Communication method and related device

Abstract

The present application relates to the technical field of communications, and provides a communication method and a related device. In the method, when needing to instruct a user equipment to monitor a low-power wake-up signal in a certain monitoring manner, a network side device can send, to the user equipment, first information indicating the monitoring manner; and upon receiving the first information, on the basis of content of the first information, the user equipment can monitor the low-power wake-up signal in a monitoring manner corresponding to the content of the first information among a plurality of monitoring manners. In this way, a user equipment can monitor a low-power wake-up signal in a corresponding monitoring manner according to various performance requirements, such as network delay requirements and power consumption requirements.

Description

Communication method and related device

[0001] This application claims priority from the Chinese patent application No. 202411087529.1 filed on August 08, 2024, and entitled "A communication method and related device", the content of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. TECHNICAL FIELD

[0002] The present application relates to the field of communication technology, and in particular to a communication method for monitoring a low-power wake-up signal and related device. BACKGROUND

[0003] In a mobile communication system, a user equipment (UE) can only transmit communication service data with a network side device after establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with the network side device. To reduce power consumption, the UE can periodically suspend monitoring of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) between the UE and the network side device by receiving connected discontinuous reception (CDRX) configuration information from the network side device. For example, the UE can continuously monitor the PDCCH during an active period (e.g., a time period indicated by an on duration field in the CDRX configuration information) of each discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, and not monitor the PDCCH during a sleep period (hereinafter referred to as a sleep period) of each DRX cycle.

[0004] However, if the network side device transmits data to the UE during the sleep period of a DRX cycle, the UE will receive the data in the next DRX cycle because the UE does not monitor the PDCCH during the sleep period, resulting in data delay. If the network side device only transmits downlink control information (DCI) to the UE through the PDCCH during a small part of the active period of the DRX cycle, continuously monitoring the PDCCH during the active period will increase the power consumption of the UE. SUMMARY

[0005] Embodiments of the present application provide a communication method and related device, in which a network side device can indicate a user equipment to monitor a low-power wake-up signal in different monitoring manners by different contents of a first field.

[0006] In a first aspect, a communication method is provided, which is applied to a user equipment and includes: receiving first information sent by a network side device, the first information including a first field, the first field being used to indicate a listening manner of listening to a low power wake-up signal; and listening to the low power wake-up signal by using a listening manner matched with content of the first field.

[0007] In the method, the user equipment can listen to the low power wake-up signal by using different listening manners based on different content of the first field in the first information sent by the network side device, so as to adapt to different performance requirements (such as network delay requirement, power consumption requirement, etc.) or adapt to transmission of data with different characteristics.

[0008] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, the content of the first field is different, and indicates different listening manners of listening to the low power wake-up signal.

[0009] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, the first field includes any one of the following fields: a number field, a listening duration field, and a type field.

[0010] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, the number field is used to indicate a number of times of listening to the low power wake-up signal, the listening duration field is used to indicate a duration of listening to the low power wake-up signal, and the type field is used to indicate a type of the listening manner of listening to the low power wake-up signal.

[0011] In the implementation, the user equipment can listen to the low power wake-up signal by using a corresponding listening manner based on content of any one of the number field, the listening duration field, and the type field, so as to adapt to different performance requirements (such as network delay requirement, power consumption requirement, etc.).

[0012] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, the first information includes low power wake-up signal configuration information, the low power wake-up signal configuration information including the first field and at least one of the following information: a listening period of the low power wake-up signal, a duration of listening to the low power wake-up signal in one listening period, and a bias between a time of listening to the low power wake-up signal and a time of starting to listen to a physical downlink control channel.

[0013] In the implementation, the first field can be embedded in the low power wake-up signal configuration information for transmission.

[0014] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, the first information further includes connected state discontinuous reception configuration information.

[0015] In the implementation, the low power wake-up signal configuration information and the discontinuous reception configuration information can be transmitted together.

[0016] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, the first information is radio resource control signaling.

[0017] In this implementation, the first information can be transmitted through radio resource control signaling.

[0018] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, the first information is L1 signaling or L2 signaling.

[0019] In this implementation, the first information can be transmitted through L1 signaling or L2 signaling. In this way, the user equipment can switch to the monitoring mode more quickly because L1 signaling or L2 signaling can be transmitted faster than RRC signaling.

[0020] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, the method further includes, before receiving the first information transmitted by the network-side device, receiving, from the network-side device, connection-state discontinuous reception configuration information and low-power wake-up signal configuration information, and the low-power wake-up signal configuration information does not include the first field.

[0021] In this implementation, the network-side device can first transmit the discontinuous reception configuration information and the low-power wake-up signal configuration information before transmitting the first field, and then transmit the L1 signaling or L2 signaling including the first field when it is necessary to activate the user equipment to monitor the low-power wake-up signal in a certain monitoring mode.

[0022] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, the connection-state discontinuous reception configuration information includes a duration field; and the monitoring of the low-power wake-up signal in the monitoring mode matching the content of the first field includes monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in a monitoring mode matching the content of the first field and the content of the duration field.

[0023] In this implementation, different monitoring modes are indicated by different combinations of the content of the first field and the content of the duration field.

[0024] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, the monitoring of the low-power wake-up signal in the monitoring mode matching the content of the first field includes at least two of the following cases: when the content of the first field corresponds to a first value, monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in a second monitoring mode; when the content of the first field corresponds to a second value, monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in a third monitoring mode; and when the content of the first field corresponds to a third value, monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in a fourth monitoring mode.

[0025] In this implementation, when the first field is a number field, the monitoring duration field or the type field, different monitoring modes (the second monitoring mode to the fourth monitoring mode) can be indicated by different values (the first value to the third value).

[0026] Optionally, the listening manners can include at least two of the second listening manner to the fourth listening manner, and the value of the first field indicating different listening manners can also include at least two.

[0027] Optionally, the listening to the low-power wake-up signal in the listening manner matched with the content of the first field further includes: when the content of the first field is the fourth value, the low-power wake-up signal is listened to in the first listening manner.

[0028] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, when the first field is a frequency field or a listening duration field, the listening to the low-power wake-up signal in the listening manner matched with the content of the first field and the content of the duration field includes at least two of the following cases: when the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is not 0, or the first field is the first value and the duration field is greater than or equal to a first threshold, the low-power wake-up signal is listened to in the second listening manner; when the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is 0, or the first field is the first value and the duration field is less than the first threshold, the low-power wake-up signal is listened to in the third listening manner; when the content of the first field is the second value, the low-power wake-up signal is listened to in the fourth listening manner.

[0029] In this implementation, when the first field is the frequency field, the combination of the value of the frequency field and the value of the duration field can be used to indicate different listening manners (the second listening manner to the fourth listening manner).

[0030] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, the first field is a number field, and the monitoring of the low-power wake-up signal in the manner matching the content of the first field and the content of the duration field includes at least two of the following cases: when the content of the first field is a first value and the duration field is not 0, or the first field is the first value and the duration field is greater than or equal to a second threshold, the low-power wake-up signal is monitored in a second monitoring manner; when the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is 0, or the first field is the first value and the duration field is less than the second threshold, the low-power wake-up signal is monitored in a third monitoring manner; when the content of the first field is a second value and the duration field is not 0, or the first field is the second value and the duration field is greater than or equal to a third threshold, the low-power wake-up signal is monitored in a fourth monitoring manner or a fifth monitoring manner; when the content of the first field is the second value and the duration field is 0, or the first field is the first value and the duration field is less than the third threshold, the low-power wake-up signal is monitored in the fourth monitoring manner or a sixth monitoring manner; the fifth monitoring manner includes: starting a connected state discontinuous reception mechanism, monitoring a second value low-power wake-up signal in a sleep period of a discontinuous reception cycle when no downlink control information is monitored in an active period of the discontinuous reception cycle, and not monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in the sleep period of the discontinuous reception cycle when the downlink control information is monitored in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle; and the sixth monitoring manner includes: stopping the connected state discontinuous reception mechanism, and monitoring the second value low-power wake-up signal in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle.

[0031] In this implementation, when the first field is the number field, different monitoring manners can be indicated by the combination of the values of the number field and the duration field. In addition to the second to fourth monitoring manners, the combination of the values of the number field and the duration field can also indicate the fifth and sixth monitoring manners.

[0032] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, the first field is a listening duration field, and the listening to the low-power wake-up signal in a manner matched with the content of the first field and the content of the duration field includes at least two of the following cases: when the content of the first field is a first value and the duration field is not 0, or the first field is the first value and the duration field is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold, the second listening manner is used to listen to the low-power wake-up signal; when the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is 0, or the first field is the first value and the duration field is less than the fourth threshold, the third listening manner is used to listen to the low-power wake-up signal; when the content of the first field is a second value and the duration field is not 0, or the first field is the second value and the duration field is greater than or equal to a fifth threshold, the fourth listening manner or the seventh listening manner is used to listen to the low-power wake-up signal; when the content of the first field is the second value and the duration field is 0, or the first field is the second value and the duration field is less than the fifth threshold, the fourth listening manner or the eighth listening manner is used to listen to the low-power wake-up signal; the seventh listening manner includes: starting a discontinuous reception mechanism in a connected state, listening to the low-power wake-up signal for a second value duration before an active period of a discontinuous reception cycle when no downlink control information is listened to in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle, and not listening to the low-power wake-up signal in a sleep period of the discontinuous reception cycle when the downlink control information is listened to in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle; and the eighth listening manner includes: stopping the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state, and listening to the low-power wake-up signal for the second value duration before the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle.

[0033] In this implementation, when the first field is the listening duration field, different listening manners can be indicated by combinations of values of the listening duration field and the duration field. In addition to the second listening manner to the fourth listening manner, the combinations of values of the listening duration field and the duration field can also indicate the seventh listening manner and the eighth listening manner.

[0034] In a possible implementation of the first aspect, the second listening manner includes starting a discontinuous reception mechanism in a connected state and listening to the low-power wake-up signal in a sleep period of a discontinuous reception cycle; the third listening manner includes stopping the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state and periodically listening to the low-power wake-up signal; and the fourth listening manner includes stopping the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state and listening to the low-power wake-up signal in an active period of the discontinuous reception cycle.

[0035] In a second aspect, a communication method is provided, applied to a network-side device, and the method comprises: sending first information to a user equipment, the first information comprising a first field, and a content of the first field indicating a low-power wake-up signal monitoring manner, and the first information instructing the user equipment to monitor the low-power wake-up signal in a monitoring manner matching the content of the first field.

[0036] In the method, the network-side device can instruct the user equipment to monitor the low-power wake-up signal in different monitoring manners by sending first information with different contents of the first field, according to different characteristics of data to be transmitted to the user equipment, or to adapt to different performance requirements (such as network delay requirements, power consumption requirements, etc.).

[0037] In a possible implementation of the second aspect, the different contents of the first field indicate different monitoring manners of monitoring the low-power wake-up signal.

[0038] In a possible implementation of the second aspect, the first field comprises any one of the following fields: a number field, a monitoring duration field, and a type field.

[0039] In a possible implementation of the second aspect, the number field is used to indicate a number of times of monitoring the low-power wake-up signal, the monitoring duration field is used to indicate a duration of monitoring the low-power wake-up signal, and the type field is used to indicate a type of the monitoring manner of monitoring the low-power wake-up signal.

[0040] In a possible implementation of the second aspect, the first information comprises low-power wake-up signal configuration information, and the low-power wake-up signal configuration information comprises the first field and at least one of the following information: a monitoring period of the low-power wake-up signal, a duration of monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in one monitoring period, and an offset between a time of monitoring the low-power wake-up signal and a time of starting to monitor a physical downlink control channel.

[0041] In a possible implementation of the second aspect, the first information further comprises connected discontinuous reception configuration information.

[0042] In a possible implementation of the second aspect, the first information is radio resource control signaling.

[0043] In a possible implementation of the second aspect, the first information is L1 signaling or L2 signaling.

[0044] In a possible implementation of the second aspect, the method further comprises: before sending the first information to the user equipment, sending connected discontinuous reception configuration information and low-power wake-up signal configuration information to the user equipment, and the low-power wake-up signal configuration information does not comprise the first field.

[0045] In a possible implementation of the second aspect, the monitoring manner matched with the content of the first field is: a second monitoring manner corresponding to a case where the content of the first field is a first value; or a third monitoring manner corresponding to a case where the content of the first field is a second value; or a fourth monitoring manner corresponding to a case where the content of the first field is a third value.

[0046] In a possible implementation of the second aspect, the discontinuous reception configuration information in the connected state includes a duration field, the first field is a number field or a monitoring duration field, and the monitoring manner matched with the content of the first field is: a second monitoring manner corresponding to a case where the content of the first field is a first value and the duration field is not 0, or the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is greater than or equal to a first threshold; or a third monitoring manner corresponding to a case where the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is 0, or the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is less than the first threshold; or a fourth monitoring manner corresponding to a case where the content of the first field is a second value.

[0047] In a possible implementation of the second aspect, the discontinuous reception configuration information in the connected state includes a duration field, the first field is a number field, and the monitoring manner matched with the content of the first field is: a second monitoring manner corresponding to a case where the content of the first field is a first value and the duration field is not 0, or the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is greater than or equal to a second threshold; or a third monitoring manner corresponding to a case where the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is 0, or the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is less than the second threshold; or a fourth monitoring manner or a fifth monitoring manner corresponding to a case where the content of the first field is a second value and the duration field is not 0, or the content of the first field is the second value and the duration field is greater than or equal to a third threshold; or a fourth monitoring manner or a sixth monitoring manner corresponding to a case where the content of the first field is the second value and the duration field is 0, or the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is less than the third threshold; wherein the fifth monitoring manner includes: starting the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state, monitoring a second value of a low-power wake-up signal in a sleep period of a discontinuous reception cycle in a case where no downlink control information is monitored in an active period of the discontinuous reception cycle, and not monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in the sleep period of the discontinuous reception cycle in a case where the downlink control information is monitored in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle; and the sixth monitoring manner includes: stopping the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state, and monitoring the second value of the low-power wake-up signal in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle.

[0048] In a possible implementation of the second aspect, the discontinuous reception configuration information in the connected state includes a duration field, the first field is a listening duration field, and the listening mode matched with the content of the first field is: the second listening mode in the case that the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is not 0 or the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is greater than or equal to the fourth threshold; or the third listening mode in the case that the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is 0 or the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is less than the fourth threshold; or the fourth listening mode or the seventh listening mode in the case that the content of the first field is the second value and the duration field is not 0 or the content of the first field is the second value and the duration field is greater than or equal to the fifth threshold; or the fourth listening mode or the eighth listening mode in the case that the content of the first field is the second value and the duration field is 0 or the content of the first field is the second value and the duration field is less than the fifth threshold; the seventh listening mode includes: starting the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state, listening to the low-power wake-up signal for the first value of time before the sleep period of the discontinuous reception cycle in the case that no downlink control information is listened to in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle, and not listening to the low-power wake-up signal in the sleep period of the discontinuous reception cycle in the case that the downlink control information is listened to in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle; and the eighth listening mode includes: stopping the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state, and listening to the low-power wake-up signal for the first value of time before the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle.

[0049] In a possible implementation of the second aspect, the second listening mode includes starting the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state and listening to the low-power wake-up signal in the sleep period of the discontinuous reception cycle; the third listening mode includes stopping the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state and periodically listening to the low-power wake-up signal; and the fourth listening mode includes stopping the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state and listening to the low-power wake-up signal in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle.

[0050] In a third aspect, a communication method is provided, including: a network-side device sending first information to a user equipment, the first information including a first field, the content of the first field indicating a listening mode of a low-power wake-up signal; and the user equipment listening to the low-power wake-up signal in the listening mode matched with the content of the first field; and the first field includes any one of the following fields: a number field, a listening duration field, and a type field.

[0051] In the method, the network-side device can indicate the user equipment to adopt different monitoring manners to monitor the low-power wake-up signal by sending first information with different contents of the first field according to different characteristics of data to be transmitted to the user equipment or different performance requirements (such as network delay requirements, power consumption requirements, etc.).

[0052] In a possible implementation of the third aspect, the different contents of the first field indicate different monitoring manners of monitoring the low-power wake-up signal.

[0053] In a possible implementation of the third aspect, the different contents of the first field and the different contents of the duration field in the discontinuous reception configuration information indicate different monitoring manners of monitoring the low-power wake-up signal.

[0054] In a fourth aspect, a user equipment is provided, including one or more processors, one or more memories, and one or more computer programs stored in the one or more memories and including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the user equipment to perform the method according to any implementation of the first aspect.

[0055] In a fifth aspect, a network-side device is provided, including one or more processors, one or more memories, and one or more computer programs stored in the one or more memories and including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the network-side device to perform the method according to any implementation of the second aspect.

[0056] In a sixth aspect, a communication system is provided, including a user equipment configured to perform the method according to any implementation of the first aspect and a network-side device configured to perform the method according to any implementation of the second aspect.

[0057] In a seventh aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, storing computer-executable program instructions that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method according to any implementation of the first aspect to the second aspect.

[0058] In an eighth aspect, a computer program product is provided, including computer program code that, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method according to any implementation of the first aspect to the second aspect.

[0059] It should be appreciated that the benefits of the above-described second aspect to eighth aspect can be derived from the description of the first aspect and the second aspect, and thus will not be repeated here. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0060] FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of a UE 10 monitoring a PDCCH between the UE 10 and a network-side device 20 under a CDRX mechanism according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0061] FIG. 2 illustrates a schematic diagram of a UE 10 monitoring a LP-WUS according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0062] FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic diagram of a UE 10 monitoring a LP-WUS by a first monitoring manner according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0063] FIG. 4A illustrates a schematic diagram of a UE 10 monitoring a LP-WUS by a second monitoring manner according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0064] FIG. 4B illustrates a schematic diagram of a data stream including data of multiple periods according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0065] FIG. 5A illustrates a schematic diagram of a UE 10 monitoring a LP-WUS by a third monitoring manner according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0066] FIG. 5B illustrates a schematic diagram of aperiodic data according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0067] FIG. 6A illustrates a schematic diagram of a UE 10 monitoring a LP-WUS by a fourth monitoring manner according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0068] FIG. 6B illustrates a schematic diagram of data with large period jitter according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0069] FIG. 7 illustrates a schematic diagram of related parameters of a LP-WUS according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0070] FIG. 8 illustrates a schematic diagram of an interaction flow of a communication method when a first field is a times field according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0071] FIG. 9A illustrates a schematic diagram of a fifth monitoring manner according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0072] FIG. 9B illustrates a schematic diagram of a UE 10 monitoring a LP-WUS when a times field is a first times value according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0073] FIG. 9C illustrates a schematic diagram of the UE 10 monitoring the LP-WUS when the number of times field takes a second value according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

[0074] FIG. 9D illustrates a schematic diagram of the UE 10 monitoring the LP-WUS when the number of times field takes a third value according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

[0075] FIG. 9E illustrates a schematic diagram of a sixth monitoring mode according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

[0076] FIG. 10 illustrates a schematic diagram of an interaction process of a communication method in which a network-side device sends a number of times field through L1 signaling or L2 signaling according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

[0077] FIG. 11 illustrates a schematic diagram of an interaction process of a communication method in which a first field is a monitoring duration field according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

[0078] FIG. 12A illustrates a schematic diagram of a seventh monitoring mode according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

[0079] FIG. 12B illustrates a schematic diagram of an eighth monitoring mode according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

[0080] FIG. 13 illustrates a schematic diagram of an interaction process of a communication method in which a network-side device sends a monitoring duration field through L1 signaling or L2 signaling according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

[0081] FIG. 14 illustrates a schematic diagram of an interaction process of a communication method in which a first field is a type field according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

[0082] FIG. 15 illustrates a schematic diagram of an interaction process of a communication method in which a network-side device sends a type field through L1 signaling or L2 signaling according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

[0083] FIG. 16 illustrates a schematic diagram of an interaction process of a communication method according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

[0084] FIG. 17 illustrates a schematic diagram of a structure of a device 100 according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0085] Embodiments of the present disclosure include but are not limited to communication methods and related devices.

[0086] The technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure are described below with reference to the drawings.

[0087] FIG. 1 illustrates a diagram of a UE 10 listening to a PDCCH between the UE 10 and a network-side device 20 under a CDRX mechanism, according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0088] As shown in FIG. 1, after camping on a cell corresponding to the network-side device 20, the network-side device 20 can send CDRX configuration information, such as a DRX cycle, a duration of an active period (used to indicate a duration of the UE 10 listening to the PDCCH in a DRX cycle (e.g., the duration of the active period can be indicated by an onduration field)), etc., to the UE 10. After receiving the CDRX configuration information, the UE 10 can listen to the PDCCH in the active period of each DRX cycle and not listen to the PDCCH in the sleep period of each DRX cycle. During the time period when the UE 10 does not listen to the PDCCH, the receiver of the UE 10 for receiving signals can enter a sleep state, and the power consumption of the UE 10 can be reduced.

[0089] It should be noted that in some other embodiments, the CDRX configuration information received by the UE 10 can also be DRX configuration information.

[0090] However, as described in the background, if the network-side device sends data to the UE in the sleep period of the DRX cycle, the UE will not be able to receive the DCI, and thus receive the data in the next DRX cycle, causing data delay; if the network-side device only sends DCI to the UE through the PDCCH in a small part of the active period of the DRX cycle, continuously listening to the PDCCH in the active period will increase the power consumption of the UE.

[0091] In some embodiments, the UE can be configured with multiple receivers, such as a low-power wakeup receiver (LP-WUR) and a main radio receiver (MR) for listening to the PDCCH and receiving other data, where the power consumption of the LP-WUR is lower than that of the MR. The UE can listen to a low-power wakeup signal (LP-WUS) sent by the network-side device through the LP-WUR, and only wake up the MR to listen to the PDCCH in the case of listening to the LP-WUS. In the case where the MR is in a sleep state and the LP-WUR listens to the LP-WUS, the state of the UE can be referred to as an ultra-deep sleep mode.

[0092] Based on this, the UE can listen to the LP-WUS through the LP-WUR in the sleep period of the DRX cycle, and wake up the WR to listen to the PDCCH in the case of listening to the LP-WUS (for example, listening to the packet information indicated by the LP-WUS including the UE), which can ensure that the UE can also receive the data sent by the network side device in time in the sleep period of the DRX cycle. The UE can also control the MR to sleep and listen to the LP-WUS through the LP-WUR in the active period of the DRX, and wake up the WR to listen to the PDCCH in the case of listening to the LP-WUS, so that the UE does not need to continuously listen to the PDCCH in the active period of the DRX.

[0093] For example, FIG. 2 shows a schematic diagram of a UE 10 listening to the LP-WUS according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0094] Referring to FIG. 2, the UE 10 includes an LP-WUR 11 and an MR 12. In the case that the UE 10 is within the coverage of the LP-WUS of the network side device 20, the network side device 20 can enable the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS through RRC signaling (or other signaling or information).

[0095] For example, after receiving the RRC signaling, the UE 10 can listen to the LP-WUS through the LP-WUR 11 in the sleep period of the DRX cycle and control the MR 12 to sleep. If the network side device needs to send data to the UE 10 in the sleep period of the DRX cycle, it can first send the LP-WUS for the UE 10. After the UE 10 listens to the LP-WUS for the UE 10 through the LP-WUR 11, the MR 12 can be woken up to listen to the PDCCH, and after listening to the DCI in the PDCCH, the data sent by the network side device 20 can be received. In this way, it can be ensured that the UE 10 can also receive data in time in the sleep period of the DRX cycle.

[0096] For example, after receiving the RRC signaling, the UE 10 can listen to the LP-WUS through the LP-WUR 11 in the active period of the DRX cycle and control the MR 12 to sleep. If the network side device needs to send data to the UE 10 in the active period of the DRX cycle, it can first send the LP-WUS for the UE 10. After the UE 10 listens to the LP-WUS for the UE 10 through the LP-WUR 11, the MR 12 can be woken up to listen to the PDCCH, and after listening to the DCI in the PDCCH, the data sent by the network side device 20 can be received. In this way, in the active period of the DRX cycle, the UE 10 does not need to continuously wake up the MR 12, which is beneficial to reduce the power consumption of the UE 10.

[0097] It should be noted that the UE 10 can also listen to the LP-WUS in other manners to meet different performance requirements, such as power consumption requirements, network delay requirements, and the like.

[0098] For ease of understanding, several LP-WUS listening manners are introduced below.

[0099] The first listening manner (equivalent to option 1-1 in 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) technical specification (TS) 38.331R19):

[0100] For example, FIG. 3 shows a schematic diagram of the UE 10 listening to the LP-WUS in the first listening manner according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0101] As shown in FIG. 3, the UE 10 can listen to the LP-WUS at a certain time period of the DT time before the arrival of each DRX cycle. If the LP-WUS is listened to, the MR 12 is woken up to listen to the PDCCH in the active period of the next DRX cycle; if the LP-WUS is not listened to, the MR 12 remains dormant and does not listen to the PDCCH in the next DRX cycle. In this way, compared with the manner of listening to the PDCCH through the CDRX in FIG. 1, the power consumption of the UE 10 can be further reduced.

[0102] The second listening manner (equivalent to option 1-2-1 in 3GPP TS 38.331R19):

[0103] For another example, FIG. 4A shows another schematic diagram of the UE 10 listening to the LP-WUS according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0104] As shown in FIG. 4A, the UE 10 can wake up the MR 12 to continuously listen to the PDCCH in the active period of each DRX cycle, and control the MR 12 to sleep and listen to the LP-WUS in the sleep period of each DRX cycle. In the sleep period of each DRX cycle: the UE 10 wakes up the MR 12 to listen to the PDCCH if the LP-WUS is listened to; the UE 10 does not wake up the MR 12 if the LP-WUS is not listened to. In this way, it can be ensured that the UE 10 can also receive the data sent by the network side device 20 in time in the sleep period of the DRX cycle.

[0105] In some embodiments, the second listening manner shown in FIG. 4A listens to the LP-WUS, which can effectively reduce the time length of the data in the scenario of multiple periodic data transmission.

[0106] For example, FIG. 4B shows a schematic diagram of a data stream including data of multiple periods, according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0107] As shown in FIG. 4B, the data stream includes data D1 with a period of 10 ms and data D2 with a period of 16 ms, which are the common multiple of 10 ms and 16 ms as a whole. If only the CDRX mode is used to monitor the PDCCH, the DRX period will be the common multiple of 10 ms and 16 ms, i.e. 80 ms (or an integer multiple of the common multiple), and the active period of the DRX also needs to cover all the sub-data of data D1 and all the sub-data of data D2 within 80 ms, resulting in a too long active period. If the monitoring mode shown in FIG. 4A is used, the DRX period can be set to 10 ms (or 16 ms) and the active period covers the time point of the transmission of the sub-data of data D1 (or the sub-data of data D2), and the UE 10 can timely receive data D1 and data D2 by monitoring the LP-WUS in the sleep period through the LP-WUR 11.

[0108] The third monitoring mode (equivalent to option 1-2-2 in 3GPP TS 38.331 R19):

[0109] For example, FIG. 5A shows another schematic diagram of the UE 10 monitoring the LP-WUS, according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0110] As shown in FIG. 5A, the UE 10 can temporarily turn off the CDRX mechanism and control the MR 12 to sleep. The UE 10 can periodically monitor the LP-WUS and wake up the MR 12 to monitor the PDCCH when the LP-WUS is monitored.

[0111] Based on the third monitoring mode, in the case that the data transmitted by the network side device 20 to the UE 10 is non-periodic data or includes data of multiple periods, it can be ensured that each data can be timely received.

[0112] For example, referring to FIG. 5B, data D3 is non-periodic data. Before each time the network side device sends the sub-data of data D3, the network side device can first send the LP-WUS to enable the UE 10 to wake up the MR 12 to monitor the PDCCH, and receive the sub-data of data D3 after the DCI is monitored.

[0113] The fourth monitoring mode (equivalent to option 1-3 in 3GPP TS 38.331 R19):

[0114] For example, FIG. 6A shows another schematic diagram of the UE 10 monitoring the LP-WUS, according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0115] As shown in FIG. 6A, the UE 10 can temporarily turn off the CDRX mechanism and control the MR 12 to sleep. The UE 10 can listen to the LP-WUS in the active period of the DRX cycle and wake up the MR 12 to listen to the PDCCH if the LP-WUS is detected.

[0116] Based on the fourth listening manner, the data transmitted by the network-side device 20 to the UE 10 is periodic data, but in the case where the period of the periodic data has jitter or large jitter, both timely reception of each data and reduction of power consumption can be ensured.

[0117] For example, referring to FIG. 6B, the period of the data D4 is 10 ms, and the jitter is ±4 ms. Therefore, the offset of the time point at which the network-side device 20 transmits the sub-data of the data D4 is 4 ms+4 ms=8 ms. In order to ensure that the UE 10 correctly receives the data, the active period needs to be set to at least 8 ms when the CDRX mechanism shown in FIG. 1 is used to listen to the PDCCH. That is, the UE 10 needs to listen to the PDCCH for 8 ms in each 10 ms, which increases the power consumption.

[0118] If the fourth listening manner is used, the UE 10 only wakes up the MR 12 to listen to the PDCCH when the LP-WUS is detected. Since the network-side device 20 only transmits one sub-data of the data D4 in one 10 ms period, the UE 10 only needs to listen to the PDCCH once in one 10 ms period. In the case where the duration of listening to the PDCCH is 1 ms, the UE 10 only needs to listen to the PDCCH for 1 ms in each 10 ms, and the duration of listening to the PDCCH is shortened by 87.5%.

[0119] It should be noted that the first listening manner to the fourth listening manner are only examples, and in other embodiments, there can be other listening manners, which are not limited herein.

[0120] As can be seen from the first listening manner to the fourth listening manner, in order to meet different performance requirements (such as delay requirement, power consumption requirement, etc.) or adapt to different forms of data, the UE 10 needs to listen to the LP-WUS by different listening manners. However, before the UE receives the data, it cannot determine which listening manner is needed to listen to the LP-WUS.

[0121] Therefore, in the embodiments of the present application, a communication method is provided. In the method, the network-side device can send first information indicating a listening manner to the UE in the case where the UE needs to listen to the LP-WUS by the listening manner. The UE can listen to the LP-WUS according to the listening manner indicated by the first information after receiving the first information.

[0122] In some embodiments, the first information can include one or more first fields, and the contents of the first fields are different, and the indicated monitoring manners are also different. The network-side device can send, to the UE, the first information with the content of the first field being the content corresponding to the monitoring manner in a case where it is determined to instruct the UE to adopt the monitoring manner.

[0123] In some embodiments, the first information can include LP-WUS configuration information, and the first field can be one or more of a times field (N), a type field (type), and a monitoring duration field (lpwuscycletimer) embedded in the LP-WUS configuration information. The specific contents of the above fields and the monitoring manners indicated by different contents will be described below, and will not be described here.

[0124] It should be noted that the LP-WUS configuration information can include related parameters for monitoring LP-WUS. For example, referring to FIG. 7, the LP-WUS configuration information can include a cycle field for indicating a cycle for monitoring LP-WUS, a duration field for indicating a duration for monitoring LP-WUS in a cycle, and an offset field for indicating a time interval between monitoring LP-WUS and starting to monitor PDCCH.

[0125] In some embodiments, the offset field can have any value greater than or equal to 0. When the value of the offset field is 0, it indicates that the UE starts to monitor PDCCH after monitoring LP-WUS.

[0126] In some embodiments, the first information can also be L1 signaling (such as physical layer signaling) or L2 signaling (such as data link layer signaling), and the first field is the aforementioned times field (N), type field (type), or monitoring duration field (lpwuscycletimer) embedded in the L1 signaling or L2 signaling.

[0127] It should be noted that the naming and division of the cycle field, the monitoring duration field, the offset field, the times field, the type field, and the duration field in a cycle are only examples. In other embodiments, other named fields can be used to represent the above fields, multiple fields can be combined into one field and the contents of the above fields can be represented by different parts (such as different bits or different bytes) of the one field, and some fields can be reduced, which are not limited here.

[0128] The technical solutions of the present application will be described below in combination with different first fields.

[0129] First, the technical solution of the first field being a number of times field is introduced.

[0130] In some embodiments, the network-side device 20 can instruct the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in different listening manners by sending the number of times field with different values to the UE 10.

[0131] The first field is the number of times field, and the number of times field is embedded in the LP-WUS configuration information and sent.

[0132] Exemplarily, FIG. 8 shows an interaction flow diagram of a communication method when the first field is a type field according to some embodiments of the present application. As shown in FIG. 8, the flow includes the following steps:

[0133] S801, the network-side device 20 sends CDRX configuration information and LP-WUS configuration information to the UE 10, wherein the CDRX configuration information includes a duration field, and the LP-WUS configuration information includes a number of times field.

[0134] Exemplarily, the network-side device 20 can send the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information to the UE 10 through RRC signaling.

[0135] In some embodiments, the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information can be sent through the same RRC signaling, or can be sent through one RRC signaling respectively.

[0136] In some embodiments, the RRC signaling carrying the CDRX configuration information can be sent before, after or in parallel with the RRC signaling carrying the LP-WUS configuration information, which is not limited herein.

[0137] It should be noted that in other embodiments, the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information can also be sent through other signaling, and the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information can be sent through the same or different signaling, which is not limited herein.

[0138] In some embodiments, the number of times field can have preset multiple values, and different values correspond to different LP-WUS monitoring manners. For example, referring to Table 1 below: the first number of times value can indicate not monitoring LP-WUS (equivalent to monitoring PDCCH using CDRX mechanism), the second number of times value can indicate monitoring LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the second monitoring manner described above), the third number of times value can indicate periodically monitoring LP-WUS and turning off the CDRX mechanism (equivalent to the third monitoring manner described above), and the fourth number of times value can indicate monitoring LP-WUS in the active period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the fourth monitoring manner described above).

[0139] Table 1: Correspondence table between a number of times field and a monitoring manner

[0140] Exemplarily, the first number of times value can be 0, the second number of times value can be FF (hexadecimal), the third number of times value can be FE (hexadecimal), and the fourth number of times value can be 3. It should be noted that 0, FF, FE, and 3 are only an example, and the first number of times value to the fourth number of times value can be any value different from each other, which is not limited herein.

[0141] In some embodiments, the number of times field and the duration field can also be used to indicate the LP-WUS monitoring manner together. For example, referring to Table 2 below: when the number of times field is the first number of times value and the duration field is any value, it indicates not monitoring LP-WUS (equivalent to monitoring PDCCH using CDRX mechanism); when the number of times field is the second number of times value and the value of the duration field is not 0 (or greater than or equal to the first number of times threshold), it indicates monitoring LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the second monitoring manner described above); when the number of times field is the second number of times value and the value of the duration field is 0 (or less than the first number of times threshold), it indicates periodically monitoring LP-WUS and turning off the CDRX mechanism (equivalent to the third monitoring manner described above); and when the number of times field is the fourth number of times value, it indicates monitoring LP-WUS in the active period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the fourth monitoring manner described above).

[0142] Table 2: Correspondence table between a number of times field, a duration field, and a monitoring manner

[0143] It should be noted that the monitoring manner indicated by different number of times fields or the combination of the number of times field and the duration field is only an example.

[0144] In some embodiments, different number of times values of the number of times field can indicate different monitoring manners from the second monitoring manner to the fourth monitoring manner described above, and the fifth number of times value of the number of times field can indicate the first monitoring manner described above.

[0145] In some embodiments, the number of times field, or the combination of the number of times field and the duration field, can also indicate other listening manners.

[0146] For example, in some embodiments, when the number of times field takes the fourth value and the duration field takes a value other than 0, a fifth listening manner can also be indicated.

[0147] Exemplarily, the fifth listening manner can be:

[0148] In the case that PDCCH is listened to in the active period of the DRX cycle and no DCI is listened to, the fourth number of times of LP-WUS is listened to in the sleep period of the DRX cycle (the duration of each listening is determined by the period of listening duration field in the LP-WUS configuration information, and the period of listening is determined by the period field in the LP-WUS configuration information); in the case that PDCCH is listened to in the active period of the DRX cycle and DCI is listened to, no LP-WUS is listened to in the sleep period of the DRX cycle.

[0149] In some embodiments, during the process of listening to the fourth number of times of LP-WUS in one DRX cycle, after LP-WUS is listened to and PDCCH listening is triggered: if DCI is listened to, no LP-WUS is listened to in the DRX cycle; if no DCI is listened to and the fourth number of times of LP-WUS listening has not ended, LP-WUS can be continued to be listened to until the number of times reaches the fourth number of times.

[0150] Exemplarily, FIG. 9A shows a schematic diagram of a fifth listening manner according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0151] Assuming that the fourth number of times is 5, as shown in FIG. 9A:

[0152] In the case that no DCI is listened to in the active period of the DRX cycle C1, LP-WUS is listened to for 5 times in the sleep period of the DRX cycle C1, LP-WUS is listened to in the third time of listening to LP-WUS, PDCCH listening is triggered and DCI is listened to, and then LP-WUS is no longer listened to in the DRX cycle C1.

[0153] In the case that no DCI is listened to in the active period of the DRX cycle C2, LP-WUS is listened to for 5 times in the sleep period of the DRX cycle C2, LP-WUS is listened to in the second time of listening to LP-WUS, PDCCH listening is triggered and no DCI is listened to, and then LP-WUS is continued to be listened to in the DRX cycle C2.

[0154] In the case that DCI is listened to in the active period of the DRX cycle C3, no LP-WUS is listened to in the sleep period of the DRX cycle C3.

[0155] For example, in some embodiments, when the number field takes the fourth number value and the duration field takes the value of 0, a sixth listening mode can also be indicated: listening to the LP-WUS for the fourth number value of times from the beginning of each DRX cycle (the duration of each listening is determined by the in-cycle listening duration field of the LP-WUS configuration information, and the listening period is determined by the period field of the LP-WUS configuration information).

[0156] In some embodiments, the fifth listening mode and the sixth listening mode have similar listening effects as the fourth listening mode. That is, the fifth listening mode and the sixth listening mode can be used for listening to the LP-WUS during the transmission of data applicable to the fourth listening mode. Based on this, the second listening mode can correspond to the second number value, or the second value and the duration are not 0; the third listening mode can correspond to the third number value, or the second value and the duration are 0; the fourth listening mode can correspond to the fourth number value, or the fourth value and the duration are not 0 (equivalent to the fifth listening mode), or the fourth value and the duration are 0 (equivalent to the sixth listening mode).

[0157] Based on the fifth listening mode and the sixth listening mode described above, with reference to Table 3 below, the correspondence between the number field, the duration field, and the listening mode can be: the number field takes the first number value, corresponding to not listening to the LP-WUS; the number field takes the second number value and the duration field is not 0 (or greater than or equal to the second number threshold) corresponding to listening to the LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the second listening mode described above); the number field takes the second number value and the duration field is 0 (or less than the second number threshold) corresponding to turning off the CDRX mechanism to periodically listen to the LP-WUS (equivalent to the third listening mode described above); the number field takes the fourth number value different from the first number value and the second number value and the duration field is (or less than the third number threshold) corresponding to the sixth listening mode (or the fourth listening mode) described above, or the number field takes the fourth number value different from the first number value and the second number value and the duration field is not 0 (or greater than or equal to the third number threshold) corresponding to the fifth listening mode (or the fourth listening mode) described above.

[0158] Table 3: Correspondence between number field, duration field, and listening mode

[0159] It should be noted that the correspondence between the number field, or the combination of the number field and the duration field, and the listening mode of the LP-WUS is only an example. In other embodiments, different correspondence can also be used, which is not limited herein.

[0160] It should be noted that the CDRX configuration information can further include other fields, for example, a cycle field indicating a DRX cycle, etc.

[0161] It should be noted that the LP-WUS configuration information can further include other fields, for example, the aforementioned offset field, an in-cycle monitoring duration field, a cycle field, etc.

[0162] It should be noted that the correspondence between the number of times field and the monitoring manner shown in the aforementioned Tables 1-3, or the correspondence between the number of times field, the duration field and the monitoring manner, is only an example. In another embodiment, part of the correspondence in the aforementioned Tables 1-3 can be used, or the correspondence in Tables 1-3 can be combined to obtain other correspondence, which is not limited herein.

[0163] For example, with reference to Table 4 below, the correspondence between the number of times field and the monitoring manner can be: the number of times field is the first number of times, corresponding to not monitoring the LP-WUS; the number of times field is the aforementioned second number of times, corresponding to monitoring the LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the aforementioned second monitoring manner); and the number of times field is the aforementioned fourth number of times, corresponding to the aforementioned fifth monitoring manner.

[0164] Table 4: Correspondence between number of times field and monitoring manner

[0165] Based on the correspondence of Table 4 above, when the value of the duration field is small (for example, the same as or less than a certain threshold in the cycle field in the LP-WUS configuration information), the monitoring effect of the second monitoring manner is equivalent to that of the third monitoring manner.

[0166] In some embodiments, the network-side device 20 can determine the monitoring manner in which the UE 10 needs to monitor the LP-WUS based on the characteristics or types of the data transmitted to the UE 10, and send the number field indicating the determined monitoring manner. For example, in the case where the data transmitted by the network-side device 20 to the UE 10 is data including multiple cycles, the network-side device 20 can determine to instruct the UE 10 to monitor the LP-WUS in the second monitoring manner described above, and send the LP-WUS configuration information indicating the second monitoring manner to the UE 10 by indicating the content of the number field. For another example, in the case where the data transmitted by the network-side device 20 to the UE 10 is aperiodic data, the network-side device 20 can determine to instruct the UE 10 to monitor the LP-WUS in the third monitoring manner described above, and send the LP-WUS configuration information indicating the third monitoring manner to the UE 10 by indicating the content of the number field. For yet another example, in the case where the data transmitted by the network-side device 20 to the UE 10 is periodic data with large cycle jitter, the network-side device 20 can determine to instruct the UE 10 to monitor the LP-WUS in the third monitoring manner described above, and send the LP-WUS configuration information indicating the third monitoring manner to the UE 10 by indicating the content of the number field.

[0167] S802, the UE 10 monitors the LP-WUS in the monitoring manner matching the content of the number field.

[0168] After receiving the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information, the UE 10 can monitor the LP-WUS in the corresponding monitoring manner according to different values of the number field.

[0169] For example, the UE 10 can determine the monitoring manner matching the content of the number field by using any one of the corresponding relationships in Tables 1 to 4 described above, and monitor the LP-WUS in the determined monitoring manner.

[0170] For example, in the case where the corresponding relationship shown in Table 1 described above is used, the UE 10 can not monitor the LP-WUS in the case where the number field is the first number value described above, monitor the LP-WUS in the second monitoring manner described above in the case where the number field is the second number value described above, monitor the LP-WUS in the third monitoring manner described above in the case where the number field is the third number value described above, and monitor the LP-WUS in the fourth monitoring manner described above in the case where the number field is the fourth number value described above.

[0171] For example, FIG. 9B illustrates a schematic diagram of UE 10 monitoring LP-WUS when the number field takes a first number value according to some embodiments of the present application; FIG. 9C illustrates a schematic diagram of UE 10 monitoring LP-WUS when the number field takes a second number value according to some embodiments of the present application; and FIG. 9D illustrates a schematic diagram of UE 10 monitoring LP-WUS when the number field takes a third number value according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0172] Referring to FIG. 9B, when the number field takes a first number value (e.g. the aforementioned 0), it is equivalent to not monitoring LP-WUS, and UE 10 monitors PDCCH in the active period of the DRX cycle and does not monitor PDCCH in the sleep period of the DRX cycle according to the CDRX mechanism.

[0173] Referring to FIG. 9C, when the number field takes a second number value (e.g. the aforementioned FF), it is equivalent to monitoring PDCCH in the active period of the DRX cycle and monitoring LP-WUS between the active periods of two DRX cycles (i.e. the sleep period of the DRX cycle). During the monitoring of LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle, if LP-WUS is monitored, WR 12 monitors PDCCH, otherwise WR 12 sleeps. Referring to FIG. 9D, when the number field takes a third number value (e.g. the aforementioned FE), it is equivalent to turning off the CDRX mechanism and only monitoring LP-WUS. During the monitoring of LP-WUS, if LP-WUS is monitored, WR 12 monitors PDCCH, otherwise WR 12 sleeps.

[0174] When the number field takes a fourth number value (e.g. other values different from the aforementioned 0, FF, FE), UE 10 can monitor LP-WUS in the active period of the DRX cycle. During the monitoring of LP-WUS, if LP-WUS is monitored, WR 12 monitors PDCCH, otherwise WR 12 sleeps. Details can be referred to the embodiment shown in the aforementioned FIG. 6A, which will not be described here.

[0175] In some embodiments, the monitoring manner is related to the content of the number field and the content of the duration field. In this case, the monitoring manner matched with the content of the number field can be the monitoring manner matched with the combination of the number value of the number field and the content of the duration field.

[0176] For example, referring to the correspondence relationship shown in Table 2, the UE 10 can not monitor the LP-WUS when the number field takes the first number value; monitor the LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle when the number field takes the second number value and the duration field is not 0 (equivalent to the second monitoring manner); monitor the LP-WUS periodically when the CDRX mechanism is turned off when the number field takes the second number value and the duration field is 0 (equivalent to the third monitoring manner); and monitor the LP-WUS in the fourth monitoring manner when the number field takes the fourth number value (e.g., any value different from the first number value and the second number value).

[0177] For example, referring to the correspondence relationship shown in Table 3, the UE 10 can not monitor the LP-WUS when the number field takes the first number value; monitor the LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle when the number field takes the second number value and the duration field is not 0 (equivalent to the second monitoring manner); monitor the LP-WUS periodically when the CDRX mechanism is turned off when the number field takes the second number value and the duration field is 0 (equivalent to the third monitoring manner); and monitor the LP-WUS in the sixth monitoring manner when the number field takes the fourth number value different from the first number value and the second number value and the duration field is 0, or monitor the LP-WUS in the fifth monitoring manner when the number field takes the fourth number value different from the first number value and the second number value and the duration field is not 0. The monitoring effects of the second monitoring manner to the fifth monitoring manner can refer to the embodiments of FIGS. 9A to 9D, or FIGS. 3 to 6B, which will not be described herein.

[0178] FIG. 9E shows a schematic diagram of a sixth monitoring manner, according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0179] As shown in FIG. 9E, the UE 10 monitors the LP-WUS three times in the active period of the DRX cycle when the number field takes the third number value (e.g., 3). During the monitoring of the LP-WUS, if the LP-WUS is monitored, the WR 12 monitors the PDCCH, otherwise the WR 12 sleeps. During the monitoring of the PDCCH in a certain DRX cycle, if the DCI is monitored, the LP-WUS in the DRX cycle can no longer be monitored; if the DCI is not monitored, the LP-WUS continues to be monitored until the number of times of monitoring the LP-WUS reaches three. In some embodiments, the duration of monitoring the LP-WUS each time can be determined by the monitoring duration field in the cycle, and the cycle of monitoring can be determined by the cycle field of the LP-WUS configuration information.

[0180] By the above method, the network-side device 20 can enable the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in different listening manners by sending different number of times fields, or different number of times fields and duration fields, to the UE 10.

[0181] The first field is the number of times field, and the number of times field is not sent together with the LP-WUS configuration information.

[0182] In some embodiments, the number of times field can also be sent separately from the LP-WUS configuration information. For example, the network-side device 20 can first send the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information not including the number of times field to the UE 10 (for example, by RRC signaling), and then activate the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in a listening manner corresponding to the value of the number of times field by sending L1 signaling or L2 signaling including the number of times field to the UE 10 in the case of needing to enable the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS.

[0183] Exemplarily, FIG. 10 shows an interaction flow diagram of a communication method of a network-side device sending a number of times field through L1 signaling or L2 signaling according to some embodiments of the present application. As shown in FIG. 10, the method includes the following steps:

[0184] S1001, the network-side device 20 sends CDRX configuration information and LP-WUS configuration information to the UE 10, wherein the CDRX configuration information includes a duration field, and the LP-WUS configuration information does not include a number of times field.

[0185] In some embodiments, the UE 10 can store the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information upon receiving the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information.

[0186] In some embodiments, the UE 10 can first listen to the PDCCH based on the CDRX mechanism after receiving the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information.

[0187] S1002, the network-side device 20 sends activation information including the number of times field to the UE 10.

[0188] The network-side device 20 can send activation information including the number of times field (for example, L1 signaling or L2 signaling including the number of times field) to the UE 10 in the case of needing to instruct the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in a certain listening manner, wherein the value of the number of times field corresponds to the listening manner.

[0189] It should be noted that the correspondence between the value of the number of times field and the listening manner can refer to the content of the aforementioned steps S801 and S802, for example, the content of the aforementioned tables 1 to 4, which will not be repeated here.

[0190] S1003, the UE 10 listens to the LP-WUS in the listening mode matching the content of the number of times field.

[0191] After receiving the L1 signaling or L2 signaling including the number of times field, the UE 10 can listen to the LP-WUS in the listening mode corresponding to the value of the number of times field.

[0192] It should be noted that the correspondence between the value of the number of times field and the listening mode can refer to the content of the aforementioned steps S801 and S802, which will not be repeated here.

[0193] The technical solution in which the first field is a listening duration field will be introduced below.

[0194] In some embodiments, the network-side device 20 can instruct the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in different listening modes by sending the UE 10 the listening duration field with different values.

[0195] The first field is the listening duration field, and the listening duration field is embedded in the LP-WUS configuration information for transmission.

[0196] Exemplarily, FIG. 11 shows an interaction flow diagram of a communication method when the first field is a listening duration field according to some embodiments of the present application. As shown in FIG. 11, the flow includes the following steps:

[0197] S1101, the network-side device 20 sends the UE 10 CDRX configuration information and LP-WUS configuration information, wherein the CDRX configuration information includes a duration field, and the LP-WUS configuration information includes a listening duration field.

[0198] Exemplarily, the network-side device 20 can send the UE 10 the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information through RRC signaling.

[0199] In some embodiments, the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information can be sent through the same RRC signaling, or each can be sent through an RRC signaling.

[0200] In some embodiments, the RRC signaling carrying the CDRX configuration information can be sent before, after, or in parallel with the RRC signaling carrying the LP-WUS configuration information, which is not limited here.

[0201] It should be noted that in other embodiments, the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information can also be sent through other signaling, and the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information can be sent through the same or different signaling, which is not limited here.

[0202] In some embodiments, the listening duration field can have a plurality of preset values, and different values correspond to different LP-WUS listening modes. For example, referring to Table 5 below, the first duration value can indicate not listening to LP-WUS (equivalent to listening to PDCCH using the CDRX mechanism), the second duration value can indicate listening to LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the second listening mode described above), the third duration value can indicate periodically listening to LP-WUS and turning off the CDRX mechanism (equivalent to the third listening mode described above), and the fourth duration value can indicate listening to LP-WUS in the active period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the fourth listening mode described above).

[0203] Table 5: Correspondence table between one listening duration field and listening mode

[0204] Exemplarily, the first duration value can be 0, the second duration value can be FF (hexadecimal), the third duration value can be FE (hexadecimal), and the fourth duration value can be 3. It should be noted that 0, FF, FE, and 3 are only an example, and the first duration value to the fourth duration value can be any value different from each other, which is not limited here.

[0205] In some embodiments, the listening duration field and the duration field can also be used together to indicate the listening mode of the LP-WUS. For example, referring to Table 6 below, when the listening duration field is the first duration value and the duration field is any value, it indicates not listening to LP-WUS (equivalent to listening to PDCCH using the CDRX mechanism); when the listening duration field is the second duration value and the value of the duration field is not 0 (or greater than or equal to the first duration threshold), it indicates listening to LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the second listening mode described above); when the listening duration field is the second duration value and the value of the duration field is 0 (or less than the first duration threshold), it indicates periodically listening to LP-WUS and turning off the CDRX mechanism (equivalent to the third listening mode described above); and when the listening duration field is the fourth duration value, it indicates listening to LP-WUS in the active period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the fourth listening mode described above).

[0206] Table 6: Correspondence table between one listening duration field, one duration field, and listening mode

[0207] It should be noted that the monitoring manner indicated by different values of the monitoring duration field or the combination of the monitoring duration field and the duration field is only an example.

[0208] In some embodiments, different values of the monitoring duration field can indicate different monitoring manners from the second to fourth monitoring manners described above. When the monitoring duration field is of a fifth value, the first monitoring manner described above can be indicated.

[0209] In some embodiments, the monitoring duration field or the combination of the monitoring duration field and the duration field described above can also indicate other monitoring manners.

[0210] For example, in some embodiments, when the monitoring duration field is of a fourth value and the value of the duration field is not 0, a seventh monitoring manner can also be indicated.

[0211] For example, the seventh monitoring manner can be:

[0212] In the case of monitoring PDCCH in the active period of the DRX cycle and not monitoring DCI, the LP-WUS is monitored for a fourth value of the duration before the sleep period of the DRX (the monitoring period is determined by the period field of the LP-WUS configuration information, and the monitoring duration in each period is determined by the monitoring duration field in the period of the LP-WUS configuration information); in the case of monitoring PDCCH in the active period of the DRX cycle and monitoring DCI, the LP-WUS is not monitored in the sleep period of the DRX.

[0213] In some embodiments, during the process of monitoring the LP-WUS for a fourth duration in the sleep period of a DRX cycle, after monitoring the LP-WUS and triggering the monitoring of PDCCH: if DCI is monitored, the LP-WUS is no longer monitored in the DRX cycle; if DCI is not monitored and the monitoring duration of the LP-WUS has not reached the fourth value of the duration, the LP-WUS can continue to be monitored until the monitoring duration reaches the fourth value of the duration.

[0214] For example, FIG. 12A shows a schematic diagram of a seventh monitoring manner according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0215] Assuming that the fourth value of the duration is 3ms, as shown in FIG. 12A:

[0216] In the case of not monitoring DCI in the active period of the DRX cycle C4, the LP-WUS is monitored for 3ms before the sleep period of the DRX cycle C4; in the case of monitoring the LP-WUS for 2ms in the sleep period of the DRX cycle C2, the LP-WUS is monitored, triggering the monitoring of PDCCH and monitoring DCI, so the LP-WUS is no longer monitored in the DRX cycle C1.

[0217] If no DCI is monitored in the active period of the DRX cycle C5, the UE 10 monitors the LP-WUS 3 ms before the sleep period of the DRX cycle C2, monitors the LP-WUS in the second ms of the sleep period of the DRX cycle C2, triggers the PDCCH monitoring, and no DCI is monitored. The UE 10 continues to monitor the LP-WUS for 1 ms in the sleep period of the DRX cycle C2.

[0218] If DCI is monitored in the active period of the DRX cycle C6, the UE 10 does not monitor the LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle C3.

[0219] For example, in some embodiments, when the monitoring duration field takes the fourth value, and the value of the duration field is 0, the eighth monitoring manner can be indicated: monitoring the LP-WUS from the fourth value before each DRX cycle (the period of monitoring is determined by the period field of the LP-WUS configuration information, and the duration of monitoring in each period is determined by the monitoring duration field in the period of the LP-WUS configuration information).

[0220] For example, FIG. 12B shows a schematic diagram of the eighth monitoring manner according to some embodiments of the present application.

[0221] As shown in FIG. 12B, the UE 10 can control the MR 12 to sleep and monitor the LP-WUS from the fourth value before the active period of each DRX cycle. If the LP-WUS is monitored in the fourth value before the active period of each DRX cycle, the UE 10 can wake up the MR 12 to monitor the PDCCH. If DCI is monitored during the PDCCH monitoring, the DRX cycle no longer monitors the LP-WUS; if no DCI is monitored, the LP-WUS continues to be monitored until the monitoring duration of the LP-WUS reaches the fourth value.

[0222] In some embodiments, the seventh monitoring manner and the eighth monitoring manner have similar monitoring effects as the fourth monitoring manner. That is, the seventh monitoring manner and the eighth monitoring manner can be used for monitoring the LP-WUS during the transmission of data applicable to the fourth monitoring manner. Based on this, the second monitoring manner can correspond to the second value, or the second value and the duration are not 0; the third monitoring manner can correspond to the third value, or the second value and the duration are 0; the fourth monitoring manner can correspond to the fourth value, or the fourth value and the duration are not 0 (equivalent to the fifth monitoring manner), or the fourth value and the duration are 0 (equivalent to the sixth monitoring manner).

[0223] Based on the seventh and eighth listening manners, with reference to Table 7, the correspondence between the listening duration field, the duration field and the listening manner can be: the listening duration field takes the first duration value, corresponding to not listening to the LP-WUS; the listening duration field takes the second duration value and the duration field is not 0 (or greater than or equal to the second duration threshold), corresponding to listening to the LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the second listening manner); the listening duration field takes the second duration value and the duration field is 0 (or less than the second duration threshold), corresponding to turning off the CDRX mechanism to periodically listen to the LP-WUS (equivalent to the third listening manner); the listening duration field takes a fourth duration value different from the first and second duration values and the duration field is 0 (or less than the third duration threshold), corresponding to the eighth listening manner (or the fourth listening manner), or the listening duration field takes a fourth duration value different from the first and second duration values and the duration field is not 0 (or greater than or equal to the third duration threshold), corresponding to the seventh listening manner (or the fourth listening manner).

[0224] Table 7: Correspondence between listening duration field, duration field and listening manner

[0225] It should be noted that the correspondence between the listening duration field or the combination of the listening duration field and the duration field and the listening manner of the LP-WUS is only an example. In other embodiments, different correspondence from the foregoing embodiments can also be used, which is not limited herein.

[0226] It should be noted that the CDRX configuration information can also include other fields, such as a cycle field indicating the DRX cycle, etc.

[0227] It should be noted that the LP-WUS configuration information can also include other fields, such as the aforementioned offset field, the in-cycle listening duration field, the cycle field, etc.

[0228] It should be noted that the correspondence between the listening duration field and the listening manner shown in Tables 5 to 7, or the correspondence between the listening duration field, the duration field and the listening manner is only an example. In another embodiment, part of the correspondence in Tables 5 to 7 can be used, or the correspondence in Tables 5 to 7 can be combined to obtain other correspondence, which is not limited herein.

[0229] For example, with reference to Table 8 below, the correspondence between the listening duration field and the listening manner can be as follows: the listening duration field takes the value of the first duration, corresponding to not listening to the LP-WUS; the listening duration field takes the value of the second duration, corresponding to listening to the LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the second listening manner); and the listening duration field takes the value of the fourth duration, corresponding to the seventh listening manner.

[0230] Table 8: A table of correspondence between a listening duration field and a listening manner

[0231] Based on the correspondence in Table 8 above, when the value of the duration field is small (e.g., the same as or less than a certain threshold in the period field in the LP-WUS configuration information), the listening effect of the second listening manner is equivalent to that of the third listening manner.

[0232] In some embodiments, the network-side device 20 can determine the listening manner in which the UE 10 needs to listen to the LP-WUS based on the characteristics or types of the data transmitted to the UE 10, and send the listening duration field indicating the determined listening manner. For example, in the case where the data transmitted by the network-side device 20 to the UE 10 is data including multiple periods, the network-side device 20 can determine to instruct the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in the second listening manner, and send the LP-WUS configuration information in which the content of the listening duration field indicates the second listening manner to the UE 10. For another example, in the case where the data transmitted by the network-side device 20 to the UE 10 is non-periodic data, the network-side device 20 can determine to instruct the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in the third listening manner, and send the LP-WUS configuration information in which the content of the listening duration field indicates the third listening manner to the UE 10. For yet another example, in the case where the data transmitted by the network-side device 20 to the UE 10 is periodic data with large period jitter, the network-side device 20 can determine to instruct the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in the third listening manner, and send the LP-WUS configuration information in which the content of the listening duration field indicates the third listening manner to the UE 10.

[0233] S1102, the UE 10 listens to the LP-WUS in the listening manner matched with the listening duration field or the combination of the listening duration field and the duration field.

[0234] After receiving the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information, the UE 10 can listen to the LP-WUS in the corresponding listening manner according to different values of the listening duration field, or different combinations of the value of the listening duration field and the duration field.

[0235] Exemplarily, the UE 10 can determine a listening manner matching the content of the listening duration field by any one of the aforementioned correspondence relations in Table 5 to Table 9, and listen to the LP-WUS in the determined listening manner.

[0236] For example, for the correspondence relation shown in the aforementioned Table 5, the UE 10 can not listen to the LP-WUS in the case that the listening duration field takes the aforementioned first duration value; listen to the LP-WUS in the aforementioned second listening manner in the case that the listening duration field takes the aforementioned second duration value; listen to the LP-WUS in the aforementioned third listening manner in the case that the listening duration field takes the aforementioned third duration value; and listen to the LP-WUS in the aforementioned fourth listening manner in the case that the listening duration field takes the aforementioned fourth duration value.

[0237] For example, for the correspondence relation shown in the aforementioned Table 6, the UE 10 can not listen to the LP-WUS in the case that the listening duration field takes the aforementioned first duration value; listen to the LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle in the case that the listening duration field takes the aforementioned second duration value and the duration field is not 0 (equivalent to the aforementioned second listening manner); periodically listen to the LP-WUS by turning off the CDRX mechanism in the case that the listening duration field takes the aforementioned second duration value and the duration field is 0 (equivalent to the aforementioned third listening manner); and listen to the LP-WUS in the aforementioned seventh listening manner in the case that the listening duration field takes a fourth duration value different from the first duration value and the second duration value.

[0238] For example, for the correspondence relation shown in the aforementioned Table 7, the UE 10 can not listen to the LP-WUS in the case that the listening duration field takes the aforementioned first duration value; listen to the LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle in the case that the listening duration field takes the aforementioned second duration value and the duration field is not 0 (equivalent to the aforementioned second listening manner); periodically listen to the LP-WUS by turning off the CDRX mechanism in the case that the listening duration field takes the aforementioned second duration value and the duration field is 0 (equivalent to the aforementioned third listening manner); listen to the LP-WUS in the aforementioned eighth listening manner in the case that the listening duration field takes a fourth duration value different from the first duration value and the second duration value and the duration field is 0, or listen to the LP-WUS in the aforementioned seventh listening manner in the case that the listening duration field takes a fourth duration value different from the first duration value and the second duration value and the duration field is not 0.

[0239] For example, for the correspondence shown in Table 8, the UE 10 can not listen to the LP-WUS when the listening duration field takes the first value, listen to the LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle in the second listening mode when the listening duration field takes the second value, and listen to the LP-WUS in the seventh listening mode when the listening duration field takes the fourth value (e.g., any value different from the first value and the second value). When the UE 10 listens to the LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle in the second listening mode, if the duration field is longer, the listening effect of the listening mode is equivalent to the second listening mode; if the duration field is shorter (e.g., the same as or less than a certain threshold value), the listening effect of the listening mode is equivalent to the third listening mode.

[0240] By the above method, the network side device 20 can enable the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in different listening modes by sending different listening duration fields, or different listening duration fields and duration fields, to the UE 10.

[0241] The first field is the listening duration field, and the listening duration field is not sent together with the LP-WUS configuration information.

[0242] In some embodiments, the listening duration field can also be sent separately from the LP-WUS configuration information. For example, the network side device 20 can first send the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information without the listening duration field to the UE 10 (e.g., by RRC signaling), and then activate the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in the listening mode corresponding to the value of the listening duration field by sending the L1 signaling or L2 signaling including the listening duration field to the UE 10 when it is necessary to enable the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS.

[0243] Exemplarily, FIG. 13 shows an interaction flow diagram of a communication method of sending the listening duration field by the network side device through L1 signaling or L2 signaling according to some embodiments of the present application. As shown in FIG. 13, the method includes the following steps:

[0244] S1301, the network side device 20 sends the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information to the UE 10, wherein the CDRX configuration information includes the duration field, and the LP-WUS configuration information does not include the listening duration field.

[0245] In some embodiments, the UE 10 can store the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information upon receiving the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information.

[0246] In some embodiments, after receiving the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information, the UE 10 can first listen to the PDCCH based on the CDRX mechanism.

[0247] At S1302, the network-side device 20 sends, to the UE 10, activation information including a listening duration field.

[0248] In a case where the network-side device needs to instruct the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in a certain listening manner, the network-side device can send, to the UE 10, activation information (e.g., L1 signaling or L2 signaling) including a listening duration field, where the value of the listening duration field corresponds to the listening manner.

[0249] It should be noted that the correspondence between the value of the listening duration field and the listening manner can refer to the content of the aforementioned steps S1101 and S1102, which will not be repeated here.

[0250] At S1303, the UE 10 listens to the LP-WUS in a listening manner matching the content of the listening duration field.

[0251] After receiving the activation information (e.g., L1 signaling or L2 signaling) including the listening duration field, the UE 10 can listen to the LP-WUS in the listening manner corresponding to the value of the listening duration field.

[0252] It should be noted that the correspondence between the value of the listening duration field and the listening manner can refer to the content of the aforementioned steps S1101 and S1102, such as the content of the aforementioned Tables 5 to 8, which will not be repeated here.

[0253] Through the above method, the network-side device 20 can enable the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in different listening manners by sending different listening duration fields, or different listening duration fields and duration fields, to the UE 10.

[0254] The following introduces a technical solution in which the first field is a type field.

[0255] In some embodiments, the network-side device 20 can instruct the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in different listening manners by sending type fields with different values to the UE 10.

[0256] The first field is a type field, and the type field is embedded in the LP-WUS configuration information and sent.

[0257] Exemplarily, FIG. 14 shows an interaction flow diagram of a communication method when the first field is a type field, according to some embodiments of the present application. As shown in FIG. 14, the flow includes the following steps:

[0258] S1401, the network side device 20 sends CDRX configuration information and LP-WUS configuration information to the UE 10, wherein the CDRX configuration information comprises a duration field, and the LP-WUS configuration information comprises a type field.

[0259] Exemplarily, the network side device 20 can send the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information to the UE 10 through RRC signaling.

[0260] In some embodiments, the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information can be sent through the same RRC signaling, or can be sent through an RRC signaling respectively.

[0261] In some embodiments, the RRC signaling carrying the CDRX configuration information can be sent before, after or in parallel with the RRC signaling carrying the LP-WUS configuration information, which is not limited herein.

[0262] It should be noted that, in other embodiments, the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information can also be sent through other signaling, and the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information can be sent through the same or different signaling, which is not limited herein.

[0263] In some embodiments, the type field can have a plurality of preset values, and different values correspond to different LP-WUS monitoring manners. For example, a first type value can indicate not monitoring LP-WUS (equivalent to monitoring PDCCH by using CDRX mechanism), a second type value can indicate monitoring LP-WUS in the sleep period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the second monitoring manner described above), a third type value can indicate monitoring LP-WUS periodically and turning off the CDRX mechanism (equivalent to the third monitoring manner described above), and a fourth type value can indicate monitoring LP-WUS in the active period of the DRX cycle (equivalent to the fourth monitoring manner described above).

[0264] Exemplarily, the first type value can be type0, the second type value can be type1, the third type value can be type1, and the fourth type value can be type1. It should be noted that type0, type1, type2 and type3 are only an example, and the first type value to the fourth type value can be any value different from each other, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., which is not limited herein.

[0265] In some embodiments, if there is no type field in the LP-WUS configuration information, or the type field has a null value, it can indicate not monitoring the LP-WUS. In this case, referring to Table 9 below, the second type value, the third type value, and the fourth type value correspond to the second monitoring manner, the third monitoring manner, and the fourth monitoring manner, respectively.

[0266] Table 9: Correspondence table between a type field and a monitoring manner

[0267] In some embodiments, different type values of the type field can indicate different monitoring manners from the aforementioned second monitoring manner to the fourth monitoring manner.

[0268] For example, referring to Table 10 below, when the type field is a fifth type value, it can indicate the aforementioned fifth monitoring manner; when the type field is a sixth type value, it can indicate the aforementioned sixth monitoring manner; when the type field is a seventh type value, it can indicate the aforementioned seventh monitoring manner; and when the type field is an eighth type value, it can indicate the aforementioned eighth monitoring manner.

[0269] Table 10: Correspondence table between a type field and a monitoring manner

[0270] For another example, referring to Table 11 below, the second type value to the sixth type value of the type field can correspond to the aforementioned second monitoring manner to the sixth monitoring manner, respectively.

[0271] Table 11: Correspondence table between a type field and a monitoring manner

[0272] For another example, referring to Table 12 below, the second type value to the sixth type value of the type field can correspond to the aforementioned second monitoring manner to the fourth monitoring manner, the seventh monitoring manner, and the eighth monitoring manner, respectively.

[0273] Table 12: Correspondence table between a type field and a monitoring manner

[0274] In some embodiments, the network-side device 20 can determine the monitoring manner in which the UE 10 needs to monitor the LP-WUS based on the characteristics or types of the data transmitted to the UE 10, and send the type field indicating the determined monitoring manner. For example, in the case where the data transmitted by the network-side device 20 to the UE 10 is data including multiple cycles, the network-side device 20 can determine to instruct the UE 10 to monitor the LP-WUS in the second monitoring manner described above, and send the UE 10 the LP-WUS configuration information whose content indicates the second monitoring manner. For another example, in the case where the data transmitted by the network-side device 20 to the UE 10 is aperiodic data, the network-side device 20 can determine to instruct the UE 10 to monitor the LP-WUS in the third monitoring manner described above, and send the UE 10 the LP-WUS configuration information whose content indicates the third monitoring manner. For another example, in the case where the data transmitted by the network-side device 20 to the UE 10 is periodic data with large cycle jitter, the network-side device 20 can determine to instruct the UE 10 to monitor the LP-WUS in the third monitoring manner described above, and send the UE 10 the LP-WUS configuration information whose content indicates the third monitoring manner.

[0275] S1402, the UE 10 monitors the LP-WUS in the monitoring manner matching the type field.

[0276] After receiving the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information, the UE 10 can monitor the LP-WUS in the corresponding monitoring manner according to the different type values of the type field.

[0277] For example, for the corresponding relationship shown in Table 9, the UE 10 can not monitor the LP-WUS in the case where the type field is of the first type described above, monitor the LP-WUS in the second monitoring manner described above in the case where the type field is of the second type described above, monitor the LP-WUS in the third monitoring manner described above in the case where the type field is of the third type described above, and monitor the LP-WUS in the fourth monitoring manner described above in the case where the type field is of the fourth type described above.

[0278] For another example, for the corresponding relationship shown in Table 10, in addition to the above manners, the UE 10 can monitor the LP-WUS in the fifth monitoring manner described above in the case where the type field is of the fifth type, monitor the LP-WUS in the sixth monitoring manner in the case where the type field is of the sixth type, monitor the LP-WUS in the seventh monitoring manner in the case where the type field is of the seventh type, and monitor the LP-WUS in the eighth monitoring manner in the case where the type field is of the eighth type.

[0279] For example, for the correspondence shown in Table 11, the UE 10 can employ the second monitoring manner to the sixth monitoring manner respectively to monitor the LP-WUS when the type field takes the second type value to the sixth type value respectively.

[0280] For example, for the correspondence shown in Table 12, the UE 10 can employ the second monitoring manner to the fourth monitoring manner respectively to monitor the LP-WUS, employ the seventh monitoring manner and the eighth monitoring manner to monitor the LP-WUS when the type field takes the second type value to the sixth type value respectively.

[0281] By the above method, the network side device 20 can enable the UE 10 to employ different monitoring manners to monitor the LP-WUS by sending the UE 10 the type field with different values, or the combination of the type field with different values and the duration field.

[0282] The first field is the monitoring duration field, and the monitoring duration field is not sent together with the LP-WUS configuration information.

[0283] In some embodiments, the monitoring duration field can also be sent separately from the LP-WUS configuration information. For example, the network side device 20 can first send the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information (for example, sent by RRC signaling) not including the monitoring duration field to the UE 10. In the case of enabling the UE 10 to monitor the LP-WUS, the UE 10 is activated to employ the monitoring manner corresponding to the value of the monitoring duration field to monitor the LP-WUS by sending the UE 10 the L1 signaling or L2 signaling including the monitoring duration field.

[0284] Exemplarily, FIG. 15 shows an interaction flow diagram of a communication method of a network side device sending a type field by L1 signaling or L2 signaling according to some embodiments of the present application. As shown in FIG. 15, the method includes the following steps:

[0285] S1501, the network side device 20 sends the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information to the UE 10, wherein the CDRX configuration information includes the duration field, and the LP-WUS configuration information does not include the type field.

[0286] In some embodiments, the UE 10 can store the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information upon receiving the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information.

[0287] In some embodiments, the UE 10 can first monitor the PDCCH based on the CDRX mechanism after receiving the CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information.

[0288] S1502, the network-side device 20 sends, to the UE 10, activation information including a type field.

[0289] The network-side device 20 can send, to the UE 10, activation information (e.g., L1 signaling or L2 signaling including a type field) including a type field in a case where it is needed to instruct the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in a certain listening manner, where the value of the type field corresponds to the listening manner.

[0290] It should be noted that the correspondence between the value of the type field and the listening manner can refer to the content of the aforementioned steps S1401 and S1402, such as the correspondence shown in the aforementioned Tables 8 to 12, which will not be repeated here.

[0291] S1503, the UE 10 listens to the LP-WUS in the listening manner matching the content of the type field.

[0292] After receiving the activation information (e.g., L1 signaling or L2 signaling) including the type field, the UE 10 can listen to the LP-WUS in the listening manner corresponding to the value of the type field.

[0293] It should be noted that the correspondence between the value of the type field and the listening manner can refer to the content of the aforementioned steps S1401 and S1402, which will not be repeated here.

[0294] Through the above method, the network-side device 20 can activate the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in different listening manners by sending L1 signaling or L2 signaling including different type fields with different values to the UE 10.

[0295] The embodiments of the present application also provide a communication method.

[0296] Exemplarily, FIG. 16 shows an interaction flow diagram of a communication method according to some embodiments of the present application. As shown in FIG. 16, the method includes the following steps:

[0297] S1601: The network-side device 20 sends, to the UE 10, first information including a first field.

[0298] Exemplarily, the network-side device 20 can send, to the UE 10, first information including a first field in a case where it is needed to instruct the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in a certain listening manner, where the content of the first field matches the listening manner.

[0299] In some embodiments, different contents of the first field indicate different LP-WUS listening manners.

[0300] In some embodiments, for the cases shown in FIG. 8, FIG. 11 and FIG. 14, the first information can be information including CDRX configuration information and LP-WUS configuration information, and the first field can be the aforementioned number of times field, the aforementioned listening duration field or the aforementioned type field embedded in the LP-WUS configuration information.

[0301] In some embodiments, for the cases shown in FIG. 10, FIG. 13 and FIG. 15, the first information can also include L1 signaling or L2 signaling of the first field, which can be the aforementioned number of times field, the aforementioned listening duration field or the aforementioned type field. In this case, the network side device 20 can also send the UE 10 CDRX configuration information and LP-WUS configuration information without the first field before sending the first information to the UE 10. The CDRX configuration information and the LP-WUS configuration information can be sent at the same time (for example, by one RRC signaling) or separately (for example, the CDRX configuration information is sent first, and then the LP-WUS configuration information is sent, or the LP-WUS configuration information is sent first, and then the CDRX configuration information is sent).

[0302] In some embodiments, the LP-WUS configuration information can include one or more of the following: a listening period of the low-power wake-up signal (the aforementioned period field), a listening duration of the low-power wake-up signal in one listening period (the aforementioned listening duration in period field), and a bias between the time of listening to the low-power wake-up signal and the time of starting to listen to the physical downlink control channel (the aforementioned bias field).

[0303] In some embodiments, the CDRX configuration information can include the aforementioned duration field.

[0304] In some embodiments, different contents of the first field correspond to different listening modes.

[0305] In case 1, the second listening mode corresponding to the first value of the content of the first field, or the third listening mode corresponding to the second value of the content of the first field, or the fourth listening mode corresponding to the third value of the content of the first field.

[0306] For example, in case 1, when the first field is the number of times field, referring to Table 1, the first value to the third value can be the second number of times value to the fourth number of times value shown in Table 1, respectively.

[0307] For example, in case 1, when the first field is the listening duration field, referring to Table 5, the first value to the third value can be the second duration value to the fourth duration value shown in Table 1, respectively.

[0308] Exemplarily, in the case 1, when the first field is the type field, referring to the aforementioned table 9, the first value to the third value can be respectively the second type value to the fourth type value shown in the aforementioned table 1.

[0309] The case 2, the first field is the first value and the duration field is not 0, or the first field is the first value and the duration field is greater than or equal to the first threshold value, corresponds to the second listening mode; the first field is the first value and the duration field is 0, or the first field is the first value and the duration field is less than the first threshold value, corresponds to the third listening mode; the first field is the second value, corresponds to the fourth listening mode.

[0310] Exemplarily, in the case 2, when the first field is the number of times field, referring to the aforementioned table 2, the first value and the third value can be respectively the second number of times value and the fourth number of times value shown in the aforementioned table 2.

[0311] Exemplarily, in the case 2, when the first field is the listening duration field, referring to the aforementioned table 6, the first value and the third value can be respectively the second duration value to the fourth duration value shown in the aforementioned table 6.

[0312] The case 3, the first field is the number of times field: the first field is the first value and the duration field is not 0, or the first field is the first value and the duration field is greater than or equal to the second threshold value, corresponds to the second listening mode; the first field is the first value and the duration field is 0, or the first field is the first value and the duration field is less than the second threshold value, corresponds to the third listening mode; the first field is the second value and the duration field is not 0, or the first field is the second value and the duration field is greater than or equal to the third threshold value, corresponds to the fourth listening mode or the fifth listening mode; the first field is the second value and the duration field is 0, or the first field is the first value and the duration field is less than the third threshold value, corresponds to the fourth listening mode or the sixth listening mode.

[0313] For the case 3, for reference table 3, the first value and the second value can be respectively the second number of times value and the fourth number of times value in table 3, and the second threshold value and the third threshold value can be respectively the second number of times threshold value and the third number of times threshold value in table 7.

[0314] Case 4, the first field is the listening duration field: the corresponding second listening mode in the case that the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is not 0, or the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is greater than or equal to the fourth threshold value; the corresponding third listening mode in the case that the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is 0, or the content of the first field is the first value and the duration field is less than the fourth threshold value; the corresponding fourth listening mode or the seventh listening mode in the case that the content of the first field is the second value and the duration field is not 0, or the content of the first field is the second value and the duration field is greater than or equal to the fifth threshold value; the corresponding fourth listening mode or the eighth listening mode in the case that the content of the first field is the second value and the duration field is 0, or the content of the first field is the second value and the duration field is less than the fifth threshold value.

[0315] For case 4, for reference to table 7, the first value and the second value can be the second duration value and the fourth duration value in table 7 respectively, and the fourth threshold value and the fifth threshold value can be the second duration threshold value and the third duration threshold value in table 7 respectively.

[0316] S1602, the UE 10 listens to the LP-WUS in the listening mode matched with the content of the first field.

[0317] In some embodiments, after receiving the first information, the UE 10 can listen to the LP-WUS in the listening mode matched with the content of the first field based on the content of the first field.

[0318] In some embodiments, the listening mode is also related to the duration field in the CDRX configuration information. In this case, the UE 10 can determine the listening mode matched with the content of the first field according to the content of the first field and the content of the duration field to listen to the LP-WUS.

[0319] For example, the UE 10 can determine the listening mode matched with the content of the first field based on any one of the corresponding relationships in the foregoing tables 1 to 12.

[0320] For example, the UE 10 can determine the listening mode matched with the content of the first field based on any one of the cases 1 to 4 in the foregoing step S1601, and listen to the LP-WUS through the determined listening mode.

[0321] Based on the above method, the network side device 20 can instruct the UE 10 to listen to the LP-WUS in the listening mode matched with the content of the first field by sending the first information including the first field to the UE 10.

[0322] Based on the same technical concept, the embodiments of the present application further provide a user equipment, comprising one or more processors; one or more memories; the one or more memories storing one or more computer programs, the one or more computer programs comprising instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the user equipment to perform one or more steps performed by the UE 10 in any of the communication methods.

[0323] Based on the same technical concept, the embodiments of the present application further provide a network side equipment, comprising one or more processors; one or more memories; the one or more memories storing one or more computer programs, the one or more computer programs comprising instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the network side equipment to perform one or more steps performed by the network side equipment 20 in any of the communication methods.

[0324] Based on the same technical concept, the embodiments of the present application further provide a communication system, comprising a user equipment and a network side equipment, the user equipment being configured to implement the steps corresponding to the user equipment in the communication methods, and the network side equipment being configured to implement the steps corresponding to the network side equipment in the communication methods.

[0325] Based on the same technical concept, the embodiments of the present application further provide a computer readable storage medium, the computer readable storage medium storing computer executable program instructions, the computer executable program instructions causing a computer (e.g., the user equipment or the network side equipment) to perform one or more steps in any of the methods when the computer executable program instructions are run on the computer.

[0326] Based on the same technical concept, the embodiments of the present application further provide a computer program product comprising instructions, the computer program product comprising computer program code which, when run on a computer (e.g., the user equipment or the network side equipment), causes the computer or the processor to perform one or more steps in any of the methods.

[0327] Further, FIG. 17 shows a structural schematic diagram of an equipment 100 according to some embodiments of the present application. The equipment 100 can be the aforementioned user equipment or the aforementioned network side equipment.

[0328] As shown in FIG. 17, the equipment 100 comprises one or more processors 110, one or more memories 120 and one or more communication interfaces 130. The processor 110, the memory 120 and the communication interface 130 can be coupled through a bus (not shown), which can be a path for transmitting information between various components (e.g., the processor 110, the memory 120 and the communication interface 130) of the equipment 100.

[0329] The processor 110 can include any one or more of a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), a microprocessor (MP), or a digital signal processor (DSP), a baseband processor (BP), an application processor (AP), and the like.

[0330] The memory 120 can include a volatile memory, such as a random access memory (RAM) for example. The processor 104 can also include a non-volatile memory, such as a read-only memory (ROM), a flash memory, a hard disk drive (HDD), or a solid-state drive (SSD) for example.

[0331] The memory 120 stores executable program codes, which are executed by the processor 110 to implement the functions of the aforementioned UE 10 or the network-side device 20 respectively, thereby implementing the aforementioned communication method. That is, the memory 106 stores instructions for implementing the communication method provided by the embodiments of the present application.

[0332] The communication interface 130 uses a transceiving module such as, but not limited to, a network interface card or a transceiver, to implement the communication between the device 100 and other devices or communication networks.

[0333] In some embodiments, the communication interface 130 can communicate with other devices or communication networks through a fifth generation (5 th Generation, 5G) mobile communication system (such as a new radio (NR) system), a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS), a wireless local area network (WLAN), a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) system, a wired system, a vehical to everything (V2X) communication system, a device-to-deveice (D2D) communication system, a fourth generation (4 thany one or more of communication systems such as a 5th generation (5G) mobile communication system, a satellite communication system, and a future communication system (such as a 6th generation (6G) mobile communication system). th The communication solution provided by any one or more of the communication systems such as a 5th generation (5G) mobile communication system, a satellite communication system, and a future communication system (such as a 6th generation (6G) mobile communication system) is communicated with other devices.

[0334] It should be noted that the structure of the device 100 shown in FIG. 17 is only an example, and in other embodiments, the device 100 can include more or fewer modules, which are not limited herein.

[0335] It should be noted that the network side device in the embodiments of the present application can be an entity for transmitting or receiving signals on the network side, such as a base station. The base station can be broadly covered by various names in the following or replaced by the following names, such as: Node B (Node B), evolved Node B (eNB), next generation Node B (gNB), relay station, access point, transmission point (transmitting and receiving point, TRP), transmitting point (transmitting point, TP), master station, auxiliary station, multi-mode wireless node, home base station, network controller, access node, access point, transmission node, transceiver node, baseband unit, radio frequency remote unit, active antenna unit, radio frequency head, central unit, distribution unit, positioning node, etc. The base station can be a macro base station, a micro base station, a relay node, a donor node or the like. The base station can also be used for a communication module, a modem or a chip provided in the foregoing device or apparatus. The base station can also be a mobile switching center and a device that performs the function of a base station in device-to-device, vehicle external connection, machine-to-machine communication, etc. The embodiments of the present application do not limit the specific technology and specific device form adopted by the network side device.

[0336] It should be noted that the user equipment in the embodiments of the present application can be any terminal device, including but not limited to a mobile station (MS), a mobile terminal (MT), and the like. The user equipment can be a mobile phone, a smart television, a wearable device, a tablet computer (Pad), a computer with wireless transceiver function, a virtual reality (VR) terminal device, an augmented reality (AR) terminal device, a wireless terminal in industrial control, a wireless terminal in self driving, a wireless terminal in remote medical surgery, a wireless terminal in smart grid, a wireless terminal in transportation safety, a wireless terminal in smart city, a wireless terminal in smart home, and the like. The embodiments of the present application do not limit the specific form of the user equipment.

[0337] It should be noted that the terms used in the implementation part of the embodiments of the present application are only used to explain the specific embodiments of the present application, and are not intended to limit the present application. In the description of the embodiments of the present application, unless otherwise specified, " / " represents the meaning of or, for example, A / B can represent A or B; "and / or" in this paper is only a description of the association relationship of the associated obstacles, which means that there can be three relationships, for example, A and / or B can represent: A exists alone, A and B exist together, and B exists alone. In addition, in the description of the embodiments of the present application, unless otherwise specified, "multiple" means two or more than two, "at least one" and "one or more" means one, two or more than two.

[0338] It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present application, greater than or equal to, and the corresponding less than, equal to can also be used with less than. For example, indicating that a certain parameter corresponds to B when it is greater than or equal to A, and corresponds to C when the parameter is less than A, it can also be understood that the parameter corresponds to B when it is greater than A, and corresponds to C when it is less than or equal to A.

[0339] In the following, the terms "first", "second" are only used for description purposes, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of indicated technical features. Therefore, the features limited by "first", "second" can explicitly or implicitly include one or more of the features.

[0340] Reference within this specification to "one embodiment" or "some embodiments" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment. The appearances of the phrase "in one embodiment" or "in some embodiments" in various places within this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, although it can. The terms "comprising," "including," "having," and the like, as used within the specification, mean "including but not limited to," unless otherwise expressly specified.

[0341] The communication method provided by the embodiments of the present application can be applied to various types of communication systems, such as a 5G mobile communication system, for example, a NR system. In addition, it can also be applied to a UMTS, a WLAN, a Wi-Fi system, a wired system, a V2X communication system, a D2D communication system, a 4G mobile communication system, a satellite communication system, and a future communication system (such as a 6G mobile communication system, etc.), and the embodiments of the present application do not limit this.

[0342] In the above embodiments, all or part of the embodiments can be implemented by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented by software, all or part of the embodiments can be implemented in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When the computer program instructions are loaded and executed on a computer, all or part of the processes or functions described in the embodiments of the present application are generated. The computer can be a general-purpose computer, a special-purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable devices. The computer instructions can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium or transmitted by the computer-readable storage medium. The computer instructions can be transmitted from one website, computer, server or data center to another website, computer, server or data center through a wired (such as coaxial cable, optical fiber, digital subscriber line) or wireless (such as infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.) manner. The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that a computer can access or a data storage device such as a server, data center, etc. that includes one or more available media sets. The available media can be a magnetic medium (for example, a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium, or a semiconductor medium (for example, a solid state disk (SSD)) and the like.

[0343] A person of ordinary skill in the art can understand that all or part of the processes in the above-mentioned embodiment methods can be instructed by a computer program to relevant hardware, and the program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. When the program is executed, it can include the processes of the above-mentioned method embodiments.

[0344] The above merely provides the specific implementation of the embodiments of the present application, but the protection scope of the embodiments of the present application is not limited to this. Any change or replacement within the technical scope disclosed by the embodiments of the present application should be covered in the protection scope of the embodiments of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the embodiments of the present application should be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A communication method characterized by comprising: The method is applied to a user equipment, and the method comprises: receiving first information sent by a network side equipment, wherein the first information comprises a first field, and the first field is used for indicating a listening mode of a low power wake-up signal; listening to the low power wake-up signal by using a listening mode matched with content of the first field.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, The first field comprises any one of the following fields: a number of times field, a listening duration field, and a type field.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein, The first information comprises low power wake-up signal configuration information, and the low power wake-up signal configuration information comprises the first field and at least one of the following information: a listening period of the low power wake-up signal, a duration of listening to the low power wake-up signal in one listening period, and a bias between a time of listening to the low power wake-up signal and a time of starting to listen to a physical downlink control channel.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein, The first information further comprises discontinuous reception configuration information in a connected state.

5. The method according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that, The first information is radio resource control signaling.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein, The first information is L1 signaling or L2 signaling.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein, The method further comprises: before receiving the first information sent by the network side equipment, receiving discontinuous reception configuration information in a connected state and low power wake-up signal configuration information sent by the network side equipment, wherein the low power wake-up signal configuration information does not comprise the first field.

8. The method according to claim 4 or 7, characterized in that, The discontinuous reception configuration information in the connected state comprises a duration field; and the listening to the low power wake-up signal by using the listening mode matched with the content of the first field comprises: listening to the low power wake-up signal by using a listening mode matched with the content of the first field and the content of the duration field.

9. The method of claim 3, wherein, The listening to the low power wake-up signal by using the listening mode matched with the content of the first field comprises at least two of the following cases: corresponding to the content of the first field being a first value, listening to the low power wake-up signal by using a second listening mode; corresponding to the content of the first field being a second value, listening to the low power wake-up signal by using a third listening mode; corresponding to the content of the first field being a third value, listening to the low power wake-up signal by using a fourth listening mode.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein, corresponding to the first field being the number of times field or the listening duration field, the listening to the low power wake-up signal by using the listening mode matched with the content of the first field and the content of the duration field comprises at least two of the following cases: corresponding to the content of the first field being the first value and the duration field not being 0, or the first field being the first value and the duration field being greater than or equal to a first threshold value, listening to the low power wake-up signal by using the second listening mode; corresponding to the content of the first field being the first value and the duration field being 0, or the first field being the first value and the duration field being less than the first threshold value, listening to the low power wake-up signal by using the third listening mode; corresponding to the content of the first field being the second value, listening to the low power wake-up signal by using the fourth listening mode.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein, Corresponding to the first field being the number of times field, the monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in a monitoring manner matching the content of the first field and the content of the duration field includes at least two of the following cases: Corresponding to the content of the first field being a first value and the duration field not being 0, or the first field being the first value and the duration field being greater than or equal to a second threshold value, monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in a second monitoring manner; Corresponding to the content of the first field being the first value and the duration field being 0, or the first field being the first value and the duration field being less than the second threshold value, monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in a third monitoring manner; Corresponding to the content of the first field being a second value and the duration field not being 0, or the first field being the second value and the duration field being greater than or equal to a third threshold value, monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in a fourth monitoring manner or a fifth monitoring manner; Corresponding to the content of the first field being the second value and the duration field being 0, or the first field being the first value and the duration field being less than the third threshold value, monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in a fourth monitoring manner or a sixth monitoring manner; The fifth monitoring manner includes: starting a discontinuous reception mechanism in a connected state, monitoring the low-power wake-up signal for the second value times in a sleep period of a discontinuous reception cycle in a case where no downlink control information is monitored in an active period of the discontinuous reception cycle, and not monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in the sleep period of the discontinuous reception cycle in a case where downlink control information is monitored in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle; The sixth monitoring manner includes: stopping the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state, and monitoring the low-power wake-up signal for the second value times in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein, Corresponding to the first field being the monitoring duration field, the monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in a monitoring manner matching the content of the first field and the content of the duration field includes at least two of the following cases: Corresponding to the content of the first field being a first value and the duration field not being 0, or the first field being the first value and the duration field being greater than or equal to a fourth threshold value, monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in a second monitoring manner; Corresponding to the content of the first field being the first value and the duration field being 0, or the first field being the first value and the duration field being less than the fourth threshold value, monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in a third monitoring manner; Corresponding to the content of the first field being a second value and the duration field not being 0, or the first field being the second value and the duration field being greater than or equal to a fifth threshold value, monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in a fourth monitoring manner or a seventh monitoring manner; corresponding to the first field being the second value and the duration field being or the first field being the second value and the duration field being less than the fifth threshold value, the fourth monitoring manner or the eighth monitoring manner is used to monitor the low-power wake-up signal; The seventh monitoring manner comprises: starting a discontinuous reception mechanism in a connected state, monitoring the low-power wake-up signal for the second value of time before a sleep period of a discontinuous reception cycle in a case where no downlink control information is monitored in an active period of the discontinuous reception cycle, and not monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in the sleep period of the discontinuous reception cycle in a case where the downlink control information is monitored in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle. The eighth monitoring manner comprises: stopping the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state, and monitoring the low-power wake-up signal for the second value of time before the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle.

13. The method of any one of claims 9 to 12, wherein: The second monitoring manner comprises starting the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state and monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in the sleep period of the discontinuous reception cycle. The third monitoring manner comprises stopping the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state and periodically monitoring the low-power wake-up signal. The fourth monitoring manner comprises stopping the discontinuous reception mechanism in the connected state and monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle.

14. A communication method, comprising: The method is applied to a network-side device, and the method comprises: sending first information to a user equipment, the first information comprising a first field, a content of the first field indicating a low-power wake-up signal monitoring manner, and the first information indicating that the user equipment monitors the low-power wake-up signal by using a monitoring manner matching the content of the first field.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein, The first field comprises any one of the following fields: a number field, a monitoring time field, and a type field.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein, The first information comprises low-power wake-up signal configuration information, the low-power wake-up signal configuration information comprising the first field and at least one of the following information: a monitoring period of the low-power wake-up signal, a time length of monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in one monitoring period, and a bias between a time of monitoring the low-power wake-up signal and a time of starting to monitor a physical downlink control channel.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein, The first information further comprises discontinuous reception configuration information in a connected state.

18. The method of claim 16 or 17, wherein, The first information is radio resource control signaling.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein, The first information is L1 signaling or L2 signaling.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein, The method further comprises: Before sending the first information to the user equipment, sending discontinuous reception configuration information in a connected state and low-power wake-up signal configuration information to the user equipment, the low-power wake-up signal configuration information not comprising the first field.

21. The method of any one of claims 15-20, wherein, The monitoring manner matching the content of the first field is: a second monitoring manner corresponding to the first field being a first value; or a third monitoring manner corresponding to the first field being a second value; or a fourth monitoring manner corresponding to the first field being a third value.

22. The method of claim 17 or 20, wherein, The connection state discontinuous reception configuration information includes a duration field, the first field is the number of times field or the listening duration field; the listening mode matched with the content of the first field is: The content of the first field is a first value, and the duration field is not 0, or the content of the first field is a first value, and the duration field is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, corresponding to a second listening mode; Or the content of the first field is a first value, and the duration field is 0, or the content of the first field is a first value, and the duration field is less than the first threshold value, corresponding to a third listening mode; Or the content of the first field is a second value, corresponding to a fourth listening mode.

23. The method of claim 17 or 20, wherein, The connection state discontinuous reception configuration information includes a duration field, corresponding to the first field is the number of times field, and the listening mode matched with the content of the first field is: The content of the first field is a first value, and the duration field is not 0, or the content of the first field is a first value, and the duration field is greater than or equal to a second threshold value, corresponding to a second listening mode; Or the content of the first field is a first value, and the duration field is 0, or the content of the first field is a first value, and the duration field is less than the second threshold value, corresponding to a third listening mode; Or the content of the first field is a second value, and the duration field is not 0, or the content of the first field is a second value, and the duration field is greater than or equal to a third threshold value, corresponding to a fourth listening mode or a fifth listening mode; Or the content of the first field is a second value, and the duration field is 0, or the content of the first field is a first value, and the duration field is less than the third threshold value, corresponding to a fourth listening mode or a sixth listening mode; The fifth listening mode includes: starting the connection state discontinuous reception mechanism, listening to the low-power wake-up signal for the second value times in the sleep period of the discontinuous reception cycle in the case that the downlink control information is not listened to in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle, and not listening to the low-power wake-up signal in the sleep period of the discontinuous reception cycle in the case that the downlink control information is listened to in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle; The sixth listening mode includes: closing the connection state discontinuous reception mechanism, and listening to the low-power wake-up signal for the second value times in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle.

24. The method of claim 17 or 20, wherein, The connection state discontinuous reception configuration information includes a duration field, corresponding to the first field is the listening duration field, and the listening mode matched with the content of the first field is: The content of the first field is a first value, and the duration field is not 0, or the content of the first field is a first value, and the duration field is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold value, corresponding to a second listening mode; or the first field is the first value and the duration field is 0, or the first field is the first value and the duration field is less than the fourth threshold value, corresponding to a third monitoring mode; or the first field is the second value and the duration field is not 0, or the first field is the second value and the duration field is greater than or equal to the fifth threshold value, corresponding to a fourth monitoring mode or a seventh monitoring mode; or the first field is the second value and the duration field is 0, or the first field is the second value and the duration field is less than the fifth threshold value, corresponding to a fourth monitoring mode or an eighth monitoring mode; The seventh monitoring mode includes: starting the discontinuous reception mechanism of the connected state, monitoring the low-power wake-up signal for the second value duration before the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle in the case of not monitoring the downlink control information, and not monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in the sleep period of the discontinuous reception cycle in the case of monitoring the downlink control information in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle. The eighth monitoring mode includes: closing the discontinuous reception mechanism of the connected state, and monitoring the low-power wake-up signal for the second value duration before the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle.

25. The method of any one of claims 21-24, wherein: The second monitoring mode includes starting the discontinuous reception mechanism of the connected state and monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in the sleep period of the discontinuous reception cycle; The third monitoring mode includes closing the discontinuous reception mechanism of the connected state and periodically monitoring the low-power wake-up signal; The fourth monitoring mode includes closing the discontinuous reception mechanism of the connected state and monitoring the low-power wake-up signal in the active period of the discontinuous reception cycle.

26. A method of communication, comprising: The method includes: The network-side device sends first information to the user equipment, and the first information includes a first field, and the content of the first field indicates a monitoring mode for monitoring a low-power wake-up signal; The user equipment monitors the low-power wake-up signal in the monitoring mode matched with the content of the first field; wherein the first field includes any one of the following fields: a number field, a monitoring duration field, and a type field.

27. A user equipment, comprising: It includes: One or more processors; One or more memories; The one or more memories store one or more computer programs, and the one or more computer programs include instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the user equipment to implement the method of any one of claims 1-13.

28. A network-side device, comprising: It includes: One or more processors; One or more memories; The one or more memories store one or more computer programs, and the one or more computer programs include instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the network-side device to implement the method of any one of claims 14-25.

29. A communication system, characterized by The communication system includes: The user equipment of claim 27 and the network-side device of claim 28.

30. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that, The computer readable storage medium stores computer executable program instructions, which when executed on a computer, cause the computer to implement the method of any one of claims 1 to 13, or the method of any one of claims 14 to 25.

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