CN110913462A

CN110913462A - Channel monitoring and energy-saving signal processing device, terminal and network side equipment

Info

Publication number: CN110913462A
Application number: CN201811090214.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 许萌; 梁靖; 傅婧; 苗金华
Original assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology CATT
Current assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-09-18
Filing date: 2018-09-18
Publication date: 2020-03-24
Anticipated expiration: 2038-09-18
Also published as: WO2020057489A1; CN110913462B

Abstract

The invention provides a channel monitoring method, an energy-saving signal processing method, a device, a terminal and network side equipment, wherein the channel monitoring method comprises the following steps: the terminal enters an energy-saving mode to monitor energy-saving signals; and in the energy-saving mode, the terminal determines whether a downlink control channel needs to be monitored according to whether the energy-saving signal is monitored. In the embodiment of the invention, the connected terminal does not continuously monitor the downlink control channel any more, but enters the energy-saving mode to monitor the energy-saving signal, and determines whether the downlink control channel needs to be monitored according to whether the energy-saving signal is monitored, wherein the energy-saving signal has lower demodulation complexity than the downlink control channel, and/or the frequency or time for monitoring the energy-saving signal is less than that for monitoring the downlink controllable channel, so that the power consumption of the terminal is reduced.

Description

Channel monitoring and energy-saving signal processing device, terminal and network side equipment

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a channel monitoring and energy saving signal processing device, a terminal, and a network device.

Background

The current connected terminal UE needs to monitor and analyze a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) to determine whether there is Downlink data transmission, and when there is no data transmission, the terminal monitors and analyzes the PDCCH to cause invalid power overhead. In order to reduce the power consumption overhead of the terminal, the network side currently supports configuration of DRX (Discontinuous Reception) for the terminal.

In fourth and fifth generation mobile communication systems (4G, 5G or NR (new radio) systems), DRX was introduced. The method can lead the terminal to periodically enter the sleep state at some time, does not monitor the PDCCH subframe, and awakens from the sleep state when monitoring is needed, thus leading the terminal to achieve the purpose of saving electricity. Although this has some effect on the delay of data transmission, it makes sense to perform DRX in view of the more important power consumption of the terminal if such delay does not affect the user experience.

As shown in fig. 1, DRX includes an active period in which a terminal needs to monitor a PDCCH, receive and transmit data and signaling transmission, and a dormant period. The terminal closes the radio frequency unit in the dormant period so as to reduce unnecessary electric quantity expenditure.

To take power saving and latency into account, 5G supports two DRX cycles: DRX long cycle and DRX short cycle. If the data volume of the terminal is predicted to be more frequent or the service is sensitive to time delay, the network can configure the terminal to use a DRX short cycle; if the data volume of the predicted terminal is sparse and the time delay is insensitive, the network can configure the terminal to only use the DRX long cycle.

In order to specify the length of the active period, the network side configures various timers for the terminal, including:

DRX on duration timer. During the timer running, the terminal needs to continuously monitor the PDCCH control channel of the network.

DRX inactivity timer. The timer is started at the first symbol after the terminal receives the PDCCH signaling for uplink/downlink new data scheduling. During the timer running, the terminal needs to continuously listen to the control channel.

drx-HARQ-RTT-TimerDL: downlink HARQ RTT (round trip time) timer. Maintenance is performed on a per-downstream process basis. The timer length is the minimum time interval from HARQ feedback to HARQ retransmission for that process. The terminal will start the timer at the first symbol after HARQ NACK feedback for the downlink process only if the process is not successfully decoded. If the current terminal only runs drx-HARQ-RTT-TimeDL and/or drx-HARQ-RTT-TimerUL, the terminal does not need to monitor the PDCCH control channel.

drx-HARQ-RTT-TimerUL the uplink HARQ RTT timer. Maintenance is performed on a per-upstream process basis. The timer length is the minimum time interval from transmission of PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared channel) to reception of HARQ retransmission for that process. After the uplink PUSCH transmission, the terminal starts an uplink HARQ RTT timer aiming at the uplink process. If the PUSCH transmission uses PUSCH repetition (PUSCH repetition), the uplink HARQ RTT timer is started after the PUSCH is repeated for the first time so as to ensure that the PUSCH repetition transmission can be terminated in time after the PUSCH is analyzed by the base station in advance.

drx-retransmission timerdl: and a downlink retransmission timer. The timer is started by the next symbol after the expiration of drx-HARQ-RTT-TimerDL. During the running of the timer, the terminal monitors a control channel of the network, and stops the timer if receiving downlink scheduling information or a downlink configuration grant (downlink configured grant) for the process.

drx-retransmission timerll: and starting the timer by the next symbol after the expiration of the uplink retransmission timer, drx-HARQ-RTT-TimerUL. During the running of the timer, the terminal monitors a control channel of the network, and stops running if uplink scheduling information or an uplink configuration grant (uplink configured grant) for the process is received.

In summary, the connected terminal needs to continuously monitor the PDCCH signal, and even if the terminal is configured with the DRX mode, the terminal needs to continuously monitor the PDCCH signal in the active period, and in the case of no data transmission, the terminal may cause invalid monitoring, which results in wasted power consumption.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a monitoring method, a monitoring device and a monitoring terminal of a downlink control channel, and aims to solve the problem of power consumption waste caused by invalid monitoring when a connected terminal continuously monitors a PDCCH signal in the prior art.

In order to solve the above problem, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for monitoring a downlink control channel, which is applied to a connected terminal, and includes:

the terminal enters an energy-saving mode to monitor energy-saving signals;

and in the energy-saving mode, the terminal determines whether a downlink control channel needs to be monitored according to whether the energy-saving signal is monitored.

Wherein, the terminal enters the energy-saving mode to monitor the energy-saving signal, including:

receiving a network signaling, wherein the network signaling is used for indicating the terminal to start monitoring energy-saving signals, and the terminal enters an energy-saving mode to monitor the energy-saving signals; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

and setting an energy-saving timer, and under the condition that the energy-saving timer is overtime, the terminal enters an energy-saving mode to monitor energy-saving signals.

The network signaling received by the terminal is a high-level Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling or a bottom-level signaling sent by a network side device.

When the terminal receives downlink scheduling and/or the terminal has uplink data transmission, the energy-saving timer set by the terminal is started or restarted.

Wherein the timing duration and/or the starting time of the energy-saving timer are/is specified by network configuration or a protocol.

determining configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal according to network side configuration and/or protocol agreement;

and the terminal enters an energy-saving mode and periodically monitors or continuously monitors the energy-saving signal in the energy-saving mode according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal.

Wherein, under the condition that the terminal configures a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle, the terminal enters an energy-saving mode to monitor energy-saving signals, and the method comprises the following steps:

acquiring configuration parameters of an energy-saving signal corresponding to a DRX period;

the terminal enters an energy-saving mode and periodically monitors or continuously monitors the energy-saving signal in the energy-saving mode according to a DRX period and configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal corresponding to the DRX period.

The configuration parameters of each energy saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may be the same or different.

Wherein the configuration parameter of the energy-saving signal comprises at least one of the following information:

a time domain location of the power saving signal;

a listening period of the energy saving signal;

the signal duration of the energy-saving signal;

the number of signal repetitions of the power saving signal;

a signal transmission interval of the power saving signal;

a frequency domain location of the power saving signal;

an offset of a time domain starting position of the power saving signal.

Wherein, when the terminal configures a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle, the offset of the time domain starting position of the energy-saving signal is as follows:

the offset of the time domain starting position of the energy-saving signal relative to the starting time of the activation period of the DRX period; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

and the offset of the time domain starting position of the energy-saving signal relative to the starting time of the sleep period of the DRX period.

Wherein the method further comprises:

and the terminal adjusts a DRX continuous monitoring timer in a DRX period according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a method for processing the energy-saving signal, which is applied to network side equipment and comprises the following steps:

and after a network signaling for indicating the terminal to start monitoring the energy-saving signal is sent to the terminal, or after an energy-saving timer specified by the network side equipment configuration or protocol is overtime, sending the energy-saving signal according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal.

Wherein the sending, to the terminal, a network signaling for instructing the terminal to start monitoring the energy saving signal includes:

when no downlink data is transmitted, sending a network signaling for indicating the terminal to start monitoring the energy-saving signal to the terminal; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

after receiving a request signaling which is sent by a terminal and requests to enter an energy-saving mode, sending a network signaling for indicating the terminal to start monitoring energy-saving signals to the terminal; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

and when the terminal is determined to enter the energy-saving mode, sending a network signaling for indicating the terminal to start monitoring the energy-saving signal to the terminal.

And the network side equipment determines that the terminal enters an energy-saving mode under the condition that the terminal does not have a delay-sensitive service.

The network signaling is a high-level Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling or a bottom-level signaling.

When the network side equipment has downlink data transmission and/or receives uplink data, the energy-saving timer set by the network side equipment is started or restarted.

Wherein, sending the energy-saving signal according to the configuration parameter of the energy-saving signal comprises:

and periodically or continuously sending the energy-saving signal according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal.

Wherein, under the condition that the terminal configures the discontinuous reception DRX cycle, the configuration parameters of each energy saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may be the same or different.

Wherein, the configuration parameter of the energy-saving signal is network configuration and/or protocol specification.

a time domain location of the power saving signal;

a listening period of the energy saving signal;

the signal duration of the energy-saving signal;

the number of signal repetitions of the power saving signal;

a signal transmission interval of the power saving signal;

a frequency domain location of the power saving signal;

an offset of a time domain starting position of the power saving signal.

Wherein, in case that the terminal configures a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle, the method further comprises:

and adjusting a DRX continuous monitoring timer in the DRX period according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, including: a memory, a processor and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the processor when executing the program implementing the steps of:

entering an energy-saving mode to monitor an energy-saving signal;

and under the energy-saving mode, determining whether a downlink control channel needs to be monitored according to whether the energy-saving signal is monitored.

Wherein the terminal further comprises a transceiver for receiving network signaling;

the processor is further configured to:

Wherein the processor is further configured to:

and entering an energy-saving mode and periodically monitoring or continuously monitoring the energy-saving signal in the energy-saving mode according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal.

Wherein the processor is further configured to:

acquiring configuration parameters of an energy-saving signal corresponding to a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle under the condition that the terminal configures the DRX cycle;

and entering an energy-saving mode, and periodically monitoring or continuously monitoring the energy-saving signal in the energy-saving mode according to a DRX period and configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal corresponding to the DRX period.

a time domain location of the power saving signal;

a listening period of the energy saving signal;

the signal duration of the energy-saving signal;

the number of signal repetitions of the power saving signal;

a signal transmission interval of the power saving signal;

a frequency domain location of the power saving signal;

an offset of a time domain starting position of the power saving signal.

Wherein the processor is further configured to:

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a device for monitoring a downlink control channel, which is applied to a connected terminal, and includes:

the monitoring module is used for entering an energy-saving mode to monitor an energy-saving signal;

and the determining module is used for determining whether to monitor a downlink control channel according to whether the terminal monitors the energy-saving signal in the energy-saving mode.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the method for monitoring a downlink control channel as described above are implemented.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a network side device, including: a transceiver, a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the transceiver to: sending a network signaling for indicating the terminal to start monitoring the energy-saving signal to the terminal;

the processor implements the following steps when executing the program:

Wherein the transceiver is further configured to:

a time domain location of the power saving signal;

a listening period of the energy saving signal;

the signal duration of the energy-saving signal;

the number of signal repetitions of the power saving signal;

a signal transmission interval of the power saving signal;

a frequency domain location of the power saving signal;

an offset of a time domain starting position of the power saving signal.

Wherein, in case that the terminal configures a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle, the processor is further configured to:

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a processing apparatus for an energy saving signal, which is applied to a network side device, and includes:

a sending module, configured to send, to a terminal, a network signaling for instructing the terminal to start monitoring an energy saving signal, or send, according to a configuration parameter of an energy saving signal, the energy saving signal after an energy saving timer configured by the network-side device or specified by a protocol expires.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the method for processing an energy saving signal as described above are implemented.

The technical scheme of the invention at least has the following beneficial effects:

in the channel monitoring, the energy-saving signal processing, the device, the terminal and the network side equipment of the embodiment of the invention, the terminal in a connection state does not continuously monitor the downlink control channel any more, but enters the energy-saving mode to monitor the energy-saving signal, and determines whether the downlink control channel needs to be monitored according to whether the energy-saving signal is monitored, the energy-saving signal has lower demodulation complexity than the downlink control channel, and/or the frequency or time for monitoring the energy-saving signal is less than that for monitoring the downlink controllable channel, so that the power consumption of the terminal is reduced.

Drawings

Figure 1 shows a diagram of a DRX cycle in the prior art;

fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating steps of a method for monitoring a downlink control channel according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating configuration parameters of an energy-saving signal in a method for monitoring a downlink control channel according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating a second configuration parameter of an energy-saving signal in the monitoring method for a downlink control channel according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating a third parameter configuration of an energy-saving signal in a method for monitoring a downlink control channel according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a fourth schematic diagram illustrating configuration parameters of an energy-saving signal in the monitoring method for a downlink control channel according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic diagram illustrating steps of a method for processing an energy-saving signal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal and a network device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a monitoring apparatus for a downlink control channel according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 shows a configuration of an energy saving signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the following detailed description is given with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

As shown in fig. 2, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for monitoring a downlink control channel, which is applied to a connected terminal, and includes:

and step 21, the terminal enters an energy-saving mode to monitor energy-saving signals.

In this step, the terminal may enter an energy saving mode to monitor energy saving signals when it is determined that there is no downlink scheduling and/or no uplink data transmission within a period of time; or the terminal enters an energy-saving mode to monitor the energy-saving signal after receiving the network signaling notification; thereby saving power consumption of the terminal.

Step 22, in the energy saving mode, the terminal determines whether to monitor a downlink control channel according to whether to monitor the energy saving signal. The downlink control channel may specifically be a PDCCH.

In this step, the power saving signal may be classified into a first type power saving signal and a second type power saving signal, and at least one of them is included. The terminal receives the first energy-saving signal, wakes up on corresponding resources to monitor a downlink control channel (e.g., a PDCCH), and if the terminal only contains the first energy-saving signal, the terminal continues to sleep if the terminal does not receive the first energy-saving signal; the second type of energy-saving signals are sleep signals, if the terminal receives the second type of energy-saving signals, the terminal continues to sleep, if the terminal only contains the second type of energy-saving signals, and if the terminal does not receive the second type of energy-saving signals, the terminal wakes up on corresponding resources to monitor a downlink control channel. The following embodiments take the example of transmitting at least a first type of energy saving signal. But the invention encompasses situations where at least a first type of power saving signal or a second type of power saving signal is involved.

As an example, step 21 comprises:

and receiving a network signaling, wherein the network signaling is used for indicating the terminal to start monitoring the energy-saving signal, and the terminal enters an energy-saving mode to monitor the energy-saving signal.

The network signaling received by the terminal is a high-level radio resource control RRC signaling or a bottom-level signaling, such as an MAC CE or PDCCH order, sent by the network side device. The network side equipment can send the network signaling to the terminal to inform the terminal to start monitoring the energy-saving signal when judging that no downlink data is transmitted; similarly, the network side device starts to transmit the power saving signal.

It should be noted that the network signaling may directly instruct the terminal to start monitoring the energy saving signal, or may notify the terminal that there is no transmission of downlink data currently (i.e., indirectly instruct the terminal to start monitoring the energy saving signal), which is not limited herein.

Example 1

Step 1, network side equipment informs a terminal to enter an energy-saving mode through network signaling to start monitoring energy-saving signals; the network signaling may be higher layer RRC signaling, or may be a lower layer MAC CE or PDCCH order.

Preferably, the network side device sends the network signaling to the terminal when there is no downlink data transmission;

or after receiving a request signaling for requesting the terminal to enter the energy-saving mode, the network side equipment sends the network signaling to the terminal;

or, after determining that the terminal enters the energy-saving mode, the network side device sends the network signaling to the terminal;

or, when the terminal does not have the delay-sensitive service, the network side device sends the network signaling to the terminal after determining that the terminal enters the energy-saving mode.

And 2, after receiving the network signaling, the terminal starts to monitor the energy-saving signal according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal.

As another example, step 21 includes:

and setting an energy-saving timer, and under the condition that the energy-saving timer is overtime, the terminal enters an energy-saving mode to monitor energy-saving signals. The timing duration and/or the starting time of the energy-saving timer are/is specified by network configuration or a protocol.

When the terminal receives downlink scheduling (for example, receives a PDCCH signal or receives downlink data) and/or when the terminal has uplink data transmission, an energy-saving timer set by the terminal is started or restarted.

It should be noted that the network side also needs to maintain the energy-saving timer, and the energy-saving timer maintained by the network side and the energy-saving timer maintained by the terminal side need to be set synchronously, when the energy-saving timer expires, the terminal starts to monitor the energy-saving signal, and the network side also needs to synchronously send the energy-saving signal (for example, awaken the terminal through the energy-saving signal).

It should be noted that, if the terminal configures DRX, the power saving timer may not be needed, or the power saving timer may be set in combination with the DRX cycle, for example, the timing duration of the power saving timer may be n DRX cycles, that is, when the terminal does not receive downlink data and/or does not have uplink data transmission for n consecutive DRX cycles, the terminal enters the power saving mode to start monitoring the power saving signal; the same network side also sends energy-saving signals according to the configuration; n is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

Example two

And 3, the terminal and the network side configure the energy-saving timer according to the energy-saving timer configured by the network side or the energy-saving timer specified by the protocol, start the energy-saving timer, and restart the timer when data transmission exists.

And 4, when the energy-saving timer is overtime, the terminal starts to monitor the energy-saving signal according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal. After the energy-saving timer is overtime, the network side equipment wakes up the terminal to inform the terminal to receive data by sending an energy-saving signal instead of directly sending the PDCCH.

As a preferred embodiment, step 21 comprises:

Alternatively, when the terminal configures a discontinuous reception DRX cycle, step 21 includes:

After the terminal starts to monitor the energy-saving signal, the network side equipment can periodically send the energy-saving signal, and the terminal only needs to periodically monitor the energy-saving signal; and when the terminal monitors the energy-saving signal for waking up, the terminal wakes up and continues to monitor whether the PDCCH is scheduled, otherwise, the terminal continues to be in an energy-saving mode and monitors the energy-saving signal at the sending time of the next energy-saving signal.

The terminal can also continuously monitor the energy-saving signal, wake up and continue to monitor whether there is PDCCH scheduling after the terminal monitors the own energy-saving signal for waking up, otherwise, the terminal continues to monitor the energy-saving signal in the energy-saving mode.

It should be noted that whether the terminal periodically monitors the power saving signal or continuously monitors the power saving signal in the power saving mode may be determined by a configuration parameter of the corresponding power saving signal.

Example three

And step 5, the terminal periodically monitors energy-saving signals (the network or protocol configuration terminal periodically monitors the energy-saving signals), and when the terminal monitors the own energy-saving signals for waking up, the terminal wakes up and continues to monitor whether PDCCH (physical downlink control channel) scheduling exists, otherwise, the terminal continues to be in an energy-saving mode and monitors the energy-saving signals at the sending time of the next energy-saving signal.

And 6, when the network has data to send to the terminal, firstly sending an energy-saving signal for awakening the terminal according to the energy-saving signal sending period, informing the terminal to awaken for data receiving, and then sending a PDCCH signal for scheduling data sending. Otherwise, the network does not send the energy-saving signal for awakening the terminal at the time of sending the energy-saving signal, and sends a sleep energy-saving signal for informing the terminal to continuously enter the energy-saving state or does not send the energy-saving signal for awakening the terminal.

Example four

And step 7, the terminal continuously monitors energy-saving signals (the network or protocol configuration terminal continuously monitors the energy-saving signals in the energy-saving mode), and when the terminal monitors the own energy-saving signals for waking up, the terminal wakes up and continuously monitors whether PDCCH (physical Downlink control channel) scheduling exists, otherwise, the terminal continuously monitors the energy-saving signals in the energy-saving mode.

And step 8, when the network has data to send to the terminal, firstly sending an energy-saving signal for awakening the terminal, informing the terminal to awaken for data reception, then sending a PDCCH signal to schedule data transmission, and otherwise not sending the energy-saving signal for awakening the terminal.

Further, since the DRX has configurations of a short DRX cycle and a long DRX cycle, a network or a protocol may configure different configuration parameters of the power saving signal for the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle, respectively, for example, configure different offsets; the same configuration parameters of the power saving signal can be configured for the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle. That is, the configuration parameters of each power saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may be the same or different.

Preferably, the configuration parameter of the energy-saving signal includes at least one of the following information:

the time domain position of the energy-saving signal indicates the time domain position of the energy-saving signal monitored by the terminal;

the monitoring period of the energy-saving signal indicates the period of the terminal for monitoring the energy-saving signal;

the signal duration of the energy-saving signal indicates the receiving duration of the energy-saving signal, and the duration can be the duration of transmitting the energy-saving signal once or the duration of repeatedly transmitting the energy-saving signal;

the signal repetition times of the energy-saving signal indicate the times of repeated transmission of the energy-saving signal;

a signal transmission interval of the power saving signal, indicating an interval of repeated transmission of the power saving signal;

the frequency domain position of the energy-saving signal indicates the frequency domain position of the energy-saving signal monitored by the terminal;

the offset of the time domain starting position of the energy-saving signal can be calculated according to a specific calculation method.

Further, when the terminal configures a discontinuous reception DRX cycle, the offset of the time domain starting position of the energy saving signal is:

Under the condition that the terminal configures a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle, if the terminal monitors an energy-saving signal for awakening belonging to the terminal in an energy-saving mode, the terminal monitors a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) according to the preconfigured DRX until entering a DRX sleep period or a next DRX cycle or receiving a network signaling (the network signaling is a network signaling for indicating the terminal to monitor the energy-saving signal), and the terminal monitors the energy-saving signal again according to configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal; if the terminal does not monitor the own energy-saving signal for waking up in the energy-saving mode, the terminal continues to monitor the energy-saving signal according to the configuration of the network or the protocol.

It should be noted that, if the network or the protocol configures different configuration parameters of the energy saving signal for the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle, the terminal selects the configuration parameter of the corresponding energy saving signal according to whether the current DRX is the long DRX or the short DRX cycle.

It should be noted that, when the terminal configures the DRX cycle, the method further includes:

and the terminal adjusts a DRX continuous monitoring timer DRX-onDurationTimer in a DRX period according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal.

The specific value of the DRX continuous monitoring timer can be adjusted according to configuration parameters such as offset of the energy saving signal, transmission interval, and the like.

Example five

Step 9, configuring configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal by the network side or the protocol, wherein the configuration parameters comprise at least one of the following parameter terminals:

(a) the time domain position of the power saving signal (e.g. the position of the time domain occurrence or the starting point of the occurrence of the power saving signal) may be implemented by: an offset is configured. As shown in fig. 3, the terminal determines the time domain appearance position of the power saving signal with the start point of the active period (DRX on) of the terminal + an offset, which may be a positive number or a negative number, and is not limited herein. When the terminal is configured with both short DRX and long DRX, the network or protocol may configure different offsets for short DRX and long DRX and may use a uniform offset.

(b) As shown in fig. 4, the terminal may determine the duration of monitoring the energy-saving signal according to the position where the time domain of the energy-saving signal appears and the duration D of the energy-saving signal. When the terminal is configured with both short DRX and long DRX, the network may configure different ds for short DRX and long DRX and may use a uniform D.

(c) The terminal can determine the positions of the rest time domains where the energy-saving signal appears in one DRX period according to the combination of the positions where the time domains of the energy-saving signal appear or the starting points where the time domains of the energy-saving signal appear and the combination of the signal repetition times i and the intervals T of the energy-saving signal. As shown in fig. 5, the time domain positions where the 2 nd power saving signal appears are: the starting point of the DRX on of the terminal + the offset + T; the time domain position of the ith energy-saving signal is as follows: the starting point of the DRX on of the UE + offset + (i-1) × T; or only configuring the occurrence interval T of the energy-saving signal, and monitoring the energy-saving signal by the UE according to the interval T, or monitoring the energy-saving signal according to the interval T before the UE enters the sleep period. When the UE is configured with both short DRX and long DRX, the network may configure different i and/or T for short DRX and long DRX; uniform i and/or T may also be used.

(d) When the terminal is configured with the short DRX and the long DRX at the same time, the network or the protocol may configure different frequency domain locations for the short DRX and the long DRX and may use a uniform frequency domain location.

Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating different offsets when short DRX and long DRX are configured.

And step 10, the terminal determines a time domain and/or a frequency domain where the energy-saving signal appears according to the configuration of a network or a protocol, and monitors the energy-saving signal.

And step 11, if the energy-saving signal for waking up is not monitored, the terminal considers that the network side does not have downlink data to send, and continues to monitor the energy-saving signal according to the configuration of the network or the protocol. If the network side configures different configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal for the long DRX and the short DRX, the terminal selects the configuration parameter of the corresponding energy-saving signal according to whether the next DRX is the long DRX or the short DRX.

And step 12, if the terminal side monitors the energy-saving signal for awakening, the terminal considers that downlink data of the network side reaches, and monitors the PDCCH according to the DRX configured by the network or the protocol. At this time, the terminal starts DRX-onDurationTimer according to the DRX mechanism. At this time, for DRX-onDurationTimer in DRX, possible processing manners are:

1) setting DRX-onDurationTimer as a DRX-onDurationTimer parameter configured for DRX on the network side; this means that the on duration corresponding to the active period of DRX is not changed, but only because of the introduction of the power saving signal, the time when the terminal turns on DRX-onDurationTimer is shifted backward (for example, if the terminal monitors that the power saving signal is before the DRX start time configured by the network side, the terminal turns on DRX-onDurationTimer at the DRX start time configured by the network side, otherwise, the terminal turns on DRX-onDurationTimer immediately after monitoring the power saving signal).

2) The drx-onDurationTimer is adjusted according to the monitored energy saving signal time, specifically:

if the energy-saving signal is not in the active period corresponding to the DRX period configured by the network side, the DRX on duration timer in the DRX period is equal to the DRX on duration timer configured by the network side; at the moment, the terminal starts DRX-onDurationTimer at the DRX starting time configured at the network side;

if the energy-saving signal is in the active period corresponding to the DRX cycle configured by the network side, the DRX duration timer in the DRX cycle at this time is the DRX duration timer-offset- (i-1) × T configured by the network side. (assume that there are k (k > -1) power saving signals in one DRX cycle, and i represents that the power saving signal monitored by the terminal at this time is the ith power saving signal (i < ═ k) in one DRX cycle according to the configuration in step 1 in example one). At this time, the terminal starts drx-onDurationTimer immediately after monitoring the energy saving signal.

And the terminal enters a DRX dormant period or the next DRX period according to the DRX operation rule. At this time, the terminal monitors the energy-saving signal again according to the configuration of the network or the protocol.

Optionally, the network side considers that no data needs to interact with the terminal, and notifies the terminal to enter the working mode of monitoring the energy saving signal again through a signaling. After receiving the network signaling, the terminal monitors the energy-saving signal again.

It should be noted that the energy-saving signal may be a signal with a lower complexity than PDCCH demodulation, and the terminal reduces power consumption by monitoring the energy-saving signal; the energy-saving signal may also be a special PDCCH signal, and although the power consumption is similar to that of monitoring the PDCCH in DRX, the power consumption of the terminal is reduced because the number of times and/or time of the energy-saving signal configured on the network side is less than that of monitoring the PDCCH. The specific definition of the power saving signal is not limited herein.

To sum up, the terminal starts to monitor the energy saving signal under the notification of the network signaling, or the terminal automatically starts to monitor the energy saving signal according to the timeout of the timer. The terminal may periodically listen for the power saving signal or continuously listen for the power saving signal. The terminal wakes up to monitor the PDCCH signal only after monitoring the energy-saving signal for waking up. When the DRX is configured, if the energy-saving signal for awakening belonging to the terminal is monitored, the terminal monitors the PDCCH according to the DRX configured by the network side until entering a DRX sleep period or a next DRX period or receiving a network signaling, and monitors the energy-saving signal again according to the configuration of the network side; and if the energy-saving signal for awakening belonging to the terminal is not monitored, the terminal continues to monitor the energy-saving signal according to the configuration. The energy-saving signal has lower complexity and less power consumption than PDCCH demodulation, and/or the frequency and/or time for monitoring the energy-saving signal is less than that for monitoring the PDCCH, so that the power consumption of the terminal is reduced.

As shown in fig. 7, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a method for processing an energy saving signal, which is applied to a network device, and includes:

step 71, after sending a network signaling for instructing the terminal to start monitoring energy saving signals to the terminal, or after an energy saving timer configured by the network side device or specified by a protocol is overtime, sending the energy saving signals according to configuration parameters of the energy saving signals.

Preferably, the sending, to the terminal, a network signaling for instructing the terminal to start monitoring the energy saving signal includes:

Further, the network side device determines that the terminal enters an energy saving mode when the terminal does not have a delay sensitive service.

Preferably, the network signaling is a high-level radio resource control RRC signaling or a bottom-level signaling.

As a preferred embodiment, when a network side device has downlink data transmission and/or the network side device receives uplink data, an energy saving timer set by the network side device is started or restarted.

It should be noted that the terminal side also needs to maintain the energy-saving timer, and the energy-saving timer maintained by the terminal side and the energy-saving timer maintained by the network side need to be set synchronously, when the energy-saving timer expires, the terminal starts to monitor the energy-saving signal, and the network side also needs to synchronously send the energy-saving signal (for example, awaken the terminal through the energy-saving signal).

Further, in the above embodiments of the present invention, sending the energy-saving signal according to the configuration parameter of the energy-saving signal includes:

After the terminal starts to monitor the energy-saving signal, the network side device may continuously send the energy-saving signal, and the terminal needs to continuously monitor the energy-saving signal, and when the terminal monitors the own energy-saving signal for waking up, the terminal wakes up and continues to monitor whether there is PDCCH scheduling, otherwise, the terminal continues to monitor the energy-saving signal in the energy-saving mode.

Further, since the DRX has configurations of a short DRX cycle and a long DRX cycle, a network or a protocol may configure different configuration parameters of the power saving signal for the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle, respectively, for example, configure different offsets; the same configuration parameters of the power saving signal can be configured for the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle. That is, the configuration parameters of each power saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may be the same or different. In short, in a case where the terminal configures a discontinuous reception DRX cycle, configuration parameters of each power saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle, respectively, may be the same or different.

the time domain position of the energy-saving signal indicates the time domain position of the energy-saving signal sent by the network side equipment;

the monitoring period of the energy-saving signal indicates the period of sending the monitoring energy-saving signal by the network side equipment;

the frequency domain position of the energy-saving signal indicates the frequency domain position of the energy-saving signal sent by the network side equipment;

Preferably, in the case that the terminal configures a discontinuous reception DRX cycle, the method further includes:

In summary, after the network side device notifies the terminal to start monitoring the energy saving signal through the network signaling, or after the energy saving timer maintained by the network side device times out, the network side device may periodically send the energy saving signal or continuously send the energy saving signal. Correspondingly, the terminal can start to monitor the energy-saving signal according to the network signaling indication or the energy-saving timer state. The energy-saving signal has lower complexity and less power consumption than PDCCH demodulation, and/or the frequency and/or time for monitoring the energy-saving signal is less than that for monitoring the PDCCH, so that the power consumption of the terminal is reduced.

As shown in fig. 8, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, including: a memory 810, a processor 800 and a computer program stored on the memory 810 and executable on the processor 800, the processor 800 implementing the following steps when executing the program:

entering an energy-saving mode to monitor an energy-saving signal;

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the terminal further includes a transceiver 820, where the transceiver 820 is configured to receive network signaling;

the processor 800 is further configured to:

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the network signaling received by the terminal is a high level radio resource control RRC signaling or a bottom level signaling sent by a network side device.

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, when the terminal receives downlink scheduling and/or when the terminal has uplink data transmission, the energy saving timer set by the terminal is started or restarted.

Preferably, in the above embodiments of the present invention, the timing duration and/or the starting time of the energy saving timer are/is specified by a network configuration or a protocol.

Preferably, in the above embodiments of the present invention, the processor 800 is further configured to:

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the configuration parameters of each energy saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may be the same or different.

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the configuration parameter of the energy saving signal includes at least one of the following information:

a time domain location of the power saving signal;

a listening period of the energy saving signal;

the signal duration of the energy-saving signal;

the number of signal repetitions of the power saving signal;

a signal transmission interval of the power saving signal;

a frequency domain location of the power saving signal;

an offset of a time domain starting position of the power saving signal.

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, when the terminal configures the DRX cycle, the offset of the time domain starting position of the energy saving signal is:

It should be noted that the terminal provided in the embodiment of the present invention is a terminal capable of executing the monitoring method for the downlink control channel, and all embodiments of the monitoring method for the downlink control channel are applicable to the terminal, and can achieve the same or similar beneficial effects.

As shown in fig. 9, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a device for monitoring a downlink control channel, which is applied to a connected terminal, and includes:

a monitoring module 91, configured to enter an energy saving mode to monitor an energy saving signal;

a determining module 92, configured to, in the energy saving mode, determine whether to monitor a downlink control channel according to whether to monitor the energy saving signal.

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the monitoring module includes:

the first monitoring submodule is used for receiving a network signaling, and the network signaling is used for indicating the terminal to start monitoring the energy-saving signal and enter an energy-saving mode to monitor the energy-saving signal; or setting an energy-saving timer, and entering an energy-saving mode to monitor an energy-saving signal under the condition that the energy-saving timer is overtime.

the first parameter determination submodule is used for determining the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal according to the network side configuration and/or protocol agreement;

and the second monitoring submodule is used for entering an energy-saving mode and periodically monitoring or continuously monitoring the energy-saving signal in the energy-saving mode according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal.

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, when the terminal configures a DRX cycle, the monitoring module includes:

the second parameter determining submodule is used for acquiring configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal corresponding to the DRX period;

and the third monitoring submodule is used for entering an energy-saving mode and periodically monitoring or continuously monitoring the energy-saving signal in the energy-saving mode according to the DRX period and the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal corresponding to the DRX period.

a time domain location of the power saving signal;

a listening period of the energy saving signal;

the signal duration of the energy-saving signal;

the number of signal repetitions of the power saving signal;

a signal transmission interval of the power saving signal;

a frequency domain location of the power saving signal;

an offset of a time domain starting position of the power saving signal.

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the apparatus further includes:

and the adjusting module is used for adjusting the DRX continuous monitoring timer in the DRX period according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal.

It should be noted that the monitoring apparatus for a downlink control channel provided in the embodiments of the present invention is a monitoring apparatus for a downlink control channel capable of executing the monitoring method for a downlink control channel, and all embodiments of the monitoring method for a downlink control channel are applicable to the monitoring apparatus for a downlink control channel, and can achieve the same or similar beneficial effects.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when executed by a processor, the computer program implements each process of the above-described monitoring method for a downlink control channel, and can achieve the same technical effect, and is not described herein again to avoid repetition. The computer-readable storage medium may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk.

As shown in fig. 8, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network side device, including: a transceiver 820, a memory 810, a processor 800, and a computer program stored on the memory 810 and executable on the processor 800, the transceiver 820 configured to: sending a network signaling for indicating the terminal to start monitoring the energy-saving signal to the terminal;

the processor 800, when executing the program, performs the following steps:

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the transceiver 820 is further configured to:

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the network side device determines that the terminal enters the energy saving mode when the terminal does not have the delay-sensitive service.

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the network signaling is a high layer radio resource control RRC signaling or a bottom layer signaling.

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, when the network-side device has downlink data transmission and/or receives uplink data, the energy-saving timer set by the network-side device is started or restarted.

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, when the terminal configures the DRX cycle, the configuration parameters of each energy saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may be the same or different.

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the configuration parameter of the energy saving signal is a network configuration and/or a protocol specification.

a time domain location of the power saving signal;

a listening period of the energy saving signal;

the signal duration of the energy-saving signal;

the number of signal repetitions of the power saving signal;

a signal transmission interval of the power saving signal;

a frequency domain location of the power saving signal;

an offset of a time domain starting position of the power saving signal.

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, in a case that the terminal configures a DRX cycle, the processor is further configured to:

It should be noted that, the network side device provided in the embodiment of the present invention is a network side device capable of executing the method for processing the energy-saving signal, and all embodiments of the method for processing the energy-saving signal are applicable to the network side device, and can achieve the same or similar beneficial effects.

As shown in fig. 10, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an apparatus for processing an energy-saving signal, which is applied to a network device, and includes:

a sending module 101, configured to send a network signaling to a terminal, where the network signaling is used to instruct the terminal to start monitoring an energy saving signal, or send the energy saving signal according to a configuration parameter of the energy saving signal after an energy saving timer configured by the network side device or specified by a protocol times out.

a signaling sending module, configured to send, to a terminal, a network signaling for instructing the terminal to start monitoring an energy-saving signal when there is no downlink data transmission; and/or, after receiving a request signaling for requesting to enter an energy-saving mode sent by a terminal, sending a network signaling for instructing the terminal to start monitoring energy-saving signals to the terminal; and/or, the network signaling is used for sending the network signaling for instructing the terminal to start monitoring the energy-saving signal to the terminal when the terminal is determined to enter the energy-saving mode.

Preferably, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the sending module includes:

and the sending submodule is used for periodically or continuously sending the energy-saving signal according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal.

a time domain location of the power saving signal;

a listening period of the energy saving signal;

the signal duration of the energy-saving signal;

the number of signal repetitions of the power saving signal;

a signal transmission interval of the power saving signal;

a frequency domain location of the power saving signal;

an offset of a time domain starting position of the power saving signal.

It should be noted that, the processing apparatus for an energy saving signal according to the embodiments of the present invention is a processing apparatus for an energy saving signal capable of executing the processing method for an energy saving signal, and all embodiments of the processing method for an energy saving signal are applicable to the processing apparatus for an energy saving signal, and can achieve the same or similar beneficial effects.

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements each process of the above-mentioned embodiment of the method for processing an energy saving signal, and can achieve the same technical effect, and is not described herein again to avoid repetition. The computer-readable storage medium may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.

While the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, which are illustrative and not restrictive, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

While the foregoing is directed to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Claims

1. A monitoring method of a downlink control channel is applied to a terminal in a connection state, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

the terminal enters an energy-saving mode to monitor energy-saving signals;

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the terminal entering the power saving mode to listen for the power saving signal comprises:

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the network signaling received by the terminal is a higher layer Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling or a lower layer signaling sent by a network side device.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the energy-saving timer set by the terminal is started or restarted when the terminal receives downlink scheduling and/or when the terminal has uplink data transmission.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the timing duration and/or the starting time of the energy saving timer is specified by a network configuration or a protocol.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the terminal entering the power saving mode to listen for the power saving signal comprises:

7. The method of claim 1, wherein in case that a terminal configures a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle, the terminal enters a power saving mode to monitor a power saving signal, and wherein the method comprises:

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the configuration parameters of each power saving signal corresponding to the long DRX period and the short DRX period respectively can be the same or different.

9. The method according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the configuration parameter of the power saving signal comprises at least one of the following information:

a time domain location of the power saving signal;

a listening period of the energy saving signal;

the signal duration of the energy-saving signal;

the number of signal repetitions of the power saving signal;

a signal transmission interval of the power saving signal;

a frequency domain location of the power saving signal;

an offset of a time domain starting position of the power saving signal.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein when the terminal configures a DRX cycle for discontinuous reception, the offset of the time domain starting position of the power saving signal is:

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

12. A processing method of energy-saving signals is applied to network side equipment, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

13. The processing method according to claim 12, wherein the sending network signaling to the terminal for instructing the terminal to start listening for the power saving signal comprises:

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the network side device decides that the terminal enters the energy saving mode in case that no delay sensitive service exists in the terminal.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the network signaling is higher layer Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling or lower layer signaling.

16. The method according to claim 12, wherein the energy saving timer set by the network-side device is started or restarted when the network-side device has downlink data transmission and/or the network-side device receives uplink data.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein transmitting the power-saving signal according to configuration parameters of the power-saving signal comprises:

18. The method of claim 12, wherein when the terminal configures the DRX cycle, configuration parameters of each power saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may be the same or different.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the configuration parameter of the power saving signal is a network configuration and/or a protocol specification.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein the configuration parameter of the power saving signal comprises at least one of the following information:

a time domain location of the power saving signal;

a listening period of the energy saving signal;

the signal duration of the energy-saving signal;

the number of signal repetitions of the power saving signal;

a signal transmission interval of the power saving signal;

a frequency domain location of the power saving signal;

an offset of a time domain starting position of the power saving signal.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein when the terminal configures a DRX cycle, the offset of the time domain starting position of the power saving signal is:

22. The method of claim 12, wherein in case that the terminal configures a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle, the method further comprises:

and the network side equipment adjusts a DRX continuous monitoring timer in a DRX period according to the configuration parameters of the energy-saving signal.

23. A terminal, comprising: a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor; wherein the processor implements the following steps when executing the program:

entering an energy-saving mode to monitor an energy-saving signal;

24. The terminal of claim 23, further comprising a transceiver configured to receive network signaling;

the processor is further configured to:

25. The terminal of claim 24, wherein the network signaling received by the terminal is a higher layer Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling or a lower layer signaling sent by a network side device.

26. The terminal of claim 24, wherein the power saving timer set by the terminal is started or restarted when the terminal receives downlink scheduling and/or when the terminal has uplink data transmission.

27. The terminal according to claim 26, wherein the timing duration and/or the starting opportunity of the energy saving timer is specified by a network configuration or a protocol.

28. The terminal of claim 23, wherein the processor is further configured to:

29. The terminal of claim 23, wherein the processor is further configured to:

30. The terminal of claim 29, wherein the configuration parameters of each power saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle respectively can be the same or different.

31. The terminal according to claim 28 or 29, wherein the configuration parameter of the power saving signal comprises at least one of the following information:

a time domain location of the power saving signal;

a listening period of the energy saving signal;

the signal duration of the energy-saving signal;

the number of signal repetitions of the power saving signal;

a signal transmission interval of the power saving signal;

a frequency domain location of the power saving signal;

an offset of a time domain starting position of the power saving signal.

32. The terminal of claim 31, wherein when the terminal configures a DRX cycle, the offset of the time domain starting position of the power saving signal is:

33. The terminal of claim 29, wherein the processor is further configured to:

34. A monitoring device of a downlink control channel is applied to a terminal in a connection state, and is characterized by comprising:

35. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the method for listening to a downlink control channel according to any one of claims 1 to 11.

36. A network-side device, comprising: a transceiver, a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor; wherein the transceiver is configured to: sending a network signaling for indicating the terminal to start monitoring the energy-saving signal to the terminal;

the processor implements the following steps when executing the program:

37. The network-side device of claim 36, wherein the transceiver is further configured to:

38. The network-side device of claim 37, wherein the network-side device determines that the terminal enters the power saving mode when the terminal does not have the delay-sensitive service.

39. The network-side device of claim 36, wherein the network signaling is higher layer Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling or lower layer signaling.

40. The network-side device of claim 36, wherein the energy-saving timer set by the network-side device is started or restarted when the network-side device has downlink data transmission and/or the network-side device receives uplink data.

41. The network-side device of claim 36, wherein the transceiver is further configured to:

42. The network device of claim 36, wherein when the terminal configures the DRX cycle, configuration parameters of each power saving signal corresponding to the long DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle may be the same or different.

43. The network-side device of claim 36, wherein the configuration parameter of the power saving signal is a network configuration and/or a protocol specification.

44. The network-side device of claim 36, wherein the configuration parameter of the power-saving signal comprises at least one of the following information:

a time domain location of the power saving signal;

a listening period of the energy saving signal;

the signal duration of the energy-saving signal;

the number of signal repetitions of the power saving signal;

a signal transmission interval of the power saving signal;

a frequency domain location of the power saving signal;

an offset of a time domain starting position of the power saving signal.

45. The network-side device of claim 44, wherein when the terminal configures the discontinuous reception DRX cycle, the offset of the time domain starting position of the power saving signal is:

46. The network-side device of claim 36, wherein in case that the terminal configures the DRX cycle, the processor is further configured to:

47. A processing device of energy-saving signal is applied to network side equipment, and is characterized by comprising:

48. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, which computer program, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the method for processing a power saving signal according to any one of claims 12 to 22.