323 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.

Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to Layer 1 / Layer 2 (L1 / L2) Triggered Mobility (LTM) interworking 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, based on an active duration of a Cell DTX / DRX cycle associated with an inter-frequency cell, an optimal measurement gap (MG). Further, the DU may be configured to provide, to a user equipment (UE), information of the optimal MG, wherein the information of the optimal MG may be utilized by the UE to perform an inter frequency measurement.

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.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may report, from a first layer of the UE to a second layer of the UE, a failure to receive an activation message or a deactivation message associated with a cell discontinuous operation in accordance with information differentiating a first communication during active periods of the cell discontinuous operation from a second communication outside of the active periods. The UE may transmit, to a network entity, a message indicating the failure to receive the activation message or the deactivation message. Additionally, or alternatively, the UE may change an activation status of a cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) or discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration at the UE based on the reporting of the failure to receive the activation message or the deactivation message.

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.

An energy-saving method includes: a terminal receives first configuration information sent by a network device. The first configuration information is for configuring a cell Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) and / or a cell Discontinuous Reception (DRX).

Discontinuous transmission and discontinuous reception configurations for sidelink communications are disclosed. Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A communication device supports sidelink communications, including device-to-device (D2D) communications and vehicle-based communications. The communication device receives, from another device, a discontinuous transmission (DTX) configuration for a sidelink connection between the communication device and the other device. Based on the received DTX configuration, the communication device determines a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration and transmits the determined DRX configuration to the other device. These devices experience power savings and other results according to a DTX configuration or a DRX configuration.

The invention provides a communication method, device and system, which can be applied to an NTN communication scene. The method comprises: sending first indication information to a first terminal device, the first indication information indicating a first parameter, the first parameter being used to configure a first mode, the first mode being a cell discontinuous reception (DRX) and / or discontinuous transmission (DTX) mode, the first parameter being a parameter of beam granularity, the first parameter corresponding to a first beam, and the first terminal device being used to configure a second mode, the first mode being a cell discontinuous reception (DRX) and / or discontinuous transmission (DTX) mode; the first beam belongs to at least one beam used for communication in the service cell; or, the first parameter is a parameter of the regional granularity, the first parameter corresponds to the first region, and the first region is one of a plurality of geographic regions covered by the serving cell of the first terminal device. According to the method, the application range and the use mode of the DTX / DRX mechanism are flexibly controlled, for example, different DTX modes (such as activation duration and period) can be configured for different geographic areas, so that the network equipment can enter a turn-off state (inactive state) and lasts for a period of time, the effect of network energy conservation is locally realized in a cell, and the network efficiency is improved. The dynamic power distribution effect in the cell is achieved, and the downlink coverage and capacity of the cell are improved.

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 provides an information transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: A first terminal receives configuration information from a network device, where the configuration information includes a first consecutive discontinuous transmission (DTX) threshold and a second consecutive DTX threshold; the first terminal sends first information to a second terminal by using a carrier in a first carrier group; the first terminal sends second information to the second terminal by using a carrier in a second carrier group; and the first terminal stops performing information transmission by using the first carrier group if a quantity of times that the first terminal consecutively fails to detect a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback message corresponding to the first information is greater than or equal to the first consecutive DTX threshold.

An apparatus configured to process, based on signals received from a network, beam based configuration information, where the beam based configuration information comprises configuration information for one or more individual beams received by a user equipment (UE) and operate in a discontinuous transmission (DTX) mode and / or a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode using the beam based configuration information.

A UE receives an indication of multiple discontinuous transmission (DTX) configurations for a cell. The UE receives an activation indication for a first DTX configuration from the multiple DTX configurations for the cell. The UE skips monitoring for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) during a non-active period of the first DTX configuration.

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for paging with cell DTX. One method may include receiving, by a UE, paging information related to at least one DTX or DRX state. The paging information defines at least one of paging legacy monitoring, shift paging monitoring to a next cell discontinuous transmission active state, paging monitoring independent of discontinuous transmission, or monitoring in persistent paging. The method further comprises monitoring, by the UE, paging according to the received paging information.

A method and a User Equipment (UE) for performing Sidelink (SL) communication are provided. The method includes performing an SL transmission based on a first set of timers configured for controlling SL Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) behaviors of the UE; and performing an SL reception based on a second set of timers configured for controlling SL Discontinuous Reception (DRX) behaviors of the UE, wherein at least one first timer value of the first set of timers is independently configured relative to at least one second timer value of the second set of timers.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for controlling cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) and cell discontinuous reception (DRX). A method performed by an apparatus generally includes maintaining a connection with a plurality of transmission reception points (TRPs) of at least one serving cell of the apparatus, receiving an indication associated with the plurality of TRPs indicating to change an activation state for at least one of cell DTX or cell DRX for at least one of the plurality of TRPs, and based at least in part on the indication, changing the activation state for at least one of the cell DTX or the cell DRX for the at least one of the plurality of TRPs.

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.

Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to Cell Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) / Discontinuous Reception (DRX) interworking with Layer 1 / Layer 2 (L1 / L2) Triggered Mobility (LTM). According to embodiments, a system may include a serving distributed unit (DU). The serving DU may be configured to: add at least one LTM-specific active duration to at least one Cell DTX / DRX cycle associated with a serving cell; provide, to at least one user equipment (UE), information of the at least one added active duration; and provide, to the at least one UE during the at least one added active duration, a Media Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE). The MAC CE may include a cell switch command that instructs the UE to perform an LTM cell switch from the serving cell to a target cell.

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.

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication including at least one memory and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the UE to determine at least one first slot for receiving a paging frame, wherein the at least one first slot at least partially overlaps with at least one active duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle associated with the UE and at least one active duration of a discontinuous transmission (DTX) cycle associated with a network entity, and receive, from the network entity, a paging message during at least one paging occasion (PO) of the paging frame, wherein the at least one PO occurs during the at least one active duration of the DRX cycle and the at least one active duration of the DTX cycle.

A method performed by a mobile terminal is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from an access network node, information indicating at least one configuration of adaptation for a channel used during cell discontinuous reception (DRX) / discontinuous transmission (DTX) inactive duration regarding the access network node; and receiving, from the access network node, downlink control information indicating which of the at least one configuration should be used.

The present disclosure relates a method performed by a first access network node, the method comprising transmitting, to a second access network node, information for network energy saving (NES) configuration at the first access network node, wherein the information for the NES configuration is used by the second access network node for cell discontinuous reception (DRX) / discontinuous transmission (DTX) configuration or handover configuration at the second access network node.

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.