CN113678512B

CN113678512B - Energy-saving signal processing method, device, equipment and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN113678512B
Application number: CN201980095250.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 徐伟杰
Original assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Priority date: 2019-09-30
Filing date: 2019-09-30
Publication date: 2023-08-29
Anticipated expiration: 2039-09-30
Also published as: CN113678512A; WO2021062591A1

Abstract

The application relates to a method, a device, equipment and a storage medium for processing energy-saving signals, wherein the method comprises the following steps: if the terminal does not monitor the energy-saving signal, determining whether to detect the PDCCH in the activation period of the DRX period based on the type of the DRX period, and when the terminal does not monitor the energy-saving signal, aiming at different conditions of different types of the DRX period, the terminal can adopt different processing behaviors to match the service requirements of the terminal under different conditions, so as to realize the balance between the power saving of the terminal and the reliability and the timeliness of the data transmission.

Description

Energy-saving signal processing method, device, equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a method, an apparatus, a device, and a storage medium for processing an energy-saving signal.

Background

With the development of mobile communication technology, terminals such as mobile phones and computers have become common devices in life, and power consumption of the terminals is receiving more and more attention as an important parameter index.

Currently, in order to reduce power consumption of a terminal, a discontinuous reception (Discontinuous Reception, DRX) transmission mechanism is introduced in long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE) technology. The DRX transmission mechanism refers to that power consumption can be reduced by stopping receiving a physical downlink control channel (physical downlink control channel, PDCCH) when there is no data transmission, thereby improving battery usage time. The basic mechanism of DRX is to configure a DRX cycle (cycle) for a User Equipment (UE) in a radio resource control (Radio Resource Control, RRC) CONNECTED (rrc_connected) state. As shown in fig. 1, the DRX cycle consists of an "On Duration" and a "sleep period (Opportunity for DRX)": during the "On Duration" time, the UE listens for and receives the PDCCH; during the "Opportunity for DRX" time, the UE does not receive the PDCCH to reduce power consumption.

In 5G and LTE evolution projects, a wake-up mechanism based On a DRX transmission mechanism is currently being discussed, that is, after a terminal configures the DRX transmission mechanism, in a DRX cycle in which a service needs to be transmitted, a network device wakes up the terminal by using an energy-saving signal, and the terminal normally receives PDCCH scheduling during On Duration of the DRX cycle; in the DRX period that the terminal does not have service transmission, the network equipment does not wake up the terminal, and the terminal does not need to monitor PDCCH in the On Duration period of the DRX period.

By adopting the energy-saving signal indication mode, the terminal can effectively save electricity, however, on the basis of the mechanism, network equipment can also configure long DRX and short DRX for the terminal at the same time, and the short DRX is started to indicate that the probability of data transmission of the terminal is high, so that the reliability and timeliness of the data transmission are ensured. In the case of long DRX, the probability of arrival of terminal data is relatively low, and power saving of the terminal is more important.

Disclosure of Invention

Based on this, it is necessary to provide a method, apparatus, device and storage medium for processing a power saving signal.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for processing an energy saving signal, the method including:

Monitoring an energy-saving signal;

if the energy-saving signal is not monitored, determining whether to detect a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in an active period of the DRX period based on the type of the DRX period; the DRX cycle is of a short DRX cycle or a long DRX cycle.

In one embodiment, the determining whether to perform the detection of the PDCCH during the active period of the DRX cycle based on the type of the DRX cycle includes:

and if the type of the DRX cycle is a short DRX cycle, detecting the PDCCH in the activation period of the short DRX cycle according to a preset default mechanism.

In an embodiment, the detecting the PDCCH according to a default mechanism set in advance during the active period of the short DRX cycle includes:

and starting a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) non-active timer corresponding to the short DRX period, and detecting a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) during the running period of the discontinuous reception non-active timer.

and if the type of the DRX cycle is a long DRX cycle, not starting a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) inactivity timer in the activation period of the long DRX cycle.

and if the type of the DRX cycle is a long DRX cycle, determining whether to detect the PDCCH in the active period of the long DRX cycle or not based on network configuration information.

In one embodiment, the method further comprises:

and receiving the network configuration information.

In one embodiment, the method further comprises:

receiving configuration information; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal.

In one embodiment, the configuration parameters include configuration parameters of power saving signals corresponding to types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different.

In an embodiment, the configuration parameters of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX cycles are different, including at least one of the following parameters being different:

the first time offsets of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX periods are different; the first time offset is a time offset between a transmission time position of the power saving signal and a starting position of an activation period of the DRX cycle;

The second time offsets of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX periods are different; the second time offset is a time offset between a time position of a PDCCH search space of the power saving signal and a start position of an active period of the DRX cycle;

the PDCCH search spaces of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX periods are different;

the PDCCH control resource sets of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX periods are different;

the lengths of downlink control information DCI of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX periods are different;

the indication information of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX periods is different in positions in DCI;

the network configuration information of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX cycles is different.

In one embodiment, the first time offsets of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX cycles are different, including:

and the first time offset of the energy-saving signal corresponding to the short DRX period is smaller than the first time offset of the energy-saving signal corresponding to the long DRX period.

In one embodiment, the second time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the type of the different DRX cycle is different, including:

and the second time offset of the energy-saving signal corresponding to the short DRX period is smaller than the second time offset of the energy-saving signal corresponding to the long DRX period.

In an embodiment, the PDCCH search space includes a plurality of monitoring positions of the power saving signals, and PDCCH search spaces of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX cycles are different, including:

and the time interval between the monitoring positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the short DRX period is smaller than the time interval between the monitoring positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the long DRX period.

In one embodiment, the method further comprises:

receiving an energy-saving mechanism starting message; the energy-saving mechanism starting message is used for indicating the terminal to start the energy-saving mode.

In one embodiment, the power saving mechanism start message is carried in a higher layer control signaling.

In one embodiment, the method further comprises:

and if the energy-saving signal is monitored, determining whether to detect the PDCCH in the on duration of the DRX according to the energy-saving signal.

In one embodiment, if the power saving signal uses PDCCH based on error correction coding, the monitoring the power saving signal includes:

detecting whether the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) of the energy-saving signal is successful;

if the CRC is successful, the energy-saving signal is monitored;

if the CRC fails, the energy saving signal is not monitored.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for processing an energy saving signal, the method including:

receiving configuration information; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals, and the configuration parameters comprise configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of energy-saving signals corresponding to different DRX cycle types are different, wherein the DRX cycle types are short DRX cycles or long DRX cycles;

and monitoring energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles according to the configuration information.

In one embodiment, the configuration parameters of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX cycles are different, including at least one of the following parameters being different:

the first time offsets of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX periods are different; the first time offset is a time offset between a sending time position of the energy-saving signal and a starting position of the on duration of the DRX;

the second time offsets of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX periods are different; the second time offset is a time offset between a time position of a PDCCH search space of the energy-saving signal and a starting position of an on duration of the DRX;

In one embodiment, the second time offsets of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX cycles are different, including:

In one embodiment, the PDCCH search space includes a plurality of monitoring positions of the power saving signals, and PDCCH search spaces of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX cycles are different, including:

In one embodiment, the method further comprises:

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for processing an energy saving signal, the method including:

transmitting configuration information; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals, and the configuration parameters comprise configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different, and the types of the DRX cycles are short DRX cycles or long DRX cycles.

In one embodiment, the method further comprises:

sending an energy-saving mechanism starting message; the energy-saving mechanism starting message is used for indicating the terminal to start the energy-saving mode.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a processing apparatus for an energy saving signal, the apparatus including:

the monitoring module is used for monitoring the energy-saving signal;

a determining module, configured to determine, if the energy-saving signal is not monitored, whether to perform detection of a physical downlink control channel PDCCH during an active period of the DRX cycle based on a type of the DRX cycle; the DRX cycle is of a short DRX cycle or a long DRX cycle.

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a processing apparatus for an energy saving signal, the apparatus including:

The receiving module is used for receiving the configuration information; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals, and the configuration parameters comprise configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different;

and the monitoring module is used for monitoring energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles according to the configuration information.

In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a processing apparatus for an energy saving signal, the apparatus including: a transmitting module and a processing module, wherein the transmitting module and the processing module,

the processing module is used for sending configuration information through the sending module; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals, and the configuration parameters comprise configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different.

In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the invention provides a computer device comprising a memory storing a computer program and a processor implementing the steps of the method of any of the first aspects when the computer program is executed by the processor.

In an eighth aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide a computer device comprising a memory storing a computer program and a processor implementing the steps of the method of any one of the second aspects when the computer program is executed by the processor.

In a ninth aspect, an embodiment of the application provides a computer device comprising a memory storing a computer program and a processor implementing the steps of the method of any of the third aspects when the computer program is executed by the processor.

In a tenth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which when executed by a processor implements the steps of the method of any of the first aspects.

In an eleventh aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method of any of the second aspects.

In a twelfth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method of any of the third aspects.

According to the energy-saving signal processing method, device, equipment and storage medium provided by the embodiment of the application, the terminal monitors the energy-saving signal, if the energy-saving signal is not monitored, whether the PDCCH is detected in the activation period of the DRX period is determined based on the type of the DRX period, when the energy-saving signal is not monitored by the terminal, the terminal can adopt different processing behaviors according to different situations of the types of the DRX periods, the service requirements of the terminal under different situations are matched, and the balance between the power saving of the terminal and the reliability and timeliness of data transmission is realized.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a DRX cycle provided by an embodiment;

fig. 2 is an application scenario schematic diagram of a method for processing an energy-saving signal according to an embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of a method for processing a power saving signal according to one embodiment;

fig. 4 is a timing diagram illustrating the detection of PDCCH during the active period of the DRX cycle according to an embodiment;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a short DRX cycle and a long DRX cycle time offset provided by an embodiment;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of PDCCH search spaces of a short DRX cycle and a long DRX cycle provided by an embodiment;

FIG. 7 is a flow chart of a method for processing a power saving signal according to one embodiment;

FIG. 8 is a block diagram of an apparatus for processing a power saving signal according to one embodiment;

FIG. 9 is a block diagram of an apparatus for processing a power saving signal according to one embodiment;

FIG. 10 is a block diagram of an apparatus for processing a power saving signal according to one embodiment;

FIG. 11 is a block diagram of an apparatus for processing a power saving signal according to one embodiment;

FIG. 12 is a block diagram of an apparatus for processing a power saving signal according to one embodiment;

FIG. 13 is a block diagram of an apparatus for processing a power saving signal according to one embodiment;

FIG. 14 is a block diagram of a computer device provided by one embodiment;

FIG. 15 is a block diagram of a computer device provided by one embodiment.

Detailed Description

The present application will be described in further detail with reference to the drawings and examples, in order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the application.

In 5G and LTE evolution projects, a wake-up mechanism based On a DRX transmission mechanism is currently being discussed, that is, after a terminal is configured with the DRX mechanism, in a DRX cycle in which a service needs to be transmitted, a network wakes up the terminal by using an energy-saving signal, and the terminal normally receives a PDCCH schedule during an On Duration of the DRX cycle; in a DRX cycle where the terminal has no traffic to transmit, the network does not wake up the terminal, and the terminal does not need to monitor the PDCCH during the On Duration of the DRX cycle.

The energy-saving signal indication mode can effectively realize the electricity saving of the terminal. However, there are special cases to be considered in this mechanism, for example, a certain probability of missing the power saving signal, and how the terminal performs error handling when the base station transmits the power saving signal but the terminal does not receive the power saving signal needs to be considered. Particularly, under the condition that the network configures the long DRX period and the short DRX period to the terminal at the same time, error processing mechanisms of the long DRX period and the short DRX period may be different, for example, the probability that the terminal has data transmission is larger when the short DRX period is started, and a more robust error processing mechanism can be adopted at the moment, so that the reliability and timeliness of data transmission are ensured. In the case of long DRX cycle, the probability of arrival of the terminal data is relatively low, and a more relaxed error handling mechanism may be used at this time, so that the power saving of the terminal is more emphasized. Therefore, how to perform error processing when the terminal does not detect the power saving signal is a problem to be solved.

The method for processing the energy-saving signal provided by the embodiment of the application can solve the technical problem of how to perform error processing when the terminal does not detect the energy-saving signal, and is to be understood that the method for processing the energy-saving signal is not limited to solve the technical problem, but can also be used for solving other technical problems, and the application is not limited to the technical problem.

The method for processing the energy-saving signal, provided by the embodiment of the application, can be applied to an application environment as shown in fig. 2. Wherein the terminal 102 communicates with the base station 104 via a network. The terminal 102 listens for a power saving signal sent by the base station 104, and when the power saving signal is not monitored, determines whether to perform PDCCH detection at the On Duration of the DRX cycle based On the type of the DRX cycle. The terminal 102 may be, but not limited to, various personal computers, notebook computers, smartphones, tablet computers, and portable wearable devices, and the base station 104 may be implemented by a stand-alone base station or a base station cluster formed by a plurality of base stations.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of a method for processing a power saving signal according to an embodiment, where the method takes the terminal 102 in fig. 2 as an execution body, and relates to a specific implementation process of determining whether to perform detection of a PDCCH at an On Duration of a DRX cycle according to a type of the DRX cycle when the terminal does not receive the power saving signal. As shown in fig. 3, the method comprises the steps of:

S301, monitoring energy-saving signals.

The power saving signal is used for indicating whether the terminal is awakened to perform PDCCH detection in the On Duration of the DRX period. The energy-saving signal can be a sequence signal, such as ZC sequence; the power save signal may also be a physical channel, such as PDCCH.

For example, if the PDCCH is used as the power saving signal, the terminal may be instructed to wake up and detect the PDCCH at the on duration of the DRX cycle by one bit in the downlink control information (Downlink control information, DCI) transmitted on the PDCCH, or instruct the terminal to ignore the detection of the PDCCH. If the bit value is 1, the terminal is instructed to wake up and detect the PDCCH at the on duration of the DRX, and if the bit value is 0, the terminal is instructed to ignore the detection of the PDCCH at the on duration of the DRX. Or if the sequence signal is adopted as the energy-saving signal, the first sequence is adopted to indicate that the terminal wakes up and the PDCCH is detected at the on duration of the DRX; and a second sequence is adopted to instruct the terminal to ignore the detection of the PDCCH at the on duration of the DRX. Other manners may be used to instruct the terminal to wake up and detect the PDCCH at the on duration of the DRX cycle, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

In this embodiment, after the terminal is configured to start the power saving mode, the terminal detects the power saving signal based on the configuration of the power saving signal, where the configuration of the power saving signal may include a time-frequency resource location, a sequence setting, or a PDCCH-scrambled radio network temporary identifier (Radio Network Temporary Identifier, RNTI) of the power saving signal, and the configuration of the power saving signal may be preconfigured to the terminal or may be notified to the terminal by the network device through a higher layer signaling, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

S302, if the energy-saving signal is not monitored, determining whether to detect the PDCCH in the active period of the DRX period based on the type of the DRX period; the DRX cycle is of the short DRX cycle or the long DRX cycle.

The period time of the long DRX period is longer than the period time of the short DRX period.

In this embodiment, if the terminal does not detect the power saving signal, there may be at least two cases:

1) The base station does not send the energy-saving signal for some reasons, such as insufficient resources, and the base station cannot send the energy-saving signal;

2) The base station transmits the energy-saving signal, but the terminal does not successfully monitor the energy-saving signal.

Thus, although the terminal does not monitor the power saving signal, the base station may have transmitted the power saving signal and instruct the terminal to wake up to monitor the PDCCH, or the base station expects the terminal to wake up to monitor the PDCCH although the power saving signal is not transmitted for some reason, in which case the terminal may determine whether to perform the detection of the PDCCH during the active period of the DRX cycle based on the type of the DRX cycle. For example, when the terminal starts the short DRX, the general start of the short DRX indicates that the terminal has more frequent data to be scheduled, and should mainly ensure the reliability and timeliness of data scheduling at this time. For the case of long DRX starting, the service of the terminal is generally sparse at this time, so that the terminal does not monitor the energy-saving signal, but the terminal has service arrival and the probability of the network expecting the terminal to wake up is relatively low; alternatively, the terminal may perform the detection of the PDCCH or not perform the detection of the PDCCH based on the configuration of the network when the terminal does not detect the energy-saving signal, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

According to the energy-saving signal processing method provided by the embodiment, the terminal monitors the energy-saving signal, if the energy-saving signal is not monitored, whether the PDCCH is detected in the activation period of the DRX period is determined based on the type of the DRX period, and when the energy-saving signal is not monitored by the terminal, different processing behaviors can be adopted by the terminal according to different conditions of different types of the DRX period, so that service requirements of the terminal under different conditions are matched, and the balance between terminal power saving and data transmission reliability and timeliness is realized.

Based on the embodiment shown in fig. 3, in a possible implementation manner, if the power saving signal uses a PDCCH based on error correction coding, monitoring the power saving signal includes: detecting whether a cyclic redundancy check (Cyclic Redundancy Check, CRC) of the power saving signal is successful; if the CRC is successful, monitoring an energy-saving signal; if the CRC fails, no energy saving signal is monitored.

In this embodiment, a PDCCH based on error correction coding is used for the energy-saving signal, and whether the energy-saving signal is monitored can be determined based on a CRC result, and if the CRC is successful, the energy-saving signal is considered to be monitored; if the CRC fails, the energy-saving signal is not monitored.

The following describes a specific implementation of "determining whether to detect PDCCH during the active period of DRX cycle based on the type of DRX cycle" respectively in three cases.

First case: determining whether to perform detection of the PDCCH during an active period of the DRX cycle based on the type of the DRX cycle includes: if the type of the DRX cycle is the short DRX cycle, detecting the PDCCH in the active period of the short DRX cycle according to a preset default mechanism.

In this embodiment, when the type of the DRX cycle is a short DRX cycle, it is indicated that the terminal needs to schedule more frequent data, and the reliability and timeliness of data scheduling should be mainly guaranteed at this time.

In a possible implementation manner, the detecting the PDCCH in the active period of the short DRX cycle according to a preset default mechanism includes: and starting a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) non-active timer corresponding to the short DRX period, and detecting the PDCCH during the operation of the discontinuous reception non-active timer.

The discontinuous reception inactivity timer (drx-inactivity timer) is a preset timer with a certain running Duration, and is triggered to start when the terminal receives a scheduling message in an On Duration period, and during the running period of the discontinuous reception inactivity timer, the terminal can monitor the PDCCH for each downlink subframe. In one possible implementation manner, the types of different DRX cycles may set the discontinuous reception inactivity timers with different operation durations, for example, the discontinuous reception inactivity timer duration of the short DRX cycle is smaller than the discontinuous reception inactivity timer duration of the long DRX cycle, but the embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto.

In this embodiment, when the terminal receives a scheduling message (PDCCH indicating initial transmission) during "On Duration", the terminal starts a "discontinuous reception inactivity timer" and listens to the PDCCH for each downlink subframe during the operation of the drx-inactivity timer. When a scheduling information (PDCCH indicating the initial transmission) is received during the run of "drx-incactivity timer", the terminal restarts the drx-incactivity timer.

As shown in fig. 4, when "DRX-inactivity timer" times out or DRX signaling (DRX Command MAC control element) carried by a medium access control address (Media Access Control Address, MAC) control cell is received: 1) If the terminal does not configure short DRX cycle (cycle), directly using the long DRX cycle; 2) If the terminal configures the short DRX cycle, the terminal uses the short DRX cycle and starts (or restarts) "drxShortCycleTimer", and when "drxShortCycleTimer" is overtime, the UE uses the long DRX cycle.

In this embodiment, if the type of the DRX cycle is a short DRX cycle, the PDCCH is detected in the active period of the short DRX cycle according to a preset default mechanism, and when the short DRX cycle is started, the terminal indicates that more frequent data needs to be scheduled, and at this time, the terminal may also detect the PDCCH in the on duration of the short DRX cycle according to the preset default mechanism, so as to ensure reliability and timeliness of data scheduling, where the terminal does not monitor the energy-saving signal.

Second case: determining whether to perform detection of the PDCCH during an active period of the DRX cycle based on the type of the DRX cycle includes: if the type of the DRX cycle is a long DRX cycle, the discontinuous reception non-active timer is not started in the active period of the long DRX cycle.

In this embodiment, for the case of long DRX start, the traffic of the terminal is generally sparse at this time, the probability that the terminal has traffic to reach and the network expects the terminal to wake up is relatively low, so when the terminal does not monitor the energy-saving signal, the sleep state can be maintained, and the PDCCH is not detected, so as to reduce the loss of the terminal.

Third case: determining whether to perform detection of the PDCCH during an active period of the DRX cycle based on the type of the DRX cycle includes: if the type of the DRX cycle is a long DRX cycle, determining whether to detect the PDCCH in the active period of the long DRX cycle based on the network configuration information.

It should be noted that, when the terminal does not monitor the power saving signal, the implementation manner of determining whether to perform the detection of the PDCCH in the active period of the DRX cycle based on the type of the DRX cycle may have other implementations besides the above three cases, and different processing mechanisms may be set for different types of DRX cycles according to the characteristics of the types of the DRX cycles and the service requirements. For example, in some scenarios, the processing mechanisms of the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may be performed in reverse, for example, if the type of the DRX cycle is the long DRX cycle, the PDCCH is detected in the active period of the long DRX cycle according to a default mechanism set in advance; if the type of the DRX cycle is a short DRX cycle, a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) inactivity timer is not started in the activation period of the short DRX cycle; if the DRX cycle is of the short DRX cycle type, determining whether to detect the PDCCH in the active period of the short DRX cycle or not based on the network configuration information. Or, other processing mechanisms are also possible, for example, if the type of the DRX cycle is a short DRX cycle, the PDCCH is detected in the active period of the short DRX cycle according to a default mechanism set in advance or network configuration information of the short DRX cycle; if the type of the DRX period is a long DRX period, detecting the PDCCH in the active period of the long DRX period according to a preset default mechanism or network configuration information of the long DRX period. The embodiments of the present application are not limited.

In this embodiment, for the case of long DRX start, at this time, the service of the terminal is generally sparse, the probability that the terminal has a service to arrive and the network expects the terminal to wake up is relatively low, but there may still exist some services that need to be transmitted in time, so the network configuration information may be configured in the terminal in advance, or the terminal may receive the network configuration information, that is, the base station may carry the network configuration information in a high layer signaling and send the network configuration information to the terminal, so as to instruct whether to wake up the terminal to detect the PDCCH at the on duration of the long DRX cycle, thereby reducing power consumption of the terminal and guaranteeing reliability and timeliness of service transmission as much as possible.

In some scenarios, in order to ensure that the terminal receives the energy-saving signal as much as possible, the base station may configure the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal for the terminal, and in a possible implementation manner, the method for processing the energy-saving signal provided by the embodiment of the present application may further include: receiving configuration information; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal, and the terminal can monitor the energy-saving signal based on the configuration parameters. The configuration parameters may include a time-frequency resource location of the energy-saving signal, a sequence setting, or an RNTI scrambled by the PDCCH, a time offset between a transmission time location of the energy-saving signal and a starting location of an on duration of the DRX cycle, a PDCCH search space of the energy-saving signal, a search resource set of the energy-saving signal, and the like, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application. In addition, the configuration information may further implicitly instruct the terminal to start the energy saving mode, that is, when the terminal receives the configuration information, the terminal starts to monitor the energy saving signal based on the parameter indicated by the configuration information, and executes the method for processing the energy saving signal described in the foregoing embodiment.

Further, the configuration parameters comprise configuration parameters of energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different.

In this embodiment, as mentioned above, some characteristic requirements of the power saving signals of the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may also be different, for example, there is typically a time offset between the transmission time position of the power saving signal and the start position of the DRX on duration, and the time offset allows the terminal to wake up from the sleep state to enter the normal data receiving and transmitting state. The long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may have different durations, so that the terminal may generally enter a deep sleep (deep sleep) state in the case of the long DRX cycle, and the terminal may generally enter a light sleep (light sleep) state in the case of the short DRX cycle, so that the time required for the terminal to wake up from sleep may be different in both cases. For example, based on the implementation, the deep sleep terminal wake-up involves a reload of baseband configuration and an adjustment of radio frequency, while the shallow sleep terminal wake-up involves only an adjustment of radio frequency. Therefore, in order to ensure that the energy-saving signal can be efficiently monitored in the long DRX period and the short DRX period, and not consume too much power consumption of the terminal, different configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal can be respectively configured according to the characteristics of the long DRX period and the short DRX period. In the embodiment of the present application, the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle are described as examples, and other types of DRX cycles may be set, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

Further, the configuration parameters of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different, including at least one of the following parameters:

the first time offsets of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different; the first time offset is a time offset between a transmission time position of the power saving signal and a start position of an active period of the DRX cycle;

the second time offsets of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different; the second time offset is a time offset between a time position of a PDCCH search space of the power saving signal and a start position of an active period of the DRX cycle;

the PDCCH search spaces of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX periods are different;

the PDCCH control resource sets of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX periods are different;

the lengths of downlink control information DCI of energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different;

the indication information of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles is different in positions in DCI;

the network configuration information of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles is different.

It should be noted that, the different parameters of the energy saving signal corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles may include other parameters besides the first time offset, the second time offset, the PDCCH search space, the PDCCH control resource set, the length of the DCI, the position of the indication information in the DCI, the network configuration information, and the like, which are not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

In one possible implementation, the first time offsets of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different, including: the first time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the short DRX period is smaller than the first time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the long DRX period.

It should be noted that, the first time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the short DRX cycle is smaller than the first time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle, and this embodiment is one possible implementation, and in other scenarios, other implementations may also be possible, for example, the first time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the short DRX cycle is greater than the first time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto.

In one possible implementation, the second time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the type of the different DRX cycle is different, including: the second time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the short DRX cycle is smaller than the second time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, for the short DRX cycle and the long DRX cycle, the time offset between the transmission time position (e.g., the start position or the end position) of the power saving signal and the start position of the on duration of the DRX cycle is different; or the time offset between the time position (e.g., start position or end position) of the PDCCH search space (search space) of the power saving signal and the start position of the on duration of the DRX cycle. For example, for a long DRX cycle, a larger first time offset (offset 1) may be configured, such as 10ms or 10 slots, while a short DRX cycle may be configured with a relatively shorter first time offset (offset 2), such as 4ms or 4 slots.

It should be noted that, the second time offset of the energy-saving signal corresponding to the short DRX cycle is smaller than the second time offset of the energy-saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle, and this embodiment is one possible implementation, and in other scenarios, other implementations may also be possible, for example, the second time offset of the energy-saving signal corresponding to the short DRX cycle is larger than the second time offset of the energy-saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto.

In one possible implementation, the PDCCH search space includes a plurality of monitoring positions of the power saving signals, and the PDCCH search spaces of the power saving signals corresponding to different types of DRX cycles are different, including: the time interval between the monitoring positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the short DRX period is smaller than the time interval between the monitoring positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the long DRX period.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 6, as the PDCCH search space of the power saving signals may include a plurality of listening positions of the power saving signals, for a long DRX cycle, a time interval (Duration 1) between the listening positions of the power saving signals may be distributed relatively discretely, and for a short DRX cycle, a time interval (Duration 2) between the listening positions of the power saving signals is smaller, and the distribution is relatively compact, so that the terminal has more time to be in a power saving state without waking up the listening PDCCH in the case of the short DRX cycle.

It should be noted that, the time interval between the listening positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the short DRX cycle is smaller than the time interval between the listening positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the long DRX cycle, this embodiment is one possible implementation, and in other scenarios, other implementations may also be possible, for example, the time interval between the listening positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the short DRX cycle is greater than the time interval between the listening positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the long DRX cycle, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto.

According to the energy-saving signal processing method provided by the embodiment, the terminal receives configuration information issued by the base station, and the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals carried in the configuration information comprise the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different, and the long DRX cycle and the short DRX configuration cycle are configured with the configuration parameters of different energy-saving signals, so that the state and the operation of the terminal under the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle can be matched more, and the terminal can realize more effective energy saving. For example, the long DRX cycle uses a larger time offset between the power saving signal and the on duration of the DRX cycle, so that the terminal has a longer time to wake up from a deep sleep state; the short DRX cycle uses a smaller time offset between the power saving signal and the on duration of the DRX cycle, so that the terminal can wake up from the light sleep state using a shorter time. Also, a compact PDCCH search space distribution is used in the case of short DRX cycles, so that there is more time for the terminal to be in sleep state during the short DRX cycle.

In the above embodiment, if the terminal monitors the energy-saving signal, then some restrictions may be made on when the terminal starts to monitor the energy-saving signal, for example, the base station explicitly instructs the terminal to start monitoring the energy-saving signal through an instruction, or the base station may also implicitly instruct the terminal to monitor the energy-saving signal through configuration information, or the terminal is preconfigured to trigger monitoring the energy-saving signal under certain conditions, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

In a possible implementation manner, the method for processing the energy-saving signal provided by the embodiment of the application further includes: receiving an energy-saving mechanism starting message; the energy saving mechanism start message is used for instructing the terminal to start the energy saving mode. In this embodiment, the base station issues an energy-saving mechanism start message to the terminal, and explicitly instructs the terminal to start an energy-saving mode, that is, after the terminal receives the energy-saving mechanism start message, the terminal starts to monitor an energy-saving signal, and executes the processing method of the energy-saving signal described in the foregoing embodiment. In one possible implementation manner, the energy saving mechanism starting message is carried in a higher layer control signaling, where the higher layer signaling may be RRC signaling, MAC CE signaling, etc., and the embodiment of the present application is not limited. In the method, after the terminal receives the energy-saving mechanism starting message, the energy-saving mode is started, the energy-saving signal starts to be monitored, and the processing method of the energy-saving signal, which is described in the embodiment, is executed, so that the terminal is prevented from being always in the energy-saving mode to monitor the energy-saving signal, and the power consumption of the terminal is further reduced.

In the above embodiments, the processing mechanism of the terminal is mainly described when the terminal does not monitor the power saving signal, and further, if the power saving signal is monitored, it is determined whether to perform the detection of the PDCCH during the on duration of the DRX according to the power saving signal. In this embodiment, when the terminal monitors the power saving signal, it is determined whether to perform the detection of the PDCCH during the on duration of the DRX according to the information carried by the power saving signal. For the method for determining whether to perform PDCCH detection during the on duration of DRX according to the information carried by the power saving signal by the terminal, reference may be made to the implementation principle of step S301 in the embodiment shown in fig. 3, which is not described herein.

In addition, some characteristic requirements of the power saving signal for the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may also be different, such as a time offset between a transmission time position of a general power saving signal and a start position of the DRX On Duration, which allows the terminal to wake up from a sleep state into a normal data reception and transmission state. The long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle are different due to the different DRX cycles, so that the terminal may generally enter a deep sleep (deep sleep) state in the case of the long DRX cycle, and the terminal may generally enter a light sleep (light sleep) state in the case of the short DRX cycle, so that the time required for the terminal to wake up from sleep may be different in both cases. For example, based on the implementation, the deep sleep terminal wake-up involves a reload of baseband configuration and an adjustment of radio frequency, while the shallow sleep terminal wake-up involves only an adjustment of radio frequency. If the existing monitoring mechanism of the energy-saving signal is adopted, the energy-saving signal corresponding to the long DRX period cannot be monitored easily, or the terminal is awakened in advance for the short DRX period, so that the problem of high power consumption is caused.

Aiming at the problem that the existing monitoring mechanism of the energy-saving signal is adopted to easily cause that the energy-saving signal corresponding to the long DRX period cannot be monitored, or the terminal is awakened in advance to cause large power loss for the short DRX period, the embodiment of the application provides another processing method of the energy-saving signal, and the execution main body of the method is the terminal in figure 2. As shown in fig. 7, the method includes the steps of:

s701, receiving configuration information; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals, and the configuration parameters comprise configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different, and the types of the DRX cycles are short DRX cycles or long DRX cycles.

In this embodiment, as mentioned above, some characteristic requirements of the power saving signals of the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may also be different, for example, there is typically a time offset between the transmission time position of the power saving signal and the start position of the DRX on duration, and the time offset allows the terminal to wake up from the sleep state to enter the normal data receiving and transmitting state. The long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may have different durations, so that the terminal may generally enter a deep sleep (deep sleep) state in the case of the long DRX cycle, and the terminal may generally enter a light sleep (light sleep) state in the case of the short DRX cycle. For example, based on the implementation, the deep sleep terminal wake-up involves a reload of baseband configuration and an adjustment of radio frequency, while the shallow sleep terminal wake-up involves only an adjustment of radio frequency. Therefore, in order to ensure that the energy-saving signal can be efficiently monitored in the long DRX period and the short DRX period, and not consume too much power consumption of the terminal, different configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal can be respectively configured according to the characteristics of the long DRX period and the short DRX period.

S702, monitoring energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles according to the configuration information.

In this embodiment, the terminal may monitor, according to the configuration information, an energy-saving signal corresponding to the type of each DRX cycle, for example, the long DRX cycle uses a time offset between a larger energy-saving signal and an on duration of the DRX cycle, so that the terminal has a longer time to wake up from a deep sleep state; the short DRX cycle uses a smaller time offset between the power saving signal and the on duration of the DRX cycle, so that the terminal can wake up from the light sleep state in a shorter time, but the embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto. Also, a compact PDCCH search space distribution is used in the case of short DRX cycles, so that there is more time for the terminal to be in sleep state during the short DRX cycle.

According to the processing method of the energy-saving signal, the terminal receives the configuration information, monitors the energy-saving signal according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals of different DRX periods indicated by the configuration information, and can be more matched with the states and the operations of the terminal under the long DRX period and the short DRX period, so that the terminal can achieve more effective energy saving.

In one embodiment, the configuration parameters of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different, including at least one of the following parameters being different:

The first time offsets of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different; the first time offset is a time offset between a transmission time position of the energy-saving signal and a starting position of an on duration of the DRX;

the second time offsets of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different; the second time offset is a time offset between a time position of a PDCCH search space of the power saving signal and a starting position of an on duration of the DRX;

In one embodiment, the first time offsets of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different, including: the first time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the short DRX period is smaller than the first time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the long DRX period.

In one embodiment, the second time offsets of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different, including: the second time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the short DRX cycle is smaller than the second time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle.

In one embodiment, the PDCCH search space includes monitoring positions of a plurality of energy-saving signals, and PDCCH search spaces of energy-saving signals corresponding to different types of DRX cycles are different, including: the time interval between the monitoring positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the short DRX period is smaller than the time interval between the monitoring positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the long DRX period.

In one embodiment, the method for processing an energy-saving signal further includes: receiving an energy-saving mechanism starting message; the energy saving mechanism start message is used for instructing the terminal to start the energy saving mode. In one possible implementation, the power saving mechanism on message is carried in the higher layer control signaling.

The implementation principle and the beneficial effects of the method for processing an energy-saving signal provided in the foregoing embodiment may refer to the embodiments of fig. 3 to 6, and are not described herein again.

Aiming at the problem that the existing monitoring mechanism of the energy-saving signal is adopted to easily cause that the energy-saving signal corresponding to the long DRX period cannot be monitored, or the terminal is awakened in advance to cause large power loss for the short DRX period, the embodiment of the application provides another processing method of the energy-saving signal, and the execution main body of the method is the base station in figure 2. The method comprises the following steps: transmitting configuration information; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals, and the configuration parameters comprise configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different, and the types of the DRX cycles are short DRX cycles or long DRX cycles.

In one embodiment, the method for processing an energy-saving signal further includes: sending an energy-saving mechanism starting message; the energy saving mechanism start message is used for instructing the terminal to start the energy saving mode. In one possible implementation, the power saving mechanism on message is carried in the higher layer control signaling.

It should be understood that, although the steps in the flowcharts of fig. 2-7 are shown in order as indicated by the arrows, these steps are not necessarily performed in order as indicated by the arrows. The steps are not strictly limited to the order of execution unless explicitly recited herein, and the steps may be executed in other orders. Moreover, at least some of the steps in fig. 2-7 may include multiple sub-steps or stages that are not necessarily performed at the same time, but may be performed at different times, nor does the order in which the sub-steps or stages are performed necessarily occur in sequence, but may be performed alternately or alternately with at least a portion of the sub-steps or stages of other steps or other steps.

In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 8, there is provided a processing apparatus for energy saving signals, as shown in fig. 8, the apparatus comprising:

a monitoring module 21, configured to monitor an energy-saving signal;

a determining module 22, configured to determine whether to perform detection of a physical downlink control channel PDCCH during an active period of the DRX cycle based on a type of the DRX cycle if the power saving signal is not monitored; the DRX cycle is of the short DRX cycle or the long DRX cycle.

In one embodiment, the determining module 22 is configured to detect the PDCCH during the active period of the short DRX cycle according to a default mechanism set in advance if the type of the DRX cycle is the short DRX cycle.

In one embodiment, the determining module 22 performs the detection of the PDCCH during the active period of the short DRX cycle according to a default mechanism set in advance, including: the determining module 22 starts a discontinuous reception inactivity timer corresponding to the short DRX cycle, and detects the PDCCH during operation of the discontinuous reception inactivity timer.

In one embodiment, the determining module 22 is configured to not start the discontinuous reception inactivity timer during the active period of the long DRX cycle if the type of the DRX cycle is the long DRX cycle.

In one embodiment, the determining module 22 is configured to determine whether to perform the detection of the PDCCH during the active period of the long DRX cycle based on the network configuration information if the type of the DRX cycle is the long DRX cycle.

In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 9, the apparatus for processing a power saving signal further includes:

the first receiving module 23 is configured to receive network configuration information.

In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 10, the processing device for energy saving signal further includes:

a second receiving module 24, configured to receive configuration information; the configuration information is used to indicate configuration parameters of the power saving signal.

In one embodiment, the configuration parameters include configuration parameters of power saving signals corresponding to types of respective DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different.

In an embodiment, the PDCCH search space includes a plurality of monitoring positions of the power saving signals, and PDCCH search spaces of the power saving signals corresponding to different types of DRX cycles are different, including: the time interval between the monitoring positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the short DRX period is smaller than the time interval between the monitoring positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the long DRX period.

In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 11, the processing device for energy saving signal further includes:

a third receiving module 25, configured to receive an energy saving mechanism start message; the energy saving mechanism start message is used for instructing the terminal to start the energy saving mode.

In one embodiment, the power saving mechanism on message is carried in higher layer control signaling.

In one embodiment, the determining module 22 is further configured to determine whether to perform the detection of the PDCCH during the on duration of the DRX according to the power saving signal if the power saving signal is monitored.

In one embodiment, if the power saving signal uses the PDCCH based on error correction coding, the monitoring module 21 is configured to detect whether the cyclic redundancy check CRC of the power saving signal is successful; if the CRC is successful, monitoring an energy-saving signal; if the CRC fails, no energy saving signal is monitored.

The implementation principle and technical effects of the processing device for energy-saving signals provided in the above embodiment are similar to those of the above method embodiment, and are not described herein again.

In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 12, there is provided a processing apparatus for energy saving signals, as shown in fig. 12, the apparatus comprising:

a receiving module 31 for receiving configuration information; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals, and the configuration parameters comprise configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different;

and the monitoring module 32 is configured to monitor the energy-saving signal corresponding to each DRX cycle type according to the configuration information.

In one embodiment, the PDCCH search space includes a plurality of listening positions of the power saving signals, and PDCCH search spaces of the power saving signals corresponding to different types of DRX cycles are different, including: the time interval between the monitoring positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the short DRX period is smaller than the time interval between the monitoring positions of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the long DRX period.

In one embodiment, the processing device for an energy-saving signal provided by the embodiment of the application further includes:

the receiving module is used for receiving the energy-saving mechanism starting message; the energy saving mechanism start message is used for instructing the terminal to start the energy saving mode.

In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 13, there is provided a processing apparatus for energy saving signals, as shown in fig. 13, the apparatus comprising: a transmission module 41 and a processing module 42,

a processing module 42 for transmitting the configuration information through the transmitting module 41; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals, and the configuration parameters comprise configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of the power saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different.

In one embodiment, the sending module 41 is further configured to send a power saving mechanism on message; the energy saving mechanism start message is used for instructing the terminal to start the energy saving mode.

For specific limitations of the processing device of the energy-saving signal, reference may be made to the above limitation of the processing method of the energy-saving signal, and no further description is given here. The respective modules in the above-described processing device for energy-saving signals may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, and a combination thereof. The above modules may be embedded in hardware or may be independent of a processor in the computer device, or may be stored in software in a memory in the computer device, so that the processor may call and execute operations corresponding to the above modules.

In one embodiment, a computer device is provided, which may be a terminal, and the internal structure thereof may be as shown in fig. 14. The computer device includes a processor, a memory, a network interface, a display screen, and an input device connected by a system bus. Wherein the processor of the computer device is configured to provide computing and control capabilities. The memory of the computer device includes a non-volatile storage medium and an internal memory. The non-volatile storage medium stores an operating system and a computer program. The internal memory provides an environment for the operation of the operating system and computer programs in the non-volatile storage media. The network interface of the computer device is used for communicating with an external terminal through a network connection. The computer program, when executed by a processor, implements a method of processing a power saving signal. The display screen of the computer equipment can be a liquid crystal display screen or an electronic ink display screen, the input device of the computer equipment can be a touch layer covered on the display screen, can be keys, a track ball or a touch pad arranged on the shell of the computer equipment, can also be an external keyboard, a touch pad or a mouse, and the like

In one embodiment, a computer device is provided, which may be a base station, and the internal structure of which may be as shown in fig. 15. The computer device includes a processor, a memory, a network interface, and a database connected by a system bus. Wherein the processor of the computer device is configured to provide computing and control capabilities. The memory of the computer device includes a non-volatile storage medium and an internal memory. The non-volatile storage medium stores an operating system, computer programs, and a database. The internal memory provides an environment for the operation of the operating system and computer programs in the non-volatile storage media. The database of the computer device is for storing resource query processing data. The network interface of the computer device is used for communicating with an external terminal through a network connection. The computer program, when executed by a processor, implements a method of processing a power saving signal.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the structures shown in fig. 14 or 15 are merely block diagrams of portions of structures associated with aspects of the application and are not intended to limit the computer device to which aspects of the application may be applied, and that a particular computer device may include more or fewer components than those shown, or may combine certain components, or may have a different arrangement of components.

In one embodiment, a computer device is provided comprising a memory and a processor, the memory having stored therein a computer program, the processor when executing the computer program performing the steps of:

monitoring an energy-saving signal;

The computer device provided in the foregoing embodiments has similar implementation principles and technical effects to those of the foregoing method embodiments, and will not be described herein in detail.

In one embodiment, a computer readable storage medium is provided having a computer program stored thereon, which when executed by a processor, performs the steps of:

monitoring an energy-saving signal;

The foregoing embodiment provides a computer readable storage medium, which has similar principles and technical effects to those of the foregoing method embodiment, and will not be described herein.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that implementing all or part of the above described methods may be accomplished by way of a computer program stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, which when executed, may comprise the steps of the embodiments of the methods described above. Any reference to memory, storage, database, or other medium used in embodiments provided herein may include non-volatile and/or volatile memory. The nonvolatile memory can include Read Only Memory (ROM), programmable ROM (PROM), electrically Programmable ROM (EPROM), electrically Erasable Programmable ROM (EEPROM), or flash memory. Volatile memory can include Random Access Memory (RAM) or external cache memory. By way of illustration and not limitation, RAM is available in a variety of forms such as Static RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double Data Rate SDRAM (DDRSDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), synchronous Link DRAM (SLDRAM), memory bus direct RAM (RDRAM), direct memory bus dynamic RAM (DRDRAM), and memory bus dynamic RAM (RDRAM), among others.

The technical features of the above embodiments may be arbitrarily combined, and all possible combinations of the technical features in the above embodiments are not described for brevity of description, however, as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features, they should be considered as the scope of the description. The above examples illustrate only a few embodiments of the application, which are described in detail and are not to be construed as limiting the scope of the application. It should be noted that it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the application, which are all within the scope of the application. Accordingly, the scope of protection of the present application is to be determined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A method of processing an energy-saving signal, the method comprising:

monitoring an energy-saving signal;

if the energy-saving signal is not monitored, determining whether to detect a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in an active period of the DRX period based on the type of the DRX period; the type of the DRX cycle is a short DRX cycle or a long DRX cycle;

Wherein the method further comprises:

receiving configuration information; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal;

the configuration parameters comprise configuration parameters of energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of different DRX cycles are different;

the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the different DRX cycles are different, and at least one of the following parameters is different:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining whether to detect the PDCCH during the active period of the DRX cycle based on the type of DRX cycle comprises:

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the detecting the PDCCH during the active period of the short DRX cycle according to a preset default mechanism includes:

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining whether to detect the PDCCH during the active period of the DRX cycle based on the type of DRX cycle comprises:

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining whether to detect the PDCCH during the active period of the DRX cycle based on the type of DRX cycle comprises:

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

and receiving the network configuration information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first time offsets of the power saving signals corresponding to the different DRX cycle types are different, comprising:

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the second time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the type of the different DRX cycle is different, comprising:

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the PDCCH search space comprises a listening position for a plurality of power saving signals, wherein the PDCCH search spaces for the power saving signals corresponding to the different DRX cycle types are different, comprising:

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the power saving mechanism activation message is carried in higher layer control signaling.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

13. The method of claim 1, wherein if the power saving signal employs a PDCCH based on error correction coding, the listening for the power saving signal comprises:

if the CRC is successful, the energy-saving signal is monitored;

if the CRC fails, the energy saving signal is not monitored.

14. A method of processing an energy-saving signal, the method comprising:

monitoring energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles according to the configuration information;

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the first time offsets of the power saving signals corresponding to the different DRX cycle types are different, comprising:

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the second time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the type of the different DRX cycle is different, comprising:

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the PDCCH search space comprises a plurality of listening positions for power saving signals, wherein the PDCCH search spaces for the power saving signals corresponding to the different DRX cycle types are different, comprising:

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the method further comprises:

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the power saving mechanism on message is carried in higher layer control signaling.

20. A method of processing an energy-saving signal, the method comprising:

transmitting configuration information; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals, and the configuration parameters comprise configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of energy-saving signals corresponding to different DRX cycle types are different, wherein the DRX cycle types are short DRX cycles or long DRX cycles;

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the first time offsets of the power saving signals corresponding to the different DRX cycle types are different, comprising:

22. The method of claim 20, wherein the second time offset of the power saving signal corresponding to the type of the different DRX cycle is different, comprising:

23. The method of claim 20, wherein the PDCCH search space comprises a plurality of listening positions for power saving signals, wherein the PDCCH search spaces for the power saving signals corresponding to the different DRX cycle types are different, comprising:

24. The method of claim 20, wherein the method further comprises:

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the power saving mechanism on message is carried in higher layer control signaling.

26. An apparatus for processing an energy-saving signal, the apparatus comprising:

the monitoring module is used for monitoring the energy-saving signal;

a determining module, configured to determine, if the energy-saving signal is not monitored, whether to perform detection of a physical downlink control channel PDCCH during an active period of the DRX cycle based on a type of the DRX cycle; the type of the DRX cycle is a short DRX cycle or a long DRX cycle;

The receiving module is used for receiving the configuration information; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal;

27. An apparatus for processing an energy-saving signal, the apparatus comprising:

the receiving module is used for receiving the configuration information; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals, and the configuration parameters comprise configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of energy-saving signals corresponding to different DRX cycle types are different, wherein the DRX cycle types are short DRX cycles or long DRX cycles;

the monitoring module is used for monitoring energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles according to the configuration information;

28. An apparatus for processing an energy-saving signal, the apparatus comprising: a transmitting module and a processing module, wherein the transmitting module and the processing module,

the processing module is used for sending configuration information through the sending module; the configuration information is used for indicating configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals, and the configuration parameters comprise configuration parameters of the energy-saving signals corresponding to the types of the DRX cycles; the configuration parameters of energy-saving signals corresponding to different DRX cycle types are different, wherein the DRX cycle types are short DRX cycles or long DRX cycles;

29. A computer device comprising a memory and a processor, the memory storing a computer program, characterized in that the processor implements the steps of the method of any one of claims 1 to 13 when the computer program is executed.

30. A computer device comprising a memory and a processor, the memory storing a computer program, characterized in that the processor implements the steps of the method of any of claims 14 to 19 when the computer program is executed.

31. A computer device comprising a memory and a processor, the memory storing a computer program, characterized in that the processor implements the steps of the method of any of claims 20 to 25 when the computer program is executed.

32. A computer readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, characterized in that the computer program, when being executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method of any of claims 1 to 13.

33. A computer readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, characterized in that the computer program, when being executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method of any of claims 14 to 19.

34. A computer readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, characterized in that the computer program, when being executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method of any of claims 20 to 25.