CN115348646A

CN115348646A - Message transmission method and related device

Info

Publication number: CN115348646A
Application number: CN202110519352.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 雷珍珠; 周化雨; 赵思聪
Original assignee: Spreadtrum Semiconductor Nanjing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Spreadtrum Semiconductor Nanjing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-05-12
Filing date: 2021-05-12
Publication date: 2022-11-15
Also published as: WO2022237881A1

Abstract

The application provides a message transmission method and a related device, firstly, configuration information is obtained, the configuration information comprises duration information and transmission resource configuration information, the duration information is used for indicating the effective duration of a first message, and the transmission resource configuration information comprises configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource contained in each transmission resource subset; then, receiving the first message, wherein the first message is used for indicating a first transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset; finally, a second message is read within the validity duration, the second message being used to indicate the availability status of each first transmission resource in the first subset of transmission resources. The availability of each transmission resource can be flexibly indicated by combining the first message and the second message, and the power consumption and the bit overhead of the terminal equipment are greatly reduced.

Description

Message transmission method and related device

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a message transmission method and a related apparatus.

Background

In order to save energy consumption of terminal devices in an idle state, a network side configures reference signal transmission resources for the terminal devices through system broadcast information in a current manner, that is, the terminal devices in the idle state and the terminal devices in a connected state may share the reference signal resources. The terminal equipment has two modes to determine the availability of the reference signal transmission resource in an idle state:

one is determining availability of a reference signal transmission resource by receiving a Paging Early Indication (PEI);

the second is to determine the availability of the reference signal transmission resource by receiving Paging Downlink Control Information (Paging DCI).

However, in the existing method, more bits need to be designed in Paging DCI or PEI to indicate the availability of reference signal resources, which causes a serious bit overhead, and power consumption of the terminal device and signaling overhead of the network side may also increase.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, the present application provides a message transmission method and a related apparatus, which can dynamically and flexibly indicate the availability of reference signal resources, and reduce power consumption and bit overhead of a terminal device.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a message transmission method, where the method includes:

acquiring configuration information, wherein the configuration information comprises duration information and transmission resource configuration information, the duration information is used for indicating the effective duration of the first message, and the transmission resource configuration information comprises configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource contained in each transmission resource subset;

receiving the first message, wherein the first message is used for indicating a first transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset;

reading a second message within the validity duration, the second message being used to indicate an availability status of each first transmission resource in the first subset of transmission resources, the first transmission resource being a reference signal resource or a set of reference signal resources.

In a possible embodiment, the first message includes first bit field information in Paging downlink control information Paging DCI, and the second message includes second bit field information in Paging advance indication PEI.

Further, the first bit field information includes a first bit value, where the first bit value indicates a value of each bit in the first bit field, and each bit in the first bit field has a first mapping relationship with the first transmission resource subset, where the first mapping relationship is indicated by system information or RRC signaling; the second bit field information includes a second bit value, the second bit value represents a value of each bit in a second bit field, each bit in the second bit field has a second mapping relationship with the first transmission resource, and the second mapping relationship is indicated by the system information or the RRC signaling.

Further, the first bit field information includes a first bit field value, and the first bit field value represents a value of the first bit field; the second bit field information includes a second bit field value, and the second bit field value represents a value of the second bit field.

In one possible embodiment, the duration information comprises a first duration; the receiving the first message comprises:

and receiving Paging DCI at a first Paging moment so as to read the first bit value or the first bit domain value.

Further, the first paging time is determined according to a paging parameter and the first time length, where the paging parameter includes a number of paging frames in the paging cycle, an initial paging frame number, and a user identifier, and is used to determine a paging frame and a first paging index, where the paging frame represents a system frame number corresponding to the first paging time, and the first paging index represents an index of the first paging time in the paging frame.

In a possible embodiment, the reading the second message within the valid duration includes:

and receiving the PEI to read the second bit value or the second bit domain value within the first time period.

In a possible embodiment, the method further comprises:

receiving the corresponding Paging DCI at the first Paging occasion, or ignoring the second bit-field information for the first time duration when the corresponding Paging DCI is received at the first Paging occasion but the first bit-field information indicates that the first transmission resource subset does not exist in the at least one transmission resource subset, the availability status of the first transmission resource being unavailable.

In a possible embodiment, the method further comprises:

when the corresponding Paging DCI is not received at the first Paging moment, determining a second transmission resource subset in an activated state in the at least one transmission resource subset according to first bit field information in the Paging DCI received at a second Paging moment, wherein the second Paging moment is determined before the first Paging moment and also according to the Paging parameter and the first time length;

and receiving the PEI within the first time period and reading the second bit value or the second bit domain value to determine the availability status of each transmission resource in the second transmission resource subset, wherein the transmission resource is a reference signal resource or a reference signal resource set.

In one possible embodiment, the duration information comprises a second duration; the receiving the first message comprises:

and triggering a timer when receiving the paging DCI and reading the first bit value or the first bit field value, wherein the timing duration of the timer is equal to the second duration.

In a possible embodiment, the reading the second message within the validity duration includes:

and receiving the PEI within the second time length to read the second bit value or the second bit domain value.

In one possible embodiment, the method further comprises:

receiving a paging DCI after the timer exceeds the second duration, or ignoring the second bit field information when the timer exceeds the second duration but the first bit field information indicates that the first transmission resource subset does not exist in the at least one transmission resource subset, and the availability status of the third transmission resource is unavailable.

In one possible embodiment, the first duration is an integer multiple of the paging cycle, and the second duration includes units of the paging cycle, milliseconds, slots, subframes, and frames.

In a possible embodiment, the obtaining the configuration information includes:

the configuration information is obtained by receiving system information or RRC signaling.

In one possible embodiment, the Reference Signal resources are Tracking Reference Signal (TRS) resources or Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) resources, and the set of Reference Signal resources are a set of Tracking Reference Signal (TRS) resources or a set of Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) resources.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a message transmission method, where the method includes:

sending configuration information, a first message and a second message, wherein the configuration information is determined by system information or RRC signaling and comprises duration information and transmission resource configuration information; the time length information comprises a first time length or a second time length and is used for indicating the effective time length of the first message and the effective reading time of the second message; the transmission resource configuration information comprises configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource contained in each transmission resource subset; the first message is used for indicating a first transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset; the second message is used to indicate an availability status of each first transmission resource in the first subset of transmission resources, where the first transmission resource is a reference signal resource or a set of reference signal resources.

In one possible embodiment, the method comprises:

determining a number of bits in a first bit field according to the number of transmission resource subsets;

establishing a first mapping relationship between the subset of transmission resources and bits in the first bit field, the first mapping relationship being indicated by the system information or the RRC signaling;

and determining a first bit value of each bit in the first bit field according to the first mapping relation.

In one possible embodiment, the method comprises:

and determining a first bit field value of a first bit field in the Paging DCI.

In one possible embodiment, the method comprises:

determining the number of bits in a second bit field according to the number of the first transmission resources;

establishing a second mapping relationship between the first transmission resource and bits in the second bit field, the second mapping relationship being indicated by the system information or the RRC signaling;

determining a second bit value of each bit in the second bit field according to the second mapping relation

In one possible embodiment, the method comprises:

and determining a second bit field value of a second bit field in the PEI.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a message transmission apparatus, where the apparatus includes:

an obtaining module, configured to obtain configuration information, where the configuration information includes duration information and transmission resource configuration information, the duration information is used to indicate an effective duration of a first message, and the transmission resource configuration information includes configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource included in each transmission resource subset;

a first receiving module, configured to receive the first message, where the first message is used to indicate a first transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset;

a second receiving module, configured to read a second message within the validity duration, where the second message is used to indicate an availability status of each first transmission resource in the first subset of transmission resources, and the first transmission resource is a reference signal resource or a reference signal resource set.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a message transmission apparatus, where the apparatus includes:

the first sending module is used for sending configuration information, a first message and a second message, wherein the configuration information is determined by system information or RRC signaling and comprises duration information and transmission resource configuration information; the time length information comprises a first time length or a second time length and is used for indicating the effective time length of the first message and the effective reading time of the second message; the transmission resource configuration information comprises configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource contained in each transmission resource subset; the first message is used for indicating a first transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset; the second message is used to indicate an availability status of each first transmission resource in the first subset of transmission resources, where the first transmission resource is a reference signal resource or a set of reference signal resources.

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a terminal device, including a processor, a memory for storing processor-executable commands;

wherein the processor is configured to:

In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an access network device, including a processor, a memory configured to store processor-executable commands;

wherein the processor is configured to:

sending configuration information, a first message and a second message, wherein the configuration information is determined by system information or RRC signaling and comprises duration information and transmission resource configuration information; the time length information comprises a first time length or a second time length and is used for indicating the effective time length of the first message and the effective reading time of the second message; the transmission resource configuration information comprises configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource contained in each transmission resource subset; the first message is used for indicating a first transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset; the second message is used to indicate an availability status of each first transmission resource in the first subset of transmission resources, the first transmission resource being a reference signal resource or a set of reference signal resources.

In a seventh aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a chip, which is applied to a terminal device,

the chip is configured to acquire configuration information, where the configuration information includes duration information and transmission resource configuration information, the duration information is used to indicate an effective duration of the first message, and the transmission resource configuration information includes configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource included in each transmission resource subset;

In an eighth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a chip, which is applied to an access network device,

the chip is used for sending configuration information, a first message and a second message, wherein the configuration information is determined by system information or RRC signaling and comprises duration information and transmission resource configuration information; the time length information comprises a first time length or a second time length and is used for indicating the effective time length of the first message and the effective reading time of the second message; the transmission resource configuration information comprises configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource contained in each transmission resource subset; the first message is used for indicating a first transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset; the second message is used to indicate an availability status of each first transmission resource in the first subset of transmission resources, the first transmission resource being a reference signal resource or a set of reference signal resources.

In a ninth aspect, the present application provides a chip module, which is applied to a terminal device, and includes a transceiver component and a chip,

the chip is configured to obtain configuration information, where the configuration information includes duration information and transmission resource configuration information, the duration information is used to indicate an effective duration of the first message, and the transmission resource configuration information includes configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource included in each transmission resource subset;

In a tenth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a chip module, which is applied to an access network device, and includes a transceiver component and a chip,

In an eleventh aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer storage medium storing a computer program, the computer program comprising program instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the method according to any one of the first and second aspects of the embodiments of the present application.

By the message transmission method and the related device, firstly, configuration information is obtained, wherein the configuration information comprises duration information and transmission resource configuration information, the duration information is used for indicating the effective duration of the first message, and the transmission resource configuration information comprises configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource contained in each transmission resource subset; then, receiving the first message, wherein the first message is used for indicating a first transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset; finally, a second message is read within the validity duration, the second message being used to indicate the availability status of each first transmission resource of the first subset of transmission resources. The availability of each transmission resource can be flexibly indicated by combining the first message and the second message, and the power consumption and the bit overhead of the terminal equipment are greatly reduced.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required to be used in the description of the embodiments are briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the description below are some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on the drawings without creative efforts.

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

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a schematic flowchart of a message transmission method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4A is a schematic diagram of a reference signal resource availability indication according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4B is a schematic diagram of another reference signal resource availability indication provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4C is a schematic diagram of another reference signal resource availability indication provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4D is a schematic diagram of another reference signal resource availability indication provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating another message transmission method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a flowchart illustrating another message transmission method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a message transmission apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a message transmission apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of an access network device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical solutions of the present application better understood, 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 only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. 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 claims of the present application and in the foregoing drawings are used for distinguishing between different objects and not for describing a particular sequential order. Furthermore, the terms "include" and "have," as well as any variations thereof, are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions. For example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not limited to only those steps or elements but may alternatively include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

Reference herein to "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the application. The appearances of the phrase in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. It is explicitly and implicitly understood by one skilled in the art that the embodiments described herein can be combined with other embodiments.

First, a description will be given of background art and terminology in the embodiments of the present application.

CSI-RS: channel-State Information Reference Signal (Channel-State Information Reference Signal);

TRS: a multi-periodic CSI-RS can be understood as a phase reference signal (tracking reference signal).

Packing message: the paging message has the functions of: (1) Sending a call request to the terminal equipment in the RRC _ IDLE state; (2) Informing the terminal equipment in the RRC _ IDLE/INACTIVE and RRC _ CONNECTED states that the system information is changed; (3) The earthquake and tsunami notification indicates that the terminal equipment starts to receive the ETWS primary notification and/or the ETWS secondary notification; instructing the terminal device to start receiving the CMAS notification. If the terminal equipment is paged or the system information is updated or an earthquake and tsunami occur, the base station firstly sends a wake-up signal, the terminal equipment monitors a paging PDCCH (physical downlink control channel) and receives a paging message after detecting the wake-up signal, otherwise, the terminal equipment keeps a sleep state all the time to achieve the purpose of saving electricity. In NR, the UE may use Discontinuous Reception (DRX) in RRC _ IDLE and RRC _ INACTIVE states in order to reduce power consumption. The UE periodically (the Paging cycle is a DRX cycle) monitors the Paging Occasion (PO).

In addition, before the UE receives Paging, the UE needs to use a reference signal (e.g., SSB) to complete time-frequency synchronization and AGC (automatic gain control) adjustment.

PEI: paging Early Indication (Paging Early Indication), in order to save power consumption of the terminal device, in a DRX scenario, each PO may be associated with one PEI, and the terminal device may receive the PEI before monitoring the POs to determine whether monitoring of the POs associated with the PEI is needed, so as to achieve a purpose of saving power consumption;

in an eDRX (Extended idle mode DRX) scenario, in each eDRX cycle, there is a Paging Time Window PTW (Paging Time Window), and the terminal device monitors a Paging channel in the PTW according to the DRX cycle (the DRX cycle Time is short, and it can be considered that the terminal device is not dormant and can be reached all the Time) so as to receive downlink data, and the terminal device is in a dormant state at the rest of Time. That is, in an eDRX (Extended idle mode DRX) scenario, one PEI may associate multiple POs (assuming m POs), that is, the terminal device receives a PEI indication, and may determine whether the subsequent m POs need to monitor.

According to the paging rate (10%) of the terminal device group in the existing network, generally, more than 90% of probability PEI indicates that the terminal device does not wake up to monitor PDCCH in its corresponding PO.

The following is to describe the activity of the terminal device in idle/inactive state, when in idle/inactive state, for the measurement of the serving cell, the terminal device basically performs the measurement activity of the serving cell in each DRX cycle, and the purpose of the measurement activity is to perform cell reselection when one is used, and to complete time-frequency synchronization and Automatic Gain Control (AGC) adjustment before monitoring the PO.

In idle/inactive state, before the terminal device receives Paging in each DRX cycle, the terminal device needs to utilize multiple (e.g., 3) synchronization signal blocks (SS/PBCH block, SSB) to complete time-frequency synchronization, AGC adjustment, and Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurement for a serving cell. Since SSBs are periodically transmitted (the period size is at the cell level, that is, the SSB transmission period of a cell is the same), it cannot be guaranteed that each PO (the period of the PO is at the terminal device level, and each terminal device has its specific PO period) is close to a certain SSB, if the distance between the SSB and the PO is large, the terminal device needs to wake up many times to receive paging (it is assumed that 2 SSBs are needed to complete time frequency synchronization, AGC adjustment and RRM measurement for the serving cell, wake up 3 times is needed, 2 times are needed to perform time frequency synchronization/AGC adjustment/RRM measurement for the serving cell, and 1 time is needed to monitor the PO), and if the SSB is close to the PO, the terminal device only needs to wake up 2 times to complete time frequency synchronization, AGC adjustment, measurement for the serving cell, and paging reception.

Further, in idle/inactive state, frequent waking up of the terminal device to perform related activities (i.e. frequency synchronization, AGC adjustment and serving cell measurement) may increase the power consumption of the terminal device. At present, the 3GPP adopts a solution that a network side configures a periodic TRS/CSI-RS transmission resource for a terminal device in idle/inactive state through system broadcast information, that is, the terminal device in idle/inactive state and a terminal device in connected state can share the TRS/CSI-RS. The terminal equipment in idle/inactive state can utilize the TRS/CSI-RS to complete activities such as AGC adjustment/time frequency synchronization and the like so as to reduce the waking times of the terminal equipment, namely, the terminal equipment can centralize time frequency synchronization, AGC adjustment and measurement of a service cell through the TRS/CSI-RS so as to reduce the waking times of UE.

For example, as shown in fig. 1, when there is an additional reference signal (ARS, or TRS/CSI-RS) in front of (and close to) the PO, the UE only needs to wake up 2 times to complete time-frequency synchronization, measurement and Paging reception. However, in idle/inactive state, the availability of the TRS/CSI-RS resource needs to indicate the terminal device by the network side, that is, the terminal device needs to determine whether the resource of the subsequent TRS/CSI-RS is valid (i.e., determine whether the base station sends the TRS/CSI-RS at the transmission time of the subsequent TRS/CSI-RS) by receiving the TRS/CSI-RS validity indication message sent by the network side in advance.

In order to more flexibly indicate the effectiveness of the TRS/CSI-RS, and reduce the bit overhead and the power consumption of the terminal device, and the like, embodiments of the present application provide a message transmission method and a related apparatus, which can dynamically and flexibly indicate the availability of the reference signal resource by a Paging DCI and PEI joint indication manner, and reduce the power consumption and the bit overhead of the terminal device.

In this embodiment, the terminal device is a UE side, and the access network device is a network side, which are not described herein again.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present application. The mobile communication system may be an LTE system, or may also be a 5G system, where the 5G system is also called a New Radio (NR) system, or may also be a next-generation mobile communication technology system of 5G, and this embodiment is not limited thereto.

Optionally, the mobile communication system is applicable to different network architectures, including but not limited to a relay network architecture, a dual link architecture, a Vehicle to internet (V2X) architecture, and the like.

The mobile communication system includes: access network device 220 and terminal device 240.

The Access Network device 220 may be a Base Station (BS), which may also be referred to as a base station device, and is a device deployed in a Radio Access Network (RAN) to provide a wireless communication function. For example, the device providing the base station function in the 2G network includes a Base Transceiver Station (BTS), the device providing the base station function in the 3G network includes a node B (NodeB), the device providing the base station function in the 4G network includes an evolved node B (eNB), the device providing the base station function in the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is an Access Point (AP), the device providing the base station function in the 5G system is a gNB, and a node B (english: ng-eNB) continues to evolve, the access network device 220 in the embodiment of the present disclosure further includes a device providing the base station function in a new communication system in the future, and the present disclosure does not limit a specific implementation manner of the access network device 220. The access network equipment may also include Home base stations (Home enbs, henbs), relays (Relay), pico base stations (Pico), and the like.

The base station controller is a device for managing a base station, such as a Base Station Controller (BSC) in a 2G network, a Radio Network Controller (RNC) in a 3G network, and a device for controlling and managing a base station in a future new communication system.

A network side network (network) in the embodiment of the present disclosure is a communication network that provides a communication service for terminal device 240, and includes a base station of a radio access network, a base station controller of the radio access network, and a device on a core network side.

The Core Network may be an Evolved Packet Core (EPC), a 5G Core Network (english: 5G Core Network), or a new Core Network in a future communication system. The 5G Core Network is composed of a set of devices, and implements Access and Mobility Management functions (AMF) of functions such as Mobility Management, user Plane Functions (UPF) providing functions such as packet routing forwarding and Quality of Service (QoS) Management, session Management Functions (SMF) providing functions such as Session Management, IP address allocation and Management, and the like. The EPC may be composed of an MME providing functions such as mobility management, gateway selection, etc., a Serving Gateway (S-GW) providing functions such as packet forwarding, etc., and a PDN Gateway (P-GW) providing functions such as terminal address allocation, rate control, etc.

The access network device 220 and the terminal device 240 establish a wireless connection over the air. Optionally, the wireless air interface is a wireless air interface based on a 5G standard, for example, the wireless air interface is NR; or, the wireless air interface may also be a wireless air interface based on a 5G next generation mobile communication network technology standard; alternatively, the wireless air interface may be a wireless air interface based on the 4G standard (LTE system). The access network device 220 may receive the uplink data transmitted by the terminal device 240 through the wireless connection.

Terminal device 240 may refer to a device in data communication with access network device 220. Terminal device 240 may communicate with one or more core networks via a radio access network. The terminal equipment 240 may be various forms of User Equipment (UE), access terminal equipment, subscriber unit, subscriber station, mobile Station (MS), remote station, remote terminal equipment, mobile device, user terminal equipment, terminal equipment (terminal equipment), wireless communication equipment, user agent, or user equipment. The terminal device 240 may also be a cellular phone, a cordless phone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a handheld device with Wireless communication function, a computing device or other processing device connected to a Wireless modem, a vehicle-mounted device, a wearable device, a terminal device in a future 5G Network or a terminal device in a future evolved Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN), and the like, which is not limited in this embodiment. Terminal device 240 may receive downlink data sent by access network device 220 via a wireless connection with access network device 220.

It should be noted that, when the mobile communication system shown in fig. 2 adopts a 5G system or a 5G next generation mobile communication technology system, the above network elements may have different names in the 5G system or the 5G next generation mobile communication technology system, but have the same or similar functions, and the embodiment of the present disclosure is not limited thereto.

It should be noted that, in the mobile communication system shown in fig. 2, a plurality of access network devices 220 and/or a plurality of terminal devices 240 may be included, and only one access network device 220 and one terminal device 240 are shown in fig. 2 for illustration, but the embodiment of the disclosure does not limit this.

A message transmission method in the embodiment of the present application is described below with reference to fig. 3, and fig. 3 is a schematic flowchart of a message transmission method provided in the embodiment of the present application, which is applied to a terminal device, and specifically includes the following steps:

step 301, obtaining configuration information.

The configuration information includes duration information and transmission resource configuration information, the duration information is used for indicating the effective duration of the first message, and the transmission resource configuration information includes configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource included in each transmission resource subset;

the configuration information may be obtained by receiving system information or an RRC signaling from a network side, where each transmission resource subset includes at least one transmission resource, it may be understood that the transmission resource in this embodiment of the application is a TRS/CRI-RS resource or a TRS/CRI-RS resource set, the duration information may include a first duration T1 or a second duration T2, T1 is an integer multiple of a paging cycle, a unit of T2 may be a paging cycle, a millisecond, a timeslot, a subframe, a frame, and the like, and two message transmission modes exist according to different configured duration information, which is not described herein in detail, and see description of subsequent steps.

By acquiring the configuration information, two message receiving modes with the effective duration of T1 and T2 can be provided for the terminal equipment in the scene of reference signal availability indication, and the flexibility of reference signal availability indication is improved.

Step 302, receiving the first message.

For example, if the network side configures a transmission resource subsets through configuration information, where a is a natural number greater than 1, b first transmission resource subsets in the active state exist in the transmission resource subsets a, and b is a natural number less than or equal to a, the terminal device may determine the b first transmission resource subsets in the transmission resource subsets a by receiving the first message.

Specifically, the first message may include first bit field information in Paging downlink control information Paging DCI, and further, the first bit field information includes a first bit value, where the first bit value represents a value of each bit in the first bit field, each bit in the first bit field and the first transmission resource subset have a first mapping relationship, and the first mapping relationship is indicated by system information or RRC signaling; the first bit field information may also include a first bit field value, where the first bit field value represents a value of the first bit field. The terminal device may receive the Paging DCI and read the first bit value or the first bit field value, which is not specifically limited herein.

Further, how the first bit field information indicates whether the transmission resource subset is in the active state is described herein, it can be understood that the network side may determine the number of bits in the first bit field according to the number of the transmission resource subsets, that is, the number of the transmission resource subsets is equal to the number of bits in the first bit field. In a possible embodiment, a first mapping relationship may be established between each bit in the first bit field and each transmission resource subset configured on the network side, that is, each bit corresponds to one transmission resource subset, and when a bit value is 1, the terminal device may determine that the corresponding transmission resource subset is in an active state, where the transmission resource subset is the first transmission resource subset; when the bit value is 0, the terminal device may determine that the corresponding transmission resource subset is in an inactive state, and the transmission resource subset is not the first transmission resource subset. In another possible embodiment, the network side may also directly perform integral value taking on the first bit field to obtain a value of the first bit field, for example, if there are three transmission resource subsets, which are respectively C1, C2, and C3, then the value of the first bit field is 00, which indicates that all the three transmission resource subsets are in an inactive state, and there is no first transmission resource subset; when the value of the first bit field is 01, C1 is a first transmission resource subset; when the value of the first bit field is 10, C2 is a first transmission resource subset; when the value of the first bit field is 11, it means that C3 is the first subset of transmission resources. The terminal device may determine a first transmission resource subset of the at least one transmission resource subset configured on the network side by reading the first bit field value.

In a possible embodiment, when the configured duration information is T1, the terminal device may receive Paging DCI at a first Paging occasion PO1 to read the first bit value or the first bit field value, where the first Paging occasion PO1 is determined according to a Paging parameter and the first duration T1, where the Paging parameter includes a Paging Frame Number N, a starting Paging Frame Number PF _ offset, and a user identifier UE _ ID in the Paging cycle in an existing protocol, and is used to determine a Paging Frame PF and a first Paging index i _ s, where the Paging Frame represents a System Frame Number SFN (System Frame Number) corresponding to the first Paging occasion PO1, and the first Paging index i _ s represents an index of the first Paging occasion in the Paging Frame.

The specific steps for determining PO1 are as follows:

first, PF is determined according to PF _ offset, T1, N and UE _ ID, that is, SFN of PO1 is determined, and the formula is as follows:

(SFN+PF_offset)mod T1＝(T1 div N)*(UE_ID mod N)

then, a first paging occasion index PO1 dex specifically used for receiving the TRS/CSI-RS availability indication is determined in the PF according to the parameter i _ s, and the formula is as follows:

i_s＝floor(UE_ID/N)mod Ns

wherein,

SFN: system Frame Number, system Frame Number;

PF _ offset: the starting time interval, namely the starting frame number, of the PF is determined in the existing protocol;

n: the number of PFs within a Paging cycle in an existing protocol;

UE_ID：5G-S-TMSI mod 1024；

i _ s: index in PF for determined PO1 (starting from 0);

t1: the effective duration T1 of TRS/CSI-RS availability indication;

ns: number of POs in one PF.

Further, the terminal device may receive the Paging DCI at the PO1 to read the first bit value or the first bit field value, and determine, according to the first bit value or the first bit field value, the first transmission resource subset in an activated state in all transmission resource subsets configured by the network side.

In a possible embodiment, when the configured duration information is the second duration T2, and when any paging occasion PO receives the paging DCI and reads the first bit value or the first bit field value, a Timer is triggered, a timing duration of the Timer is equal to T2, it can be understood that the paging DCI information in T2 is valid, and once the Timer expires, the terminal device needs to receive the paging DCI again to determine the first transmission resource subset in all the transmission resource subsets configured by the network side. The terminal device may receive the paging DCI, and read the first bit value or the first bit field value to determine the first transmission resource subset in an active state in all transmission resource subsets configured on the network side, which is not described herein again.

It can be seen that two valid durations are set, the first message is received through two modes, the receiving mode can be flexibly configured according to an actual scene, the flexibility of receiving the first message is improved, and the first transmission resource subset in the activated state is determined through the paging DCI, so that the efficiency of subsequently indicating the availability of the reference signal resource can be improved, the bit overhead is reduced, and the power consumption of the terminal device is reduced.

Step 303, reading the second message within the validity duration.

Wherein the second message is used to indicate an availability status of each first transmission resource in the first subset of transmission resources, it is understood that each first subset of transmission resources includes at least one first transmission resource, and the availability status may be available or unavailable, and the first transmission resource is a reference signal TRS/CRI-RS resource or a reference signal TRS/CRI-RS resource set. The second message may include second bit field information in the PEI indicated by the paging advance.

Specifically, the second bit field information includes a second bit value, where the second bit value indicates a value of each bit in a second bit field, and each bit in the second bit field has a second mapping relationship with the first transmission resource in the first transmission resource subset, where the second mapping relationship is indicated by the system information or the RRC signaling; the second bit field information may also include a second bit field value, where the second bit field value represents a value of the second bit field. The terminal device may receive the PEI and read the second bit value or the second bit field value, which is not specifically limited herein.

Further, describing how the second bit field information indicates the availability status of each first transmission resource in the first transmission resource subset, it can be understood that the network side may determine the number of bits in the second bit field according to the number of first transmission resources in each first transmission resource subset, that is, the number of first transmission resources in each first transmission resource subset is equal to the number of bits in the second bit field. In a possible embodiment, a second mapping relationship may be established between each bit in the second bit field and the first transmission resource in each first transmission resource subset, that is, each bit corresponds to one first transmission resource in the first transmission resource subset, and when the bit value is 1, the availability status of the corresponding first transmission resource is determined to be available; and when the bit value is 0, determining that the availability state of the corresponding first transmission resource is unavailable. In another possible embodiment, the network side may also directly perform integral value taking on the second bit field to obtain a value of the second bit field, for example, if a certain subset of the first transmission resources includes three first transmission resources, which are s1, s2, and s3, respectively, the value of the second bit field is 00, which indicates that none of the three first transmission resources is available; when the value of the second bit field is 01, s1 is available, and s2 and s3 are unavailable; when the value of the second bit field is 10, s2 is available, and s1 and s3 are unavailable; a second bit field value of 11 indicates that s3 is available and s1 and s2 are not. The terminal device may read the second bit value or the second bit field value within the effective duration to determine the availability status of each first transmission resource in the first transmission resource subset, which is not described herein again.

In a possible embodiment, when the duration information is T1, the PEI may be received in T1 after PO1 to read the second bit value or the second bit field value, and determine availability of each first transmission resource in the first transmission resource subset.

For example, as shown in fig. 4A, fig. 4A is a schematic diagram of a reference signal availability indication provided in the embodiment of the present application, and it can be seen that a terminal device receives and reads Paging DCI at PO1, where the Paging DCI indicates that C1 is a first subset of transmission resources, and C1 includes two first transmission resources, which are S1 and S2 respectively, the terminal device may receive PEI within an effective duration T1 and read a second bit value at this time, and when the second bit value is 11, it is determined that S1 and S2 are both available; when the value of the second bit is 01, determining that S1 is unavailable and S2 is available; and when the second bit value is 00, determining that both S1 and S2 are unavailable.

As shown in fig. 4B, fig. 4B is a schematic diagram of another reference signal availability indication provided in this embodiment of the present application, and it can be seen that a terminal device receives and reads Paging DCI at PO1, where the Paging DCI indicates that C1 and C2 are first transmission resource subsets, C1 includes two first transmission resources, respectively S1 and S2, and C2 includes two first transmission resources, respectively S3 and S4, then the terminal device may receive the Paging DCI within an effective duration T1, and read a second bit value at this time to determine availability of each first transmission resource in C1 and C2, and when the second bit is 11, determine that S1 and S2 in C1 are available, and S3 and PEI 4 in C2 are available; when the second bit value is 01, determining that S1 in C1 is unavailable, S2 is available, S3 in C2 is unavailable, and S4 is available; when the second bit value is 00, it is determined that S1 and S2 in C1 are not available and S3 and S4 in C2 are not available. I.e. each subset of first transmission resources determines the availability of each first transmission resource in each subset of first transmission resources according to the second bit field information in the PEI.

The second bit field value can be obtained by the above method, and is not described herein again.

In a possible embodiment, when the duration information is T2, the PEI may be received within a Timer timing duration T2 to read the second bit value or the second bit field value, and determine an availability of each first transmission resource in the first subset of transmission resources.

For example, as shown in fig. 4C, fig. 4C is a schematic diagram of another reference signal availability indication provided in the embodiment of the present application, and it can be seen that a terminal device triggers a Timer when any PO receives and reads Paging DCI, where the Paging DCI indicates that C1 is a first transmission resource subset, C1 includes two first transmission resources, which are S1 and S2 respectively, and then the terminal device may receive PEI during a running period of the Timer, that is, T2, and read a second bit value at this time, and when the second bit value is 11, it is determined that both S1 and S2 are available; when the value of the second bit is 01, determining that S1 is unavailable and S2 is available; and when the second bit takes the value of 00, determining that both S1 and S2 are unavailable.

As shown in fig. 4D, fig. 4D is a schematic diagram of another reference signal availability indication provided in this embodiment, and it can be seen that a terminal device triggers a Timer when any PO receives and reads Paging DCI, where the Paging DCI indicates that C1 and C2 are first transmission resource subsets, C1 includes two first transmission resources, that is, S1 and S2, and C2 includes two first transmission resources, that is, S3 and S4, respectively, then the terminal device may receive PEI during the running period of the Timer, that is, T2, and read a second bit value at this time, and when the second bit value is 11, it is determined that S1 and S2 in C1 are available, and S3 and S4 in C2 are available; when the second bit value is 01, determining that S1 in C1 is unavailable and S2 in C2 is unavailable, and S3 in C2 is unavailable and S4 in C2 is available; and when the second bit value is 00, determining that S1 and S2 in C1 are unavailable, and S3 and S4 in C2 are unavailable.

Therefore, the second message is read in the effective duration, the two reference signal availability indication strategies of the effective duration are also suitable, the availability of each transmission resource can be flexibly indicated by combining the first message and the second message, and the power consumption and the bit overhead of the terminal equipment are greatly reduced.

Next, with reference to fig. 5, another message transmission method in this embodiment is described, where fig. 5 is a schematic flowchart of another message transmission method provided in this embodiment, and is applied to an access network device, and specifically includes the following steps:

step 501, sending configuration information, a first message and a second message.

The configuration information can be determined through system information or RRC signaling, and comprises duration information and transmission resource configuration information; the duration information comprises a first duration T1 or a second duration T2, and is used for indicating the effective duration of the first message and the effective reading time of the second message; the transmission resource configuration information comprises configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource contained in each transmission resource subset; the first message is used for indicating a first transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset; the second message is used to indicate an availability status of each first transmission resource in the first transmission resource subset, where the first transmission resource is a reference signal resource or a reference signal resource set, and it can be understood that the transmission resource in this embodiment of the present application is a TRS/CRI-RS resource or a TRS/CRI-RS resource set.

Specifically, the first message includes first bit field information in Paging downlink control information Paging DCI, and the second message includes second bit field information in PEI indicated in advance by Paging. The first bit field information may include a first bit value or a first bit field value, and the second bit field information may include a second bit value or a second bit field value.

In a possible embodiment, the network side may determine the number of bits in the first bit field according to the number of the transmission resource subsets, and then establish a first mapping relationship between each of the transmission resource subsets and the bits in the first bit field, where the first mapping relationship is indicated by the system information or the RRC signaling. As such, the value of each bit in the first bit field may indicate whether the corresponding subset of transmission resources is in an active state. For example, the network side configures 3 reference signal resource sets, which are C1, C2, and C3 respectively, determines that the number of bits in the first bit field is 3, sets that the first bit corresponds to C1, the second bit corresponds to C2, and the third bit corresponds to C3, where a bit value of 1 indicates that the transmission resource subset corresponding to the bit is the first transmission resource subset in the active state, and a bit value of 0 indicates that the transmission resource subset corresponding to the bit is not in the active state, for example, if the first bit value is 110, it indicates that C1 and C2 are the first transmission resource subset, and C3 is not the first transmission resource subset; for example, if the first bit is 000, it means that none of C1, C2 and C3 is the first subset of transmission resources. And will not be described in detail herein.

In a possible embodiment, the network side may also directly perform integral value taking on the first bit field to obtain a value of the first bit field, for example, if there are three transmission resource subsets, which are respectively C1, C2, and C3, then the value of the first bit field is 00, which indicates that all the three transmission resource subsets are in an inactive state, and there is no first transmission resource subset; when the value of the first bit field is 01, C1 is a first transmission resource subset; when the value of the first bit field is 10, C2 is a first transmission resource subset; when the value of the first bit field is 11, it means that C3 is the first transmission resource subset.

In a possible embodiment, the network side may determine the number of bits in the second bit domain according to the number of first transmission resources in each first transmission resource subset, that is, the number of first transmission resources in each first transmission resource subset is equal to the number of bits in the second bit domain. In a possible embodiment, a second mapping relationship may be established between each bit in the second bit field and each first transmission resource, that is, each bit corresponds to one first transmission resource, and when a bit value is 1, the availability status of the corresponding first transmission resource is determined to be available; and when the bit value is 0, determining that the availability state of the corresponding first transmission resource is unavailable.

In another possible embodiment, the network side may also directly perform integral value taking on the second bit field to obtain a value of the second bit field, for example, if a certain subset of the first transmission resources includes three first transmission resources, which are s1, s2, and s3, respectively, the value of the second bit field is 00, which indicates that none of the three first transmission resources is available; when the value of the second bit field is 01, s1 is available, and s2 and s3 are not available; when the value of the second bit field is 10, s2 is available, and s1 and s3 are not available; a second bit field value of 11 indicates that s3 is available and s1 and s2 are not. The terminal device may read the second bit value or the second bit field value within the valid duration to determine the availability status of each first transmission resource in the first transmission resource subset, which is not described herein again.

Therefore, by the method, the availability of each transmission resource can be flexibly indicated by combining the first message and the second message, and the power consumption and the bit overhead of the terminal equipment are greatly reduced.

To more clearly describe the message transmission method in the embodiment of the present application, another message transmission method in the embodiment of the present application is described below with reference to fig. 6, where fig. 6 is another message transmission method provided in the embodiment of the present application, and is applied to a terminal device and an access network device, that is, a UE side and a network side, and specifically includes the following steps:

step 601, determining configuration information, a first message and a second message.

Step 602, sending the configuration information, the first message and the second message.

Step 603, obtaining configuration information.

Step 604, a first message is received.

Step 605, the second message is read within the validity duration.

The above steps that are not described in detail can be referred to the description of the steps of the foregoing method, and are not described again here.

In a possible embodiment, when the duration information is T1, the corresponding Paging DCI is not received at the first Paging occasion, or when the corresponding Paging DCI is received at the first Paging occasion PO1 but the first bit domain information indicates that the first transmission resource subset does not exist in the at least one transmission resource subset, the second bit domain information may be ignored within the first duration T1, and the availability status of the first transmission resource is unavailable.

In a possible embodiment, when the duration information is T1, and when the corresponding Paging DCI is not received at the first Paging time, a second transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset may be determined according to first bit field information in the Paging DCI received at a second Paging time, where the second Paging time PO2 is determined before the first Paging time PO1 and also according to the Paging parameter and the first duration, and in brief, PO2 is a Paging time determined in a Paging cycle before PO1, which is not described herein again;

then, PEI may be received within the first time duration T1 and the second bit value or the second bit field value may be read to determine an availability status of each transmission resource in the second subset of transmission resources, where the transmission resource is a reference signal resource or a set of reference signal resources.

In an optional embodiment, when the timer exceeds the second duration and then receives the paging DCI, or when the timer exceeds the second duration and then receives the paging DCI but the first bit field information indicates that the first transmission resource subset does not exist in the at least one transmission resource subset, ignoring the second bit field information, the availability status of the third transmission resource is unavailable.

To sum up, the message transmission method disclosed in the embodiment of the present application may combine the first message and the second message to flexibly indicate the availability of each transmission resource, thereby greatly reducing the power consumption and bit overhead of the terminal device.

The following is an apparatus-side embodiment disclosed in the embodiments of the present application, and for portions of the apparatus embodiment that are not described in detail, reference may be made to technical details disclosed in the above-mentioned method embodiments.

As shown in fig. 7, fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a message transmission apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application, and is applied to a terminal device, where the message transmission apparatus 700 includes:

an obtaining module 710, configured to obtain configuration information, where the configuration information includes duration information and transmission resource configuration information, the duration information is used to indicate an effective duration of the first message, and the transmission resource configuration information includes configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource included in each transmission resource subset;

a first receiving module 720, configured to receive the first message, where the first message is used to indicate a first transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset;

a second receiving module 730, configured to read a second message within the valid duration, where the second message is used to indicate an availability status of each first transmission resource in the first transmission resource subset, and the first transmission resource is a reference signal resource or a reference signal resource set.

Further, the first bit field information includes a first bit value, where the first bit value represents a value of each bit in the first bit field, and each bit in the first bit field and the first transmission resource subset have a first mapping relationship, where the first mapping relationship is indicated by system information or RRC signaling; the second bit field information includes a second bit value, the second bit value represents a value of each bit in a second bit field, each bit in the second bit field has a second mapping relationship with the first transmission resource, and the second mapping relationship is indicated by the system information or the RRC signaling.

In one possible embodiment, the duration information comprises a first duration; the first receiving module 720, in the aspect of receiving the first message, is specifically configured to:

In a possible embodiment, the second receiving module 730, in terms of reading the second message within the valid duration, is specifically configured to:

In a possible embodiment, the second receiving module 730 is further configured to:

In one possible embodiment, the duration information comprises a second duration; in the aspect of receiving the first message, the first receiving module 720 is specifically configured to:

In a possible embodiment, the second receiving module 730 is specifically configured to, in terms of reading the second message within the valid duration:

and receiving the PEI within the second duration to read the second bit value or the second bit field value.

In one possible embodiment, the first duration is an integer multiple of the paging cycle, and the unit of the second duration includes the paging cycle, milliseconds, slots, subframes, and frames.

In a possible embodiment, the obtaining module is specifically configured to, in terms of obtaining configuration information:

In one possible embodiment, the reference signal resource is a TRS resource or a CRI-RS resource, and the reference signal resource set is a TRS resource set or a CRI-RS resource set.

Next, referring to fig. 8, another message transmission apparatus in this embodiment is described, where fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of another message transmission apparatus provided in this embodiment, and is applied to an access network device, where the message transmission apparatus 800 includes:

a first sending module 810, configured to send configuration information, a first message, and a second message, where the configuration information is determined by system information or RRC signaling and includes duration information and transmission resource configuration information; the time length information comprises a first time length or a second time length and is used for indicating the effective time length of the first message and the effective reading time of the second message; the transmission resource configuration information comprises configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource contained in each transmission resource subset; the first message is used for indicating a first transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset; the second message is used to indicate an availability status of each first transmission resource in the first subset of transmission resources, where the first transmission resource is a reference signal resource or a set of reference signal resources.

In a possible embodiment, the first sending module 810 is configured to:

In one possible embodiment, the first sending module 810 is configured to:

and determining a first bit field value of a first bit field in the Paging DCI.

In a possible embodiment, the first sending module 810 is configured to:

determining a second bit value of each bit in the second bit field according to the second mapping relationship

In a possible embodiment, the first sending module 810 is configured to:

and determining a second bit field value of a second bit field in the PEI.

It should be noted that, when the apparatus provided in the foregoing embodiment implements the functions thereof, only the division of each functional module is illustrated, and in practical applications, the above function distribution may be completed by different functional modules according to actual needs, that is, the content structure of the device is divided into different functional modules, so as to complete all or part of the functions described above.

With regard to the apparatus in the above-described embodiment, the specific manner in which each module performs the operation has been described in detail in the embodiment related to the method, and will not be elaborated here.

Fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device 900 provided in this embodiment of the present application, and includes a processor 901, a communication interface 902, and a memory 903, where the processor 901, the communication interface 902, and the memory 903 are connected to each other through a bus 904, and the memory 903 may be implemented by any type of volatile or nonvolatile memory device or a combination thereof, such as a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), a read-only memory (ROM), a magnetic memory, a flash memory, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk. The bus 904 may be a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, an Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus, or the like. The bus 904 may be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, and the like. For ease of illustration, only one thick line is shown in FIG. 9, but this does not indicate only one bus or one type of bus. Wherein the memory 903 is used for storing a computer program comprising program instructions, and the processor 901 is configured to call the program instructions to execute the method of:

Further, the first bit field information includes a first bit value, where the first bit value represents a value of each bit in the first bit field, and each bit in the first bit field and the first transmission resource subset have a first mapping relationship, where the first mapping relationship is indicated by system information or RRC signaling; the second bit field information includes a second bit value, the second bit value indicates a value of each bit in a second bit field, each bit in the second bit field has a second mapping relationship with the first transmission resource, and the second mapping relationship is indicated by the system information or the RRC signaling.

Further, the first bit field information includes a first bit field value, and the first bit field value represents a value of the first bit field; the second bit field information includes a second bit field value, and the second bit field value indicates a value of the second bit field.

In one possible embodiment, the duration information comprises a first duration; the receiving the first message, the processor 901 is configured to:

Further, the first paging time is determined according to a paging parameter and the first time length, where the paging parameter includes a number of paging frames in the paging cycle, a starting paging frame number, and a user identifier, and is used to determine a paging frame and a first paging index, where the paging frame represents a system frame number corresponding to the first paging time, and the first paging index represents an index of the first paging time in the paging frame.

In a possible embodiment, the processor 901 is configured to read the second message within the validity duration:

and receiving PEI within the first time period to read the second bit value or the second bit domain value.

In a possible embodiment, the processor 901 is further configured to:

In one possible embodiment, the duration information comprises a second duration; said receiving said first message, said processor 901 is configured to:

In a possible embodiment, the processor 901 is further configured to:

In a possible embodiment, the processor 901 is configured to, in acquiring the configuration information:

Fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device 1000 provided in this embodiment of the present application, and includes a processor 1001, a communication interface 1002, and a memory 1003, where the processor 1001, the communication interface 1002, and the memory 1003 are connected to each other through a bus 1004, and the memory 1003 may be implemented by any type of volatile or nonvolatile memory device or a combination thereof, such as a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), a read-only memory (ROM), a magnetic memory, a flash memory, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk. The bus 1004 may be a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, an Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus, or the like. The bus 1004 may be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, and the like. For ease of illustration, only one thick line is shown in FIG. 10, but that does not indicate only one bus or one type of bus. Wherein the memory 1003 is configured to store a computer program, the computer program comprises program instructions, and the processor 1001 is configured to call the program instructions to execute the method of:

In a possible embodiment, the processor 1001 is configured to:

In one possible embodiment, the processor 1001 is configured to:

and determining a first bit field value of a first bit field in the Paging DCI.

In one possible embodiment, the processor 1001 is configured to:

In a possible embodiment, the processor 1001 is configured to:

and determining a second bit field value of a second bit field in the PEI.

In a possible implementation manner, the terminal device includes the message transmission apparatus provided in fig. 7, and the access network device includes the message transmission apparatus provided in fig. 8.

The present disclosure may be systems, methods, and/or computer program products. The computer program product may include a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program instructions embodied thereon for causing a processor to implement various aspects of the present disclosure.

The application also discloses a chip, which is applied to the terminal equipment,

The application also discloses a chip, which is applied to the access network equipment,

The application also discloses a chip module, which is applied to terminal equipment and comprises a transceiving component and a chip,

The application also discloses a chip module applied to the access network equipment, which comprises a transceiving component and a chip,

the chip is used for sending configuration information, a first message and a second message, wherein the configuration information is determined by system information or RRC signaling and comprises duration information and transmission resource configuration information; the time length information comprises a first time length or a second time length and is used for indicating the effective time length of the first message and the effective reading time of the second message; the transmission resource configuration information comprises configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource contained in each transmission resource subset; the first message is used for indicating a first transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset; the second message is used to indicate an availability status of each first transmission resource in the first subset of transmission resources, where the first transmission resource is a reference signal resource or a set of reference signal resources.

The computer readable storage medium may be a tangible device that can hold and store the instructions for use by the instruction execution device. The computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic memory device, a magnetic memory device, an optical memory device, an electromagnetic memory device, a semiconductor memory device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the computer readable storage medium would include the following: a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), a Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), a memory stick, a floppy disk, a mechanical coding device, such as punch cards or in-groove projection structures having instructions stored thereon, and any suitable combination of the foregoing. Computer-readable storage media as used herein is not to be construed as transitory signals per se, such as radio waves or other freely propagating electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic waves propagating through a waveguide or other transmission medium (e.g., optical pulses through a fiber optic cable), or electrical signals transmitted through electrical wires.

The computer-readable program instructions described herein may be downloaded from a computer-readable storage medium to a respective computing/processing device, or to an external computer or external storage device via a network, such as the internet, a local area network, a wide area network, and/or a wireless network. The network may include copper transmission cables, fiber optic transmission, wireless transmission, routers, firewalls, switches, gateway computers and/or edge servers. The network adapter card or network interface in each computing/processing device receives the computer-readable program instructions from the network and forwards the computer-readable program instructions for storage in a computer-readable storage medium in the respective computing/processing device.

Computer program instructions for carrying out operations of the present disclosure may be assembler instructions, instruction Set Architecture (ISA) instructions, machine-related instructions, microcode, firmware instructions, state setting data, or source or object code written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Smalltalk, C + + or the like and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the "C" programming language or similar programming languages. The computer readable program instructions may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latter scenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any type of network, including a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet service provider). In some embodiments, aspects of the disclosure are implemented by personalizing an electronic circuit, such as a programmable logic circuit, a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), or a Programmable Logic Array (PLA), with state information of computer-readable program instructions, which can execute the computer-readable program instructions.

Various aspects of the present disclosure are described herein with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of the disclosure. It will be understood that each block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer readable program instructions.

These computer-readable program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, 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/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks. These computer-readable program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable storage medium that can direct a computer, programmable data processing apparatus, and/or other devices to function in a particular manner, such that the computer-readable medium storing the instructions comprises an article of manufacture including instructions which implement the function/act specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.

The computer readable program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer, other programmable data processing apparatus, or other devices to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer, other programmable apparatus or other devices to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer, other programmable apparatus or other devices implement the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.

The flowchart and block diagrams in the figures illustrate the architecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementations of systems, methods and computer program products according to various embodiments of the present disclosure. In this regard, each block in the flowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of instructions, which comprises one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical function(s). In some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the block may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocks in the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based systems which perform the specified functions or acts, or combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions.

Having described embodiments of the present disclosure, the foregoing description is intended to be exemplary, not exhaustive, and not limited to the disclosed embodiments. Many modifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the described embodiments. The terminology used herein is chosen in order to best explain the principles of the embodiments, the practical application, or improvements made to the technology in the marketplace, or to enable others of ordinary skill in the art to understand the embodiments disclosed herein.

Claims

1. A method for message transmission, the method comprising:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first message comprises first bit-field information in Paging downlink control information (Paging DCI), and wherein the second message comprises second bit-field information in Paging advance indication (PEI).

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first bit field information comprises a first bit value, wherein the first bit value represents a value of each bit in a first bit field, wherein each bit in the first bit field has a first mapping relationship with the first subset of transmission resources, and wherein the first mapping relationship is indicated by system information or RRC signaling; the second bit field information includes a second bit value, the second bit value indicates a value of each bit in a second bit field, each bit in the second bit field has a second mapping relationship with the first transmission resource, and the second mapping relationship is indicated by the system information or the RRC signaling.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the first bit field information comprises a first bit field value, and wherein the first bit field value represents a value of the first bit field; the second bit field information includes a second bit field value, and the second bit field value represents a value of the second bit field.

5. The method according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the duration information comprises a first duration; the receiving the first message comprises:

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first paging occasion is determined according to a paging parameter and the first time length, the paging parameter comprises a number of paging frames in the paging cycle, a starting paging frame number, and a user identifier, and is used for determining a paging frame and a first paging index, the paging frame represents a system frame number corresponding to the first paging occasion, and the first paging index represents an index of the first paging occasion in the paging frame.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein reading the second message within the validity duration comprises:

8. The method according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that the method further comprises:

9. The method according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that the method further comprises:

10. The method of claim 3 or 4, the duration information comprising a second duration; the receiving the first message comprises:

11. The method of claim 10, wherein reading the second message within the validity duration comprises:

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving a paging DCI after the timer exceeds the second duration, or ignoring the second bit field information when the timer exceeds the second duration but the first bit field information indicates that the first transmission resource subset does not exist in the at least one transmission resource subset, the availability status of the third transmission resource being unavailable.

13. The method according to any of claims 1-12, wherein the first duration is an integer multiple of the paging cycle, and the second duration comprises the units of the paging cycle, milliseconds, slots, subframes, and frames.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining the configuration information comprises:

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference signal resources are Tracking Reference Signal (TRS) resources or channel state information-reference signal (CRI-RS) resources, and wherein the set of reference signal resources are a set of TRS resources or a set of CRI-RS resources.

16. A method for message transmission, the method comprising:

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first message comprises first bit-field information in Paging downlink control information (Paging DCI), and wherein the second message comprises second bit-field information in Paging advance indication (PEI).

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the method comprises:

determining a number of bits in a first bit field according to the number of the transmission resource subsets;

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the method comprises:

and determining a first bit field value of a first bit field in the Paging DCI.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the method comprises:

establishing a second mapping relationship between the first transmission resource and bits in the second bit field, wherein the second mapping relationship is indicated by the system information or the RRC signaling;

and determining a second bit value of each bit in the second bit field according to the second mapping relation.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein the method comprises:

and determining a second bit field value of a second bit field in the PEI.

22. A message transmission apparatus, characterized in that the apparatus comprises:

a second receiving module, configured to read a second message within the valid duration, where the second message is used to indicate an availability status of each first transmission resource in the first subset of transmission resources, and the first transmission resource is a reference signal resource or a reference signal resource set.

23. A message transmission apparatus, characterized in that the apparatus comprises:

the first sending module is used for sending configuration information, a first message and a second message, wherein the configuration information is determined by system information or RRC signaling and comprises duration information and transmission resource configuration information; the time length information comprises a first time length or a second time length and is used for indicating the effective time length of the first message and the effective reading time of the second message; the transmission resource configuration information comprises configuration information of at least one transmission resource subset and configuration information of at least one transmission resource contained in each transmission resource subset; the first message is used for indicating a first transmission resource subset in an active state in the at least one transmission resource subset; the second message is used to indicate an availability status of each first transmission resource in the first subset of transmission resources, the first transmission resource being a reference signal resource or a set of reference signal resources.

24. A terminal device comprising a processor, a memory for storing processor executable commands;

wherein the processor is configured to:

25. An access network device comprising a processor, a memory for storing processor-executable commands;

wherein the processor is configured to:

26. A chip applied to terminal equipment is characterized in that,

27. A chip applied to access network equipment is characterized in that,

28. A chip module, which is applied to terminal equipment, is characterized by comprising a transceiver component and a chip,

29. A chip module applied to access network equipment is characterized by comprising a transceiving component and a chip,

30. A computer storage medium, characterized in that the computer storage medium stores a computer program comprising program instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the method according to any one of claims 1 to 21.