CN110971474A

CN110971474A - Method and apparatus for signal processing

Info

Publication number: CN110971474A
Application number: CN201811137768.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 何青春; 常俊仁; 卢哲军; 张向东; 宫平; 刘峥峥
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-09-28
Filing date: 2018-09-28
Publication date: 2020-04-07
Also published as: WO2020063896A1

Abstract

The application provides a method and a device for signal processing. The method comprises the following steps: when the first terminal detects that the time period of the timer overlaps with the time slice in time, the first terminal stops the timing of the timer, and can restart the timer to continue timing when the end of the time slice is detected, so that the overtime of the timer caused by the fact that the timer still times in the time slice can be avoided, and the signal transmission delay is longer; or when the first terminal detects that the time period of the timer overlaps with the time slice in time, the first terminal can restart the timer to start timing, so that the signal transmission delay caused by the time slice can be reduced. That is to say, the embodiment of the application can help to reduce the transmission delay of the signal, and further improve the reliability of data transmission.

Description

Method and apparatus for signal processing

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for signal processing.

Background

In a conventional data transmission scheme, in consideration of burstiness of data packet transmission (for example, there is data transmission in a period of time, and there may be no data transmission in the next period of time), in order to avoid that power consumption overhead is large due to a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) being monitored all the time, a concept of Discontinuous Reception (DRX) is introduced. The terminal monitors the PDCCH only in each downlink subframe within an on duration (duration) in each DRX period, and does not monitor the PDCCH during a sleep period in the DRX period, so as to reduce power consumption.

In addition, the network device may configure a time slice for the terminal, for example, in order to support inter-frequency and inter-system measurement, the time slice is a measurement GAP (GAP), and data transmission and reception processing is not performed in the measurement GAP.

When the time slice overlaps with the timer, the timer may be overtime due to the existence of the time slice, and further, the signal transmission delay is long. For example, in the case that the timer is an on duration timer, when there is an overlap between the time slice and the on duration timer, the on duration timer may expire due to the time slice, so that the terminal enters a DRX sleep period and needs to wait for a next DRX cycle to transmit or receive data, thereby causing a delay in data transmission and reception.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a method and a device for processing signals, which can reduce the receiving and transmitting delay of data.

In a first aspect, a method of signal processing is provided, the method including:

when the time slice overlaps with the time slice during the timing period of the timer, stopping or restarting the timing of the timer, wherein the time slice is a time period when the first terminal and the first network equipment do not perform data transceiving;

and when the timer expires, performing signal processing corresponding to the timer.

When the first terminal detects that the time period of the timer overlaps with the time slice in time, the first terminal stops the timing of the timer, and can restart the timer to continue timing when the end of the time slice is detected, so that the overtime of the timer caused by the fact that the timer still times in the time slice can be avoided, and the signal transmission delay is longer; or when the first terminal detects that the time period of the timer overlaps with the time slice in time, the first terminal can restart the timer to start timing, so that the signal transmission delay caused by the time slice can be reduced. That is to say, the embodiment of the application can reduce the transmission delay of the signal, and further improve the reliability of data transmission.

In some possible implementations, the method further includes: when the time slice is detected during the timer count period, it is determined that the timer count period overlaps with the time slice.

The first terminal may encounter the time slice during the timer counting, and the first terminal may restart the timer or stop the timer counting, thereby avoiding being influenced by the time slice.

In some possible implementations, the method further includes: the detection by the first terminal of an overlap of a time slice during the timer timing may be a detection of a start of the timer by the timer during a time slice run.

The first terminal runs into the timer for timing after the time slice is set, and the first terminal can stop the timing of the timer, namely, the timer is not started, and the timer is started again after the time slice is finished.

In some possible implementations, the timer is any one of a discontinuous reception activity timer, a discontinuous reception deactivation timer, a discontinuous reception retransmission timer, a discontinuous reception loopback time timer, a secondary cell deactivation timer, or a bandwidth partial deactivation timer.

The DRX-duration timer generally starts timing at the beginning of each DRX cycle, during which the first terminal may keep monitoring the PDCCH sent by the first network device, and stops monitoring the PDCCH at the end of the DRX-duration timer, thereby saving power consumption for the first terminal.

The DRX-inactive timer is started after a terminal successfully decodes a PDCCH indicating initially transmitted uplink or downlink data, and counts the number of subframes of the continuous PDCCH which is continuously in an activated state during the timing period of the DRX-inactive timer. That is, the DRX-inactive timer is restarted once when the first terminal has the initial data to be transmitted scheduled.

When the DRX-HARQ-RTT-timer fails to decode a Transport Block (TB) of a downlink HARQ process (process), the terminal may assume that there is a retransmission at least after the "HARQ RTT" subframe, and therefore the terminal does not need to monitor the PDCCH during the DRX-HARQ-RTT-timer.

The terminal may start a DRX-retransmission timer for the HARQ process when the DRX-retransmission timer expires and the corresponding HARQ process received data is not successfully decoded, and may monitor a PDCCH for HARQ retransmission during the DRX-retransmission timer.

In the duplication transmission of carrier aggregation, two links of a primary cell (pcell) and a secondary cell (scell) transmit the same data packet, a first terminal can control the deactivation of the secondary cell through a scell-deactivation timer, after the scell-deactivation timer starts timing, if the overlap of the scell-deactivation timer and a time slice is detected, the first terminal restarts the scell-deactivation timer, and the secondary cell is deactivated until the timing is overtime; or the first terminal stops the cell-deactivation timer, continues timing of the cell-deactivation timer after the time slicing is finished, and deactivates the auxiliary cell until the timing is overtime. That is to say, in the embodiment of the present application, the first terminal reduces the influence on data transmission caused by that the first terminal cannot receive the PDU or the PDCCH and still performs timing of the cell-deactivation timer under the condition of overlapping with the time slicing. For example, the situation that the secondary cell is overtime and then deactivated due to the overlapping of the scell-deactivation timer and the time slice in the link of the secondary cell is avoided, that is, only the link of the primary cell is left to be transmitted, so that the reliability of data transmission is reduced is avoided.

The bandwidth part may include an initial BWP, a default BWP, and an active BWP, and the network device may schedule the terminal to transmit on different BWPs according to the data volume transmission requirements of the service. In addition, the terminal may control the switching of the BWP by setting a BWP inactive timer, specifically, if the terminal has no data transmission or data scheduling for a long time on a certain activated BWP, the terminal may switch to the initial BWP or default BWP after the BWP inactive timer expires, thereby reducing the power consumption of the terminal; if the terminal has data to send, it does not want BWP inactive timer overtime, namely, it does not switch BWP. Therefore, when the timing process of the BWP inactive timer overlaps with the time slicing, the embodiment of the present application may reduce the timeout of the BWP inactive timer caused by the time slicing by stopping or restarting the BWP inactive timer, thereby improving the data transmission performance.

In some possible implementations, where the timer is any one of a discontinuous reception active timer, a discontinuous reception deactivation timer, a discontinuous reception retransmission timer, or a discontinuous reception loopback time timer, the time slicing includes at least one of almost blank subframes, multicast broadcast single frequency network subframes, flexible symbols, or measurement gaps.

The network device generally configures ABS subframes, MBSFN subframes, flexible symbols, etc. for the terminal, so that services such as macro-micro networking, multi-hop, or vehicle networking (V2X) can be supported. The dedicated PDCCH and PDSCH of the terminal are not sent on the ABS subframe, and only some necessary public signals can be sent, so that the interference to the adjacent cell can be avoided. The MBSFN subframe is mainly used for transmitting the multicast broadcast MBMS service, and the PDSCH is not transmitted on the MBSFN subframe, so that the interference among cells can be eliminated.

In some possible implementations, where the timer deactivates the timer for the secondary cell, or the bandwidth portion deactivates the timer, the time-slicing includes at least one of almost blank subframes, multicast broadcast single frequency network subframes, flexible symbols, measurement gaps, or discontinuous reception sleep periods.

The network device generally configures ABS subframes, MBSFN subframes, flexible symbols, etc. for the terminal, so as to support services such as macro-micro networking, multi-hop, or car networking. And not monitoring the PDCCH in the dormant period of the DRX period so as to reduce the power consumption of the terminal. The dedicated PDCCH and PDSCH of the terminal are not sent on the ABS subframe, and only some necessary public signals can be sent, so that the interference to the adjacent cell can be avoided. The MBSFN subframe is mainly used for transmitting the multicast broadcast MBMS service, and the PDSCH is not transmitted on the MBSFN subframe, so that the interference among cells can be eliminated.

In some possible implementations, the time-slicing is used for data transceiving of the second terminal with the second network device, and/or the time-slicing is used for data transceiving of the second terminal with the third terminal.

The time slice is not used for data transceiving between the first terminal and the first network device, but the time slice can be used for data transceiving between other terminals or between the terminal and the network device, so that the resource utilization rate is improved.

In some possible implementations, the performing, when the timer expires, signal processing corresponding to the timer includes:

stopping transmitting and receiving data with the first network equipment when the timer expires;

or when the timer expires, switching the bandwidth part;

or when the timer expires, deactivating the secondary cell.

When the timer expires, the terminal may perform signal processing corresponding to the timer.

In a second aspect, a method of signal processing is provided, the method comprising:

transmitting a Scheduling Request (SR) during the timing of a deactivation timer of a secondary cell; stopping or restarting the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer when transmitting the SR;

and when the secondary cell deactivation timer expires, performing secondary cell deactivation.

The embodiment of the present application may be applied to the CA scenario, for example, the terminal sets a secondary cell deactivation timer, and deactivates the secondary cell when the secondary cell deactivation timer expires. If the terminal sends the SR during the timing of the secondary cell timer, the SR is used to request a resource, and to avoid failing to receive the downlink control information indicating the resource requested by the SR, the terminal may stop or restart the secondary cell deactivation timer, thereby facilitating the terminal to receive the downlink control information and perform signal transmission on the resource indicated by the downlink control information, and improving the signal transmission performance.

In some possible implementations, the stopping or restarting the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer when transmitting the SR includes:

stopping or restarting the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer when the SR is transmitted and the secondary cell deactivation timer distance expires to less than or equal to a first time threshold.

The terminal may determine that the secondary cell deactivation timer is about to end, e.g., a distance from the secondary cell deactivation timer expires less than or equal to a first time threshold within which downlink control information may not be received, such that the terminal may stop or restart timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer to facilitate the terminal being able to receive the downlink control information. That is to say, when the expiration of the timing distance of the secondary cell deactivation timer is greater than the first time threshold, the terminal may not stop or restart the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer after the terminal sends the SR, so that the deactivation of the secondary cell is not affected, and the power consumption of the terminal is saved.

and when the SR is sent and the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer is greater than a second time threshold value, stopping or restarting the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer.

The terminal may also determine how much the timing exceeds (e.g., set to the second time threshold) the downlink control information may not be received according to the preset duration of the secondary cell deactivation timer, and thus, the terminal stops or restarts the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer when the SR is transmitted, thereby helping the terminal to be able to receive the downlink control information.

In some possible implementations, after stopping the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer when transmitting the SR, the method further includes:

and when receiving downlink control information, continuing the timing of the deactivation timer of the secondary cell, wherein the downlink control information is used for responding to the SR.

If the terminal stops the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer when transmitting the SR, the terminal continues the timing of the timer when receiving the downlink control information in response to the SR, and deactivates the secondary cell when the secondary cell deactivation timer expires.

In a third aspect, a signal processing apparatus is provided, which may be a terminal or a chip in the terminal. The apparatus has the functionality to implement the first aspect and various possible implementations described above. The function can be realized by hardware, and can also be realized by executing corresponding software by hardware. The hardware or software includes one or more modules corresponding to the functions described above.

In one possible design, the apparatus includes: the processing module, optionally, the apparatus further comprises a transceiver module, which may be at least one of a transceiver, a receiver, a transmitter, for example, and which may include a radio frequency circuit or an antenna. The processing module may be a processor.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises a storage module, which may be a memory, for example. When included, the memory module is used to store instructions. The processing module is connected with the storage module, and the processing module can execute the instructions stored by the storage module or other instructions from other sources so as to enable the device to execute the communication method of any one of the aspects. In this design, the apparatus may be a communication device or a network device.

In another possible design, when the device is a chip, the chip includes: the chip may further include a transceiver module, which may be, for example, an input/output interface, a pin, a circuit, or the like on the chip. The processing module may be, for example, a processor. The processing module may execute instructions to cause a chip within the terminal to perform the communication method of the first aspect and any possible implementation.

Alternatively, the processing module may execute instructions in a memory module, which may be an on-chip memory module, such as a register, a cache, and the like. The memory module may also be located within the communication device, but outside the chip, such as a read-only memory (ROM) or other types of static memory devices that may store static information and instructions, a Random Access Memory (RAM), and so on.

The processor mentioned in any of the above may be a general-purpose Central Processing Unit (CPU), a microprocessor, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or one or more integrated circuits for controlling the execution of programs of the communication methods in the above aspects.

In a fourth aspect, an apparatus is provided, which may be a terminal or a chip within a terminal. The apparatus has the functionality to implement the second aspect and various possible implementations described above. The function can be realized by hardware, and can also be realized by executing corresponding software by hardware. The hardware or software includes one or more modules corresponding to the functions described above.

In one possible design, the apparatus includes: a transceiver module, which may be at least one of a transceiver, a receiver, a transmitter, for example, and a processing module, which may include a radio frequency circuit or an antenna. The processing module may be a processor.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises a storage module, which may be a memory, for example. When included, the memory module is used to store instructions. The processing module is connected with the storage module, and the processing module can execute the instructions stored in the storage module or the instructions from other sources, so as to enable the apparatus to execute the communication method of the second aspect and various possible implementation manners. In this design, the apparatus may be a network device.

In another possible design, when the device is a chip, the chip includes: a transceiver module and a processing module, the transceiver module can be an input/output interface, a pin or a circuit on the chip, for example. The processing module may be, for example, a processor. The processing module may execute instructions to cause a chip within the terminal to perform the communication method of the second aspect and any possible implementation.

Alternatively, the processing module may execute instructions in a memory module, which may be an on-chip memory module, such as a register, a cache, and the like. The memory module may also be located within the communication device but external to the chip, such as a read-only memory or other type of static storage device that may store static information and instructions, a random access memory, and so forth.

The processor referred to in any above may be a general purpose central processing unit, a microprocessor, an application specific integrated circuit, or one or more integrated circuits for controlling the execution of programs for the communication methods of the above aspects.

In a fifth aspect, a computer storage medium is provided, in which program code is stored, the program code being used for instructing to execute instructions of the method in the first aspect or any possible implementation manner thereof.

A sixth aspect provides a computer storage medium having stored therein program code for instructing execution of instructions of a method of the second aspect or any possible implementation thereof.

In a seventh aspect, there is provided a computer program product comprising instructions which, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any possible implementation of the first aspect described above.

In an eighth aspect, there is provided a computer program product comprising instructions which, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the second aspect described above or any possible implementation thereof.

In a ninth aspect, there is provided a processor, coupled to a memory, for performing the method of the first aspect or any possible implementation thereof.

In a tenth aspect, there is provided a processor, coupled with a memory, for performing the method of the second aspect or any possible implementation thereof.

In an eleventh aspect, there is provided a chip comprising a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface being used for communicating with an external device or an internal device, the processor being used for implementing the method of the first aspect or any possible implementation thereof.

Optionally, the chip may further include a memory having instructions stored therein, and the processor may be configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory or derived from other instructions. When executed, the instructions are for implementing a method of the first aspect described above or any possible implementation thereof.

Alternatively, the chip may be integrated on the terminal.

In a twelfth aspect, a chip is provided, the chip comprising a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface being configured to communicate with an external device or an internal device, the processor being configured to implement the method of the second aspect or any possible implementation thereof.

Optionally, the chip may further include a memory having instructions stored therein, and the processor may be configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory or derived from other instructions. When executed, the instructions are for implementing a method of the second aspect described above or any possible implementation thereof.

Alternatively, the chip may be integrated on the terminal.

Based on the technical scheme, when the first terminal detects that the time period of the timer is overlapped with the time of the time slice, the first terminal stops the timing of the timer, and can restart the timer to continue timing when the time slice is detected to be finished, so that the overtime of the timer caused by the fact that the timer still times in the time slice can be avoided, and the signal transmission time delay is longer; or when the first terminal detects that the time period of the timer overlaps with the time slice in time, the first terminal can restart the timer to start timing, so that the signal transmission delay caused by the time slice can be reduced. That is to say, the embodiment of the application can reduce the transmission delay of the signal, and further improve the reliability of data transmission.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a communication system of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an application scenario of an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of another application scenario of an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic flow chart diagram of a method of signal processing of one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a method of signal processing according to one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a method of signal processing according to another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of another application scenario of an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of yet another application scenario of an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic flow chart diagram of a method of signal processing of another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of a method of signal processing according to yet another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus for signal processing according to one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 12 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus for signal processing according to one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 13 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus for signal processing according to another embodiment of the present application;

fig. 14 is a schematic configuration diagram of a signal processing apparatus of another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 15 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for signal processing according to yet another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 16 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for signal processing according to yet another embodiment of the present application;

fig. 17 is a schematic diagram of a signal processing apparatus according to another embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solution in the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The technical scheme of the embodiment of the application can be applied to various communication systems, for example: a global system for mobile communications (GSM) system, a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system, a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) system, a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), a long term evolution (long term evolution, LTE) system, a LTE Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) system, a LTE Time Division Duplex (TDD), a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) communication system, a future fifth generation (5G) or New Radio (NR) system, and the like.

By way of example and not limitation, in the embodiments of the present application, a terminal device in the embodiments of the present application may refer to a User Equipment (UE), an access terminal, a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, a mobile station, a remote terminal, a mobile device, a user terminal, a wireless communication device, a user agent, or a user equipment. The terminal device may also be a cellular phone, a cordless phone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a handheld device with wireless communication function, a computing device or other processing device connected to a wireless modem, a vehicle-mounted device, a wearable device, a terminal device in a future 5G network or a terminal device in a future evolved Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN), and the like, which are not limited in the embodiments of the present application, and the following embodiments do not distinguish between them.

By way of example and not limitation, in the embodiments of the present application, the terminal device may also be a wearable device. Wearable equipment can also be called wearable intelligent equipment, is the general term of applying wearable technique to carry out intelligent design, develop the equipment that can dress to daily wearing, like glasses, gloves, wrist-watch, dress and shoes etc.. A wearable device is a portable device that is worn directly on the body or integrated into the clothing or accessories of the user. The wearable device is not only a hardware device, but also realizes powerful functions through software support, data interaction and cloud interaction. The generalized wearable smart device includes full functionality, large size, and can implement full or partial functionality without relying on a smart phone, such as: smart watches or smart glasses and the like, and only focus on a certain type of application functions, and need to be used in cooperation with other devices such as smart phones, such as various smart bracelets for physical sign monitoring, smart jewelry and the like.

In addition, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may also be a terminal device in an internet of things (IoT) system, where IoT is an important component of future information technology development, and a main technical feature of the present application is to connect an article with a network through a communication technology, so as to implement an intelligent network with interconnected human-computer and interconnected objects.

In the embodiment of the present application, the IOT technology may achieve massive connection, deep coverage, and power saving for the terminal through, for example, a Narrowband (NB) technology. For example, the NB includes only one Resource Block (RB), i.e., the bandwidth of the NB is only 180 KB. The communication method according to the embodiment of the application can effectively solve the problem of congestion of the IOT technology mass terminals when the mass terminals access the network through the NB.

In addition, in this application, the terminal device may further include sensors such as an intelligent printer, a train detector, and a gas station, and the main functions include collecting data (part of the terminal device), receiving control information and downlink data of the network device, and sending electromagnetic waves to transmit uplink data to the network device.

The network device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device for communicating with a terminal device, the network device may be a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) in a global system for mobile communications (GSM) system or a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system, may also be a base station (NodeB) in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) system, may also be an evolved NodeB (eNB) or eNodeB) in an LTE system, may also be a wireless controller in a Cloud Radio Access Network (CRAN) scenario, or the network device may be a relay station, an access point, a vehicle-mounted device, a wearable device, a network device in a future 5G network, or a network device in a future evolved PLMN network, may be a WLAN Access Point (AP) in a wireless access network (cra), may be a new wireless system, NR) system the present embodiments are not limited.

In addition, in this embodiment of the present application, a network device provides a service for a cell, and a terminal device communicates with the network device through a transmission resource (for example, a frequency domain resource or a spectrum resource) used by the cell, where the cell may be a cell corresponding to the network device (for example, a base station), and the cell may belong to a macro base station or a base station corresponding to a small cell (small cell), and the small cell may include: urban cell (metro cell), micro cell (microcell), pico cell (pico cell), femto cell (femto cell), etc., and these small cells have the characteristics of small coverage and low transmission power, and are suitable for providing high-rate data transmission service.

In addition, multiple cells can simultaneously work at the same frequency on a carrier in an LTE system or a 5G system, and under some special scenes, the concepts of the carrier and the cells can also be considered to be equivalent. For example, in a Carrier Aggregation (CA) scenario, when a secondary carrier is configured for a UE, a carrier index of the secondary carrier and a Cell identification (Cell ID) of a secondary Cell operating on the secondary carrier are simultaneously carried, and in this case, the concepts of the carrier and the Cell may be considered to be equivalent, for example, when the UE accesses one carrier and accesses one Cell.

The core network device may be connected with a plurality of network devices for controlling the network devices, and may distribute data received from a network side (e.g., the internet) to the network devices.

In addition, in the present application, the network device may include a base station (gNB), such as a macro station, a micro base station, an indoor hotspot, a relay node, and the like, and functions to transmit radio waves to the terminal device, on one hand, to implement downlink data transmission, and on the other hand, to transmit scheduling information to control uplink transmission, and to receive radio waves transmitted by the terminal device and receive uplink data transmission.

The functions and specific implementations of the terminal device, the access network device and the core network device listed above are merely exemplary illustrations, and the present application is not limited thereto.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal device or the network device includes a hardware layer, an operating system layer running on the hardware layer, and an application layer running on the operating system layer. The hardware layer includes hardware such as a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Memory Management Unit (MMU), and a memory (also referred to as a main memory). The operating system may be any one or more computer operating systems that implement business processing through processes (processes), such as a Linux operating system, a Unix operating system, an Android operating system, an iOS operating system, or a windows operating system. The application layer comprises applications such as a browser, an address list, word processing software, instant messaging software and the like. Furthermore, the embodiment of the present application does not particularly limit the specific structure of the execution main body of the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, as long as the communication can be performed according to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application by running the program recorded with the code of the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, for example, the execution main body of the method provided by the embodiment of the present application may be a terminal device or a network device, or a functional module capable of calling the program and executing the program in the terminal device or the network device.

In addition, various aspects or features of the present application may be implemented as a method, apparatus, or article of manufacture using standard programming and/or engineering techniques. The term "article of manufacture" as used herein is intended to encompass a computer program accessible from any computer-readable device, carrier, or media. For example, computer-readable media can include but are not limited to magnetic storage devices (e.g., hard disk, floppy disk, magnetic strips, etc.), optical disks (e.g., Compact Disk (CD), Digital Versatile Disk (DVD), etc.), smart cards, and flash memory devices (e.g., erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), card, stick, or key drive, etc.).

In addition, various storage media described herein can represent one or more devices and/or other machine-readable media for storing information. The term "machine-readable medium" can include, without being limited to, wireless channels and various other media capable of storing, containing, and/or carrying instruction(s) and/or data.

In this case, the application program executing the communication method according to the embodiment of the present application and the application program controlling the receiving end device to complete the action corresponding to the received data may be different application programs.

To facilitate an understanding of the embodiments of the present application, the following elements are introduced prior to the introduction of the present application.

1. Almost Blank Subframe (ABS) subframe:

the network device does not schedule the dedicated resources of the terminal on the ABS subframe, and accordingly, the terminal does not demodulate the dedicated data of the terminal on the ABS subframe.

2. Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframes:

the MBSFN subframe is shared by a plurality of cells, the same data is transmitted by the network equipment on the MBSFN subframe, and the terminal can receive the same data from a plurality of network equipment on the MBSFN subframe.

3. Flexible notation:

if the network device is configured with a flexible symbol, the terminal will not receive downlink data and transmit uplink data on the flexible symbol.

4. Duration timer (on duration timer):

the on duration timer is used to determine a duration of an awake period, the terminal device is in the awake (on duration) period during an operation period of the on duration timer or before the on duration timer expires, and the terminal device may start a receiving antenna to monitor the PDCCH.

It should be understood that the duration timer may also be referred to as an "activity timer".

5. DRX inactivity timer (DRX-inactivity timer)

Specifically, the subframe 0 is the last subframe of the on duration period, and at this time, the network side has exactly one large byte of data to be sent to the UE, and the data cannot be completely sent in the subframe 0. If the operation is performed according to the duration timer, the UE will enter the DRX sleep state in subframe No. 1, and will not monitor the PDCCH any more, nor will it receive any downlink PDSCH data from the network side. The network side can only wait until the DRX period is finished, and when the next 1 duration period comes, the network side continues to send data which is not transmitted to the terminal equipment. Although this type of processing mechanism has no errors, it significantly increases the processing delay of the entire service. In order to avoid this, a DRX-inactivity timer is added to the DRX mechanism. If the drx-inactivity timer is running, even if the originally configured on duration timer expires (i.e., the on duration period ends), the UE still needs to continue monitoring the downlink PDCCH subframe until the drx-inactivity timer expires. After the DRX-Inactivity mechanism is added, the processing time delay of data can be obviously reduced.

6. Discontinuous reception loop time timer (DRX-HARQ-RTT-timer)

7. DRX retransmission timer (DRX retransmission timer)

In the DRX mechanism, the DRX retransmission timer means: and the UE needs to wait for the minimum number of subframes before receiving the expected downlink retransmission data. For Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) -LTE, the value of the HARQ RTT Timer is fixed equal to 8 subframes. For TDD-LTE, the value of HARQ RTT Timer is equal to (k +4) subframes, where k represents the time delay for downlink channel transmission and its response to feedback information. The DRX Retransmission Timer refers to a time length for the UE to monitor the PDCCH to receive data that needs to be retransmitted without transmission success after the HARQ RTT Timer expires.

In the present application, the awake period may include a period corresponding to a period during which at least one timer among the above-mentioned duration timer, DRX-inactivity timer, and DRX transmission timer is operated.

In idle mode, the monitoring function of the PDCCH can adopt DRX mode, so as to reduce power consumption, the DRX working mechanism in idle mode is fixed, a fixed period is adopted, the function of monitoring the PDCCH is started when Paging Occasion (PO) arrives, an active period in idle mode is entered, the PDCCH needs to be monitored completely in the active period, the PDCCH enters sleep state again after the DRX active period elapses, and a Paging Frame (PF) represents a radio frame containing one or more POs; if DRX is used, the terminal device monitors only the PO per DRX cycle. The terminal device will Cycle according to a default DRX Cycle (Cycle) configuration after being powered on. The PDCCH is received when the paging occasion comes.

In the RRC connected state, a working mode combining a timer and DRX is adopted, and the network device also maintains the same DRX working mode as the terminal device and knows in real time whether the terminal device is in an active period or a sleep period, thereby ensuring that data is transmitted in the active period and data transmission is not performed in the sleep period.

8. Secondary cell deactivation timer (scell-deactivation timer):

in a CA scenario, a terminal transmits the same data packet to a network device through two links (i.e., a primary cell and a secondary cell) respectively, so as to ensure reliability of data transmission, and can reduce link overhead of the terminal by deactivating the secondary cell under the condition that reliability of data requirements is low. For example, the terminal sets a secondary cell deactivation timer, and deactivates the secondary cell when the secondary cell deactivation timer expires.

9. Bandwidth part (BWP) -deactivation timer (inactive timer):

the network device may schedule the terminal to transmit on different BWPs according to the data volume transmission requirements of the traffic. In addition, the terminal may control the switching of the BWP by setting a BWP inactive timer, specifically, if the terminal has no data transmission or data scheduling for a long time on a certain activated BWP, the terminal may switch to the initial BWP or default BWP after the BWP inactive timer expires, thereby reducing the power consumption of the terminal; if the terminal has data to send, it does not want BWPinactive timer overtime, that is, BWP switching is not performed.

It should be understood that the above-listed timers are merely exemplary and the present application is not limited thereto.

10. Bandwidth (bandwidth):

bandwidth may be understood as a continuous or discontinuous segment of resources in the frequency domain:

the bandwidth may be referred to as a cell or a carrier. The cell may be a serving cell of the terminal. The serving cell is described by a higher layer from the point of view of resource management or mobility management or serving element. The coverage area of each network device may be divided into one or more serving cells, and the serving cells may be regarded as being composed of certain frequency domain resources, i.e., one serving cell may include one or more carriers. The concept of carrier waves is described from the point of view of signal generation of the physical layer. One carrier is defined by one or more frequency points, corresponds to a continuous or discontinuous section of spectrum, and is used for carrying communication data between the network equipment and the terminal. The downlink carrier may be used for downlink transmission and the uplink carrier may be used for uplink transmission. Optionally, each carrier may include uplink resources and downlink resources, or only include uplink resources, or only include downlink resources. It can also be said that one cell may include multiple downlink carriers and multiple uplink carriers, and the number of uplink carriers and downlink carriers may be unequal. This is not limited in the embodiments of the present application.

The bandwidth may also be referred to as a bandwidth part (BWP), a carrier bandwidth part (carrier bandwidth part), a sub-band (subband) bandwidth, a narrowband (narrowband) bandwidth, or other names, and the application does not limit the names, and the following embodiments do not distinguish different names. A plurality of uplink bandwidth parts may be configured on one uplink carrier, and a plurality of downlink bandwidth parts may be configured on one downlink carrier. Alternatively, the multiple bandwidth parts related to the embodiments of the present application may be located in the same cell or on the same carrier, or may be located in different cells or on different carriers.

Illustratively, one BWP may contain consecutive K (K >0) subcarriers; alternatively, one BWP is a frequency domain resource where N non-overlapping consecutive Resource Blocks (RBs) are located, and the subcarrier spacing of the RBs can be 15KHz, 30KHz, 60KHz, 120KHz, 240KHz, 480KHz or other values. Alternatively, a BWP is a frequency domain resource where M non-overlapping consecutive Resource Block Groups (RBGs) are located, and a RBG includes P consecutive RBs, and the sub-carrier spacing of the RBs may be 15KHz, 30KHz, 60KHz, 120KHz, 240KHz, 480KHz or other values, for example, integer multiples of 2.

In this application, the various timers may be configured by a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer, and after RRC connection establishment or reestablishment is initiated, various parameters required by the MAC layer are configured by a Media Access Control (MAC) main configuration (MAC-mainconfiguration) cell, and then immediately enter a short DRX cycle or a long DRX cycle operation phase.

By way of example and not limitation, the configuration parameters for DRX mode may include, but are not limited to, the following parameters:

DRX period (drx-cycle)

Specifically, the DRX cycle may refer to a length of a DRX cycle, for example, the length of the short DRX cycle, or may refer to a length of the long DRX cycle.

Parameter b time domain position offset of the DRX mode wake-up period

Specifically, for example, in the present application, the starting time of one awake period may coincide with the starting time of the DRX cycle in which the awake period is located, in which case, the time domain position offset of the awake period of the DRX mode may refer to an offset of the starting time of the DRX cycle with respect to a preset reference time. For example, a time domain position offset of the DRX pattern's awake period may indicate a starting time unit (e.g., starting subframe) of the DRX cycle.

It should be noted that, the communication system may be divided into a plurality of system cycles in a time domain, and the time domain position offset of the awake period of the DRX mode may refer to an offset of a start time of a first awake period of the DRX mode relative to a start time of a system cycle in which the start time is located. That is, the preset reference time may refer to a start time of a system cycle in which a first awake period of the DRX mode is located.

Alternatively, the time domain position offset of the DRX mode awake period may be the offset indicated by the DRX start offset parameter.

The awake period may be a period measured by the on duration Timer.

For another example, in the present application, the starting time of one awake period may not coincide with the starting time of the DRX cycle in which the awake period is located, and in this case, the time domain position offset of the awake period in the DRX mode may refer to an offset of the awake period relative to the starting time of the DRX cycle. For example, a time domain position offset of the awake period of the DRX pattern may indicate an offset of the awake period within the DRX cycle.

The awake period may include a period corresponding to any one of the on duration timer, the drx inactivity timer, or the harq rtt timer.

For another example, in the present application, the starting time of an awake period may be a time that satisfies the formula [ (SFN × 10) + subframe number ] mod (long DRX cycle duration) ═ drxStartOffset, where the awake period is a period in which the on duration timer operates.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a communication system of the present application. The communication system in fig. 1 may include at least one terminal (e.g., terminal 10, terminal 20, terminal 30, terminal 40, terminal 50, and terminal 60) and a network device 70. The network device 70 is configured to provide a communication service to a terminal and access a core network, and the terminal may access the network by searching for a synchronization signal, a broadcast signal, and the like transmitted by the network device 70, thereby performing communication with the network. The terminals 10, 20, 30, 40 and 60 in fig. 1 may perform uplink/downlink transmission directly with the network device 70. Further, the terminal 40, the terminal 50, and the terminal 60 may also be regarded as one communication system, and the terminal 60 may transmit the scheduling information to the terminal 40 and the terminal 60.

Further, the terminal device 40, the terminal device 50, and the terminal device 60 may be regarded as one communication system, and the terminal device 60 may transmit a downlink signal to the terminal device 40 and the terminal device 50, or may receive an uplink signal transmitted by the terminal device 40 and the terminal device 50.

Fig. 2 shows a schematic diagram of an application scenario of an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 2, in order to avoid large power consumption overhead caused by continuously monitoring the PDCCH, a concept of Discontinuous Reception (DRX) is introduced. The terminal monitors the PDCCH only in each downlink subframe within an on duration in each DRX period, and does not monitor the PDCCH during a sleep period in the DRX period, so as to reduce power consumption. For example, a duration timer is started at the start time of the duration, and when the duration timer expires, the terminal stops monitoring the PDCCH.

Specifically, DRX may allow the UE to periodically enter a sleep mode at some time, not monitor the PDCCH, and wake up from the sleep mode when monitoring is needed, so as to achieve the purpose of saving power for the UE.

As shown in fig. 2, in the present application, one DRX cycle may include an awake (on duration) period and a sleep period.

This wake-up period may also be referred to as an active period. The terminal device may communicate with the network device during the wake-up period.

As shown in fig. 2, during the On Duration period, the UE monitors the downlink PDCCH subframe, and during this period, the UE is in an awake state.

The sleep period may also be referred to as a DRX Opportunity (DRX) period. The terminal device may not perform data transmission during the sleep period.

As shown in fig. 2, in the Opportunity for DRX period, the UE goes to sleep without monitoring the time of PDCCH subframes for power saving.

As can be seen from fig. 2, the longer the time for DRX sleep, the lower the power consumption of the UE, but correspondingly, the delay of traffic transmission increases.

In the DRX mechanism, the terminal device may receive downlink data and an uplink grant during an active period. And, the terminal device may perform a cycle of DRX according to a paging cycle in the idle mode. Alternatively, the terminal device may adopt multiple timers to cooperate with each other in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connected state to ensure reception of the downlink data and the uplink grant. Subsequently, the above timer will be explained in detail.

Communication of large data volumes tends to cause a drastic increase in power consumption, resulting in insufficient supply of batteries or increased heat dissipation due to increased power consumption, resulting in system operation failure. While the use of the DRX functionality greatly reduces power consumption.

In this application, the DRX functional control entity may be located at the MAC layer of the protocol stack, and its main function is to control sending of an instruction to the physical layer, to notify the physical layer to monitor the PDCCH at a specific time, and to keep the receiving antenna from being turned on and in a sleep state at the rest of the time.

By way of example and not limitation, in the present application, DRX cycles may include a short DRX cycle and a long DRX cycle.

Specifically, as described above, one DRX cycle is equal to the sum of an awake (on duration) period and a sleep time. The communication system may configure a short DRX cycle (short DRX cycle) or a long DRX cycle (long DRX cycle) for the UE according to different service scenarios. For example, when performing voice services, a voice codec typically sends 1 voice packet every 20 milliseconds (ms), in which case a short DRX cycle of 20ms can be configured, and a long DRX cycle can be configured during a longer silence period during a voice call.

That is, if the terminal device itself includes the short DRX cycle and the short DRX cycle timer, the terminal device operates according to the short DRX cycle, and enters the long DRX cycle operating state after the short DRX cycle timer expires.

And, entering a long DRX cycle running phase after an active period or after a short DRX ring timer is overtime.

In the present application, the starting time of the DRX cycle, or starting time unit (e.g., starting subframe), may be indicated by a DRX start offset (drxstartoffset) parameter. The value range of DRX start offset can be determined based on the size of the DRX cycle, for example, the DRX cycle includes 10 subframes, and the value range of DRX start offset can be 0-9; if the DRX period comprises 20 subframes, the value range of DRX start offset can be 0-19. For example, if drxstart offset is 0, it indicates that the starting subframe of the DRX cycle is the first subframe in the cycle; for example, if drxstart offset is 8, it indicates that the starting subframe of the DRX cycle is the ninth subframe in the cycle.

Wherein, the starting time (or starting time unit) of the DRX cycle may be equal to or unequal to the starting time (or starting time unit) of the awake period of the DRX cycle.

Fig. 3 shows a schematic diagram of another application scenario of an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 3, during the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer, the terminal starts or restarts the secondary cell deactivation timer when receiving downlink assignment scrambled by a cell radio network temporary identity (C-RNTI) or a configuration scheduled radio network temporary identity (CS-RNTI) or Downlink Control Information (DCI) of an uplink grant, and a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) data packet of the configuration grant.

The time slice encountered during the on duration timer timing in the scenario shown in fig. 2, or the time slice encountered during the secondary cell deactivation timer timing in the scenario shown in fig. 3, and the failure to receive DCI or PDU within the time slice, all affect the transmission delay of data.

Fig. 4 shows a schematic flow chart of a method of signal processing of an embodiment of the present application.

The execution subject of the embodiment of the present application may be any one of a plurality of terminals, and the following embodiments take the first terminal as an example, which is not limited in the present application.

The plurality of terminals may or may not be in the coverage of the same cell.

401, when a first terminal overlaps with a time slice (overlap) during the timing of a timer, stopping or restarting the timer, where the time slice is a period in which the first terminal does not perform data transceiving with a first network device;

the first terminal performs signal processing when the timer expires 402.

Specifically, the time slice is a time period in which the first terminal and the first network device do not perform data transceiving, the first terminal stops timing of the timer when detecting that the time period of the timer overlaps with the time slice in time, and the timer can be restarted to continue timing when detecting that the time slice is finished, so that the situation that the signal transmission delay is long due to the fact that the timer still times in the time slice can be avoided; or when the first terminal detects that the time period of the timer overlaps with the time slice in time, the first terminal can restart the timer to start timing, so that the signal transmission delay caused by the time slice can be reduced. That is to say, the embodiment of the application can reduce the transmission delay of the signal, and further improve the reliability of data transmission.

It should be noted that, in step 401, the first terminal may stop or restart the timer immediately when detecting that the timing period of the timer overlaps with the time slice, or may stop or restart the timer after a preset time period after detecting that the overlap occurs, which is not limited in this application.

It should be understood that the data in the embodiment of the present application may be data related to a service sensitive to delay, for example, data related to an Ultra Reliable and Low Latency Communication (URLLC) service; or data related to a service that is less sensitive to a delay, for example, data related to an enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) service and a large machine type communication (mtc) service, which is not limited in this application.

It should also be understood that the timer may be in units of time, minutes, and seconds, or in units of time units, such as time slots, mini-slots, or symbols, which is not limited in this application.

It should also be understood that the timer may be started from a minimum value or a maximum value, and the application is not limited thereto. For example, the timer starts counting from 0 until the maximum value (max ═ 10), or the timer starts counting from the maximum value (max ═ 10) until 0.

Alternatively, the first terminal detecting that the timer period overlaps with the time slice may be detecting the time slice during the timer period.

Specifically, the first terminal may encounter the time slice during the timer counting, and at this time, the first terminal may restart the timer or stop the counting of the timer, so as to avoid being affected by the time slice.

Alternatively, the first terminal detecting that the timer period overlaps with the time slice may be detecting that the timer starts to start counting during the time slice operation.

Specifically, the first terminal encounters a timer for timing after the time slice is set, and the first terminal may stop the timing of the timer, that is, not start the timer, and restart the timer after the time slice is finished.

In one embodiment, the timer may be any one of a discontinuous reception active timer (DRX-on duration timer), a discontinuous reception deactivation timer (DRX-inactive timer), a discontinuous reception retransmission timer (DRX-retransmission timer), a discontinuous reception loop time timer (DRX-HARQ-RTT-timer).

Specifically, as shown in fig. 2, the DRX-duration timer generally starts to count at the beginning of each DRX cycle, during which the first terminal may monitor the PDCCH sent by the first network device, and stops monitoring the PDCCH at the end of the DRX-duration timer, thereby saving power consumption for the first terminal.

It should be noted that the drx retransmission timer may be an uplink timer or a downlink timer. The discontinuous reception loop time timer may be an uplink timer or a downlink timer.

Optionally, the time-slicing may be at least one of an Almost Blank Subframe (ABS) subframe, a Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe, a flexible symbol, or a measurement gap.

Specifically, the network device generally configures an ABS subframe, an MBSFN subframe, a flexible symbol, and the like for the terminal, so that services such as macro-micro networking, multi-hop, or vehicle networking (V2X) can be supported. The dedicated PDCCH and PDSCH of the terminal are not transmitted on the ABS subframe, and only some necessary common signals may be transmitted, so that interference to the neighboring cell may be avoided. The MBSFN subframe is mainly used for transmitting the multicast broadcast MBMS service, and the PDSCH is not transmitted on the MBSFN subframe, so that the interference among cells can be eliminated.

For example, as described below with the DRX-duration timer encountering a measurement GAP, as shown in fig. 5, the terminal starts a timer at time t0, and enters the DRX sleep period at time t2 if the measurement GAP is not encountered. If the measurement GAP is met at the time t1, the terminal may stop the timing of the timer at the time t1 until the time t3 when the measurement GAP is ended, that is, the terminal continues the timing of the timer at the time t3, so that the terminal may enter the DRX sleep period after the DRX-duration timer expires at the time t4, thereby avoiding entering the sleep period at the time t2 so that the terminal needs to wait for the next DRX cycle for signal transmission, and therefore, the embodiment of the application saves data transmission delay.

In another embodiment, the timer may be any one of a secondary cell deactivation timer (cell-deactivation timer) or a bandwidth part (BWP) -deactivation timer (inactive timer).

Specifically, in duplicate transmission (duplicate) of Carrier Aggregation (CA), two links of a primary cell (pcell) and a secondary cell (scell) transmit the same data packet, a first terminal may control deactivation of the secondary cell through a scell-deactivation timer, and after the scell-deactivation timer starts timing, if it is detected that the scell-deactivation timer overlaps with a time slice, the first terminal restarts the scell-deactivation timer, and deactivation processing is performed on the secondary cell until the timing is overtime; or the first terminal stops the cell-deactivation timer, continues timing of the cell-deactivation timer after the time slicing is finished, and deactivates the auxiliary cell until the timing is overtime. That is to say, in the embodiment of the present application, the first terminal reduces the influence on data transmission caused by that the first terminal cannot receive the PDU or the PDCCH and still performs timing of the scell-deactivating timer under the condition of overlapping with the time slicing. For example, the situation that the secondary cell is overtime and then deactivated due to the overlapping of the scell-deactivation timer and the time slice in the link of the secondary cell is avoided, that is, only the link of the primary cell is left to be transmitted, so that the reliability of data transmission is reduced is avoided.

The bandwidth part may include an initial BWP, a default BWP, and an active BWP, and the network device may schedule the terminal to transmit on different BWPs according to the data volume transmission requirement of the service. In addition, the terminal may control the switching of the BWP by setting a bwPinactive timer, specifically, if the terminal has no data transmission or data scheduling for a long time on a certain activated BWP, the terminal may switch to the initial BWP or default BWP after the BWP inactive timer expires, thereby reducing the power consumption of the terminal; if the terminal has data to send, it does not want BWP inactive timer overtime, namely, it does not switch BWP. Therefore, when the timing process of the BWP inactive timer overlaps with the time slicing, the embodiment of the present application may reduce the timeout of the BWP inactive timer caused by the time slicing by stopping or restarting the BWP inactive timer, thereby improving the data transmission performance.

Optionally, the time-slicing may be at least one of an almost blank subframe, a multicast broadcast single frequency network subframe, a flexible symbol, a measurement gap, or a discontinuous reception sleep period.

For example, as shown in fig. 6, the first terminal starts the cell-deactivation timer at time t1 to start timing, and overlaps with the DRX sleep period at time t5, the cell-deactivation timer may stop timing at time t5, and continues to count at time t6 until time t6 at the end of the DRX sleep period, which is described below by taking the cell-deactivation timer as an example of encountering the DRX sleep period, where the cell-deactivation timer expires at time t 7.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the time slice may also be used for the second terminal to communicate with the second network device, and/or the time slice is used for the second terminal to communicate with the third terminal.

Specifically, the time slicing is to not perform data transceiving between the first terminal and the first network device, but the time slicing may be data transceiving between other terminals or between a terminal and a network device, so that the resource utilization rate is improved.

It should be noted that the second terminal and the first terminal may be the same terminal.

For example, as shown in fig. 7, the time-slicing may be used for data transmission between the second terminal and the second network device. Alternatively, as shown in fig. 8, the time slice may be used for data transmission between vehicles (Vehicle to Vehicle, V2V).

It should be understood that the time slice may be a partial time period for data transmission between other devices (for example, as shown in fig. 8, a partial time period in the time slice is for data transmission between V2V), or may be a full time period for data transmission between other devices, which is not limited in this application.

Optionally, in a case that the timer stops counting the time of the timer, the first terminal may further receive configuration information sent by the first network device, where the configuration information is used to indicate a time at which the timer continues to count the time, so that the timer may continue to count the time at the time indicated by the first network device, thereby further reducing interference. Accordingly, the first network device transmits the configuration information.

Alternatively, during the time period of the timer, if the terminal can perform data transceiving, the timer may stop timing when the terminal overlaps with the time slicing, and data transmission may be performed on the first subframe after the time slicing ends.

Specifically, the terminal may perform uplink data transmission on the first subframe, or may receive downlink data. In addition, the network device may indicate the time domain resources for continuing data transmission through the indication information.

Optionally, the first network device may further transmit indication information indicating signal processing performed by the first terminal after the first timer expires.

Specifically, for example, the indication information may further indicate whether the first terminal monitors the PDCCH after the first timer expires.

Optionally, the indication information may also indicate a time to monitor the PDCCH after the first timer expires. For example, the indication information indicates that data is received in a first subframe after the first timer expires.

Optionally, the indication information may be carried in at least one of Radio Resource Control (RRC) dedicated signaling, Downlink Control Information (DCI), a medium access control element (MAC CE), or RRC common signaling.

Therefore, in the signal processing method according to the embodiment of the present application, when detecting that the time period of the timer overlaps with the time slice in terms of time, the first terminal stops timing of the timer, and when detecting that the time slice is finished, the first terminal restarts the timer to continue timing, so that it is possible to avoid that the signal transmission delay is long due to the fact that the timer still times within the time slice; or when the first terminal detects that the time period of the timer overlaps with the time slice in time, the first terminal can restart the timer to start timing, so that the signal transmission delay caused by the time slice can be reduced. That is to say, the embodiment of the application can reduce the transmission delay of the signal, and further improve the reliability of data transmission.

It should also be understood that, in the present application, "when …", "if" and "if" all refer to the fact that the UE or the base station will perform the corresponding processing under certain objective conditions, and are not limited time, and do not require the UE or the base station to perform certain judgment actions, nor do they mean that there are other limitations.

It should also be understood that in the embodiments of the present application, "B corresponding to a" means that B is associated with a, from which B can be determined. It should also be understood that determining B from a does not mean determining B from a alone, but may be determined from a and/or other information.

In a CA scenario, a terminal transmits the same data packet to a network device through two links (i.e., a primary cell and a secondary cell) respectively, so as to ensure reliability of data transmission, and can reduce link overhead of the terminal by deactivating the secondary cell under the condition that reliability of data requirements is low. For example, the terminal sets a secondary cell deactivation timer, and deactivates the secondary cell when the secondary cell deactivation timer expires. However, in the process of operating the secondary cell deactivation timer, the terminal sends the SR, and when the network device feeds back Downlink Control Information (DCI), the secondary cell deactivation timer may have timed out, or even has finished deactivating the secondary cell, so that the terminal cannot receive the DCI, and cannot perform signal transmission on the resource indicated by the DCI, so that the performance of signal transmission is low.

Fig. 9 shows a schematic flow chart of a method of signal processing of another embodiment of the present application.

It should be noted that, unless otherwise specified, the same terms in the embodiments of the present application have the same meanings as those in the embodiments described above, and in order to avoid repetition, the present application will not be repeated.

The terminal 901 transmits a Scheduling Request (SR) during the secondary cell deactivation timer.

902, the terminal stops or restarts the timing of the deactivation timer of the secondary cell when transmitting the SR;

and 903, when the terminal expires the secondary cell deactivation timer, deactivating the secondary cell.

Specifically, the embodiment of the present application may be applied to the CA scenario, for example, the terminal sets a secondary cell deactivation timer, and deactivates the secondary cell when the secondary cell deactivation timer expires. If the terminal sends the SR during the timing of the secondary cell timer, the SR is used to request a resource, and to avoid failing to receive the downlink control information indicating the resource requested by the SR, the terminal may stop or restart the secondary cell deactivation timer, thereby facilitating the terminal to receive the downlink control information and perform signal transmission on the resource indicated by the downlink control information, and improving the signal transmission performance.

It should be noted that the terminal may send the SR actively when the terminal has a resource requirement, or may trigger the terminal to send other information, which is not limited in this application.

Alternatively, if the terminal stops the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer when transmitting the SR, the terminal continues the timing of the timer when receiving the downlink control information in response to the SR, and deactivates the secondary cell when the secondary cell deactivation timer expires.

Optionally, step 902 may specifically be that the terminal stops or restarts the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer when the terminal transmits the SR and when the secondary cell deactivation timer distance expires and is less than or equal to the first time threshold.

Specifically, the terminal may determine that the secondary cell deactivation timer is about to end, e.g., a distance from the secondary cell deactivation timer expires less than or equal to a first time threshold within which downlink control information may not be received, so that the terminal may stop or restart timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer, thereby facilitating the terminal to be able to receive the downlink control information. That is to say, when the expiration of the timing distance of the secondary cell deactivation timer is greater than the first time threshold, the terminal may not stop or restart the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer after the terminal sends the SR, so that the deactivation of the secondary cell is not affected, and the power consumption of the terminal is saved.

For example, as shown in fig. 10, the secondary cell deactivation timer is at t₁Starting the time, wherein the preset time length of the deactivation timer of the auxiliary cell is t when the time reaches₃Ending at time t during secondary cell deactivation timer timing₂At that time, the terminal transmits an SR t₂Time t and₃the time interval of the time is less than or equal to the first time threshold, the terminal stops or restarts the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer until t₄At that time, when the terminal receives the downlink control information in response to the SR, the terminal may continue the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer, at t₅And at the moment, when the secondary cell deactivation timer expires, the terminal deactivates the secondary cell.

It should be noted that, in the following description,the first time threshold may be set by a terminal or may be configured by a network device. For example, the terminal may set according to a time duration between the last time of transmitting the SR and the time of receiving the downlink control information, for example, as shown in fig. 10, the first preset threshold is t₄-t₂The value of (c).

Optionally, step 902 may also be that the terminal stops or restarts the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer when transmitting the SR and when the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer is greater than the second time threshold.

Specifically, the terminal may also determine how much the timing exceeds (e.g., set to the second time threshold) according to the preset duration of the secondary cell deactivation timer, so that the terminal stops or restarts the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer when the SR is transmitted, thereby facilitating the terminal to be able to receive the downlink control information.

For example, as shown in fig. 10, the terminal may set the second time threshold to a value of t3- (t4-t2), i.e., the time remaining for deactivating the timer cannot receive the downlink control information.

Therefore, in the signal processing method according to the embodiment of the present application, the terminal sends the SR during the timing of the secondary cell timer, the SR is used to request a resource, and to avoid failing to receive the downlink control information indicating the resource requested by the SR, the terminal may stop or restart the secondary cell deactivation timer, thereby facilitating the terminal to receive the downlink control information and perform signal transmission on the resource indicated by the downlink control information, and improving the signal transmission performance.

It should be understood that the specific examples in the embodiments of the present application are for the purpose of promoting a better understanding of the embodiments of the present application and are not intended to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present application.

It should be understood that, in the various embodiments of the present application, the sequence numbers of the above-mentioned processes do not mean the execution sequence, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by its function and inherent logic, and should not constitute any limitation to the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application.

The method of signal processing according to the embodiment of the present application is described above in detail, and the apparatus of signal processing of the embodiment of the present application will be described below.

Fig. 11 shows a schematic block diagram of an apparatus 1100 for signal processing of an embodiment of the application.

It is to be understood that the apparatus 1100 may correspond to the terminal in the embodiment shown in fig. 4, and may have any function of the terminal in the method. The apparatus 1100, includes a processing module 1110. Or the apparatus 1100 includes a processing module 1110 and a transceiver module 1120.

A processing module 1110, configured to stop or restart timing of a timer when a timing period of the timer overlaps with a time slice, where the time slice is a time period in which a first terminal and a first network device do not perform data transceiving;

the processing module 1110 is further configured to perform signal processing corresponding to the timer when the timer expires, or control the transceiver module 1120 to perform signal processing corresponding to the timer.

Optionally, the processing module 1110 is specifically configured to:

when the time slice is detected during the timer count period, it is determined that the timer count period overlaps with the time slice.

Optionally, the timer is any one of a discontinuous reception active timer, a discontinuous reception deactivation timer, a discontinuous reception retransmission timer, a discontinuous reception loopback time timer, a secondary cell deactivation timer, or a bandwidth partial deactivation timer.

Optionally, in case the timer is any one of a discontinuous reception active timer, a discontinuous reception deactivation timer, a discontinuous reception retransmission timer, or a discontinuous reception loopback time timer, the time slice includes at least one of an almost blank subframe, a multicast broadcast single frequency network subframe, a flexible symbol, or a measurement gap.

Optionally, in case the timer is a secondary cell deactivation timer, or a bandwidth partial deactivation timer, the time-slicing comprises at least one of almost blank subframes, multicast broadcast single frequency network subframes, flexible symbols, measurement gaps, or discontinuous reception sleep periods.

Optionally, the time-slicing is used for data transceiving between the second terminal and the second network device, and/or the time-slicing is used for data transceiving between the second terminal and the third terminal.

Optionally, the processing module 1110 is specifically configured to:

when the timer expires, the control transceiver module 1120 stops transceiving data with the first network device; or

When the timer expires, performing a handover of the bandwidth part; or

Upon expiration of the timer, secondary cell deactivation is performed.

Therefore, in the signal processing device according to the embodiment of the present application, when it is detected that the time period of the timer overlaps with the time slice in terms of time, the timer is stopped to time, and when it is detected that the time slice is finished, the timer is restarted to continue to time, so that it is possible to avoid that the signal transmission delay is long due to the fact that the timer still times in the time slice; or when the time overlap between the time slice and the timer counting period is detected, the timer can be restarted to start counting, so that the signal transmission delay caused by the time slice can be reduced. That is to say, the embodiment of the application can reduce the transmission delay of the signal, and further improve the reliability of data transmission.

Fig. 12 shows a schematic block diagram of an apparatus 1200 for signal processing provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the apparatus 1200 may be the terminal described in fig. 1 and the execution main body in fig. 4. The apparatus may employ a hardware architecture as shown in fig. 12. The apparatus may include a processor 1210 and a transceiver 1220, and optionally, the apparatus may further include a memory 1230, the processor 1210, the transceiver 1220 and the memory 1230 communicating with each other through an internal connection path. The related functions implemented by the processing module 1110 in fig. 11 may be implemented by the processor 1210, and the related functions implemented by the transceiver module 1120 may be implemented by the processor 1210 controlling the transceiver 1220.

Alternatively, the processor 1210 may be a general processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a special purpose processor, or one or more ics for executing embodiments of the present disclosure. Alternatively, a processor may refer to one or more devices, circuits, and/or processing cores for processing data (e.g., computer program instructions). For example, a baseband processor, or a central processor. The baseband processor may be used to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processor may be used to control a communication device (e.g., a base station, a terminal, or a chip), execute a software program, and process data of the software program.

Optionally, the processor 1210 may include one or more processors, for example, one or more Central Processing Units (CPUs), and in the case that the processor is one CPU, the CPU may be a single-core CPU or a multi-core CPU.

The transceiver 1220 is used for transmitting and receiving data and/or signals, and receiving data and/or signals. The transceiver may include a transmitter for transmitting data and/or signals and a receiver for receiving data and/or signals.

The memory 1230 includes, but is not limited to, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable memory (EPROM), and a compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), and the memory 1230 is used for storing relevant instructions and data.

The memory 1230, which is used to store program codes and data for the terminal, may be a separate device or integrated into the processor 1210.

Specifically, the processor 1210 is configured to control the transceiver to perform information transmission with a network device. Specifically, reference may be made to the description of the method embodiment, which is not repeated herein.

It will be appreciated that fig. 12 only shows a simplified design of the means for signal processing. In practical applications, the apparatus may also include other necessary elements respectively, including but not limited to any number of transceivers, processors, controllers, memories, etc., and all terminals capable of implementing the present application are within the protection scope of the present application.

In one possible design, the apparatus 1200 may be a chip, such as a communication chip that may be used in a terminal to implement the relevant functions of the processor 1210 in the terminal. The chip can be a field programmable gate array, a special integrated chip, a system chip, a central processing unit, a network processor, a digital signal processing circuit and a microcontroller which realize related functions, and can also adopt a programmable controller or other integrated chips. The chip may optionally include one or more memories for storing program code that, when executed, causes the processor to implement corresponding functions.

In particular implementations, apparatus 1200 may also include an output device and an input device, as one embodiment. An output device, which is in communication with the processor 1210, may display information in a variety of ways. For example, the output device may be a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), a Light Emitting Diode (LED) display device, a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) display device, a projector (projector), or the like. An input device is in communication with the processor 601 and may receive user input in a variety of ways. For example, the input device may be a mouse, a keyboard, a touch screen device, or a sensing device, among others.

Fig. 13 shows a schematic diagram of an apparatus 1300 for signal processing according to an embodiment of the present application. The apparatus 1300 includes a transceiver module 1310.

It should be understood that the apparatus 1300 may correspond to the terminal device in the embodiment shown in fig. 9, and may have any function of the terminal device in the method. The apparatus 1300 includes a transceiver module 1310 and a processing module 1320.

The transceiver module 1310 is configured to transmit a scheduling request SR during the deactivation timer of the secondary cell;

the processing module 1320, configured to stop or restart the timing of the secondary cell deactivation timer when the SR is transmitted;

the processing module 1320 is further configured to deactivate the secondary cell when the secondary cell deactivation timer expires.

Optionally, the processing module 1320 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the processing module 1320 is further configured to continue timing of the deactivation timer of the secondary cell when receiving downlink control information, where the downlink control information is information used for responding to the SR.

Therefore, the signal processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present application sends the SR during the timing of the secondary cell timer, where the SR is used to request a resource, and to avoid failing to receive the downlink control information indicating the resource requested by the SR, the secondary cell deactivation timer may be stopped or restarted, so as to facilitate the apparatus to receive the downlink control information and perform signal transmission on the resource indicated by the downlink control information, thereby improving the signal transmission performance.

Fig. 14 shows an apparatus 1400 for signal processing provided by the embodiment of the present application, where the apparatus 1400 may be the terminal described in fig. 1 and fig. 9. The apparatus may employ a hardware architecture as shown in fig. 14. The apparatus may include a processor 1410 and a transceiver 1420, and optionally, the apparatus may further include a memory 1430, the processor 1410, the transceiver 1420 and the memory 1430 being in communication with each other via an internal connection path. The related functions implemented by the processing module 1340 in fig. 13 may be implemented by the processor 1410, and the related functions implemented by the transceiver module 1310 may be implemented by the transceiver 1420 controlled by the processor 1410.

Alternatively, the processor 1410 may be a general-purpose Central Processing Unit (CPU), a microprocessor, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a special-purpose processor, or one or more integrated circuits for executing the embodiments of the present application. Alternatively, a processor may refer to one or more devices, circuits, and/or processing cores for processing data (e.g., computer program instructions). For example, a baseband processor, or a central processor. The baseband processor may be used to process communication protocols and communication data, and the central processor may be used to control a communication device (e.g., a base station, a terminal, or a chip), execute a software program, and process data of the software program.

Alternatively, the processor 1410 may include one or more processors, for example, one or more Central Processing Units (CPUs), and in the case of one CPU, the CPU may be a single-core CPU or a multi-core CPU.

The transceiver 1420 is used to transmit and receive data and/or signals, as well as receive data and/or signals. The transceiver may include a transmitter for transmitting data and/or signals and a receiver for receiving data and/or signals.

The memory 1430 includes, but is not limited to, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), a compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), and the memory 1430 is used for storing relevant instructions and data.

The memory 1430 is used for storing program codes and data of the terminal, and may be a separate device or integrated in the processor 1410.

Specifically, the processor 1410 is configured to control the transceiver to perform information transmission with a network device. Specifically, reference may be made to the description of the method embodiment, which is not repeated herein.

In particular implementations, apparatus 1400 may also include an output device and an input device, as an example. An output device is in communication with the processor 1410 that may display information in a variety of ways. For example, the output device may be a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), a Light Emitting Diode (LED) display device, a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) display device, a projector (projector), or the like. An input device is in communication with the processor 601 and may receive user input in a variety of ways. For example, the input device may be a mouse, a keyboard, a touch screen device, or a sensing device, among others.

It will be appreciated that fig. 14 only shows a simplified design of the means for signal processing. In practical applications, the apparatus may also include other necessary elements respectively, including but not limited to any number of transceivers, processors, controllers, memories, etc., and all terminals capable of implementing the present application are within the protection scope of the present application.

In one possible design, the apparatus 1400 may be a chip, such as a communication chip available in a terminal, and configured to implement the relevant functions of the processor 1410 in the terminal. The chip can be a field programmable gate array, a special integrated chip, a system chip, a central processing unit, a network processor, a digital signal processing circuit and a microcontroller which realize related functions, and can also adopt a programmable controller or other integrated chips. The chip may optionally include one or more memories for storing program code that, when executed, causes the processor to implement corresponding functions.

The embodiment of the application also provides a device which can be a terminal or a circuit. The apparatus may be configured to perform the actions performed by the terminal in the above-described method embodiments.

Optionally, when the apparatus in this embodiment is a terminal, fig. 15 shows a schematic structural diagram of a simplified terminal. For easy understanding and convenience of illustration, in fig. 15, the terminal is exemplified by a mobile phone. As shown in fig. 15, the terminal includes a processor, a memory, a radio frequency circuit, an antenna, and an input-output device. The processor is mainly used for processing communication protocols and communication data, controlling the terminal, executing software programs, processing data of the software programs and the like. The memory is used primarily for storing software programs and data. The radio frequency circuit is mainly used for converting baseband signals and radio frequency signals and processing the radio frequency signals. The antenna is mainly used for receiving and transmitting radio frequency signals in the form of electromagnetic waves. Input and output devices, such as touch screens, display screens, keyboards, etc., are used primarily for receiving data input by a user and for outputting data to the user. It should be noted that some kinds of terminals may not have input/output devices.

When data needs to be sent, the processor performs baseband processing on the data to be sent and outputs baseband signals to the radio frequency circuit, and the radio frequency circuit performs radio frequency processing on the baseband signals and sends the radio frequency signals to the outside in the form of electromagnetic waves through the antenna. When data is sent to the terminal, the radio frequency circuit receives radio frequency signals through the antenna, converts the radio frequency signals into baseband signals and outputs the baseband signals to the processor, and the processor converts the baseband signals into the data and processes the data. For ease of illustration, only one memory and processor are shown in FIG. 15. In an actual end product, there may be one or more processors and one or more memories. The memory may also be referred to as a storage medium or a storage device, etc. The memory may be provided independently of the processor, or may be integrated with the processor, which is not limited in this embodiment.

In the embodiment of the present application, the antenna and the radio frequency circuit having the transceiving function may be regarded as a transceiving unit of the terminal, and the processor having the processing function may be regarded as a processing unit of the terminal. As shown in fig. 15, the terminal includes a transceiving unit 1510 and a processing unit 1520. A transceiver unit may also be referred to as a transceiver, a transceiving device, etc. A processing unit may also be referred to as a processor, a processing board, a processing module, a processing device, or the like. Optionally, a device for implementing a receiving function in the transceiver 1510 may be regarded as a receiving unit, and a device for implementing a transmitting function in the transceiver 1510 may be regarded as a transmitting unit, that is, the transceiver 1510 includes a receiving unit and a transmitting unit. A transceiver unit may also sometimes be referred to as a transceiver, transceiving circuitry, or the like. A receiving unit may also be referred to as a receiver, a receiving circuit, or the like. A transmitting unit may also sometimes be referred to as a transmitter, or a transmitting circuit, etc.

It should be understood that the transceiving unit 1510 is configured to perform the transmitting operation and the receiving operation on the terminal side in the above-described method embodiments, and the processing unit 1520 is configured to perform other operations on the terminal in the above-described method embodiments besides the transceiving operation.

For example, in one implementation, the processing unit 1520 is configured to perform the operations in step 401 and step 402 in fig. 4, and/or the processing unit 1520 is further configured to perform other processing steps at the terminal side in the embodiment of the present application. The transceiving unit 1510 is configured to perform transceiving operation in step 402 in fig. 4, and/or the transceiving unit 1510 is further configured to perform other transceiving steps at the terminal side in this embodiment.

In yet another implementation manner, the transceiver 1510 may be configured to perform step 901 in fig. 9, and/or the transceiver 1510 is further configured to perform other transceiving steps at the terminal side in this embodiment. The processing unit 1520 is configured to perform the operations of step 902 and step 903 in fig. 9, and/or the processing unit 1520 is further configured to perform other processing steps at the terminal side in the embodiment of the present application.

When the communication device is a chip, the chip includes a transceiver unit and a processing unit. The transceiver unit can be an input/output circuit and a communication interface; the processing unit is a processor or a microprocessor or an integrated circuit integrated on the chip.

Optionally, when the apparatus is a terminal, reference may also be made to the device shown in fig. 16. As an example, the device may perform functions similar to processor 1010 of FIG. 10. In fig. 16, the apparatus includes a processor 1601, a sending data processor 1603, and a receiving data processor 1605. The processing module 1110 and the processing module 1320 in the above embodiments may be the processor 1601 in fig. 16, and perform corresponding functions. The transceiver modules 1120 and 1310 in the above embodiments may be the sending data processor 1603 and the receiving data processor 1605 in fig. 16. Although fig. 16 shows a channel encoder and a channel decoder, it is understood that these blocks are not limitative and only illustrative to the present embodiment.

Fig. 17 shows another form of the present embodiment. The processing device 1700 includes modules such as a modulation subsystem, a central processing subsystem, and peripheral subsystems. The communication device in this embodiment may act as a modulation subsystem therein. In particular, the modulation subsystem may include a processor 1703, an interface 1704. The processor 1703 performs the functions of the processing module 1110 and/or the processing module 1320, and the interface 1704 performs the functions of the transceiver module 1120 and/or the transceiver module 1310. As another variation, the modulation subsystem includes a memory 1706, a processor 1703, and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the processor implements the method of any one of embodiments one to five when executing the program. It is noted that the memory 1706 can be non-volatile or volatile, and can be located within the modulation subsystem or within the processing device 1700, as long as the memory 1706 can be coupled to the processor 1703.

As another form of the present embodiment, there is provided a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed, perform the method of the above-described method embodiments.

As another form of the present embodiment, there is provided a computer program product containing instructions that, when executed, perform the method of the above-described method embodiments.

In the above embodiments, the implementation may be wholly or partially realized by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When loaded and executed on a computer, cause the processes or functions described in accordance with the embodiments of the application to occur, in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a network of computers, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored on a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another, for example, from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center via wire (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device, such as a server, a data center, etc., that incorporates one or more of the available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., a Digital Video Disk (DVD)), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., a Solid State Disk (SSD)), among others.

It should be understood that the processor may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method embodiments may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or instructions in the form of software. The processor may be a general purpose processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an off-the-shelf programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, or discrete hardware components. The various methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module may be located in ram, flash memory, rom, prom, or eprom, registers, etc. storage media as is well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and a processor reads information in the memory and completes the steps of the method in combination with hardware of the processor.

It will be appreciated that the memory in the embodiments of the subject application can be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an electrically Erasable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. Volatile memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. By way of example, but not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM, enhanced SDRAM, SLDRAM, Synchronous Link DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct bus RAM (DR RAM).

In the present application, "at least one" means one or more, "a plurality" means two or more. "and/or" describes the association relationship of the associated objects, meaning that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, which may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone, wherein A and B can be singular or plural. The character "/" generally indicates that the former and latter associated objects are in an "or" relationship. "at least one of the following" or similar expressions refer to any combination of these items, including any combination of the singular or plural items. For example, at least one (one) of a, b, or c, may represent: a, b, c, a-b, a-c, b-c, or a-b-c, wherein a, b, c may be single or multiple.

It should be appreciated that reference throughout this specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus, the appearances of the phrases "in one embodiment" or "in an embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. It should be understood that, in various embodiments of the present invention, the sequence numbers of the above-mentioned processes do not mean the execution sequence, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by its function and inherent logic, and should not constitute any limitation on the implementation process of the embodiments of the present invention.

As used in this specification, the terms "component," "module," "system," and the like are intended to refer to a computer-related entity, either hardware, firmware, a combination of hardware and software, or software in execution. For example, a component may be, but is not limited to being, a process running on a processor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program, and/or a computer. By way of illustration, both an application running on a computing device and the computing device can be a component. One or more components can reside within a process and/or thread of execution and a component can be localized on one computer and/or distributed between 2 or more computers. In addition, these components can execute from various computer readable media having various data structures stored thereon. The components may communicate by way of local and/or remote processes such as in accordance with a signal having one or more data packets (e.g., data from two components interacting with another component in a local system, distributed system, and/or across a network such as the internet with other systems by way of the signal).

It should also be understood that the reference herein to first, second, and various numerical designations is merely a convenient division to describe and is not intended to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present application.

It should be understood that the term "and/or" herein is merely one type of association relationship that describes an associated object, meaning that three relationships may exist, e.g., a and/or B may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. Wherein A or B is present alone, and the number of A or B is not limited. Taking the case of a being present alone, it is understood to have one or more a.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present application.

It is clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not described herein again.

In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described apparatus embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units is only one logical division, and other divisions may be realized in practice, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit.

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application or portions thereof that substantially contribute to the prior art may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium and including instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present application, and shall be covered by the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A method of signal processing, comprising:

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the timer count period overlaps with the time slice when the time slice is detected during the timer count period.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the timer is any one of a discontinuous reception activity timer, a discontinuous reception deactivation timer, a discontinuous reception retransmission timer, a discontinuous reception loop back time timer, a secondary cell deactivation timer or a bandwidth part deactivation timer.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the time slicing comprises at least one of almost blank subframes, multicast broadcast single frequency network subframes, flexible symbols, or measurement gaps in case the timer is any one of a discontinuous reception active timer, a discontinuous reception de-active timer, a discontinuous reception retransmission timer, or a discontinuous reception loopback time timer.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein in the case that the timer is a secondary cell deactivation timer or a bandwidth partial deactivation timer, the time-slicing comprises at least one of almost blank subframes, multicast broadcast single frequency network subframes, flexible symbols, measurement gaps, or discontinuous reception sleep periods.

6. The method according to any of claims 1 to 5, wherein the time-slicing is used for data transceiving by the second terminal with the second network device and/or the time-slicing is used for data transceiving by the second terminal with the third terminal.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the performing signal processing corresponding to the timer when the timer expires comprises:

stopping transmitting and receiving data with the first network equipment when the timer expires; or

When the timer expires, switching the bandwidth part; or

And when the timer expires, deactivating the secondary cell.

8. An apparatus for signal processing, comprising:

the processing module is used for stopping or restarting the timing of the timer when the timing period of the timer is overlapped with a time slice, wherein the time slice is a time period when the first terminal and the first network equipment do not receive and transmit data;

the processing module is further configured to perform signal processing corresponding to the timer when the timer expires, or control the transceiver module to perform signal processing corresponding to the timer.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processing module is specifically configured to:

10. The apparatus of claim 8 or 9, wherein the timer is any one of a discontinuous reception activity timer, a discontinuous reception deactivation timer, a discontinuous reception retransmission timer, a discontinuous reception loopback time timer, a secondary cell deactivation timer, or a bandwidth portion deactivation timer.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the time slicing comprises at least one of almost blank subframes, multicast broadcast single frequency network subframes, flexible symbols, or measurement gaps where the timer is any one of a discontinuous reception active timer, a discontinuous reception de-active timer, a discontinuous reception retransmission timer, or a discontinuous reception loopback time timer.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein in the case that the timer is a secondary cell deactivation timer or a bandwidth partial deactivation timer, the time-slicing comprises at least one of almost blank subframes, multicast broadcast single frequency network subframes, flexible symbols, measurement gaps, or discontinuous reception sleep periods.

13. The apparatus according to any of claims 8 to 12, wherein the time-slicing is used for data transceiving by the second terminal with the second network device and/or the time-slicing is used for data transceiving by the second terminal with the third terminal.

14. The apparatus according to any one of claims 8 to 13, wherein the processing module is specifically configured to:

when the timer expires, controlling a transceiver module to stop transceiving data with the first network equipment; or

When the timer expires, switching the bandwidth part; or

And when the timer expires, deactivating the secondary cell.

15. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which program, when being executed by a processor, carries out the method according to any one of claims 1 to 7.

16. Apparatus for signal processing, wherein the apparatus stores instructions that, when executed, enable the apparatus to perform the method of any of claims 1 to 7.

17. An apparatus for signal processing, comprising a memory, a processor and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the processor implements the method of any one of claims 1 to 7 when executing the program.