231 results about "Discontinuous transmission" patented technology

An apparatus and system are described for reducing user equipment (UE) power consumption after a 5th generation NodeB (gNB) indicates transition to a power saving mode. Different configurations and rules for the UE to identify and use monitoring or transmission occasions within the PSM active time, as well as modification of UE timers during the PSM, are provided. Discontinuous transmission (DTX) and reception (DRX) configurations are signaled to the UE and contain periodicity, start slot / offset, and on duration, as well as activation of the configurations by downlink control information (DCI). UE reporting and paging based on the configurations are provided when light synchronization system block (SSB) transmission or discovery reference signal transmission is used by the gNB.

Provided are a method and apparatus for performing cell DTX and / or cell DRX in a wireless communication system. The method may include receiving cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration information, receiving an activation operation of cell DTX and / or cell DRX based on the cell DTX and cell DRX configuration information, and monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) after performing the activation operation of the cell DTX and / or the cell DRX, in which the monitoring of the PDCCH is performed based on active time of the cell DTX.

A wireless device can receive a group common DCI indicating a cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) configuration of a cell is enabled. The wireless device can measure reference signals, of the cell, during a measurement time period. The measurement time period can be determined based on a cell DTX period of the cell DTX configuration in response to the cell DTX being configured and enabled.

Provided are a method and apparatus for performing cell DTX and / or cell DRX in a wireless communication system. The method may include receiving cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration information, receiving an activation operation of cell DTX and / or cell DRX based on the cell DTX and cell DRX configuration information, and monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) after performing the activation operation of the cell DTX and / or the cell DRX, in which the monitoring of the PDCCH is performed based on active time of the cell DTX.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit, in a first slot within a channel occupancy time (COT), a first communication; determine whether one or more transmission criteria are satisfied for transmission of a second communication in a second slot within the COT; and selectively transmit the second communication in the second slot within the COT based at least in part on a result of determining whether the one or more transmission criteria are satisfied. Numerous other aspects are provided.

A method performed by UE for reducing latency. The method includes receiving first configuration information for at least a first uplink (UL) resource, the first UL resource used to access a wireless network and associated with a network node operating in discontinuous transmission and reception (DTRX). The method also includes receiving second configuration information for at least a second UL resource, the second UL resource also used to access the wireless network. The method further includes accessing the wireless network using the second UL resource when the first UL resource is in an off period of the DTRX.

The invention relates to the technical field of communication, and provides a communication method, a communication device and a computer readable storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: receiving first information which is used for indicating a first offset; a first numerical value is determined, the first numerical value is a numerical value corresponding to a first wave position, the first wave position is one of multiple wave positions covered by signals of a satellite, and the multiple wave positions correspond to at least two different numerical values; the target offset is determined according to the first numerical value and the first offset, the target offset is the time offset of a first device receiving the satellite signal in a first period, and the first period is one of at least one period of cell discontinuous transmission; the first offset is smaller than or equal to the duration of the first period, and the first device is a device in the first wave position. According to the method, the invalid power consumption of the UE can be reduced, and the resource utilization efficiency is optimized.

This application pertains to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ feedback method and apparatus, and a terminal. The HARQ feedback method in embodiments of this application includes: determining, by a terminal based on first information, a HARQ feedback codebook to be sent based on a target physical uplink control channel PUCCH occasion, where the first information includes an inactive period of discontinuous transmission DTX in a target cell or discontinuous reception DRX in a target cell, and the target cell includes a serving cell of the terminal.

There is provided an apparatus for a terminal, wherein the apparatus has means for receiving, from a network entity, an indication of a discontinuous transmission configuration associated with the network entity, wherein the indication indicates to the terminal that the network entity will refrain from providing downlink transmissions during a time period associated with the discontinuous transmission configuration. The apparatus also has means for determining whether at least one of: a reception at the terminal, and a transmission from the terminal, will at least partially overlap with the time period associated with the discontinuous transmission configuration. The apparatus also has means for, when it is determined that at least one of: the reception and the transmission will at least partially overlap with the time period, performing an action associated with the determined reception and / or transmission.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and devices for discontinuous transmission (DTX) or discontinuous reception (DRX). A terminal device receives a DTX or DRX configuration indicating configuration information on a DTX or DRX mode of the network device. The terminal device monitors a downlink transmission or performs an uplink transmission based on one or more conditions regardless of the cell DTX or DRX configuration. In this way, an improved solution for communication on the DTX or DRX mode may be provided, which may meet certain services with low latency requirement.

Provided are a method and apparatus for network energy saving in a wireless communication system. A terminal or communication device identifies a base station. Then, the terminal or communication device determines whether the identified base station operates in a base station energy saving mode. Thereafter, the terminal or communication device transmits a deactivation request of the base station energy saving mode to the base station and transmits and receives data with the base station while the base station energy saving mode has been deactivated. Here, the base station energy saving mode is based on cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and / or cell discontinuous reception (DRX). If the base station energy saving mode is based on another energy saving scheme such as power / space / frequency-domain techniques, a different neighboring base station is identified.

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to receiving (1102) a configuration that indicates a plurality of carriers for sidelink (SL) communication and tracking (1104) a number of consecutive discontinuous transmission (DTX) instances for each SL carrier of the plurality of carriers. Aspects of the present disclosure may relate to determining (1106) a carrier failure condition for a respective SL carrier based at least in part on a tracked number of consecutive DTX instances satisfying a threshold and transmitting (1108) a notification to a base station, the notification indicating the carrier failure condition for the respective SL carrier.

Various access network nodes and user equipment capable of operating both semi-persistent scheduling and cell DTX / DRX are disclosed. One disclosed method performed by user equipment (UE) includes the steps of: receiving a first downlink transmission from an access network node; determining that the timing of the procedure related to the first downlink transmission overlaps with an inactive period of cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) / discontinuous reception (DRX) on the access network node; and delaying or stopping the start of the procedure related to the first downlink transmission.

The present application relates to the technical field of communications. Provided are a communication method, a communication apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: receiving first information, which is used for indicating a first offset; determining a first value, which is a value corresponding to a first beam position, wherein the first beam position is one of a plurality of beam positions covered by a signal from a satellite, and the plurality of beam positions correspond to at least two different values; on the basis of the first value and the first offset, determining a target offset, wherein the target offset is a time offset of a first device receiving the signal from the satellite within a first period, the first period is one of at least one period of discontinuous transmission of a cell, the first offset is less than or equal to the length of the first period, and the first device is a device at the first beam position. The method can reduce ineffective power consumption of a UE, thereby optimizing resource utilization efficiency.

The invention relates to a method for receiving and sending indication information, a terminal, network equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: receiving indication information sent by network equipment, wherein the indication information is used for indicating at least one terminal to switch discontinuous transmission (DTX) patterns or discontinuous reception (DRX) patterns in a non-terrestrial network (NTN). In the method disclosed by the invention, the terminal acquires the indication of the network equipment about the switching of the DTX pattern or the DRX pattern according to the indication information, so that the terminal can dynamically switch the DTX pattern or the DRX pattern based on the indication information, and the terminal behavior is timely adjusted while the energy-saving effect is ensured.

The invention provides a communication method and device, a storage medium and a computer program product, and relates to the technical field of communication. The communication method comprises the following steps: network equipment sends discontinuous transmission pattern configuration information of a first cell to UE (User Equipment), and correspondingly, the UE receives the discontinuous transmission pattern configuration information of the first cell; wherein the first cell discontinuous transmission pattern configuration information is used for indicating a first cell DTX pattern and / or a first cell DRX pattern. According to the scheme of the invention, the effectiveness and reliability of data communication between the UE and the network equipment can be realized in a non-continuous coverage scene.

A method to estimate an inter-channel time difference (ITD) in an encoder using a discontinuous transmission (DTX) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a time domain audio input including audio input signals and processing the audio input signals in frames to produce a mono mixdown signal and one or more stereo parameters. The method further includes encoding the mono mixdown signal on a frame-by-frame basis by: encoding of active content of the mono mixdown signal at a first bit rate until a pause period is detected; estimating ITD parameters during the encoding of active content; switching the encoding from the active encoding content to inactive encoding to encode background noise at a second bit rate during the pause period; and estimating ITD parameters during the pause period. The method further includes encoding the ITD estimated parameters and other stereo parameters periodically during the pause period.

A communication system is disclosed in which the access network node transmits to the UE information identifying the respective cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and / or discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration for each block of a plurality of blocks, each block being associated with at least one cell of a plurality of cells operated by the access network node. The access network node may also transmit to the UE information identifying the respective block associated with each cell of the plurality of cells.

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) transmission or reception based on cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and / or cell discontinuous reception (DRX) in a wireless communication system. A method according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise the steps of: receiving, by a terminal, one or more first SPS downlink channels from a network during an active period of cell DTX; and receiving, by the terminal, one or more second SPS downlink channels from the network during a non-active period of the cell DTX. A value of one or more transmission parameters on which the one or more first SPS downlink channels are based and a value of the one or more transmission parameters on which the one or more second SPS downlink channels are based may be different.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and devices for discontinuous transmission or discontinuous reception. A terminal device receives a DTX or DRX configuration indicating configuration information on a DTX or DRX mode of the network device. The terminal device monitors a downlink transmission or performs an uplink transmission based on one or more conditions regardless of the cell DTX or DRX configuration. In this way, an improved solution for communication on the DTX or DRX mode may be provided, which may meet certain services with low latency requirement.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A network-controlled repeater (NCR) may obtain one or more messages that are indicative of a set of periodic resources to forward to one or more user equipment (UEs). The one or more messages may also indicate one or more inactive durations of a cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) cycle associated with a network entity, one or more inactive durations of a cell discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle associated with the network entity, or both. The NCR may then obtain the set of periodic resources from the network entity, and may output or forward at least a portion of the set of periodic resources to the one or more UEs. The NCR may forward the portion of the set of periodic resources that overlaps with one or more active durations of the cell DTX cycle, the cell DRX cycle, or both.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method and apparatus in a cell discontinuous transmission / reception scenario, the method comprising: when a network is in a network energy saving mode, a terminal equipment does not trigger a scheduling request (SR) and / or perform behaviors related to the network energy saving mode for a pending scheduling request (SR). According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, when the network is in a network energy saving mode, the terminal equipment does not trigger an SR, thereby a pending SR can be avoided from triggering a random access procedure, thus reducing network energy consumption. On the other hand, when the network is in a network energy saving mode, for the pending SR, the terminal equipment performs behaviors related to the network energy saving mode, thereby the pending SR will not make a terminal to release uplink configuration.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and a network entity may communicate according to a discontinuous transmission (DTX) cycle that includes an active duration and an inactive duration. The network entity may indicate timing information for one or more random access response (RAR) windows associated with a random access channel (RACH) message that triggers a RAR message. A RAR window may be misaligned with the active duration of the DTX cycle based on the timing information. Based on the misalignment, the UE and the network entity may communicate a RAR message during the RAR window in accordance with an alignment rule to align at least one boundary of the RAR window with at least one boundary of the active duration. Alternatively, the UE and the network entity may refrain from communicating the RAR message during the RAR window based on the misalignment.

According to the communication method and device, multiple sets of discontinuous reception (DRX) configurations or discontinuous transmission (DTX) configurations are introduced in the method, and service transmission matching with terminal equipment is facilitated. The method comprises the following steps: an access network device sends multiple sets of discontinuous reception (DRX) configurations or discontinuous transmission (DTX) configurations with different durations to a core network device. And the core network equipment indicates the configuration matched with the service demand of the terminal equipment from the multiple sets of DRX configurations or DTX configurations. The method is beneficial for the access network equipment to schedule the first terminal equipment based on the cell DTX / DRX configuration matched with the service requirement of the first terminal equipment under the condition of considering the service performance and the network energy saving.

Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to layer 1 / layer 2 (L1 / L2) triggered mobility (LTM) interaction with cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) / discontinuous reception (DRX) at a target cell. According to one or more embodiments, a system may include a distributed unit (DU) that may be configured to determine an optimal measurement gap (MG) based on an activity duration of a cell DTX / DRX cycle associated with an inter-frequency cell. Further, the DU may be configured to provide information of an optimal MG to a user equipment (UE), where the information of the optimal MG is utilized by the UE to perform inter-frequency measurements.

The present application relates to the field of communications, and discloses a wireless communication method and apparatus, and a device. The method in embodiments of the present application comprises: a terminal receives first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating at least one discontinuous transceiving mode, each discontinuous transceiving mode comprises at least one of a discontinuous transmission (DTX) mode and a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, and each discontinuous transceiving mode corresponds to at least one frequency domain resource; the terminal performs uplink transmission or downlink transmission on the basis of the at least one discontinuous transceiving mode and the frequency domain resource corresponding to the at least one discontinuous transceiving mode.

The present disclosure relates to a 5th-Generation (5G) or 6th-Generation (6G) communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates. A method for handling network energy savings (NES) in a wireless network is provided. The method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message from a network entity, wherein the RRC reconfiguration message includes at least one of a cell discontinuous reception (Cell-DRX) configuration and a cell discontinuous transmission (Cell-DTX) configuration for at least one serving cell; performing at least one of activation and deactivation on at least one of the cell DRX configuration and the cell DTX configuration by at least one of the RRC reconfiguration message and the DCI referred to as DCI X; and processing, by the UE, the NES in the wireless network while performing at least one of activation and deactivation on at least one of the cell DRX configuration and the cell DTX configuration.

Provided are a method by which a first device performs wireless communication and an apparatus supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: acquiring configuration information related to at least one beam; selecting a first beam from among the at least one beam; selecting a second beam excluding the first beam from among the at least one beam; and performing communication on the basis of the second beam. For example, the second beam may be selected by excluding the first beam on the basis of discontinuous transmission (DTX) related to the first beam.

The invention discloses a DTX (Discontinuous Transmission) and / or DRX (Discontinuous Reception) configuration method, device, equipment, medium and program product. A network side sends cell-level and / or beam-level DTX and / or DRX configuration information to a terminal side for data transceiving. By adopting the technical means of the invention, the DTX and / or DRX configuration of the beam granularity can be provided, the DTX and / or DRX mechanism enhancement of the NTN multi-beam hopping scene can be realized, and the power consumption of the NTN system can be effectively reduced.

The embodiment of the invention relates to CSI-RS (Channel State Information Reference Signal) transmission. Example embodiments relate to an apparatus, method, device, and computer readable storage medium for transmission of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS). In one method, a first device receives, from a second device, a configuration of discontinuous transmission (DTX) of the second device. A first device sends a request for transmission of CSI-RS during at least one inactive period of DTX to a second device.