CN111315014B - Parameter configuration method and device - Google Patents

Abstract

The application relates to a parameter configuration method and device, which are used for configuring air interface parameters meeting the requirements of terminal equipment for the terminal equipment as much as possible. The parameter configuration method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that the terminal equipment determines M pieces of configuration information, wherein the M pieces of configuration information are used for indicating an adjusting interval of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal equipment, each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used for indicating an adjusting interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set in the N air interface parameter sets, the adjusting interval is used for adjusting the value of one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer larger than or equal to N; and sending the M pieces of configuration information to the network equipment. The M pieces of configuration information are sent to the network equipment, so that the network equipment can use the M pieces of configuration information as reference when configuring the air interface parameters for the terminal equipment, the configured air interface parameters can take the actual requirements of the terminal equipment into consideration as much as possible, and the configuration result is consistent with the actual working condition of the terminal equipment as much as possible.

Description

Parameter configuration method and device

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a parameter configuration method and apparatus.

Background

At present, when a base station configures an air interface parameter for a terminal device, the base station generally configures the terminal device according to the current situation of a network, for example, according to the number of users accessed in the current network or a scheduling algorithm used by the base station, and the like.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a parameter configuration method and device, which are used for configuring air interface parameters meeting the requirements of terminal equipment for the terminal equipment as much as possible.

In a first aspect, a first parameter configuration method is provided, which includes: the method comprises the steps that the terminal equipment determines M pieces of configuration information, wherein the M pieces of configuration information are used for indicating an adjustment interval of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal equipment, each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used for indicating the adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set in the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment interval is used for adjusting the value of the one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer larger than or equal to N; and the terminal equipment sends the M pieces of configuration information to network equipment.

The method may be performed by a first communication device, which may be a terminal equipment or a communication device, such as a system-on-a-chip, capable of supporting the terminal equipment to implement the functions required by the method. Here, the first communication apparatus is exemplified as a terminal device.

In this embodiment of the present application, M pieces of configuration information used to indicate an adjustment interval of M air interface parameters of a terminal device may be determined, and the adjustment interval may indicate how to adjust the air interface parameters. After the M pieces of configuration information are sent to the network device, the network device may use the M pieces of configuration information as a reference when configuring the air interface parameters for the terminal device, so that the configured air interface parameters can take into consideration the actual requirements of the terminal device as much as possible, and the configuration result is consistent with the actual working condition of the terminal device as much as possible. In addition, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device only indicates the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter to the network device, instead of directly indicating the adjustment result to the network device, and the network device has a decision right on how to configure the air interface parameter finally, which also conforms to the working mode of the current communication system.

With reference to the first aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set used for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set, where the processing time axis parameter set is used to indicate a time when the terminal device processes data before sending the data, and/or indicate a time when the terminal device processes data after receiving the data.

Here, only some examples of the sets of parameters of the air interface are provided, and the method is not particularly limited thereto.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the first aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the first aspect, each of the N sets of air interface parameters includes at least one air interface parameter, one of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of a first air interface parameter in the at least one air interface parameter, and the one adjustment interval is used to indicate that a value of the first air interface parameter is to be increased or decreased.

I.e. a configuration information may be used to indicate an adjustment interval, in which case one null parameter corresponds to one adjustment interval. Then, the adjustment interval and the air interface parameter are in a one-to-one correspondence relationship. In this case, the relationship between the adjustment interval and the air interface parameter is relatively clear, and the indication is relatively clear.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the first aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the first aspect, each of the N sets of air interface parameters includes at least one air interface parameter, each of a part of or all of the at least one air interface parameters corresponds to an adjustment interval, one of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate at least one adjustment interval corresponding to one of the part of or all of the air interface parameters, where each of the at least one adjustment interval is used to indicate an adjustable range of a value of the corresponding air interface parameter, and when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is greater than 1, the one piece of configuration information is further used to indicate a priority of each of the at least one adjustment interval, or, when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is 1, the one configuration information is further used to indicate the priority of two endpoint values of the adjustment interval.

That is, one configuration information may be used to indicate at least two adjustment intervals, in which case one air interface parameter corresponds to at least two adjustment intervals. If one air interface parameter corresponds to at least two adjustment intervals, the adjustable ranges indicated by the at least two adjustment intervals may be different, and an intersection may be present or absent between the adjustable ranges indicated by the at least two adjustment intervals. If the configuration information corresponding to one air interface parameter is used to indicate at least two adjustment intervals of the air interface parameter, the configuration information may also be used to indicate priorities of the at least two adjustment intervals, and a higher priority of an adjustment interval indicates that the terminal device desires to adjust according to the adjustment interval. One air interface parameter can correspond to at least two adjustment intervals, so that the adjustable space given to the network equipment is larger, and more adjustment flexibility is provided for the network equipment. The priorities of at least two adjustment intervals are also indicated, so that the network device is also targeted during the adjustment.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the first aspect or the third possible implementation manner of the first aspect, in a fourth possible implementation manner of the first aspect, if M is greater than 1, the sending, by the terminal device, the M pieces of configuration information to a network device includes: the terminal equipment sends a first signaling to the network equipment, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or, the terminal device sends at least one second signaling to the network device, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each piece of second signaling in the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

The terminal device may send M pieces of configuration information through one signaling, which may reduce system overhead, or the terminal device may send M pieces of configuration information through multiple signaling, which may improve transmission reliability.

With reference to the fourth possible implementation manner of the first aspect, in a fifth possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the sending, by the terminal device, a first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and the sending includes: the terminal device sends the first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, the bitmap includes M bits, the M bits are the M configuration information, and each bit in the M bits is one configuration information in the M configuration information.

If the terminal device sends M pieces of configuration information to the network device through a signaling, then the M pieces of configuration information may be implemented in the form of bitmap, and in this case, the bits and the configuration information may be in a one-to-one correspondence relationship, and specifically, which bit corresponds to which configuration information (or to which air interface parameter), and what adjustment interval the value of the bit indicates is configured in advance by the network device, or specified by a protocol. Therefore, M pieces of configuration information can be indicated through the bitmap, the method is simple, and the method is favorable for saving expenses.

In a second aspect, a second parameter configuration method is provided, the method comprising: the method comprises the steps that a network device receives M pieces of configuration information from a terminal device, wherein the M pieces of configuration information are used for indicating an adjustment interval of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used for indicating the adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set in the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment interval is used for adjusting the value of the one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer larger than or equal to N; the network equipment determines an adjustment mode of M air interface parameters indicated by the M pieces of configuration information according to the M pieces of configuration; and the network equipment sends an adjustment result to the terminal equipment, wherein the adjustment result is used for indicating an adjustment mode of at least one air interface parameter in the M air interface parameters.

The method may be performed by a second communication device, which may be a network device or a communication device capable of supporting the network device to implement the functions required by the method, such as a system on a chip. Here, the second communication apparatus is taken as an example of a network device.

With reference to the second aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the second aspect, the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set used for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set, where the processing time axis parameter set is used to indicate a time when the terminal device processes data before sending the data, and/or indicate a time when the terminal device processes data after receiving the data.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the second aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the second aspect, each of the N sets of air interface parameters includes at least one air interface parameter, one of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of a first air interface parameter in the at least one air interface parameter, and the one adjustment interval is used to indicate that a value of the first air interface parameter is to be increased or decreased.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the second aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the second aspect, each air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets includes at least one air interface parameter, each air interface parameter of a part of or all air interface parameters of the at least one air interface parameter corresponds to an adjustment interval, one configuration information of the M configuration information is used to indicate at least one adjustment interval corresponding to one air interface parameter of the part of or all air interface parameters, where each adjustment interval of the at least one adjustment interval is used to indicate an adjustable range of a value of the corresponding air interface parameter, and when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is greater than 1, the one configuration information is further used to indicate a priority of each adjustment interval of the at least one adjustment interval, or, when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is 1, the one configuration information is further used to indicate the priority of two endpoint values of the adjustment interval.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the second aspect or the third possible implementation manner of the second aspect, in a fourth possible implementation manner of the second aspect, if M is greater than 1, the receiving, by the network device, M pieces of configuration information from the terminal device includes: the network equipment receives a first signaling from the terminal equipment, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or, the network device receives at least one second signaling from the terminal device, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each piece of second signaling in the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

With reference to the fourth possible implementation manner of the second aspect, in a fifth possible implementation manner of the second aspect, the receiving, by the network device, a first signaling from the terminal device, where the first signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, includes: the network device receives the first signaling from the terminal device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, the bitmap includes M bits, the M bits are the M configuration information, and each bit in the M bits is one configuration information in the M configuration information.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the second aspect or the various embodiments of the second aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the first aspect or the various embodiments of the first aspect, and details are not repeated.

In a third aspect, a third method for configuring parameters is provided, the method including: the terminal equipment determines the information of the characteristic parameters of the service of the terminal equipment; the terminal equipment sends the information of the characteristic parameters to network equipment, and the information of the characteristic parameters is used for configuring air interface parameters for the terminal equipment; the terminal device receives configuration information from the network device, where the configuration information is used to configure the air interface parameter, and the configuration of the air interface parameter is used to adjust power consumption of the terminal device.

The method may be performed by a third communication device, which may be a terminal equipment or a communication device capable of supporting the terminal equipment to implement the functions required by the method, such as a system-on-chip. Here, the third communication apparatus is exemplified as a terminal device.

In the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may send service information of the terminal device, that is, information of characteristic parameters of the service, to the network device, so that the network device may make a decision according to the service information of the terminal device, for example, when the terminal device is not convenient to determine an adjustment interval of the air interface parameter by itself, or when the terminal device is unable to determine the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter by itself, or when the terminal device is capable of making a relatively clear of characteristics of the current service, the second parameter configuration method may be adopted. Therefore, the network device can perform global evaluation equivalent to how the adjustment should be evaluated by the network device, and compared with a scheme in which the adjustment trend is evaluated by the terminal device, the scheme in which the network device performs evaluation is more complete, and the normal operation of the whole system is more facilitated. And the network device evaluates according to the service information sent by the terminal device, which is helpful for enabling the decision result of the network device to consider the actual situation of the terminal device.

With reference to the third aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the characteristic parameter includes at least one of the following parameters: the maximum time delay of the service, the difference value of the time delays of the data packets of the service, the error rate of the data packets of the service, the packet loss rate of the service, the data rate of the service, or the priority of the service.

This is only a few examples of characteristic parameters for a service, and is not particularly limited thereto.

With reference to the third aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the information of the feature parameter is index information, and the feature parameter corresponding to the index information includes at least one of the following parameters: a resource type of the service, a priority of the service, a packet delay budget required by the service, a packet error rate required by the service, an average window of the service, or a maximum burst data volume of the service.

If the parameters are considered as a set of parameters, each corresponding service may correspond to the values of the set of parameters, which in turn correspond to an index information, which is equivalent to determining the values of the set of parameters by the index information, which is called, for example, a 5QI value. That is, each 5QI value corresponds to a corresponding characteristic parameter, and a characteristic parameter corresponding to a 5QI value includes, for example, at least one of the following parameters: resource type of the service, priority of the service, packet delay budget required by the service, packet error rate required by the service, average window of the service, or maximum burst size of the service. Compared with the method of determining the specific characteristic parameters by the terminal device, the method of using the 5QI value as the information of the characteristic parameters is equivalent to performing combined coding on the information of the characteristic parameters to obtain one coded value, so that the terminal device only needs to send the coded value to the network device, and the method is beneficial to saving the system overhead.

In a fourth aspect, a fourth parameter configuration method is provided, which includes: the method comprises the steps that network equipment receives information of characteristic parameters from terminal equipment, wherein the information of the characteristic parameters is information of the characteristic parameters of services of the terminal equipment; the network equipment determines configuration information of air interface parameters of the terminal equipment according to the information of the characteristic parameters; and the network equipment sends the configuration information to the terminal equipment, wherein the configuration information is used for configuring air interface parameters of the terminal equipment, and the configuration of the air interface parameters is used for adjusting the power consumption of the terminal equipment.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the characteristic parameter includes at least one of the following parameters: the maximum time delay of the service, the difference value of the time delays of the data packets of the service, the error rate of the data packets of the service, the packet loss rate of the service, the data rate of the service, or the priority of the service.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the information of the feature parameter is index information, and the feature parameter corresponding to the index information includes at least one of the following parameters: a resource type of the service, a priority of the service, a packet delay budget required by the service, a packet error rate required by the service, an average window of the service, or a maximum burst data volume of the service.

With regard to the technical effects of the fourth aspect or the various embodiments of the fourth aspect, reference may be made to the description of the technical effects of the third aspect or the various embodiments of the third aspect, and details are not repeated.

In a fifth aspect, a fifth parameter configuration method is provided, the method comprising: the terminal equipment determines that the terminal equipment is to adjust the power consumption of the terminal equipment through an air interface parameter set of a first type; and the terminal equipment sends indication information to network equipment, wherein the indication information is used for indicating that power consumption is adjusted by adjusting air interface parameters included in the air interface parameter set of the first type.

The method may be performed by a fifth communication device, which may be a terminal equipment or a communication device capable of supporting the terminal equipment to implement the functions required by the method, such as a system on chip. Here, the fifth communication apparatus is exemplified as a terminal device.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal device only needs to inform the network device which kind of parameters need to be adjusted, the terminal device does not need to determine a specific adjustment interval, and the terminal device does not need to acquire specific service characteristic parameters, which is beneficial to simplifying the implementation of the terminal device. And the terminal equipment can directly inform the network equipment of reducing power consumption or increasing power consumption and also inform the network equipment of which type of parameters need to be adjusted, so that the adjustment result can meet the requirements of the terminal equipment as much as possible.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the set of air interface parameters of the first type includes a set of air interface parameters used for adjusting a delay of a service and/or a set of air interface parameters used for adjusting a data rate of the service.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the air interface parameter set used for adjusting the delay of the service includes at least one of the following air interface parameter sets: and the C-DRX configuration parameter set is used for detecting the configuration parameter set of the downlink control channel or processing the time axis parameter set.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect or the second possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the set of air interface parameters used for adjusting the data rate of the service includes at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, or a MIMO configuration parameter set.

As mentioned above, the set of air interface parameters of the first type is only some examples, and is not limited to this.

In a sixth aspect, a sixth parameter configuration method is provided, which includes: the network equipment receives indication information from the terminal equipment, wherein the indication information is used for indicating that power consumption is adjusted by adjusting air interface parameters included in the air interface parameter set of the first type; the network equipment determines an adjustment mode of the air interface parameter set of the first type according to the indication information; and the network equipment sends configuration information to the terminal equipment, wherein the configuration information is used for indicating an adjustment mode of at least one air interface parameter included in the air interface parameter set of the first type.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the sixth aspect, the first type of air interface parameter set includes an air interface parameter set used for adjusting a delay of a service and/or an air interface parameter set used for adjusting a data rate of the service.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the sixth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the sixth aspect, the air interface parameter set used for adjusting the delay of the service includes at least one of the following air interface parameter sets: and the C-DRX configuration parameter set is used for detecting the configuration parameter set of the downlink control channel or processing the time axis parameter set.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the sixth aspect or the second possible implementation manner of the sixth aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the sixth aspect, the set of air interface parameters used for adjusting the data rate of the service includes at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, or a MIMO configuration parameter set.

With respect to the technical effects brought by the sixth aspect or the various embodiments of the sixth aspect, reference may be made to the description of the technical effects of the fifth aspect or the various embodiments of the fifth aspect, and details are not repeated.

In a seventh aspect, a seventh parameter configuration method is provided, which includes: the method comprises the steps that a terminal device determines M pieces of configuration information, wherein the M pieces of configuration information are used for indicating adjustment directions of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used for indicating the adjustment direction of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set in the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment directions are used for indicating that the value of one air interface parameter is adjusted to be larger or smaller, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer larger than or equal to N; and the terminal equipment sends the M pieces of configuration information to network equipment.

The method may be performed by a seventh communication device, which may be a terminal equipment or a communication device capable of supporting the terminal equipment to implement the functions required by the method, such as a system on a chip. Here, the seventh communication apparatus is exemplified as a terminal device.

In the method, the terminal equipment can indicate to the network equipment how to adjust the air interface parameters without determining the endpoint value, and the implementation is simpler for the terminal equipment. For example, when it is not convenient for the terminal device to determine the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter by itself, or when the terminal device has no capability to determine the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter by itself, the parameter configuration method may be adopted.

With reference to the seventh aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the seventh aspect, the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set, where the processing time axis parameter set is used to indicate a time for the terminal device to process data before sending the data, and/or indicate a time for the terminal device to process data after receiving the data.

With reference to the seventh aspect or the first possible implementation manner of the seventh aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the seventh aspect, if M is greater than 1, the sending, by the terminal device, the M pieces of configuration information to a network device includes: the terminal device sends a first signaling to the network device, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or, the terminal device sends at least one second signaling to the network device, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each piece of second signaling in the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the seventh aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the seventh aspect, the sending, by the terminal device, a first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and the sending includes: the terminal device sends the first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, the bitmap includes M bits, the M bits are the M configuration information, and each bit in the M bits is one configuration information in the M configuration information.

With regard to the technical effects of several possible implementations of the seventh aspect, reference may be made to the introduction to the technical effects of several possible implementations of the first aspect in question.

In an eighth aspect, an eighth parameter configuration method is provided, where the method includes: the method comprises the steps that the network equipment receives M pieces of configuration information from the terminal equipment, wherein the M pieces of configuration information are used for indicating the adjusting direction of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal equipment, each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used for indicating the adjusting direction of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set in the N air interface parameter sets, the adjusting direction is used for indicating the value of the one air interface parameter to be increased or decreased, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer larger than or equal to N; the network equipment determines an adjustment mode of M air interface parameters indicated by the M configuration information according to the M configurations; and the network equipment sends an adjustment result to the terminal equipment, wherein the adjustment result is used for indicating an adjustment mode of at least one air interface parameter in the M air interface parameters.

The method may be performed by an eighth communication device, which may be a network device or a communication device capable of supporting a network device to implement the functions required by the method, such as a system-on-chip. Here, the eighth communication apparatus is exemplified as a network device.

With reference to the eighth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the eighth aspect, the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set used for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set, where the processing time axis parameter set is used to indicate a time when the terminal device processes data before sending the data, and/or indicate a time when the terminal device processes data after receiving the data.

With reference to the eighth aspect or the first possible implementation manner of the eighth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the eighth aspect, if M is greater than 1, then the receiving, by the network device, M pieces of configuration information from the terminal device includes: the network equipment receives a first signaling from the terminal equipment, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or, the network device receives at least one second signaling from the terminal device, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each piece of second signaling in the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the eighth aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the eighth aspect, the receiving, by the network device, a first signaling from the terminal device, where the first signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, includes: the network device receives the first signaling from the terminal device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, the bitmap includes M bits, the M bits are the M configuration information, and each bit in the M bits is one configuration information in the M configuration information.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the eighth aspect or the various embodiments of the eighth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the seventh aspect or the various embodiments of the seventh aspect, and details are not repeated.

A ninth aspect provides a first communication apparatus, which can implement the functions of a terminal device, for example, the first communication apparatus is described above, where the first communication apparatus is a terminal device. The communication device may include a processor and a transceiver, such as a radio frequency processing component. The processor is configured to determine M pieces of configuration information, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment interval of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, where each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment interval is used to adjust a value of the one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N; the transceiver is configured to send the M pieces of configuration information to a network device.

With reference to the ninth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the ninth aspect, the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set, where the processing time axis parameter set is used to indicate a time for the terminal device to process data before sending the data, and/or indicate a time for the terminal device to process data after receiving the data.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the ninth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the ninth aspect, each of the N sets of air interface parameters includes at least one air interface parameter, one of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of a first air interface parameter in the at least one air interface parameter, and the one adjustment interval is used to indicate that a value of the first air interface parameter is adjusted to be larger or smaller.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the ninth aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the ninth aspect, each air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets includes at least one air interface parameter, each air interface parameter of a part of or all air interface parameters of the at least one air interface parameter corresponds to an adjustment interval, one configuration information of the M configuration information is used to indicate at least one adjustment interval corresponding to one air interface parameter of the part of or all air interface parameters, each adjustment interval of the at least one adjustment interval is used to indicate an adjustable range of a value of the corresponding air interface parameter, and when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is greater than 1, the one configuration information is further used to indicate a priority of each adjustment interval of the at least one adjustment interval, or, when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is 1, the one configuration information is further used to indicate the priority of two endpoint values of the adjustment interval.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the ninth aspect or the third possible implementation manner of the ninth aspect, in a fourth possible implementation manner of the ninth aspect, if M is greater than 1, the transceiver is configured to send the M pieces of configuration information to the network device by: sending a first signaling to the network device, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or, at least one second signaling is sent to the network device, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each piece of second signaling in the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

With reference to the fourth possible implementation manner of the ninth aspect, in a fifth possible implementation manner of the ninth aspect, the transceiver is configured to send a first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and includes: the terminal device sends the first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, the bitmap includes M bits, the M bits are the M configuration information, and each bit in the M bits is one configuration information in the M configuration information.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the various embodiments of the ninth aspect or the ninth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the various embodiments of the first aspect or the first aspect, and details are not repeated.

A tenth aspect provides a second communication apparatus, which can implement the function of a network device, for example, the second communication apparatus is described above, where the second communication apparatus is a network device. The communication device may include a processor and a transceiver, such as a radio frequency processing component. The transceiver is configured to receive M pieces of configuration information from a terminal device, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment interval of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, where each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment interval is used to adjust a value of the one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N; the processor is configured to determine, according to the M configurations, adjustment modes for the M air interface parameters indicated by the M configuration information; the transceiver is further configured to send an adjustment result to the terminal device, where the adjustment result is used to indicate an adjustment mode for at least one air interface parameter of the M air interface parameters.

With reference to the tenth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the tenth aspect, the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set, where the processing time axis parameter set is used to indicate a time for the terminal device to process data before sending the data, and/or indicate a time for the terminal device to process data after receiving the data.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the tenth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the tenth aspect, each of the N air interface parameter sets includes at least one air interface parameter, one of the M configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of a first air interface parameter of the at least one air interface parameter, and the adjustment interval is used to indicate that a value of the first air interface parameter is adjusted to be one of larger and smaller.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the tenth aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the tenth aspect, each air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets includes at least one air interface parameter, each air interface parameter of a part of or all air interface parameters of the at least one air interface parameter corresponds to an adjustment interval, one configuration information of the M configuration information is used to indicate at least one adjustment interval corresponding to one air interface parameter of the part of or all air interface parameters, each adjustment interval of the at least one adjustment interval is used to indicate an adjustable range of a value of the corresponding air interface parameter, and when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is greater than 1, the one configuration information is further used to indicate a priority of each adjustment interval of the at least one adjustment interval, or, when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is 1, the one configuration information is further used to indicate the priority of two endpoint values of the adjustment interval.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the tenth aspect or the third possible implementation manner of the tenth aspect, in a fourth possible implementation manner of the tenth aspect, if M is greater than 1, the transceiver is configured to receive M pieces of configuration information from the terminal device by: receiving a first signaling from the terminal device, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or, at least one second signaling from the terminal device is received, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each piece of second signaling in the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

With reference to the fourth possible implementation manner of the tenth aspect, in a fifth possible implementation manner of the tenth aspect, the transceiver is configured to receive a first signaling from the terminal device, where the first signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, by: receiving the first signaling from the terminal device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, the bitmap includes M bits, the M bits are the M configuration information, and each bit in the M bits is one configuration information in the M configuration information.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the tenth aspect or the various embodiments of the tenth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the second aspect or the various embodiments of the second aspect, and details are not repeated.

In an eleventh aspect, a third communication apparatus is provided, which can realize the functions of a terminal device, for example, the third communication apparatus is as described above, and here, the third communication apparatus is a terminal device as an example. The communication device may include a processor and a transceiver, such as a radio frequency processing component. The processor is configured to determine information of characteristic parameters of a service of the terminal device; the terminal equipment sends the information of the characteristic parameters to network equipment, and the information of the characteristic parameters is used for configuring air interface parameters for the terminal equipment; the transceiver is configured to receive configuration information from the network device, where the configuration information is used to configure the air interface parameter, and the configuration of the air interface parameter is used to adjust power consumption of the terminal device.

With reference to the eleventh aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the eleventh aspect, the characteristic parameter includes at least one of the following parameters: the maximum time delay of the service, the difference value of the time delays of the data packets of the service, the error rate of the data packets of the service, the packet loss rate of the service, the data rate of the service, or the priority of the service.

With reference to the eleventh aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the eleventh aspect, the information of the feature parameter is index information, and the feature parameter corresponding to the index information includes at least one of the following parameters: a resource type of the service, a priority of the service, a packet delay budget required by the service, a packet error rate required by the service, an average window of the service, or a maximum burst data volume of the service.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the eleventh aspect or the various embodiments of the eleventh aspect, reference may be made to the description of the technical effects of the third aspect or the various embodiments of the third aspect, and details are not repeated.

In a twelfth aspect, a fourth communication apparatus is provided, which can implement the function of a network device, for example, the fourth communication apparatus is as described above, where the fourth communication apparatus is a network device as an example. The communication device may include a processor and a transceiver, such as a radio frequency processing component. The transceiver is configured to receive information of a characteristic parameter from a terminal device, where the information of the characteristic parameter is information of a characteristic parameter of a service of the terminal device; the processor is configured to determine configuration information of an air interface parameter of the terminal device according to the information of the characteristic parameter; the transceiver is further configured to send the configuration information to the terminal device, where the configuration information is used to configure an air interface parameter of the terminal device, and the configuring of the air interface parameter is used to adjust power consumption of the terminal device.

With reference to the twelfth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the twelfth aspect, the characteristic parameter includes at least one of the following parameters: the maximum time delay of the service, the difference value of the time delays of the data packets of the service, the error rate of the data packets of the service, the packet loss rate of the service, the data rate of the service, or the priority of the service.

With reference to the twelfth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the twelfth aspect, the information of the feature parameter is index information, and the feature parameter corresponding to the index information includes at least one of the following parameters: the resource type of the service, the priority of the service, the packet delay budget required by the service, the packet error rate required by the service, the average window of the service, or the maximum burst data volume of the service.

With respect to the technical effects brought by the twelfth aspect or the various embodiments of the twelfth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the fourth aspect or the various embodiments of the fourth aspect, and details are not repeated.

In a thirteenth aspect, a fifth communication device is provided, which can implement the function of a terminal device, for example, such as the fifth communication device described above, where the fifth communication device is a terminal device as an example. The communication device may include a processor and a transceiver, such as a radio frequency processing component. The processor is configured to determine that the terminal device is to adjust power consumption of the terminal device through a first type of air interface parameter set; the transceiver is configured to send indication information to a network device, where the indication information is used to indicate that power consumption is adjusted by adjusting an air interface parameter included in the first type of air interface parameter set.

With reference to the thirteenth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the thirteenth aspect, the first type of air interface parameter set includes an air interface parameter set used for adjusting a delay of a service and/or an air interface parameter set used for adjusting a data rate of the service.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the thirteenth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the thirteenth aspect, the air interface parameter set used for adjusting the delay of the service includes at least one of the following air interface parameter sets: and the C-DRX configuration parameter set is used for detecting the configuration parameter set of the downlink control channel or processing the time axis parameter set.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the thirteenth aspect or the second possible implementation manner of the thirteenth aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the thirteenth aspect, the set of air interface parameters used for adjusting the data rate of the service includes at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, or a MIMO configuration parameter set.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the various embodiments of the thirteenth aspect or the thirteenth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the various embodiments of the fifth aspect or the fifth aspect, and details are not repeated.

In a fourteenth aspect, a sixth communication apparatus is provided, which can implement the functions of a network device, for example, the sixth communication apparatus is as described above, where the sixth communication apparatus is a network device. The communication device may include a processor and a transceiver, such as a radio frequency processing component. The transceiver is configured to receive indication information from a terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate that power consumption is adjusted by adjusting an air interface parameter included in the first type of air interface parameter set; the processor is configured to determine an adjustment mode for the air interface parameter set of the first type according to the indication information; the transceiver is further configured to send configuration information to the terminal device, where the configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment manner for at least one air interface parameter included in the first type of air interface parameter set.

With reference to the fourteenth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the fourteenth aspect, the first type of air interface parameter set includes an air interface parameter set used for adjusting a delay of a service and/or an air interface parameter set used for adjusting a data rate of the service.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the fourteenth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the fourteenth aspect, the air interface parameter set used for adjusting the delay of the service includes at least one of the following air interface parameter sets: and the C-DRX configuration parameter set is used for detecting a configuration parameter set of a downlink control channel or processing a time axis parameter set.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the fourteenth aspect or the second possible implementation manner of the fourteenth aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the fourteenth aspect, the set of air interface parameters used for adjusting the data rate of the service includes at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, or a MIMO configuration parameter set.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the various embodiments of the fourteenth aspect or the fourteenth aspect, reference may be made to the description of the technical effects of the various embodiments of the sixth aspect or the sixth aspect, and details are not repeated.

A fifteenth aspect provides a seventh communication apparatus, which can implement the functions of a terminal device, for example, the seventh communication apparatus is as described above, where the seventh communication apparatus is a terminal device. The communication device may include a processor and a transceiver, such as a radio frequency processing component. The processor is configured to determine M pieces of configuration information, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment direction of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, where each of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment direction of one air interface parameter in one of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment direction is used to indicate that a value of the one air interface parameter is increased or decreased, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N; the transceiver is configured to send the M pieces of configuration information to a network device.

With reference to the fifteenth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the fifteenth aspect, the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set, where the processing time axis parameter set is used to indicate a time for the terminal device to process data before sending the data, and/or indicate a time for the terminal device to process data after receiving the data.

With reference to the fifteenth aspect or the first possible implementation manner of the fifteenth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the fifteenth aspect, if M is greater than 1, the transceiver is configured to transmit the M pieces of configuration information to a network device by: sending a first signaling to the network device, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or, at least one second signaling is sent to the network device, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each of the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information of the M pieces of configuration information.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the fifteenth aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the fifteenth aspect, the transceiver is configured to send a first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, by: and sending the first signaling to the network equipment, wherein the first signaling comprises a bitmap, the bitmap comprises M bits, the M bits are the M pieces of configuration information, and each bit in the M bits is one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the fifteenth aspect or the various embodiments of the fifteenth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the seventh aspect or the various embodiments of the seventh aspect, and details are not repeated.

A sixteenth aspect provides an eighth communication apparatus, which can implement the functions of a network device, for example, the eighth communication apparatus is described above, where the eighth communication apparatus is a network device. The communication device may include a processor and a transceiver, such as a radio frequency processing component. The transceiver is configured to receive M pieces of configuration information from a terminal device, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate adjustment directions of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, where each of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment direction of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment direction is used to indicate that a value of the one air interface parameter is increased or decreased, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N; the processor is configured to determine, according to the M configurations, adjustment modes for the M air interface parameters indicated by the M configuration information; the transceiver is further configured to send an adjustment result to the terminal device, where the adjustment result is used to indicate an adjustment mode for at least one air interface parameter of the M air interface parameters.

With reference to the sixteenth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the sixteenth aspect, the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set, where the processing time axis parameter set is used to indicate a time for the terminal device to process data before sending the data, and/or indicate a time for the terminal device to process data after receiving the data.

With reference to the sixteenth aspect or the first possible implementation manner of the sixteenth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the sixteenth aspect, if M is greater than 1, the transceiver is configured to receive M pieces of configuration information from the terminal device by: receiving a first signaling from the terminal device, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or, at least one second signaling from the terminal device is received, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each piece of second signaling in the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the sixteenth aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the sixteenth aspect, the transceiver is configured to receive a first signaling from the terminal device, where the first signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, by: receiving the first signaling from the terminal device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, the bitmap includes M bits, the M bits are the M configuration information, and each bit in the M bits is one configuration information in the M configuration information.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the various embodiments of the sixteenth aspect or the sixteenth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the various embodiments of the eighth aspect or the eighth aspect, and details are not repeated.

A seventeenth aspect provides a ninth communication apparatus, which may for example implement the function of a terminal device, such as the first communication apparatus described above. The communication device has the function of realizing the terminal equipment in the method design, and the first communication device is taken as the terminal equipment as an example. These functions may be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more units corresponding to the above functions. In one possible design, the specific structure of the communication device may include a processing module and a transceiver module. The processing module and the transceiver module may perform the corresponding functions in the method provided in the first aspect or any one of the possible implementations of the first aspect. The processing module is configured to determine M pieces of configuration information, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment interval of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, where each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment interval is used to adjust a value of the one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N; the transceiver module is configured to send the M pieces of configuration information to a network device.

With reference to the seventeenth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the seventeenth aspect, the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set, where the processing time axis parameter set is used to indicate a time for the terminal device to process data before sending the data, and/or indicate a time for the terminal device to process data after receiving the data.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the seventeenth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the seventeenth aspect, each of the N sets of air interface parameters includes at least one air interface parameter, one of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of a first air interface parameter in the at least one air interface parameter, and the one adjustment interval is used to indicate that a value of the first air interface parameter is adjusted to be larger or smaller.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the seventeenth aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the seventeenth aspect, each of the N sets of air interface parameters includes at least one air interface parameter, each of a part of or all of the at least one air interface parameters corresponds to an adjustment interval, one of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate at least one adjustment interval corresponding to one of the part of or all of the air interface parameters, each of the at least one adjustment interval is used to indicate an adjustable range of a value of the corresponding air interface parameter, and when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is greater than 1, the one piece of configuration information is further used to indicate a priority of each of the at least one adjustment interval, or, when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is 1, the one configuration information is further used to indicate the priority of two endpoint values of the adjustment interval.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the seventeenth aspect or the third possible implementation manner of the seventeenth aspect, in a fourth possible implementation manner of the seventeenth aspect, if M is greater than 1, the transceiver module is configured to transmit the M pieces of configuration information to a network device by: sending a first signaling to the network device, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or, at least one second signaling is sent to the network device, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each of the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information of the M pieces of configuration information.

With reference to the fourth possible implementation manner of the seventeenth aspect, in a fifth possible implementation manner of the seventeenth aspect, the transceiver module is configured to send a first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and includes: the terminal device sends the first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, the bitmap includes M bits, the M bits are the M configuration information, and each bit in the M bits is one configuration information in the M configuration information.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the various embodiments of the seventeenth aspect or the seventeenth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the first aspect or the various embodiments of the first aspect, and details are not repeated.

Eighteenth, a tenth communication device is provided, which can, for example, implement the function of a network device, such as the second communication device described above. The communication device has the function of realizing the network equipment in the method design, and the second communication device is taken as the network equipment as an example. These functions may be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more units corresponding to the above functions. In one possible design, the specific structure of the communication device may include a processing module and a transceiver module. The processing module and the transceiver module may perform the corresponding functions in the method provided by the second aspect or any one of the possible implementations of the second aspect. The transceiver module is configured to receive M pieces of configuration information from a terminal device, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment interval of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, where each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment interval is used to adjust a value of the one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N; the processing module is configured to determine, according to the M configurations, adjustment manners for the M air interface parameters indicated by the M configuration information; the transceiver module is further configured to send an adjustment result to the terminal device, where the adjustment result is used to indicate an adjustment manner for at least one air interface parameter of the M air interface parameters.

With reference to the eighteenth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the eighteenth aspect, the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set, where the processing time axis parameter set is used to indicate a time for the terminal device to process data before sending the data, and/or indicate a time for the terminal device to process data after receiving the data.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the eighteenth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the eighteenth aspect, each of the N sets of air interface parameters includes at least one air interface parameter, one of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of a first air interface parameter in the at least one air interface parameter, and the one adjustment interval is used to indicate that a value of the first air interface parameter is adjusted to be larger or smaller.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the eighteenth aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the eighteenth aspect, each air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets includes at least one air interface parameter, each air interface parameter of a part of or all air interface parameters of the at least one air interface parameter corresponds to an adjustment interval, one configuration information of the M configuration information is used to indicate at least one adjustment interval corresponding to one air interface parameter of the part of or all air interface parameters, wherein each adjustment interval of the at least one adjustment interval is used to indicate an adjustable range of a value of the corresponding air interface parameter, and when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is greater than 1, the one configuration information is further used to indicate a priority of each adjustment interval of the at least one adjustment interval, or, when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is 1, the one configuration information is further used to indicate the priority of two endpoint values of the adjustment interval.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the eighteenth aspect or the third possible implementation manner of the eighteenth aspect, in a fourth possible implementation manner of the eighteenth aspect, if M is greater than 1, the transceiver module is configured to receive M pieces of configuration information from the terminal device by: receiving a first signaling from the terminal device, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or, at least one second signaling from the terminal device is received, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each piece of second signaling in the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

With reference to the fourth possible implementation manner of the eighteenth aspect, in a fifth possible implementation manner of the eighteenth aspect, the transceiver module is configured to receive a first signaling from the terminal device, where the first signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, by: receiving the first signaling from the terminal device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, the bitmap includes M bits, and the M bits are the M pieces of configuration information, where each bit in the M bits is one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the eighteenth aspect or various embodiments of the eighteenth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the second aspect or various embodiments of the second aspect, which is not repeated herein.

A nineteenth aspect provides an eleventh communication apparatus, which can implement the functions of a terminal device, for example, the third communication apparatus as described above. The communication device has the function of realizing the terminal equipment in the method design, and the third communication device is taken as the terminal equipment as an example. These functions may be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more units corresponding to the above functions. In one possible design, the specific structure of the communication device may include a processing module and a transceiver module. The processing module and the transceiver module may perform corresponding functions in the method provided by the third aspect or any one of the possible implementations of the third aspect. The processing module is configured to determine information of characteristic parameters of a service of the terminal device; the terminal equipment sends the information of the characteristic parameters to network equipment, and the information of the characteristic parameters is used for configuring air interface parameters for the terminal equipment; the transceiver module is configured to receive configuration information from the network device, where the configuration information is used to configure the air interface parameter, and the configuration of the air interface parameter is used to adjust power consumption of the terminal device.

With reference to the nineteenth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the nineteenth aspect, the characteristic parameter includes at least one of the following parameters: the maximum time delay of the service, the difference value of the time delays of the data packets of the service, the error rate of the data packets of the service, the packet loss rate of the service, the data rate of the service, or the priority of the service.

With reference to the nineteenth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the nineteenth aspect, the information of the feature parameter is index information, and the feature parameter corresponding to the index information includes at least one of the following parameters: a resource type of the service, a priority of the service, a packet delay budget required by the service, a packet error rate required by the service, an average window of the service, or a maximum burst data volume of the service.

With regard to the technical effects of the nineteenth aspect or the various embodiments of the nineteenth aspect, reference may be made to the description of the technical effects of the third aspect or the various embodiments of the third aspect, and details are not repeated.

A twentieth aspect provides a twelfth communication device, which may implement the functions of a network device, for example, the fourth communication device as described above. The communication device has a function of implementing the network device in the above method design, and here, the fourth communication device is taken as the network device as an example. These functions may be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more units corresponding to the above functions. In one possible design, the specific structure of the communication device may include a processing module and a transceiver module. The processing module and the transceiver module may perform the corresponding functions in the method provided by the fourth aspect or any one of the possible implementations of the fourth aspect. The receiving and sending module is used for receiving the information of the characteristic parameters from the terminal equipment, wherein the information of the characteristic parameters is the information of the characteristic parameters of the service of the terminal equipment; the processing module is configured to determine configuration information of an air interface parameter of the terminal device according to the information of the characteristic parameter; the transceiver module is further configured to send the configuration information to the terminal device, where the configuration information is used to configure an air interface parameter of the terminal device, and the configuration of the air interface parameter is used to adjust power consumption of the terminal device.

With reference to the twentieth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the twentieth aspect, the characteristic parameter includes at least one of: the maximum time delay of the service, the difference value of the time delays of the data packets of the service, the error rate of the data packets of the service, the packet loss rate of the service, the data rate of the service, or the priority of the service.

With reference to the twentieth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the twentieth aspect, the information of the feature parameter is index information, and the feature parameter corresponding to the index information includes at least one of the following parameters: a resource type of the service, a priority of the service, a packet delay budget required by the service, a packet error rate required by the service, an average window of the service, or a maximum burst data volume of the service.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the twentieth aspect or the twentieth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the fourth aspect or the various embodiments of the fourth aspect, and details are not repeated.

A twenty-first aspect provides a thirteenth communication apparatus, which may implement the function of a terminal device, for example, such as the fifth communication apparatus described above. The communication device has the function of realizing the terminal equipment in the above method design, and here, the fifth communication device is taken as the terminal equipment as an example. These functions may be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more units corresponding to the above functions. In one possible design, the specific structure of the communication device may include a processing module and a transceiver module. The processing module and the transceiver module may perform the corresponding functions in the method provided by any one of the above-mentioned fifth aspect or the possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect. The processing module is configured to determine that the terminal device is to adjust power consumption of the terminal device through a first type of air interface parameter set; the transceiver module is configured to send indication information to a network device, where the indication information is used to indicate that power consumption is adjusted by adjusting air interface parameters included in the first type of air interface parameter set.

With reference to the twenty-first aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the twenty-first aspect, the set of air interface parameters of the first type includes a set of air interface parameters used for adjusting a delay of a service and/or a set of air interface parameters used for adjusting a data rate of the service.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the twenty-first aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the twenty-first aspect, the air interface parameter set used for adjusting the delay of the service includes at least one of the following air interface parameter sets: and the C-DRX configuration parameter set is used for detecting the configuration parameter set of the downlink control channel or processing the time axis parameter set.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the twenty-first aspect or the second possible implementation manner of the twenty-first aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the twenty-first aspect, the set of air interface parameters used for adjusting the data rate of the service includes at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, or a MIMO configuration parameter set.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the twenty-first aspect or the various embodiments of the twenty-first aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the fifth aspect or the various embodiments of the fifth aspect, and details are not repeated.

A twenty-second aspect provides a fourteenth communication apparatus, which may implement the functions of a network device, for example, as the sixth communication apparatus described above. The communication device has a function of implementing the network device in the above method design, and here, the sixth communication device is taken as an example of the network device. These functions may be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more units corresponding to the above functions. In one possible design, the specific structure of the communication device may include a processing module and a transceiver module. The processing module and the transceiver module may perform the corresponding functions in the method provided by the sixth aspect or any one of the possible implementations of the sixth aspect. The transceiver module is configured to receive indication information from a terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate that power consumption is adjusted by adjusting an air interface parameter included in the first type of air interface parameter set; the processing module is configured to determine, according to the indication information, an adjustment mode for the air interface parameter set of the first type; the transceiver module is further configured to send configuration information to the terminal device, where the configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment mode for at least one air interface parameter included in the first type of air interface parameter set.

With reference to the twenty-second aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the twenty-second aspect, the set of air interface parameters of the first type includes a set of air interface parameters used for adjusting a delay of a service and/or a set of air interface parameters used for adjusting a data rate of the service.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the twenty-second aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the twenty-second aspect, the set of air interface parameters used for adjusting the delay of the service includes at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: and the C-DRX configuration parameter set is used for detecting the configuration parameter set of the downlink control channel or processing the time axis parameter set.

With reference to the first possible implementation manner of the twenty-second aspect or the second possible implementation manner of the twenty-second aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the twenty-second aspect, the set of air interface parameters used for adjusting the data rate of the service includes at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, or a MIMO configuration parameter set.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the twenty-second aspect or the various embodiments of the twenty-second aspect, reference may be made to the description of the technical effects of the sixth aspect or the various embodiments of the sixth aspect, and details are not repeated.

A twenty-third aspect provides a fifteenth communication device, which may implement the functions of a terminal device, for example, as the seventh communication device described above. The communication device has the function of realizing the terminal equipment in the above method design, and the seventh communication device is taken as the terminal equipment as an example. These functions may be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more units corresponding to the above functions. In one possible design, the specific structure of the communication device may include a processing module and a transceiver module. The processing module and the transceiver module may perform corresponding functions in the methods provided in any one of the above-mentioned seventh aspects or any one of the above-mentioned possible implementation manners. The processing module is configured to determine M pieces of configuration information, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment direction of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, where each of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment direction of one air interface parameter in one of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment direction is used to indicate that a value of the one air interface parameter is adjusted up or down, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N; the transceiver module is configured to send the M pieces of configuration information to a network device.

With reference to the twenty-third aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the twenty-third aspect, the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set, where the processing time axis parameter set is used to indicate a time for the terminal device to process data before sending the data, and/or indicate a time for the terminal device to process data after receiving the data.

With reference to the twenty-third aspect or the first possible implementation manner of the twenty-third aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the twenty-third aspect, if M is greater than 1, the transceiver module is configured to send the M pieces of configuration information to a network device by: sending a first signaling to the network device, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or, at least one second signaling is sent to the network device, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each of the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information of the M pieces of configuration information.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the twenty-third aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the twenty-third aspect, the transceiver module is configured to send a first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information: and sending the first signaling to the network equipment, wherein the first signaling comprises a bitmap, the bitmap comprises M bits, the M bits are the M pieces of configuration information, and each bit in the M bits is one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the twenty-third aspect or the various embodiments of the twenty-third aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the seventh aspect or the various embodiments of the seventh aspect, and details are not repeated.

A twenty-fourth aspect provides a sixteenth communication device, for example a network apparatus, such as the eighth communication device described above. The communication device has a function of implementing the network device in the above method design, and here, the eighth communication device is taken as an example of a network device. These functions may be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more units corresponding to the above functions. In one possible design, the specific structure of the communication device may include a processing module and a transceiver module. The processing module and the transceiver module may perform the corresponding functions in the method provided by any one of the above-mentioned eighth aspect or the possible implementation manner of the eighth aspect. The transceiver module is configured to receive M pieces of configuration information from a terminal device, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment direction of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, where each of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment direction of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment direction is used to indicate that a value of the one air interface parameter is increased or decreased, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N; the processor is configured to determine, according to the M configurations, adjustment modes for the M air interface parameters indicated by the M configuration information; the transceiver module is further configured to send an adjustment result to the terminal device, where the adjustment result is used to indicate an adjustment mode for at least one air interface parameter of the M air interface parameters.

With reference to the twenty-fourth aspect, in a first possible implementation manner of the twenty-fourth aspect, the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set used for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set, where the processing time axis parameter set is used to indicate a time when the terminal device processes data before sending the data, and/or indicate a time when the terminal device processes data after receiving the data.

With reference to the twenty-fourth aspect or the first possible implementation manner of the twenty-fourth aspect, in a second possible implementation manner of the twenty-fourth aspect, M is greater than 1, and then the transceiver module is configured to receive M pieces of configuration information from the terminal device by: receiving a first signaling from the terminal device, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or, receiving at least one second signaling from the terminal device, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each piece of second signaling in the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

With reference to the second possible implementation manner of the twenty-fourth aspect, in a third possible implementation manner of the twenty-fourth aspect, the transceiver module is configured to receive a first signaling from the terminal device, where the first signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, by: receiving the first signaling from the terminal device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, the bitmap includes M bits, and the M bits are the M pieces of configuration information, where each bit in the M bits is one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

With regard to the technical effects brought by the twenty-fourth aspect or the various embodiments of the twenty-fourth aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the eighth aspect or the various embodiments of the eighth aspect, and details are not repeated.

A twenty-fifth aspect provides a seventeenth communications device. The communication device may be the first communication device in the above method design, such as a terminal device, or a chip disposed in the terminal device. The communication device includes: a memory for storing computer executable program code; and a processor coupled with the memory. Wherein the program code stored by the memory comprises instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the seventeenth communication device to perform the method of the first aspect or any one of the possible implementations of the first aspect.

Wherein, the seventeenth communication device may further include a communication interface, if the seventeenth communication device is a terminal device, the communication interface may be a transceiver in the terminal device, for example, a radio frequency transceiver component in the terminal device, or if the seventeenth communication device is a chip disposed in the terminal device, the communication interface may be an input/output interface of the chip, for example, an input/output pin, and the like.

In a twenty-sixth aspect, an eighteenth communication device is provided. The communication device may be the second communication device in the method design, such as a network device, or a chip disposed in the network device. The communication device includes: a memory for storing computer executable program code; and a processor coupled with the memory. Wherein the program code stored by the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the eighteenth communication device to perform the method of the second aspect or any one of the possible embodiments of the second aspect.

Wherein, the eighteenth kind of communication device may further include a communication interface, if the eighteenth kind of communication device is a network device, the communication interface may be a transceiver in the network device, for example, a radio frequency transceiving component in the network device, or if the eighteenth kind of communication device is a chip disposed in the network device, the communication interface may be an input/output interface of the chip, for example, an input/output pin, and the like.

In a twenty-seventh aspect, a nineteenth communications device is provided. The communication device may be the third communication device in the above method design, such as a terminal device, or a chip disposed in the terminal device. The communication device includes: a memory for storing computer executable program code; and a processor coupled with the memory. Wherein the program code stored by the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the nineteenth communication device to perform the method of the third aspect or any one of the possible embodiments of the third aspect.

Wherein, the nineteenth communication device may further include a communication interface, if the nineteenth communication device is a terminal device, the communication interface may be a transceiver in the terminal device, for example, a radio frequency transceiver component in the terminal device, or if the nineteenth communication device is a chip disposed in the terminal device, the communication interface may be an input/output interface of the chip, for example, an input/output pin, and the like.

A twenty-eighth aspect provides a twentieth communications device. The communication device may be the fourth communication device designed in the method, such as a network device, or a chip disposed in the network device. The communication device includes: a memory for storing computer executable program code; and a processor coupled with the memory. Wherein the program code stored by the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the twentieth communication device to perform the method of the fourth aspect or any one of the possible embodiments of the fourth aspect.

Wherein, the twentieth communication apparatus may further include a communication interface, and if the twentieth communication apparatus is a network device, the communication interface may be a transceiver in the network device, for example, a radio frequency transceiving component in the network device, or if the twentieth communication apparatus is a chip disposed in the network device, the communication interface may be an input/output interface of the chip, for example, an input/output pin, etc.

In a twenty-ninth aspect, a twenty-first communications apparatus is provided. The communication device may be a fifth communication device designed in the method, such as a terminal device, or a chip disposed in the terminal device. The communication device includes: a memory for storing computer executable program code; and a processor coupled with the memory. Wherein the program code stored by the memory comprises instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the nineteenth communication device to perform the method of the fifth aspect or any one of the possible embodiments of the fifth aspect.

The twenty-first communication device may further include a communication interface, and if the twenty-first communication device is a terminal device, the communication interface may be a transceiver in the terminal device, for example, a radio frequency transceiver component in the terminal device, or if the twenty-first communication device is a chip disposed in the terminal device, the communication interface may be an input/output interface of the chip, for example, an input/output pin, or the like.

In a thirty-second aspect, a twenty-second communications apparatus is provided. The communication device may be the sixth communication device designed in the method, such as a network device, or a chip disposed in the network device. The communication device includes: a memory for storing computer executable program code; and a processor coupled with the memory. Wherein the program code stored by the memory comprises instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the twenty-second communication device to perform the method of the sixth aspect or any one of the possible embodiments of the sixth aspect.

Wherein, the twenty-second communication device may further include a communication interface, if the twenty-second communication device is a network device, the communication interface may be a transceiver in the network device, for example, a radio frequency transceiver component in the network device, or if the twenty-second communication device is a chip disposed in the network device, the communication interface may be an input/output interface of the chip, for example, an input/output pin, and the like.

In a thirty-first aspect, a twenty-third communication device is provided. The communication device may be the seventh communication device designed in the method described above, such as a terminal device, or a chip disposed in the terminal device. The communication device includes: a memory for storing computer executable program code; and a processor coupled with the memory. Wherein the program code stored by the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the thirty-first communication device to perform the method of any one of the possible embodiments of the seventh aspect or the seventh aspect.

The twenty-third communication device may further include a communication interface, and if the twenty-third communication device is a terminal device, the communication interface may be a transceiver in the terminal device, for example, a radio frequency transceiver component in the terminal device, or if the twenty-third communication device is a chip disposed in the terminal device, the communication interface may be an input/output interface of the chip, for example, an input/output pin, or the like.

In a thirty-fourth aspect, a twenty-fourth communications device is provided. The communication device may be the eighth communication device in the above method design, such as a network device, or a chip disposed in the network device. The communication device includes: a memory for storing computer executable program code; and a processor coupled with the memory. Wherein the program code stored by the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause a twenty-fourth communication device to perform the method of the eighth aspect or any one of the possible embodiments of the eighth aspect.

The twenty-fourth communication device may further include a communication interface, and if the twenty-fourth communication device is a network device, the communication interface may be a transceiver in the network device, for example, a radio frequency transceiver component in the network device, or if the twenty-fourth communication device is a chip disposed in the network device, the communication interface may be an input/output interface of the chip, for example, an input/output pin, or the like.

A thirty-third aspect provides a first communication system, which may comprise the first communication device of the ninth aspect, the ninth communication device of the seventeenth aspect or the seventeenth communication device of the twenty-fifth aspect, and the second communication device of the tenth aspect, the tenth communication device of the eighteenth aspect or the eighteenth communication device of the twenty-sixth aspect.

A thirty-fourth aspect provides a second communication system, which may include the third communication apparatus of the eleventh aspect, the eleventh communication apparatus of the nineteenth aspect, or the nineteenth communication apparatus of the twenty-seventh aspect, and include the fourth communication apparatus of the twelfth aspect, the twelfth communication apparatus of the twentieth aspect, or the twentieth communication apparatus of the twenty-eighth aspect.

A thirty-fifth aspect provides a third communication system, which may comprise the fifth communication apparatus of the thirteenth aspect, the thirteenth communication apparatus of the twenty-first aspect, or the twenty-first communication apparatus of the twenty-ninth aspect, and the sixth communication apparatus of the fourteenth aspect, the fourteenth communication apparatus of the twenty-second aspect, or the twenty-second communication apparatus of the thirty-second aspect.

A thirty-sixth aspect provides a fourth communication system, which may include the seventh communication apparatus of the fifteenth aspect, the fifteenth communication apparatus of the twenty-third aspect or the twenty-third communication apparatus of the thirty-eleventh aspect, and the eighth communication apparatus of the sixteenth aspect, the sixteenth communication apparatus of the twenty-fourth aspect or the twenty-fourth communication apparatus of the thirty-second aspect.

The first communication system, the second communication system, the third communication system, and the fourth communication system may be the same communication system, for example, the first communication system, the second communication system, the third communication system, and the fourth communication system may include the same terminal devices and the same network devices. Alternatively, the first communication system, the second communication system, the third communication system, and the fourth communication system may be different communication systems, or any two or three of them may be the same communication system, and the other communication system may be a different communication system.

A thirty-seventh aspect provides a computer storage medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the first aspect or any one of the possible designs of the first aspect.

A thirty-eighth aspect provides a computer storage medium having stored therein instructions that, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform a method as set forth in the second aspect or any one of the possible designs of the second aspect.

A thirty-ninth aspect provides a computer storage medium having stored therein instructions which, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method as set forth in the third aspect or any one of the possible designs of the third aspect.

A fortieth aspect, there is provided a computer storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method as set forth in the fourth aspect or any one of the possible designs of the fourth aspect.

A fortieth aspect provides a computer storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the fifth aspect or any one of the possible designs of the fifth aspect.

A forty-second aspect provides a computer storage medium having stored therein instructions that, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method as set forth in the sixth aspect or any one of the possible designs of the sixth aspect.

A forty-third aspect provides a computer storage medium having stored therein instructions that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any one of the possible designs of the seventh or seventh aspects described above.

A forty-third aspect provides a computer storage medium having stored therein instructions that, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method as set forth in the eighth aspect or any one of the possible designs of the eighth aspect.

A forty-ninth aspect provides a computer program product containing instructions which, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method as described in the first aspect or any one of the possible designs of the first aspect.

In a fifty-fifth aspect, there is provided a computer program product comprising instructions stored thereon, which when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the second aspect described above or any one of the possible designs of the second aspect.

In a fifty-first aspect, there is provided a computer program product comprising instructions stored thereon, which when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the third aspect or any one of the possible designs of the third aspect.

A fifty-second aspect provides a computer program product comprising instructions stored thereon that, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the fourth aspect described above or any one of the possible designs of the fourth aspect.

A fifty-third aspect provides a computer program product comprising instructions stored thereon that, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the fifth aspect or any one of the possible designs of the fifth aspect.

A fifty-fourth aspect provides a computer program product comprising instructions stored thereon, which when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the sixth aspect described above or any one of the possible designs of the sixth aspect.

A fifty-fifth aspect provides a computer program product containing instructions that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the seventh aspect or any one of the possible designs of the seventh aspect.

A fifty-sixth aspect provides a computer program product comprising instructions stored thereon, which when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the eighth aspect or any one of the possible designs of the eighth aspect.

In short, when configuring the air interface parameter for the terminal device, the network device may use the M pieces of configuration information as a reference, so that the configured air interface parameter may take into consideration the actual requirement of the terminal device as much as possible, and the configuration result may be consistent with the actual working condition of the terminal device as much as possible. In addition, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device only indicates the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter to the network device, instead of directly indicating the adjustment result to the network device, and the network device has a decision right on how to configure the air interface parameter finally, which also conforms to the working mode of the current communication system.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the operation of C-DRX;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a process of transmitting a signal by a terminal device;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a downlink data transmission process in the NR system;

FIG. 4A is a schematic representation of K0 and K1;

FIG. 4B is a schematic view of K2;

fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a terminal device sending auxiliary information to a network device according to an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 6 is a schematic view of an application scenario according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a flowchart of a first parameter configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a flowchart of a second parameter configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a flowchart of a third parameter configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a flowchart of a fourth parameter configuration method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus capable of implementing functions of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus capable of implementing functions of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus capable of implementing functions of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus capable of implementing functions of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 15 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus capable of implementing functions of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 16 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus capable of implementing functions of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 17 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus capable of implementing functions of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 18 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus capable of implementing functions of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 19A to 19B are schematic diagrams illustrating two structures of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present application clearer, the embodiments of the present application will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Hereinafter, some terms in the embodiments of the present application are explained to facilitate understanding by those skilled in the art.

1) Terminal equipment, including equipment providing voice and/or data connectivity to a user, may include, for example, handheld devices having wireless connection capability, or processing devices connected to wireless modems. The terminal device may communicate with a core network via a Radio Access Network (RAN), and may exchange voice and/or data with the RAN. The terminal device may include a User Equipment (UE), a wireless terminal device, a mobile terminal device, a subscriber unit (subscriber unit), a subscriber station (subscriber station), a mobile station (mobile), a remote station (remote station), an Access Point (AP), a remote terminal device (remote), an access terminal device (access terminal), a user terminal device (user terminal), a user agent (user agent), or a user equipment (user device), etc. For example, mobile phones (or so-called "cellular" phones), computers with mobile terminal equipment, portable, pocket, hand-held, computer-included or vehicle-mounted mobile devices, smart wearable devices, and the like may be included. For example, Personal Communication Service (PCS) phones, cordless phones, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phones, Wireless Local Loop (WLL) stations, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and the like. Also included are constrained devices such as devices that consume less power, or devices that have limited storage capabilities, or devices that have limited computing capabilities, etc. Examples of information sensing devices include bar codes, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), sensors, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), laser scanners, and so forth.

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 equipment that uses wearable technique to carry out intelligent design, develop can dress to daily wearing, such as glasses, gloves, wrist-watch, dress and shoes. The wearable device may be worn directly on the body or may be a portable device integrated into the user's clothing or accessory. 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 has full functions and large size, and can realize complete or partial functions without depending on a smart phone, for example: smart watches or smart glasses and the like, and only focus on a certain type of application function, and need to be matched with other equipment such as a smart phone for use, such as various smart bracelets, smart helmets, smart jewelry and the like for physical sign monitoring.

2) Network devices, including, for example, Access Network (AN) devices such as base stations (e.g., access points), may refer to devices in AN access network that communicate over AN air interface with wireless terminal devices through one or more cells. The network device may be configured to interconvert received air frames and Internet Protocol (IP) packets as a router between the terminal device and the rest of the access network, which may include an IP network. The network device may also coordinate attribute management for the air interface. For example, the network device may include an evolved base station (NodeB or eNB or e-NodeB or evolved Node B) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system or an evolved LTE system (LTE-Advanced, LTE-a), or may also include a next generation Node B (gNB) in a fifth generation mobile communication technology (5G) New Radio (NR) system, or may also include a Centralized Unit (CU) and a distributed unit (distributed unit, DU) in a cloud access network (cloud ran) system, which is not limited in the embodiments of the present application.

Of course, the network device may also include a core network device, but since the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application mainly relates to an access network device, hereinafter, unless otherwise specified, "network device" described hereinafter refers to an access network device.

3) An air interface parameter set, which refers to N air interface parameter sets herein, where each air interface parameter set in the N air interface parameter sets may include at least one air interface parameter of a terminal device, and N is a positive integer. The N sets of air interface parameters may include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) configuration parameter set, a bandwidth part (BWP) configuration parameter set, a Carrier Aggregation (CA) configuration parameter set, a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) configuration parameter set, which is used to detect a configuration parameter set of a downlink control channel or process a time axis (processing time line) parameter set in a connected state. Wherein, processing the timeline parameter set may also be referred to as processing the timeline parameter set. The sets of air interface parameters are described separately below. Note that the entirety of the N air interface parameter sets may include at least one of the above air interface parameter sets, instead of a certain air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets including at least one of the above air interface parameter sets.

One, C-DRX configuration parameter set.

In both the LTE system and the NR system, C-DRX is defined.

The C-DRX basic principle is that a terminal device in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) _ CONNECTED (CONNECTED) state is configured with one C-DRX cycle (cycle). The C-DRX cycle is composed of "On Duration" and "Opportunity point for DRX (Opportunity for DRX)". In the "On Duration" time, the terminal device detects and receives a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), so the "On Duration" time period may be considered as an active period, and in the "Opportunity for DRX" time, the terminal device does not receive the PDCCH to reduce power consumption, so the "Opportunity for DRX" time period may be considered as a dormant period. With respect to the operation of C-DRX, fig. 1 may refer to fig. 1, which shows a C-DRX cycle including a "on duration" time during which a terminal device may detect and receive a PDCCH and a "point of opportunity for DRX" time during which the terminal device may receive the PDCCH.

The C-DRX configuration parameter set may include at least one of air interface parameters, such as a C-DRX cycle, a length of an active period, or a length of a sleep period, and may also include other air interface parameters. Currently, the C-DRX configuration parameter set is configured to the terminal device by the base station.

According to the existing standard, when the base station configures the set of C-DRX configuration parameters for the terminal equipment, each terminal equipment only has one set of configuration, namely, the base station configures only one set of C-DRX configuration parameters for one terminal equipment. Even in the carrier aggregation scenario, each component carrier follows the same C-DRX cycle, length of active period, and length of dormant period, i.e., the terminal device wakes up and sleeps on each component carrier. The embodiment of the present application may support this case, or the embodiment of the present application further supports a case, that is, some enhancements may be performed on the C-DRX mechanism, for example, in a carrier aggregation scenario, different C-DRX configuration parameter sets may be configured for different Component Carriers (CCs), so that the C-DRX configuration parameter sets configured for different component carriers may be the same or different, or different C-DRX configuration parameter sets may be configured for different BWPs, so that the C-DRX configuration parameter sets configured for different BWPs may be the same or different. The two sets of C-DRX configuration parameters are different as long as the two sets of C-DRX configuration parameters include the same air interface parameter and the values of the air interface parameters are different, or the air interface parameters included in the two sets of C-DRX configuration parameters are not completely the same or different, and the two sets of C-DRX configuration parameters are different. For example, one C-DRX configuration parameter set includes two air interface parameters, i.e., a C-DRX cycle and a length of an active period, and the other C-DRX configuration parameter set includes one air interface parameter, i.e., a C-DRX cycle, and the air interface parameters included in the two C-DRX configuration parameter sets are not exactly the same. Or, one C-DRX configuration parameter set includes two air interface parameters, i.e., a C-DRX cycle and an active period length, and the other C-DRX configuration parameter set includes one air interface parameter, i.e., a dormant period length, and then the air interface parameters included in the two C-DRX configuration parameter sets are completely different.

The C-DRX configuration parameter set may include at least one of a cycle of C-DRX, a length of an on duration period in C-DRX, a length of an inactivity timer period in C-DRX, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission timer, and other air interface parameters, and may further include other air interface parameters related to BWP.

And II, BWP configuration parameter set.

In the 5G NR system, the concept of BWP is supported, that is, a part of bandwidth is occupied between a network device and a terminal device for transmission. Mainly, since a system bandwidth of 5G (where the system bandwidth refers to a bandwidth of one carrier, and if the system bandwidth corresponds to a carrier aggregation scenario or a Dual Connectivity (DC) scenario, the bandwidth corresponding to each component carrier) may be large, for example, 200MHz or 400MHz, and some terminal devices cannot support the large bandwidth, the network device may configure BWP for the terminal devices. BWPs are a portion of the system bandwidth, e.g., a BWP having a bandwidth of 20MHz over which the end devices may communicate with the network devices.

In a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) or Time Division Duplex (TDD) system, BWP is supported, and BWP can be divided into DL BWP (downlink BWP) and UL BWP (uplink BWP), a network device can configure a plurality of DL BWPs and a plurality of UL BWP for a terminal device, and activate at least one DL BWP and at least one UL BWP, and the terminal device receives a downlink signal sent by the network device on the activated DL BWP (i.e., active DL BWP). The downlink signal includes, but is not limited to, downlink control signaling or downlink data. The terminal device may also send an uplink signal on the activated UL BWP (i.e., active UL BWP), where the uplink signal includes, but is not limited to, uplink control signaling, uplink data, SR, SRs, or CSI/CQI feedback, etc.

When the network device communicates with the end device on an active DL BWP, the network device may activate another DL BWP, causing the end device to switch (switch) to receive data on the new active DL BWP. Likewise, when the network device communicates with the end device on an active UL BWP, the network device may activate another UL BWP, thereby causing the end device to transition to receive data on the new active UL BWP.

The current standard supports only one active DL BWP and one active UL BWP. In FDD mode, active DL BWP and active UL BWP are configured to the terminal device by the network device respectively. In TDD mode, active DL BWP and active UL BWP are associated and also configured by the network device to the terminal device respectively.

The BWP configuration parameter set may include at least one of an air interface parameter such as a bandwidth of the BWP or a subcarrier interval of the BWP, and may further include other air interface parameters related to the BWP.

And thirdly, configuring a parameter set by carrier aggregation.

In the initial stage of LTE standard development, it is specified that the bandwidth of one carrier is 20MHz at maximum. In a later standardization process, LTE is further improved and is referred to as LTE-a. In order to meet the requirements of LTE-A (Long term evolution-advanced) downlink peak speed of 1Gbps and uplink peak speed of 500Mbps, a transmission bandwidth of 100MHz at most needs to be provided. However, due to the scarcity of continuous spectrum with such a large bandwidth, LTE-a proposes a solution for carrier aggregation.

Carrier aggregation aggregates 2 or more component carriers together to support a larger transmission bandwidth, for example, a maximum transmission bandwidth of 100 MHz. Each component carrier corresponds to an independent cell (cell), so that 1 component carrier can be generally equal to 1 cell, that is, the concept of the component carrier and the concept of the cell can be interchanged. The maximum bandwidth of each component carrier is 20 MHz.

From Release 10, carrier aggregation is introduced into the standard, and a terminal device configures at most 5 component carriers, where one component carrier is called a primary cell (PCell), and is a cell where the terminal device performs initial connection establishment, or performs Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reestablishment, or is a primary cell designated in a Handover (HO) process. In addition to the PCell, other component carriers, called secondary cells (scells), are added during RRC reconfiguration for providing additional radio resources. The PCell is responsible for RRC communication with the terminal device. A Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) can only be transmitted on the PCell, and other channels, for example, a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), and the like, may be transmitted on the PCell or the SCell.

In the NR system, a carrier aggregation method may also be employed, in which uplink and downlink support at most 16 component carriers, respectively. Meanwhile, when the bandwidth of the network device is large and the capability of the terminal device is not enough to support such a large bandwidth through a single carrier, the terminal device may support the large bandwidth through an intra-band continuous carrier aggregation (intra-band connectivity CA). For example, when the bandwidth of the network device is 400MHz, and the maximum continuous bandwidth supported by the terminal device is 100MHz, the terminal device may regard the bandwidth of the network device as aggregation of 4 bandwidths of 100MHz, and communicate with the network device in a carrier aggregation manner.

The carrier aggregation configuration parameter set may include, for example, the number of component carriers, a central frequency point of each component carrier in all or part of the component carriers, or air interface parameters such as bandwidths of each component carrier in all or part of the component carriers, and may further include other air interface parameters related to carrier aggregation.

And fourthly, configuring a parameter set by MIMO.

When the terminal device sends a signal, the baseband processor generates a baseband signal, and then the baseband signal is transmitted through the antenna after the radio frequency link generates a radio frequency signal, which may be referred to in fig. 2. When the terminal equipment receives signals, a corresponding radio frequency receiving link is also provided.

In the NR system, both the network device and the terminal device can improve communication performance by the MIMO technique. Specifically, the larger the number of antennas, the better the communication performance, but the larger the power consumption.

The terminal device supports MIMO function, and from the viewpoint of actual hardware implementation, transmits and receives signals using a plurality of radio frequency links. For example, a terminal device supports 1T2R, i.e., the terminal device supports one transmit chain and two receive chains; alternatively, a terminal device supports 2T4R, that is, the terminal device supports 2 transmit chains and 4 receive chains; alternatively, a terminal device supports 1T4R, i.e., the terminal device supports one transmit chain and four receive chains. When the terminal device communicates with the network device using 2 transmit links, a greater communication rate than one transmit link may be provided.

In the existing standard, the network device does not know exactly how many transmission links the terminal device has, but describes it by the term antenna port. For example, when the terminal device actually has two transmit chains, the terminal device supports uplink communication with the network device using 2 antenna ports at most simultaneously. If the terminal device uses 2 antenna ports for communication with the network device, there will actually be one antenna port for each uplink transmit link. If the terminal device uses 1 antenna port to communicate with the network device, the terminal device may use any one uplink transmission link corresponding to the antenna port, or may use two transmission links simultaneously to simulate one antenna port, which depends on the specific implementation of the terminal device and is transparent to the network device. The network device need only schedule on which antenna port or ports the terminal device transmits data.

The MIMO configuration parameter set may include, for example, air interface parameters such as the number of antennas of the terminal device, where the number of antennas refers to, for example, the number of antennas configured for the terminal device or the number of activated antennas, where the antennas configured for the terminal device or the activated antennas may be understood as antennas actually used by the terminal device. The number of antennas configured or activated for the terminal device is less than or equal to the number of antennas actually possessed by the terminal device, and generally, the network device configures or activates antennas for the terminal device. In addition, the MIMO configuration parameter set may further include other air interface parameters related to MIMO, such as a maximum layer (layer) number of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) or a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH).

And fifthly, the configuration parameter set is used for detecting the downlink control channel.

In the NR system, the downlink data transmission process is a procedure of:

1. the network device sends Downlink Control Information (DCI) to the terminal device, where the DCI includes downlink data scheduling information to tell the terminal device where a time-frequency resource is located, and receives and demodulates the downlink data with what configuration parameters (the configuration parameters include, for example, a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) or a Redundancy Version (RV)) and the like;

2. The network equipment sends downlink data at the time-frequency resource position indicated by the DCI according to the configuration parameters indicated by the DCI, and the terminal equipment receives the downlink data from the network equipment at the corresponding position; or, the terminal device sends the uplink data at the time-frequency resource position indicated by the DCI according to the configuration parameter indicated by the DCI, and the network device receives the uplink data from the terminal device at the corresponding position.

The above process can be illustrated in fig. 3, where the PDCCH carries DCI, the PDSCH carries downlink data, and the PUSCH carries uplink data. When receiving DCI, the terminal device needs to perform Blind Detection (BD) on a PDCCH sent to the terminal device in a downlink control region, that is, the terminal device monitors (monitor) a plurality of PDCCH candidate locations (PDCCH candidates) to find out whether there is a PDCCH addressed to the terminal device. A set of PDCCH candidates that the terminal device needs to perform blind detection constitute a search space (search space). Depending on the configuration of the network device, the terminal device may monitor one or more search spaces to find out whether there is a PDCCH sent to the terminal device.

Each PDCCH consists of one or more Control Channel Elements (CCEs). The number of CCEs contained in one PDCCH is called Aggregation Level (AL). For example, when one PDCCH consists of 1 CCE, the aggregation level of the PDCCH is 1; when one PDCCH consists of 2 CCEs, the aggregation level of the PDCCH is 2, and so on. The possible aggregation levels in the existing standards are: 1. 2, 4, 8 and 16, and 5 in total.

In addition, a search space is located in a control resource set (CORESET), and a control resource set is a block of physical time-frequency resources.

The configuration parameter set for detecting the downlink control channel includes, for example, the number of times of blind detection of the PDCCH, the number of monitored search spaces, a monitoring period of one or more of the search spaces, or the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in the one or more of the search spaces, the aggregation level to be monitored, the PDCCH format to be monitored, the number of core esets to be monitored, at least one of monitored core eset configuration and other air interface parameters, and may also include other air interface parameters related to detection of the downlink control channel. The number of times of blind detection of the PDCCH is, for example, the number of times of blind detection of the PDCCH by the terminal device in the C-DRX on duration period.

And sixthly, processing the time axis parameter set. The air interface parameter included in the processing time axis parameter set may be used to indicate the time for the terminal device to process data before sending data, and/or indicate the time for the terminal device to process information after receiving information. That is, the air interface parameter included in the processing time axis parameter set may indicate a time for the terminal device to process data before sending the data, or indicate a time for the terminal device to process information after receiving the information, or indicate a time for the terminal device to process data before sending the data, and indicate a time for the terminal device to process information after receiving the information.

The processing time axis parameter set may include at least one of air interface parameters such as K0, K1, or K2, and may also include other air interface parameters.

In the NR system, the time point at which the terminal device transmits and receives a signal can be indicated with flexibility. Three values of K0, K1 and K2 are common time points. For K0 and K1, reference may be made to the schematic of fig. 4A, where the horizontally lined boxes represent PDCCH, the "/" boxes represent PDSCH, and the "\\" boxes represent PUCCH. For K2, reference may be made to the schematic illustration of fig. 4B, where the boxes with horizontal lines represent PDCCH and the boxes with diagonal lines represent PUSCH.

K0, which is the time interval between the terminal device receiving the PDCCH and receiving the corresponding PDSCH, is in slots (slots). That is, the difference between the sequence number of the time slot in which the terminal device receives the corresponding PDSCH and the sequence number of the time slot in which the terminal device receives the PDCCH is K0. The time slot scheduling corresponds to the case where K0 is 0. K0 can be used to indicate the time when the terminal device processes the control information after receiving the control information, and K0 can also indicate the time when the terminal device processes the data before transmitting the data.

K1, is the time interval between the reception of PDSCH and the transmission of the corresponding PUCCH (carrying feedback information) by the terminal device, and is in units of slots. That is, the difference between the sequence number of the slot in which the terminal device transmits the corresponding PUSCH and the sequence number of the slot in which the terminal device receives the PDSCH is K1. K1 can be used to indicate the time when the terminal device processes data after transmitting data, and K1 can also indicate the time when the terminal device processes data after receiving data.

K2, which is the time interval between the terminal device receiving PDCCH and transmitting the corresponding PUSCH, is in units of slots. That is, the difference between the sequence number of the slot in which the terminal device transmits the corresponding PUSCH and the sequence number of the slot in which the terminal device receives the PDCCH is K2. K2 can be used to indicate the time when the terminal device processes the control information after receiving the control information, and K1 can also indicate the time when the terminal device processes the data before transmitting the data.

4) The downlink control channel is, for example, a PDCCH, or an Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH), or may be other downlink control channels.

5) "plurality" means two or more, and in view of this, a plurality may also be understood as "at least two", for example two, three or more, in the embodiments of the present application. "at least one" means one, two, three or more. "at least two" means two, three or more. "and/or" describes the association relationship of the associated object, indicating that there may be three relationships, for example, a and/or B, which may indicate: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. In addition, the character "/" generally indicates that the preceding and following related objects are in an "or" relationship, unless otherwise specified.

And, unless stated to the contrary, the embodiments of the present application refer to the ordinal numbers "first", "second", etc., for distinguishing a plurality of objects, and do not limit the sequence, timing, priority, or importance of the plurality of objects. For example, the first signaling and the second signaling are only for distinguishing different signaling, and do not indicate the difference of the content, priority, transmission order, importance, or the like of the two signaling.

Having described some concepts related to embodiments of the present application, the following description will be made of the features of embodiments of the present application, and the following description will be made in detail with reference to fig. 5.

At present, when a base station configures air interface parameters for a terminal device, the base station generally configures the terminal device according to the current situation of a network, for example, according to the number of users accessed in the current network or a scheduling algorithm used by the base station, it can be seen that when the base station configures the air interface parameters for the terminal device, the actual working condition of the terminal device is not considered, and the air interface parameters configured in this way may not meet the actual requirement of the terminal device.

The embodiment of the present application provides that the terminal device may send auxiliary information to the network device, where the auxiliary information is used to indicate, to the network device, an air interface parameter expected by the terminal device, and the air interface parameter is described in the foregoing. The signaling process of the terminal device sending the auxiliary information to the network device may refer to fig. 5, where the core steps include three steps:

S51, the terminal device sends auxiliary information to the network device, and the network device receives the auxiliary information from the terminal device;

s52, the network device sends information for adjusting an air interface parameter to the terminal device, and the terminal device receives the information for adjusting an air interface parameter from the network device, so as to adjust the air interface parameter of the terminal device.

For example, the terminal device may send the auxiliary information to the network device after accessing the network device, and the terminal device sends the auxiliary information to the network device, for example, the auxiliary information may be sent through a higher layer signaling, where the higher layer signaling includes, for example, RRC signaling or a media access control element (MAC CE), or may also be sent through a physical layer signaling, where the physical layer signaling includes, for example, Uplink Control Information (UCI), and the network device may also pass through the higher layer signaling or the physical layer signaling when configuring an air interface parameter for the terminal device or sending the indication information, and the physical layer signaling includes, for example, Downlink Control Information (DCI), and the specific example is not limited.

For example, the auxiliary information has two indication modes, one is to directly indicate a configuration result of an air interface parameter expected by the terminal device, for example, to indicate a specific parameter value, and the other is to indicate a current service condition of the terminal device, which are respectively described below.

The auxiliary information indicates a configuration result of an air interface parameter expected by the terminal equipment.

Generally, after the terminal device reports the auxiliary information, the network device is required to make a decision to determine an air interface parameter configured for the terminal device, and then the terminal device is reconfigured or instructed. The network device will use the auxiliary information reported by the terminal device as one of the inputs of the decision, but at the same time, the network device will also consider other factors, such as the number of users accessing the current network, the configuration of other users, or the scheduling algorithm used by the network device. Therefore, the value of the air interface parameter finally configured by the network device to the terminal device may be different from the parameter value indicated by the auxiliary information sent by the terminal device. For example, the terminal device is currently operating at BWP of 20MHz, and the terminal device is expected to be able to reduce its own power consumption. If the end device indicates, directly via the side information, that the bandwidth desired to be configured is 5M, the network device may instruct the end device to switch to a 15MHz BWP after making the decision.

If the terminal device directly indicates the parameter value desired to be configured through the auxiliary information, but does not inform the network device of the reason why the terminal device desires to configure as such, it is difficult for the network device to make a decision according to the auxiliary information of the terminal device. For BWP, when the working BWP is different, the size of the receiving bandwidth turned on by the rf module may be different. The size of the reception bandwidth depends on the different implementations of the terminal device, but is generally stepped. For example, 0-10 MHz is the first gear, 10-20 MHz is the first gear, the power consumption of the radio frequency module of the terminal device is different under different gears, and the power consumption corresponding to the gear with larger bandwidth is larger. In the above example, from the perspective of the network device, the operating BWP bandwidth of the terminal device has been changed from 20MHz to 15MHz, which complies with the request reported by the terminal device and reduces the bandwidth. However, from the perspective of the terminal device, when the BWP is 20MHz and 15MHz, the corresponding rf power consumption is completely the same, and the purpose of saving power consumption is not achieved.

If the network device cannot know the receivable degree of the terminal device, in order to meet the requirement of the terminal device, the terminal device is configured according to the parameter value reported by the auxiliary information, which is equivalent to that the terminal device makes a decision for parameter configuration, rather than a decision made by the network device, which is contrary to the original design intention of the whole cellular network communication system.

Or, the auxiliary information indicates the current service condition of the terminal device.

For example, the terminal device may report a more detailed service condition of the terminal device through the auxiliary information, so as to be used for the network device to make a decision. In this case, it is difficult to design how detailed the service condition reported by the terminal device needs, and there may be a risk of information security. For example, the terminal device reports that the terminal device is currently watching a video stream through the auxiliary information, or the terminal device is currently playing a game, or the terminal device is downloading a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) file. At this time, the network device can basically configure appropriate air interface parameters for the terminal device, but this exposes too much information of the terminal device, which is not favorable for information security.

In view of this, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application are provided. In this embodiment of the present application, M pieces of configuration information used to indicate an adjustment interval of N air interface parameters of a terminal device may be determined, and the adjustment interval may indicate how to adjust the air interface parameters. After the M pieces of configuration information are sent to the network device, the network device may use the M pieces of configuration information as a reference when configuring the air interface parameters for the terminal device, so that the configured air interface parameters can take into consideration the actual requirements of the terminal device as much as possible, and the configuration result is consistent with the actual working condition of the terminal device as much as possible. In addition, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device only indicates the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter to the network device, instead of directly indicating the adjustment result to the network device, and the network device has a decision right on how to configure the air interface parameter finally, which both meets the working mode of the current communication system and does not expose too much information of the terminal device.

The technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application may be applied to a 5G system, for example, an NR system, or an LTE system, or may also be applied to a next generation mobile communication system or other similar communication systems, which is not limited specifically.

A network architecture applied in the embodiment of the present application is described below, please refer to fig. 6.

Fig. 6 includes a network device and a terminal device, and the terminal device is connected to a network device. Of course, the number of terminal devices in fig. 6 is only an example, and in practical applications, the network device may provide services for a plurality of terminal devices. All or part of the terminal devices in the plurality of terminal devices may configure carrier aggregation, or none of the plurality of terminal devices may configure carrier aggregation. That is, the terminal device implementing the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application may be a terminal device configured with carrier aggregation, or may also be a terminal device not configured with carrier aggregation.

The network device in fig. 6 is, for example, an access network device, such as a base station. Wherein the access network equipment corresponds to different equipment in different systems, for example in the fourth generation mobile communications technology (the 4) ^th generation, 4G) system may correspond to an eNB, and in a 5G system corresponds to an access network device in 5G, for example, a gNB.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the application is described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The embodiment of the present application provides a first parameter configuration method, please refer to fig. 7, which is a flowchart of the method. In the following description, the method is applied to the network architecture shown in fig. 6 as an example. In addition, the method may be performed by two communication apparatuses, for example, a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus, where the first communication apparatus may be a network device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the network device to implement the functions required by the method, or the first communication apparatus may be a terminal device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the functions required by the method, and may of course be other communication apparatuses such as a system on chip. The same applies to the second communication apparatus, which may be a network device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the network device to implement the functions required by the method, or a terminal device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the functions required by the method, and of course, other communication apparatuses such as a system on a chip may also be used. The implementation manners of the first communication device and the second communication device are not limited, for example, the first communication device may be a network device, the second communication device is a terminal device, or both the first communication device and the second communication device are network devices, or both the first communication device and the second communication device are terminal devices, or the first communication device is a network device, and the second communication device is a communication device capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the functions required by the method, and so on. The network device is, for example, a base station.

For convenience of introduction, in the following, the method is performed by a network device and a terminal device as an example, that is, the first communication apparatus is a network device and the second communication apparatus is a terminal device as an example. Since the present embodiment is applied to the network architecture shown in fig. 6 as an example, the network device described below may be a network device in the network architecture shown in fig. 6, and the terminal device described below may be a terminal device in the network architecture shown in fig. 6.

S71, a terminal device determines M pieces of configuration information, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment interval of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, where each of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment interval is used to adjust a value of the one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N.

In this embodiment, the configuration information and the air interface parameters are in one-to-one correspondence, and one configuration information corresponds to one (or one) air interface parameter. For example, one of the M pieces of configuration information corresponds to one air interface parameter in the MIMO configuration parameter set, another one of the M pieces of configuration information corresponds to another air interface parameter in the MIMO configuration parameter set, and another one of the M pieces of configuration information corresponds to one air interface parameter in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, so that the adjustment interval of all air interface parameters or part of air interface parameters included in the N air interface parameter sets can be indicated by the M pieces of configuration information. As introduced above, the N sets of air interface parameters may include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set. Each of the N air interface parameter sets may include at least one air interface parameter, and each of part of the at least one air interface parameter or all of the air interface parameters may correspond to the adjustment interval. Whether a certain air interface parameter in the N air interface parameter sets corresponds to the adjustment interval depends on whether the terminal device determines that the air interface parameter needs to be adjusted.

Since the adjustment interval is equivalent to an adjustment range, so that the network device can make a decision according to the adjustment range, the terminal device does not directly indicate the adjustment result, but determines the final adjustment result after the network device makes a decision, and the decision right is still at the network device and meets the original design intention of the cellular network. Moreover, the terminal device only indicates the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter to the network device, does not indicate the actual service condition of the terminal device, and is also beneficial to protecting the information security of the terminal device.

In the embodiment of the present application, one adjustment interval may indicate at least one value.

For example, the number of at least one value is 2, and an adjustment interval may indicate two endpoint values, for example, an adjustment interval is [ a, B ], or (a, B), then a and B are regarded as two endpoint values, and the adjustment interval is used to indicate that the value of the air interface parameter corresponding to the adjustment interval may be adjusted between a and B. It can be seen that two endpoint values are "indicated" and are not necessarily "included". Whether the value of the air interface parameter can be adjusted to be a or B depends on whether the adjustment interval is a corresponding open interval or closed interval. In addition, under the condition that one adjustment interval indicates two endpoint values, in order to give more instructions to the network device so that the decision result of the network device better meets the requirement of the terminal device, the configuration information corresponding to the adjustment interval may also indicate the priorities of the two endpoint values corresponding to the adjustment interval, where an endpoint value with a higher priority is an endpoint value that the terminal device expects to be adjusted more, or is an adjusted value of the air interface parameter that the terminal device expects. For example, for an adjustment interval corresponding to two endpoint values of a and B, the corresponding configuration parameter may also indicate that a is higher priority than B, or that B is higher priority than a, or that a is a first priority and B is a second priority, where the first priority is higher than the second priority or the second priority is higher than the first priority. Taking the priority of a higher than that of B as an example, the network device adjusts the value of the air interface parameter toward a direction approaching to a, which better meets the requirement of the terminal device. The terminal device may instruct the network device to adjust a value of an air interface parameter through the adjustment interval, or, if the terminal device has instructed the network device to adjust a value of an air interface parameter in advance, for example, instruct the network device to adjust a value of an air interface parameter in a manner provided in this embodiment of the application, or instruct the network device to adjust a value of the air interface parameter for the terminal device, the terminal device may also instruct the network device to restore the original value of the air interface parameter in a manner of the adjustment interval, that is, instruct the network device to adjust the value of the air interface parameter back. In this case, one of the endpoint values included in the adjustment interval may be regarded as the current value of the air interface parameter corresponding to the adjustment interval, and one of the endpoint values included in the adjustment interval may be regarded as the original value of the air interface parameter corresponding to the adjustment interval.

An adjustment interval indicates two endpoint values, and the corresponding configuration information also indicates priorities of the two endpoint values, it can also be understood that, for an air interface parameter corresponding to the adjustment interval, the terminal device indicates a "most desirable" parameter value and indicates an "acceptable" parameter value, which is intended to inform the network device, and for the purpose, a range of the air interface parameter that needs to be configured, obviously, it can be understood that the priority of the "most desirable" parameter value is higher than the priority of the "acceptable" parameter value. The "most desirable" parameter value and the "acceptable" parameter value may be considered to form an adjustment interval, and in this case, the adjustment interval may be considered to be actually present, or it may be merely an understanding that only the "most desirable" parameter value and the "acceptable" parameter value are actually indicated by the terminal device, and the actual adjustment interval is not indicated. If the terminal device instructs the network device to restore the original value of the air interface parameter by adjusting the interval, it can be understood that the "most desirable" parameter value indicated by the configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameter is the original value of the air interface parameter, and the "acceptable" parameter value indicated by the configuration information is the current value of the air interface parameter.

For example, for an air interface parameter included in the BWP configuration parameter set, taking the BWP bandwidth as an example, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the BWP bandwidth, the terminal device may determine the configuration information corresponding to the BWP bandwidth, where the "adjustment" may refer to that the BWP bandwidth is to be adjusted to another value without being adjusted before, or may refer to that the BWP bandwidth is adjusted before, and then adjust the value of the BWP bandwidth back. For example, the configuration information indicates that the most desirable BWP bandwidth of the terminal device is 5MHz, and indicates that the acceptable BWP bandwidth of the terminal device is 10MHz, it can be understood that the configuration information indicates an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval is [5,10] MHz. The network device may make a decision after receiving the configuration information. If eventually the network device finds that it is only possible to switch the end device to a 15MHz BWP, the network device may not configure the end device with a new BWP bandwidth, i.e. adjust the BWP bandwidth for the end device, since the network device already knows that the end device may not have much performance gain even if it is switched to a 15MHz BWP. Or, if the network device finds that the end device can be switched to the BWP of 8MHz, since 8MHz is between 5MHz and 10MHz, the network device can know that although the end device cannot be switched to the BWP of 5MHz bandwidth as desired, the BWP of 8MHz can also meet the requirement of the end device to some extent, so that the end device can be configured with a new BWP bandwidth of 8 MHz. Therefore, the adjustment interval is indicated for the network equipment, and the priority of the corresponding endpoint value is indicated, so that the network equipment is facilitated to configure more reasonable air interface parameters for the terminal equipment, and the configuration result is more in line with the requirements of the terminal equipment.

Similarly, for the C-DRX configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust air interface parameters in the C-DRX configuration parameter set, it may determine configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters to be adjusted included in the C-DRX configuration parameter set, where this "adjustment" may refer to adjusting the corresponding air interface parameters to other values without being adjusted before, or may refer to adjusting the values of the corresponding air interface parameters back after being adjusted before. The configuration information may indicate a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in a most-expected C-DRX configuration parameter set of the terminal device and may indicate a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in an acceptable C-DRX configuration parameter set of the terminal device, so that it may be understood that one configuration information indicates an adjustment interval, and two end points of the adjustment interval are a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in the most-expected C-DRX configuration parameter set of the terminal device and a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in the acceptable C-DRX configuration parameter set of the terminal device. For example, the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust three air interface parameters, namely, the cycle of C-DRX in the C-DRX configuration parameter set, the length of on duration period in C-DRX, and the length of inactivity timer period in C-DRX, then one configuration information may indicate the cycle of C-DRX that is most expected by the terminal device, and indicating a period of C-DRX acceptable to the terminal device, yet another configuration information may indicate a length of an on duration period in C-DRX most desired by the terminal device, and indicating the length of the on duration period in the C-DRX that is acceptable to the terminal device, the further configuration information may indicate the length of the inactivity timer period in the C-DRX that is most desirable to the terminal device, and indicating the length of the inactivity timer period in the C-DRX acceptable to the terminal device. Wherein, the inactivity timer period in the C-DRX is also the opportunity for DRX period in the C-DRX.

For the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the air interface parameters in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters to be adjusted included in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, where this "adjustment" may refer to adjusting the corresponding air interface parameters in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set to other values without being adjusted before, or may refer to adjusting the values of the corresponding air interface parameters in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set after being adjusted before. One piece of configuration information may indicate a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set most expected by the terminal device and may indicate a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set acceptable by the terminal device, so that it may be understood that one piece of configuration information indicates an adjustment interval, and two endpoint values of the adjustment interval are a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set most expected by the terminal device and a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set acceptable by the terminal device. For example, the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the number of component carriers in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, which is an air interface parameter, and the corresponding configuration information may indicate the number of component carriers most expected by the terminal device and indicate the number of component carriers acceptable by the terminal device.

For the MIMO configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the air interface parameters in the MIMO configuration parameter set, it may determine configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters to be adjusted included in the MIMO configuration parameter set, where this "adjustment" may refer to adjusting the corresponding air interface parameters in the MIMO configuration parameter set to other values without being adjusted before, or may refer to adjusting the values of the corresponding air interface parameters in the MIMO configuration parameter set after being adjusted before. One piece of configuration information may indicate a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in the MIMO configuration parameter set most expected by the terminal device and may indicate a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in the MIMO configuration parameter set acceptable by the terminal device, so that it may be understood that one piece of configuration information indicates an adjustment interval, and two endpoint values of the adjustment interval are a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in the MIMO configuration parameter set most expected by the terminal device and a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in the MIMO configuration parameter set acceptable by the terminal device. For example, the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust an air interface parameter, which is the number of antennas of the terminal device in the MIMO configuration parameter set, and the corresponding configuration information may indicate the number of antennas most desired by the terminal device and indicate the number of antennas acceptable by the terminal device. The number of antennas indicated by the configuration information here refers to the number of antennas that the network device is expected to configure or activate for the terminal device.

For the configuration parameter set used for detecting the downlink control channel, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the air interface parameters in the configuration parameter set used for detecting the downlink control channel, the terminal device may determine the configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters to be adjusted respectively included in the configuration parameter set used for detecting the downlink control channel, where this "adjustment" may refer to that the air interface parameters corresponding to the configuration parameter set used for detecting the downlink control channel are adjusted to other values without being adjusted before, or may refer to that the air interface parameters corresponding to the configuration parameter set used for detecting the downlink control channel are adjusted before. One piece of configuration information may indicate a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in a configuration parameter set most expected by the terminal device to be used for detecting the downlink control channel, and may indicate a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in a configuration parameter set acceptable by the terminal device to be used for detecting the downlink control channel, so that it may be understood that one piece of configuration information indicates an adjustment interval, and two end point values of the adjustment interval are a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in a configuration parameter set most expected by the terminal device to be used for detecting the downlink control channel, and a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in a configuration parameter set acceptable by the terminal device to be used for detecting the downlink control channel. For example, the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust several empty parameters, i.e. the number of times of blind detection of PDCCHs to be detected, the number of search spaces to be monitored, the monitoring period of the search spaces, and the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in the search spaces, in the configuration parameter set for detecting the downlink control channel, the first configuration information may indicate the number of times of blind detection of PDCCHs most desired by the terminal device and indicate the number of times of blind detection of PDCCHs acceptable to the terminal device, the second configuration information may indicate the number of search spaces most desired by the terminal device and indicate the number of search spaces acceptable to the terminal device, the third configuration information may indicate the monitoring period of a search space most desired by the terminal device and indicate the monitoring period of a search space acceptable to the terminal device, or, if the monitoring periods of the terminal device for each search space are the same, the third configuration information may also indicate the most desirable monitoring period of the search space of the terminal device and indicate the acceptable monitoring period of the search space of the terminal device, and the fourth configuration information may indicate the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in the most desirable search space of the terminal device and indicate the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in the acceptable search space of the terminal device, or, if the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in each search space of the terminal device is the same, the fourth configuration information may also indicate the most desirable monitoring period of the terminal device and indicate the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in the acceptable search space of the terminal device.

For the processing time axis configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the air interface parameters in the processing time axis configuration parameters, it may determine the configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters to be adjusted included in the processing time axis configuration parameter set, where this "adjustment" may refer to adjusting the corresponding air interface parameters in the processing time axis configuration parameter set to other values without being adjusted before, or may refer to adjusting the values of the corresponding air interface parameters in the processing time axis parameter set before. One piece of configuration information may indicate a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in a most-expected processing time axis configuration parameter set of the terminal device and a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in an acceptable processing time axis configuration parameter set of the terminal device, and it may be understood that one piece of configuration information indicates an adjustment interval, and two endpoint values of the adjustment interval are a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in a most-expected processing time axis configuration parameter set of the terminal device and a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in an acceptable processing time axis configuration parameter set of the terminal device. For example, the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust three air interface parameters, namely K0, K1, and K2, in the processing time axis configuration parameter set, then one piece of configuration information may indicate a value of K0 that is most desirable for the terminal device and a value of K0 that is acceptable for the terminal device, another piece of configuration information may indicate a value of K1 that is most desirable for the terminal device and a value of K1 that is acceptable for the terminal device, and another piece of configuration information may indicate a value of K2 that is most desirable for the terminal device and a value of K2 that is acceptable for the terminal device.

In the foregoing, one adjustment interval may indicate the case of 2 values, or, in the case that one adjustment interval may indicate at least one value, the number of the at least one value may also be 1, for example, it is understood that one adjustment interval may indicate one endpoint value. For example, if an adjustment interval is [ a, + ∞ ], or is (a, + ∞), or is [ a, - ∞ ], or is (a, - ∞), then a is considered as an endpoint value, and the adjustment interval is used to indicate the value of the air interface parameter that can be adjusted between a and positive infinity or negative infinity. Similarly, an endpoint value is "indicated," and is not necessarily intended to be "included. Whether the air interface parameter can be adjusted to be a depends on whether the adjustment interval is a corresponding open interval or closed interval. The indicating manner is a manner of explicitly indicating an endpoint value, or another manner, and does not explicitly indicate an endpoint value, for example, an adjustment interval may indicate to increase or decrease a value of a corresponding air interface parameter, which may be understood as indicating to increase the value of the corresponding air interface parameter on the basis of a current value if the adjustment interval indicates to increase the value of the corresponding air interface parameter, and indicating to decrease the value of the corresponding air interface parameter on the basis of the current value if the adjustment interval indicates to decrease the value of the corresponding air interface parameter, so in this case, it may be considered that the value implicitly indicates the current value of the air interface parameter as the endpoint value.

For example, for the BWP configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the air interface parameters included in the BWP configuration parameter set, it may determine configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters that need to be adjusted and included in the BWP configuration parameter set, where one configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval may be used to indicate that values of corresponding air interface parameters in the BWP configuration parameter set are to be increased or decreased. For example, when the terminal device wishes to save power, it wishes to adjust the null parameter of the BWP bandwidth in the BWP configuration parameter set, and then the corresponding configuration information may indicate that the BWP bandwidth is to be adjusted down, or when the terminal device's traffic arrives, it wishes to adjust the null parameter of the BWP bandwidth in the BWP configuration parameter set, and then the corresponding configuration information may indicate that the BWP bandwidth is to be adjusted up.

For example, for a C-DRX configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust air interface parameters included in the C-DRX configuration parameter set, configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters to be adjusted included in the C-DRX configuration parameter set may be determined, where one configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval may be used to indicate that values of corresponding air interface parameters in the C-DRX configuration parameter set are to be increased or decreased. For example, when the terminal device wants to save power, and wants to adjust three air interface parameters, namely the cycle of C-DRX, the length of on duration period in C-DRX, and the length of inactivity timer period in C-DRX in the C-DRX configuration parameter set, one configuration information may indicate that the cycle of C-DRX is to be increased, another configuration information may indicate that the length of on duration period in C-DRX is to be decreased, and still another configuration information may indicate that the length of inactivity timer period in C-DRX is to be decreased. Or, when the service of the terminal device arrives, it is desirable to adjust three air interface parameters, namely, the cycle of C-DRX in the C-DRX configuration parameter set, the length of the on duration period in C-DRX, and the length of the inactivity timer period in C-DRX, then one configuration information may indicate to decrease the cycle of C-DRX, another configuration information may indicate to increase the length of the on duration period in C-DRX, and still another configuration information may indicate to increase the length of the inactivity timer period in C-DRX.

For example, for a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust air interface parameters included in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters to be adjusted included in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set may be determined, where one configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval may be used to indicate that values of corresponding air interface parameters in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set are increased or decreased. For example, when the terminal device desires to save power, it desires to adjust an air interface parameter, which is the number of component carriers in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, and the corresponding configuration information may indicate to increase the number of component carriers. Or, when the service of the terminal device arrives, it is desirable to adjust the number of component carriers in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, which is an air interface parameter, and the corresponding configuration information may indicate to reduce the number of component carriers.

For example, for the MIMO configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the air interface parameters included in the MIMO configuration parameter set, it may determine configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters that need to be adjusted and included in the MIMO configuration parameter set, where one configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval may be used to indicate that a value of the air interface parameter corresponding to the MIMO configuration parameter set is increased or decreased. For example, when the terminal device desires to save power, it is desirable to adjust the null parameter, which is the number of antennas of the terminal device in the MIMO configuration parameter set, and the corresponding configuration information may indicate that fewer antennas are configured or activated. Or, when the service of the terminal device arrives, it is desirable to adjust the null parameter, which is the number of antennas of the terminal device in the MIMO configuration parameter set, and the corresponding configuration information may indicate that more antennas are to be configured or activated.

For example, for a configuration parameter set used for detecting a downlink control channel, if a terminal device needs to instruct a network device to adjust air interface parameters included in the configuration parameter set used for detecting the downlink control channel, configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters to be adjusted included in the configuration parameter set used for detecting the downlink control channel may be determined, where one configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval may be used to indicate that values of corresponding air interface parameters in the configuration parameter set used for detecting the downlink control channel are increased or decreased. For example, when the terminal device desires to save energy, it is desirable to adjust several air interface parameters, i.e., the number of times of detecting the blind PDCCH in the configuration parameter set for the downlink control channel, the number of search spaces to be monitored, the monitoring period of the search spaces, and the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in the search spaces, so that the first configuration information may indicate to reduce the number of times of detecting the blind PDCCH, the second configuration information may indicate to reduce the number of search spaces to be monitored, the third configuration information indicates to increase the monitoring period of one or more search spaces, and the fourth configuration information may indicate to reduce the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in one or more search spaces. Or, when the service of the terminal device arrives, it is desirable to adjust several air interface parameters, which are the number of times of detecting the blind PDCCH, the number of search spaces to be monitored, the monitoring period of the search spaces, and the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in the search spaces, in the configuration parameter set for detecting the downlink control channel, then, the first configuration information may indicate to increase the number of times of detecting the blind PDCCH, the second configuration information may indicate to increase the number of search spaces to be monitored, the third configuration information may indicate to decrease the monitoring period of one or more search spaces, and the fourth configuration information indicates to increase the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in one or more search spaces.

For example, for processing the time axis configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the air interface parameters included in the time axis configuration parameter set, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters to be adjusted included in the time axis configuration parameter set, where one configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval may be used to indicate that the value of the corresponding air interface parameter in the time axis configuration parameter set is to be increased or decreased. For example, when the terminal device desires to save energy, it is desirable to adjust three air interface parameters, that is, K0, K1, and K2, in the processing time axis configuration parameter set, one piece of configuration information may indicate to increase a value of K0, another piece of configuration information may indicate to increase a value of K1, and another piece of configuration information may indicate to increase a value of K2. Or, when the service of the terminal device arrives, it is desirable to adjust and process three air interface parameters, namely K0, K1, and K2, in the time axis configuration parameter set, one configuration information may indicate to decrease the value of K0, another configuration information may indicate to decrease the value of K1, and another configuration information may indicate to decrease the value of K2.

The indication manner of the adjustment interval is described above, and the relationship between the adjustment interval and the configuration information is described below. For example, one configuration information may be used to indicate at least one adjustment interval.

As an embodiment, the number of the at least one adjustment interval is 1, that is, one configuration information may be used to indicate one adjustment interval, for example, each of the M configuration information is used to indicate one adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, in which case one air interface parameter corresponds to one adjustment interval. Then, the adjustment interval and the air interface parameter are in a one-to-one correspondence relationship. Then, if all the air interface parameters included in the N air interface parameter sets need to be adjusted, M is equal to the number of all the air interface parameters included in the N air interface parameter sets, or, if only some of the air interface parameters included in the N air interface parameter sets need to be adjusted, M is equal to the number of the air interface parameters that need to be adjusted and included in the N air interface parameter sets. In short, M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate M adjustment intervals, each adjustment interval corresponds to one air interface parameter, that is, M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate adjustment intervals of M air interface parameters. For M adjustment intervals, each of the M adjustment intervals may indicate 2 endpoint values, or each of the M adjustment intervals may indicate 1 endpoint value, or some of the M adjustment intervals may indicate 2 endpoint values and the remaining ones of the M adjustment intervals may indicate 1 endpoint value. No matter whether the adjustment interval indicates 1 endpoint value or 2 endpoint values, the adjustment interval may be considered to be an adjustable range indicating the value of the corresponding air interface parameter.

For example, for an air interface parameter, which is the BWP bandwidth in the BWP configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the BWP bandwidth, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the BWP bandwidth, where the configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, for example, the adjustment interval indicates an adjustable range of the BWP bandwidth.

For example, for three air interface parameters, namely a C-DRX cycle, a length of an on duration period in the C-DRX, and a length of an on duration period in the C-DRX, in the C-DRX configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the C-DRX cycle, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the C-DRX cycle, where the configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval indicates, for example, an adjustable range of the C-DRX cycle. Or, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the length of the on duration period in the C-DRX, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the length of the on duration period in the C-DRX, where the configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval indicates, for example, an adjustable range of the length of the on duration period in the C-DRX. Or, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the length of the inactivity timer period in the C-DRX, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the length of the inactivity timer period in the C-DRX, where the configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, for example, the adjustment interval indicates an adjustable range of the length of the inactivity timer period in the C-DRX.

For example, for an air interface parameter, which is the number of component carriers in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the number of component carriers, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the number of component carriers, where the configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval indicates, for example, an adjustable range of the number of component carriers.

For example, for an air interface parameter, which is the number of antennas of the terminal device in the MIMO configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the number of antennas of the terminal device, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the number of antennas of the terminal device, where the configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval indicates, for example, an adjustable range of the number of antennas configured or activated for the terminal device.

For example, for several air interface parameters, such as the number of times of blind detection of a PDCCH in a configuration parameter set used for detecting a downlink control channel, the number of search spaces to be monitored, a monitoring period of the search spaces, and the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in the search spaces, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the number of times of blind detection of the PDCCH, configuration information corresponding to the number of times of blind detection of the PDCCH may be determined, where the configuration information may instruct an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval may instruct, for example, an adjustable range of the number of times of blind detection of the PDCCH. Or, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the number of the search spaces to be monitored, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the number of the search spaces to be monitored, where the configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval indicates, for example, an adjustable range of the number of the search spaces to be monitored. Or, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the monitoring period of the search space, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the monitoring period of the search space, where the configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval indicates, for example, an adjustable range of the monitoring period of one or more search spaces. Alternatively, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the number of PDCCH candidates that need to be monitored in the search space, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the number of PDCCH candidates that need to be monitored in the search space, where the configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval may indicate, for example, an adjustable range of the number of PDCCH candidates that need to be monitored in one or more search spaces.

For example, for several air interface parameters, K0, K1, and K2, included in the processing time axis configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust K0, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to K0, where the configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval may indicate an adjustable range of a value of K0. Or, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust K1, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to K1, where the configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval may indicate an adjustable range of a value of K1. Or, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust K2, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to K2, where the configuration information may indicate an adjustment interval, and the adjustment interval may indicate an adjustable range of a value of K2.

As another embodiment, the number of the at least one adjustment interval is greater than 1, that is, one configuration information may be used to indicate at least two adjustment intervals, for example, each of the M configuration information is used to indicate at least two adjustment intervals of one air interface parameter, and in this case, one air interface parameter corresponds to at least two adjustment intervals. Or, each of partial configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information may be used to indicate one adjustment interval of one air interface parameter, and each of remaining partial configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information may be used to indicate at least two adjustment intervals of one air interface parameter. In addition, if one air interface parameter corresponds to at least two adjustment intervals, the adjustable ranges indicated by the at least two adjustment intervals may be different, and an intersection may be formed or may not be formed between the adjustable ranges indicated by the at least two adjustment intervals. If the configuration information corresponding to one air interface parameter is used to indicate at least two adjustment intervals of the air interface parameter, the configuration information may also be used to indicate priorities of the at least two adjustment intervals, and a higher priority of an adjustment interval indicates that the terminal device is more expected to adjust according to the adjustment interval. The priority of the at least two adjustment intervals may be a priority of each of the at least two adjustment intervals or a relationship between the priorities of the at least two adjustment intervals. For example, if one piece of configuration information is used to indicate 3 adjustment intervals of one air interface parameter, the configuration information may also be used to indicate that the priorities of the 3 adjustment intervals are a first priority, a second priority, and a third priority, wherein, the size relationship between the three priorities is that the first priority is higher than the second priority, the second priority is higher than the third priority, the size relationship between the priorities can also be indicated by the configuration information, or the network device is configured to the terminal device in advance, or is predefined through a protocol, or one configuration information is used for indicating 3 adjustment intervals of one air interface parameter, the configuration information may also be used to indicate that the priority relationship of the 3 adjustment intervals is that the priority of adjustment interval 1 is higher than the priority of adjustment interval 2, and the priority of adjustment interval 2 is higher than the priority of adjustment interval 3.

For the adjustment intervals indicated by the M configuration information, each adjustment interval in all the adjustment intervals may indicate 2 endpoint values, or each adjustment interval in all the adjustment intervals may indicate 1 endpoint value, or a part of the adjustment intervals in all the adjustment intervals may indicate 2 endpoint values, and the rest of the adjustment intervals in all the adjustment intervals indicate 1 endpoint value. No matter whether the adjustment interval indicates 1 endpoint value or 2 endpoint values, the adjustment interval may be considered as an adjustable range indicating the value of the corresponding air interface parameter.

Take the cycle of C-DRX in the C-DRX configuration parameter set as an example. If the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the cycle of the C-DRX, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the cycle of the C-DRX, where the configuration information may indicate one adjustment interval or at least two adjustment intervals corresponding to the cycle of the C-DRX, and if the at least two adjustment intervals corresponding to the cycle of the C-DRX are indicated, the at least two adjustment intervals may both indicate 2 end points, or both indicate 1 end point, or a part of the adjustment intervals may indicate 2 end points, where the remaining part of the adjustment intervals indicate 1 end point. And the adjustable ranges of the periods of the C-DRX indicated by the at least two adjustable intervals can have intersection or not. In addition, if at least two adjustment intervals corresponding to the cycle of the C-DRX are indicated, the configuration information may indicate priorities of the at least two adjustment intervals.

S72, the terminal device sends M pieces of configuration information to the network device, and the network device receives the M pieces of configuration information from the terminal device.

For example, S72 may be equal to S51, and then M pieces of configuration information may be regarded as one piece of auxiliary information.

After determining the M pieces of configuration information, the terminal device may send the M pieces of configuration information to the network device. In the embodiment of the present application, a terminal device sends M pieces of configuration information to a network device through at least one signaling. Each of the at least one signaling is, for example, RRC signaling, or MAC CE, or DCI. Or if the number of the at least one signaling is greater than 1, the type of the at least one signaling may also be different, for example, part of the signaling in the at least one signaling is RRC, and the rest part of the signaling is MAC CE.

For example, the number of at least one signaling is greater than 1, that is, the terminal device may send M pieces of configuration information to the network device through at least two pieces of signaling, for example, each of the at least two pieces of signaling is referred to as a second signaling. In this embodiment, the number of the second signaling may be equal to M, the at least two pieces of second signaling include M pieces of configuration information, and each of the at least two pieces of second signaling includes one piece of configuration information of the M pieces of configuration information, that is, the second signaling and the configuration information are in one-to-one correspondence, which makes it easier for the network device to identify each piece of configuration information, and also avoids too much loss of configuration information due to loss of one piece of signaling as much as possible. Or, the number of the at least two second signaling may also be smaller than M, for example, each of the at least two second signaling may include at least two pieces of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information, or each of partial second signaling in the at least two second signaling includes at least two pieces of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information, and each of remaining partial second signaling in the at least two second signaling includes one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information. In addition, if the terminal device sends at least two second signaling to the network device, the at least two second signaling may be sent simultaneously, or may be sent in a time-sharing manner, and if the terminal device sends in a time-sharing manner, no limitation is imposed on a specific sending sequence.

Alternatively, the number of at least one signaling is equal to 1, that is, the terminal device may send M pieces of configuration information to the network device through one signaling, for example, the signaling is referred to as a first signaling. By the method, system overhead can be saved to a large extent, M pieces of configuration information can be carried by one piece of signaling, and the utilization rate of the signaling is improved. As an implementation manner for the terminal device to send the M configuration information to the network device through the first signaling, the terminal device may send the first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap (bitmap), the bitmap may include N bits, and the N bits may be regarded as indicating the M configuration information, where each bit of the N bits is used to indicate one configuration information of the M configuration information, for example, one bit indicates one configuration information, and the bit may be the configuration information. In this case, the bits and the configuration information may be in a one-to-one correspondence relationship, and a specific bit corresponds to which configuration information (or corresponds to which air interface parameter), is configured in advance by the network device, or is specified by a protocol. Therefore, M pieces of configuration information can be indicated through the bitmap, the mode is simple, and the overhead is saved.

Since 1 bit represents a configuration information, each bit may indicate what meaning, and may be predefined, such as by a network device, or predefined by a protocol. For example, if the bit in the bitmap is set to "1", it indicates that the adjustment trend of the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, and if the bit in the bitmap is set to "0", it indicates that the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information does not need to be adjusted; or, if the bit in the bitmap is set to "1", it indicates that the adjustment trend of the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information is to restore the original parameter value as much as possible, and if the bit in the bitmap is set to "0", it indicates that the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information does not need to be adjusted, and on the premise of this, the value of the corresponding air interface parameter is adjusted in advance, and the original value can be restored by this way; or, if the bit in the bitmap is set to "0", it indicates that the adjustment trend of the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information is to restore the original parameter value as much as possible, and if the bit in the bitmap is set to "1", it indicates that the adjustment trend of the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment.

For example, if the bit in the bitmap is set to "1", it indicates that the adjustment trend of the air interface parameter adjustment interval corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, and if the bit in the bitmap is set to "0", it indicates that the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information does not need to be adjusted, for example, for 1 bit corresponding to the BWP bandwidth, if the value of the 1 bit is set to "0", it indicates that the BWP bandwidth does not need to be adjusted, and if the value of the 1 bit is set to "1", it indicates that the adjustment trend of the adjustment interval corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, that is, the BWP bandwidth needs to be reduced; or if the bit in bitmap takes a value of "1", it indicates that the adjustment trend of the air interface parameter adjustment interval corresponding to the configuration information is to recover the original parameter value as much as possible, if the bit in bitmap takes a value of "0", it indicates that the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information does not need to be adjusted, for example, for 1 bit corresponding to the BWP bandwidth, if the value of the 1 bit is "0", it indicates that the BWP bandwidth does not need to be adjusted, and if the value of the 1 bit is "1", it indicates that the adjustment trend of the adjustment interval corresponding to the configuration information is to recover the original parameter value of the BWP bandwidth as much as possible, then, if the original value of the BWP bandwidth is smaller than the current value of the BWP bandwidth, the 1 bit indicates that the BWP bandwidth is to be decreased, if the original value of the BWP bandwidth is larger than the current value of the BWP bandwidth, the 1 bit indicates that the BWP bandwidth needs to be increased; or the protocol specifies that if the bit in bitmap is "0", it indicates that the adjustment trend of the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information is to restore the original parameter value as much as possible, and if the bit in bitmap is "1", it indicates that the adjustment trend of the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, for example, if the value of 1 bit is "0" for 1 bit corresponding to the BWP bandwidth, it indicates that the adjustment trend of the adjustment interval corresponding to the configuration information is to restore the original parameter value of the BWP bandwidth as much as possible, then if the original value of the BWP bandwidth is smaller than the current value of the BWP bandwidth, then the 1 bit indicates to reduce the BWP bandwidth, and if the original value of the BWP bandwidth is greater than the current value of the BWP bandwidth, then the 1 bit indicates to increase the BWP bandwidth, and if the value of the 1 bit is "1", it indicates that the adjustment trend of the adjustment interval of the BWP bandwidth corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, that is, to reduce the BWP bandwidth.

Through the mode that this application embodiment provided, can realize the adjustment to the empty port parameter, also can realize the recovery to the value of empty port parameter, and only need can realize through bitmap, the mode is simple, and the instruction is clear, helps reducing system overhead moreover.

For example, for six air interfaces, such as the C-DRX cycle in the C-DRX configuration parameter set, the BWP bandwidth in the BWP configuration parameter set, the number of component carriers in the CA configuration parameter set, the number of antennas of the terminal device in the MIMO configuration parameter set, the number of times for detecting the blind PDCCH in the configuration parameter set for the downlink control channel, and K2 in the processing time axis configuration parameter set, the terminal device may use a 6-bit bitmap to indicate, where the 6 bits respectively correspond to the six air interface parameters, for example, the 6 bits respectively correspond to the six air interface parameters from high to low, and the respectively corresponding air interface parameters are the C-DRX cycle, the BWP bandwidth, the number of component carriers, the number of antennas of the terminal device, the number of times for blind PDCCH, and K2. And if the bit in the bitmap is set to be "1", it indicates that the adjustment trend of the adjustment interval corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, and if the bit in the bitmap is set to be "0", it indicates that the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information does not need to be adjusted. For example, the terminal device sends a first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, and the bitmap is 010100, which indicates that adjustment trends of an adjustment interval corresponding to the BWP bandwidth and an adjustment interval corresponding to the number of antennas of the terminal device are to reduce power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment. Then, the adjustment trend of the adjustment interval corresponding to the BWP bandwidth is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, which may indicate that the BWP bandwidth is to be reduced, and the adjustment trend of the adjustment interval corresponding to the number of antennas of the terminal device is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, which may indicate that the number of antennas of the terminal device is to be reduced.

When the indication is performed through bitmap, the terminal device may simply inform the network device which air interface parameter needs to be subjected to energy saving, and as for how to achieve the purpose of energy saving, whether the value of the air interface parameter should be increased or decreased may be determined by the network device, which is equivalent to that in this way, the configuration information implicitly indicates the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter.

S73, determining, by the network device according to the M pieces of configuration information, an adjustment manner for the M pieces of air interface parameters indicated by the M pieces of configuration information, where the M pieces of air interface parameters belong to the N pieces of air interface parameter sets.

And the network equipment makes a decision according to the M pieces of configuration information to determine an adjustment mode of the M air interface parameters indicated by the M pieces of configuration information. When the network device makes a decision, in addition to the M pieces of configuration information, other factors may also be considered, for example, the number of users accessing the current network, the configuration of other users, or a scheduling algorithm used by the network device. However, the terminal device indicates the adjustment intervals corresponding to the M air interface parameters to the network device, so that the network device can consider the requirements of the terminal device as much as possible during decision making, and the decision result is more in line with the actual situation of the terminal device.

S74, the network device sends an adjustment result to the terminal device, and the terminal device receives the adjustment result from the network device, where the adjustment result is used to indicate a mode of at least one air interface parameter of the M air interface parameters.

For example, S74 may be equivalent to S52. For example, the network device may send the adjustment result to the terminal device through RRC signaling, or MAC CE, or DCI.

The adjustment result may be used to instruct to adjust at least one air interface parameter of the M air interface parameters, and certainly, may also instruct to adjust other air interface parameters. The embodiments of the present application are not limited to specifically adjusting which air interface parameters of the M air interface parameters, and how to specifically adjust.

And S75, the terminal equipment adjusts the at least one air interface parameter of the M air interface parameters according to the adjustment result.

And the terminal equipment directly adjusts corresponding air interface parameters according to the indication of the network equipment.

Wherein S75 is an optional step and is not necessarily performed.

In this embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may determine M pieces of configuration information used to indicate an adjustment interval of M air interface parameters of the terminal device, where the adjustment interval may indicate how to adjust the air interface parameters, and then the M pieces of configuration information determined by the terminal device itself are the configuration information capable of reflecting an actual situation of the terminal device. After the M pieces of configuration information are sent to the network device, the network device may use the M pieces of configuration information as a reference when configuring the air interface parameters for the terminal device, so that the configured air interface parameters can take into consideration the actual requirements of the terminal device as much as possible, and the configuration result is consistent with the actual working condition of the terminal device as much as possible. In addition, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device only indicates the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter to the network device, instead of directly indicating the adjustment result to the network device, and the network device has a decision right on how to configure the air interface parameter finally, which also conforms to the working mode of the current communication system.

In the embodiment shown in fig. 7, the terminal device determines how the M air interface parameters should be adjusted by itself, and indicates a corresponding adjustment interval to the network device, so that the network device can make a relatively clear adjustment trend, and the workload of determining the adjustment trend by the network device completely by itself is also reduced. In order to solve the same technical problem, an embodiment of the present application further provides a second parameter configuration method, where in the second parameter configuration method, the terminal device may send service information of the terminal device to the network device, so that the network device may make a decision according to the service information of the terminal device, for example, when the terminal device is not convenient to determine an adjustment interval of the air interface parameter by itself, or when the terminal device is not capable of determining the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter by itself, or when the terminal device is capable of relatively making explicit a feature of a current service, the second parameter configuration method may be adopted. Therefore, the network device can perform global evaluation, and compared with a scheme of self-evaluating the adjustment trend by the terminal device, the scheme of evaluating by the network device is more complete and is more beneficial to the normal operation of the whole system. And the network device evaluates according to the service information sent by the terminal device, which is helpful for enabling the decision result of the network device to consider the actual situation of the terminal device.

Please refer to fig. 8, which is a flowchart of a second parameter configuration method. In the following description, the method is applied to the network architecture shown in fig. 6 as an example. In addition, the method may be performed by two communication apparatuses, for example, a third communication apparatus and a fourth communication apparatus, where the third communication apparatus may be a network device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the network device to implement the functions required by the method, or the third communication apparatus may be a terminal device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the functions required by the method, and of course, other communication apparatuses such as a system on chip may also be used. The same applies to the fourth communication apparatus, which may be a network device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the network device to implement the functions required by the method, or a terminal device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the functions required by the method, and of course, may also be other communication apparatuses, such as a system on a chip. The implementation manners of the third communication device and the fourth communication device are not limited, for example, the third communication device may be a network device, the fourth communication device is a terminal device, or both the third communication device and the fourth communication device are network devices, or both the third communication device and the fourth communication device are terminal devices, or the third communication device is a network device, and the fourth communication device is a communication device capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the functions required by the method, and so on. The network device is, for example, a base station.

For convenience of introduction, in the following, the method is performed by the network device and the terminal device as an example, that is, the third communication device is the network device, and the fourth communication device is the terminal device as an example. Since the present embodiment is applied to the network architecture shown in fig. 6 as an example, the network device described below may be a network device in the network architecture shown in fig. 6, and the terminal device described below may be a terminal device in the network architecture shown in fig. 6.

And S81, the terminal equipment determines the information of the characteristic parameters of the service of the terminal equipment.

As an embodiment of the information of the characteristic parameter, the characteristic parameter of the service may include at least one of the following parameters: the maximum delay of the service, the difference value of the delays of the data packets of the service, the error rate of the data packets of the service, the packet loss rate of the service, the data rate of the service, or the priority of the service, that is, the terminal device may determine the information of at least one of the parameters. Of course, the characteristic parameter is not limited to this, and the terminal device may also determine information of other characteristic parameters of the service. The service described here is, for example, a service currently being performed by the terminal device.

For example, the maximum delay of the service is also referred to as the delay requirement of the service, and may include at least one of an end-to-end delay requirement of the service itself or an air interface delay requirement.

If the information of the characteristic parameter determined by the terminal device includes the maximum delay of the service, the network device may consider adjusting an air interface parameter, for example, the adjustable air interface parameter includes at least one air interface parameter of an air interface parameter included in at least one air interface parameter set in a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis configuration parameter set in the embodiment shown in fig. 7. For example, the network device may consider adjusting at least one air interface parameter of a cycle of C-DRX, a length of an on duration period in C-DRX, a length of an inactivity timer period in C-DRX, a number of times of blind detection of a PDCCH, or K0. As for the network device, which air interface parameter or parameters are to be adjusted, and whether the value of the corresponding air interface parameter is to be increased or decreased, is decided by the network device, and is not particularly limited.

For example, the terminal device determines that the current service type is conversational voice, and the maximum delay of the terminal device is 100 ms. If the C-DRX cycle of the network device as the terminal device is 500ms, where the length of the on duration period is 50ms, then if the terminal device does not receive the schedule within 50ms of the on duration, the terminal device will be in an inactive state, i.e., not receive the scheduling information, for the remaining 450 ms. If the service arrives in the period of time that the UE is in the inactive state in one C-DRX cycle, since the time that the terminal device is in the inactive state is as long as 450ms, the worst case (that is, the terminal device arrives immediately after entering the inactive state) maximum scheduling delay of the service may reach 450ms, which delays the service. Therefore, the terminal device may send the current traffic delay to the network device, and the network device may consider adjusting the C-DRX cycle to be less than or equal to 100 ms.

The difference in delay of the packets of a service may also be referred to as jitter requirements. In practice, when transmitting a data packet, the data packet may be affected by various factors such as channel conditions, and even if the data packet is in the same service, the transmission time may be different, so for the same service, the difference between the maximum delay and the minimum delay of the data packet transmission is the difference value of the delays of the data packets of the service. For example, for a certain service, the transmission time of the data packets fluctuates between 40ms and 80ms, and the difference value of the time delays of the data packets of the service is equal to (80-40) ms.

If the information of the characteristic parameter determined by the terminal device includes the maximum delay of the service, the network device may consider adjusting an air interface parameter, for example, the adjustable air interface parameter includes at least one air interface parameter of an air interface parameter included in at least one air interface parameter set in a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis configuration parameter set in the embodiment shown in fig. 7. For example, the network device may consider adjusting at least one of a cycle of C-DRX, a length of an on duration period in C-DRX, a length of an inactivity timer period in C-DRX, a number of PDCCH times for blind detection, or K2. As for the network device, which air interface parameter or parameters are to be adjusted, and whether the value of the corresponding air interface parameter is to be increased or decreased, is decided by the network device, and is not particularly limited.

The error rate of a data packet of a service is an index for measuring the transmission accuracy of the data packet in a specified time. If the information of the characteristic parameter determined by the terminal device includes the packet error rate of the service, the network device may consider adjusting an air interface parameter, for example, the adjustable air interface parameter includes at least one air interface parameter of an air interface parameter included in at least one air interface parameter set in a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis configuration parameter set in the embodiment shown in fig. 7. For example, the network device may consider adjusting at least one of the BWP bandwidth, the number of component carriers, the number of antennas of the terminal device, or the number of times the PDCCH is blindly detected. As for the network device, which air interface parameter or parameters are to be adjusted, and whether the value of the corresponding air interface parameter is to be increased or decreased, is decided by the network device, and is not particularly limited.

The packet loss rate of the service is the ratio of the number of lost packets in the test to the number of transmitted packets. If the information of the characteristic parameter determined by the terminal device includes the packet loss rate of the service, the network device may consider adjusting an air interface parameter, for example, the adjustable air interface parameter includes at least one air interface parameter of an air interface parameter included in at least one air interface parameter set in a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis configuration parameter set, as described in the embodiment shown in fig. 7. For example, the network device may consider adjusting at least one of the BWP bandwidth, the number of component carriers, or the number of antennas of the terminal device. The network device determines which air interface parameter or parameters to adjust and whether to increase or decrease the value of the corresponding air interface parameter, and the specific implementation is not limited.

The data rate of a service, which may also be referred to as a data transfer rate, may refer to the number of bits, characters, or blocks (blocks) transferred between data transfer devices per unit time. For example, the data rate in the embodiment of the present application may be an average data rate, a maximum peak data rate, or a minimum valley data rate, which is not limited specifically. Where the average data rate may refer to an average number of bits, characters, or blocks transferred between the data transmission devices per unit time, the maximum peak data rate may refer to a maximum peak number of bits, characters, or blocks transferred between the data transmission devices per unit time, and the minimum valley data rate may refer to a minimum valley number of bits, characters, or blocks transferred between the data transmission devices per unit time.

If the information about the characteristic parameters determined by the terminal device includes the data rate of the service, the network device may consider adjusting air interface parameters, for example, the adjustable air interface parameters include at least one of the air interface parameters included in at least one of a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis configuration parameter set, as described in the embodiment shown in fig. 7. As for the network device, which air interface parameter or parameters are to be adjusted, and whether the value of the corresponding air interface parameter is to be increased or decreased, is decided by the network device, and is not particularly limited.

The priority of the service. If the information about the characteristic parameters determined by the terminal device includes the priority of the service, the network device may consider adjusting air interface parameters, for example, the adjustable air interface parameters include at least one of the air interface parameters included in a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or at least one air interface parameter set in a processing time axis configuration parameter set, as described in the embodiment shown in fig. 7. As to which air interface parameter or parameters are to be adjusted by the network device, and whether the value of the corresponding air interface parameter is to be increased or decreased, the decision is made by the network device, and the details are not limited.

As described above, one embodiment of the information about the characteristic parameter is described, and another embodiment of the information about the characteristic parameter is described below, in which the information about the characteristic parameter of the service determined by the terminal device may be index information, for example, a 5QI value (value).

For example, a quality of service (QoS) characteristic may be defined by some parameters, for example, the parameters for defining QoS include the following six parameters:

a resource type (resource type) parameter, where the resource type may include three types, a Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR), a delay critical guaranteed bit rate (delay critical GBR), and a non-guaranteed bit rate (non-GBR), and may be one of the types for one service;

a priority level parameter for defining a priority of a service;

a packet delay budget (packet delay budget) parameter, for example, the packet delay budget may be understood as the maximum delay as described above;

a packet error rate (packet error rate) parameter;

an Averaging window (Averaging window) parameter, which is generally valid only for two resource types, delay-critical guaranteed bit rate and no-guaranteed bit rate (for GBR and delay-critical GBR resource type only);

A maximum burst data volume (maximum data burst volume) parameter, which is generally valid only for a delay-critical guaranteed bit rate type (for delay-critical GBR resource type only).

If the above six parameters are regarded as a set of parameters, each corresponding service may correspond to the value of the set of parameters, which in turn corresponds to index information, which is equivalent to determining the value of the set of parameters through the index information, and the index information may be referred to as a 5QI value. That is, each 5QI value corresponds to a corresponding characteristic parameter, and a characteristic parameter corresponding to a 5QI value includes, for example, at least one of the following parameters: the resource type of the service, the priority of the service, the packet delay budget required by the service, the packet error rate required by the service, the average window of the service, or the maximum burst data volume of the service.

For example, the mapping relationship between the index information, the values of a set of parameters, and the services may refer to table 1:

TABLE 1

For example, if the ongoing service of the terminal device is one of the services listed in table 1, and the terminal device and the network device both store table 1, the terminal device may use the 5QI value as the information of the characteristic parameter. Compared with the method of determining the specific characteristic parameters by the terminal device, the method of using the 5QI value as the information of the characteristic parameters is equivalent to performing combined coding on the information of the characteristic parameters to obtain one coded value, so that the terminal device only needs to send the coded value to the network device, and the method is beneficial to saving the system overhead.

S82, the terminal device sends the information of the characteristic parameter to a network device, and the network device receives the information of the characteristic parameter from the terminal device, where the information of the characteristic parameter is used to configure an air interface parameter for the terminal device.

For example, S82 may be identical to S51, and the information of the feature parameter may be regarded as auxiliary information.

After determining the information of the characteristic parameters, the terminal device may send the information of the determined characteristic parameters to the network device, where the characteristic parameters determined by the terminal device may include at least one of a maximum delay of a service, a difference value of delays of data packets of the service, a packet error rate of the service, a packet loss rate of the service, a data rate of the service, or a priority of the service, and may further include other characteristic parameters. Alternatively, the information of the characteristic parameter determined by the terminal device may be index information.

If the characteristic parameter determined by the terminal device includes multiple parameters, that is, the information of the characteristic parameter determined by the terminal device may include information of multiple characteristic parameters, the terminal device may carry the information of multiple characteristic parameters in a signaling and send the signaling to the network device, for example, the signaling is referred to as a first signaling, and the network device may obtain the information of multiple characteristic parameters by receiving the signaling, which is helpful to save system overhead. The first signaling is, for example, RRC signaling, or MAC CE, or UCI. Or, the terminal device may also carry information of multiple characteristic parameters in at least two signaling and send the information to the network device, for example, each signaling in the at least two signaling is referred to as a second signaling, for example, the second signaling and the characteristic parameters may be in a one-to-one correspondence, or the number of the at least two second signaling is smaller than the number of the characteristic parameters. Each of the at least two second signaling is, for example, RRC signaling, or MAC CE, or UCI.

And S83, the network equipment determines configuration information of air interface parameters of the terminal equipment according to the information of the characteristic parameters.

The network device makes a decision according to the information of the characteristic parameters to determine a configuration mode of the air interface parameters of the terminal device, where, of course, the configuration mode may also be understood as an adjustment mode. If the information of the characteristic parameter obtained by the network device is index information, the network device may determine information, such as a value of the characteristic parameter corresponding to the index information, by looking up the table 1.

When the network device makes a decision, in addition to the information of the characteristic parameters of the service sent by the terminal device, other factors may be considered, for example, the number of users accessing the current network, the configuration of other users, or the scheduling algorithm used by the network device. However, the terminal device informs the network device of the current service condition of the terminal device, so that the network device can consider the actual condition of the terminal device as much as possible during decision making, and the decision result is more in line with the requirement of the terminal device.

And S84, the network device sends configuration information to the terminal device, the terminal device receives the configuration information from the network device, the configuration information is used for configuring air interface parameters of the terminal device, and the configured air interface parameters are used for adjusting the power consumption of the terminal device. The configuration information may be understood as indicating an adjustment result of the air interface parameter.

For example, S84 may be equivalent to S52. For example, the network device may send the configuration information to the terminal device through RRC signaling, or MAC CE, or DCI.

The adjustment result may be used to instruct to adjust at least one air interface parameter included in at least one air interface parameter set in the C-DRX configuration parameter set, the BWP configuration parameter set, the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, the MIMO configuration parameter set, the configuration parameter set for detecting the downlink control channel, or the processing time axis configuration parameter set described in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, and of course, other air interface parameters not listed may also be adjusted, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited to specifically adjusting which air interface parameter or parameters, and how to specifically adjust them.

And S85, the terminal equipment adjusts at least one air interface parameter of the terminal equipment according to the configuration information.

And the terminal equipment directly adjusts corresponding air interface parameters according to the indication of the network equipment. Wherein S85 is an optional step and is not necessarily performed.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal device may send the service information of the terminal device to the network device, so that the network device may make a decision according to the service information of the terminal device. Therefore, the network device can perform global evaluation equivalent to how the adjustment should be evaluated by the network device, and compared with a scheme in which the adjustment trend is evaluated by the terminal device, the scheme in which the network device performs evaluation is more complete, and the normal operation of the whole system is more facilitated. And the network device evaluates according to the service information sent by the terminal device, which is helpful for enabling the decision result of the network device to consider the actual situation of the terminal device. And the terminal equipment only reports the characteristics of the service and does not report specific service content, which is also beneficial to maintaining the information security of the terminal equipment.

In both the embodiment shown in fig. 7 and the embodiment shown in fig. 8, the terminal device is required to perform a corresponding processing or analysis process, for example, the embodiment shown in fig. 7 requires the terminal device to determine a corresponding adjustment interval of an air interface parameter by itself, and the embodiment shown in fig. 8 requires the terminal device to obtain information of a characteristic parameter of a service, which requires certain intelligence for the terminal device. In order to solve the same technical problem, a third parameter configuration method is provided below, in which excessive processing and analysis processes are not required for the terminal device, which is helpful for simplifying the implementation of the terminal device, for example, if the terminal device has low intelligence, or if the current power of the terminal device is not enough to perform the processes such as the analysis in the embodiment shown in fig. 7 or the embodiment shown in fig. 8, the third parameter configuration method may be selected.

Please refer to fig. 9, which is a flowchart of a third parameter configuration method. In the following description, the method is applied to the network architecture shown in fig. 6 as an example. In addition, the method may be performed by two communication apparatuses, for example, a fifth communication apparatus and a sixth communication apparatus, where the fifth communication apparatus may be a network device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the network device to implement the functions required by the method, or the fifth communication apparatus may be a terminal device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the functions required by the method, and may of course be other communication apparatuses such as a system on chip. The same is true for the sixth communication apparatus, which may be a network device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the network device to implement the functions required by the method, or the sixth communication apparatus may be a terminal device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the functions required by the method, or of course, other communication apparatuses such as a system on chip may also be used. The fifth communication device and the sixth communication device are not limited to be implemented, for example, the fifth communication device may be a network device, the sixth communication device is a terminal device, or both the fifth communication device and the sixth communication device are network devices, or both the fifth communication device and the sixth communication device are terminal devices, or the fifth communication device is a network device, and the sixth communication device is a communication device capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the functions required by the method, and so on. The network device is, for example, a base station.

For convenience of introduction, in the following, the method is taken as an example executed by a network device and a terminal device, that is, the fifth communication device is a network device, and the sixth communication device is a terminal device. Since the present embodiment is applied to the network architecture shown in fig. 6 as an example, the network device described below may be a network device in the network architecture shown in fig. 6, and the terminal device described below may be a terminal device in the network architecture shown in fig. 6.

And S91, the terminal equipment determines that the power consumption of the terminal equipment is to be adjusted through the air interface parameter set of the first type.

For example, when the terminal device needs to save energy, for example, when the current power is insufficient, S91 may be executed, or when the terminal device needs to increase power consumption, for example, when a service arrives, S91 may be executed. That is to say, the method provided in the embodiment of the present application is used to adjust the power consumption of the terminal device, and since the adjustment is performed, the power consumption of the terminal device may be reduced, or the power consumption of the terminal device may be increased.

For example, the first type of air interface parameter set may include an air interface parameter set for adjusting the delay of the service and/or an air interface parameter set for adjusting the data rate of the service, that is, the first type of air interface parameter set may include an air interface parameter set for adjusting the delay of the service or an air interface parameter set for adjusting the data rate of the service, or an air interface parameter set for adjusting the delay of the service and an air interface parameter set for adjusting the data rate of the service.

The air interface parameter set for adjusting the service delay includes, for example, at least one of a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set introduced in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, and may also include other air interface parameter sets.

The air interface parameter set for adjusting the data rate of the service includes, for example, at least one air interface parameter set in the BWP configuration parameter set, the MIMO configuration parameter set, or the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set introduced in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, and may also include other air interface parameter sets.

Adjusting the first type of air interface parameter set may refer to adjusting at least one air interface parameter in all or part of the air interface parameter set included in the first type of air interface parameter set. For example, the first type of air interface parameter set includes a C-DRX configuration parameter set and a parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, and then adjusting the first type of air interface parameter set may refer to adjusting all air interface parameters included in the C-DRX configuration parameter set and the parameter set for detecting the downlink control channel, or may refer to adjusting part of air interface parameters included in the C-DRX configuration parameter set and the parameter set for detecting the downlink control channel, where the part of the air interface parameters may all belong to the C-DRX configuration parameter set, or all belong to the parameter set for detecting the downlink control channel, or a part of the air interface parameters belongs to the C-DRX configuration parameter set, and another part of the air interface parameters belongs to the parameter set for detecting the downlink control channel.

Here, adjusting power consumption may refer to reducing power consumption, or may refer to increasing power consumption, for example, when the terminal device has no service or needs to save energy, the terminal device may instruct the network device to reduce power consumption, or when the terminal device arrives at a service, the terminal device may instruct the network device to increase power consumption.

And S92, the terminal device sends indication information to a network device, the network device receives the indication information from the terminal device, and the indication information is used for indicating that the power consumption of the terminal device is adjusted by adjusting the air interface parameter set of the first type.

For example, S92 may be identical to S51, and the indication information may be regarded as an auxiliary information. For example, the terminal device may send the indication information to the network device through RRC signaling or MAC CE or UCI.

For example, the indication information may be implemented by 1 bit, if the value of the 1 bit is "1", it indicates that the terminal device wants to adjust the power consumption of the terminal device by adjusting an air interface parameter set used for adjusting the delay of the service, and if the value of the 1 bit is "0", it indicates that the terminal device wants to adjust the power consumption of the terminal device by adjusting an air interface parameter set used for adjusting the data rate of the service. Of course, the implementation of the indication information is not limited thereto.

And S93, the network device determines an adjustment mode of the air interface parameter set of the first type according to the indication information.

When the network device makes a decision, various factors may be considered, for example, the number of users accessing the current network, the configuration of other users, or the scheduling algorithm used by the network device. When the network device determines which air interface parameter or parameters to adjust, because the terminal device instructs the network device to adjust the first type of air interface parameter set, the network device may consider the requirement of the terminal device as much as possible, for example, adjust the power consumption of the terminal device by adjusting the first type of air interface parameter set, so that the decision result better meets the requirement of the terminal device.

For example, the terminal device indicates, by the indication information, that it is desirable to reduce power consumption by adjusting an air interface parameter for adjusting a delay of a service, that is, the terminal device is willing to increase a transmission delay in order to reduce power consumption. After receiving the indication information, the network device may determine that the terminal device adjusts at least one air interface parameter included in at least one air interface parameter set of a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set. Wherein, if the air interface parameter in the C-DRX configuration parameter set is adjusted, for example, the air interface parameter includes at least one of increasing the period of C-DRX, reducing the length of an on duration period in the period of C-DRX, or reducing the length of an inactivity timer period in the period of C-DRX. Adjusting the air interface parameter in the configuration parameter set for detecting the downlink control channel, for example, includes at least one of reducing the number of times of blind detection of the PDCCH, reducing the number of search spaces to be monitored, increasing the monitoring period of the search spaces, or reducing the number of PDCCH candidates. Adjusting and processing the air interface parameter in the time axis parameter set, for example, including at least one of increasing a value of K0, increasing a value of K1, or increasing a value of K2.

Alternatively, the terminal device indicates, by the indication information, that it is desirable to reduce power consumption by adjusting an air interface parameter for adjusting a data rate of the service, that is, the terminal device is willing to reduce a transmission rate in order to reduce power consumption. After receiving the indication information, the network device may determine that the terminal device adjusts at least one air interface parameter included in at least one air interface parameter set of the BWP configuration parameter set, the MIMO configuration parameter set, or the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set. The adjusting of the air interface parameter in the BWP configuration parameter set is, for example, reducing the BWP bandwidth. Adjusting an air interface parameter in the MIMO configuration parameters, for example, reducing the number of antennas configured or activated for the terminal device. Adjusting an air interface parameter in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter, for example, reducing the number of component carriers.

S94, sending, by the network device, configuration information to the terminal device, receiving, by the terminal device, the configuration information from the network device, where the configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment manner of at least one air interface parameter included in the air interface parameter set of the first type, and adjusting the at least one air interface parameter in the air interface parameter set of the first type is used to adjust power consumption of the terminal device.

For example, S94 may be equivalent to S52. For example, the network device may send the configuration information to the terminal device through RRC signaling, or MAC CE, or DCI.

The configuration information may be used to instruct to adjust at least one air interface parameter in the first type of air interface parameter set, and certainly, may also be used to adjust other air interface parameters that do not belong to the first type of air interface parameter set, and the specific adjustment of which air interface parameter or parameters and how to adjust the parameters is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

And S95, the terminal device adjusts at least one air interface parameter included in the first type of air interface parameter set according to the configuration information.

And the terminal equipment directly adjusts corresponding air interface parameters in the air interface parameter set of the first type according to the indication of the network equipment. Of course, if the adjustment result is also used to indicate to adjust other air interface parameters not belonging to the air interface parameter set of the first type, the terminal device may also adjust other air interface parameters not belonging to the air interface parameter set of the first type.

Wherein S95 is an optional step and is not necessarily performed.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal device only needs to inform the network device which kind of parameters need to be adjusted, the terminal device does not need to determine a specific adjustment interval, and the terminal device does not need to acquire specific service characteristic parameters, which is beneficial to simplifying the implementation of the terminal device. And the terminal equipment can directly inform the network equipment of reducing or increasing the power consumption and also inform the network equipment of which type of parameters need to be adjusted, so that the adjustment result can meet the requirements of the terminal equipment as much as possible.

In addition, in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, the terminal device indicates the adjustment interval, and the terminal device needs to determine 2 endpoint values or 1 endpoint value accordingly. In order to solve the same technical problem, an embodiment of the present application further provides a fourth parameter configuration method, where in the fourth parameter configuration method, the terminal device may only need to determine an adjustment direction of the air interface parameter, and in this method, the terminal device may indicate to the network device how to adjust the air interface parameter without determining an endpoint value, which is relatively simple for the terminal device to implement. For example, when the terminal device is not convenient to determine the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter by itself, or when the terminal device has no capability to determine the adjustment interval of the air interface parameter by itself, the fourth parameter configuration method may be adopted.

Fig. 10 is a flowchart of a fourth parameter configuration method. In the following description, the method is applied to the network architecture shown in fig. 6 as an example. In addition, the method may be performed by two communication apparatuses, for example, a seventh communication apparatus and an eighth communication apparatus, where the seventh communication apparatus may be a network device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the network device to implement the functions required by the method, or the seventh communication apparatus may be a terminal device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the functions required by the method, and may of course be other communication apparatuses, such as a system on a chip. The same applies to the eighth communication apparatus, which may be a network device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the network device to implement the functions required by the method, or may be a terminal device or a communication apparatus capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the functions required by the method, or may be other communication apparatuses such as a system on chip. The seventh communication device and the eighth communication device are not limited to be implemented, for example, the seventh communication device may be a network device, the eighth communication device is a terminal device, or the seventh communication device and the eighth communication device are both network devices, or the seventh communication device and the eighth communication device are both terminal devices, or the seventh communication device is a network device, and the eighth communication device is a communication device capable of supporting the terminal device to implement the functions required by the method, and so on. The network device is, for example, a base station.

For convenience of introduction, in the following, the method is performed by the network device and the terminal device as an example, that is, the seventh communication apparatus is the network device, and the eighth communication apparatus is the terminal device as an example. Since the present embodiment is applied to the network architecture shown in fig. 6 as an example, the network device described below may be a network device in the network architecture shown in fig. 6, and the terminal device described below may be a terminal device in the network architecture shown in fig. 6.

S101, a terminal device determines M pieces of configuration information, wherein the M pieces of configuration information are used for indicating adjustment directions of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used for indicating an adjustment direction of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set in the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment direction is used for indicating that a value of the one air interface parameter is adjusted to be larger or smaller, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer larger than or equal to N.

In this embodiment, the configuration information and the air interface parameters are in one-to-one correspondence, and one configuration information corresponds to one (or one) air interface parameter. For example, one of the M pieces of configuration information corresponds to one air interface parameter in the MIMO configuration parameter set, another one of the M pieces of configuration information corresponds to another air interface parameter in the MIMO configuration parameter set, and another one of the M pieces of configuration information corresponds to one air interface parameter in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, and so on, so that the adjustment directions of all air interface parameters or part of air interface parameters included in the N air interface parameter sets can be indicated by the M pieces of configuration information. As introduced above, the N sets of air interface parameters may include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters: a C-DRX configuration parameter set, a BWP configuration parameter set, a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, a MIMO configuration parameter set, a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel, or a processing time axis parameter set. Each of the N sets of air interface parameters may include at least one air interface parameter, and a part of the at least one air interface parameter or each of all the air interface parameters may correspond to the adjustment direction. Whether a certain air interface parameter in the N air interface parameter sets corresponds to the adjustment direction depends on whether the terminal device determines that the air interface parameter needs to be adjusted.

Since the adjustment direction is equivalent to indicating the adjustable range, so that the network device can make a decision according to the adjustable range, the terminal device does not directly indicate the adjustment result, but determines the final adjustment result after the network device makes a decision, and the decision right is still at the network device, which meets the design purpose of the cellular network. Moreover, the terminal device only indicates the adjustment direction of the air interface parameter to the network device, does not indicate the actual service condition of the terminal device, and is also beneficial to protecting the information security of the terminal device.

In this embodiment of the present application, an adjustment direction may indicate to increase or decrease a value of a corresponding air interface parameter, where the "direction" refers to a direction in which the value is increased or a direction in which the value is decreased. In this case, it can be understood that if an adjustment direction indicates that the value of the corresponding air interface parameter is increased, it is equivalent to indicating that the value of the corresponding air interface parameter is increased on the basis of the current value of the air interface parameter, and if the value of the corresponding air interface parameter is decreased, it is equivalent to indicating that the value of the air interface parameter corresponding to the air interface parameter is decreased on the basis of the current value, so that it can also be considered that an adjustment direction implicitly indicates that the current value of the air interface parameter is used as an endpoint value for adjustment.

For example, for the BWP configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the air interface parameters included in the BWP configuration parameter set, it may determine configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters that need to be adjusted and included in the BWP configuration parameter set, where one configuration information may indicate an adjustment direction, and the adjustment direction may be used to indicate that values of corresponding air interface parameters in the BWP configuration parameter set are to be increased or decreased. For example, when the terminal device wishes to save power, it wishes to adjust the null parameter of the BWP bandwidth in the BWP configuration parameter set, and then the corresponding configuration information may indicate that the BWP bandwidth is to be adjusted down, or when the terminal device's traffic arrives, it wishes to adjust the null parameter of the BWP bandwidth in the BWP configuration parameter set, and then the corresponding configuration information may indicate that the BWP bandwidth is to be adjusted up.

For example, for a C-DRX configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust air interface parameters included in the C-DRX configuration parameter set, configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters to be adjusted included in the C-DRX configuration parameter set may be determined, where one configuration information may indicate an adjustment direction, and the adjustment direction may be used to indicate that values of corresponding air interface parameters in the C-DRX configuration parameter set are to be increased or decreased. For example, when the terminal device wants to save power, and wants to adjust three air interface parameters, namely the cycle of C-DRX, the length of on duration period in C-DRX, and the length of inactivity timer period in C-DRX in the C-DRX configuration parameter set, one configuration information may indicate that the cycle of C-DRX is to be increased, another configuration information may indicate that the length of on duration period in C-DRX is to be decreased, and still another configuration information may indicate that the length of inactivity timer period in C-DRX is to be decreased. Or, when the service of the terminal device arrives, it is desirable to adjust three air interface parameters, namely, the cycle of C-DRX in the C-DRX configuration parameter set, the length of the on duration period in C-DRX, and the length of the inactivity timer period in C-DRX, then one configuration information may indicate to decrease the cycle of C-DRX, another configuration information may indicate to increase the length of the on duration period in C-DRX, and still another configuration information may indicate to increase the length of the inactivity timer period in C-DRX.

For example, for a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust an air interface parameter included in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameter to be adjusted included in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set may be determined, where one configuration information may indicate an adjustment direction, and the adjustment direction may be used to indicate that a value of the air interface parameter corresponding to the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set is increased or decreased. For example, when the terminal device desires to save power, it desires to adjust an air interface parameter, which is the number of component carriers in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, and the corresponding configuration information may indicate to increase the number of component carriers. Or, when the service of the terminal device arrives, it is desirable to adjust the number of component carriers in the carrier aggregation configuration parameter set, which is an air interface parameter, and the corresponding configuration information may indicate to reduce the number of component carriers.

For example, for the MIMO configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the air interface parameters included in the MIMO configuration parameter set, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters to be adjusted included in the MIMO configuration parameter set, where one of the configuration information may indicate an adjustment direction, and the adjustment direction may be used to indicate that a value of a corresponding air interface parameter in the MIMO configuration parameter set is increased or decreased. For example, when the terminal device wants to save power, it wants to adjust the null parameter, which is the number of antennas of the terminal device in the MIMO configuration parameter set, and the corresponding configuration information may indicate that fewer antennas are configured or activated. Or, when the service of the terminal device arrives, it is desirable to adjust the null parameter, which is the number of antennas of the terminal device in the MIMO configuration parameter set, and the corresponding configuration information may indicate that more antennas are to be configured or activated.

For example, for a configuration parameter set used for detecting a downlink control channel, if a terminal device needs to instruct a network device to adjust air interface parameters included in the configuration parameter set used for detecting the downlink control channel, configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters to be adjusted included in the configuration parameter set used for detecting the downlink control channel may be determined, where one configuration information may indicate an adjustment direction, and the adjustment direction may be used to indicate that values of corresponding air interface parameters in the configuration parameter set used for detecting the downlink control channel are increased or decreased. For example, when the terminal device desires to save energy, it is desirable to adjust several air interface parameters, i.e., the number of times of detecting the blind PDCCH in the configuration parameter set for the downlink control channel, the number of search spaces to be monitored, the monitoring period of the search spaces, and the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in the search spaces, so that the first configuration information may indicate to reduce the number of times of detecting the blind PDCCH, the second configuration information may indicate to reduce the number of search spaces to be monitored, the third configuration information indicates to increase the monitoring period of one or more search spaces, and the fourth configuration information may indicate to reduce the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in one or more search spaces. Or, when the service of the terminal device arrives, it is desirable to adjust several air interface parameters, which are the number of times of detecting the blind PDCCH, the number of search spaces to be monitored, the monitoring period of the search spaces, and the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in the search spaces, in the configuration parameter set for detecting the downlink control channel, then, the first configuration information may indicate to increase the number of times of detecting the blind PDCCH, the second configuration information may indicate to increase the number of search spaces to be monitored, the third configuration information may indicate to decrease the monitoring period of one or more search spaces, and the fourth configuration information indicates to increase the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in one or more search spaces.

For example, for processing the time axis configuration parameter set, if the terminal device needs to instruct the network device to adjust the air interface parameters included in the processing time axis configuration parameter set, the terminal device may determine configuration information corresponding to the air interface parameters to be adjusted included in the processing time axis configuration parameter set, where one configuration information may indicate an adjustment direction, and the adjustment direction may be used to indicate that values of corresponding air interface parameters in the processing time axis configuration parameter set are to be increased or decreased. For example, when the terminal device desires to save energy, it is desirable to adjust three air interface parameters, that is, K0, K1, and K2, in the processing time axis configuration parameter set, one piece of configuration information may indicate to increase a value of K0, another piece of configuration information may indicate to increase a value of K1, and another piece of configuration information may indicate to increase a value of K2. Or, when the service of the terminal device arrives, it is desirable to adjust and process three air interface parameters, that is, K0, K1, and K2, in the time axis configuration parameter set, one piece of configuration information may indicate to decrease the value of K0, another piece of configuration information may indicate to decrease the value of K1, and another piece of configuration information may indicate to decrease the value of K2.

S102, the terminal device sends M pieces of configuration information to the network device, and the network device receives the M pieces of configuration information from the terminal device.

For example, S72 may be equal to S51, and then M pieces of configuration information may be regarded as one piece of auxiliary information.

After determining the M pieces of configuration information, the terminal device may send the M pieces of configuration information to the network device. In the embodiment of the application, the terminal device sends the M pieces of configuration information to the network device through at least one signaling. Each of the at least one signaling is, for example, RRC signaling, or MAC CE, or DCI. Or if the number of the at least one signaling is greater than 1, the type of the at least one signaling may also be different, for example, part of the signaling in the at least one signaling is RRC, and the rest part of the signaling is MAC CE.

For example, the number of at least one signaling is greater than 1, that is, the terminal device may send M pieces of configuration information to the network device through at least two pieces of signaling, for example, each of the at least two pieces of signaling is referred to as a second signaling. In this embodiment, the number of the second signaling may be equal to M, the at least two pieces of second signaling include M pieces of configuration information, and each of the at least two pieces of second signaling includes one piece of configuration information of the M pieces of configuration information, that is, the second signaling and the configuration information are in one-to-one correspondence, which makes it easier for the network device to identify each piece of configuration information, and also avoids too much loss of configuration information due to loss of one piece of signaling as much as possible. Or, the number of the at least two second signaling may also be smaller than M, for example, each of the at least two second signaling may include at least two pieces of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information, or each of partial second signaling in the at least two second signaling includes at least two pieces of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information, and each of remaining partial second signaling in the at least two second signaling includes one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information. In addition, if the terminal device sends at least two pieces of second signaling to the network device, the at least two pieces of second signaling may be sent simultaneously, or may be sent in a time-sharing manner, and if the terminal device sends in a time-sharing manner, a specific sending sequence is not limited.

Alternatively, the number of at least one signaling is equal to 1, that is, the terminal device may send M pieces of configuration information to the network device through one signaling, for example, the signaling is referred to as a first signaling. By the method, system overhead can be saved to a large extent, M pieces of configuration information can be carried by one piece of signaling, and the utilization rate of the signaling is improved. As an implementation manner in which the terminal device sends the M pieces of configuration information to the network device through the first signaling, the terminal device may send the first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap (bitmap), the bitmap may include N bits, and the N bits may be regarded as indicating the M pieces of configuration information, where each bit of the N bits is used to indicate one piece of configuration information of the M pieces of configuration information, for example, one bit indicates one piece of configuration information, and may be, the bit is the configuration information. In this case, the bits and the configuration information may be in a one-to-one correspondence relationship, and a specific bit corresponds to which configuration information (or corresponds to which air interface parameter), and is configured in advance by the network device, or is specified by a protocol. Therefore, M pieces of configuration information can be indicated through the bitmap, the mode is simple, and the overhead is saved.

Since 1 bit represents a configuration information, what each bit indicates at all may be predefined, e.g., pre-configured by the network device or predefined by a protocol. For example, if the bit in bitmap is set to "1", it indicates that the adjustment direction of the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, and if the bit in bitmap is set to "0", it indicates that the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information does not need to be adjusted; or, if the bit in bitmap takes a value of "1", it indicates that the adjustment direction of the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information is to restore the original parameter value as much as possible, and if the bit in bitmap takes a value of "0", it indicates that the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information does not need to be adjusted, and on the premise of this, the value of the corresponding air interface parameter is adjusted in advance, the original value can be restored by this way; or, if the bit in the bitmap is set to "0", it indicates that the adjustment direction of the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information is to restore the original parameter value as much as possible, and if the bit in the bitmap is set to "1", it indicates that the adjustment direction of the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment.

For example, if the bit in the bitmap is set to "1", it indicates that the air interface parameter adjustment direction corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, and if the bit in the bitmap is set to "0", it indicates that the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information does not need to be adjusted, for example, for 1 bit corresponding to the BWP bandwidth, if the value of the 1 bit is set to "0", it indicates that the BWP bandwidth does not need to be adjusted, and if the value of the 1 bit is set to "1", it indicates that the adjustment direction corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, that is, it indicates that the BWP bandwidth needs to be reduced; or the protocol specifies that if the bit in the bitmap is set to "1", it indicates that the adjustment direction of the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information is to restore the original parameter value as much as possible, and if the bit in the bitmap is set to "0", it indicates that the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information does not need to be adjusted, for example, for 1 bit corresponding to the BWP bandwidth, if the value of the 1 bit is set to "0", it indicates that the BWP bandwidth does not need to be adjusted, and if the value of the 1 bit is set to "1", it indicates that the adjustment direction corresponding to the configuration information is to restore the original parameter value of the BWP bandwidth as much as possible, then if the original value of the BWP bandwidth is smaller than the current value of the BWP bandwidth, the 1 bit indicates that the BWP bandwidth is to be reduced, and if the original value of the BWP bandwidth is larger than the current value of the BWP bandwidth, the 1 bit indicates that the BWP bandwidth is to be increased; or the protocol provides that if the bit in bitmap is "0", it indicates that the adjustment direction of the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information is to restore the original parameter value as much as possible, and if the bit in bitmap is "1", it indicates that the adjustment direction of the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, for example, if the value of 1 bit is "0" for 1 bit corresponding to the BWP bandwidth, it indicates that the adjustment direction corresponding to the configuration information is to restore the original parameter value of the BWP bandwidth as much as possible, then if the original value of the BWP bandwidth is smaller than the current value of the BWP bandwidth, then the value of 1 bit indicates to reduce the BWP bandwidth, and if the original value of the BWP bandwidth is greater than the current value of the BWP bandwidth, then the value of 1 bit indicates to increase the BWP bandwidth, and if the value of 1 bit is "1", indicating that the adjustment direction of the BWP bandwidth corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after the adjustment, that is, indicating that the BWP bandwidth is to be reduced.

Through the mode that this application embodiment provided, can realize the adjustment to the empty port parameter, also can realize the recovery to the value of empty port parameter, and only need can realize through bitmap, the mode is simple, and the instruction is clear, helps reducing system overhead moreover.

For example, for six air interfaces, such as the C-DRX cycle in the C-DRX configuration parameter set, the BWP bandwidth in the BWP configuration parameter set, the number of component carriers in the CA configuration parameter set, the number of antennas of the terminal device in the MIMO configuration parameter set, the number of times for detecting the blind PDCCH in the configuration parameter set for the downlink control channel, and K2 in the processing time axis configuration parameter set, the terminal device may use a 6-bit bitmap to indicate, where the 6 bits respectively correspond to the six air interface parameters, for example, the 6 bits respectively correspond to the six air interface parameters from high to low, and the respectively corresponding air interface parameters are the C-DRX cycle, the BWP bandwidth, the number of component carriers, the number of antennas of the terminal device, the number of times for blind PDCCH, and K2. And if the bit in the bitmap is set to be "1", it indicates that the adjustment direction corresponding to the configuration information is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, and if the bit in the bitmap is set to be "0", it indicates that the air interface parameter corresponding to the configuration information does not need to be adjusted. For example, the terminal device sends a first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, and the bitmap is 010100, which means that both the adjustment direction corresponding to the BWP bandwidth and the adjustment direction corresponding to the number of antennas of the terminal device are to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment. Then, the adjustment direction corresponding to the BWP bandwidth is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, which may indicate that the BWP bandwidth is to be reduced, and the adjustment direction corresponding to the number of antennas of the terminal device is to reduce the power consumption of the terminal device after adjustment, which may indicate that the number of antennas of the terminal device is to be reduced.

When the indication is performed through bitmap, the terminal device may simply inform the network device which air interface parameter needs to be subjected to energy saving, and as for how to achieve the purpose of energy saving, whether the value of the air interface parameter should be increased or decreased may be determined by the network device, which is equivalent to that in this way, the configuration information implicitly indicates the adjustment direction of the air interface parameter.

S103, determining, by the network device, an adjustment manner for M air interface parameters indicated by the M configuration information according to the M configuration information, where the M air interface parameters belong to the N air interface parameter sets.

And the network equipment makes a decision according to the M pieces of configuration information to determine an adjustment mode of M air interface parameters indicated by the M pieces of configuration information. When the network device makes a decision, in addition to the M pieces of configuration information, other factors may also be considered, for example, the number of users accessing the current network, the configuration of other users, or a scheduling algorithm used by the network device. However, the terminal device indicates the adjustment directions corresponding to the M air interface parameters to the network device, so that the network device may consider the requirements of the terminal device as much as possible during the decision making, and the decision making result better conforms to the actual situation of the terminal device.

S104, the network device sends an adjustment result to the terminal device, and the terminal device receives the adjustment result from the network device, wherein the adjustment result is used for indicating the mode of at least one air interface parameter in the M air interface parameters.

For example, S104 may be equivalent to S52. For example, the network device may send the adjustment result to the terminal device through RRC signaling, or MAC CE, or DCI.

The adjustment result may be used to instruct to adjust at least one air interface parameter of the M air interface parameters, and certainly, may also instruct to adjust other air interface parameters. The embodiments of the present application are not limited to specifically adjusting which air interface parameters of the M air interface parameters, and how to specifically adjust.

And S105, the terminal equipment adjusts the at least one air interface parameter in the M air interface parameters according to the adjustment result.

And the terminal equipment directly adjusts corresponding air interface parameters according to the indication of the network equipment.

Wherein S105 is an optional step and is not necessarily performed.

In this embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may determine M pieces of configuration information used for indicating adjustment directions of M air interface parameters of the terminal device, and the adjustment directions may indicate how to adjust the air interface parameters, so that the M pieces of configuration information determined by the terminal device itself are the configuration information capable of reflecting an actual situation of the terminal device. After the M pieces of configuration information are sent to the network device, the network device may use the M pieces of configuration information as a reference when configuring the air interface parameters for the terminal device, so that the configured air interface parameters can take into consideration the actual requirements of the terminal device as much as possible, and the configuration result is consistent with the actual working condition of the terminal device as much as possible. In addition, in the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device only indicates the adjustment direction of the air interface parameter to the network device, instead of directly indicating the adjustment result to the network device, and the network device has a decision right on how to configure the air interface parameter finally, which also conforms to the working mode of the current communication system. In addition, the terminal equipment only needs to indicate the adjustment direction to the network equipment, a specific adjustment value does not need to be indicated, and the terminal equipment is simple to realize.

The following describes an apparatus for implementing the above method in the embodiment of the present application with reference to the drawings. Therefore, the above contents can be used in the subsequent embodiments, and the repeated contents are not repeated.

Fig. 11 shows a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus 1100. The communication apparatus 1100 may implement the functions of the terminal device referred to above. The communication apparatus 1100 may be the terminal device described above, or may be a chip provided in the terminal device described above. The communication device 1100 may include a processor 1101 and a transceiver 1102. Among other things, processor 1101 may be used to perform S71 and S75 in the embodiment shown in FIG. 7, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver 1102 may be configured to perform S72 and S74 in the embodiment illustrated in fig. 7, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the processor 1101 is configured to determine M pieces of configuration information, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment interval of N air interface parameter sets of the communication apparatus 1100, where each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment interval is used to adjust a value of the one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N;

A transceiver 1102 configured to send the M pieces of configuration information to a network device.

All relevant contents of each step related to the above method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

Fig. 12 shows a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus 1200. The communication apparatus 1200 may implement the functionality of the network devices referred to above. The communication apparatus 1200 may be the network device described above, or may be a chip provided in the network device described above. The communication device 1200 may include a processor 1201 and a transceiver 1202. Processor 1201 may be used, among other things, to perform S73 in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver 1202 may be configured to perform S72 and S74 in the embodiment illustrated in fig. 7, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the transceiver 1202 is configured to receive M pieces of configuration information from a terminal device, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment interval of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, where each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment interval is used to adjust a value of the one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N;

A processor 1201, configured to determine, according to the M configurations, adjustment manners for the M air interface parameters indicated by the M configuration information;

the transceiver 1202 is further configured to send an adjustment result to the terminal device, where the adjustment result is used to indicate an adjustment manner for at least one air interface parameter of the M air interface parameters.

All relevant contents of the steps related to the method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

Fig. 13 shows a schematic structure diagram of a communication apparatus 1300. The communication apparatus 1300 may implement the functions of the terminal device referred to above. The communication apparatus 1300 may be the terminal device described above, or may be a chip provided in the terminal device described above. The communication device 1300 may include a processor 1301 and a transceiver 1302. The processor 1301 may be used to perform, among other things, S81 and S85 in the embodiment illustrated in fig. 8, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver 1302 may be used to perform S82 and S84 in the embodiment shown in fig. 8, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, processor 1301, determines information of a characteristic parameter of a service of communication apparatus 1300;

a transceiver 1302, configured to send information of the characteristic parameter to a network device, where the information of the characteristic parameter is used to configure an air interface parameter for the communication apparatus 1300;

the transceiver 1302 is further configured to receive configuration information from the network device, where the configuration information is used to configure the air interface parameter, and the configuration of the air interface parameter is used to adjust power consumption of the communication apparatus 1300.

All relevant contents of each step related to the above method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

Fig. 14 shows a schematic structure of a communication apparatus 1400. The communication apparatus 1400 may implement the functionality of the network device referred to above. The communication apparatus 1400 may be the network device described above, or may be a chip disposed in the network device described above. The communication device 1400 may include a processor 1401 and a transceiver 1402. Processor 1401 may be used, among other things, to perform S83 in the embodiment shown in fig. 8, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver 1402 may be used to perform S82 and S84 in the embodiment shown in fig. 8, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the transceiver 1402 is configured to receive information of a characteristic parameter from a terminal device, where the information of the characteristic parameter is information of a characteristic parameter of a service of the terminal device;

a processor 1401, configured to determine configuration information of an air interface parameter of the terminal device according to the information of the characteristic parameter;

the transceiver 1402 is further configured to send the configuration information to the terminal device, where the configuration information is used to configure an air interface parameter of the terminal device, and the configuring of the air interface parameter is used to adjust power consumption of the terminal device.

All relevant contents of each step related to the above method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

Fig. 15 shows a schematic configuration diagram of a communication apparatus 1500. The communication apparatus 1500 may implement the functions of the terminal device referred to above. The communication apparatus 1500 may be the terminal device described above, or may be a chip provided in the terminal device described above. The communications apparatus 1500 can include a processor 1501 and a transceiver 1502. Among other things, the processor 1501 may be used to perform S91 and S95 in the embodiment illustrated in fig. 9, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver 1502 may be used to perform S92 and S94 in the embodiment shown in fig. 9, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the processor 1501 is configured to determine that the communications apparatus 1500 is to adjust power consumption of the communications apparatus 1500 through a first type of air interface parameter set;

the transceiver 1502 is configured to send, to a network device, indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate that power consumption is adjusted by adjusting an air interface parameter included in the first type of air interface parameter set.

All relevant contents of the steps related to the method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

Fig. 16 shows a schematic diagram of a communication device 1600. The communication apparatus 1600 may implement the functions of the network devices referred to above. The communication apparatus 1600 may be the network device described above, or may be a chip disposed in the network device described above. The communication device 1600 may include a processor 1601 and a transceiver 1602. Processor 1601 may be configured to perform, among other things, S93 in the embodiment illustrated in fig. 9, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver 1602 may be used to perform S92 and S94 in the embodiment shown in fig. 9, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the transceiver 1602 is configured to receive indication information from a terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate that power consumption is adjusted by adjusting an air interface parameter included in the first type of air interface parameter set;

a processor 1601, configured to determine, according to the indication information, an adjustment manner for the air interface parameter set of the first type;

the transceiver 1602 is further configured to send configuration information to the terminal device, where the configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment manner for at least one air interface parameter included in the first type of air interface parameter set.

All relevant contents of the steps related to the method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

Fig. 17 shows a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus 1700. The communication apparatus 1700 may implement the functions of the terminal device referred to above. The communication apparatus 1700 may be the terminal device described above, or may be a chip provided in the terminal device described above. The communications apparatus 1700 can include a processor 1501 and a transceiver 1502. The processor 1701 may be used, among other things, to perform S101 and S105 in the embodiment shown in fig. 10, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. Transceiver 1702 may be used to perform S102 and S104 in the embodiment shown in fig. 10, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the processor 1701 is configured to determine M pieces of configuration information, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate adjustment directions of N air interface parameter sets of the communication apparatus 1700, where each of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment direction of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment direction is used to indicate that a value of the one air interface parameter is increased or decreased, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N;

a transceiver 1702 for transmitting the M pieces of configuration information to a network device.

All relevant contents of each step related to the above method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

Fig. 18 shows a schematic diagram of a communication device 1800. The communication device 1800 may implement the functionality of the network equipment referred to above. The communication device 1800 may be the network device described above, or may be a chip disposed in the network device described above. The communications apparatus 1600 can include a processor 1801 and a transceiver 1802. Among other things, the processor 1801 may be used to perform S103 in the embodiment illustrated in fig. 10, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. Transceiver 1802 may be used to perform S102 and S104 in the embodiment illustrated in fig. 10, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the transceiver 1802 is configured to receive M pieces of configuration information from a terminal device, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment direction of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, where each of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment direction of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment direction is used to indicate that a value of the one air interface parameter is increased or decreased, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N;

a processor 1801, configured to determine, according to the M configurations, adjustment manners for the M air interface parameters indicated by the M configuration information;

the transceiver 1802 is further configured to send an adjustment result to the terminal device, where the adjustment result is used to indicate an adjustment manner for at least one air interface parameter of the M air interface parameters.

All relevant contents of the steps related to the method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

In a simple embodiment, those skilled in the art can also realize the communication apparatus 1100, the communication apparatus 1200, the communication apparatus 1300, the communication apparatus 1400, the communication apparatus 1500, the communication apparatus 1600, the communication apparatus 1700, or the communication apparatus 1800 by the structure of the communication apparatus 1900 as shown in fig. 19A. The communication apparatus 1900 may implement the functions of the terminal device or the network device mentioned above. The communications device 1900 may include a processor 1901.

Wherein, when the communications apparatus 1900 is used to implement the functions of the terminal device referred to above, the processor 1901 may be used to execute S71 and S75 in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein; alternatively, when the communications apparatus 1900 is used to implement the functions of the network devices referred to above, the processor 1901 may be used to execute S73 in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. Alternatively, when the communications apparatus 1900 is used to implement the functions of the terminal device referred to above, the processor 1901 may be used to perform S81 and S85 in the embodiment illustrated in fig. 8, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein; alternatively, where the communications apparatus 1900 is configured to implement the functionality of the network devices referred to above, the processor 1901 may be configured to execute S83 in the embodiment illustrated in fig. 8, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. Alternatively, when the communications apparatus 1900 is configured to implement the functions of the terminal device referred to above, the processor 1901 may be configured to execute S91 and S95 in the embodiment shown in fig. 9, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein; alternatively, where the communications apparatus 1900 is configured to implement the functionality of the network devices referred to above, the processor 1901 may be configured to execute S93 in the embodiment illustrated in fig. 9, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. Alternatively, when the communications apparatus 1900 is configured to implement the functions of the terminal device mentioned above, the processor 1901 may be configured to execute S101 and S105 in the embodiment shown in fig. 10, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein; alternatively, where the communications apparatus 1900 is configured to implement the functionality of the network devices referred to above, the processor 1901 may be configured to execute S103 in the embodiment shown in fig. 10, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

The communication device 1900 may be implemented by a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a system on chip (SoC), a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Network Processor (NP), a digital signal processing circuit (DSP), a Micro Controller Unit (MCU), or a programmable controller (PLD) or other integrated chips, and the communication device 1400 may be disposed in the terminal device or the network device of the embodiment of the present application, so that the terminal device or the first network device implements the method of the embodiment of the present application.

In an alternative implementation, the communications apparatus 1900 may include a transceiver component for communicating with other devices. Where the communications apparatus 1900 is used to implement the functions of the terminal device or the network device referred to above, the transceiving components may be used to perform S72 and S74 in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. Alternatively, when the communications apparatus 1900 is used to implement the functions of the terminal device or the network device referred to above, the transceiving component may be used to perform S82 and S84 in the embodiment shown in fig. 8, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. Alternatively, when the communications apparatus 1900 is used to implement the functions of the terminal device or the network device referred to above, the transceiving component may be used to perform S92 and S94 in the embodiment shown in fig. 9, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. Alternatively, when the communications apparatus 1900 is used to implement the functions of the terminal device or the network device referred to above, the transceiving component may be used to perform S102 and S104 in the embodiment shown in fig. 10, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

In an alternative implementation, the communications device 1900 may further include a memory 1902, which may refer to fig. 19B, wherein the memory 1902 is used for storing computer programs or instructions, and the processor 1901 is used for decoding and executing the computer programs or instructions. It will be appreciated that these computer programs or instructions may comprise the functional programs of the terminal devices or network devices described above. When the functional program of the terminal device is decoded and executed by the processor 1901, the terminal device may be enabled to implement the functions of the terminal device in the method provided by the embodiment shown in fig. 7 in the embodiment of the present application, or the functions of the terminal device in the method provided by the embodiment shown in fig. 8 in the embodiment of the present application, or the functions of the terminal device in the method provided by the embodiment shown in fig. 9 in the embodiment of the present application, or the functions of the terminal device in the method provided by the embodiment shown in fig. 10 in the embodiment of the present application. When the functional program of the network device is decoded and executed by the processor 1901, the network device may implement the function of the network device in the method provided in the embodiment shown in fig. 7 in the present application, or implement the function of the network device in the method provided in the embodiment shown in fig. 8 in the present application, or implement the function of the network device in the method provided in the embodiment shown in fig. 9 in the present application, or implement the function of the network device in the method provided in the embodiment shown in fig. 10 in the present application.

In an alternative implementation, the functional programs of these terminal devices or network devices are stored in a memory external to communications apparatus 1900. When the terminal device function program is decoded and executed by the processor 1901, part or all of the terminal device function program is temporarily stored in the memory 1902. When the functional program of the network device is decoded and executed by the processor 1901, part or all of the functional program of the network device is temporarily stored in the memory 1902.

In an alternative implementation, the functional programs of these terminal devices or network devices are provided in the memory 1902 stored inside the communication apparatus 1900. When the memory 1902 inside the communication apparatus 1900 stores a function program of the terminal device, the communication apparatus 1900 may be provided in the terminal device of the embodiment of the present application. When the memory 1902 inside the communication apparatus 1900 stores therein a function program of a network device, the communication apparatus 1900 may be provided in the network device according to the embodiment of the present application.

In yet another alternative implementation, part of the contents of the functional programs of these terminal devices are stored in a memory external to the communication apparatus 1900, and the other part of the contents of the functional programs of these terminal devices are stored in a memory 1902 inside the communication apparatus 1900. Alternatively, part of the contents of the function programs of these network devices are stored in a memory external to communication apparatus 1900, and the other part of the contents of the function programs of these network devices are stored in memory 1902 inside communication apparatus 1900.

In the embodiment of the present application, the communication apparatus 1100, the communication apparatus 1200, the communication apparatus 1300, the communication apparatus 1400, the communication apparatus 1500, the communication apparatus 1600, the communication apparatus 1700, the communication apparatus 1800, and the communication apparatus 1900 are presented in a form in which each function is divided into respective functional modules, or may be presented in a form in which each functional module is divided in an integrated manner. As used herein, a "module" may refer to an ASIC, a processor and memory that execute one or more software or firmware programs, an integrated logic circuit, and/or other components that provide the described functionality.

In addition, the embodiment shown in fig. 11 provides a communication apparatus 1100 which can be implemented in other forms. For example, the communication device includes a processing module and a transceiver module. For example, the processing module may be implemented by the processor 1101 and the transceiver module may be implemented by the transceiver 1102. Among other things, the processing module may be used to perform S71 and S75 in the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 7, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver module may be used to perform S72 and S74 in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the processing module is configured to determine M pieces of configuration information, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment interval of N air interface parameter sets of the communication apparatus, where each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment interval is used to adjust a value of the one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N;

and the transceiver module is used for sending the M pieces of configuration information to network equipment.

All relevant contents of the steps related to the method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

The embodiment shown in fig. 12 provides a communication apparatus 1200 which can be implemented in other forms. For example, the communication device includes a processing module and a transceiver module. For example, the processing module may be implemented by the processor 1201, and the transceiver module may be implemented by the transceiver 1202. Among other things, the processing module may be used to perform S73 in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver module may be used to perform S72 and S74 in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the transceiver module is configured to receive M pieces of configuration information from a terminal device, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment interval of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, where each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment interval is used to adjust a value of the one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N;

a processing module, configured to determine, according to the M configurations, adjustment manners for the M air interface parameters indicated by the M configuration information;

and the transceiver module is further configured to send an adjustment result to the terminal device, where the adjustment result is used to indicate an adjustment mode for at least one air interface parameter of the M air interface parameters.

All relevant contents of each step related to the above method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

The embodiment shown in fig. 13 provides a communication apparatus 1300 which can be implemented in other forms. The communication device comprises, for example, a processing module and a transceiver module. For example, the processing module may be implemented by the processor 1301 and the transceiver module may be implemented by the transceiver 1302. Among other things, the processing module may be used to perform S81 and S85 in the embodiment shown in FIG. 8, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver module may be used to perform S82 and S84 in the embodiment shown in fig. 8, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, a processing module for determining information of characteristic parameters of a service of the communication device;

a transceiver module, configured to send information of the characteristic parameter to a network device, where the information of the characteristic parameter is used to configure an air interface parameter for the communication apparatus;

the transceiver module is further configured to receive configuration information from the network device, where the configuration information is used to configure the air interface parameter, and the configuration of the air interface parameter is used to adjust power consumption of the communication apparatus.

All relevant contents of each step related to the above method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

The embodiment shown in fig. 14 provides a communication device 1400 that may be implemented in other forms. The communication device comprises, for example, a processing module and a transceiver module. For example, the processing means may be embodied by the processor 1401 and the transceiver means may be embodied by the transceiver 1402. Among other things, the processing module may be used to perform S83 in the embodiment shown in fig. 8, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver module may be used to perform S82 and S84 in the embodiment shown in fig. 8, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the transceiver module is configured to receive information of a characteristic parameter from a terminal device, where the information of the characteristic parameter is information of a characteristic parameter of a service of the terminal device;

the processing module is used for determining configuration information of air interface parameters of the terminal equipment according to the information of the characteristic parameters;

the transceiver module is further configured to send the configuration information to the terminal device, where the configuration information is used to configure an air interface parameter of the terminal device, and the configuration of the air interface parameter is used to adjust power consumption of the terminal device.

All relevant contents of the steps related to the method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

The embodiment shown in fig. 15 provides a communication apparatus 1500 which can be realized in other forms. The communication device comprises, for example, a processing module and a transceiver module. For example, the processing module may be implemented by the processor 1501 and the transceiver module may be implemented by the transceiver 1502. Among other things, the processing module may be used to perform S91 and S95 in the embodiment shown in FIG. 9, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver module may be used to perform S92 and S94 in the embodiment shown in fig. 9, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the processing module is configured to determine that the communication apparatus is to adjust power consumption of the communication apparatus through a first type of air interface parameter set;

and the transceiver module is configured to send indication information to the network device, where the indication information is used to indicate that power consumption is adjusted by adjusting the air interface parameters included in the first type of air interface parameter set.

All relevant contents of each step related to the above method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

The embodiment shown in fig. 16 provides a communication device 1600 that can also be implemented in other forms. For example, the communication device includes a processing module and a transceiver module. For example, the processing module may be implemented by the processor 1601 and the transceiver module may be implemented by the transceiver 1602. Among other things, the processing module may be used to perform S93 in the embodiment shown in fig. 9, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver module may be used to perform S92 and S94 in the embodiment shown in fig. 9, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the transceiver module is configured to receive indication information from a terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate that power consumption is adjusted by adjusting an air interface parameter included in the first type of air interface parameter set;

A processing module, configured to determine, according to the indication information, an adjustment mode for the first type of air interface parameter set;

the transceiver module is further configured to send configuration information to the terminal device, where the configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment manner for at least one air interface parameter included in the first type of air interface parameter set.

All relevant contents of the steps related to the method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

The embodiment shown in fig. 17 provides a communication apparatus 1700 which can be implemented in other forms. For example, the communication device includes a processing module and a transceiver module. For example, the processing module may be implemented by the processor 1701, and the transceiver module may be implemented by the transceiver 1702. Among other things, the processing module may be used to perform S101 and S105 in the embodiment shown in fig. 10, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver module may be used to perform S102 and S104 in the embodiment shown in fig. 10, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the processing module is configured to determine M pieces of configuration information, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment direction of N air interface parameter sets of the communication apparatus, where each of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment direction of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment direction is used to indicate that a value of the one air interface parameter is increased or decreased, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N;

And the transceiver module is used for sending the M pieces of configuration information to network equipment.

All relevant contents of the steps related to the method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

The embodiment shown in fig. 18 provides a communication device 1800 that may also be implemented in other forms. For example, the communication device includes a processing module and a transceiver module. For example, the processing module may be implemented by the processor 1801 and the transceiver module may be implemented by the transceiver 1802. Among other things, the processing module may be used to perform S103 in the embodiment shown in fig. 10, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein. The transceiver module may be used to perform S102 and S104 in the embodiment shown in fig. 10, and/or other processes for supporting the techniques described herein.

For example, the transceiver module is configured to receive M pieces of configuration information from a terminal device, where the M pieces of configuration information are used to indicate an adjustment direction of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, where each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment direction of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set of the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment direction is used to indicate that a value of the one air interface parameter is adjusted up or down, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than or equal to N;

A processing module, configured to determine, according to the M configurations, adjustment manners for the M air interface parameters indicated by the M configuration information;

and the transceiver module is further configured to send an adjustment result to the terminal device, where the adjustment result is used to indicate an adjustment mode for at least one air interface parameter of the M air interface parameters.

All relevant contents of the steps related to the method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

Since the communication device 1100, the communication device 1200, the communication device 1300, the communication device 1400, the communication device 1500, the communication device 1600, the communication device 1700, the communication device 1800, and the communication device 1900 provided in the embodiments of the present application can be used to execute the method provided in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, the method provided in the embodiment shown in fig. 8, the method provided in the embodiment shown in fig. 9, or the method provided in the embodiment shown in fig. 10, the technical effects obtained by the methods can refer to the above method embodiments, and are not described herein again.

Embodiments of the present application are described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the application. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

In the above embodiments, all or part of the implementation may be 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. The procedures or functions described in accordance with the embodiments of the application are all or partially generated when the computer program instructions are loaded and executed on a computer. 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 readable storage medium, for example, the computer instructions may be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center via wired (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.) means. 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 includes one or more 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 Versatile Disk (DVD)), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., a Solid State Disk (SSD)), among others.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the embodiments of the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the application. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the embodiments of the present application fall within the scope of the claims of the present application and their equivalents, the present application is also intended to encompass such modifications and variations.

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1. A method for configuring parameters, comprising:

the method comprises the steps that the terminal equipment determines M pieces of configuration information, wherein the M pieces of configuration information are used for indicating an adjustment interval of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal equipment, each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used for indicating the adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set in the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment interval is used for adjusting the value of the one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer larger than or equal to N; wherein the adjustment interval indicates two endpoint values;

and the terminal equipment sends the M pieces of configuration information to network equipment.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters:

A discontinuous reception C-DRX configuration parameter set in a connection state;

a bandwidth part BWP configuration parameter set;

a carrier aggregation configuration parameter set;

a multiple-input multiple-output, MIMO, configuration parameter set;

a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel; or the like, or, alternatively,

and the processing time axis parameter set is used for indicating the time of the terminal equipment for processing the data before sending the data and/or indicating the time of the terminal equipment for processing the data after receiving the data.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein each of the N air interface parameter sets includes at least one air interface parameter, one of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of a first air interface parameter of the at least one air interface parameter, and the one adjustment interval is used to indicate that a value of the first air interface parameter is to be increased or decreased.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein each of the N sets of air interface parameters includes at least one air interface parameter, each of a part of or all of the at least one air interface parameter corresponds to an adjustment interval, one of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate at least one adjustment interval corresponding to one of the part of or all of the air interface parameters, wherein each of the at least one adjustment interval is used to indicate an adjustable range of a value of the corresponding air interface parameter, and,

The one configuration information is further configured to indicate a priority of each of the at least one adjustment interval when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is greater than 1, or indicate priorities of two endpoint values of the adjustment interval when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is 1.

5. The method according to claim 3 or 4, wherein if M is greater than 1, the terminal device sends the M pieces of configuration information to a network device, including:

the terminal device sends a first signaling to the network device, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or the like, or, alternatively,

the terminal device sends at least one second signaling to the network device, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each piece of second signaling in the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the terminal device sends a first signaling to the network device, and wherein the first signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and wherein the sending the first signaling includes:

the terminal device sends the first signaling to the network device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, the bitmap includes M bits, and the M bits are the M pieces of configuration information, where each bit in the M bits is one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

7. A method for configuring parameters, comprising:

the method comprises the steps that a network device receives M pieces of configuration information from a terminal device, wherein the M pieces of configuration information are used for indicating an adjustment interval of N air interface parameter sets of the terminal device, each piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information is used for indicating the adjustment interval of one air interface parameter in one air interface parameter set in the N air interface parameter sets, the adjustment interval is used for adjusting the value of the one air interface parameter, N is a positive integer, and M is an integer larger than or equal to N; wherein the adjustment interval indicates two endpoint values;

the network equipment determines an adjustment mode of M air interface parameters indicated by the M pieces of configuration information according to the M pieces of configuration;

and the network equipment sends an adjustment result to the terminal equipment, wherein the adjustment result is used for indicating an adjustment mode of at least one air interface parameter in the M air interface parameters.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the N sets of air interface parameters include at least one of the following sets of air interface parameters:

a discontinuous reception C-DRX configuration parameter set in a connection state;

a bandwidth part BWP configuration parameter set;

A carrier aggregation configuration parameter set;

a multiple-input multiple-output, MIMO, configuration parameter set;

a configuration parameter set for detecting a downlink control channel; or the like, or, alternatively,

and the processing time axis parameter set is used for indicating the time of the terminal equipment for processing the data before sending the data and/or indicating the time of the terminal equipment for processing the data after receiving the data.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein each of the N air interface parameter sets includes at least one air interface parameter, one of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate an adjustment interval of a first air interface parameter of the at least one air interface parameter, and the one adjustment interval is used to indicate that a value of the first air interface parameter is to be increased or decreased.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein each of the N sets of air interface parameters includes at least one air interface parameter, each of a part of or all of the at least one air interface parameter corresponds to an adjustment interval, one of the M pieces of configuration information is used to indicate at least one adjustment interval corresponding to one of the part of or all of the air interface parameters, wherein each of the at least one adjustment interval is used to indicate an adjustable range of a value of the corresponding air interface parameter, and,

The one configuration information is further configured to indicate a priority of each of the at least one adjustment interval when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is greater than 1, or indicate priorities of two endpoint values of the adjustment interval when the number of the at least one adjustment interval is 1.

11. The method according to claim 9 or 10, wherein M is greater than 1, and then the network device receives M pieces of configuration information from the terminal device, including:

the network equipment receives a first signaling from the terminal equipment, wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information; or the like, or a combination thereof,

the network device receives at least one second signaling from the terminal device, where the at least one second signaling includes the M pieces of configuration information, and each piece of the at least one second signaling includes one piece of configuration information of the M pieces of configuration information.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the network device receives a first signaling from the terminal device, and wherein the first signaling comprises the M pieces of configuration information, and wherein the method comprises:

the network device receives the first signaling from the terminal device, where the first signaling includes a bitmap, the bitmap includes M bits, and the M bits are the M pieces of configuration information, where each bit in the M bits is one piece of configuration information in the M pieces of configuration information.

13. A communication apparatus comprising a processor and a transceiver, wherein the processor is coupled to the transceiver for performing the method of any of claims 1-6.

14. A communication device comprising a processor and a transceiver, wherein the processor is coupled to the transceiver for performing the method of any of claims 7-12.

15. A communication apparatus comprising a processing module and a transceiver module, wherein the processing module is coupled to the transceiver module and configured to perform the method according to any one of claims 1 to 6.

16. A communication apparatus comprising a processing module and a transceiver module, wherein the processing module is coupled to the transceiver module and configured to perform the method according to any one of claims 7 to 12.

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