embodiment as shown in FIG. 3. The network side device embodiment corresponds to the above-mentioned network side device method embodiment, and each implementation process and implementation mode of the above-mentioned method embodiment can be applied to the network side device embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

[0466] Specifically, the embodiment of the application also provides a network side device, which can be a discontinuous transmission apparatus shown in FIG. 6. As shown in FIG. 9, the network side device 900 comprises an antenna 901, a radio frequency device 902, a baseband device 903, a processor 904 and a memory 905. The antenna 901 is connected with the radio frequency device 902. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 902 receives information through the antenna 901 and sends the received information to the baseband device 903 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 903 processes the information to be sent and sends it to the radio frequency device 902, and the radio frequency device 902 processes the received information and sends it out through the antenna 901.

[0467] The method performed by the network side device in the above embodiment can be implemented in the baseband device 903, which comprises a baseband processor.

[0468] The baseband device 903 may, for example, include at least one baseband board on which a plurality of chips are disposed, as shown in FIG. 9, one of the chips being, for example, a baseband processor, connected with the memory 905 through a bus interface to invoke a program in the memory 905 to perform the network device operations shown in the above method embodiments.

[0469] The network side device may further include a network interface 906, which is, for example, a Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI).

[0470] Specifically, the network side device 900 of the embodiments of the present application further includes instructions or programs stored in the memory 905 and executable on the processor 904, the processor 904 invoking the instructions or programs in the memory 905 to perform the methods performed by the modules shown in FIG. 6 and achieve the same technical effects, and thus repeated descriptions are omitted.

[0471] The radio frequency device 902 is configured to send first indication information to a terminal, the first indication information being used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode including at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX); and perform transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

[0472] Optionally, the first indication information further indicates the spatial characteristic corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0473] Optionally, for the cell transmission mode including cell DTX and cell DRX, the spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell DTX and the cell DRX are the same or different.

[0474] Optionally, the first indication information indicates the at least one cell transmission mode in the form of a bitmap; or

[0475] The first indication information indicates index information corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0476] Optionally, the radio frequency device 902 is further configured to:

[0477] send activation indication information to the terminal, the activation indication information being used to activate or deactivate the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0478] Optionally, the activation indication information includes one of:

[0479] second indication information, third indication information;

[0480] The second indication information is used for indicating activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and an activated cell transmission mode is in an activated state on at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode, and a deactivated cell transmission mode is in a deactivated state on at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode.

[0481] The third indication information is used for indicating activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on one or more spatial characteristics.

[0482] Optionally, the third indication information indicates one spatial characteristic, and indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and the activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode represents activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on the one spatial characteristic; or

[0483] The third indication information indicates a plurality of spatial characteristics, and indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and the activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode represents activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on the plurality of spatial characteristics; or

[0484] The third indication information indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and a spatial characteristic corresponding to activation or deactivation of each cell transmission mode.

[0485] Optionally, the radio frequency device 902 is further used for:

[0486] sending fourth indication information to the terminal, the fourth indication information being used for indicating one or more spatial characteristics;

[0487] The one or more spatial characteristics include at least one of the following:

[0488] a spatial characteristic corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode;

[0489] a spatial characteristic corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode;

[0490] a spatial characteristic corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode.

[0491] Optionally, the fourth indication information is further used for indicating activation or deactivation of the one or more spatial characteristics, and an activated spatial characteristic corresponds to a cell transmission mode in an activated state on the spatial characteristic, and a deactivated spatial characteristic corresponds to a cell transmission mode in a deactivated state on the spatial characteristic; or

[0492] The fourth indication information is further used for indicating activating or deactivating a cell transmission mode corresponding to the one or more spatial characteristics in the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0493] Optionally, the transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic comprises at least one of the following:

[0494] For the activated cell DTX, performing downlink signal transmission according to the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX;

[0495] For the activated cell DRX, performing uplink signal reception according to the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

[0496] Optionally, the downlink signal comprises at least one of the following:

[0497] a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and a first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS);

[0498] The spatial characteristic of a control resource set (CORESET) where the first PDCCH is located matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX; the spatial characteristic corresponding to the first PDSCH matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX; and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the first CSI-RS matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DTX.

[0499] Optionally, the uplink signal comprises at least one of the following:

[0500] a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and a first sounding reference signal (SRS);

[0501] The spatial characteristic corresponding to the first PUCCH matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX; the spatial characteristic corresponding to the first PUSCH matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX; and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the first SRS matches the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

[0502] Optionally, the radio frequency device 902 is further configured to perform at least one of the following:

[0503] sending first configuration information to the terminal, the first configuration information being used for configuring a correspondence between the at least one cell transmission mode and the spatial characteristic;

[0504] The second configuration information is sent to the terminal, and the second configuration information is used for configuring at least one of the following: a first signal corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode, a second signal corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode, wherein the spatial characteristics corresponding to the first signal match the spatial characteristics corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode, and the spatial characteristics corresponding to the second signal match the spatial characteristics corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode.

[0505] The third configuration information is sent to the terminal, and the third configuration information is used for configuring information of a time domain resource set corresponding to a target cell transmission mode, wherein the target cell transmission mode is a cell transmission mode in the at least one cell transmission mode.

[0506] Optionally, the information of the time domain resource set corresponding to the target cell transmission mode includes at least one of the following:

[0507] The spatial characteristics corresponding to each time domain resource in the time domain resource set;

[0508] Information of at least one time domain resource in the time domain resource set;

[0509] Activation or deactivation information of each time domain resource in the time domain resource set.

[0510] Optionally, the spatial characteristics include at least one of the following:

[0511] Beam direction, beam, quasi co-location (QCL), QCL resource spatial attribute, QCL resource space domain characteristics, transmission configuration indication (TCI), TCI state, transmission and reception point (TRP), reference signal (RS), synchronization signal block (SSB), panel.

[0512] The network side device described above can improve the energy saving effect.

[0513] It can be understood that the implementation process of each implementation mode mentioned in the embodiment can refer to the related description of the discontinuous transmission method embodiment and achieve the same or corresponding technical effects. To avoid repetition, it will not be repeated here.

[0514] The application embodiment also provides a readable storage medium, the readable storage medium stores a program or instructions, the program or instructions are executed by a processor to realize each process of the above-mentioned discontinuous transmission method embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved. To avoid repetition, it will not be repeated here.

[0515] The processor is the processor in the terminal in the above embodiments. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium, such as a computer readable only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, etc. In some examples, the readable storage medium can be a non-transitory readable storage medium.

[0516] The embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, which comprises a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is coupled with the processor, the processor is used to run programs or instructions, and realizes the processes of the above-mentioned discontinuous transmission method embodiments and achieves the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein.

[0517] It should be understood that the chip mentioned in the embodiment of the present application can also be referred to as a system chip, a system chip, a chip system or a system on chip, etc.

[0518] The embodiment of the present application further provides a computer program / program product, which is stored in a storage medium, and is executed by at least one processor to realize the processes of the above-mentioned discontinuous transmission method embodiments and achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein.

[0519] The embodiment of the present application further provides a wireless communication system, which comprises a terminal and a network side device. The terminal can be used to execute the steps of the discontinuous transmission method provided by the embodiment of the present application. The network side device can be used to execute the steps of the discontinuous transmission method provided by the embodiment of the present application.

[0520] It should be noted that, in this document, the term "comprising" or "including" or any other variant thereof is intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, so that processes, methods, articles or devices including a series of elements not only include those elements, but also include other elements not explicitly listed, or include elements inherent to such processes, methods, articles or devices. Without more limitations, the element defined by the statement "comprising a" does not exclude the presence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article or device including the element. In addition, it should be pointed out that the scope of the method and device in the embodiment of the present application is not limited to the order of performing the functions shown or discussed, but can also include performing the functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in a reverse order, for example, the described method can be performed in an order different from the described order, and various steps can be added, omitted or combined. In addition, the features described with reference to some examples can be combined in other examples.

[0521] Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the above-mentioned example methods can be realized by means of a computer software product and a general hardware platform as necessary, and of course can also be realized by hardware. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium (such as a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disc, an optical disc, etc.), and includes a plurality of instructions for enabling a terminal or a network side device to execute the method described in each embodiment of the present application.

[0522] The embodiments of the present application are described above in combination with the drawings, but the present application is not limited to the specific embodiments described above, and the specific embodiments described above are merely illustrative rather than limiting. Those skilled in the art can make many forms of embodiments under the inspiration of the present application without departing from the scope of the present application and the scope protected by the claims, and these embodiments all belong to the protection of the present application.

Claims

1. A method for discontinuous transmission, comprising: receiving, by a terminal, first indication information, the first indication information indicating at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode including at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX); transmitting, by the terminal, based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, The first indication information further indicates the spatial characteristic corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein, For the cell transmission mode including cell DTX and cell DRX, the spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell DTX and the cell DRX are the same or different.

4. The method of any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein, The first indication information indicates the at least one cell transmission mode by means of a bitmap;or The first indication information indicates index information corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

5. The method of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein, The method further comprises: receiving, by the terminal, activation indication information, the activation indication information activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein, The activation indication information includes one of: second indication information, third indication information; The second indication information indicates activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode, and the activated cell transmission mode is in an activated state on the at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode, and the deactivated cell transmission mode is in a deactivated state on the at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode; The third indication information indicates activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode on one or more spatial characteristics.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein, The third indication information indicates one spatial characteristic, and indicates activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode, which means activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode on the one spatial characteristic; Or The third indication information indicates a plurality of spatial characteristics, and indicates activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode, which means activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode on the plurality of spatial characteristics; Or The third indication information indicates activating or deactivating the at least one cell transmission mode, and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activation or deactivation of each cell transmission mode.

8. The method of any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein, The method further comprises: receiving, by the terminal, fourth indication information, the fourth indication information indicating one or more spatial characteristics; The one or more spatial characteristics include at least one of: the spatial characteristic corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode; the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode; the spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein, The fourth indication information is further used for indicating to activate or deactivate the one or more spatial features, and a cell transmission mode corresponding to an activated spatial feature is in an activated state on the spatial feature, and a cell transmission mode corresponding to a deactivated spatial feature is in a deactivated state on the spatial feature. Or, The fourth indication information is further used for indicating to activate or deactivate a cell transmission mode corresponding to the one or more spatial features in the at least one cell transmission mode.

10. The method of any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein, The terminal performs transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial feature, including at least one of the following: For an activated cell DTX, the terminal performs downlink signal reception according to a spatial feature corresponding to the activated cell DTX. For an activated cell DRX, the terminal performs uplink signal transmission according to a spatial feature corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein, The downlink signal includes at least one of the following: A first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and a first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS). The spatial feature of a control resource set (CORESET) where the first PDCCH is located matches the spatial feature corresponding to the activated cell DTX; the spatial feature corresponding to the first PDSCH matches the spatial feature corresponding to the activated cell DTX; and the spatial feature corresponding to the first CSI-RS matches the spatial feature corresponding to the activated cell DTX.

12. The method of claim 10 or 11, wherein, For the activated cell DTX, the terminal does not expect, require, or allow to receive at least one of the following: A second PDCCH, a second PDSCH, and a second CSI-RS. The spatial feature of a control resource set (CORESET) where the second PDCCH is located does not match the spatial feature corresponding to the activated cell DTX; the spatial feature corresponding to the second PDSCH does not match the spatial feature corresponding to the activated cell DTX; and the spatial feature corresponding to the second CSI-RS does not match the spatial feature corresponding to the activated cell DTX.

13. The method of any one of claims 10 to 12, wherein, The uplink signal includes at least one of the following: A first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and a first sounding reference signal (SRS). The spatial feature corresponding to the first PUCCH matches the spatial feature corresponding to the activated cell DRX; the spatial feature corresponding to the first PUSCH matches the spatial feature corresponding to the activated cell DRX; and the spatial feature corresponding to the first SRS matches the spatial feature corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

14. The method of any one of claims 10 to 13, wherein, For the activated cell DRX, the terminal does not expect, require, or allow to transmit at least one of the following: A second PUCCH, a second PUSCH, and a second SRS. The second PUCCH corresponds to a spatial characteristic that does not match a spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX; the second PUSCH corresponds to a spatial characteristic that does not match a spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX; and the second SRS corresponds to a spatial characteristic that does not match a spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell DRX.

15. The method of any one of claims 1 to 14, wherein, For the deactivated cell DRX, the terminal does not expect, does not require, or is not allowed to transmit at least one of the following: a third PUCCH, a third PUSCH, and a third SRS. The third PUCCH corresponds to a spatial characteristic that matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX; the third PUSCH corresponds to a spatial characteristic that matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX; and the third SRS corresponds to a spatial characteristic that matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DRX.

16. The method of any one of claims 1 to 15, wherein, For the deactivated cell DTX, the terminal does not expect, does not require, or is not allowed to receive at least one of the following: a third PDCCH, a third PDSCH, and a third CSI-RS. The third PDCCH corresponds to a spatial characteristic that matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX; the third PDSCH corresponds to a spatial characteristic that matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX; and the third CSI-RS corresponds to a spatial characteristic that matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX.

17. The method of any one of claims 1 to 16, wherein, For the deactivated cell DTX, the behavior of the terminal includes at least one of the following: not triggering beam failure recovery of a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX; not measuring a beam failure detection signal of a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX; not counting a number of beam failure detections of a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell DTX.

18. The method of any one of claims 1 to 17, wherein, The method further includes at least one of the following: The terminal receives first configuration information for configuring a correspondence between the at least one cell transmission mode and a spatial characteristic. The terminal receives second configuration information for configuring at least one of the following: a first signal corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode, and a second signal corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode, wherein a spatial characteristic corresponding to the first signal matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode, and a spatial characteristic corresponding to the second signal matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode. The terminal receives third configuration information for configuring information of a set of time domain resources corresponding to a target cell transmission mode, the target cell transmission mode being a cell transmission mode in the at least one cell transmission mode.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein, The information of the set of time domain resources corresponding to the target cell transmission mode includes at least one of the following: a spatial characteristic corresponding to each time domain resource in the set of time domain resources for the target cell transmission mode; information of at least one time domain resource in the set of time domain resources; activation or deactivation information of each time domain resource in the set of time domain resources for the target cell transmission mode.

20. The method of any one of claims 1 to 19, wherein, The spatial characteristics include at least one of the following: Beam direction, beam, quasi co-location (QCL), QCL resource spatial attribute, QCL resource spatial domain characteristic, transmission configuration indication (TCI), TCI state, transmission reception point (TRP), reference signal (RS), synchronization signal block (SSB), panel.

21. A discontinuous transmission method, comprising: a network-side device sending first indication information to a terminal, the first indication information being used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission modes including at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX); the network-side device performing transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein, The first indication information further indicates the spatial characteristics corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

23. The method of claim 21 or 22, wherein, For the cell transmission modes including cell DTX and cell DRX, the spatial characteristics corresponding to the cell DTX and the cell DRX are the same or different.

24. The method of any one of claims 21-23, wherein, The first indication information indicates the at least one cell transmission mode in the form of a bitmap; or The first indication information indicates index information corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode.

25. The method of any one of claims 21 to 24, wherein, The method further comprises: the network-side device sending activation indication information to the terminal, the activation indication information being used to activate or deactivate the at least one cell transmission mode.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein, The activation indication information includes one of the following: second indication information, third indication information; The second indication information is used to indicate activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and the activated cell transmission mode is in an activated state on the at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode, and the deactivated cell transmission mode is in a deactivated state on the at least one spatial characteristic corresponding to the cell transmission mode; The third indication information is used to indicate activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on one or more spatial characteristics.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein, The third indication information indicates one spatial characteristic, and indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, which represents activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on the one spatial characteristic; Or The third indication information indicates a plurality of spatial characteristics, and indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, which represents activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode on the plurality of spatial characteristics; Or The third indication information indicates activation or deactivation of the at least one cell transmission mode, and the spatial characteristic corresponding to the activation or deactivation of each cell transmission mode.

28. The method of any one of claims 21 to 27, wherein, The method further comprises: the network-side device sending fourth indication information to the terminal, the fourth indication information being used to indicate one or more spatial characteristics; The one or more spatial characteristics include at least one of the following: the spatial characteristics corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode; a spatial characteristic corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode; a spatial characteristic corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein, The fourth indication information is further used to indicate activation or deactivation of the one or more spatial characteristics, and a cell transmission mode corresponding to an activated spatial characteristic is in an activated state on the spatial characteristic, and a cell transmission mode corresponding to a deactivated spatial characteristic is in a deactivated state on the spatial characteristic. Or, The fourth indication information is further used to indicate activation or deactivation of a cell transmission mode corresponding to the one or more spatial characteristics in the at least one cell transmission mode.

30. The method of any one of claims 21 to 29, wherein, The method further includes at least one of the following: The network-side device sends first configuration information to the terminal, and the first configuration information is used to configure a correspondence between the at least one cell transmission mode and a spatial characteristic; The network-side device sends second configuration information to the terminal, and the second configuration information is used to configure at least one of the following: a first signal corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode, and a second signal corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode, wherein a spatial characteristic corresponding to the first signal matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode, and a spatial characteristic corresponding to the second signal matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode; The network-side device sends third configuration information to the terminal, and the third configuration information is used to configure information of a time domain resource set corresponding to a target cell transmission mode, and the target cell transmission mode is a cell transmission mode in the at least one cell transmission mode.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein, The information of the time domain resource set corresponding to the target cell transmission mode includes at least one of the following: a spatial characteristic corresponding to each time domain resource in the time domain resource set by the target cell transmission mode; information of at least one time domain resource in the time domain resource set; activation or deactivation information of each time domain resource in the time domain resource set by the target cell transmission mode.

32. The method of any one of claims 11 to 31, wherein, The spatial characteristic includes at least one of the following: a beam direction, a beam, a quasi co-location (QCL), a QCL resource spatial attribute, a QCL resource space characteristic, a transmission configuration indication (TCI), a TCI state, a transmission and reception point (TRP), a reference signal (RS), a synchronization signal block (SSB), and a panel.

33. A discontinuous transmission apparatus, comprising: a receiving module configured to receive first indication information, the first indication information being used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode including at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX); a processing module configured to perform transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

34. The apparatus of claim 33, wherein, The receiving module is further configured to receive activation indication information, the activation indication information being used to activate or deactivate the at least one cell transmission mode.

35. The apparatus of claim 33 or 34, wherein, The receiving module is further configured to receive fourth indication information, the fourth indication information being used to indicate one or more spatial characteristics. The one or more spatial characteristics include at least one of the following: a spatial characteristic corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode; a spatial characteristic corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode; a spatial characteristic corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode.

36. The apparatus of any one of claims 33-35, wherein, The receiving module is further configured to perform at least one of the following: receive first configuration information, the first configuration information being used to configure a correspondence between the at least one cell transmission mode and a spatial characteristic; receive second configuration information, the second configuration information being used to configure at least one of the following: a first signal corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode, a second signal corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode, wherein a spatial characteristic corresponding to the first signal matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode, and a spatial characteristic corresponding to the second signal matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode; receive third configuration information, the third configuration information being used to configure information of a time domain resource set corresponding to a target cell transmission mode, the target cell transmission mode being a cell transmission mode in the at least one cell transmission mode.

37. A discontinuous transmission apparatus, comprising: a sending module, configured to send first indication information to a terminal, the first indication information being used to indicate at least one cell transmission mode, each of the cell transmission modes corresponding to at least one spatial characteristic, and the cell transmission mode including at least one of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX); a processing module, configured to perform transmission based on the at least one cell transmission mode and the at least one spatial characteristic.

38. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein, The sending module is further configured to send activation indication information to the terminal, the activation indication information being used to activate or deactivate the at least one cell transmission mode.

39. The apparatus of claim 37 or 38, wherein, The sending module is further configured to send fourth indication information to the terminal, the fourth indication information being used to indicate one or more spatial characteristics. The one or more spatial characteristics include at least one of the following: a spatial characteristic corresponding to the at least one cell transmission mode; a spatial characteristic corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode; a spatial characteristic corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode in the at least one cell mode.

40. The apparatus of any one of claims 37-39, wherein, The sending module is further configured to perform at least one of the following: send first configuration information to the terminal, the first configuration information being used to configure a correspondence between the at least one cell transmission mode and a spatial characteristic; send second configuration information to the terminal, the second configuration information being used to configure at least one of the following: a first signal corresponding to an activated cell transmission mode, a second signal corresponding to a deactivated cell transmission mode, wherein a spatial characteristic corresponding to the first signal matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the activated cell transmission mode, and a spatial characteristic corresponding to the second signal matches a spatial characteristic corresponding to the deactivated cell transmission mode; send third configuration information to the terminal, the third configuration information being used to configure information of a time domain resource set corresponding to a target cell transmission mode, the target cell transmission mode being a cell transmission mode in the at least one cell transmission mode. 41.A terminal comprising a processor and a memory, the memory storing programs or instructions executable on the processor, the programs or instructions, when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the discontinuous transmission method according to any one of claims 1 to 20. 42.A network side device comprising a processor and a memory, the memory storing programs or instructions executable on the processor, the programs or instructions, when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the discontinuous transmission method according to any one of claims 21 to 32. 43.A readable storage medium, the readable storage medium storing programs or instructions, the programs or instructions, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the discontinuous transmission method according to any one of claims 1 to 20, or implement the steps of the discontinuous transmission method according to any one of claims 21 to 32.

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