Wake-up signal monitoring processing method and apparatus, and terminal

Abstract

The present application relates to the technical field of communications, and discloses a wake-up signal monitoring processing method and apparatus, and a terminal. The wake-up signal monitoring processing method in embodiments of the present application comprises: when a wake-up signal is monitored and a main receiver of a terminal is woken up, the terminal determines whether the main receiver has been woken up by mistake; and when determining that the main receiver has been woken up by mistake, the terminal monitors the wake-up signal, wherein the wake-up signal is used for instructing the terminal to monitor paging.

Description

Wake-up signal monitoring and processing methods, devices and terminals

[0001] Cross-references to related applications

[0002] This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202411051993.5, filed in China on August 1, 2024, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. Technical Field

[0003] This application belongs to the field of communication technology, and specifically relates to a wake-up signal monitoring and processing method, device and terminal. Background Technology

[0004] With the development of communication technology, low-power modes have been introduced into communication systems. In low-power mode, terminals can listen for wake-up signals (WUS). Currently, the conditions for a terminal to voluntarily exit or enter WUS listening only consider the signal quality of the serving cell. Simultaneously, network-side equipment can control the terminal to exit WUS listening via WUS. Therefore, when a terminal's main receiver is incorrectly woken up based on WUS, it needs to re-determine whether the conditions for entering WUS listening are met based on the signal quality of the serving cell before it can enter low-power mode and perform WUS listening. Thus, this technology suffers from the problem of the terminal's main receiver being incorrectly woken up, leading to higher terminal power consumption. Summary of the Invention

[0005] This application provides a wake-up signal monitoring and processing method, apparatus, and terminal, which can solve the problem of high power consumption of the terminal caused by the terminal's main receiver being mistakenly woken up.

[0006] Firstly, a wake-up signal listening and processing method is provided, including:

[0007] If a wake-up signal is detected and the terminal's main receiver is woken up, the terminal determines whether the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up.

[0008] If it is determined that the main receiver has been falsely woken up, the terminal listens for the wake-up signal;

[0009] The wake-up signal is used to instruct the terminal to listen for paging.

[0010] Secondly, a wake-up signal monitoring and processing device is provided, comprising:

[0011] The processing module is used to determine whether the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up when a wake-up signal is detected and the main receiver of the terminal is woken up.

[0012] The receiving module is used to allow the terminal to listen for wake-up signals when it is determined that the main receiver has been falsely woken up.

[0013] The wake-up signal is used to instruct the terminal to listen for paging.

[0014] Thirdly, a wake-up signal monitoring and processing apparatus is provided, the apparatus being configured to perform the steps of the method described in the first aspect.

[0015] Fourthly, a terminal is provided, the terminal including a processor and a memory, the memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the method as described in the first aspect.

[0016] Fifthly, a terminal is provided, including a processor and a communication interface, wherein the processor is used to determine whether the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up when a wake-up signal is detected and the main receiver of the terminal is woken up.

[0017] The communication interface is used for the terminal to listen for wake-up signals when it is determined that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up;

[0018] The wake-up signal is used to instruct the terminal to listen for paging.

[0019] In a sixth aspect, a readable storage medium is provided, on which a program or instructions are stored, which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the method described in the first aspect.

[0020] In a seventh aspect, a chip is provided, the chip including a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface being coupled to the processor, the processor being used to run programs or instructions to implement the method as described in the first aspect.

[0021] Eighthly, a computer program / program product is provided, the computer program / program product being stored in a storage medium, the computer program / program product being executed by at least one processor to implement the steps of the method as described in the first aspect, or to implement the steps of the method as described in the second aspect.

[0022] In this embodiment, when a wake-up signal is detected and the terminal's main receiver is awakened, the terminal determines whether the main receiver has been falsely awakened. If the main receiver is falsely awakened, the terminal listens for a wake-up signal, wherein the wake-up signal is used to instruct the terminal to listen for paging. Thus, when the main receiver is falsely awakened, the terminal can return to the low-power mode to listen for the wake-up signal, thereby avoiding invalid paging listening and reducing the wake-up time of the main receiver. Therefore, this embodiment reduces the terminal's power consumption. Attached Figure Description

[0023] Figure 1 is a block diagram of a wireless communication system applicable to an embodiment of this application;

[0024] Figure 2 is a flowchart illustrating a wake-up signal monitoring processing method provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0025] Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of a wake-up signal monitoring and processing device provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0026] Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a communication device provided in an embodiment of this application;

[0027] Figure 5 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a terminal provided in an embodiment of this application. Detailed Implementation

[0028] The terms "first," "second," etc., used in this application are used to distinguish similar objects and not to describe a specific order or sequence. It should be understood that such terms can be used interchangeably where appropriate so that embodiments of this application can be implemented in orders other than those illustrated or described herein, and the objects distinguished by "first" and "second" are generally of the same class, not limited in number; for example, the first object can be one or more. Furthermore, "or" in this application indicates at least one of the connected objects. For example, the scope of protection for "A or B" covers at least three scenarios: Scenario 1: including A but not B; Scenario 2: including B but not A; Scenario 3: including both A and B. In addition, the terms "A and / or B," "at least one of A and B," and "at least one of A or B" also cover at least the above three scenarios. The character " / " generally indicates that the preceding and following objects are in an "or" relationship.

[0029] The term "instruction" in this application can be either a direct instruction (or explicit instruction) or an indirect instruction (or implicit instruction). A direct instruction can be understood as one in which the sender explicitly informs the receiver of specific information, the operation to be performed, or the requested result, etc., in the instruction sent. An indirect instruction can be understood as one in which the receiver determines the corresponding information based on the instruction sent by the sender, or makes a judgment and determines the operation to be performed or the requested result, etc., based on the judgment result.

[0030] It is worth noting that the technologies described in this application are not limited to Long Term Evolution (LTE) / LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) systems, but can also be used in other wireless communication systems, such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA), or other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in this application are often used interchangeably, and the described technologies can be used with the systems and radio technologies mentioned above, as well as with other systems and radio technologies. The following description describes New Radio (NR) systems for illustrative purposes, and the term NR is used in most of the following description; however, these technologies can also be applied to systems other than NR systems, such as 6th generation (6G) radio systems. th Generation 6G communication system.

[0031] Figure 1 shows a block diagram of a wireless communication system applicable to an embodiment of this application. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network-side device 12. The terminal 11 can be a mobile phone, tablet computer, laptop computer, notebook computer, personal digital assistant (PDA), handheld computer, netbook, ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), mobile internet device (MID), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) device, robot, wearable device, flight vehicle, vehicle user equipment (VUE), shipboard equipment, pedestrian user equipment (PUE), smart home (home devices with wireless communication capabilities, such as refrigerators, televisions, washing machines, or furniture), game console, personal computer (PC), ATM, or self-service machine, etc. Wearable devices include: smartwatches, smart bracelets, smart headphones, smart glasses, smart jewelry (smart bracelets, smart chains, smart rings, smart necklaces, smart anklets, smart anklets, etc.), smart wristbands, smart clothing, etc. Among these, in-vehicle devices can also be referred to as in-vehicle terminals, in-vehicle controllers, in-vehicle modules, in-vehicle components, in-vehicle chips, or in-vehicle units, etc. It should be noted that the specific type of terminal 11 is not limited in this application embodiment. Network-side equipment 12 may include access network equipment or core network equipment, wherein access network equipment may also be referred to as Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment, radio access network function, or radio access network unit. Access network equipment may include base stations, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) access points (AS), or Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) nodes, etc.The term "base station" can be referred to as Node B (NB), Evolved Node B (eNB), Next Generation Node B (gNB), New Radio Node B (NR Node B), Access Point, Relay Base Station (RBS), Serving Base Station (SBS), Base Transceiver Station (BTS), Radio Base Station, Radio Transceiver, Basic Service Set (BSS), Extended Service Set (ESS), Home Node B (HNB), Home Evolved Node B, Transmit / Receive Point (TRP), or any other suitable term in the relevant field, as long as the same technical effect is achieved. The term "base station" is not limited to any specific technical terminology. It should be noted that this application embodiment only uses a base station in an NR system as an example for description and does not limit the specific type of base station.

[0032] For ease of understanding, the following describes some aspects of the embodiments of this application:

[0033] 1. Low power wake-up receiver (LP WUR).

[0034] The basic working principle of LP WUR is as follows: the receiver consists of a first module and a second module. The first module is the main communication module, used to receive and transmit communication data from the transmitter. The second module is a low-power module, used to receive the low-power wake-up signal (LP-WUS) and the low-power synchronization signal (LP-SS) sent by the transmitter. The LP-WUS wake-up signal is used to wake up the receiver's main communication module, and the LP-SS provides time reference information and other information for receiving the LP-WUS wake-up signal. For example, it is used for radio resource management (RRM) measurements of the serving cell, and can also provide wake-up link management, such as determining whether to activate or deactivate LP-WUR based on measurement results, or to shut down the main receiver (MR). The first module remains in a powered-off state when not woken up by the second module, and does not transmit or receive data. When downlink data arrives, the second module detects the wake-up signal sent by the transmitter, and if this wake-up signal contains information about the terminal, the second module triggers the first module to switch from the powered-off state to the powered-on state to receive and transmit data. The second module can be turned on continuously or intermittently. When the second module is turned on, it can receive low-power wake-up signals and low-power synchronization signals.

[0035] II. Low-power wake-up signal.

[0036] In this embodiment, WUS can be a low-power wake-up signal (Low Power WUS, LP-WUS).

[0037] To reduce receiving activity in standby mode and effectively shut down the radio frequency (RF) and modem modules, thereby significantly reducing power consumption during communication reception, this can be achieved by introducing the aforementioned low-power receiver into the terminal's receiver module. In one embodiment, this near-zero power receiver does not require complex RF module signal detection (such as amplification, filtering, quantization, etc.) or modem signal processing; it relies solely on passive matched filtering and low-power signal processing.

[0038] In one embodiment, the low-power wake-up signal is typically a simple on-off keying (OOK) signal, allowing the receiver to detect the wake-up notification through simple energy detection and subsequent sequence detection and identification. In another embodiment, the low-power wake-up signal can be a Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) signal, an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal, or a hybrid signal of OFDM with OOK or FSK. Furthermore, while the terminal activates the low-power receiver to receive the wake-up signal, the main receiver module can maintain a low power consumption level, thereby achieving power savings through receiving the wake-up signal.

[0039] The reception of low-power wake-up signals can be applied to terminals in Radio Resource Control (RRC) idle or RRC inactive states, as well as terminals in RRC connected states, thereby achieving terminal energy saving.

[0040] III. Listen for the entry and exit conditions of the low-power wake-up signal.

[0041] When a terminal is configured with a Low Power Receiver (LP-WUR), it can only begin listening for LP-WUS in the Radio Resource Control (RRC) idle (RRC_IDLE) or RRC inactive (RRC_INACTIVE) state if the entry condition for listening for the Low Power Wake-up Signal (LP-WUS) is met. When the terminal is listening for LP-WUS, it does not need to periodically listen for paging during paging events; it will only activate its main receiver to listen for paging after LP-WUS is detected. Currently, the entry condition for LP-WUS listening in the Third Generation Partnership Projects (3GPP) is that the quality of the serving cell measured by MR is higher than a threshold.

[0042] When a terminal is listening to LP-WUS, if the LP-WUS listening exit condition is met, the terminal stops listening to LP-WUS and enables MR to periodically listen for paging during paging opportunities. Currently, the 3GPP LP-WUS listening exit condition is that the quality of the serving cell measured by LR is below a threshold.

[0043] IV. Paging and terminal false alarms.

[0044] Paging mechanisms in related technologies: Network-side devices can send paging messages to terminals in idle, inactive, and connected states. The paging process can be used to notify a terminal to receive a paging request and / or to notify the system of information updates, as well as to notify the terminal to receive information from the Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System (ETWS) and Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS).

[0045] For each terminal, a paging occasion (PO) needs to be detected within a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle. The terminal calculates its corresponding PO based on its User Equipment Identifier (UE_ID), the DRX cycle, and the paging configuration information from the network-side equipment. The terminal listens for the paging Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) at its corresponding PO, which is the Downlink Control Information (DCI) format 1_0 addressed with the P-RNTI. The paging PDCCH contains a short message indicator, the short message, and the time-frequency resource location of the PDSCH carrying the paging message. If the paging PDCCH indicates scheduling information, the User Equipment Identifier (UE) detects the corresponding Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) according to the paging PDCCH indication and receives the paging message. If the paging PDCCH only indicates a short message, such as a System Information (SI) change or a Public Warning System (PWS) notification, the terminal does not need to continue receiving paging messages. The paging message (data on the PDSCH) received by the terminal contains a list of the paged terminals' identities. The terminal needs to match its own identity information with the identities carried in the paging message. If it finds its own identity information, it considers itself to be paged; otherwise, it is a false alarm.

[0046] In DCI format 1_0, 2 bits are used to represent the Short Message Indicator, and the specific meaning of the indication is shown in Table 1.

[0047] Table 1:

[0048] In DCI format 1_0, 8 bits are used to represent Short Message, and the specific meanings are shown in Table 2.

[0049] Table 2:

[0050] Optionally, it's possible that 1024 terminals are listening for the same paging message. When the network-side device wants to page one of these terminals, the other 1023 terminals listening for the same PO will mistakenly believe it's a pager for themselves. They might then try to receive a paging message, only able to determine if the paging message is for them based on the UE identification information carried within it. This results in 1023 terminals being incorrectly woken up to listen for paging messages, leading to a waste of energy.

[0051] After the introduction of LP-WUS, the number of terminals listening to the same LP-WUS will be relatively large. Therefore, when LP-WUS is used to wake up one of the terminals, the terminals listening to the same LP-WUS will also wake up to listen to the PO, resulting in a waste of energy.

[0052] To save power, the LP-WUS grouping scheme has been agreed upon. This scheme divides all terminals listening to a PO into N groups, using LP-WUS to carry group identifiers. Only UEs in the corresponding group will listen to the PO and subsequent paging messages. For example, if 1024 terminals are divided into four groups, with each group containing 256 terminals, when a terminal is paged, only 255 terminals in the same group will mistakenly wake up to listen to the PO.

[0053] The wake-up signal monitoring and processing method provided in this application will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and through some embodiments and application scenarios.

[0054] Referring to Figure 2, this application embodiment provides a wake-up signal monitoring and processing method, as shown in Figure 2, the wake-up signal monitoring and processing method includes:

[0055] Step 201: If a wake-up signal is detected and the main receiver of the terminal is woken up, the terminal determines whether the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up.

[0056] Step 202: If it is determined that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up, the terminal listens for the wake-up signal;

[0057] The wake-up signal is used to instruct the terminal to listen for paging.

[0058] In this embodiment, the terminal can listen for a wake-up signal through its low-power receiver, i.e., when the terminal's main receiver is in standby or sleep mode. When the terminal's main receiver is detected, it can wake up the terminal's main receiver. At this time, the terminal will exit the low-power mode and the terminal's main receiver will listen for paging.

[0059] It should be understood that the terminal's main receiver being woken up can be interpreted as the terminal transitioning from low-power mode to exiting low-power mode, or as the terminal's main receiver transitioning from a state where it is not listening for paging on the PO to a state where it can periodically listen for paging at the corresponding PO location.

[0060] It should be noted that, provided that the terminal's main receiver has not been falsely woken up, the terminal's main receiver will continue to periodically listen to the PO.

[0061] Optionally, when the main receiver of the terminal is woken up, the terminal can determine whether the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up. In this case, the terminal can continue to return to the low-power mode to listen for the wake-up signal, so as to avoid invalid paging and reduce the wake-up time of the main receiver, thereby reducing the power consumption of the terminal.

[0062] In this embodiment, when a wake-up signal is detected and the terminal's main receiver is awakened, the terminal determines whether the main receiver has been falsely awakened. If the main receiver is falsely awakened, the terminal listens for a wake-up signal, wherein the wake-up signal is used to instruct the terminal to listen for paging. Thus, when the main receiver is falsely awakened, the terminal can return to the low-power mode to listen for the wake-up signal, thereby avoiding invalid paging listening and reducing the wake-up time of the main receiver. Therefore, this embodiment reduces the terminal's power consumption.

[0063] Optionally, in some embodiments, the terminal determining whether the main receiver has been falsely woken up includes:

[0064] If the first condition is met, the terminal determines that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up:

[0065] The first condition includes: after the main receiver is woken up, a paging message is received based on the detected paging PDCCH, and the paging message does not carry the identity information of the terminal.

[0066] It should be understood that, in the embodiments of this application, after the main receiver is woken up, the terminal can detect the paging PDCCH on the PO corresponding to the terminal. The paging PDCCH indicates scheduling information. The terminal continues to receive or detect paging messages based on the detected paging PDCCH. After receiving the paging message, the terminal can determine whether the main receiver of the terminal has been mistakenly woken up based on the paging message. For example, if the paging message does not carry the identity information of the terminal, it can be considered that the main receiver of the terminal has been mistakenly woken up.

[0067] Optionally, since the terminal's identity information is carried in the paging message, it can be confirmed whether the wake-up is a false wake-up. If it is confirmed to be a false wake-up, it can immediately enter or return to the state of listening for the wake-up signal, that is, enter or return to the state of listening for the wake-up signal in low power mode, thereby reducing the terminal's power consumption.

[0068] Optionally, in some embodiments, the first condition further includes at least one of the following:

[0069] The paging PDCCH carries first indication information, which indicates that the paging message scheduled by the paging PDCCH contains the identity information of all the paging terminals.

[0070] The paging message carries second indication information, which indicates that the paging message contains the identity information of all the paging terminals.

[0071] In this embodiment of the application, the aforementioned identity information may include a 5G-S-Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity (TMSI) or an Inactive Radio Network Temporary Identifier (I-RNTI). Specifically, when the terminal is in the RRC_IDLE state, the identity information can be the 5G-S-TMSI; when the terminal is in the RRC_INACTIVE state, the identity information can be the I-RNTI.

[0072] Since the paging PDCCH or paging message indicates whether the paging message contains the identity information of all the paging terminals, the terminals can more accurately determine whether their master receiver has been falsely woken up. Therefore, the embodiments of this application improve the accuracy of false wake-up judgment and avoid paging failure due to terminal judgment errors.

[0073] Optionally, in some embodiments, when it is determined that the main receiver has been falsely woken up, the terminal listening for the wake-up signal includes:

[0074] When the conditions for listening to the wake-up signal are met, the terminal listens for the wake-up signal;

[0075] The wake-up signal monitoring conditions include determining that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up.

[0076] In this embodiment, it can be determined whether the terminal is listening for a wake-up signal based on whether the wake-up signal listening conditions are met. In some embodiments, the wake-up signal listening conditions may further include the signal quality requirements of the serving cell. For example, if it is determined that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up and the signal quality of the serving cell is greater than a preset threshold, it is determined that the wake-up signal listening conditions are met. This ensures that the terminal can receive the wake-up signal normally after entering low-power mode, and the terminal's main receiver can be woken up normally, thereby improving the reliability of communication.

[0077] Optionally, the terminal listening wake-up signal can be understood as: the terminal's main receiver is turned off or nearly turned off, and the terminal's main receiver no longer periodically listens to PO.

[0078] Optionally, in some embodiments, the method further includes:

[0079] If the second condition is met, the terminal believes that it cannot determine whether the main receiver has been falsely woken up;

[0080] The second condition includes any one of the following:

[0081] After the main receiver is woken up, no paging PDCCH is detected on the paging time PO corresponding to the terminal;

[0082] After the main receiver is woken up, no paging message is received based on the detected paging PDCCH, and the paging PDCCH indicates that there is scheduling information;

[0083] After the main receiver is woken up, a paging message is received based on the detected paging PDCCH. The paging message does not carry the identity information of the terminal and meets the third condition.

[0084] The third condition includes at least one of the following:

[0085] The paging PDCCH carries third indication information, which is used to indicate that the paging message scheduled by the paging PDCCH does not contain the identity information of all the paging terminals.

[0086] The paging message carries a fourth indication information, which indicates that the paging message does not contain the identity information of all the paging terminals.

[0087] In this embodiment of the application, if the terminal believes that it cannot determine whether the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up, the terminal will not return to the low power mode to listen for the wake-up signal, and the main receiver of the terminal will continue to periodically listen for the PO.

[0088] It should be noted that if no paging PDCCH is detected on the paging time PO corresponding to the terminal, the terminal assumes that the network-side device will send a paging PDCCH on a subsequent PO, or the terminal has missed listening to the paging PDCCH, so it is impossible to determine whether the current master receiver has been mistakenly woken up.

[0089] When a paging PDCCH is detected on the paging time PO corresponding to the terminal, and the paging PDCCH indicates that there is scheduling information, the terminal believes that the network-side device will send a paging message in the future. However, the terminal does not detect the paging message, so the terminal will think that it has missed listening to the paging message scheduled by the paging PDCCH, and therefore cannot determine whether the current master receiver has been mistakenly woken up.

[0090] After the main receiver is woken up, it receives a paging message based on the detected paging PDCCH. If the paging message does not carry the terminal's identity information and the third condition is met, the terminal believes that the network-side device has not completed paging for all terminals and may send a paging PDCCH for scheduling the terminal on a subsequent PO. Therefore, it is impossible to determine whether the current main receiver has been mistakenly woken up.

[0091] Optionally, in some embodiments, when it is determined that the main receiver has been falsely woken up, the terminal listening for the wake-up signal includes:

[0092] If it is determined that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up within the first time period, the terminal listens for the wake-up signal.

[0093] In this embodiment, the aforementioned first time period can be agreed upon by a protocol or indicated by the network-side device. It should be understood that after the terminal's main receiver is woken up, if it can be determined within the first time period that the main receiver was mistakenly woken up, the terminal can immediately enter or return to the state of listening for the wake-up signal, i.e., enter or return to the low-power mode to listen for the wake-up signal. If it cannot be determined within the first time period whether the main receiver was mistakenly woken up, the terminal may be unable to receive the wake-up signal due to moving to the cell edge or deteriorating communication quality. Therefore, even if it is determined after the first time period that the main receiver was mistakenly woken up, there is no need to enter the state of listening for the wake-up signal, which may result in the terminal being unable to listen for the wake-up signal and thus preventing the terminal's main receiver from being woken up.

[0094] Optionally, in some embodiments, the start time of the first time period includes any of the following:

[0095] The moment when the terminal receives the wake-up signal;

[0096] The main receiver is based on the time when the wake-up signal is activated (ramp-up time);

[0097] The time when the terminal completes synchronization after the main receiver is woken up by the wake-up signal;

[0098] The main receiver is based on the start time of the time unit where the target paging opportunity is located after the wake-up time of the wake-up signal, and the target paging opportunity is the paging opportunity closest to the time when the main receiver is woken up by the wake-up signal.

[0099] In this embodiment of the application, the first time period mentioned above may include N time units, which may include any of the following: paging DRX cycle, frame, subframe, time slot, OFDM symbol, second, millisecond.

[0100] Optionally, in some embodiments, when it is determined that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up during the first time period, the terminal listening for the wake-up signal includes:

[0101] If it is determined that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up within the first time period and the fourth condition is met, the terminal listens for the wake-up signal.

[0102] The fourth condition includes at least one of the following:

[0103] The terminal did not transmit any data during the first time period;

[0104] The terminal is in a low-mobility state during the first time period;

[0105] The terminal's serving cell quality is higher than a first threshold during the first time period;

[0106] The terminal did not perform cell selection or reselection during the first time period;

[0107] The terminal did not track or register region updates during the first time period.

[0108] Optionally, being in a low-mobility state can be understood as: the change in the signal quality of the serving cell of the terminal is less than a preset threshold within the second time period. The preset threshold and the first threshold can be agreed upon by the protocol or configured by the network-side equipment, and are not further limited here.

[0109] Optionally, in some embodiments, the terminal determines whether to listen for the wake-up signal based on the entry condition of the wake-up signal.

[0110] The conditions for receiving the wake-up signal include at least one of the following:

[0111] The quality of service provided to the community exceeds the second threshold.

[0112] The terminal's moving speed is below the third threshold.

[0113] In this embodiment, if it cannot be determined whether the main receiver has been falsely woken up within the first time period, even if it is determined after the first time period that the main receiver has been falsely woken up, listening for the wake-up signal cannot begin immediately. The entry conditions for listening for the wake-up signal must be met before listening can begin. This avoids the possibility that the terminal might fail to receive the wake-up signal due to moving to the cell edge or deteriorating communication quality. Therefore, this embodiment improves the reliability of terminal communication.

[0114] Optionally, in some embodiments, the second threshold is greater than the first threshold.

[0115] To better understand this application, some examples are provided below.

[0116] Example 1: The paging PDCCH carries target indication information (such as the first indication information and the third indication information mentioned above) to indicate whether the paging message contains the identity information of all the paged terminals.

[0117] Target indication information can be carried in the paging PDCCH or in the paging message. If carried in the paging PDCCH, it is carried by using 1 bit of the short message in the paging PDCCH to indicate the first indication information, for example, bit 5 below is used to indicate the first indication information. If bit 5 of the short message in the paging PDCCH is set to 1, the terminal believes that the current paging message contains the second indication information, that is, it believes that it contains the identity information of all paged UEs; optionally, if bit 5 is not set to 1, the terminal believes that the paging PDCCH contains the third indication information, that is, the terminal believes that the current paging message does not contain the identity information of all paged UEs. The specific meaning of the short message is shown in Table 3.

[0118] Table 3:

[0119] Alternatively, it can be carried by using 1 bit of the short message in the paging PDCCH to indicate the third indication information, for example, bit 5 below is used for the third indication information. If bit 5 of the short message in the paging PDCCH is set to 1, the UE believes that the current paging message contains the fourth indication information, that is, it believes that it does not contain the identity information of all paged UEs; optionally, if bit 5 is not set to 1, the UE believes that the paging PDCCH contains the first indication information, that is, the UE believes that the current paging message already contains the identity information of all paged UEs. The specific meaning of the short message is shown in Table 4.

[0120] Example 2: The paging message carries target indication information (such as the second and fourth indication information mentioned above) to indicate whether the paging message contains the identity information of all the paged terminals.

[0121] Optionally, one IE in the paging message can be used to indicate the second indication information. For example, if pagingindication is set to true, the UE believes that the identity information of all paged UEs has been included; if pagingindication is not included, the UE believes that the identity information of all paged UEs has not been included.

[0122] Optionally, one IE in the paging message is used to indicate the fourth indication information. For example, if pagingindication is set to true, the UE believes that the identity information of all paged UEs is not included; if pagingindication is not included, the UE believes that the identity information of all paged UEs is included.

[0123] Optionally, one IE in the paging message is used to indicate the second and fourth indication information. For example, if pagingindication is set to true, the UE believes that the identity information of all paged UEs has been included; if pagingindication is set to false, the UE believes that the identity information of all paged UEs has not been included. Alternatively, if pagingindication is set to false, the UE believes that the identity information of all paged UEs has been included; if pagingindication is set to true, the UE believes that the identity information of all paged UEs has not been included.

[0124] The wake-up signal monitoring and processing method provided in this application can be executed by a wake-up signal monitoring and processing device. This application uses the example of a wake-up signal monitoring and processing device executing the wake-up signal monitoring and processing method to illustrate the wake-up signal monitoring and processing device provided in this application.

[0125] This application provides a wake-up signal monitoring and processing device. As an example, the wake-up signal monitoring and processing device can be a communication device or a component in a communication device, such as a chip. The communication device can be a terminal. Exemplarily, the terminal can be of the type of terminal 11 listed above, including but not limited to.

[0126] The wake-up signal monitoring and processing device includes a receiving module, a transmitting module, and a processing module. These modules can be implemented in software or hardware. When implemented in hardware, the processing module can be implemented by a processor. For example, the processor can include general-purpose processors, special-purpose processors, such as a Central Processing Unit (CPU), microprocessor, Digital Signal Processor (DSP), Artificial Intelligence (AI) processor, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Network Processor (NP), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), or other programmable logic devices, gate circuits, transistors, discrete hardware components, etc. The receiving and transmitting modules can be implemented by a communication interface, which can include one or more of the following: transceiver, pins, circuits, bus, radio frequency unit, etc.

[0127] Specifically, referring to Figure 3, the wake-up signal monitoring and processing device 300 includes:

[0128] The processing module 301 is used to determine whether the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up when a wake-up signal is detected and the main receiver of the terminal is woken up.

[0129] The receiving module 302 is used to monitor the wake-up signal when it is determined that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up;

[0130] The wake-up signal is used to instruct the terminal to listen for paging.

[0131] Optionally, the processing module 301 is specifically configured to: determine that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up if a first condition is met.

[0132] The first condition includes: after the main receiver is woken up, a paging message is received based on the detected paging PDCCH, and the paging message does not carry the identity information of the terminal.

[0133] Optionally, the first condition further includes at least one of the following:

[0134] The paging PDCCH carries first indication information, which indicates that the paging message scheduled by the paging PDCCH contains the identity information of all the paging terminals.

[0135] The paging message carries second indication information, which indicates that the paging message contains the identity information of all the paging terminals.

[0136] Optionally, the receiving module 302 is specifically used to allow the terminal to listen for a wake-up signal when the wake-up signal listening conditions are met;

[0137] The wake-up signal monitoring conditions include determining that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up.

[0138] Optionally, the receiving module 302 is further configured to: when it is impossible to determine whether the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up, the terminal listens to the paging PDCCH.

[0139] Optionally, the processing module 301 is further configured to: under the condition that the second condition is met, consider that it is impossible to determine whether the main receiver has been falsely woken up;

[0140] The second condition includes any one of the following:

[0141] After the main receiver is woken up, no paging PDCCH is detected on the paging time PO corresponding to the terminal;

[0142] After the main receiver is woken up, no paging message is received based on the detected paging PDCCH, and the paging PDCCH indicates that there is scheduling information;

[0143] After the main receiver is woken up, a paging message is received based on the detected paging PDCCH. The paging message does not carry the identity information of the terminal and meets the third condition.

[0144] The third condition includes at least one of the following:

[0145] The paging PDCCH carries third indication information, which is used to indicate that the paging message scheduled by the paging PDCCH does not contain the identity information of all the paging terminals.

[0146] The paging message carries a fourth indication information, which indicates that the paging message does not contain the identity information of all the paging terminals.

[0147] Optionally, the processing module 301 is further configured to: listen for a wake-up signal if it is determined that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up within a first time period.

[0148] Optionally, the start time of the first time period includes any of the following:

[0149] The moment when the terminal receives the wake-up signal;

[0150] The main receiver is awakened based on the time when the wake-up signal is received;

[0151] The time when the terminal completes synchronization after the main receiver is woken up by the wake-up signal;

[0152] The main receiver is based on the start time of the time unit where the target paging opportunity is located after the wake-up time of the wake-up signal, and the target paging opportunity is the paging opportunity closest to the time when the main receiver is woken up by the wake-up signal.

[0153] Optionally, the receiving module 302 is specifically used to: listen for the wake-up signal when it is determined that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up within a first time period and the fourth condition is met;

[0154] The fourth condition includes at least one of the following:

[0155] The terminal did not transmit any data during the first time period;

[0156] The terminal is in a low-mobility state during the first time period;

[0157] The terminal's serving cell quality is higher than a first threshold during the first time period;

[0158] The terminal did not perform cell selection or reselection during the first time period;

[0159] The terminal did not track or register region updates during the first time period.

[0160] Optionally, the processing module 301 is further configured to determine whether to listen for the wake-up signal based on the entry conditions of the wake-up signal if it is determined that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up after the first time period.

[0161] The conditions for receiving the wake-up signal include at least one of the following:

[0162] The quality of service provided to the community exceeds the second threshold.

[0163] The terminal's moving speed is below the third threshold.

[0164] The wake-up signal monitoring and processing device provided in this application embodiment can implement the various processes implemented in the method embodiment of FIG2 and achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be described again here.

[0165] As shown in Figure 4, this application embodiment also provides a communication device 400, including a processor 401 and a memory 402. The memory 402 stores a program or instructions that can run on the processor 401. When the program or instructions are executed by the processor 401, they implement the various steps of the above-described wake-up signal listening processing method embodiment and can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, they will not be described again here.

[0166] This application also provides a terminal, including a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is used to run programs or instructions to implement the steps in the method embodiment shown in FIG2. This terminal embodiment corresponds to the above-described terminal-side method embodiment, and all implementation processes and methods of the above-described method embodiments can be applied to this terminal embodiment and can achieve the same technical effect. The terminal may be the wake-up signal monitoring and processing device shown in FIG3. Specifically, FIG5 is a schematic diagram of the hardware structure of a terminal implementing an embodiment of this application.

[0167] The terminal 500 includes, but is not limited to, at least some of the following components: radio frequency unit 501, network module 502, audio output unit 503, input unit 504, sensor 505, display unit 506, user input unit 507, interface unit 508, memory 509, and processor 510.

[0168] Those skilled in the art will understand that terminal 500 may also include a power supply (such as a battery) for powering various components. The power supply can be logically connected to processor 510 through a power management system, thereby enabling functions such as charging, discharging, and power consumption management through the power management system. The terminal structure shown in Figure 5 does not constitute a limitation on the terminal. The terminal may include more or fewer components than shown, or combine certain components, or have different component arrangements, which will not be elaborated here.

[0169] It should be understood that, in this embodiment, the input unit 504 may include a graphics processor 5041 and a microphone 5042. The graphics processor 5041 processes image data of still images or videos obtained by an image capture device (such as a camera) in video capture mode or image capture mode. The display unit 506 may include a display panel 5061, which may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light-emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 507 includes at least one of a touch panel 5071 and other input devices 5072. The touch panel 5071 is also called a touch screen. The touch panel 5071 may include two parts: a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 5072 may include, but are not limited to, physical keyboards, function keys (such as volume control buttons, power buttons, etc.), trackballs, mice, and joysticks, which will not be described in detail here.

[0170] In this embodiment, after receiving downlink data from the network-side device, the radio frequency unit 501 can transmit it to the processor 510 for processing; in addition, the radio frequency unit 501 can send uplink data to the network-side device. Typically, the radio frequency unit 501 includes, but is not limited to, antennas, amplifiers, transceivers, couplers, low-noise amplifiers, duplexers, etc.

[0171] The memory 509 can be used to store software programs or instructions, as well as various data. The memory 509 may primarily include a first storage area for storing programs or instructions and a second storage area for storing data. The first storage area may store the operating system, application programs or instructions required for at least one function (such as sound playback, image playback, etc.). Furthermore, the memory 509 may include volatile memory or non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be read-only memory (ROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), or flash memory. Volatile memory can be random access memory (RAM), static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDRSDRAM), enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory (ESDRAM), synchronous link dynamic random access memory (SLDRAM), and direct memory bus RAM (DRRAM). The memory 509 in this embodiment includes, but is not limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

[0172] Processor 510 may include one or more processing units; optionally, processor 510 integrates an application processor and a modem processor, wherein the application processor mainly handles operations involving the operating system, user interface, and applications, and the modem processor mainly handles wireless communication signals, such as a baseband processor. It is understood that the aforementioned modem processor may also not be integrated into processor 510.

[0173] The processor 510 is used to determine whether the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up when a wake-up signal is detected and the main receiver of the terminal is woken up.

[0174] Radio frequency unit 501 is used to enable the terminal to listen for wake-up signals when it is determined that the main receiver has been mistakenly woken up;

[0175] The wake-up signal is used to instruct the terminal to listen for paging.

[0176] It is understood that the implementation process of each implementation method mentioned in this embodiment can refer to the relevant description of the method embodiment and achieve the same or corresponding technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be described again here.

[0177] This application also provides a readable storage medium storing a program or instructions. When the program or instructions are executed by a processor, they implement the various processes of the above-described wake-up signal monitoring processing method embodiments and achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, they will not be described again here.

[0178] The processor mentioned above is the processor in the terminal described in the above embodiments. The readable storage medium includes computer-readable storage media, such as computer read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), magnetic disk, or optical disk. In some examples, the readable storage medium may be a non-transient readable storage medium.

[0179] This application embodiment also provides a chip, which includes a processor and a communication interface. The communication interface is coupled to the processor. The processor is used to run programs or instructions to implement the various processes of the above-described wake-up signal monitoring and processing method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be described again here.

[0180] It should be understood that the chip mentioned in the embodiments of this application may also be referred to as a system-on-a-chip, system chip, chip system, or system-on-a-chip, etc.

[0181] This application also provides a computer program / program product, which includes computer instructions. The computer program / program product is executed by at least one processor to implement the various processes of the above-described wake-up signal monitoring processing method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, it will not be described again here.

[0182] It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprising," "including," or any other variations thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements includes not only those elements but also other elements not expressly listed, or elements inherent to such a process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitations, an element defined by the phrase "comprising one..." does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that includes that element. Furthermore, it should be noted that the scope of the methods and apparatuses in the embodiments of this application is not limited to performing functions in the order shown or discussed, but may also include performing functions substantially simultaneously or in the reverse order, depending on the functions involved. For example, the described methods may be performed in a different order than described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. Additionally, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

[0183] From the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the methods of the above embodiments can be implemented by means of computer software products plus necessary general-purpose hardware platforms, and of course, they can also be implemented by hardware. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM, RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk, etc.) and includes several instructions to cause the terminal or network-side device to execute the methods described in the various embodiments of this application.

[0184] The embodiments of this application have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, this application is not limited to the specific embodiments described above. The specific embodiments described above are merely illustrative and not restrictive. Those skilled in the art can make many other implementations under the guidance of this application without departing from the spirit and scope of the claims. All of these implementations are within the protection scope of this application.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring a wake-up signal, comprising: determining whether a main receiver of a terminal is falsely woken up, in a case that a wake-up signal is monitored and the main receiver of the terminal is woken up; monitoring a wake-up signal by the terminal, in a case that the main receiver is determined to be falsely woken up; wherein the wake-up signal is used to instruct the terminal to monitor a paging. The determining whether the main receiver of the terminal is falsely woken up comprises: determining that the main receiver is falsely woken up, in a case that a first condition is met; wherein the first condition comprises that a paging message is received based on a detected paging physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) after the main receiver is woken up, and the paging message does not carry identity information of the terminal. The first condition further comprises at least one of the following: the paging PDCCH carries first indication information, the first indication information is used to indicate that identity information of all paged terminals is included in the paging message scheduled by the paging PDCCH; the paging message carries second indication information, the second indication information is used to indicate that identity information of all paged terminals is included in the paging message. The monitoring a wake-up signal by the terminal in a case that the main receiver is determined to be falsely woken up comprises: monitoring a wake-up signal by the terminal, in a case that a wake-up signal monitoring condition is met; wherein the wake-up signal monitoring condition comprises determining that the main receiver is falsely woken up.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, 5.The method of claim 1, further comprising: monitoring a paging PDCCH by the terminal, in a case that it is unable to determine whether the main receiver is falsely woken up. 6.The method of claim 5, further comprising: considering that it is unable to determine whether the main receiver is falsely woken up, in a case that a second condition is met; wherein the second condition comprises any one of the following: no paging PDCCH is detected by the terminal at a paging occasion (PO) corresponding to the terminal after the main receiver is woken up; no paging message is received based on a detected paging PDCCH after the main receiver is woken up, and the paging PDCCH indicates that there is scheduling information; a paging message is received based on a detected paging PDCCH after the main receiver is woken up, the paging message does not carry identity information of the terminal, and a third condition is met; wherein the third condition comprises at least one of the following: the paging PDCCH carries third indication information, the third indication information is used to indicate that identity information of all paged terminals is not included in the paging message scheduled by the paging PDCCH; the paging message carries fourth indication information, the fourth indication information is used to indicate that identity information of all paged terminals is not included in the paging message. The monitoring a wake-up signal by the terminal in a case that the main receiver is determined to be falsely woken up comprises: monitoring a wake-up signal by the terminal, in a case that the main receiver is determined to be falsely woken up within a first time period.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein, The starting time of the first time period comprises any one of the following: a time at which the terminal receives the wake-up signal. ​ ​ 4. The method of claim 1, wherein, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein, ​ ​ 8. The method of claim 7, wherein, ​ ​ the time at which the main receiver is woken up based on the wake-up signal; the time at which the terminal completes synchronization based on the wake-up signal after the main receiver is woken up; the starting time of a time unit in which a target paging opportunity is located after the time at which the main receiver is woken up based on the wake-up signal, the target paging opportunity being the closest paging opportunity to the time at which the main receiver is woken up based on the wake-up signal.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein, In a case where it is determined that the main receiver is woken up by mistake in the first time period, the terminal listens for a wake-up signal, including: In a case where it is determined that the main receiver is woken up by mistake in the first time period and a fourth condition is met, the terminal listens for a wake-up signal. The fourth condition includes at least one of the following: The terminal has no uplink transmission in the first time period; The terminal is in a low mobility state in the first time period; The quality of a serving cell of the terminal is higher than a first threshold in the first time period; The terminal does not perform cell selection or reselection in the first time period; The terminal does not perform tracking area update or registration area update in the first time period.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising: In a case where it is determined that the main receiver is woken up by mistake after the first time period, the terminal determines whether to listen for a wake-up signal based on an entering condition for listening for a wake-up signal; The entering condition for listening for a wake-up signal includes at least one of the following: The quality of a serving cell is higher than a second threshold; The terminal has a mobility speed lower than a third threshold.

11. An apparatus for wake-up signal listening processing, comprising: a processing module configured to determine whether a main receiver of a terminal is woken up by mistake in a case where a wake-up signal is listened to and the main receiver is woken up; a receiving module configured to cause the terminal to listen for a wake-up signal in a case where it is determined that the main receiver is woken up by mistake; The wake-up signal is used to instruct the terminal to listen for paging.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein, The processing module is specifically configured to determine that the main receiver is woken up by mistake in a case where a first condition is met. The first condition includes that a paging message is received based on a detected paging physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) after the main receiver is woken up, and the paging message does not carry identity information of the terminal.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein, The receiving module is further configured to cause the terminal to listen for a paging PDCCH in a case where it is unable to determine whether the main receiver is woken up by mistake.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein, The processing module is further configured to consider that it is unable to determine whether the main receiver is woken up by mistake in a case where a second condition is met. The second condition includes any one of the following: No paging PDCCH is detected on a paging occasion (PO) corresponding to the terminal after the main receiver is woken up; No paging message is received based on a detected paging PDCCH after the main receiver is woken up, and the paging PDCCH indicates that there is scheduling information; A paging message is received based on a detected paging PDCCH after the main receiver is woken up, the paging message does not carry identity information of the terminal, and a third condition is met. The third condition includes at least one of the following: The paging PDCCH carries third indication information, the third indication information being used for indicating that identity information of all the paged terminals is not contained in the paging message scheduled by the paging PDCCH. The paging message carries fourth indication information, the fourth indication information being used for indicating that identity information of all the paged terminals is not contained in the paging message.

15. The apparatus of any one of claims 11 to 14, wherein, The processing module is further configured to listen to the wake-up signal in a case where the main receiver is mistakenly woken up within a first time period. 16.A terminal comprising 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 wake-up signal listening processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 10. 17.A readable storage medium, the readable storage medium storing programs or instructions, the programs or instructions being executed by a processor to implement the steps of the wake-up signal listening processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 10. 18.A computer program product comprising computer instructions, the computer instructions being executed by a processor to implement the steps of the wake-up signal listening processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 10. 19.A chip comprising a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface being coupled to the processor, the processor being configured to execute programs or instructions to implement the steps of the wake-up signal listening processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 10.

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