CN114071714A

CN114071714A - Paging indication method, device, equipment and system

Info

Publication number: CN114071714A
Application number: CN202010780343.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘选兵; 鲍炜; 陈力; 李东儒
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-08-05
Filing date: 2020-08-05
Publication date: 2022-02-18
Anticipated expiration: 2040-08-05
Also published as: WO2022028424A1; CN114071714B

Abstract

The application discloses a paging indication method, a paging indication device, paging indication equipment and a paging indication system, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The problem that the power consumption of the UE is wasted due to the fact that the UE unnecessarily receives the paging message can be solved. The method comprises the following steps: the UE acquires target information, wherein the target information comprises related information of paging indication; the UE receives paging indication information according to the target information, wherein the paging indication information is used for indicating at least one UE group, the at least one UE group is a group where the UE to be paged by the network equipment is located, and each UE group comprises at least one UE; and the UE determines whether the UE receives the paging message or not according to the paging indication information. The embodiment of the application is applied to the process of grouping and paging the UE.

Description

Paging indication method, device, equipment and system

Technical Field

The present application belongs to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a paging indication method, apparatus, device, and system.

Background

In a communication system, a User Equipment (UE) may first monitor whether a paging-radio network temporary identifier (P-RNTI) is carried on a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) at a paging time (PO) on a corresponding Paging Frame (PF) in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle, and then determine whether a paging message is carried on a corresponding Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH). Specifically, when the UE resolves the P-RNTI carried on the PDCCH, the UE may receive data (i.e., a paging message) on the PDSCH according to a parameter of the PDSCH indicated on the PDCCH, and when the paging message carries a UE identity (UE ID) list, match the identity of the UE with the UE ID in the list to determine whether the paging message is calling the UE itself.

However, when any UE in a group of UEs with the same PO needs to be paged and the UE ID related information is included in the PDSCH corresponding to the PO, the group of UEs may resolve the P-RNTI on the PDCCH and then receive the paging message on the PDSCH. However, only the UE that needs to be paged finds its own UE ID in the UE ID list carried in the paging message, and after receiving the paging message, other UEs do not find their own UE ID in the UE ID list carried in the paging message, that is, the UE that does not need to be paged also unnecessarily receives the paging message on the PDSCH, which wastes power consumption of the UE.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the embodiments of the present application is to provide a paging indication method, apparatus, device, and system, which can solve the problem that power consumption of a UE is wasted due to unnecessary reception of a paging message by the UE.

In order to solve the technical problem, the present application is implemented as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a paging indication method, where the paging indication method includes: the UE acquires target information, wherein the target information comprises related information of paging indication; the UE receives paging indication information according to the target information, wherein the paging indication information is used for indicating at least one UE group, the at least one UE group is a group where the UE to be paged by the network equipment is located, and each UE group comprises at least one UE; and the UE determines whether the UE receives the paging message or not according to the paging indication information.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a paging indication method, where the paging indication method includes: the network equipment sends target information to the UE, wherein the target information comprises related information of the paging indication; the network equipment sends the paging indication information to the UE according to the target mapping mode; wherein, the target mapping mode is a value mapping mode or a bit mapping mode; the paging indication information is used for indicating at least one UE group, the at least one UE group is a group where the UE to be paged by the network equipment is located, and each UE group comprises at least one UE; the paging indication information is used for the UE to determine whether to receive a paging message.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a paging indication apparatus, including: the device comprises an acquisition module, a receiving module and a determining module. The acquiring module is used for acquiring target information, and the target information comprises related information of the paging indication. A receiving module, configured to receive paging indication information according to the target information acquired by the acquiring module, where the paging indication information is used to indicate at least one UE group, where the at least one UE group is a group where UEs to be paged by the network device are located, and each UE group includes at least one UE. And the determining module is used for determining whether the UE receives the paging message according to the paging indication information received by the receiving module.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a paging indication apparatus, including: and a sending module. The sending module is used for sending target information to the UE, wherein the target information comprises related information of the paging indication; sending paging indication information to the UE according to the target mapping mode; wherein, the target mapping mode is a value mapping mode or a bit mapping mode; the paging indication information is used for indicating at least one UE group, the at least one UE group is a group where the UE to be paged by the network equipment is located, and each UE group comprises at least one UE; the paging indication information is used for the UE to determine whether to receive a paging message.

In a fifth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a UE, which includes a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, and when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the paging indication method according to the first aspect.

In a sixth aspect, the present application provides a network device, which includes a processor, a memory, and a program or an instruction stored on the memory and executable on the processor, and when executed by the processor, the program or the instruction implements the steps of the paging indication method according to the second aspect.

In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication system, where the communication system includes the paging indication device according to the third aspect and the paging indication device according to the fourth aspect; alternatively, the communication system comprises the UE according to the fifth aspect and the network device according to the sixth aspect.

In an eighth aspect, the present embodiments provide a readable storage medium, on which a program or instructions are stored, which when executed by a processor implement the steps of the paging indication method according to the first aspect, or implement the steps of the paging indication method according to the second aspect.

In a ninth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to execute a program or instructions to implement the page indication method according to the first aspect, or to implement the steps of the page indication method according to the second aspect.

In the embodiment of the present application, the UE may receive paging indication information according to target information (including information related to paging indication), and determine whether the UE receives a paging message according to the paging indication information (for indicating at least one UE group to be paged by the network device). For a group of UEs with the same PO, since the UE may determine the paging indication information according to the related information of the paging indication to determine the corresponding UE group, i.e., the UE group to be paged by the network device, so that the UE determines whether the UE itself is paged according to at least one UE group to determine whether to receive the paging message, it is possible to avoid that all UEs in the group of UEs with the same PO receive the paging message, thereby reducing power consumption of the UEs that do not need to receive the paging message.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic architecture diagram of a communication system according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a paging indication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a second schematic diagram of a paging indication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a third schematic diagram of a paging indication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a paging indicator according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a second schematic structural diagram of a paging indicator according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of a UE according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 8 is a second hardware structure diagram of a UE according to the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims of the present application are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It will be appreciated that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that embodiments of the application may be practiced in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein, and that the terms "first," "second," and the like are generally used herein in a generic sense and do not limit the number of terms, e.g., the first term can be one or more than one. In addition, "and/or" in the specification and claims means at least one of connected objects, a character "/" generally means that a preceding and succeeding related objects are in an "or" relationship.

The following explains some concepts and/or terms involved in the paging indication method, apparatus, device and system provided in the embodiments of the present application.

Paging (paging) mechanism: the network equipment can send paging to the UE in an idle state, an inactive state and a connection state, and the paging process can be triggered by the core network equipment and is used for informing certain UE of receiving a paging request; or triggered by a base station (eNodeB/gNB) and used for notifying system information updating and notifying UE to receive information such as ETWS and CMAS.

In a DRX period, the UE can monitor whether the PDCCH carries the P-RNTI only at the paging time (PO) on the corresponding paging radio frame (PF) and then judge whether the corresponding PDSCH carries a paging message.

If the UE resolves the P-RNTI carried on the PDCCH, receiving data on the PDSCH according to the PDSCH parameters indicated on the PDCCH; if the paging message (data on PDSCH) received by the UE has the UE ID list, the terminal needs to match the UE ID carried in the paging message with its own UE ID to determine whether the paging message is calling itself.

If the UE does not resolve the P-RNTI on the PDCCH, the UE can enter the sleep mode according to the DRX period without receiving a PDSCH physical channel. With this mechanism, in one DRX cycle, the UE can receive the PDCCH only at the time position where the PO occurs, and then receive the PDSCH as needed.

It is noted that the techniques described in the embodiments of the present application are not limited to the Long Term Evolution (LTE)/LTE evolution (LTE-Advanced) system, but may also be used in other wireless communication systems, such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), single-carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA), and other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in the embodiments of the present application are often used interchangeably, and the described techniques can be used for both the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, as well as for other systems and radio technologies. However, the following description describes a New Radio (NR) system for purposes of example, and NR terminology is used in much of the description below, although the techniques may also be applied to applications other than NR system applications, such as 6th Generation (6G) communication systems.

Fig. 1 illustrates an architecture diagram of a communication system according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 1, the communication system may include a UE 01 and a network device 02. Wherein, the UE 01 and the network device 02 can establish connection and communicate.

The UE may also be referred to as a terminal device, where the UE may be a mobile phone, a tablet personal computer (tablet personal computer), a laptop computer (laptop computer) or a terminal-side device called a notebook computer, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a palm computer, a netbook, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a Mobile Internet Device (MID), a wearable device (wearable device) or a vehicle-mounted device (VUE), a pedestrian terminal (PUE), and the like, and the wearable device includes: bracelets, earphones, glasses and the like. It should be noted that the embodiment of the present application does not limit the specific type of the UE.

The network device may be a base station or a core network, where the base station may be referred to as a node B, an enodeb, an access point, a Base Transceiver Station (BTS), a radio base station, a radio transceiver, a Basic Service Set (BSS), an Extended Service Set (ESS), a node B, an enodeb (eNB), a home nodeb, a home enodeb, a WLAN access point, a WiFi node, a Transmit Receive Point (TRP), or some other suitable terminology in the field, as long as the same technical effect is achieved, and the base station is not limited to a specific technical vocabulary, and it should be noted that in the embodiment of the present application, only the base station in the NR system is taken as an example, but the specific type of the base station is not limited.

The paging indication method provided by the embodiment of the present application is described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings through specific embodiments and application scenarios thereof.

An embodiment of the present application provides a paging indication method, and fig. 2 shows a flowchart of the paging indication method provided in the embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 2, the paging indication method provided in the embodiment of the present application may include steps 201 to 203 described below.

Step 201, the UE acquires target information.

In this embodiment, the target information includes information related to a paging indicator.

It should be noted that, the above related information of the paging indicator can be understood as: some information related to the paging indication information, that is, some information for determining a UE group to which the paging indication information corresponds.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the target information includes at least one of the following: paging enabling information, mapping mode information, the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information, the number of UE packets, a paging indication mapping rule, and first mapping information.

The paging enabling information is used for indicating whether paging indicating information is enabled or not, the mapping mode information is used for indicating a mapping mode corresponding to the paging indicating information, the number of UE groups is the number of the paged UE groups, the paging indicating mapping rule is the mapping rule of the paging indicating information and the UE groups, and the first mapping information is the mapping information of wake-up signal (WUS) information and the paging indicating information.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the target information is configured by the network device for the UE, or agreed by a protocol (part of or all of the target information is agreed by the protocol), or predefined.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the network device may broadcast system information, where the system information includes part of information or all of information in the target information, that is, the network device may configure the target information to the UE through the system information.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, if the mapping is a single mode mapping, the UE may determine the first mapping mode according to system information or a protocol agreement; if the mapping is the mixed mode mapping, the UE may obtain configuration information (i.e., mode indication information) of the mixed mapping mode to determine the second mapping mode.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, if the paging Enable information is True (True or Enable), the UE uses the paging indication information. If the paging enable information is False (False or Disable), the UE does not use the paging indication information.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the target information includes mapping mode information, where the mapping mode information is used to indicate a first mapping mode, where the first mapping mode is a mapping mode adopted when the network device indicates to the UE packet to be paged, and the first mapping mode is any of the following: bitmap mode (Bitmap), Value Mapping mode (Value Mapping), and hybrid Mapping mode.

It should be noted that the mapping mode in the embodiment of the present application may be understood as: the mapping between the mode indication information or paging indication value and the UE packet, i.e. which mapping mode is used to determine the paged UE packet, i.e. in different mapping modes, the corresponding UE packet is determined. The bit mapping mode or the value mapping mode is a single mode, and the hybrid mapping mode can be understood as a bit + value mapping mode.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the target information includes a bit number corresponding to paging indication information, where the bit number corresponding to the paging indication information is any of: the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information in the bit mapping mode, the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information in the value mapping mode, and the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information in the hybrid mapping mode.

Note that for the bitmap mode, "one or more bits" in the binary table of paging indicator values are used to indicate whether a particular UE packet is paged. In a specific implementation manner, the paging indication value includes at least M bits, the grouping purpose of the UEs on the same PO is M, that is, M UE groups respectively correspond to M bits in the paging indication value, where M is a positive integer.

For the value mapping mode, the paging indication value is used to indicate whether a particular UE packet is paged or not. In a specific implementation manner, the range interval of the paging indication value at least includes Ng number values, the number of UE groups on the same PO is Ng, that is, Ng UE groups respectively correspond to Ng number values in the paging indication value, and Ng is a positive integer.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information in the hybrid mapping mode includes: the number of bits of the mode indication information and the number of bits of the paging indication value.

It should be noted that the number of bits in the embodiment of the present application may be understood as a numerical value (i.e., a bit number) or a value range.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the target information includes a UE packet number, where the UE packet number includes at least one of the following: the number of UE packets in bit mapped mode and the number of UE packets in value mapped mode.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the target information includes first mapping information, where the first mapping information includes at least one of the following: mapping information of mapping mode corresponding to WUS information and paging indication, mapping information of WUS information and paging indication value, and mapping information of WUS information and paging indication mode and paging indication value.

Step 202, the UE receives paging indication information according to the target information.

In this embodiment of the present application, the paging indication information is used to indicate at least one UE group, where the at least one UE group is a group in which UEs to be paged by a network device are located, and each UE group includes at least one UE.

In the embodiment of the application, the network device may send the paging indication information to the UE, so that the UE may perform analysis processing on the paging indication information according to the target information.

Optionally, when the UE to be paged belongs to a UE Group in a PO location, setting paging indication information according to a value mapping mode, and sending the paging indication information;

optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, when a UE that needs to be paged belongs to multiple UE groups (groups), the paging indication information may be set according to a bitmap mode to send the paging indication information.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, in a case that it is determined to send paging indication information, the network device may set paging enabling information to be true through a system message or paging PDCCH DCI information.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, in a case that it is determined that the paging indication information is not sent, the network device may set the paging enabling information to be false through a system message or paging PDCCH DCI information.

It should be noted that when the paging enable information is false, the paging PDCCH DCI information may be used as an indication for the non-paging function.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the target information includes paging enabling information, and the UE receives the paging indication information according to the target information when the paging enabling information indicates that the paging indication information is enabled.

Alternatively, in this embodiment of the application, the step 202 may be specifically implemented by the following step 202a or step 202 b.

Step 202a, the UE receives paging PDCCH information sent by the network device according to the target information.

In this embodiment, the paging PDCCH information includes paging indication information.

Alternatively, in this embodiment of the present application, the step 202a may be implemented by the step 202a1 described below.

Step 202a1, the UE receives the target DCI according to the target information.

In this embodiment, the target Downlink Control Information (DCI) includes a bit number corresponding to the paging indication information, and the target DCI is DCI corresponding to the paging PDCCH information.

In this embodiment, the target DCI (which may be referred to as a paging PDCCH DCI) includes a bit number used for paging indication information, and the UE may read the paging PDCCH DCI to acquire the paging indication information.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the paging PDCCH information further includes paging enabling information, where the paging enabling information is used to indicate whether paging indication information is enabled.

And step 202b, the UE receives the WUS information sent by the network equipment according to the target information.

In this embodiment, the WUS information includes paging indication information.

Alternatively, in this embodiment of the present application, the step 202b may be implemented by the step 202b1 or the step 202b2 described below.

Step 202b1, the UE receives WUS sequence information.

In the embodiment of the present application, the WUS Sequence information (WUS Sequence) corresponds to paging instruction information.

Step 202b2, the UE receives WUS PDCCH information.

In this embodiment of the present application, the WUS PDCCH information includes paging indication information.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, with reference to fig. 2, as shown in fig. 3, the step 202 may be specifically implemented by a step 202c described below.

Step 202c, the UE analyzes and processes the paging indication information according to the mapping mode information to determine at least one UE group corresponding to the paging indication information.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, when the first mapping mode is a bit mapping mode, the paging indication information includes a paging indication value.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, when the first mapping mode is a value mapping mode, the paging indication information includes a paging indication value.

It should be noted that, for a single mode (i.e. a bit-mapped mode or a value-mapped mode), the paging indicator value is mapped to a specific UE packet according to a first mapping mode to indicate whether it is paged or not.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, when the first mapping mode is a hybrid mapping mode, the paging indication information includes mode indication information and a paging indication value.

It should be noted that, for the hybrid mapping mode, the mode indication information (which may also be a mode indication bit (Pattern)) is one or more bits, and a value of the mode indication information indicates a mapping mode (i.e., a second mapping mode in the following embodiments) to which the UE packet is mapped. A Paging Indicator Value (Paging Indicator Value) whose Value is mapped to a specific UE packet according to a first mapping mode to indicate whether it is paged.

Also, the paging indication information may be one number, and the mode indication bit and the paging indication value may be different bits therein. In a specific implementation mode, the high-order 1bit is a mode indication bit, and other low-order bits are paging indication values.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the first mapping mode is a hybrid mapping mode. The step 202c can be realized by the following steps 202c1 and 202c 2.

Step 202c1, in the hybrid mapping mode, the UE parses the paging indication information to obtain the mode indication information in the paging indication information, and determines the second mapping mode according to the mode indication information.

In an embodiment of the present application, the second mapping mode is a bit mapping mode or a value mapping mode.

Step 202c2, the UE determines at least one UE group corresponding to the paging indication information by using the second mapping mode.

It is to be understood that the second mapping mode is a mapping mode adopted when the UE determines the UE groups to be paged.

Step 203, the UE determines whether the UE receives the paging message according to the paging indication information.

In this embodiment of the present application, the UE may determine at least one UE group according to the paging indication information, determine whether the UE is in the at least one UE group, and receive the paging message, i.e., determine that the UE is paged, when the UE is a UE in any UE group of the at least one UE group.

In the embodiment of the application, if the UE determines to be paged, the UE continues to receive the corresponding paging PDSCH information (e.g., paging message); if the UE determines that the PDSCH information is not paged, the UE may not receive the corresponding PDSCH information.

It is to be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, the paging message may be received by indicating some UEs in a group of UEs having the same PO so that the UEs determine to be paged. And, the UEs may be divided into at least one UE group, each UE group including at least one of the UEs.

The embodiment of the application provides a paging indication method, wherein a UE may receive paging indication information according to target information (including related information of a paging indication), and determine whether the UE receives a paging message according to the paging indication information (used for indicating at least one UE group to be paged by a network device). For a group of UEs with the same PO, since the UE may determine the paging indication information according to the related information of the paging indication to determine the corresponding UE group, i.e., the UE group to be paged by the network device, so that the UE determines whether the UE itself is paged according to at least one UE group to determine whether to receive the paging message, it is possible to avoid that all UEs in the group of UEs with the same PO receive the paging message, thereby reducing power consumption of the UEs that do not need to receive the paging message.

An embodiment of the present application provides a paging indication method, and fig. 4 shows a flowchart of the paging indication method provided in the embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 4, a paging indication method provided in an embodiment of the present application may include

steps

301 and 302 described below.

Step 301, the network device sends target information to the UE.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the target information includes mapping mode information. The mapping mode information is used for indicating a first mapping mode, the first mapping mode is a mapping mode adopted when the network equipment indicates the UE group to be paged, and the first mapping mode is any one of the following modes: a bit mapping mode, a value mapping mode, and a hybrid mapping mode.

Step 302, the network device sends paging indication information to the UE according to the target mapping mode.

In this embodiment of the present application, the target mapping mode is a value mapping mode or a bit mapping mode; the paging indication information is used for indicating at least one UE group, the at least one UE group is a group where the UE to be paged by the network equipment is located, and each UE group comprises at least one UE; the paging indication information is used for the UE to determine whether to receive a paging message.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the first mapping mode is a hybrid mapping mode. The step 302 may be specifically realized by the step 302a or the step 302b described below.

Step 302a, under the condition that the UE to be paged is a UE group, the network device sends paging indication information to the UE according to a value mapping mode or a bit mapping mode.

Step 302b, under the condition that the UE to be paged is a plurality of UE groups, the network equipment sends paging indication information to the UE according to the bit mapping mode.

It should be noted that the target mapping mode corresponds to the second mapping mode, and for specific descriptions of the target information, the first mapping mode, the paging indication information, and the like, reference may be made to the related description in the foregoing embodiments, which is not described herein again.

The embodiment of the present application provides a paging indication method, where a network device may send target information (including related information of a paging indication) to a UE, and send paging indication information (used to indicate at least one UE packet to be paged by the network device) to the UE according to a target mapping mode. For a group of UEs with the same PO, since the network device may indicate corresponding paging indication information to the UE according to the target mapping mode, the UE may determine a corresponding UE group, that is, a UE group to be paged by the network device, that is, the UE determines whether the UE itself is paged according to at least one UE group to determine whether to receive a paging message, so that it may be avoided that all UEs in the group of UEs with the same PO receive the paging message, and power consumption of the UE that does not need to receive the paging message may be reduced.

The paging indication method according to the embodiment of the present application is specifically described below by way of specific embodiments (i.e., the following first to sixth embodiments).

Embodiment one (paging PDCCH DCI mixed mode packet paging indication)

Step 11, the UE reads the system message or the protocol convention to obtain the paging indication configuration information (i.e. the target information in the above embodiment). The UE determines paging indication configuration information, which comprises at least one of the following items:

a mapping mode configuration (for indicating a hybrid mapping mode);

the paging PDCCH DCI paging indication bit number X bits is used for determining paging indication information;

the paging PDCCH DCI comprises a mode indication bit and a paging indication value;

in the bit mapping mode, the paging indicated value is (X-1) bit and corresponds to no more than (X-1) UE groups on the same PO;

in the value mapping mode, the value range of the paging indicated value is 0-2 ^ (X-1), and the paging indicated value corresponds to not more than 2^ (X-1) UE groups;

number of paging indicator value bits in bitmap mode: (X-1) bits;

the number M of UE groups on a PO in the bit mapping mode is less than or equal to (X-1);

the value range of the paging indicated value in the value mapping mode is, for example, 0-2 ^ (X-1);

the number N of UE packets on a PO when in the value mapping mode, wherein N is less than or equal to 2^ (X-1).

Step 12, the UE receives paging PDCCH information, which includes paging indication information.

And step 13, the UE analyzes the paging indication information.

In a specific implementation manner, the number of bits of the paging indication information is X bits, wherein the mode indication information (Pattern) includes 1 bit.

The Pattern Bit is 0, the Value Mapping mode (Value Mapping), the Value range of the paging indicated Value is 0-2 ^ (X-1), and the paging indicated Value is used for indicating whether a specific UE packet is paged.

The paging indication value is (X-1) bits and corresponds to (X-1) UE groups on the same PO, and the Bit in the paging indication value is used to indicate whether a specific UE group is paged.

Exemplarily, as shown in table 1, it shows a corresponding relationship between a mode indication bit and a paging indication value and a UE packet in a hybrid mapping mode in the embodiment of the present application.

TABLE 1

Mode indication bit	Paging indicator value	Numbering of paged UE packets
			0	0	Value mapping UE Group 1
0	1	Value mapping UE Group 2
			0	2	Value mapping UE Group 3
0	3	Value mapping UE Group 4
			0	4	Value mapping UE Group 5
0	5	Value mapping UE Group 6
			0	6	Value mapping UE Group 7
0	7	Value mapping UE Group 8
			1	bit0＝1	Bit-mapped UE Group 1
1	bit1＝1	Bit-mapped UE Group 2
			1	bit2＝1	Bit-mapped UE Group 3
1	All bits＝0	All UE groups are not paged

Step 14, the UE checks the paging indication information, including:

the UE determines mode indication information and determines the UE grouping number Ng;

the UE determines the grouping number of the UE;

in a specific implementation, the UE determines a UE packet number on one PO. UE _ Group _ ID ═ Floor [ UE _ ID/(N × Ns) ] mod Ng, where UE _ Group _ ID represents the paging packet identification, N represents the number of paging frames in each DRX cycle, Ns represents the number of POs in each paging frame, Ng represents the number of target terminal packets, Floor represents the Floor operation, and mod represents the remainder operation.

The UE determines a Paging Indicator Value (Paging Indicator Value);

the UE checks whether the UE packet in which it is located is paged.

Step 15, the UE performs the following procedures:

if the UE judges that the paging is carried out, the UE continues to receive corresponding paging information;

if the UE determines that the paging is not performed, the UE may not receive corresponding paging information.

Embodiment two (paging PDCCH DCI single mode packet paging indicator)

Step 21, the UE reads the system message or the agreement to obtain the paging indication configuration information. The UE determines paging indication configuration information, which comprises at least one of the following items:

mapping mode configuration (for indicating a single mode, i.e., a bit mapping mode or a value mapping mode);

the paging PDCCH DCI contains a paging indication value;

in the bit mapping mode, the paging indicated value is (X) bits and corresponds to no more than (X) UE groups on the same PO;

in the value mapping mode, the value range of the paging indicated value is 0-2 ^ (X), and the paging indicated value corresponds to UE groups of not more than 2^ (X);

the paging indicator in bitmap mode indicates the number of bits, e.g., (X) bits;

the number M of UE groups on a PO in the bit mapping mode is less than or equal to (X);

the value range of the paging indicated value in the value mapping mode is, for example, 0-2 ^ (X);

the number N of UE packets on a PO when in the value mapping mode, wherein N is less than or equal to 2^ (X).

Step 22, the UE receives paging PDCCH information, which includes paging indication information.

And step 23, the UE analyzes the first paging indication information.

The specific implementation manner, bit mapping mode: the number of paging indication information bits is X bits, the paging indication value is (X) bits, the paging indication value corresponds to (X) UE groups on the same PO, and the bits in the paging indication value are used for indicating whether a specific UE group is paged or not.

Illustratively, as shown in table 2, it shows the correspondence between the paging indication value and the UE packet in the bit mapping mode in the embodiment of the present application.

TABLE 2

Paging indicator Value-Bit	Numbering of paged UE packets
		bit0＝1	Bit-mapped UE Group 1
bit1＝1	Bit-mapped UE Group 2
		bit2＝1	Bit-mapped UE Group 3
bit3＝1	Bit-mapped UE Group 4
		All bits＝0	All UE groups are not paged

The specific implementation mode, value mapping mode: the number of the paging indication information bits is X bits, the value range of the paging indication value is 0-2 ^ (X) -1, and the paging indication value is used for indicating whether a specific UE group is paged or not.

Illustratively, as shown in table 3, it shows the correspondence between the paging indication value and the UE packet in the value mapping mode in the embodiment of the present application.

TABLE 3

Paging indicator value	Numbering of paged UE packets
		0	All UE groups are not paged
1	UE Group 1
		2	UE Group 2
3	UE Group 3
		4	UE Group 4
5	UE Group 5
		6	UE Group 6
7	UE Group 7
		……	……

Step 24, the UE checks the first paging indication information, which includes:

the UE determines the grouping number of the UE;

the UE determines a Paging Indicator Value (Paging Indicator Value);

the UE checks whether the UE packet in which it is located is paged.

Step 25, the UE performs the following procedures:

EXAMPLE three (WUS Serial packet paging indicator)

Step 31, the UE reads the system message or the agreement to obtain the paging indication configuration information. The UE determines paging indication configuration information, which comprises at least one of the following items:

the number of WUS sequences W;

the WUS sequence is mapped into a WUS mapping value, and the WUS mapping value is used for mapping paging indication information;

the number of WUS mapping value bits is X bits;

the WUS mapping value comprises a mode indication value and a paging indication value;

the mapping mode is a mixed mode, namely a bit mapping mode + a value mapping mode;

the paging indicator in bit-mapped mode indicates the number of bits, e.g., (X-1) bits;

the number M of UE groups on a PO in the bitmap mode, W is more than or equal to 2^ M, or X is more than or equal to M;

the number N of UE groups on a PO when in the value mapping mode, wherein N is less than or equal to 2^ X.

Step 32, the UE receives a WUS sequence.

Among other things, the UE may map the WUS sequence to paging indication information, which includes a mode indication value and a paging indication value.

Step 33, the UE parses the paging indication information.

The Pattern Bit is 0, under a Value Mapping mode (Value Mapping), the Value range of the paging indication Value is 0-2 ^ (X-1), and the paging indication Value is used for indicating whether a specific UE packet is paged or not.

In the Bitmap Bit 1, in the Bitmap mode (Bitmap), the paging indication value is (X-1) bits corresponding to (X-1) UE groups on the same PO, and the bits in the paging indication value are used to indicate whether a specific UE group is paged.

Illustratively, as shown in table 4, the correspondence between the WUS serial number and the WUS mapping value and the UE group in the embodiment of the present application is shown.

TABLE 4

Step 34, the UE checks the paging indication information, which includes:

the UE determines mode indication information and determines the number of UE groups;

the UE determines the grouping number of the UE;

the UE determines a Paging Indicator Value (Paging Indicator Value);

the UE checks whether the UE packet in which it is located is paged.

Step 35, the UE performs the following procedures:

Embodiment four (System information indication paging indication configuration)

In step 41, the UE receives system information or a dedicated (RRC) message, such as system information block 1 (SIB 1).

The system information includes paging indication configuration information, such as mapping mode configuration (Pattern Config);

step 42, the UE reads paging indication configuration information, which includes grouping information of the UE.

Step 43, the UE receives a Paging PDCCH DCI, where the Paging PDCCH DCI includes a Paging Indicator Value (Paging Indicator Value).

Step 44, the UE checks the paging indication information, including:

the UE determines a mode indication bit and determines the number of UE groups;

the UE determines the grouping number of the UE;

the UE determines a Paging Indicator Value (Paging Indicator Value);

the UE checks whether the UE packet in which it is located is paged.

Step 45, the UE performs the following procedures:

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the UE receives the system information and changes the paging indication configuration information.

Embodiment five (mixed mode packet paging indication method)

The network equipment determines a paging indication mode, determines a UE grouping method:

a) value mapping mode: determining a value mapping UE Group X;

b) bit mapping mode: and determining bit mapping UE Group Y.

When the UE needing to be paged belongs to a UE Group at a PO position, the UE Group is mapped according to the value to set paging indication information, and the network equipment sends the paging indication information; when the UE needing to be paged belongs to a plurality of UE groups, paging indication information is set according to the bit mapping UE groups, and the network equipment sends the paging indication information.

EXAMPLE six (Page indication Enable)

The UE determines paging indication enabling, including at least one of:

and the UE receives the system message and acquires paging indication enabling information.

And the UE receives the paging PDCCH and acquires paging indication enabling information.

In a specific implementation manner, the paging indication enabling information is 1bit in the PDCCH DCI numerical field. If paging indication enable is true, the other part of this value is used for paging indication; if the paging indication enable is false, the other portion of the value is used for indication of other non-paging functions.

A paging indication enabled configuration comprising at least one of:

a) and the network equipment determines to send paging indication information and sets paging indication enabling to be true through system information or paging PDCCH DCI information.

b) And the network equipment determines not to send paging indication information and sets paging indication enable to be false through system information or paging PDCCH DCI information.

c) PDCCH DCI information may be used as an indication of a non-paging function when paging enable information is false.

It should be noted that, in the paging indication method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the execution subject may be a UE, or a paging indication device, or a control module in the paging indication device for executing a loading paging indication method. In the embodiment of the present application, a method for a UE to execute a loaded paging indication is taken as an example to describe the paging indication method provided in the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 5 shows a schematic diagram of a possible structure of the paging indication device involved in the embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 5, the paging indicator 40 may include: an acquisition module 41, a receiving module 42 and a determination module 43.

The obtaining module 41 is configured to obtain target information, where the target information includes information related to the paging indicator. A receiving module 42, configured to receive paging indication information according to the target information acquired by the acquiring module 41, where the paging indication information is used to indicate at least one UE group, where the at least one UE group is a group where UEs to be paged by the network device are located, and each UE group includes at least one UE. A determining module 43, configured to determine whether the UE receives the paging message according to the paging indication information received by the receiving module 42.

In one possible implementation, the target information includes at least one of the following: paging enabling information, mapping mode information, the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information, the number of UE packets, a paging indication mapping rule, and first mapping information.

The paging enabling information is used for indicating whether paging indicating information is enabled or not, the mapping mode information is used for indicating a mapping mode corresponding to the paging indicating information, the UE grouping number is the number of the paged UE grouping, the paging indicating mapping rule is the mapping rule of the paging indicating information and the UE grouping, and the first mapping information is the mapping information of the WUS information and the paging indicating information.

In a possible implementation manner, the target information includes mapping mode information. The mapping mode information is used for indicating a first mapping mode, where the first mapping mode is a mapping mode adopted by a network device when indicating to a UE group to be paged, and the first mapping mode is any one of the following: a bit mapping mode, a value mapping mode, and a hybrid mapping mode.

In a possible implementation manner, the receiving module 42 is specifically configured to parse the paging indication information according to the mapping mode information to determine at least one UE packet corresponding to the paging indication information.

In a possible implementation manner, in a case that the first mapping mode is a bit mapping mode, the paging indication information includes a paging indication value; when the first mapping mode is a value mapping mode, the paging indication information comprises a paging indication value; when the first mapping mode is the hybrid mapping mode, the paging indication information includes mode indication information and a paging indication value.

In a possible implementation manner, the first mapping mode is a hybrid mapping mode. The receiving module 42 is specifically configured to, in the hybrid mapping mode, parse the paging indication information to obtain mode indication information in the paging indication information, and determine a second mapping mode according to the mode indication information, where the second mapping mode is a bit mapping mode or a value mapping mode; and determining at least one UE group corresponding to the paging indication information by adopting a second mapping mode.

In a possible implementation manner, the target information includes a bit number corresponding to the paging indication information. The number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information is any one of: the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information in the bit mapping mode, the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information in the value mapping mode, and the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information in the hybrid mapping mode.

In a possible implementation manner, the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information in the hybrid mapping mode includes: the number of bits of the mode indication information and the number of bits of the paging indication value.

In one possible implementation, the target information includes a number of UE packets. The number of UE packets includes at least one of: the number of UE packets in bit mapped mode and the number of UE packets in value mapped mode.

In a possible implementation manner, the target information includes first mapping information. The first mapping information includes at least one of: mapping information of mapping mode corresponding to WUS information and paging indication, mapping information of WUS information and paging indication value, and mapping information of WUS information and paging indication mode and paging indication value.

In a possible implementation manner, the receiving module 42 is specifically configured to receive, according to the target information, paging PDCCH information sent by the network device, where the paging PDCCH information includes paging indication information; or, receiving WUS information sent by the network equipment according to the target information, wherein the WUS information comprises paging indication information.

In a possible implementation manner, the paging PDCCH information further includes paging enabling information, where the paging enabling information is used to indicate whether paging indication information is enabled.

In a possible implementation manner, the receiving module 42 is specifically configured to receive a target DCI according to target information, where the target DCI includes a bit number corresponding to paging indication information, and the target DCI is DCI corresponding to paging PDCCH information.

In a possible implementation manner, the receiving module 42 is specifically configured to receive WUS sequence information, where the WUS sequence information corresponds to paging indication information; alternatively, WUS PDCCH information including paging indication information is received.

In a possible implementation manner, the target information is configured by the network device to the UE, or agreed by a protocol, or predefined.

The embodiment of the application provides a paging indication device, for a group of UEs with the same PO, because the UE may determine paging indication information according to related information of the paging indication to determine a corresponding UE group, that is, a UE group to be paged by network equipment, so that the UE determines whether the UE is paged according to at least one UE group to determine whether to receive a paging message, thereby preventing all UEs in the group of UEs with the same PO from receiving the paging message, and reducing power consumption of the UEs which do not need to receive the paging message.

The paging indication device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device, and may also be a component, an integrated circuit, or a chip in a terminal. The device can be mobile electronic equipment or non-mobile electronic equipment. By way of example, the mobile electronic device may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm top computer, a vehicle-mounted electronic device, a wearable device, a UMPC, a netbook, a PDA, or the like, and the non-mobile electronic device may be a server, a Network Attached Storage (NAS), a Personal Computer (PC), a television (television), a teller machine, a self-service machine, or the like, and the embodiments of the present application are not particularly limited.

The paging indication device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device having an operating system. The operating system may be an Android (Android) operating system, an ios operating system, or other possible operating systems, and embodiments of the present application are not limited specifically.

The paging indication apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the UE in the foregoing method embodiments, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

Fig. 6 shows a schematic diagram of a possible structure of the paging indicator device involved in the embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 6, the paging indicator 50 may include: a sending module 51.

The sending module 51 is configured to send target information to the UE, where the target information includes information related to the paging indicator; sending paging indication information to the UE according to the target mapping mode; wherein, the target mapping mode is a value mapping mode or a bit mapping mode; the paging indication information is used for indicating at least one UE group, the at least one UE group is a group where the UE to be paged by the network equipment is located, and each UE group comprises at least one UE; the paging indication information is used for the UE to determine whether to receive a paging message.

In a possible implementation manner, the target information includes mapping mode information. The mapping mode information is used for indicating a first mapping mode, the first mapping mode is a mapping mode adopted when the network equipment indicates the UE group to be paged, and the first mapping mode is any one of the following modes: a bit mapping mode, a value mapping mode, and a hybrid mapping mode.

In a possible implementation manner, the first mapping mode is a hybrid mapping mode. The sending module 51 is specifically configured to send paging indication information to the UE according to a value mapping mode or a bit mapping mode when the UE to be paged is a UE group; or, under the condition that the UE to be paged is a plurality of UE groups, the paging indication information is sent to the UE according to the bit mapping mode.

The embodiment of the present application provides a paging indication apparatus, where for a group of UEs with the same PO, a network device may indicate corresponding paging indication information to the UE according to a target mapping mode, so that the UE may determine a corresponding UE group, that is, a UE group to be paged by the network device, that is, the UE determines whether the UE itself is paged according to at least one UE group to determine whether to receive a paging message, so as to avoid that all UEs in the group of UEs with the same PO receive the paging message, thereby reducing power consumption of the UEs that do not need to receive the paging message.

The paging indication device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device, or may be a component, an integrated circuit, or a chip in a network device.

The paging indication apparatus provided in this embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the network device in the foregoing method embodiments, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 7, an embodiment of the present application further provides a UE 90, which includes a processor 91, a memory 92, and a program or an instruction stored in the memory 92 and executable on the processor 91, where the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 91 to implement the processes of the foregoing method embodiments, and can achieve the same technical effects, and no further description is provided here to avoid repetition.

It should be noted that the UE in the embodiment of the present application includes the mobile electronic device and the non-mobile electronic device described above.

Fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a UE implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The UE 100 includes but is not limited to: a radio frequency unit 101, a network module 102, an audio output unit 103, an input unit 104, a sensor 105, a display unit 106, a user input unit 107, an interface unit 108, a memory 109, and a processor 110.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the UE 100 may further include a power supply (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to various components, which may be logically connected to the processor 110 via a power management system, so as to manage charging, discharging, and power consumption management functions via the power management system. The UE structure shown in fig. 8 does not constitute a limitation of the UE, and the UE may include more or less components than those shown, or combine some components, or arrange different components, and thus, the description is not repeated herein.

The processor 110 is configured to obtain target information, where the target information includes information related to a paging indicator; receiving paging indication information according to the target information, wherein the paging indication information is used for indicating at least one UE group, the at least one UE group is a group where the UE to be paged by the network equipment is located, and each UE group comprises at least one UE; and determining whether the UE receives the paging message according to the paging indication information.

The embodiment of the present application provides a UE, and for a group of UEs having the same PO, the UE may determine paging indication information according to related information of the paging indication to determine a corresponding UE group, that is, a UE group to be paged by a network device, so that the UE determines whether the UE itself is paged according to at least one UE group to determine whether to receive a paging message, thereby avoiding that all UEs in the group of UEs having the same PO receive the paging message, and thus reducing power consumption of the UEs that do not need to receive the paging message.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the input Unit 104 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 1041 and a microphone 1042, and the Graphics Processing Unit 1041 processes image data of a still picture or a video obtained by an image capturing device (such as a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The display unit 106 may include a display panel 1061, and the display panel 1061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 107 includes a touch panel 1071 and other input devices 1072. The touch panel 1071 is also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 1071 may include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 1072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described in detail herein. The memory 109 may be used to store software programs as well as various data including, but not limited to, application programs and an operating system. The processor 110 may integrate an application processor, which primarily handles operating systems, user interfaces, applications, etc., and a modem processor, which primarily handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 110.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a readable storage medium, where a program or an instruction is stored on the readable storage medium, and when the program or the instruction is executed by a processor, the program or the instruction implements the processes of the foregoing method embodiments, and can achieve the same technical effects, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

Wherein the processor is the processor in the UE described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium, such as a read-only memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and the like.

Fig. 9 shows a hardware schematic diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 9, the network device 130 includes: a processor 131, a transceiver 132, a memory 133, a user interface 134, and a bus interface 135.

A transceiver 132, configured to transmit target information to the UE, where the target information includes information related to the paging indicator; sending paging indication information to the UE according to the target mapping mode; wherein, the target mapping mode is a value mapping mode or a bit mapping mode; the paging indication information is used for indicating at least one UE group, the at least one UE group is a group where the UE to be paged by the network equipment is located, and each UE group comprises at least one UE; the paging indication information is used for the UE to determine whether to receive a paging message.

The embodiment of the invention provides network equipment, for a group of UE with the same PO, as the network equipment can indicate corresponding paging indication information to the UE according to a target mapping mode, the UE can determine a corresponding UE group, namely the UE group to be paged by the network equipment, namely the UE judges whether the UE is paged according to at least one UE group to determine whether to receive a paging message, therefore, all the UE in the group of UE with the same PO can be prevented from receiving the paging message, and the power consumption of the UE which does not need to receive the paging message can be reduced.

Among other things, the processor 131 may be responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the processor 131 may be used to read and execute programs in the memory 133 to implement processing functions and control of the network device 130. The memory 133 may store data used by the processor 131 in performing operations. The processor 131 and the memory 133 may be integrated or may be provided separately.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the network device 130 may further include: a computer program stored on the memory 133 and executable on the processor 131, which computer program, when executed by the processor 131, performs the steps of the method provided by the embodiments of the present invention.

In fig. 9, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, with one or more processors represented by processor 131 and various circuits of memory represented by memory 133 being linked together. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described any further in connection with embodiments of the present invention. The bus interface 135 provides an interface. The transceiver 132 may be a number of elements including a transmitter and a receiver that provide a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. For different UEs, the user interface 134 may also be an interface capable of interfacing externally to a desired device, including but not limited to a keypad, display, speaker, microphone, joystick, etc.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by the processor 131 shown in fig. 9, the computer program implements the processes of the method embodiments, and can achieve the same technical effects, and in order to avoid repetition, the computer program is not described herein again. The computer readable storage medium is, for example, ROM, RAM, magnetic disk or optical disk.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to execute a program or an instruction to implement each process of the foregoing method embodiments, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, the details are not repeated here.

It should be understood that the chips mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as system-on-chip, system-on-chip or system-on-chip, etc.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element. Further, it should be noted that the scope of the methods and apparatus of the embodiments of the present application is not limited to performing the functions in the order illustrated or discussed, but may include performing the functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in a reverse order based on the functions involved, e.g., the methods described may be performed in an order different than that described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. In addition, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

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

While the present embodiments have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise embodiments described above, which are meant to be illustrative and not restrictive, and that various changes may be made therein by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A method for paging indication, the method comprising:

user Equipment (UE) acquires target information, wherein the target information comprises related information of paging indication;

the UE receives paging indication information according to the target information, wherein the paging indication information is used for indicating at least one UE group, the at least one UE group is a group where the UE to be paged by the network equipment is located, and each UE group comprises at least one UE;

and the UE determines whether the UE receives paging messages or not according to the paging indication information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the target information comprises at least one of: paging enabling information, mapping mode information, the bit number corresponding to the paging indication information, the UE grouping number, a paging indication mapping rule and first mapping information;

the paging enabling information is used for indicating whether paging indicating information is enabled or not, the mapping mode information is used for indicating a mapping mode corresponding to the paging indicating information, the UE grouping number is the number of the paged UE grouping, the paging indicating mapping rule is the mapping rule of the paging indicating information and the UE grouping, and the first mapping information is the mapping information of the wakeup signal WUS information and the paging indicating information.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the target information includes mapping mode information;

the mapping mode information is used to indicate a first mapping mode, where the first mapping mode is a mapping mode adopted when the network device indicates to the UE group to be paged, and the first mapping mode is any one of the following: a bit mapping mode, a value mapping mode, and a hybrid mapping mode.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the UE receives paging indication information according to the target information, comprising:

and the UE analyzes and processes the paging indication information according to the mapping mode information so as to determine the at least one UE group corresponding to the paging indication information.

5. The method of claim 4,

in the case that the first mapping mode is the bit mapping mode, the paging indication information includes a paging indication value;

in a case that the first mapping mode is the value mapping mode, the paging indication information includes a paging indication value;

and if the first mapping mode is the hybrid mapping mode, the paging indication information comprises mode indication information and a paging indication value.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first mapping mode is a hybrid mapping mode;

the UE parsing the paging indication information according to the mapping mode information to determine the at least one UE group corresponding to the paging indication information, including:

in a hybrid mapping mode, the UE analyzes and processes the paging indication information to obtain mode indication information in the paging indication information, and determines a second mapping mode according to the mode indication information, wherein the second mapping mode is a bit mapping mode or a value mapping mode;

and the UE adopts the second mapping mode to determine the at least one UE group corresponding to the paging indication information.

7. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the target information comprises a bit number corresponding to the paging indication information;

the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information is any one of the following: the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information in a bit mapping mode, the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information in a value mapping mode, and the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information in a hybrid mapping mode.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information in hybrid mapping mode comprises: the number of bits of the mode indication information and the number of bits of the paging indication value.

9. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the target information comprises a number of UE packets;

the UE packet number includes at least one of: the number of UE packets in bit mapped mode and the number of UE packets in value mapped mode.

10. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the target information comprises first mapping information;

the first mapping information includes at least one of: mapping information of mapping mode corresponding to WUS information and paging indication, mapping information of WUS information and paging indication value, and mapping information of WUS information and paging indication mode and paging indication value.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the UE receives paging indication information according to the target information, comprising:

the UE receives paging Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) information sent by the network equipment according to the target information, wherein the paging PDCCH information comprises the paging indication information;

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

and the UE receives WUS information sent by the network equipment according to the target information, wherein the WUS information comprises the paging indication information.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the paging PDCCH information further comprises paging enabling information, and wherein the paging enabling information is used for indicating whether paging indication information is enabled.

13. The method according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the UE receives paging PDCCH information sent by the network device according to the target information, including:

and the UE receives target Downlink Control Information (DCI) according to the target information, wherein the target DCI comprises the bit number corresponding to the paging indication information, and the target DCI is the DCI corresponding to the paging PDCCH information.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the UE receives WUS information sent by the network device according to the target information, and wherein the receiving comprises:

the UE receives WUS sequence information, and the WUS sequence information corresponds to the paging indication information;

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

and the UE receives WUS PDCCH information, wherein the WUS PDCCH information comprises the paging indication information.

15. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the target information is configured for the UE by the network device, or agreed upon by a protocol, or predefined.

16. A method for paging indication, the method comprising:

network equipment sends target information to User Equipment (UE), wherein the target information comprises related information of paging indication;

the network equipment sends paging indication information to the UE according to a target mapping mode; wherein the target mapping mode is a value mapping mode or a bit mapping mode; the paging indication information is used for indicating at least one UE group, the at least one UE group is a group where the UE to be paged by the network equipment is located, and each UE group comprises at least one UE; the paging indication information is used for the UE to determine whether to receive a paging message.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the target information comprises mapping mode information;

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the first mapping mode is a hybrid mapping mode;

the network device sends the paging indication information to the UE according to a target mapping mode, including:

the network equipment sends the paging indication information to the UE according to a value mapping mode or a bit mapping mode under the condition that the UE to be paged is a UE group;

and under the condition that the UE to be paged is a plurality of UE groups, the network equipment sends the paging indication information to the UE according to a bit mapping mode.

19. A page indication apparatus, characterized in that the page indication apparatus comprises: the device comprises an acquisition module, a receiving module and a determining module;

the acquiring module is used for acquiring target information, and the target information comprises related information of the paging indication;

the receiving module is configured to receive paging indication information according to the target information acquired by the acquiring module, where the paging indication information is used to indicate at least one UE group, where the at least one UE group is a group where UEs to be paged by a network device are located, and each UE group includes at least one UE;

the determining module is configured to determine whether the UE receives a paging message according to the paging indication information received by the receiving module.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the target information comprises at least one of: paging enabling information, mapping mode information, the bit number corresponding to the paging indication information, the UE grouping number, a paging indication mapping rule and first mapping information;

21. The apparatus according to claim 19 or 20, wherein the target information comprises mapping mode information;

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the receiving module is specifically configured to parse the paging indicator information according to the mapping mode information to determine the at least one UE group corresponding to the paging indicator information.

23. The apparatus of claim 22,

24. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the first mapping mode is a hybrid mapping mode;

the receiving module is specifically configured to, in a hybrid mapping mode, parse and process the paging indication information to obtain mode indication information in the paging indication information, and determine a second mapping mode according to the mode indication information, where the second mapping mode is a bit mapping mode or a value mapping mode; and determining the at least one UE group corresponding to the paging indication information by adopting the second mapping mode.

25. The apparatus according to claim 19 or 20, wherein the target information comprises a bit number corresponding to the paging indication information;

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the number of bits corresponding to the paging indication information in hybrid mapping mode comprises: the number of bits of the mode indication information and the number of bits of the paging indication value.

27. The apparatus according to claim 19 or 20, wherein the target information comprises a number of UE packets;

28. The apparatus according to claim 19 or 20, wherein the target information comprises first mapping information;

29. The apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the receiving module is specifically configured to receive, according to the target information, paging physical downlink control channel PDCCH information sent by the network device, where the paging PDCCH information includes the paging indication information; or receiving WUS information sent by the network equipment according to the target information, wherein the WUS information comprises the paging indication information.

30. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the paging PDCCH information further comprises paging enabling information, and wherein the paging enabling information is used for indicating whether paging indication information is enabled.

31. The apparatus according to claim 29 or 30, wherein the receiving module is specifically configured to receive a target downlink control information DCI according to the target information, where the target DCI includes a bit number corresponding to the paging indication information, and the target DCI is a DCI corresponding to the paging PDCCH information.

32. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the receiving means is configured to receive WUS sequence information, the WUS sequence information corresponding to the paging indication information; or receiving WUS PDCCH information, wherein the WUS PDCCH information comprises the paging indication information.

33. The apparatus of claim 19 or 20, wherein the target information is configured for the UE by a network device, or agreed upon by a protocol, or predefined.

34. A page indication apparatus, characterized in that the page indication apparatus comprises: a sending module;

the sending module is configured to send target information to user equipment UE, where the target information includes related information of a paging indicator; sending paging indication information to the UE according to a target mapping mode; wherein the target mapping mode is a value mapping mode or a bit mapping mode; the paging indication information is used for indicating at least one UE group, the at least one UE group is a group where the UE to be paged by the network equipment is located, and each UE group comprises at least one UE; the paging indication information is used for the UE to determine whether to receive a paging message.

35. The apparatus of claim 34, wherein the target information comprises mapping mode information;

36. The apparatus of claim 35, wherein the first mapping mode is a hybrid mapping mode;

the sending module is specifically configured to send the paging indication information to the UE according to a value mapping mode or a bit mapping mode when the UE to be paged is a UE group; or, when the UE to be paged is a plurality of UE groups, sending the paging indication information to the UE according to a bit mapping mode.

37. A user equipment, UE, comprising a processor, a memory and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the page indication method according to any of claims 1 to 15.

38. A network device comprising a processor, a memory and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instructions when executed by the processor implementing the steps of the page indication method according to any one of claims 16 to 18.

39. A communication system, characterized in that the communication system comprises a page indication apparatus according to any one of claims 19 to 33 and a page indication apparatus according to any one of claims 34 to 36; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

the communication system comprises a user equipment, UE, according to claim 37 and a network device according to claim 38.

40. A readable storage medium, characterized in that a program or instructions are stored thereon, which program or instructions, when executed by a processor, carry out the steps of the page indication method according to any one of claims 1 to 15, or the steps of the page indication method according to any one of claims 16 to 18.