CN115550959A

CN115550959A - Communication method and device

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Publication number: CN115550959A
Application number: CN202110738799.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 冯淑兰; 杨飞; 张阳阳; 薛丽霞
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-06-30
Filing date: 2021-06-30
Publication date: 2022-12-30
Also published as: WO2023274217A1

Abstract

The application provides a communication method and a communication device, which can save the power consumption of terminal equipment and can be applied to a 4G system, a 5G system and a future communication system, such as a 6G system. The method comprises the following steps: and acquiring the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal equipment. And determining the second resource allocated to the terminal equipment according to the transmission energy efficiency information. And sending first information to the terminal equipment, wherein the first information is used for indicating the second resource. Wherein the transmission energy efficiency information comprises one or more of the following items: a transmission capability ratio, a resource scheduling ratio, a first energy efficiency ratio, a second energy efficiency ratio, and a third energy efficiency ratio. Therefore, the terminal device may request the access network device to adjust one or more of the scheduled resource, the activated resource, the configured resource, the transmission capability ratio, the resource scheduling ratio, the first energy efficiency ratio, the second energy efficiency ratio, and the third energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information required by the terminal device, so as to save power consumption of the terminal device and improve user service quality.

Description

Communication method and device

Technical Field

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

Background

With the development of terminal equipment (UE), the terminal equipment is loaded with more and more applications, the time for a user to use the terminal equipment is longer and longer, the data volume accessed by the terminal equipment is larger and larger, and the power consumption problem of the terminal equipment is more and more prominent. In the era of the 4th generation (4g) mobile communication system, the terminal devices are basically charged once a day. In the fifth generation (5G) mobile communication system, since the 5G operating frequency band is higher and the bandwidth is larger, the power consumption of the 5G terminal device is larger than that of the 4G terminal device, and it is estimated that the power consumption of the 5G terminal device is twice that of the 4G terminal device, how to save the power consumption of the terminal device becomes a problem which needs to be solved urgently.

Currently, an access network device may allocate resources to a terminal device, for example, allocate wireless transmission resources such as a time domain, a frequency domain, a spatial domain, and a code domain to the terminal device, and the terminal device may transmit data using the allocated resources. However, when the terminal device transmits data using the allocated resources, power consumption may be wasted, and therefore, a solution capable of saving power consumption of the device terminal is needed.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a communication method and device, which can save power consumption of terminal equipment.

In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme is as follows:

in a first aspect, a method of communication is provided. The method can comprise the following steps: and acquiring the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal equipment. And determining the second resource allocated to the terminal equipment according to the transmission energy efficiency information. And sending first information to the terminal equipment, wherein the first information is used for indicating the second resource. Wherein the transmission energy efficiency information comprises one or more of the following items: a transmission capability ratio, a resource scheduling ratio, a first energy efficiency ratio, a second energy efficiency ratio, and a third energy efficiency ratio. The transmission capability is a ratio of the size of the transmission capability used for the terminal device to the size of the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. The resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device. The first energy efficiency ratio is a product of a resource scheduling ratio and a transmission capacity ratio. The second energy efficiency ratio is a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode to energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling mode, the first scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode with the minimum energy consumption in all resource scheduling modes of the terminal equipment, and the second scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode used by the terminal equipment in all resource scheduling modes. The third energy efficiency ratio is a ratio of the size of the resource corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the size of the resource corresponding to the second scheduling mode.

It should be noted that the communication method described in the first aspect may be executed by an access network device, may also be executed by a chip (system) or other component or assembly disposed in the access network device, and may also be executed by an apparatus including the access network device, which is not limited in this application. The above-mentioned "second resource allocated to the terminal device" may be replaced with "second resource allocated to the terminal device". The above-mentioned "first resource to which the terminal device is scheduled" may be a resource actually used for transmitting data, and the "first resource to which the terminal device is scheduled" may be replaced with "first transmission resource of a data channel of the terminal device".

Based on the communication method provided by the first aspect, the access network device may determine, according to the transmission energy efficiency information provided by the terminal device, the second resource allocated by the terminal device, and send the first information to the terminal device. Thus, the terminal device may request the access network device to adjust one or more of the scheduled resource, the activated resource, the configured resource, the transmission capability ratio, the resource scheduling ratio, the first energy efficiency ratio, the second energy efficiency ratio, and the third energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information required by the terminal device, for example, the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device may instruct the access network device to increase the proportion of the scheduled resource of the terminal device to the activated resource of the terminal device, thereby increasing the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device, further saving the power consumption of the terminal device, and improving the user service quality (including reducing the packet transmission delay, and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

Note that, the "resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device" may be expressed as: the "utilization rate of resources allocated to the terminal device", "scheduling ratio of the terminal device", or "scheduled ratio of the terminal device". The term "transmission energy efficiency information" in the present application is defined for convenience of description, and the term "transmission energy efficiency information" may be used to determine the second resource allocated to the terminal device, but does not indicate that the effect of the present application is only improvement of transmission energy efficiency, and does not indicate that the present application is only improvement of transmission energy efficiency. As described above, the effects of the present application may further include: an improvement in user quality of service (QoE), or an improvement in user experience (QoE), of one or more of packet transmission rate, packet transmission delay, and the like. In addition, "transmission energy efficiency information" may also be expressed as "resource scheduling rate information", "service level information", and the like.

In one possible design, the transmission capability ratio may be a ratio of a size of a transmission capability that the terminal device may desire to be used with the terminal device to a size of a maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. Alternatively, the resource scheduling ratio may be a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be activated, or a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be configured. Or the second energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner expected by the terminal device to energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner. Or, the third energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of a resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner expected by the terminal device to a resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner.

In one possible design, the transmission capability ratio may be a ratio of a size of a transmission capability used by the terminal device in the first time period to a size of a maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. Alternatively, the resource scheduling ratio may be a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device in the second time period, or a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device in the second time period. Or the second energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner to energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner in the third time period. Alternatively, the third energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of a resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner to a resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner in the fourth time period.

In a possible design, the transmission capacity used by the terminal device may be: and the time length of the first data transmitted by the allocated resource of the terminal equipment. The maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device may be: and the terminal equipment adopts the time length of the first data transmitted by the resource corresponding to the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal equipment.

In a possible design, the transmission capacity used by the terminal device may be: the size of the frequency domain resources and/or spatial domain resources in which the terminal device is activated. The maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device may be: the size of the maximum available frequency domain resources and/or the maximum available spatial domain resources for the terminal device.

In a possible design, the transmission energy efficiency information may further include one or more of the following: the method comprises the steps of scheduling a first resource size of the terminal device, activating the first resource size of the terminal device, configuring the first resource size of the terminal device, transmitting an energy efficiency grade of the terminal device, service grade of the terminal device and transmitting an energy efficiency regulating quantity of the terminal device. That is, the terminal device may also request the access network device to adjust one or more of the scheduled resource size of the terminal device, the activated resource size of the terminal device, the configured resource size of the terminal device, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device, the service level of the terminal device, and the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information required by the terminal device. Therefore, various modes that the terminal equipment requests the access network equipment to adjust the allocated resources can be provided, so that the power consumption of the terminal equipment is more flexibly saved, and the service quality of a user is improved (including reducing the packet transmission delay and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

Optionally, the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device and desired by the terminal device. Or, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be a first resource size of the terminal device that is expected to be activated by the terminal device. Alternatively, the first resource size configured by the terminal device may be a first resource size configured by the terminal device that is desired by the terminal device. Or, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device may be a transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device expected by the terminal device. Or, the service level of the terminal device may be a service level of the terminal device that is expected by the terminal device. Or the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device may be a transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device expected by the terminal device.

It should be noted that "the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device desired by the terminal device" may be expressed as "the service level of the terminal device desired by the terminal device", or expressed as "the resource scheduling level of the terminal device desired by the terminal device", that is, "the resource scheduling level", "the service level", and "the transmission energy efficiency level" may be replaced with each other. The above-mentioned "desired (or predicted or expected)" may be replaced with "target" or "recommended (recommended)". The "resource size (size)" may be replaced with "resource size", or with "number of resources", or with "length of resources", or with "bandwidth". Taking the expression of resources in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) and New Radio (NR) of the third generation partnership project (3 gpp) as an example, for frequency domain resources, the "resource size" may be expressed as "the number of RBs (RB)", the transmission resources allocated to a terminal may be expressed as "the total number of RBs", the activated resources of the terminal, such as the size of a bandwidth part (BWP), may also be expressed as "the size of an active BWP".

Further, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device desired by the terminal device may correspond to the desired resource scheduling ratio. The expected resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size expected by the terminal device and scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of a first resource size expected by the terminal device and scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device. For example, the desired transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device includes: the energy efficiency grade is high, the medium and low, the expected resource scheduling ratio corresponding to the high energy efficiency grade is greater than 80%, the expected resource scheduling ratio corresponding to the medium energy efficiency grade is greater than 50%, and the expected resource scheduling ratio corresponding to the low energy efficiency grade is greater than or equal to 0%.

Further, the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device expected by the terminal device may be: a rate or amount of change in the resource scheduling ratio relative to the current resource scheduling ratio for the terminal device is desired. The expected resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be activated, or a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be configured.

Further, the second resource allocated to the terminal device may include one or more of the following: the second resource scheduled by the terminal device, the second resource activated by the terminal device, and the second resource configured by the terminal device. It should be noted that the "second resource scheduled by the terminal device" may be a resource actually used for transmitting data, and the "second resource scheduled by the terminal device" may be replaced by "second transmission resource of data channel of the terminal device".

Still further, a ratio of the scheduled second resource size of the terminal device to the activated second resource size of the terminal device may be greater than or equal to a desired resource scheduling ratio. Alternatively, the ratio of the second resource size scheduled by the terminal device to the second resource size configured by the terminal device may be greater than or equal to the desired resource scheduling ratio. Alternatively, the second resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be greater than or equal to the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device. Or, the activated second resource size of the terminal device may be smaller than or equal to the activated first resource size of the terminal device that is expected by the terminal device. Alternatively, the second resource size configured by the terminal device may be smaller than or equal to the first resource size configured by the terminal device. The expected resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be activated, or a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be configured. Thus, according to the transmission energy efficiency information, the access network device can determine the allocated resources of the terminal device within a selectable range. That is, the access network device may flexibly adjust the resource allocated to the terminal device in the optional range according to the current resource situation allocated to the terminal device and the situation of all the resources that can be allocated. Therefore, the access network equipment can determine the resources allocated to the terminal equipment more flexibly according to the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal equipment, so that the power consumption of the terminal equipment is more flexibly saved, and the user service quality is improved (including reducing the packet transmission delay and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

Optionally, the scheduled first resource size of the terminal device may be the scheduled first resource size of the terminal device in the fifth time period. Or, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be the activated first resource size of the terminal device in the sixth time period. Alternatively, the first resource size configured by the terminal device may be the first resource size configured by the terminal device in the seventh time period. Or, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device may be the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device in the eighth time period. Or, the service level of the terminal device may be a service level of the terminal device in a ninth time period. Or the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device may be the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device in the tenth time period.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the number of resource blocks in the portion of bandwidth in which the terminal device is activated. The first resource size configured by the terminal device may be: the number of resource blocks in the portion of the bandwidth the terminal device is configured to. The size of the first resource scheduled by the terminal device may be: the number of resource blocks in the portion of bandwidth in which the terminal device is activated or configured to be used for transmission of the terminal device data channel.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the product of the number of activated resource blocks of the partial bandwidth and the number of MIMO (multiple input multiple output) layers of the activated partial bandwidth, i.e.: n is a radical of _actRB *N _actMIMO . Wherein N is _actRB Number of resource blocks in the portion of bandwidth activated for the terminal device, N _actMIMO The number of layers of space domain (MIMO) corresponding to the activated part of the bandwidth of the terminal equipment. The first resource size configured by the terminal device may be: the product of the number of resource blocks of the configured partial bandwidth and the number of configured MIMO layers corresponding to the configured partial bandwidth is: n is a radical of _configRB *N _configMIMO . Wherein, N _configRB Number of resource blocks, N, in the partial bandwidth configured for the terminal device _configMIMO And the number of layers of the airspace corresponding to the configured partial bandwidth of the terminal equipment. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: the product of the number of scheduled resource blocks and the number of scheduled MIMO layers, i.e.: n is a radical of _scheduledRB *N _{scheduledMIMO} . Wherein N is _scheduledRB Number of resource blocks, N, in the activated part of the bandwidth for the terminal device, which are used for transmitting the data channel of the terminal device _{scheduledMIMO} The number of layers of the space domain corresponding to the resource block used for transmitting the data channel of the terminal equipment in the activated part of the bandwidth for the terminal equipment.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: a duration of opening a data channel in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle of the terminal device. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: a transmission duration for data transmission in a discontinuous reception period of the terminal device.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the duration of time the data channel is open in the CONNECTED STATE (CONNECTED STATE) of the terminal equipment. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: a transmission duration for data transmission in the connected state of the terminal device.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the total amount of a control channel monitoring period (MO) in a discontinuous reception period of the terminal device, or the size of the activated first resource of the terminal device may be: the number of monitoring periods during which no valid control channel is detected in the discontinuous reception period of the terminal device. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: the number of monitoring periods during which the active control channel is detected in the discontinuous reception period of the terminal device. Wherein, the control channel may include: a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). The effective control channel may include: and carrying the channel of the control signaling sent to the terminal equipment. The control signaling sent to the terminal device may include: dedicated signaling sent to the terminal devices, and/or broadcast signaling or multicast signaling sent to all or a group of terminal devices.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the total amount of the control channel monitoring period in the connection state of the terminal device, or the size of the activated first resource of the terminal device may be: the number of control channel monitoring periods during which no active control channel is detected in the connected state of the terminal device. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: the number of control channel monitoring periods during which a valid control channel is detected in the connected state of the terminal device.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the sum of the number of time-frequency resources that the terminal device is activated in the eleventh time period. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: the sum of the number of time-frequency resources scheduled by the terminal device in the eleventh time period.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may also be: the number of time-frequency space resources which are activated by the terminal equipment in the twelfth time period. The number of activated time-frequency space resources may be: the product of the number of activated time frequency resources and the number of MIMO (multiple input multiple output) layers corresponding to the activated time frequency resources. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may also be: and the number of time-frequency space resources scheduled by the terminal equipment in the twelfth time period. The number of the scheduled time-frequency space resources may be: the product of the number of scheduled time frequency resources and the number of MIMO layers corresponding to the scheduled time frequency resources.

Optionally, the transmission energy efficiency information may further include an expected power consumption data amount ratio, and power consumption of the terminal device corresponding to the expected power consumption data amount ratio may be less than or equal to power consumption of the terminal device corresponding to the resource allocated to the terminal device. Wherein, the expected power consumption data volume ratio is the ratio of the data transmission consumption power of the terminal equipment to the data transmission volume. Thus, a manner for the terminal device to request the access network device to change the allocated resources can be provided, so as to more flexibly save the power consumption of the terminal device and improve the user service quality (including reducing the packet transmission delay and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

Further, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device desired by the terminal device may correspond to a desired power consumption data amount ratio. The transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device expected by the terminal device may be: a rate or amount of change of the power consumption data amount ratio with respect to the current power consumption data amount ratio of the terminal device is desired.

In one possible design, the second resource may include one or more of the following: frequency domain resources, time domain resources, spatial domain resources, or code domain resources, or orbital angular momentum resources. Therefore, various modes that the terminal equipment requests the access network equipment to change the allocated resources can be provided, so that the power consumption of the terminal equipment is more flexibly saved, and the service quality of a user is improved (including reducing the packet transmission delay and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

In a possible design, the obtaining transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device may include: and acquiring the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal equipment from the terminal equipment or the core network equipment. Therefore, even if the access network equipment does not receive the transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal equipment, the information can be sent to the access network equipment by the core network equipment, so that the access network equipment can obtain the transmission energy efficiency information.

In a possible design, the transmission energy efficiency information may be included in one or more of the following items: quality of service (QoS) parameter information, signaling included in a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session (session), terminal assistance information, non-access stratum (NAS) signaling, user subscription information, terminal device capability information, radio Resource Control (RRC) layer information, media Access Control (MAC) layer information, or physical layer signaling. Therefore, multiple transmission energy efficiency information acquisition modes can be provided, and the flexibility of communication between devices is improved.

In one possible design, the transmission energy efficiency information includes one or more of the following items: the method comprises the steps of uplink data transmission energy efficiency information, downlink data transmission energy efficiency information, service transmission energy efficiency information, carrier transmission energy efficiency information, frequency band combination transmission energy efficiency information, frequency range transmission energy efficiency information, terminal equipment type transmission energy efficiency information, application transmission energy efficiency information, specified time period transmission energy efficiency information or specified state transmission energy efficiency information. Therefore, various modes that the terminal equipment requests the access network equipment to change the allocated resources can be provided, so that the power consumption of the terminal equipment is more flexibly saved, and the service quality of a user is improved (including reducing the packet transmission delay and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

In a possible design, the communication method according to the first aspect may further include: and sending the reported transmission energy efficiency information to the terminal equipment. And the reported transmission energy efficiency information indicates the terminal equipment to send the transmission energy efficiency information.

In a second aspect, a method of communication is provided. The method can comprise the following steps: and sending the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network equipment or the core network equipment. First information is received from the access network device, the first information indicating a second resource. Wherein the transmission energy efficiency information includes one or more of the following items: a transmission capability ratio, a resource scheduling ratio, a first energy efficiency ratio, a second energy efficiency ratio, and a third energy efficiency ratio. The transmission capability is a ratio of the size of the transmission capability used for the terminal device to the size of the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. The resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device. The first energy efficiency ratio is a product of a resource scheduling ratio and a transmission capacity ratio. The second energy efficiency ratio is the ratio of the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling mode, the first scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode with the minimum energy consumption in all resource scheduling modes of the terminal equipment, and the second scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode used by the terminal equipment in all resource scheduling modes. The third energy efficiency ratio is a ratio of the size of the resource corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the size of the resource corresponding to the second scheduling mode.

It should be noted that the communication method described in the second aspect may be executed by the terminal device, may also be executed by a chip (system) or other component or assembly provided in the terminal device, and may also be executed by an apparatus including the terminal device, which is not limited in this application.

In one possible design, the transmission capability ratio may be a ratio of the size of the transmission capability that the terminal device may be expected to use to the size of the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. Alternatively, the resource scheduling ratio may be a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, to which the terminal device is scheduled to be activated, or a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, to which the terminal device is scheduled to be configured. Or the second energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner expected by the terminal device to energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner. Or the third energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of a resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner expected by the terminal device to a resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner.

In one possible design, the transmission capability ratio may be a ratio of a size of a transmission capability used by the terminal device in the first time period to a size of a maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. Alternatively, the resource scheduling ratio may be a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device in the second time period, or a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device in the second time period. Or the second energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner to energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner in the third time period. Or the third energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of a resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner to a resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner in the fourth time period.

In one possible design, the transmission energy efficiency information may further include one or more of the following: the method comprises the steps of scheduling a first resource size of the terminal device, activating the first resource size of the terminal device, configuring the first resource size of the terminal device, transmitting an energy efficiency grade of the terminal device, service grade of the terminal device and transmitting an energy efficiency regulating quantity of the terminal device.

Optionally, the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device and desired by the terminal device. Or, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be a first resource size of the terminal device that is expected to be activated by the terminal device. Alternatively, the first resource size configured by the terminal device may be a first resource size configured by a terminal device desired by the terminal device. Or, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device may be a transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device expected by the terminal device. Alternatively, the service level of the terminal device may be a service level of the terminal device expected by the terminal device. Alternatively, the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device may be a transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device expected by the terminal device.

Further, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device desired by the terminal device may correspond to the desired resource scheduling ratio. The expected resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be activated, or a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be configured.

Further, the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device expected by the terminal device may be: a rate or amount of change of the resource scheduling ratio relative to the current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is desired. The expected resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size expected by the terminal device and scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of a first resource size expected by the terminal device and scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device.

Further, the second resource allocated to the terminal device may include one or more of the following: a second resource on which the terminal device is scheduled, a second resource on which the terminal device is activated, or a second resource on which the terminal device is configured.

Still further, a ratio of the scheduled second resource size of the terminal device to the activated second resource size of the terminal device may be greater than or equal to a desired resource scheduling ratio. Alternatively, the ratio of the second resource size scheduled by the terminal device to the second resource size configured by the terminal device may be greater than or equal to the desired resource scheduling ratio. Alternatively, the second resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be greater than or equal to the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device. Or, the activated second resource size of the terminal device may be smaller than or equal to the activated first resource size of the terminal device expected by the terminal device. Alternatively, the second resource size configured by the terminal device may be smaller than or equal to the first resource size configured by the terminal device. The expected resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size expected by the terminal device and scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of a first resource size expected by the terminal device and scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device.

Optionally, the scheduled first resource size of the terminal device may be the scheduled first resource size of the terminal device in the fifth time period. Alternatively, the first resource size of the terminal device that is activated may be the first resource size of the terminal device that is activated in the sixth time period. Alternatively, the first resource size configured by the terminal device may be the first resource size configured by the terminal device in the seventh time period. Or the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device may be the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device in the eighth time period. Or, the service level of the terminal device may be a service level of the terminal device in a ninth time period. Or the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device may be the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device in the tenth time period.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the number of resource blocks in the portion of bandwidth in which the terminal device is activated. The first resource size configured by the terminal device may be: the number of resource blocks in the portion of the bandwidth the terminal device is configured to. The size of the first resource scheduled by the terminal device may be: the number of resource blocks in the portion of the bandwidth in which the terminal device is activated or configured to be used for transmitting the terminal device data channel.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the product of the number of activated resource blocks of the partial bandwidth and the number of MIMO layers of the activated partial bandwidth is: n is a radical of _actRB *N _actMIMO . Wherein N is _actRB Number of resource blocks in the portion of bandwidth activated for the terminal device, N _actMIMO And the number of layers of the airspace corresponding to the activated partial bandwidth of the terminal equipment. The first resource size configured by the terminal device may be: the product of the number of resource blocks of the configured partial bandwidth and the configured MIMO layer number corresponding to the configured partial bandwidth is: n is a radical of _configRB *N _configMIMO . Wherein N is _configRB Number of resource blocks, N, in the partial bandwidth configured for the terminal device _configMIMO And the number of layers of the airspace corresponding to the configured partial bandwidth of the terminal equipment. The size of the first resource scheduled by the terminal device may be: the product of the number of scheduled resource blocks and the number of scheduled MIMO layers, i.e.: n is a radical of _scheduledRB *N _{scheduledMIMO} ，N _scheduledRB The number of resource blocks in the portion of the bandwidth that is activated for the terminal device that are used to transmit the terminal device data channel. Wherein N is _{scheduledMIMO} The number of layers of the space domain corresponding to the resource block used for transmitting the data channel of the terminal equipment in the activated part of the bandwidth for the terminal equipment.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: and opening time of a data transmission channel in a discontinuous reception cycle of the terminal equipment. The size of the first resource scheduled by the terminal device may be: a transmission duration for data transmission in a discontinuous reception period of the terminal device.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the duration of the data channel opening in the connection state of the terminal device. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: a transmission duration for data transmission in the connected state of the terminal device.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the total amount of the control channel monitoring period in the discontinuous reception period of the terminal device, or the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the number of control channel monitoring periods during which no valid control channel is detected in the discontinuous reception period of the terminal device. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: the number of control channel monitoring periods during which an active control channel is detected in the discontinuous reception period of the terminal device.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the total amount of the control channel monitoring period in the connection state of the terminal device, or the size of the activated first resource of the terminal device may be: the number of control channel monitoring periods during which no active control channel is detected in the connected state of the terminal device. The size of the first resource scheduled by the terminal device may be: the number of control channel monitoring periods during which an active control channel is detected in the connected state of the terminal device.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: sum of the number of time-frequency resources that the terminal device is activated during the eleventh time period. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: the sum of the number of time-frequency resources scheduled by the terminal device in the eleventh time period.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may also be: the number of time-frequency space resources which are activated by the terminal equipment in the twelfth time period. The number of activated time-frequency space resources may be: the product of the number of activated time frequency resources and the number of MIMO layers corresponding to the activated time frequency resources. The first resource size for the terminal device to be scheduled may also be: and the number of time-frequency space resources scheduled by the terminal equipment in the twelfth time period. The number of the scheduled time-frequency space resources may be: the product of the number of scheduled time frequency resources and the number of MIMO layers corresponding to the scheduled time frequency resources.

Optionally, the transmission energy efficiency information may further include an expected power consumption data amount ratio, and power consumption of the terminal device corresponding to the expected power consumption data amount ratio may be less than or equal to power consumption of the terminal device corresponding to the resource allocated to the terminal device. Wherein the expected power consumption data volume ratio is the ratio of the data transmission power consumption of the terminal equipment to the data transmission volume.

Further, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device desired by the terminal device may correspond to the desired power consumption data amount ratio. The transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device expected by the terminal device may be: the rate or amount of change of the data amount ratio of power consumption relative to the current data amount ratio of power consumption of the terminal device is desired.

In one possible design, the second resource may include one or more of the following: frequency domain resources, time domain resources, spatial domain resources, or code domain resources, or orbital angular momentum resources.

In a possible design, the communication method provided by the second aspect may further include: and determining the transmission energy efficiency information according to one or more of the type of the terminal equipment, the running state of the terminal equipment, the user subscription information of the terminal equipment, the service of the terminal equipment, the type of an access network, the service applicable to the terminal user, the transmitted carrier, the transmitted frequency band combination, the transmitted frequency range and the transmitted link type. In this way, when the terminal device requests the access network device to allocate resources, the terminal device may flexibly request the allocated resources according to different application scenarios, thereby more flexibly improving one or more of the scheduled resources, the activated resources, the configured resources, the transmission capability ratio, the resource scheduling ratio, the first energy efficiency ratio, the second energy efficiency ratio, and the third energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device, saving the power consumption of the terminal device, and improving the user service quality (including reducing the packet transmission delay and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

In one possible embodiment, the transmission energy efficiency information may be contained in one or more of the following: qoS parameter information, PDU session included signaling, terminal assistance information, non-access stratum signaling, user subscription information, terminal device capability information, radio resource control layer information, media access control layer information, or physical layer signaling.

In a possible design, the transmission energy efficiency information may include one or more of the following: the method comprises the steps of uplink data transmission energy efficiency information, downlink data transmission energy efficiency information, service transmission energy efficiency information, carrier transmission energy efficiency information, frequency band combination transmission energy efficiency information, frequency range transmission energy efficiency information, terminal equipment type transmission energy efficiency information, application transmission energy efficiency information, specified time period transmission energy efficiency information, specified state transmission energy efficiency information or specified network transmission energy efficiency information.

In one possible design, the communication method according to the second aspect may further include: and receiving the reported transmission energy efficiency information from the access network equipment, wherein the reported transmission energy efficiency information indicates the terminal equipment to send the transmission energy efficiency information. And sending the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network equipment.

In addition, for technical effects of the communication method of the second aspect, reference may be made to the technical effects of the communication method of the first aspect, and details are not repeated here.

In a third aspect, a method of communication is provided. The communication method comprises the following steps: and acquiring the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal equipment. And sending the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network equipment. Wherein the transmission energy efficiency information includes one or more of the following items: a transmission capability ratio, a resource scheduling ratio, a first energy efficiency ratio, a second energy efficiency ratio, and a third energy efficiency ratio. The transmission capability is a ratio of the size of the transmission capability used for the terminal device to the size of the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. The resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device. The first energy efficiency ratio is a product of a resource scheduling ratio and a transmission capacity ratio. The second energy efficiency ratio is a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode to energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling mode, the first scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode with the minimum energy consumption in all resource scheduling modes of the terminal equipment, and the second scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode used by the terminal equipment in all resource scheduling modes. The third energy efficiency ratio is a ratio of the size of the resource corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the size of the resource corresponding to the second scheduling mode.

It should be noted that, the communication method described in the third aspect may be executed by a core network device, may also be executed by a chip (system) or other component or assembly provided in the core network device, and may also be executed by an apparatus including the core network device, which is not limited in this application.

Based on the communication method provided in the third aspect, the core network device may obtain the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device, and send the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network device. Therefore, a mode that the core network equipment requests the access network equipment to determine the resources allocated to the terminal equipment according to the transmission energy efficiency information can be provided. In this way, the core network device may request the access network device to adjust one or more of the scheduled resource, the activated resource, the configured resource, the transmission capability ratio, the resource scheduling ratio, the first energy efficiency ratio, the second energy efficiency ratio, and the third energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information, for example, the transmission energy efficiency information may instruct the access network device to increase a ratio of the scheduled resource of the terminal device to the activated resource of the terminal device, so as to increase the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device, thereby saving power consumption of the terminal device, and improve user service quality (including reducing packet transmission delay, and/or increasing packet transmission rate).

In a possible design, the obtaining transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device may include: and receiving the transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal equipment, or determining the transmission energy efficiency information according to the subscription information of the terminal equipment. In this way, the core network device may forward the transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal device to the access network device. Or, through the subscription information, the core network device may also request the access network device to adjust the resource allocated to the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information, so as to improve one or more of a scheduled resource, an activated resource, a configured resource, a transmission energy ratio, a resource scheduling ratio, a first energy efficiency ratio, a second energy efficiency ratio, and a third energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device, save power consumption of the terminal device, and improve user service quality (including reducing packet transmission delay and/or increasing packet transmission rate).

In a fourth aspect, a communication device is provided. The communication device includes: a receiving and sending module and a processing module. The receiving and sending module is used for obtaining the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal equipment. Wherein the transmission energy efficiency information comprises one or more of the following items: the energy efficiency ratio comprises a transmission capacity ratio, a resource scheduling ratio, a first energy efficiency ratio, a second energy efficiency ratio and a third energy efficiency ratio. The transmission capability is a ratio of the size of the transmission capability used for the terminal device to the size of the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. The resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device. The first energy efficiency ratio is a product of a resource scheduling ratio and a transmission capacity ratio. The second energy efficiency ratio is the ratio of the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling mode, the first scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode with the minimum energy consumption in all resource scheduling modes of the terminal equipment, and the second scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode used by the terminal equipment in all resource scheduling modes. The third energy efficiency ratio is a ratio of the size of the resource corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the size of the resource corresponding to the second scheduling mode. And the processing module is used for determining the second resource distributed by the terminal equipment according to the transmission energy efficiency information. And the transceiver module is further configured to send first information to the terminal device, where the first information is used to indicate the second resource.

In one possible design, the transmission capability ratio may be a ratio of the desired transmission capability size of the terminal device to the maximum transmission capability size of the terminal device. Alternatively, the resource scheduling ratio may be a ratio of a first resource size, which is expected by the terminal device and is scheduled by the terminal device, to a first resource size, which is activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of a first resource size, which is expected by the terminal device and is scheduled by the terminal device, to a first resource size, which is configured by the terminal device. Or the second energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner expected by the terminal device to energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner. Or, the third energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of a resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner expected by the terminal device to a resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner.

In one possible design, the transmission capability ratio may be a ratio of a size of transmission capability used by the terminal device in the first time period to a size of maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. Alternatively, the resource scheduling ratio may be a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device in the second time period to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device in the second time period to a first resource size configured by the terminal device. Or the second energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner to energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner in the third time period. Or the third energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of a resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner to a resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner in the fourth time period.

In one possible design, the transmission capacity used by the terminal device may be: and the time length of the first data transmitted by the allocated resource of the terminal equipment. The maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device may be: and the terminal equipment adopts the time length of the first data transmitted by the resource corresponding to the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal equipment.

In one possible design, the transmission capacity used by the terminal device may be: the size of the frequency domain resources and/or spatial domain resources in which the terminal device is activated. The maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device may be: the size of the frequency domain resources that are maximally available to the terminal device and/or the maximally available spatial domain resources.

In one possible embodiment, the transmission energy efficiency information may further include one or more of the following: the method comprises the steps of scheduling a first resource size of the terminal device, activating the first resource size of the terminal device, configuring the first resource size of the terminal device, transmitting an energy efficiency grade of the terminal device, service grade of the terminal device and transmitting an energy efficiency regulating quantity of the terminal device.

Optionally, the scheduled first resource size of the terminal device may be a first resource size, which is expected by the terminal device and is scheduled by the terminal device. Or, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be a first resource size of the terminal device that is expected to be activated by the terminal device. Alternatively, the first resource size configured by the terminal device may be a first resource size configured by a terminal device desired by the terminal device. Or, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device may be a transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device expected by the terminal device. Alternatively, the service level of the terminal device may be a service level of the terminal device expected by the terminal device. Alternatively, the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device may be a transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device expected by the terminal device.

Further, the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device expected by the terminal device may be: a rate or amount of change of the resource scheduling ratio relative to the current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is desired. The expected resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be activated, or a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be configured.

Further, the second resource allocated to the terminal device may include one or more of the following: the second resource scheduled by the terminal device, the second resource activated by the terminal device, and the second resource configured by the terminal device.

Still further, a ratio of the scheduled second resource size of the terminal device to the activated second resource size of the terminal device may be greater than or equal to a desired resource scheduling ratio. Alternatively, the ratio of the second resource size scheduled by the terminal device to the second resource size configured by the terminal device may be greater than or equal to the desired resource scheduling ratio. Alternatively, the second resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be greater than or equal to the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device. Or, the activated second resource size of the terminal device may be smaller than or equal to the activated first resource size of the terminal device expected by the terminal device. Alternatively, the second resource size configured by the terminal device may be smaller than or equal to the first resource size configured by the terminal device. The expected resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be activated, or a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be configured.

Optionally, the scheduled first resource size of the terminal device may be the scheduled first resource size of the terminal device in the fifth time period. Alternatively, the first resource size of the terminal device that is activated may be the first resource size of the terminal device that is activated in the sixth time period. Alternatively, the first resource size configured by the terminal device may be the first resource size configured by the terminal device in the seventh time period. Or the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device may be the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device in the eighth time period. Or, the service level of the terminal device may be a service level of the terminal device in a ninth time period. Alternatively, the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device may be a transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device in a tenth time period.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the number of resource blocks in the portion of the bandwidth in which the terminal device is activated. The first resource size configured by the terminal device may be: the number of resource blocks in the portion of the bandwidth the terminal device is configured to. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: the number of resource blocks in the portion of bandwidth in which the terminal device is activated or configured to be used for transmission of the terminal device data channel.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the product of the number of activated resource blocks of the partial bandwidth and the number of MIMO layers of the activated partial bandwidth is: n is a radical of hydrogen _actRB *N _actMIMO . Wherein N is _actRB Number of resource blocks in the part of the bandwidth activated for the terminal device, N _actMIMO Is a terminalThe number of layers of space domain (MIMO) corresponding to the activated part of the bandwidth of the device. The first resource size configured by the terminal device may be: the product of the number of resource blocks of the configured partial bandwidth and the number of configured MIMO layers corresponding to the configured partial bandwidth is: n is a radical of _configRB *N _configMIMO . Wherein N is _configRB Number of resource blocks, N, in the partial bandwidth configured for the terminal device _configMIMO And the number of layers of the airspace corresponding to the configured partial bandwidth of the terminal equipment. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: the product of the number of scheduled resource blocks and the number of scheduled MIMO layers, i.e.: n is a radical of _scheduledRB *N _{scheduledMIMO} . Wherein N is _scheduledRB Number of resource blocks, N, in the activated part of the bandwidth for the terminal device, which are used for transmitting the data channel of the terminal device _{scheduledMIMO} The number of layers of the space domain corresponding to the resource block used for transmitting the data channel of the terminal equipment in the activated part of the bandwidth for the terminal equipment.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the length of time that the data channel is opened in the DRX cycle of the terminal device. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: a transmission duration for data transmission in a discontinuous reception period of the terminal device.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the total amount of the control channel monitoring period in the discontinuous reception period of the terminal device, or the size of the activated first resource of the terminal device may be: the number of monitoring periods during which no valid control channel is detected in the discontinuous reception period of the terminal device. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: the number of monitoring periods during which an active control channel is detected in the discontinuous reception period of the terminal device.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the sum of the number of time-frequency resources that the terminal device is activated in the eleventh time period. The size of the first resource scheduled by the terminal device may be: the sum of the number of time-frequency resources scheduled by the terminal device in the eleventh time period.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may also be: and the number of the time-frequency space resources which are activated by the terminal equipment in the twelfth time period. The number of activated time-frequency space resources may be: the product of the number of activated time frequency resources and the number of MIMO layers corresponding to the activated time frequency resources. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may also be: and the number of time-frequency space resources scheduled by the terminal equipment in the twelfth time period. The number of the scheduled time-frequency space resources may be: the product of the number of scheduled time frequency resources and the number of MIMO layers corresponding to the scheduled time frequency resources.

Optionally, the transmission energy efficiency information may further include an expected power consumption data amount ratio, and power consumption of the terminal device corresponding to the expected power consumption data amount ratio may be less than or equal to power consumption of the terminal device corresponding to the resource allocated to the terminal device. Wherein, the expected power consumption data volume ratio is the ratio of the data transmission consumption power of the terminal equipment to the data transmission volume.

In one possible design, the second resource may include one or more of the following: frequency domain resources, time domain resources, space domain resources, or code domain resources, or orbital angular momentum resources.

In a possible design, the transceiver module is further configured to obtain the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device from the terminal device or the core network device.

In one possible embodiment, the transmission energy efficiency information may be included in one or more of the following items: qoS parameter information, PDU) session includes signaling, terminal assistance information, NAS signaling, user subscription information, terminal device capability information, RRC layer information, MAC layer information, or physical layer signaling.

In a possible design, the transmission energy efficiency information includes one or more of the following items: the method comprises the steps of uplink data transmission energy efficiency information, downlink data transmission energy efficiency information, service transmission energy efficiency information, carrier transmission energy efficiency information, frequency band combination transmission energy efficiency information, frequency range transmission energy efficiency information, terminal equipment type transmission energy efficiency information, application transmission energy efficiency information, specified time period transmission energy efficiency information or specified state transmission energy efficiency information.

In a possible design, the transceiver module is further configured to send reported transmission energy efficiency information to the terminal device, where the reported transmission energy efficiency information is used to instruct the terminal device to send the transmission energy efficiency information.

Optionally, the transceiver module may include a receiving module and a transmitting module. The receiving module is configured to implement a receiving function of the communication apparatus according to the fifth aspect, and the sending module is configured to implement a sending function of the communication apparatus according to the fifth aspect.

Optionally, the communication device according to the fourth aspect may further include a storage module, which stores the program or the instructions. The program or instructions, when executed by the processing module, cause the communication device to perform the communication method of the first aspect.

It should be noted that the communication device described in the fourth aspect may be an access network device, a chip (system) or other component or assembly that may be disposed in the access network device, or a device that includes the access network device, which is not limited in this application.

In addition, for technical effects of the communication apparatus according to the fourth aspect, reference may be made to the technical effects of the communication method according to the first aspect, and details are not repeated here.

In a fifth aspect, a communications apparatus is provided. The communication device includes: and a transceiver module. The transceiver module is used for sending the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network equipment or the core network equipment. Wherein the transmission energy efficiency information includes one or more of the following items: a transmission capability ratio, a resource scheduling ratio, a first energy efficiency ratio, a second energy efficiency ratio, and a third energy efficiency ratio. The transmission capability is a ratio of the size of the transmission capability used for the terminal device to the size of the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. The resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device. The first energy efficiency ratio is a product of a resource scheduling ratio and a transmission capacity ratio. The second energy efficiency ratio is the ratio of the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling mode, the first scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode with the minimum energy consumption in all resource scheduling modes of the terminal equipment, and the second scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode used by the terminal equipment in all resource scheduling modes. The third energy efficiency ratio is a ratio of the size of the resource corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the size of the resource corresponding to the second scheduling mode. The transceiver module is further configured to receive first information from the access network device, where the first information is used to indicate the second resource.

In one possible design, the transmission capability ratio may be a ratio of the desired transmission capability size of the terminal device to the maximum transmission capability size of the terminal device. Alternatively, the resource scheduling ratio may be a ratio of a first resource size, which is expected by the terminal device and is scheduled by the terminal device, to a first resource size, which is activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of a first resource size, which is expected by the terminal device and is scheduled by the terminal device, to a first resource size, which is configured by the terminal device. Or the second energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner expected by the terminal device to energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner. Or the third energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of a resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner expected by the terminal device to a resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner.

In one possible design, the transmission capability ratio may be a ratio of a size of transmission capability used by the terminal device in the first time period to a size of maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. Alternatively, the resource scheduling ratio may be a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device in the second time period, or a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device in the second time period. Or the second energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner to energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner in the third time period. Or the third energy efficiency ratio may be a ratio of a resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner to a resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner in the fourth time period.

In one possible design, the transmission capacity used by the terminal device may be: the size of the frequency domain resources and/or spatial domain resources on which the terminal device is activated. The maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device may be: the size of the maximum available frequency domain resources and/or the maximum available spatial domain resources for the terminal device.

In one possible embodiment, the transmission energy efficiency information may further include one or more of the following: the method comprises the steps of scheduling a first resource size of the terminal device, activating the first resource size of the terminal device, configuring the first resource size of the terminal device, transmitting energy efficiency grade of the terminal device, service grade of the terminal device and transmitting energy efficiency adjustment quantity of the terminal device.

Optionally, the scheduled first resource size of the terminal device may be a first resource size, which is expected by the terminal device and is scheduled by the terminal device. Or, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be a first resource size of the terminal device that is expected to be activated by the terminal device. Alternatively, the first resource size configured by the terminal device may be a first resource size configured by the terminal device that is desired by the terminal device. Or, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device may be a transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device expected by the terminal device. Alternatively, the service level of the terminal device may be a service level of the terminal device expected by the terminal device. Alternatively, the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device may be a transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device expected by the terminal device.

Further, the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device expected by the terminal device may be: a rate or amount of change in the resource scheduling ratio relative to the current resource scheduling ratio for the terminal device is desired. The expected resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size expected by the terminal device and scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of a first resource size expected by the terminal device and scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device.

Still further, a ratio of the second resource size scheduled by the terminal device to the second resource size activated by the terminal device may be greater than or equal to the desired resource scheduling ratio. Or, a ratio of the scheduled second resource size of the terminal device to the configured second resource size of the terminal device may be greater than or equal to the desired resource scheduling ratio. Alternatively, the second resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be greater than or equal to the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device. Or, the activated second resource size of the terminal device may be smaller than or equal to the activated first resource size of the terminal device expected by the terminal device. Alternatively, the second resource size configured by the terminal device may be smaller than or equal to the first resource size configured by the terminal device. The expected resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be activated, or a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device to be scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device to be configured.

Optionally, the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device in the fifth time period. Alternatively, the first resource size of the terminal device that is activated may be the first resource size of the terminal device that is activated in the sixth time period. Alternatively, the first resource size configured by the terminal device may be the first resource size configured by the terminal device in the seventh time period. Or the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device may be the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device in the eighth time period. Or, the service level of the terminal device may be a service level of the terminal device in a ninth time period. Or the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device may be the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device in the tenth time period.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the product of the number of activated resource blocks of the partial bandwidth and the number of MIMO layers of the activated partial bandwidth is: n is a radical of _actRB *N _actMIMO . Wherein, N _actRB Number of resource blocks in the part of the bandwidth activated for the terminal device, N _actMIMO And the number of layers of the airspace corresponding to the activated partial bandwidth of the terminal equipment. The first resource size configured by the terminal device may be: the product of the number of resource blocks of the configured partial bandwidth and the number of configured MIMO layers corresponding to the configured partial bandwidth is: n is a radical of _configRB *N _configMIMO . Wherein N is _configRB Number of resource blocks, N, in the partial bandwidth configured for the terminal device _configMIMO And the number of layers of the airspace corresponding to the configured partial bandwidth of the terminal equipment. The size of the first resource scheduled by the terminal device may be: the product of the number of scheduled resource blocks and the number of scheduled MIMO layers, i.e.: n is a radical of _scheduledRB *N _{scheduledMIMO} ，N _scheduledRB The number of resource blocks in the portion of the bandwidth that is activated for the terminal device that are used to transmit the terminal device data channel. Wherein N is _{scheduledMIMO} The number of layers of the space domain corresponding to the resource block used for transmitting the data channel of the terminal equipment in the activated part of the bandwidth for the terminal equipment.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: and the opening duration of the data transmission channel in the discontinuous reception period of the terminal equipment. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: a transmission duration for data transmission in a discontinuous reception period of the terminal device.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the duration of the data channel opening in the connection state of the terminal device. The size of the first resource scheduled by the terminal device may be: a transmission duration for data transmission in the connected state of the terminal device.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: sum of the number of time-frequency resources that the terminal device is activated during the eleventh time period. The size of the first resource scheduled by the terminal device may be: the sum of the number of time-frequency resources scheduled by the terminal device in the eleventh time period.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may also be: and the number of the time-frequency space resources which are activated by the terminal equipment in the twelfth time period. The number of activated time-frequency space resources may be: the product of the number of activated time frequency resources and the number of MIMO layers corresponding to the activated time frequency resources. The first resource size for the terminal device to be scheduled may also be: and the number of time-frequency space resources scheduled by the terminal equipment in the twelfth time period. The number of the scheduled time-frequency space resources may be: the product of the number of scheduled time frequency resources and the number of MIMO layers corresponding to the scheduled time frequency resources.

In a possible design, the communication apparatus provided in the fifth aspect may further include a processing module, where the processing module is configured to determine the transmission energy efficiency information according to one or more of a type of the terminal device, an operating state of the terminal device, user subscription information of the terminal device, a service of the terminal device, an access network type, a service applicable to a terminal user, a carrier wave to be transmitted, a frequency band to be transmitted, a combination of frequency bands to be transmitted, a frequency range to be transmitted, and a link type to be transmitted.

In one possible embodiment, the transmission energy efficiency information may be contained in one or more of the following: qoS parameter information, signaling included in a PDU session, terminal assistance information, non-access stratum signaling, user subscription information, terminal device capability information, radio resource control layer information, media access control layer information, or physical layer signaling.

In one possible design, the transmission energy efficiency information may include one or more of the following: the method comprises the steps of uplink data transmission energy efficiency information, downlink data transmission energy efficiency information, service transmission energy efficiency information, carrier transmission energy efficiency information, frequency band combination transmission energy efficiency information, frequency range transmission energy efficiency information, terminal equipment type transmission energy efficiency information, application transmission energy efficiency information, specified time period transmission energy efficiency information, specified state transmission energy efficiency information or specified network transmission energy efficiency information.

In a possible design, the transceiver module is further configured to receive reported transmission energy efficiency information from the access network device, where the reported transmission energy efficiency information indicates that the terminal device sends the transmission energy efficiency information. And the transceiver module is also used for sending the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network equipment.

Optionally, the communication device according to the fifth aspect may further include a storage module storing a program or instructions, and a processing module. The program or instructions, when executed by the processing module, cause the communication device to perform the communication method of the second aspect.

It should be noted that the communication apparatus described in the fifth aspect may be a terminal device, may also be a chip (system) or other component or assembly that can be installed in the terminal device, and may also be an apparatus that includes the terminal device, which is not limited in this application.

In addition, for technical effects of the communication apparatus according to the fifth aspect, reference may be made to technical effects of the communication method according to the second aspect, and details are not repeated here.

In a sixth aspect, a communications apparatus is provided. The communication device includes: a receiving and sending module and a processing module. The processing module is used for acquiring the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal equipment. Wherein the transmission energy efficiency information comprises one or more of the following items: a transmission capability ratio, a resource scheduling ratio, a first energy efficiency ratio, a second energy efficiency ratio, and a third energy efficiency ratio. The transmission capability is a ratio of the size of the transmission capability used for the terminal device to the size of the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. The resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device. The first energy efficiency ratio is a product of a resource scheduling ratio and a transmission capacity ratio. The second energy efficiency ratio is the ratio of the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling mode, the first scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode with the minimum energy consumption in all resource scheduling modes of the terminal equipment, and the second scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode used by the terminal equipment in all resource scheduling modes. The third energy efficiency ratio is a ratio of the size of the resource corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the size of the resource corresponding to the second scheduling mode. And the transceiver module is used for sending the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network equipment.

In a possible design, the processing module is further configured to control the transceiver module to receive transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal device. Or, the processing module is further configured to determine transmission energy efficiency information according to the subscription information of the terminal device.

Optionally, the communication apparatus according to the sixth aspect may further include a storage module, which stores the program or the instructions. The processing module, when executing the program or instructions, causes the communication apparatus to perform the communication method according to the third aspect.

It should be noted that the communication device in the sixth aspect may be a core network device, a chip (system) or other component or assembly that may be installed in the core network device, or a device that includes the core network device, which is not limited in this application.

In addition, for technical effects of the communication apparatus according to the sixth aspect, reference may be made to technical effects of the communication method according to the third aspect, and details are not repeated here.

In a seventh aspect, a communications apparatus is provided. The communication device is configured to perform the communication method according to any one of the implementation manners of the first aspect to the third aspect.

In this application, the communication apparatus according to the seventh aspect may be an access network device, a terminal device, or a core network device, or may be a chip (system) or other component or assembly provided in the terminal device, the access network device, or the core network device, or an apparatus including the terminal device, the access network device, or the core network device. The access network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the terminal device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner of the second aspect, and the core network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner of the third aspect.

It should be understood that the communication apparatus according to the seventh aspect includes corresponding modules, units, or means (means) for implementing the communication method according to any one of the first to third aspects, and the modules, units, or means may be implemented by hardware, software, or hardware to execute corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more modules or units for performing the functions involved in the above-described communication method.

Moreover, for technical effects of the communication apparatus according to the seventh aspect, reference may be made to technical effects of the communication method according to any one of the first to third aspects, and details are not repeated here.

In an eighth aspect, a communication device is provided. The communication device includes: a processor configured to perform the communication method according to any one of the possible implementation manners of the first aspect to the third aspect.

In a possible design, the communication device according to the eighth aspect may further include a transceiver. The transceiver may be a transmit-receive circuit or an interface circuit. The transceiver may be used for the communication device according to the eighth aspect to communicate with other communication devices.

In a possible design, the communication device according to the eighth aspect may further include a memory. The memory may be integral with the processor or may be separate. The memory may be used for storing computer programs and/or data related to the communication method according to any of the first to third aspects.

In this application, the communication apparatus according to the eighth aspect may be an access network device, a terminal device, or a core network device, or may be a chip (system) or other component or assembly disposed on the terminal device, the access network device, or the core network device, or an apparatus including the terminal device, the access network device, or the core network device. The access network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the terminal device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner of the second aspect, and the core network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner of the third aspect.

In addition, for technical effects of the communication apparatus according to the eighth aspect, reference may be made to technical effects of the communication method according to any one implementation manner of the first aspect to the third aspect, and details are not repeated here.

In a ninth aspect, a communication device is provided. The communication device includes: a processor, coupled to the memory, and configured to execute the computer program stored in the memory, so that the communication apparatus performs the communication method according to any one of the possible implementation manners of the first aspect to the third aspect.

In a possible design, the communication device according to the ninth aspect may further include a transceiver. The transceiver may be a transceiver circuit or an interface circuit. The transceiver may be used for the communication device of the ninth aspect to communicate with other communication devices.

In this application, the communication apparatus according to the ninth aspect may be an access network device, a terminal device, or a core network device, or may be a chip (system) or other component or assembly disposed on the terminal device, the access network device, or the core network device, or an apparatus including the terminal device, the access network device, or the core network device. The access network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the terminal device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner of the second aspect, and the core network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner of the third aspect.

In addition, for technical effects of the communication apparatus according to the ninth aspect, reference may be made to technical effects of the communication method according to any one implementation manner of the first aspect to the third aspect, and details are not repeated here.

In a tenth aspect, a communication device is provided. The communication device includes: the method comprises the following steps: a processor and interface circuitry. The interface circuit is used for receiving code instructions and transmitting the code instructions to the processor. The processor is configured to execute the code instructions to perform the communication method described in any one of the implementation manners of the first aspect to the third aspect.

In a possible design, the communication device according to the tenth aspect may further include a memory. The memory may be integral with the processor or may be separate. The memory may be used for storing computer programs and/or data related to the communication method according to any of the first to third aspects.

In this application, the communication apparatus according to the tenth aspect may be an access network device, a terminal device, or a core network device, or may be a chip (system) or other component or assembly disposed on the terminal device, the access network device, or the core network device, or an apparatus including the terminal device, the access network device, or the core network device. The access network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner in the first aspect, the terminal device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner in the second aspect, and the core network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner in the third aspect.

Moreover, for technical effects of the communication apparatus according to the tenth aspect, reference may be made to technical effects of the communication method according to any one implementation manner of the first aspect to the third aspect, and details are not repeated here.

In an eleventh aspect, a communications apparatus is provided. The communication device comprises a processor and a storage medium, wherein the storage medium stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, enable the communication method described in any one of the possible implementations of the first aspect to the third aspect to be implemented.

In this application, the communication apparatus according to the eleventh aspect may be an access network device, a terminal device, or a core network device, or may be a chip (system) or other component or component provided in the terminal device, the access network device, or the core network device, or an apparatus including the terminal device, the access network device, or the core network device. The access network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the terminal device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner of the second aspect, and the core network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner of the third aspect.

Moreover, for technical effects of the communication apparatus according to the eleventh aspect, reference may be made to technical effects of the communication method according to any one of implementation manners of the first aspect to the third aspect, and details are not repeated here.

In a twelfth aspect, a processor is provided. The processor is configured to execute the communication method described in any one of the possible implementation manners of the first aspect to the third aspect.

In a thirteenth aspect, a communication system is provided. The communication system includes a terminal device and an access network device. The access network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any one of the possible implementations of the first aspect, and the terminal device is configured to execute the communication method described in any one of the possible implementations of the second aspect.

Optionally, the communication system may further include one or more core network devices. The core network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner of the third aspect.

In a fourteenth aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, which comprises instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the communication method described in any one of the possible implementations of the first aspect to the third aspect to be implemented.

A fifteenth aspect provides a computer program product comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the communication method of any one of the possible implementations of the first to third aspects to be implemented.

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Fig. 1 is a schematic flowchart of a DRX cycle according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a long and short cycle DRX according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of four resource scheduling manners provided in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic architecture diagram of a communication system according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a first flowchart illustrating a communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a second flowchart illustrating a communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a third schematic flowchart of a communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a flowchart illustrating a communication method according to a fourth embodiment of the present disclosure;

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

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

Detailed Description

First, the embodiments of the present application briefly introduce technical terms that may be involved.

1. Configured (configured) resource of terminal equipment

The access network device may send higher layer signaling, such as RRC layer signaling (i.e., access stratum signaling) or non-access stratum signaling, carrying configuration information to the terminal device, where the configuration information may be used to indicate resources configured by the terminal device.

For example, the resources that the configuration information indicates the terminal device is configured to may include the following two Component Carriers (CCs): CC1 and CC2, and 4 BWPs are configured in each carrier. Wherein, CC1 includes BWP1_1, BWP1_2, BWP1_3, BWP1_4 respectively, and CC2 includes BWP2_1, BWP2_2, BWP2_3, BWP2_4 respectively. Furthermore, the configuration information may also indicate the MIMO layer number of each BWP, respectively, for example, the MIMO layer numbers indicating BWP1_1, BWP1_2, BWP1_3, BWP1_4 are configured to: 2. 2, 4 layers, and the MIMO layer number indicating BWP2_1, BWP2_2, BWP2_3, BWP2_4 are configured to: 1. 1, 2 and 2 layers.

2. Activated resource of terminal equipment

The access network device may send signaling carrying activation information, such as physical layer signaling or MAC layer signaling or RRC layer signaling, to the terminal device, where the activation information may be used to indicate the activated resource of the terminal device. The data of the terminal device may be carried within the resource in which the terminal device is activated.

It should be noted that the activated resource of the terminal device may be part or all of the configured resource of the terminal device.

For example, when the configured resources of the terminal device are CC1 and CC2 as described above, the activated resources of the terminal device may include: BWP1_1 in CC1 and BWP2_1 in CC2 are activated. At this time, the data of the terminal device is carried in BWP1_1 and BWP2_1, and specifically, which resource or resources in BWP1_1 and BWP2_1 are carried, the access network device is further required to perform scheduling.

3. Scheduled resource of terminal device

The access network device may send physical layer signaling carrying scheduling information to the terminal device, where the scheduling information may be used to indicate a scheduled resource of the terminal device, that is, the scheduled resource of the terminal device is a resource actually used for data transmission. Data of the terminal device may be transmitted within the scheduled resources, the transmitted data being carried on a data channel, which may include: a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), a physical sidelink shared channel (pscch), and the like.

It should be noted that the scheduled resource of the terminal device may be part or all of the terminal device in the corresponding activated resource, or the scheduled resource of the terminal device may also be part or all of the terminal device in the corresponding configured resource.

For example, when BWP1_2 includes 273 resource blocks, and the activated resource of the terminal device is BWP1_2 described above, the access network device may schedule the PDSCH transmission resource of the terminal device to be M resource blocks in the 273 resource blocks of BWP1_2, where M is less than or equal to 273. At this time, the data (i.e., PDSCH) transmitted by the terminal device is actually carried on the M resource blocks.

4. Utilization of resources or resource scheduling ratio

The resource utilization rate or the resource scheduling ratio may be a ratio of a resource size actually used by the terminal device for transmitting data to a resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of a resource size actually used by the terminal device for transmitting data to a resource size configured by the terminal device. The configured resource size or the activated resource size is the current total available (available) resource size of the terminal device. The resource actually used by the terminal device for transmitting data may be a resource scheduled by the terminal device, and therefore, the utilization rate or resource scheduling ratio of the resource may also be expressed as: the ratio of the size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device to the size of the resource activated by the terminal device, or the ratio of the size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device to the size of the resource configured by the terminal device, or the ratio of the size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device to the size of the available resource of the terminal device. Therefore, the "resource scheduling ratio" and the "utilization rate of resources" may be replaced with each other. In addition, "utilization of resources" may be interchanged with "resource utilization".

It should be noted that the "resource actually used for transmitting data" and the "resource activated by the terminal device" are different from each other in that: there may be some resources of the activated resources of the terminal device that are not used for transmitting data. The "resources actually used for transmitting data" and "resources configured by the terminal device" are distinguished in that: there may be some of the resources that the terminal device is configured with that are not used for transmitting data. The configured resource size or the activated resource size is the current total available resource size of the terminal equipment. The difference between "resources in which the terminal device is activated" and "resources in which the terminal device is configured" is that: there may be some of the resources that the terminal device is configured with that are not activated. In addition, the same situation of configuration and activation may occur, for example, the configured resource of the terminal device may also be the activated resource.

It can be understood that, when data is transmitted, the terminal device determines the size of the computing resource (including software and hardware resources, such as radio frequency, front end, processor, memory, and the like) used for sending and receiving data according to the size of the activated resource, or the size of the configured resource, or the size of the available resource of the terminal device, so that the larger the activated or configured resource of the terminal device is, the more the computing resource is used by the terminal device for sending and receiving data. The resources that the terminal device is activated or configured to, may also be understood as capabilities of the data that the terminal device is currently capable of handling. The higher the ratio of the activated or configured resources to the actual transmission data of the terminal device, the more sufficient the resource utilization of the terminal device is, therefore, when the proportion of the resources actually used for data transmission to the activated or configured resources is larger, the less energy is wasted when the terminal device transmits data using the activated or configured resources, and the higher the transmission energy efficiency of the terminal device is.

Generally, when the access network device indicates that a specific carrier or a specific BWP is activated, it means that the access network device and the terminal device perform data transmission on the activated resource, and the terminal device activates corresponding software and hardware processing resources according to the size of the activated carrier or BWP resource.

For example, when the access network device indicates to activate BWP1_1, the size of the activated BWP1_1 is 51RBs, and the subcarrier interval is 30KHz, which means that data transmission will be transmitted within a 20 megahertz (MHz) bandwidth, the terminal device will activate the corresponding processing resource according to the 20MHz bandwidth, for example, open a 20MHz radio frequency channel, and if the maximum data transmission rate corresponding to 20MHz is 460Mbps, the terminal device will prepare to use a processor capable of processing 460Mbps for data transmission.

Or, for example, when the access network device indicates to activate BWP1_2, the size of the activated BWP1_2 is 273RBs, and the subcarrier interval is 30KHz, which means that data transmission will be performed within a 100MHz bandwidth, the end device will activate the corresponding processing resource according to the 100MHz bandwidth, for example, open a 100MHz radio frequency channel, and if the maximum data transmission rate corresponding to 100MHz is 2.3Gbps, the end device will prepare to use a processor capable of processing 2.3Gbps for data transmission.

In one case, if the scheduled resource size of the terminal device is 51RBs and BWP1_1 is adopted as the active BWP (i.e. the active resource size is 51 RBs), the resource scheduling ratio under this assumption (referred to as the first assumption) is 100%. In another case, if the scheduled resource size of the terminal device is 51RBs and BWP1_2 is adopted as the active BWP (i.e. the activated resource size is 273 RBs), the resource scheduling ratio under this assumption (referred to as the second assumption) is about 18.7%. Obviously, the resource scheduling ratio of the first hypothesis is larger than the resource scheduling ratio of the second hypothesis. The resource scheduling ratio here is determined in the following manner: the ratio of the size of the resource for which the terminal device is scheduled to the size of the resource for which the terminal device is activated.

5、DRX

DRX is an operating mechanism of a terminal device, which can save power consumption of the terminal device. When DRX is configured, the terminal device may periodically operate, and in each period, the terminal device may enter a "sleep state," such as turning off a radio frequency device and/or a baseband processor, without continuously monitoring a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) to save power consumption. And the work cycle of the terminal equipment is a DRX cycle.

As shown in fig. 1, one DRX cycle may include: an active period (on-duration), an inactivity timer (inactivity-timer), and an inactive period (inactivity for DRX) during which the terminal device can sleep.

In the active time period, the terminal device is awakened and continuously monitors the PDCCH. If the terminal equipment monitors a valid PDCCH in the activation time period, the terminal equipment enters an inactivity timer, otherwise, the terminal equipment enters the non-activation time period. The effective PDCCH here may be: refers to a channel carrying control signaling sent to a terminal device. The control signaling sent to the terminal device may be: dedicated signaling sent to the end devices, and/or broadcast signaling or multicast signaling sent to all or a group of end devices.

For example, the control channel carrying the dedicated signaling sent to the terminal device may include: the PDCCH scrambled by a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) of the terminal device, the PDCCH scrambled by a modulation and coding scheme radio network temporary identifier (MCS-RNTI) of the terminal device, the PDCCH scrambled by a configuration Scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS-RNTI) of the terminal device, the PDCCH scrambled by a semi-static Scheduling radio network temporary identifier (semi-static Scheduling radio network temporary identifier, SPS-C-RNTI) of the terminal device, the PDCCH scrambled by a semi-static Scheduling radio network temporary identifier (SP-C-RNTI) of the terminal device, the PDCCH scrambled by a link-temporary identifier (CS-cell temporary identifier) of the terminal device, and the PDCCH scrambled by a link-cell temporary identifier (CS-RNTI) of the terminal device.

The control channel carrying the broadcast or multicast signaling sent to all or a group of end devices may include: the PDCCH scrambled by a system message radio network temporary identifier (SI-RNTI), the PDCCH scrambled by a paging radio network temporary identifier (paging RNTI, P-RNTI), the PDCCH scrambled by a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI), the PDCCH scrambled by a msgB-RNTI (message B RNTI), the PDCCH scrambled by a temporary cell radio network temporary identifier (TC-RNTI), the PDCCH scrambled by a SFI-slot indicator (SFI-slot indicator), the PDCCH scrambled by an INT-RNTI (interference RNTI), the PDCCH scrambled by a TPC-power control RNTI, the PDCCH scrambled by a TPC-PUCCH-RNTI (transmission power control PUCCH), the PDCCH scrambled by a TPC-PUCCH (transmission control PUCCH RNTI), the PDCCH scrambled by a PUSCH-SRS-paging-cell RNTI (PUSCH-paging control cell RNTI), the PDCCH scrambled by a PUSCH-access control RNTI (paging-cell RNTI), the PDCCH scrambled by a PUSCH-cell RNTI (paging cell RNTI), the PUSCH-cell RNTI, the PDCCH scrambled by a paging cell RNTI (access control RNTI), the PUSCH-cell RNTI).

It should be noted that the above control channel is an exemplary illustration. The specific type of control channel may be specified with reference to the corresponding prior art.

In the inactivity timer, the terminal device stays awake for a period of time and waits to monitor a valid PDCCH again. If a valid PDCCH is not monitored before the inactivity timer expires, the terminal device returns to the inactive time period, otherwise, the terminal device may re-enter the inactivity timer.

In the inactive time period, the terminal device enters a sleep state. In addition, the terminal device may also transmit a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) in the active period, that is, a PUSCH period (not shown in the figure) may also be included in the active period.

In an application scenario, the DRX cycle may include a long DRX cycle (LDRX) and a short DRX cycle (SDRX), and the terminal device may operate in both DRX cycles.

An exemplary procedure for long and short cycle DRX is shown in fig. 2. The switching mechanism between the short DRX period and the long DRX period is as follows: if the terminal device monitors a valid PDCCH before the inactivity timer expires in the short DRX cycle and does not monitor a valid PDCCH within the times indicated by the continuous DRX short cycle timer (DRXShortCycleTimer), the terminal device may enter the long DRX cycle after the DRX short cycle timer ends. On the contrary, if the terminal device successfully decodes the PDCCH in the long DRX cycle, the terminal device enters the short DRX cycle after the inactivity timer expires.

It should be noted that, the above description of the DRX operation process is an exemplary description. The specific DRX mechanism may refer to the corresponding prior art specification.

6. Data transmission

Data transmission, as used herein, includes both transmission and reception of data, unless otherwise specified. For example, for the access network device, the downlink data transmission refers to the access network device sending the PDSCH, and the uplink data transmission refers to the access network device receiving the PUSCH. For the terminal device, downlink data transmission refers to that the terminal device receives the PDSCH, and uplink data transmission refers to that the terminal device sends the PUSCH.

In the process of implementing the embodiment of the present application, the inventors of the present application find that:

when the terminal device transmits data, the resource actually used for transmitting data often occupies only a part of the allocated resource, that is, the scheduling ratio of the allocated resource of the terminal device is not high, which causes a part of power consumption to be wasted when the terminal device transmits data by using the allocated resource, and therefore, a scheme capable of saving the power consumption of the terminal device is urgently needed.

In particular, the low scheduling ratio of the allocated resources of the terminal device may also reduce the user service quality (including one or more of the packet transmission rate and the packet transmission delay), thereby reducing the user experience rate, increasing the packet transmission delay, and increasing the power consumption of the terminal device.

In addition, qoS is currently introduced to assess the quality of service experienced by the user. Specifically, for different data packet service types, different QoS levels are determined, and corresponding data packets are transmitted on corresponding air interface resources according to requirements of parameters corresponding to QoS levels, so as to meet requirements of the QoS levels.

Currently, the QoS parameters may include one or more of: resource allocation type (resource type), such as Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR), non-guaranteed bit rate (Non-GBR), or emergency guaranteed bit rate (Delay Critical GBR), default priority (default priority level), packet Delay margin (packet Delay bucket), packet error rate (packet error rate), default maximum burst size (default maximum data burst size), and default average window (default averaging window).

Illustratively, table 1 is a partial content included in a 5QI (5G QoS Identifier) in the existing 3gpp ts 23.501. Referring to table 1, a 5QI value (5 QI value) may indicate various QoS parameters that a service satisfies when transmitting, including: resource type, default priority value, packet delay margin, packet error rate, default maximum burst packet size, and default average window.

For example, taking a video (buffer stream) of a service based on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) as an example, a value of 5QI is 6, indicating that the service satisfies: resource type is Non-GBR, default priority value is 60, packet delay allowance is 300 milliseconds (ms), packet error rate is 10 ^-6 Default maximum burst size not applicable (N/a), default average window not applicable.

For another example, taking a service as a control plane (IMS signaling) for managing voice, a value of 5QI is 5, which indicates that the service satisfies: resource type is Non-GBR, default priority value is 10, packet delay allowance is 100 milliseconds, packet error rate is 10 ^-6 Default maximum burst size not applicable, default average window not applicable.

TABLE 1

However, as can be seen from the existing parameters of QoS, there is no parameter that can evaluate the utilization rate of resources for air interface data transmission at present, so that there is no means for the current terminal device to send the expected resource utilization rate to the access network device, and the access network device cannot obtain the expected resource utilization rate for air interface data transmission of each terminal device. Therefore, when the utilization rate of the allocated resources of the terminal device is not high and the transmission energy efficiency is low, at least part of power consumption is wasted when the terminal device transmits data by using the scheduled resources, so that the power consumption of the terminal device is high.

7. Power consumption model of terminal device

The terminal device may be in a number of different power states (power states) during operation, for example, several typical power states of the terminal device include: deep sleep (deep sleep), light sleep (light sleep), micro sleep (micro sleep), PDCCH only (PDCCH only), synchronization signal and broadcast physical channel (PBCH) block (SSB) or channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) transmission (SSB or CSI-RS), PDCCH and PDSCH transmission, and uplink (uplink). The terminal device consumes different power in different operation states.

Illustratively, table 2 is a power consumption model table of the terminal device. Referring to table 2, the power consumption corresponding to the power consumption state is relative power consumption (relative power). Wherein, the relative power consumption of the deep sleep is defined as 1, and the relative power consumption of other power consumption states is a power consumption multiple relative to the deep sleep. For example, assuming that the actual power consumption of the deep sleep is 0.0001 watt and the actual power consumption of the light sleep is 0.002 watt, then the actual power consumption of the light sleep is 20 times the actual power consumption of the deep sleep and the relative power consumption of the light sleep is 20. It should be noted that when the transmission power of the terminal device is 0 decibel milliwatt (dBm), the relative power consumption of the terminal device during uplink transmission is 250; when the transmit power of the terminal device is 23dBm, the relative power consumption of the terminal device when in uplink transmission is 700.

TABLE 2

Note that the above table 2 is a part of the content of a UE power consumption model for FR1 band (UE power consumption model for FR 1) table in "3GPP TR 38.840v g.0.0chapter 8", and the details of the content can be referred to the UE power consumption model table in the FR1 band. Moreover, the UE power consumption model table of the FR1 frequency band is collected from a terminal device operating according to certain working parameters, wherein specific working parameter setting may refer to the relevant description in "3gpp TR 38.840 channel 8", and is not described herein again.

In the actual operation process of the terminal device, when the operating parameters (such as the bandwidth size, the number of antennas, the time domain length used for transmitting data, and the like) of the terminal device change, the relative power consumption in table 2 above needs to be scaled accordingly. For example, when the downlink transmission bandwidth of the terminal device changes, the relative power consumption of "performing PDCCH and PDSCH transmission" in table 2 above may be scaled according to the following formula: RP =300 s, s =0.4+0.6 + 0.20/80; wherein, RP is the scaled relative power consumption for PDCCH and PDSCH transmission, s is the scaling factor, and X is the size of the downlink transmission bandwidth used by the terminal device to transmit data.

It should be noted that, according to different practical situations, the relative power scaling rules of the power consumption states in the above table 2 are different, and the specific scaling rules may refer to a UE power consumption model scaling (UE power consumption scaling for adaptation) table defined in "3gpp 38.840tr channel 8", and will not be described in detail herein.

8. Resource scheduling mode

The resource scheduling mode refers to a mode in which the terminal device transmits data in resources such as a time domain, a frequency domain, a space domain, and the like. For example, assuming that the terminal device needs to use time-frequency domain resources of 80 (MHz × timeslot) to transmit data, the access network device may generate a resource scheduling manner according to the requirement of the terminal device, so as to indicate time-frequency domain and frequency-frequency domain resources used by the terminal device to transmit data. And the access network equipment sends the resource scheduling mode to the terminal equipment so that the terminal equipment transmits data according to the resource scheduling mode. Specifically, the following description is made with reference to fig. 3 for an example of four resource scheduling manners.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of four resource scheduling manners. Referring to fig. 3, for convenience of description, the present embodiment defines 1 block in fig. 1 as 1 resource unit. Specifically, the grid boxes and the blank boxes each represent resource blocks in the time domain and the frequency domain. The time domain resource and the frequency domain resource corresponding to 1 grid frame are respectively 1 time slot and 10MHz. The time domain resource and the frequency domain resource corresponding to the 1 blank square frame are respectively 1 time slot and 10MHz. Wherein the grid boxes represent resource blocks used for transmitting data and the blank boxes represent resource blocks not used for transmitting data. The sum of the grid boxes may be understood as the size of the resource for which the terminal device is scheduled, and the sum of the blank boxes and the grid boxes may be understood as the size of the resource for which the terminal device is activated.

In example 1, referring to the resource scheduling manner shown in a in fig. 3, there are 8 grid boxes and 66 blank boxes. In other words, the time-frequency domain resource size actually used by the terminal device to transmit data is 80 (MHz × slot). The size of the activated time domain resource is 11 time slots when the terminal device transmits data, and the size of the activated frequency domain resource is 60MHz, so that the size of the activated time domain resource of the terminal device is 660 (MHz × time slot). If the resource scheduling ratio = resource size scheduled by the terminal device/resource size activated by the terminal device, then in the resource scheduling manner shown in a in fig. 3, the resource scheduling ratio =80/660 ≈ 12.1% of the terminal device.

With reference to the power consumption model table (table 2) of the terminal device and the UE power consumption model scaling table, when the terminal device receives downlink data in the resource scheduling manner shown in a in fig. 3, since the size of the frequency domain resource activated by the terminal device is 60MHz, the scaling factor s = (0.4 +0.6 = (60-20)/80) =0.7, and the power consumption of the terminal device is RP =300 × 0.7=210.

Assuming that the size of 1 unit energy consumption is equal to the energy consumed by the terminal device with relative power consumption of 1 to receive the PDSCH in 1 time slot, the terminal device receives the PDSCH in 1 time slot in the resource scheduling manner shown in a in fig. 3, the consumed electric energy is 210 unit energy consumption, and the total consumed electric energy to receive the PDSCH in 11 time slot is 210 × 11=2310 unit energy consumption.

It can be understood that, in example 1, the activated resources of the terminal device are not fully utilized, the utilization rate of the resources is low, and the power consumption of the terminal device for transmitting data is wasted.

Example 2, referring to the resource scheduling method shown in B in fig. 3, there are 8 grid boxes without blank boxes. In other words, the time-frequency domain resource size actually used by the terminal device to transmit data is 80 (MHz × slot). The size of the activated time domain resource is 8 time slots when the terminal device transmits data, and the size of the activated frequency domain resource is 10MHz, so that the size of the activated time domain resource of the terminal device is 80 (MHz × time slot). If the resource scheduling ratio = resource size of the terminal device scheduled/resource size of the terminal device activated, then in the resource scheduling manner shown in B in fig. 3, the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device =80/80=100%.

With reference to the power consumption model table (table 2) of the terminal device and the UE power consumption model scaling table, when the terminal device receives downlink data in the resource scheduling manner shown in B in fig. 3, since the size of the frequency domain resource activated by the terminal device is 10MHz, the scaling factor s = (0.4 +0.6 + (10-20)/80) =0.325, and the power consumption of the terminal device is RP =300 =0.325 =97.5.

Assuming that the size of the 1 unit energy consumption is equal to the energy consumed by the terminal device with the relative power consumption of 1 to receive the PDSCH of 1 time slot, the terminal device receives the PDSCH of 1 time slot in the resource scheduling manner shown in B in fig. 3, the consumed power is 97.5 unit energy consumption, and the total consumed power for receiving the PDSCH of 8 time slots is 97.5 × 8=780 unit energy consumption.

It can be understood that, compared to example 1, the size of the activated time domain resource of the terminal device in example 2 is reduced by 3 slots, the activated frequency domain resource is reduced by 50MHz, and the consumed power is much smaller than that of the terminal device in example 1. Moreover, the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal equipment is 100%, the activated resources of the terminal equipment are fully utilized, the utilization rate of the resources is high, and the power consumption can be saved to a certain extent.

Example 3, referring to the resource scheduling manner shown in C in fig. 3, there are 8 grid boxes and 4 blank boxes. In other words, the time-frequency domain resource size actually used by the terminal device to transmit data is 80 (MHz × slot). The size of the activated time domain resource is 2 time slots when the terminal device transmits data, and the size of the activated frequency domain resource is 60MHz, so that the size of the activated time domain resource of the terminal device is 120 (MHz × time slot). If the resource scheduling ratio = resource size of the terminal device scheduled/resource size of the terminal device activated, then in the resource scheduling manner shown in C in fig. 3, the resource scheduling ratio =80/120 ≈ 66.7% for the terminal device.

With reference to the power consumption model table (table 2) of the terminal device and the UE power consumption model scaling table, when the terminal device receives downlink data in the resource scheduling manner shown in C in fig. 3, since the size of the frequency domain resource activated by the terminal device is 60MHz, the scaling factor s = (0.4 +0.6 = (60-20)/80) =0.7, and the power consumption of the terminal device is RP =300 × 0.7=210.

Assuming that the size of the 1 unit energy consumption is equal to the energy consumed by the terminal device with the relative power consumption of 1 to receive the PDSCH of 1 time slot, the terminal device receives the PDSCH of 1 time slot in the resource scheduling manner shown in C in fig. 3, the consumed power is 210 unit energy consumption, and the total consumed power for receiving the PDSCH of 2 time slots is 210 × 2=420 unit energy consumption.

It is to be understood that, in comparison with example 2, although the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device in example 3 is 66.7%, the activated resource is not fully utilized, but the terminal device in example 3 consumes less power than the terminal device in example 2. That is, by adjusting the resource scheduling mode of the terminal device, the resource scheduling mode of the terminal device is more reasonable, and power consumption can be saved.

Example 4, referring to the resource scheduling manner shown in D in fig. 3, there are 8 grid boxes without blank boxes. In other words, the time-frequency domain resource size actually used by the terminal device to transmit data is 80 (MHz × slot). The size of the activated time domain resource is 2 time slots when the terminal device transmits data, and the size of the activated frequency domain resource is 40MHz, so that the size of the activated time domain resource of the terminal device is 80 (MHz × time slot). If the resource scheduling ratio = resource size scheduled by the terminal device/resource size activated by the terminal device, then in the resource scheduling manner shown by D in fig. 3, the resource scheduling ratio =80/80=100%.

With reference to the power consumption model table (table 2) of the terminal device and the UE power consumption model scaling table, when the terminal device receives downlink data in the resource scheduling manner shown in D in fig. 3, since the size of the frequency domain resource activated by the terminal device is 40MHz, the scaling factor s = (0.4 +0.6 + (40-20)/80) =0.55, and the power consumption of the terminal device is RP =300 =0.55 =165.

Assuming that the size of the 1-unit energy consumption is equal to the energy consumed by the terminal device with relative power consumption of 1 to receive the PDSCH in 1 time slot, the terminal device receives the PDSCH in 1 time slot in the resource scheduling manner shown in C in fig. 3, the consumed electric energy is 165-unit energy consumption, and the total consumed electric energy to receive the PDSCH in 2 time slot is 165 × 2 =330-unit energy consumption.

It is understood that the electric power consumed by the terminal device in example 4 is further reduced as compared with examples 1 to 3. The resource scheduling manner in example 4 is a resource scheduling manner with the minimum energy consumption among all resource scheduling manners of the terminal device, and in addition, compared with examples 1 to 3, the resource scheduling manner in example 4 is also a resource scheduling manner with the shortest time delay.

As can be readily understood in conjunction with examples 1-4 above, if only by improving the resource utilization of the terminal device, the effect of saving the power consumption of the terminal device is limited. For example, in the above example 2, the resource utilization rate of the terminal device is 100%, and the bandwidth in which the terminal device is activated has 60MHz, but the terminal device only utilizes 10MHz of the bandwidth, which results in a side length of data transmission time, and thus results in an increase in power consumption of the terminal device.

In other words, even if the resource utilization rate of the terminal device is high, if the scheduling manner of the terminal device is not reasonable, the power consumption of the terminal device for transmitting data is still wasted. Therefore, in order to save the power consumption of the terminal device more effectively, it may be considered to improve the resource utilization rate of the terminal device and adjust the scheduling manner of the terminal device.

8. Modulation coding scheme and spectral efficiency

Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) is a scheme for modulating and coding a transport block transmitted over the air interface. Different modulation and coding schemes correspond to different Spectral Efficiencies (SEs), which refer to the number of bits that can be transmitted by each Resource Element (RE). The higher the spectral efficiency, the more bits can be transmitted per resource unit. The modulation and coding scheme that can be used in communication and the spectral efficiency corresponding to each modulation and coding scheme may refer to a relation (MCS index table 1for PDSCH) table between the modulation and coding scheme and the spectral efficiency in 3gpp TS 38.214table 5.1.3.1-1, which is not described herein again.

In order to improve transmission efficiency and reliability, adaptive modulation and coding is generally adopted in wireless communication, that is, a suitable modulation and coding mode is selected according to the current channel quality. Specifically, the terminal device measures the current channel quality, and feeds back a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) to the base station device, and the base station device determines a modulation and coding scheme suitable for the current channel condition according to the CQI and a correspondence table between the CQI and the modulation and coding scheme. The CQI represents a current channel quality, and the terminal device may determine the CQI according to a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) obtained by current measurement, where the SINR is referred to as a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR).

Illustratively, table 3 is a table of correspondence between CQI index (index), modulation and coding scheme, spectral efficiency, and signal to interference plus noise ratio. Referring to table 3, the base station apparatus may determine a modulation and coding scheme suitable for the current channel condition according to the CQI and table 3. It should be noted that the corresponding relationship between SINR and CQI is not limited, and the setting may be adjusted according to the specific implementation of the terminal device.

TABLE 3

In order to solve the problem that power consumption of terminal equipment for transmitting data is wasted, embodiments of the present application provide a communication method and apparatus, so as to save power consumption of terminal equipment and improve user service quality (including reducing packet transmission delay and/or increasing packet transmission rate). The above-mentioned defects are all the results of the inventors' careful practical study. Therefore, the discovery process of the above-mentioned problems and the solutions proposed by the embodiments of the present application in the following description should be considered as contributions by the inventors in implementing the present application.

The technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The technical solution of the embodiment of the present application may be applied to various communication systems, for example, a wireless fidelity (WiFi) system, a vehicle to any object (V2X) communication system, a device-to-device (D2D) communication system, an internet of vehicles communication system, a 4 th generation mobile communication system, such as a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) communication system, a fifth generation mobile communication system, such as a new radio, NR) system, and a future communication system, such as a sixth generation (6 generation,6 g) mobile communication system.

This application is intended to present various aspects, embodiments, or features around a system that may include a number of devices, components, modules, and the like. It is to be understood and appreciated that the various systems may include additional devices, components, modules, etc. and/or may not include all of the devices, components, modules etc. discussed in connection with the figures. Furthermore, a combination of these schemes may also be used.

In addition, in the embodiments of the present application, words such as "exemplarily", "for example", etc. are used for indicating as examples, illustrations or explanations. Any embodiment or design described herein as "exemplary" is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other embodiments or designs. Rather, the word using examples is intended to present concepts in a concrete fashion.

In the embodiment of the present invention, "information", "signal", "message", "channel", "signaling" may be used in combination, and it should be noted that the meaning to be expressed is consistent when the difference is not emphasized. "of", "corresponding", "canceling" and "corresponding" may be used in combination, and it should be noted that the intended meaning is consistent when differences are not emphasized.

In the examples of the present application, the subscripts are as defined by W ₁ It may be mistaken for a non-subscripted form such as W1, whose intended meaning is consistent when the distinction is not emphasized.

The network architecture and the service scenario described in the embodiment of the present application are for more clearly illustrating the technical solution of the embodiment of the present application, and do not form a limitation on the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application, and it can be known by a person of ordinary skill in the art that the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application is also applicable to similar technical problems with the evolution of the network architecture and the occurrence of a new service scenario.

For the convenience of understanding the embodiments of the present application, a communication system applicable to the embodiments of the present application will be first described in detail by taking the communication system shown in fig. 4 as an example. Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication system to which the communication method provided in the embodiment of the present application is applied.

As shown in fig. 4, the communication system includes one or more terminal devices and one or more access network devices. Optionally, the communication system may further include one or more core network devices, and the core network device may include a plurality of functional modules or devices, such as a User Plane Function (UPF) device, an access and mobility management function (AMF) device, a Policy Control Function (PCF) device, a Session Management Function (SMF) device, and a Mobility Management Entity (MME), where the core network device may also be referred to as a core network element.

The access network device is a device located at the network side of the communication system and having a wireless transceiving function or a chip system that can be installed in the device. The access network devices include, but are not limited to: access Network (AN), such as a base station, access Point (AP) in a wireless fidelity (WiFi) system, such as a home gateway, a router, a server, a switch, a bridge, etc., evolved Node B (eNB), radio Network Controller (RNC), node B (NB), base Station Controller (BSC), base Transceiver Station (BTS), home base station (e.g., home evolved Node B, or home Node B, HNB), base band unit (base unit, BBU), a wireless relay Node, a wireless backhaul Node, a transmission point (TRP or transmission point, TP), etc., and may also be 5G, such as a gNB in a New Radio (NR) system, or a transmission point (TRP or TP), one or a group (including multiple antenna panels) of antenna panels of a base station in a 5G system, or a network Node forming the gNB or the transmission point, such as a baseband unit (BBU), or a Distributed Unit (DU), a Road Side Unit (RSU) with a base station function, etc.

The terminal device is a terminal which is accessed to the communication system and has a wireless transceiving function or a chip system which can be arranged on the terminal. The terminal device can also be called a user equipment, access terminal, subscriber unit, subscriber station, mobile station, remote terminal, mobile device, user terminal, wireless communication device, user agent, or user device. The terminal device in the embodiment of the present application may be a mobile phone (mobile phone), a tablet computer (Pad), a computer with a wireless transceiving function, a Virtual Reality (VR) terminal device, an Augmented Reality (AR) terminal device, a wireless terminal in industrial control (industrial control), a wireless terminal in unmanned driving (self driving), a wireless terminal in remote medical (remote medical), a wireless terminal in smart grid (smart grid), a wireless terminal in transportation safety (transportation safety), a wireless terminal in city (smart city), a wireless terminal in smart home (smart home), a vehicle-mounted terminal, an RSU with a terminal function, and the like. The terminal device of the present application may also be an on-board module, an on-board component, an on-board chip, or an on-board unit that is built in a vehicle as one or more components or units, and the vehicle may implement the communication method provided by the present application through the built-in on-board module, the on-board component, the on-board chip, or the on-board unit.

It should be noted that the communication method provided in the embodiment of the present application may be applied to communication among the terminal device, the access network device, and the core network device shown in fig. 4.

It should be appreciated that fig. 4 is a simplified schematic diagram of an example for ease of understanding only, and that other network devices, and/or other terminal devices, not shown in fig. 4, may also be included in the communication system.

First, briefly introducing the communication method provided in the embodiment of the present application, in the method, an access network device may determine, according to transmission energy efficiency information provided by a terminal device, a second resource allocated to the terminal device, and send first information to the terminal device. Thus, the terminal device may request the access network device to adjust one or more of the scheduled resource, the activated resource, the configured resource, the transmission capability ratio, the resource scheduling ratio, the first energy efficiency ratio, the second energy efficiency ratio, and the third energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information required by the terminal device, for example, the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device may instruct the access network device to increase a ratio of the scheduled resource of the terminal device to the activated resource of the terminal device, so as to increase the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device, thereby saving power consumption of the terminal device, and improve user service quality (including reducing packet transmission delay, and/or increasing packet transmission rate).

The communication method provided by the embodiment of the present application will be specifically described below with reference to fig. 5 to 7.

Exemplarily, fig. 5 is a first flowchart of a communication method provided in the embodiment of the present application. The communication method may be applied to communication between the terminal device and the access network device shown in fig. 4.

As shown in fig. 5, the communication method may include the steps of:

s501, the access network equipment acquires the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal equipment.

Wherein the transmission energy efficiency information comprises one or more of the following items: the energy efficiency ratio comprises a transmission capacity ratio, a resource scheduling ratio, a first energy efficiency ratio, a second energy efficiency ratio and a third energy efficiency ratio.

The transmission capability is a ratio of the size of the transmission capability used for the terminal device to the size of the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. For ease of understanding, the transmission capability ratio is denoted as C1, the size of the transmission capability used by the terminal device is denoted as A1, and the size of the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device is denoted as A2, and then the transmission capability ratio may be C1= A1/A2, or C1= A2/A1, which is not limited in this application. It is to be noted that, in order to enable a transmission capability ratio to be used that can represent the degree to which the transmission capability of the terminal device is used, the size of the transmission capability ratio may be greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1.

In some possible embodiments, the transmission capability used by the terminal device may be a resource allocated to the terminal device, and the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device may be a resource corresponding to the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device. Thus, the transmission capacity used by the terminal device may be: the length of time for transmitting the first data by the resource allocated to the terminal device may be: and the terminal equipment adopts the time length of the first data transmitted by the resource corresponding to the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal equipment.

The resource allocated to the terminal device may include a resource scheduled by the terminal device, a resource activated by the terminal device, and a resource configured by the terminal device, the first data may be a piece of data currently required to be received by the terminal device, or a piece of data currently required to be sent to the network device by the terminal device, for example, a piece of video data, a piece of audio data, a piece of signaling message data, and the like, the data required to be received by the terminal device is carried on the PDSCH, and the data required to be sent by the terminal device is carried on the PUSCH, that is, the first data may be carried on the PDSCH or the PUSCH, and the first data may be data of any communication layer, for example, the first data may be data of a physical layer, or data of an MAC layer, or data of a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer, or data of a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer, or IP layer data. The first data may be uplink data or downlink data.

The resource corresponding to the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device may be understood as: the total available resources of the terminal device at present, and therefore, the duration for the terminal device to transmit the first data by using the resource corresponding to the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device can be understood as follows: the time required for the terminal device to transmit the first data using the current total available resources. It should be noted that the total available resources of the terminal device are: the maximum resources commonly available between the terminal device and the access network device.

The duration for the terminal device to transmit the first data by using the resource corresponding to the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device may be determined by referring to the following formula:

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the rounding-up operator. T is _min And transmitting the first data for the terminal equipment by adopting the resource corresponding to the maximum transmission capability of the terminal equipment, wherein the unit is a time slot.

N _re Indicates the maximum number of Resource Elements (REs) that can be used for data transmission in 1 slot and 1 Resource Block (RB), N _re May be 156.N is a radical of _re May also be determined based on the redundancy of the current transmission, e.g., N _re = (= (total number of REs in 1 slot) × (1-redundancy), where the redundancy may be a redundancy of the transmission (e.g. 0.07,0.14, etc.).

The SE is the spectral efficiency of data that can be transmitted under the current channel condition, and may be determined according to the currently scheduled modulation and coding scheme, or according to the current signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio, for a specific manner, refer to the related contents of the above term "modulation and coding scheme and spectral efficiency", and will not be described herein again.

The layer is the maximum number of MIMO layers that the terminal device and the access network device can support in the current carrier. BW is the maximum channel bandwidth that can be supported by the terminal device and the access network device in the current carrier, and the unit of BW may be RB. layer BW is the product of the maximum number of MIMO layers that can be supported by the terminal device and the access network device in the current carrier and the maximum channel bandwidth. For example, if the maximum number of MIMO layers that can be supported by the terminal device in the current carrier is 2, the maximum channel bandwidth is 273RB, the maximum number of MIMO layers that can be supported by the network device in the current carrier is 4, and the maximum channel bandwidth is 162RB, then layer BW =2 × 162=324.

N _packet The first data may be a physical layer, an MAC layer, or a higher layer data packet, which is a data amount of the first data to be transmitted, and examples of the higher layer include: a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer, a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer, or an Internet Protocol (IP) layer. The first data is preferably a packet of a higher layer, for example, a PDCP layer packet.

It should be noted that N is mentioned above _packet And SE may be a statistical average over a period of time, and the period of time may be one or more DRX cycles, or one or more measurement cycles, etc. E.g. N _packet SE is SE obtained from SINR in one DRX cycle or one measurement cycle, which is the total size of output packets in one DRX cycle.

For example, referring to the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3, if the size of data to be transmitted in the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3 is 80 (MHz × time slot), T is _min =2 time slots.

The duration of the transmission of the first data by the terminal device allocated resource can be understood as: the time required for the terminal device to transmit the first data under the current channel conditions. In other words, the duration of the transmission of the first data by the resource allocated to the terminal device is: the time actually required for the terminal device to transmit the first data.

Optionally, the duration of the transmission of the first data by the terminal device allocated resource may include two definitions as follows:

defining 1, the duration of transmitting the first data by the resource allocated to the terminal device is: a time from a start of transmission of the first data to an end of transmission of the first data. For example, referring to a in fig. 3 described above, the time from the start of transmission of the first data to the end of transmission of the first data by the terminal device is 11 slots.

Defining 2, the duration of the first data transmission of the resource allocated to the terminal device is: the sum of all time slots in which the first data is transmitted. It is noted that the sum of all time slots in which the first data is transmitted does not include time slots in which the first data is not actually transmitted during transmission. For example, referring to a in fig. 3 described above, the sum of all the slots in which the terminal device transmits the first data is 6 slots.

It should be noted that, for ease of understanding, the transmission capacity ratio is denoted as C1, a duration of the terminal device transmitting the first data using the resource corresponding to the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device is denoted as A3, and a duration of the terminal device allocating the resource to transmit the first data is denoted as A4. It is understood that A4. Gtoreq.A 3. The transmission capacity ratio C1= A3/A4. In other words, the duration of the terminal device transmitting the first data by using the resource corresponding to the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device is the numerator of the transmission capability ratio, and the duration of the resource allocated to the terminal device transmitting the first data is the denominator of the transmission capability ratio.

The transmission capability ratio is illustrated in the following with reference to the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3 and table 4.

Table 4 includes the correspondence between the four resource scheduling manners and the transmission capacity ratios shown in fig. 3. In table 4, the minimum transmission time is a duration for the terminal device to transmit the first data by using the resource corresponding to the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device, the actual transmission time is a duration for the terminal device to transmit the first data by using the allocated resource, and the definition of the actual transmission time adopts the above definition 2. Transmission capability ratio = minimum transmission time/actual transmission time. In addition, by combining the above calculation formula of the duration for transmitting the first data by using the resource corresponding to the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device, the minimum transmission time of the terminal device in the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3 can be determined to be 2 time slots.

Referring to table 4, when the resource scheduling pattern of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, the actual transmission time is 6 slots, so that the transmission capacity ratio is 2/6 ≈ 33.3%. When the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is B in fig. 3, the actual transmission time is 8 slots, so that the transmission capacity ratio is 2/8=25%. When the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is C in fig. 3, the actual transmission time is 2 slots, so that the transmission capacity ratio is 2/2=100%. When the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is D in fig. 3, the actual transmission time is 2 slots, so that the transmission capacity ratio is 2/2=100%.

It should be noted that when the definition of the actual transmission time adopts the above definition 1, the actual transmission time of the resource scheduling manner shown in a in fig. 3 is 11 slots, the transmission capability ratio is 2/11 ≈ 18.2%, and compared with the definition 2, the transmission capability ratio corresponding to the definition 1 is lower.

TABLE 4

In some possible embodiments, the transmission capacity used by the terminal device may be frequency domain resources and/or spatial domain resources activated by the terminal device, and the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device may be frequency domain resources and/or spatial domain resources available to the terminal device to the maximum. Thus, the transmission capacity of the terminal device may be: the size of the frequency domain resources and/or spatial domain resources on which the terminal device is activated. The maximum transmission capability of the terminal device may be: the size of the frequency domain resources that are maximally available to the terminal device and/or the maximally available spatial domain resources.

For a single cell, the activated frequency domain resource and space domain resource of the terminal device are as follows: the activated frequency size of the current activated cell of the terminal equipment is the number of activated MIMO layers.

The maximum available frequency domain resources and/or the maximum available spatial domain resources of the terminal device may be understood as: the terminal equipment can use the current total available frequency domain resources and/or space domain resources. The total available frequency domain resources and/or space domain resources of the terminal equipment at present are: the maximum frequency domain resources and/or space domain resources commonly available between the terminal equipment and the access network equipment. Specifically, for convenience of understanding, the product of the maximum frequency supported by the terminal device in the current cell and the maximum MIMO layer number is denoted as BL1, and the product of the maximum frequency supported by the access network device in the current cell and the maximum MIMO layer number is denoted as BL2, so that the size of the maximum frequency domain resource and the spatial domain resource commonly available between the terminal device and the access network device is the smaller value of BL1 and BL 2.

For example, the size of the maximum frequency domain resource and the spatial domain resource commonly available between the terminal device and the access network device is denoted as layer BW, if the maximum number of MIMO layers that can be supported by the terminal device in the current carrier is 4, the maximum channel bandwidth is 100MHz (i.e., 273 RB), the maximum number of MIMO layers that can be supported by the access network device in the current carrier is 4, and the maximum channel bandwidth is 60MHz (i.e., 162 RB), next, for convenience of description, we assume that the minimum unit of resource scheduling is 24RB, and assume that the number of RBs that can be used when the maximum channel bandwidth is 60MHz is 144, then layer BW =4 × 144=576RB, or layer BW =4 × 60=240mhz.

It is noted that, for ease of understanding, the transmission capability ratio is denoted as C1, the size of the frequency domain resource and/or the spatial domain resource activated by the terminal device is denoted as A5, and the size of the frequency domain resource and/or the spatial domain resource maximally available to the terminal device is denoted as A6. It is understood that A6. Gtoreq.A 5. The transmission capacity ratio C1= A5/A6. In other words, the size of the frequency domain resources and/or the spatial domain resources activated by the terminal device is a numerator of the transmission capability ratio, and the size of the frequency domain resources and/or the spatial domain resources maximally available to the terminal device is a denominator of the transmission capability ratio.

The following describes the transmission capability ratio by combining the four resource scheduling methods shown in fig. 3 and table 5.

Table 5 includes the correspondence between the four resource scheduling manners and the transmission capacity ratios shown in fig. 3. In table 5, the transmission capacity used by the terminal device is the size of the frequency domain and the airspace resource activated by the terminal device, and the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device is the size of the frequency domain resource and the maximum available airspace resource available to the terminal device. And, transmission capability ratio = frequency domain and spatial domain resource size where the terminal device is activated/maximum transmission capability size of the terminal device. In addition, in the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3, the maximum number of MIMO layers that can be supported by the terminal device in the current carrier is 4, and the maximum channel bandwidth is 100MHz, that is, the size of the frequency domain resource that is maximally available to the terminal device is 273RB; the maximum number of MIMO layers that can be supported by the access network device at the current carrier is 4, and the maximum channel bandwidth is 60MHz, that is, the size of the maximum available frequency domain resource of the access network device is 144RB, so that the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device is 4 × 144=576RB.

Referring to table 5, when the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, since the frequency domain resource in which the terminal device is activated is 60MHz, the size of the frequency domain resource in which the terminal device is activated is 144RB, the size of the frequency domain and space domain resource in which the terminal device is activated is 4 × 144=576, and the transmission capacity ratio of the terminal device is 576/576=100%. By analogy, the calculation process of the transmission capability ratio corresponding to the other resource scheduling manners in fig. 3 may refer to the calculation process of a in fig. 3, and is not described herein again.

TABLE 5

As can be seen from the above description, the transmission capability used by the terminal device may be understood as a resource used by the terminal device to transmit data, and the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device may be understood as a currently total available resource of the terminal device. The resources may be time domain resources, frequency domain resources, spatial domain resources, and the like, which is not limited in this application.

The resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device. For the explanation of the resource scheduling ratio, the above term is referred to for explaining the "utilization rate of the resource or the resource scheduling ratio", and details are not repeated herein.

In some possible embodiments, the first resource may be a currently allocated resource of the terminal device, in which case, the first resource scheduled by the terminal device may be: the first resource in the second time period, where the terminal device is scheduled, may be: the first resource in which the terminal device is activated in the second time period may be: the first resource configured by the terminal equipment in the second time period. Accordingly, the resource scheduling ratio may be a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device in the second time period, or a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device in the second time period. In other words, when the first resource is a resource currently allocated to the terminal device, the resource scheduling ratio is a current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device.

Here, the second time period may represent a period of time from the current time to a past time, that is, the second time period may represent a past period of time. For example, assuming that the current time is the 10 th time slot and the length of the second time period is 5 time slots, the second time period represents a period of time from the 5 th time slot to the 10 th time slot. For another example, the second period of time may be a period of time from the last radio resource configuration to the current time. Of course, for ease of understanding, the first resource scheduled by the terminal device in the second time period may also be referred to as: the first resource currently scheduled by the terminal device, the first resource activated by the terminal device in the second time period may also be referred to as: the first resource currently activated by the terminal device, the first resource configured by the terminal device in the second time period may also be referred to as: a first resource currently configured by the terminal device.

In some possible embodiments, the first resource may be a resource that the terminal device desires to be allocated, in which case the first resource that the terminal device is scheduled may be: the first resource that the terminal device desires to be scheduled may be: the terminal device may expect the first resource activated by the terminal device, and the first resource configured by the terminal device may be: a first resource that the terminal device desires the terminal device to be configured with. Accordingly, the resource scheduling ratio may be: the ratio of the size of the first resource expected by the terminal equipment and scheduled by the terminal equipment to the size of the first resource activated by the terminal equipment; alternatively, the resource scheduling ratio may be: the terminal device expects a ratio of a first resource size to which the terminal device is scheduled to a first resource size to which the terminal device is configured. In other words, when the first resource is a resource that the terminal device desires to allocate, the resource scheduling ratio is a resource scheduling ratio that the terminal device desires (may also be referred to as a desired resource scheduling ratio).

In this embodiment, for convenience of distinguishing, when the first resource is a resource currently allocated to the terminal device, the resource scheduling ratio included in the transmission energy efficiency information may be referred to as a current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device; when the first resource may be a resource desired to be allocated by the terminal device, the resource scheduling ratio included in the transmission energy efficiency information may be referred to as a desired resource scheduling ratio.

Exemplarily, table 6 includes a corresponding relationship between four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3 and the current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device, and referring to table 6, when the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, the current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is 12.1%, and the specific calculation manner refers to example 1 described above. By analogy, the calculation process of the current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device corresponding to the other resource scheduling manners in fig. 3 is not described herein again.

TABLE 6

Resource scheduling mode	Current resource scheduling ratio of terminal equipment
		A in FIG. 3	12.1％
B in FIG. 3	100％
		C in FIG. 3	66.7％
D in FIG. 3	100％

Exemplarily, it is assumed that the first resource size currently scheduled by the terminal device is 50RB, the first resource size currently activated by the terminal device is 100RB, the first resource size currently configured by the terminal device is 100RB, and the resource scheduling ratio is determined by: the ratio of the size of the resource for which the terminal device is scheduled to the size of the resource for which the terminal device is activated (explained with reference to the above technical terms "utilization rate of resources or resource scheduling ratio"), then the current resource scheduling ratio for the terminal device is 50/100=50%. If the transmission energy efficiency information includes a desired resource scheduling ratio of 100%, the desired resource scheduling ratio may be used to request the access network device to adjust the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device from 50% to 100%. For example, the network device may determine that the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is from 50% to 100% by determining that the resource size scheduled by the terminal device is 50RB and the resource size activated by the terminal device is 50RB, or the network device may determine that the resource size scheduled by the terminal device is 100RB and the resource size activated by the terminal device is 100RB, and thus the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is adjusted from 50% to 100%. The type of the first resource in the embodiment of the present application may include: time domain resources, frequency domain resources, space domain resources, code domain resources, and orbital angular momentum resources, which are not limited in this application.

The first energy efficiency ratio is a product of a resource scheduling ratio and a transmission capacity ratio. Exemplarily, assuming that the resource scheduling ratio is 100% and the transmission capacity ratio is 100%, the first energy efficiency ratio is 100% × 100% =100%; assuming that the resource scheduling ratio is 50% and the energy scheduling ratio is 60%, the first energy efficiency ratio is 50% × 60% =30%.

The second energy efficiency ratio is the ratio of the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling mode.

The first scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode with the minimum energy consumption in all resource scheduling modes of the terminal equipment, and the second scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode used by the terminal equipment in all resource scheduling modes. The first scheduling manner may also be referred to as scheduling with minimum energy consumption, and the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner may be the scheduled energy consumption with minimum energy consumption. The second scheduling manner may also be referred to as a resource scheduling manner currently used by the terminal device, and energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner may be energy consumption required for actually transmitting data.

It can be understood that, among all resource scheduling manners of the terminal device, there is a resource scheduling manner, and when the terminal device transmits data by using the resource scheduling manner, energy consumption is minimum, and the resource scheduling manner is the first scheduling manner. The resource scheduling manner may include a configured or activated resource scheduling manner.

The energy consumption corresponding to the resource scheduling manner may be determined by using an agreed power consumption model, where the power consumption model may be a power consumption model agreed by a protocol (for example, the power consumption model shown in table 2 above), or the power consumption model may be a power consumption model sent by the terminal device to the access network device, or the power consumption model may be a correspondence table between the resource scheduling manner and the power consumption, which is not limited in this application. After determining the energy consumption corresponding to each resource scheduling mode in all the resource scheduling modes of the terminal device, the resource scheduling mode with the minimum energy consumption in all the resource scheduling modes of the terminal device can be determined, so that the first scheduling mode is determined.

It should be noted that, for convenience of understanding, the second energy efficiency ratio is denoted as C2, the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner is denoted as A7, and the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner is denoted as A8. It is understood that A8. Gtoreq.A 7. The second energy efficiency ratio C2= A7/A8. In other words, the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode is a numerator of the second energy efficiency ratio, and the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling mode is a denominator of the second energy efficiency ratio.

The second energy efficiency ratio is exemplified below with reference to the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3 and table 7.

Table 7 includes the correspondence between the four resource scheduling manners and the second energy efficiency ratio shown in fig. 3. In table 7, the energy consumption required for actually transmitting data is the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner, the energy consumption of the scheduling with the minimum energy consumption is the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner, and the second energy efficiency ratio = the energy consumption of the scheduling with the minimum energy consumption/the energy consumption required for actually transmitting data. And, the actual transmission time is a duration of transmitting the first data by the resource allocated to the terminal device, and the definition of the actual transmission time adopts the above definition 2. In addition, it is assumed that the resource scheduling manner shown in D in fig. 3 is scheduling with minimum energy consumption. It should be noted that, if definition 1 is adopted, the energy consumption of the resource scheduling manner a in fig. 3 is greater.

Referring to table 7, when the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, the activated frequency domain size of the terminal device is 144RB, the activated space domain size of the terminal device is 4 layers, and the actual transmission time for the terminal device to transmit data is 6 slots. As can be known from the power consumption model shown in table 2, when the PDSCH of 1 time slot is received in the resource scheduling manner shown in a in fig. 3, the consumed power is 210 units of power consumption, so that the power consumption required by the terminal device to actually transmit data is 210 × 6=1260, and the second energy efficiency ratio is 330/1260 ≈ 26.2%. By analogy, the calculation process of the second energy efficiency ratio corresponding to the other resource scheduling manners in fig. 3 may refer to the calculation process of the second energy efficiency ratio corresponding to the resource scheduling manner shown in a in fig. 3, and is not described herein again.

TABLE 7

Next, an embodiment of the present application provides a possible implementation manner for determining a first scheduling manner and an energy consumption size corresponding to the first scheduling manner, where the implementation manner may include the following steps:

the first step is to obtain all resource scheduling modes of the terminal equipment in the current access network equipment.

Specifically, an access network device (referred to as a current access network device for short) to which the current terminal device accesses may determine all resource scheduling manners of the terminal device according to available resources of the terminal device. For example, the current access network device may traverse the combination of all time domain resources and frequency domain resources supported by the terminal device and the current access network device to obtain all resource scheduling modes of the terminal device. Specifically, the current access network device may traverse the combination of the bandwidths and the MIMO layers supported by all the current access network devices and the terminal device, to obtain all resource scheduling modes of the terminal device in the current access network device.

And secondly, determining the energy consumption corresponding to each resource scheduling mode in all the resource scheduling modes.

Specifically, first, the transmission time T corresponding to each resource scheduling manner in all the resource scheduling manners may be determined according to the following formula:

Wherein N is _packet The amount of data which may be the first data transmitted, e.g. N _packet May be the size of a packet at the physical, MAC, or higher layer for a period of time. N is a radical of hydrogen _re Represents the maximum number of REs available for data transmission within 1 slot and 1 RB, N _re May be 156.N is a radical of _re May also be determined based on the redundancy of the current transmission, e.g., N _re May = (total number of REs in 1 slot) × (1-redundancy), where the redundancy may take on the redundancy of the transmission (e.g., 0.07,0.14, etc.). The SE is the spectrum efficiency of data that can be transmitted under the current channel condition, and may be determined according to the currently scheduled modulation coding scheme, or according to the current SINR, where the correspondence between the SINR and the SE may be determined by the terminal device. N is a radical of hydrogen _packet And SINR can both be statistical values over a period of time, and N _packet The statistical time may be the same as or different from the SINR. E.g. N _packet The statistical time of (2) is one DRX period, the statistical time of SINR is a measurement period, and can be a plurality of DRX periods. N is a radical of hydrogen _PRB And L is the number of MIMO layers of each resource scheduling mode.

To determine the ith assetTaking the transmission time corresponding to the source scheduling method as an example, assume that each data in the ith resource scheduling method is as follows: n is a radical of _packet ＝340000，SE＝2.57，L*N _PRB ＝4*144＝576，N _re =156, transmission time corresponding to ith resource scheduling mode

The number of all resource scheduling modes is N, i is a positive integer, and i is less than or equal to N.

Then, the energy consumption P corresponding to each resource scheduling manner may be determined according to the following formula:

P＝P _baseline *P _WPRB *P _WL * T; wherein, T is the transmission time corresponding to the resource scheduling mode. P is _baseline For a reference power consumption, P, of a terminal device in a power consumption model _baseline The power consumption may be determined by the power consumption model shown in table 2, or may be determined by the terminal device, which is not limited in this application. With P _baseline As an example, the power consumption model shown in table 2 is determined, assuming that the spatial domain resource activated by the terminal device is 4 layers and the frequency domain resource activated by the terminal device is 100MHz, then when the terminal device performs PDCCH and PDSCH transmission, the relative power consumption of the terminal device is 300.P _WPRB Frequency domain resource (marked as N) currently activated for terminal equipment _PRB ) Scaling factor with respect to the reference frequency domain resource, e.g., referring to the UE power consumption model scaling table above, the reference frequency domain resource size is 100MHz, if N is _PRB If =60MHz, then P _WPRB ＝(0.4+0.6*(60-20)/80)＝0.7。P _WL A scaling factor of the currently activated spatial domain resource (denoted as L) of the terminal device with respect to the reference spatial domain resource, for example, referring to the above UE power consumption model scaling table, the size of the reference spatial domain resource is 4 layers, and if L =2 layers, P is obtained _WL =0.7. It can be understood that P _WPRB And P _WL For detailed description, the UE power consumption model scaling table may be referred to, and details are not repeated herein.

And thirdly, determining the resource scheduling mode with the minimum energy consumption in all the resource scheduling modes according to the energy consumption corresponding to each resource scheduling mode. The resource scheduling mode with the minimum energy consumption is the first scheduling mode, and the minimum energy consumption value is the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode.

The third energy efficiency ratio is a ratio of the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode.

The resources in the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner and the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner may include one or more of time domain, frequency domain, space domain resources (also referred to as time-frequency-space resources for short), code domain resources, and orbital angular momentum resources. For example, the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling mode may be a time-frequency-space resource size corresponding to the first scheduling mode, and the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode may be a time-frequency-space resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode. For another example, the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner may be a frequency-space resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner, and the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner may be a frequency-space resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner. For another example, the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner may be a time-frequency resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner, and the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner may be a time-frequency resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner. For another example, the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner may be a frequency domain resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner, and the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner may be a frequency domain resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner. And according to the determination mode of the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode, the first scheduling mode can be determined, so that the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling mode can be determined.

Exemplarily, the size of the time-frequency space resource corresponding to the first scheduling means = the size of the frequency domain resource corresponding to the first scheduling means × the size of the space domain resource corresponding to the first scheduling means × the size of the time domain resource corresponding to the first scheduling means. The time-frequency space resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode = the frequency domain resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode × the space domain resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode × the time domain resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode.

Exemplarily, the size of the frequency-space resources corresponding to the first scheduling manner = the size of the frequency-domain resources corresponding to the first scheduling manner × the size of the space-space resources corresponding to the first scheduling manner. The size of the frequency-space resource corresponding to the second scheduling manner = the size of the frequency-domain resource corresponding to the second scheduling manner × the size of the space-domain resource corresponding to the second scheduling manner.

Exemplarily, the time-frequency resource size corresponding to the first scheduling means = the frequency-domain resource size corresponding to the first scheduling means and the time-domain resource size corresponding to the first scheduling means. The time-frequency resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode = the frequency-domain resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode — the time-domain resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode.

For convenience of understanding, the third energy efficiency ratio is denoted as C3, the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner is denoted as A9, and the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner is denoted as a10. It is understood that A10. Gtoreq.A 9. The third energy efficiency ratio C3= A9/a10. In other words, the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner is a numerator of the third energy efficiency ratio, and the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner is a denominator of the third energy efficiency ratio.

Table 8 includes the correspondence of the four resource scheduling methods and the transmission capability ratio shown in fig. 3. In table 8, the size of the time-frequency space resource activated by the terminal device is the size of the resource corresponding to the second scheduling manner, the size of the time-frequency space resource corresponding to the scheduling with the minimum energy consumption is the size of the resource corresponding to the first scheduling manner, and the size of the time-frequency space resource activated by the terminal device = the size of the frequency domain activated by the terminal device + the size of the space domain activated by the terminal device. And the third energy efficiency ratio = the size of the time-frequency space resource corresponding to the scheduling with the minimum energy consumption/the size of the time-frequency space resource activated by the terminal equipment. In addition, it is assumed that the resource scheduling manner shown in D in fig. 3 is scheduling with minimum energy consumption, that is, the size of the time-frequency space resource corresponding to the scheduling with minimum energy consumption is 40 × 4 × 2=320.

Referring to table 8, when the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, the activated frequency domain of the terminal device is 60MHz, the activated space domain of the terminal device is 4 layers, the actual transmission time for the terminal device to transmit data is 6 timeslots, and the activated time-frequency space resource size of the terminal device is 60 × 4 × 6=1440, so that the third energy efficiency ratio is 320/1440 ≈ 22.2%. By analogy, the calculation process of the third energy efficiency ratio corresponding to the other resource scheduling manners in fig. 3 may refer to the calculation process of the third energy efficiency ratio corresponding to the resource scheduling manner shown in a in fig. 3, and is not described herein again.

TABLE 8

In some possible embodiments, the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device may be a transmission energy efficiency value that the terminal device desires to achieve, and one or more of the transmission energy ratio, the first energy efficiency ratio, the second energy efficiency ratio, and the third energy efficiency ratio may be a value that the terminal device desires to achieve. Specifically, the transmission capability ratio may be: the ratio of the transmission capability size expected by the terminal device to be used by the terminal device to the maximum transmission capability size of the terminal device, in other words, the transmission capability ratio (which may also be referred to as a desired transmission capability ratio) expected for the terminal device. The resource scheduling ratio may be: the ratio of the first resource size expected by the terminal device to be scheduled to the first resource size activated by the terminal device, or the ratio of the first resource size expected by the terminal device to be scheduled to the first resource size activated, in other words, the above-mentioned resource scheduling ratio is the resource scheduling ratio expected by the terminal device (also may be referred to as the expected resource scheduling ratio). The first energy efficiency ratio may be: the product of the resource scheduling ratio desired by the terminal device and the transmission capability ratio desired by the terminal device, in other words, the first energy efficiency ratio is a first energy efficiency ratio desired by the terminal device (which may also be referred to as a desired first energy efficiency ratio). The second energy efficiency ratio may be: the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner and the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner that are expected by the terminal device, in other words, the second energy efficiency ratio is a second energy efficiency ratio (which may also be referred to as an expected second energy efficiency ratio) that is expected by the terminal device. The third energy efficiency ratio may be: the ratio of the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner to the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner, which is expected by the terminal device, in other words, the third energy efficiency ratio is a third energy efficiency ratio (which may also be referred to as an expected third energy efficiency ratio) expected by the terminal device.

For convenience of understanding, a ratio of transmission capacity used by the terminal device to the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device is denoted as B1, a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner to energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner is denoted as B2, a ratio of resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner to resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner is denoted as B3, a ratio of resource size scheduled by the terminal device to resource size activated by the terminal device is denoted as B4, and a ratio of resource size scheduled by the terminal device to resource size configured by the terminal device is denoted as B5, so that the transmission capacity ratio may be B1 expected by the terminal device, the second energy efficiency ratio may be B2 expected by the terminal device, and the third energy efficiency ratio may be B3 expected by the terminal device. The above resource scheduling ratio may be B4 desired by the terminal device or B5 desired by the terminal device.

Illustratively, referring to fig. 3, and table 4, table 6, table 7, and table 8 above, if the current resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, then the current B1 of the terminal device is 33.3%, the current B2 of the terminal device is 26.2%, the current B3 of the terminal device is 22.2%, and the current B4 of the terminal device is 12.1%. If the transmission power ratio =80% is included in the transmission power efficiency information, the desired B1=80% of the terminal device is obtained, and the transmission power ratio may be used to request the access network device to adjust the transmission power ratio of the terminal device from 33.3% to 80% or more. If the transmission energy efficiency information includes a second energy efficiency ratio =90%, then the terminal device expects B2=90%, so that the second energy efficiency ratio may be used to request the access network device to adjust the second energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device from 26.2% to 90% or higher. If the transmission energy efficiency information includes a third energy efficiency ratio of 100%, the terminal device expects B3=100%, and thus the third energy efficiency ratio may be used to request the access network device to adjust the third energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device from 22.2% to 100%. If the terminal device expects B4=70%, this information may be used to request the access network device to adjust the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device from 12.1% to 70% or more.

In some possible embodiments, one or more of the transmission capability ratio, the resource scheduling ratio, the first energy efficiency ratio, the second energy efficiency ratio, and the third energy efficiency ratio may be data actually collected or measured or counted by the terminal device. Specifically, the transmission capability ratio may be: the ratio of the transmission capacity size used by the terminal device in the first time period to the maximum transmission capacity size of the terminal device. The resource scheduling ratio may be: the ratio of the size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device to the size of the resource activated by the terminal device in the second time period or the ratio of the size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device to the size of the resource configured by the terminal device in the second time period. The second energy efficiency ratio may be: and the ratio of the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling mode in the third time period. The third energy efficiency ratio may be: and the ratio of the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode in the fourth time period.

For convenience of understanding, a ratio of transmission capacity used by the terminal device to the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device is denoted as B1, a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner to energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner is denoted as B2, and a ratio of resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner to resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner is denoted as B3, so that the transmission capacity ratio may be B1 in the first time period of the terminal device, the second energy efficiency ratio may be B2 in the third time period of the terminal device, and the third energy efficiency ratio may be B3 in the fourth time period of the terminal device. Here, the first time period, the third time period, and the fourth time period may represent a period of time from a current time to a past time, that is, the first time period, the third time period, and the fourth time period may represent a past period of time. For example, assuming that the current time is the 10 th time slot and the length of the first time period is 5 time slots, the first time period represents a period of time from the 5 th time slot to the 10 th time slot. Of course, for convenience of understanding, the transmission power ratio may also be referred to as a terminal device current B1, the second energy efficiency ratio may also be referred to as a terminal device current B2, and the third energy efficiency ratio may also be referred to as a terminal device current B3.

Illustratively, referring to fig. 3, as well as table 4, table 7, and table 8, if the current resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, the current B1 of the terminal device is 33.3%, the current B2 of the terminal device is 26.2%, and the current B3 of the terminal device is 22.2%.

In some possible embodiments, the transmission energy efficiency information may further include one or more of the following: the method comprises the steps of scheduling a first resource size of the terminal device, activating the first resource size of the terminal device, configuring the first resource size of the terminal device, transmitting an energy efficiency grade of the terminal device, service grade of the terminal device and transmitting an energy efficiency regulating quantity of the terminal device.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the number of resource blocks in the portion of bandwidth in which the terminal device is activated. The first resource size configured by the terminal device may be: the number of resource blocks in the portion of the bandwidth the terminal device is configured to. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: the number of resource blocks in the portion of the bandwidth in which the terminal device is activated or configured to be used for transmitting the terminal device data channel.

Thus, based on the specific definition of the sizes of the resources of the terminal devices, the resource scheduling ratio (denoted as R1) can be determined according to the following formula:

R1＝N _scheduledRB /N _actRB Or, R1= N _scheduledRB /N _configRB (ii) a Wherein, R1 is the resource scheduling ratio of the frequency domain allocated by the terminal equipment, N _scheduledRB Number of resource blocks, N, used for transmitting a data channel of a terminal device in a portion of the bandwidth activated or configured for the terminal device _actRB Number of resource blocks in the part of the bandwidth activated for the terminal device, N _configRB The number of resource blocks in the portion of bandwidth configured for the terminal device. Accordingly, the terminal device may also be based on this formula when determining the desired resource scheduling ratio。

In a Carrier Aggregation (CA) scenario, the activated resource size of the terminal device may be: the sum of the number of resource blocks in the activated portion of bandwidth in each aggregated activated carrier. The size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device may be: and the sum of the number of resource blocks which are used for transmitting the data channel of the terminal equipment in the activated or configured part of the bandwidth in each aggregated activated carrier.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the product of the number of activated resource blocks of the partial bandwidth and the number of MIMO layers of the activated partial bandwidth is: n is a radical of _actRB *N _actMIMO . Wherein, N _actRB Number of resource blocks in the portion of bandwidth activated for the terminal device, N _actMIMO The number of spatial domain (MIMO) layers corresponding to the activated part of the bandwidth of the terminal equipment. The first resource size configured by the terminal device may be: the product of the number of resource blocks of the configured partial bandwidth and the configured MIMO layer number corresponding to the configured partial bandwidth is: n is a radical of _configRB *N _configMIMO . Wherein N is _configRB Number of resource blocks, N, in the partial bandwidth configured for the terminal device _configMIMO And the number of layers of the airspace corresponding to the configured partial bandwidth of the terminal equipment. The size of the first resource scheduled by the terminal device may be: the product of the number of scheduled resource blocks and the number of scheduled MIMO layers, i.e.: n is a radical of _scheduledRB *N _{scheduledMIMO} . Wherein, N _scheduledRB Number of resource blocks, N, in the activated part of the bandwidth for the terminal device, which are used for transmitting the data channel of the terminal device _{scheduledMIMO} The number of layers of the space domain corresponding to the resource block used for transmitting the data channel of the terminal equipment in the activated part of the bandwidth for the terminal equipment.

Thus, based on the specific definition of the sizes of the resources of the terminal devices, the resource scheduling ratio (denoted as R2) can be determined according to the following formula:

R2＝(N _scheduledRB *N _{scheduledMIMO} )/(N _actRB *N _actMIMO ) Or, R2=(N _scheduledRB *N _{scheduledMIMO} )/(N _configRB *N _configMIMO ) (ii) a Wherein, R2 is a resource scheduling ratio of the frequency domain resource and the space domain allocated to the terminal device. Accordingly, the terminal device may also be based on this formula when determining the desired resource scheduling ratio.

If the concept of partial bandwidth is not introduced in the communication system, only the concept of carrier is introduced. The above-mentioned part of the bandwidth may be replaced with a carrier. Namely: n is a radical of _scheduledRB Number of resource blocks, N, used for transmitting a terminal device data channel in a carrier activated or configured for the terminal device _actRB Number of resource blocks in a carrier activated for a terminal device, N _configRB A number of resource blocks in a carrier configured for a terminal device.

In this embodiment of the present application, the frequency domain resource size may be represented by a resource block, where the resource block is: frequency domain resource size in resource allocation count units. For example, a resource block may include a Resource Element (RE) of one subcarrier, or a resource block including a resource element of multiple (e.g., 12) subcarriers, or a Resource Block Group (RBG) including multiple resource blocks, or a physical resource block pair (physical RB pair). In addition, the frequency domain resource size may also be expressed in hertz, for example, the frequency domain resource size may be L MHz (L is greater than 0), for example, the activated resource size is 50MHz, the scheduled resource size is 20MHz, and the like.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: the duration of the data channel opening in the DRX cycle of the terminal device. Illustratively, referring to fig. 2, the duration of the data channel on in the drx cycle is the duration of the active period and the total duration of the inactivity timer. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: for example, referring to fig. 2, the transmission duration for data transmission in the DRX cycle of the terminal device is the total duration of the PDSCH transmission period and/or the PUSCH transmission period, and is the duration of the PDCCH corresponding to the PDSCH and/or the PUSCH.

Thus, based on the specific definition of the sizes of the resources of the terminal devices, the resource scheduling ratio (denoted as R3) can be determined according to the following formula:

r3= t2/t1; wherein, R3 is a resource scheduling ratio of a time domain allocated to the terminal device, t1 is a time length for opening a data channel in a DRX cycle of the terminal device, and t2 is a transmission time length for data transmission in the DRX cycle of the terminal device. Accordingly, the terminal device may also be based on this formula when determining the desired resource scheduling ratio.

It will be appreciated that the resource scheduling ratio may be determined based on the size of the resources activated and the size of the resources scheduled by the terminal device over time. For example, the transmission duration for data transmission in the DRX cycle of the terminal device may be: sum of durations of data transmissions in one or more DRX cycles of the terminal device. The duration of the data transmission channel being opened in the DRX cycle of the terminal device may be: and configuring the sum of the time lengths of the data channel opening in one or more DRX periods of the terminal equipment. Here, the certain time may be predetermined by a certain rule, for example, several seconds or several DRX cycles are predetermined in advance, or may be determined by the access network device, the terminal device, or the core network device and then sent to another device, so as to increase flexibility.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: a total amount of control channel monitoring periods in a DRX cycle of the terminal device. Illustratively, referring to fig. 2, the total number of monitoring periods is the total number of PDCCH monitoring periods within the activation period. The monitoring period herein may be a monitoring time for the terminal device to monitor a control channel (e.g., PDCCH) to obtain control signaling. The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: the number of monitoring periods during which an active control channel is detected in the DRX cycle of the terminal device. Illustratively, referring to fig. 2, the number of monitoring periods during which a valid control channel is detected may be: the total number of monitoring periods during which valid PDCCHs are detected. The control channel may be: a physical downlink control channel. The effective control channel may be: and carrying the channel of the control signaling sent to the terminal equipment. The control signaling sent to the terminal device may be: dedicated signaling sent to the terminal devices, and/or broadcast signaling or multicast signaling sent to all groups of terminal devices.

Thus, based on the specific definition of the sizes of the resources of the terminal devices, the resource scheduling ratio (denoted as R4) can be determined according to the following formula:

R4＝N _MO1 /N _MO2 (ii) a Wherein, R4 is the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal equipment, N _MO1 Number of monitoring periods, N, for detection of an active control channel in a DRX cycle of a terminal device _MO2 The total amount of control channel monitoring periods in the DRX cycle for the terminal device. Accordingly, the terminal device may also be based on this formula when determining the desired resource scheduling ratio.

It will be appreciated that the resource scheduling ratio may be determined based on the size of the resources activated and the size of the resources scheduled by the terminal device over time. For example, the total amount of control channel monitoring periods in the DRX cycle of the terminal device may be: a total amount of control channel monitoring periods for data transmission in one or more DRX cycles of the terminal device. The number of monitoring periods in the DRX cycle of the terminal device during which an active control channel is detected may be: the number of monitoring periods in one or more DRX cycles of the terminal device during which an active control channel is detected. Here, the certain time may be predetermined by a certain rule, for example, several seconds or several DRX cycles are predetermined in advance, or may be determined by the access network device, the terminal device, or the core network device and then sent to another device, so as to increase flexibility.

In addition, the number of monitoring periods during which no valid control channel is detected in the DRX cycle of the terminal device is: subtracting the number of monitoring periods during which the effective control channel is detected from the total amount of the monitoring periods of the control channel in the DRX cycle of the terminal device, so that the activated first resource size of the terminal device may also be: the number of monitoring periods during which no active control channel is detected in the DRX cycle of the terminal device. Illustratively, referring to fig. 2, the number of monitoring periods during which no active control channel is detected is: the terminal device does not monitor the total number of monitoring periods of the valid PDCCHs.

The valid PDCCH may refer to a channel for carrying a control signaling sent to the terminal device. The control signaling sent to the terminal device may be: dedicated signaling sent to the end devices, and/or broadcast signaling or multicast signaling sent to all or a group of end devices. If the valid PDCCH includes a PDCCH carrying dedicated signaling sent to the terminal device, the effect of receiving a broadcast or multicast message on the scheduling of the terminal device may not be considered, so that R4 can reflect the unique resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device more accurately. If the valid PDCCH includes a PDCCH for carrying dedicated signaling sent to the terminal device and a PDCCH for carrying multicast/broadcast signaling sent to the terminal device, R4 may reflect the total resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device. In practical application, the effective PDCCH can be flexibly selected according to practical situations to be a channel for carrying which kind of control signaling.

The monitoring period may be a monitoring period of the terminal device in the dedicated search space, and does not include a monitoring period of the common search space. In some application scenarios, the monitoring period may also include a monitoring period of a common search space. In practical applications, whether the monitoring period includes the monitoring period of the common search space can be flexibly determined according to practical situations.

If the valid PDCCH includes a PDCCH carrying dedicated signaling sent to the terminal device, preferably, the monitoring period may not include the monitoring period of the common search space. If the valid PDCCH includes a PDCCH for carrying dedicated signaling sent to the terminal device and a PDCCH for carrying multicast/broadcast signaling sent to the terminal device, preferably, the monitoring period may include a monitoring period of the dedicated search space and a monitoring period of the common search space. In this way, R4 can more accurately characterize the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device.

Thus, based on the specific definition of the sizes of the resources of the terminal devices, the resource scheduling ratio (denoted as R5) can be determined according to the following formula:

r5= t3/t4; wherein, R5 is a resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device, t4 is a time length for opening a data channel in a connection state of the terminal device, and t3 is a transmission time length for data transmission in the connection state of the terminal device. Accordingly, the terminal device may also be based on this formula when determining the desired resource scheduling ratio.

Thus, based on the specific definition of the sizes of the resources of the terminal devices, the resource scheduling ratio (denoted as R6) can be determined according to the following formula:

R6＝N _MO3 /N _MO4 (ii) a Wherein R6 is the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal equipment, N _MO4 Comprises the following steps: the total number of monitoring periods of the control channel in the connected state of the terminal device, or the number of monitoring periods in which no valid control channel is detected in the connected state of the terminal device. N is a radical of hydrogen _MO3 Comprises the following steps: the number of monitoring periods during which an active control channel is detected in the connected state of the terminal device. Accordingly, the terminal device may also be based on this formula when determining the desired resource scheduling ratio.

Optionally, the activated first resource size of the terminal device may be: sum of the number of time-frequency resources that the terminal device is activated during the eleventh time period. The sum of the activated time-frequency resources of the terminal equipment in the eleventh time period is

n is the change number of the activated frequency domain resource in the eleventh time period, and Tai is the changed frequency domain resource after the ith timeActivation time, N, of the activated frequency domain resource _actRB，i The size of the frequency domain resource that is activated after the ith change. In addition, if the activated BWP does not change in size in the eleventh time period, the number of activated time-frequency resources may be: the product of the size of the activated frequency domain resource and the length of the activated time domain resource. The activated frequency domain resources have the following sizes: the size of the terminal device activated BWP is as follows: and configuring the time length of opening a data channel in the DRX period of the terminal equipment.

The first resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be: the sum of the number of time-frequency resources scheduled by the terminal device in the eleventh time period. Wherein the sum of the amount of the time-frequency resources scheduled by the terminal equipment in the eleventh time period is

n is the number of changes of the scheduled frequency domain resource in the eleventh time period, T _si For the activation time, N, of the frequency domain resource scheduled after the ith change _{scheduledRB，i} Is the size of the frequency domain resource scheduled after the ith change. In addition, if the size of the scheduled frequency domain resource is not changed in the eleventh time period, the number of the scheduled time frequency resources may be: the product of the size of the scheduled frequency domain resource and the length of the time domain resource corresponding to the scheduled frequency domain resource. The scheduled frequency domain resource size is: the number of scheduled RBs of the terminal device, the length of the scheduled time domain resource is: a transmission duration for data transmission in a DRX cycle of the terminal device. The time-frequency resource may refer to a time-frequency resource of any size, for example, 1 symbol in a time domain, or one subcarrier in a frequency domain, or one resource unit RE of one symbol in a time domain, or 1 slot in a time domain, or one resource block RB of 12 subcarriers in a frequency domain, or a physical resource block of 12 subcarriers in a time domain and a frequency domain.

Thus, based on the specific definition of the sizes of the resources of the terminal devices, the resource scheduling ratio (denoted as R7) can be determined according to the following formula:

r7= k1/k2; wherein, R7 is the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device, and k2 is: the number of time-frequency resources that the terminal device is activated in the eleventh time period. k1 is: the number of time-frequency resources scheduled by the terminal device in the eleventh time period. Accordingly, the terminal device may also be based on this formula when determining the desired resource scheduling ratio.

It should be noted that, the eleventh time period mentioned above may be predetermined by a certain rule, for example, several seconds or several DRX cycles are predetermined in advance, or may be determined by the access network device, the terminal device, or the core network device and then sent to another device, so as to increase flexibility.

Thus, based on the specific definition of the sizes of the resources of the terminal devices, the resource scheduling ratio (denoted as R8) can be determined according to the following formula:

r8= k3/k4; wherein, R8 is the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device, and k4 is: the number of time-frequency space resources which are activated by the terminal equipment in the twelfth time period. K3 is: and the number of time-frequency space resources scheduled by the terminal equipment in the twelfth time period. Accordingly, the terminal device may also be based on this formula when determining the desired resource scheduling ratio.

Similarly, the twelfth time period may be predetermined by a certain rule, for example, a few seconds or several DRX cycles are predetermined in advance, or may be determined by the access network device, the terminal device, or the core network device and then sent to another device, so as to increase flexibility.

Optionally, in the transmitting the energy efficiency information: the first resource size to which the terminal device is scheduled may be: a first resource size for which the terminal device is scheduled is desired by the terminal device. Alternatively, the first resource size activated by the terminal device may be: a first resource size for which the terminal device is expected to be activated. Alternatively, the first resource size configured by the terminal device may be: a first resource size that the terminal device desires the terminal device to be configured with. Alternatively, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device may be: the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device expected by the terminal device. Alternatively, the service level of the terminal device may be: a terminal device desired service level of the terminal device. Or, the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device may be: and the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal equipment is expected by the terminal equipment.

In other words, the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device, the first resource size activated by the terminal device, the first resource size configured by the terminal device, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device, the service level of the terminal device, and the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device may be values that the terminal device expects to achieve. If the transmission energy efficiency information values are larger, the energy efficiency of the terminal equipment is higher, the energy is saved more, the value which the terminal equipment expects to reach is A, the transmission energy efficiency value of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to A after the terminal equipment expects to be accessed to the network equipment to adjust the resource scheduling mode; and if the smaller the transmission energy efficiency information value is, the higher the energy efficiency of the terminal equipment is, the more energy is saved, and when the value expected to be reached by the terminal equipment is B, the transmission energy efficiency value of the terminal equipment is greater than or equal to B after the terminal equipment is expected to be accessed to the network equipment to adjust the resource scheduling mode. The transmission energy efficiency value of the terminal device may be a numerical value corresponding to the transmission energy efficiency information, such as the size of the scheduled first resource of the terminal device, the size of the activated first resource of the terminal device, and the like.

Illustratively, it is assumed that the currently scheduled resource size of the terminal device is 50RB, the currently activated resource size of the terminal device is 100RB, and the currently configured resource size of the terminal device is 100RB. If the first resource size that the terminal device expects the terminal device to be scheduled is 100RB, this information may be used to request the access network device to adjust the resource size that the terminal device is scheduled from 50RB to 100RB. If the first resource size for which the terminal device is expected to be activated is 50RB, this information may be used to request the access network device to adjust the activated resource size of the terminal device from 100RB to 50RB. If the terminal device's desired first resource size for which the terminal device is configured is 50RB, this information may be used to request the access network device to adjust the terminal device's configured resource size from 100RB to 50RB.

The current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal equipment is assumed to be 50%, the transmission energy efficiency grades comprise a first grade and a second grade, and the current transmission energy efficiency grade of the terminal equipment is a first grade, wherein the first grade represents that the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal equipment is more than or equal to 50%, and the second grade represents that the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal equipment is more than or equal to 80%. If the terminal device's desired transmission energy efficiency level is two levels, the information may be used to request the access network device to adjust the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device from one level to two levels, specifically, to adjust the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device from 50% to 80% or more (e.g., 90%). In this way, the implementation manner of the service level of the terminal device expected by the terminal device is similar to the example of the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device expected by the terminal device, and is not described herein again.

The current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is assumed to be 50%. If the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device desired by the terminal device is used to indicate a resource scheduling ratio increased by 30%, the information may be used to request the access network device to adjust the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device from 50% to 80%.

As can be seen from the above description of the first resource, if the first resource is a resource that the terminal device desires to be allocated, the resource scheduling ratio may also be referred to as a desired resource scheduling ratio. Wherein, the expected resource scheduling ratio may be: the ratio of the first resource size of the terminal device expected by the terminal device to be scheduled to the first resource size of the terminal device to be activated, or the ratio of the first resource size of the terminal device expected by the terminal device to be scheduled to the first resource size of the terminal device to be configured.

Optionally, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device desired by the terminal device may correspond to the desired resource scheduling ratio.

For example, referring to table 9 below, it is assumed that the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device desired by the terminal device includes three levels, i.e., three levels (high energy efficiency), two levels (medium energy efficiency), and one level (low energy efficiency). Wherein, the expected resource scheduling ratio is greater than or equal to 0% (in this case, it may also be considered that the terminal device has no suggested value for transmission energy efficiency), and the corresponding transmission energy efficiency level is one level; when the expected resource scheduling ratio is more than 50%, the corresponding transmission energy efficiency grade is in two grades; the expected resource scheduling ratio is greater than or equal to 80%, and the corresponding transmission energy efficiency grade is one grade.

TABLE 9

It can be understood that from one level to three levels, the lower limit of the resource scheduling ratio is expected to increase step by step, which indicates that the requirement of the terminal device on the resource scheduling ratio also increases step by step. Wherein, the first level indicates that the terminal device has no requirement on the resource scheduling ratio, and the third level indicates that the requirement on the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is more than 80%.

It should be noted that the expected resource scheduling ratio corresponding to the transmission energy efficiency level of the lower level may be greater than or equal to the expected resource scheduling ratio corresponding to the transmission energy efficiency level of the higher level.

In addition, the high-level transmission energy efficiency level can also be expressed by Guaranteed Energy (GE), and the low-level transmission energy efficiency level can also be expressed by Non-guaranteed energy (Non-GE). For example, referring to table 9, a primary transmission energy efficiency level may be expressed as an energy inefficiency guarantee, and a tertiary transmission energy efficiency level may be expressed as an energy efficiency guarantee.

Alternatively, the service level of the terminal device desired by the terminal device may correspond to a desired resource scheduling ratio.

Illustratively, referring to table 10, the terminal device's desired class of service may correspond to different desired resource scheduling ratios. The service level is divided into two levels, namely a common user and a platinum user. The expected resource scheduling ratio corresponding to the ordinary users is more than 0%, and the expected resource scheduling ratio corresponding to the platinum users is more than or equal to 80%.

TABLE 10

Optionally, the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device desired by the terminal device may be: a rate or amount of change in the resource scheduling ratio relative to the current resource scheduling ratio for the terminal device is desired.

Exemplarily, referring to table 11 below, it is assumed that the current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is 25%. If the expected resource scheduling ratio is 30%, the corresponding transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount is 20% (change rate) or 5% (change amount); if the expected resource scheduling ratio is 50%, the corresponding transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount is 100% (change rate) or 25% (change amount); if the desired resource scheduling ratio is 75%, the corresponding transmission power adjustment amount is 200% (change rate) or 50% (change amount).

TABLE 11

The various transmission energy efficiency information described above will be described below with reference to specific application scenarios.

One possible terminal device resource utilization is shown in table 12. The terminal device is configured with 2 carriers, including CC1 and CC2. Assume that CC1 is configured with 4 BWPs, including: BWP1_1, BWP1_2, BWP1_3 and BWP1_4, CC2 configures 2 BWPs, including: BWP2_1 and BWP2_2.

As can be seen from table 12, the resource size currently configured by the terminal device is 2 carriers (i.e., 273+133=406 RBs). Both carrier CC1 and carrier CC2 are activated, where BWP activated for carrier CC1 is BWP1_1, BWP activated for carrier CC2 is BWP2_2, and the total activated resource size is 2 BWPs, (i.e. 273+51=324 RBs). The resource size scheduled for BWP1_1 is 51 RBs, the resource scheduling ratio for BWP1_1 is 18.6% (51/273), the resource scheduling ratio for BWP2_2 is 100% (51/51), and the resource scheduling ratio for the total two carriers is 31.1% ((51 + 51)/(273 + 51)). The determination method of the resource scheduling ratio comprises the following steps: the ratio of the size of the resource for which the terminal device is scheduled to the size of the resource for which the terminal device is activated.

TABLE 12

If the terminal device desires to increase the current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device to 100%, the contents of the various transmission energy efficiency information may be as follows:

The desired resource scheduling ratio may be: 100 percent;

the size of the resource that the terminal device expects the terminal device to be scheduled may be: BWP1_1 is scheduled with a resource size of 273 RBs, or a total resource size of 324RBs;

the size of the resource that the terminal device desires to activate may be: the activated resource size of the CC1 is 51RB, or the activated BWP of the CC1 is BWP1_4, or the activated total resource size is 102RBs;

the size of the resource that the terminal device expects the terminal device to be configured with may be: the configured resource size of CC1 is 51RB, or the configured total resource size is 102RBs;

the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device expected by the terminal device may be: a first stage;

the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device expected by the terminal device may be: the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the CC1 is an increase of 81.4%.

In this case, since the activated resource of the terminal device may be part or all of the configured resource of the terminal device, that is, the activated resource size is smaller than or equal to the configured resource size, in the above example, if the configured resource size of the terminal device that is expected by the terminal device is: if the configured resource size of CC1 is 51RBs, the access network device may deactivate BWP1_1, BWP1_2, BWP1 _3of the end device, such that only BWP1_4 (51 RBs) remains for the configured resources in CC1, or reconfigure the sizes of BWP1_1, BWP1_2, BWP1_3, and BWP1_4 of the end device, such that the total configured resource sizes of BWP1_1, BWP1_2, BWP1_3, and BWP1_4 are less than or equal to 51RBs.

Optionally, in the transmitting the energy efficiency information: the first resource size at which the terminal device is scheduled may be the first resource size at which the terminal device is scheduled in the fifth time period. Alternatively, the first resource size in which the terminal device is activated may be the first resource size in which the terminal device is activated in the sixth time period. Alternatively, the first resource size configured by the terminal device may be the first resource size configured by the terminal device in the seventh time period. Or the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device may be the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device in the eighth time period. Alternatively, the service level of the terminal device may be the service level of the terminal device in the ninth period. Or, the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device may be the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device in the tenth time period.

In other words, the size of the first resource scheduled by the terminal device, the size of the first resource activated by the terminal device, the size of the first resource configured by the terminal device, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device, the service level of the terminal device, and the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device may be based on statistics or measurement values over a period of time.

Here, the fifth to tenth periods may represent a period of time from the current time to a past time, that is, the fifth to tenth periods may represent a period of time in the past. For example, assuming that the current time is the 10 th time slot and the length of the fifth time slot is 5 time slots, the fifth time slot represents a period of time from the 5 th time slot to the 10 th time slot. Of course, for convenience of understanding, the first resource scheduled by the terminal device in the fifth time period may also be referred to as: the first resource currently scheduled by the terminal device, the first resource activated by the terminal device in the sixth time period may also be referred to as: the first resource currently activated by the terminal device, the first resource configured by the terminal device in the seventh time period may also be referred to as: a first resource currently configured by the terminal device. The transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device in the eighth time period may also be referred to as: and the current transmission energy efficiency grade of the terminal equipment. The service level of the terminal device in the ninth time period may also be referred to as: the current service level of the terminal device. The transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device in the tenth time period may also be referred to as: and adjusting the current transmission energy efficiency of the terminal equipment.

Optionally, the transmission energy efficiency information may further include an expected power consumption data amount ratio, and power consumption corresponding to the expected power consumption data amount ratio may be less than or equal to power consumption corresponding to a currently allocated resource of the terminal device. Wherein, the expected power consumption data volume ratio is the ratio of the data transmission consumption power of the terminal equipment to the data transmission volume.

For example, please refer to table 13, it is assumed that a plurality of corresponding relationships between the power consumption data amount ratios and the configuration sets are preset in the access network device. The configuration set is the configuration condition of the resources allocated to the terminal equipment, and the power consumption of the terminal equipment corresponding to the configuration set is less than or equal to the power consumption data volume ratio corresponding to the configuration set. For example, if the expected power consumption data volume ratio obtained by the access network device is 5 joules per bit (J/b), the access network device may determine the resource allocated to the terminal device according to the corresponding configuration set C1.

Watch 13

Power consumption data volume ratio (unit: J/b)	Configuration collections
		5	C1
2.5	C2
		1.5	C3

It should be understood that the terminal device may also send the expected power consumption data amount ratio to the access network device, and the access network device may allocate resources to the terminal device according to the information, so that the power consumption corresponding to the resource allocated to the terminal device matches the expected power consumption data amount ratio. Therefore, a mode that the terminal device requests the access network device to change the allocated resources can be further provided, so that the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is more flexibly improved, the power consumption of the terminal device is saved, and the user service quality is improved (including reducing the packet transmission delay and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

It should be noted that the table 13 is only an example, and the correspondence preset in the access network device in practical application is not limited to the case of the table 13.

Further, the transmission energy efficiency level of the terminal device desired by the terminal device may correspond to the desired power consumption data amount ratio.

Illustratively, referring to table 14 below, it is assumed that the transmission energy efficiency levels of the terminal device desired by the terminal device include three levels, i.e., a primary level, a secondary level, and a tertiary level. When the expected power consumption data volume ratio is greater than 1J/b and less than or equal to 2J/b, the corresponding transmission energy efficiency grade is one grade; when the expected power consumption data volume ratio is greater than 2J/b and less than or equal to 4J/b, the corresponding transmission energy efficiency grade is in two stages; when the expected power consumption data volume ratio is larger than 4J/b and smaller than or equal to 5J/b, the corresponding transmission energy efficiency grade is three grades.

TABLE 14

Desired power consumption data volume ratio (Y, unit: J/b)	Transmission energy efficiency adjustment
		1＜Y≤2	First stage
2＜Y≤4	Second stage
		4＜Y≤5	Three-stage

Further, the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device expected by the terminal device may be: a rate or amount of change of the power consumption data amount ratio with respect to the current power consumption data amount ratio of the terminal device is desired.

Illustratively, referring to table 15 below, assume that the current power consumption data amount ratio of the terminal device is 2J/b. If the expected power consumption data amount ratio is 2.5J/b, the corresponding transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount is 10% (change rate) or 0.5 (change amount); if the expected power consumption data amount ratio is 3J/b, the corresponding transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount is 50% (change rate) or 1 (change amount); if the desired power consumption data amount ratio is 4J/b, the corresponding transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount is 100% (change rate) or 2 (change amount).

Watch 15

In some possible embodiments, the transmission energy efficiency information may include one or more of the following items: the method includes the steps of transmitting uplink data transmission energy efficiency information, downlink data transmission energy efficiency information, service transmission energy efficiency information, carrier transmission energy efficiency information, frequency band combination transmission energy efficiency information, frequency Range (FR) transmission energy efficiency information, terminal device type transmission energy efficiency information, application transmission energy efficiency information, access network transmission energy efficiency information, user transmission energy efficiency information, or specified time period transmission energy efficiency information, and specified state transmission energy efficiency information.

The transmission efficiency information of the uplink data may include transmission efficiency information of a PUSCH channel.

The transmission energy efficiency information of the downlink data may include one or more of the following items: the transmission energy efficiency information of the PDSCH and the transmission energy efficiency information of the dedicated downlink shared channel (such as the transmission energy efficiency information of the PDSCH scrambled by the C-RNTI, the transmission energy efficiency information of the PDSCH scrambled by the CS-RNTI and the transmission energy efficiency information of the PDSCH scrambled by the MCS-C-RNTI).

The transmission energy efficiency information of the service may include one or more of: the system comprises voice service transmission energy efficiency information, video transmission energy efficiency information, game service transmission energy efficiency, webpage data transmission energy efficiency information and the like. That is, different services may correspond to different transmission energy efficiency information (or referred to as service classes), for example, on the basis of the table 15, transmission energy efficiency information (energy type) may be added to the 5QI adopted by the 5G to indicate the transmission energy efficiency information corresponding to the different services. Assuming that the transmission energy efficiency information includes two levels, respectively: guaranteed Energy Efficiency (GEE) and Non-guaranteed energy efficiency (Non-GEE), then 5QI is modified as shown in Table 16. Wherein, the guaranteed energy efficiency corresponds to a high energy efficiency, and the non-guaranteed energy efficiency corresponds to a no transmission energy efficiency requirement (i.e. a low energy efficiency).

Referring to table 16, taking the service as real-time voice for example, the value of 5QI is 1, indicating that the service satisfies: the resource type is GBR, the default priority value is 20, the packet delay allowance is 100ms, the packet error rate is 10-2, the default maximum burst packet size is not applicable, the default average window is 2000ms, and the transmission energy efficiency information is GE. The transmission energy efficiency information of the application may include one or more of: the energy efficiency information of the video application (such as jittering sound), the energy efficiency information of the communication chat application (such as WeChat), or the energy efficiency information of the navigation application (such as Goodpasts map).

TABLE 16

The transmission energy efficiency information of the carrier may include: the transmission energy efficiency information (per carrier) of each carrier includes, for example, transmission energy efficiency information of carrier 1 and transmission energy efficiency information of carrier 2.

The transmission energy efficiency information of the frequency band may include: the transmission efficiency information (per band) of each frequency band, for example, the transmission efficiency information of the frequency band (band) 1, or the transmission efficiency information of the frequency band 40.

The transmission energy efficiency information of the Frequency Range (FR) may include: the transmission energy efficiency information (per FR) of each frequency range is, for example, transmission energy efficiency information of FR1, transmission energy efficiency information of FR2, or transmission energy efficiency information of FR 3.

The transmission energy efficiency information of the frequency band combination may include: transmission power efficiency information (per band combination) for each band combination, or transmission power efficiency information (per band per band combination) for each band combination. For example, the transmission energy efficiency information of band combination 1, or the transmission energy efficiency information of band combination 2, or the transmission energy efficiency of band combination 1 of band combination 2.

The transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device type may include one or more of: the information processing method includes the steps of transmitting energy efficiency information of a wireless broadband access terminal (MBB), transmitting energy efficiency information of a low-latency high-reliability (URLLC) terminal, transmitting energy efficiency information of a massive internet of things terminal, transmitting energy efficiency information of a vehicle-mounted terminal, transmitting energy efficiency information of an AR/VR type terminal, or transmitting energy efficiency information of a low-energy terminal (REDCAP ).

The transmission energy efficiency information of the access network may include one or more of: transmission energy efficiency information of a 2G system, transmission energy efficiency information of a 3G system, transmission energy efficiency information of an LTE system, transmission energy efficiency information of an NR system, transmission energy efficiency of a 6G system, and the like.

The transmission energy efficiency information of the user may include one or more of: the transmission energy efficiency information of the high-end user, the transmission energy efficiency information of the medium-end user, or the transmission energy efficiency information of the low-end user.

The transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device may be energy efficiency information (per UE) applicable to all situations of the terminal device.

The transmission energy efficiency information of the specified state may include one or more of: the terminal equipment comprises transmission energy efficiency information of an overheated state of the terminal, transmission energy efficiency information of a low-power state of the terminal, transmission energy efficiency of an IDLE (IDLE) state of the terminal, transmission energy efficiency of INACTIVE (INACTIVE) state of the terminal equipment and transmission energy efficiency of CONNECTED (CONNECTED) state of the terminal equipment.

It should be noted that, when the terminal device sends the transmission energy efficiency information of the uplink data to the access network device, the access network device may allocate resources to the uplink data of the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information of the uplink data. Specifically, the terminal device may request the access network device to adjust one or more of a scheduled resource, an activated resource, a configured resource, a transmission capability ratio, a resource scheduling ratio, a first energy efficiency ratio, a second energy efficiency ratio, and a third energy efficiency ratio of uplink data of the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information of the uplink data required by the terminal device. For example, assuming that the expected resource scheduling ratio of the uplink data is 80% and the resource scheduling ratio of the current uplink data of the terminal device is 50%, the expected resource scheduling ratio of the uplink data may be used to request the access network device to adjust the resource scheduling ratio of the uplink data of the terminal device from 50% to 80%. It is understood that other types of transmission energy efficiency information may be referred to in this description, and are not described herein again.

It should be understood that, when the access network device receives the above-mentioned various transmission energy efficiency information, it may determine the allocated resources for uplink data, downlink data, service, carrier, frequency band combination, frequency range, application, terminal type, access network, or a specified time period of the terminal device, respectively. And the access network equipment can also allocate resources for different types of terminal equipment. Therefore, various modes that the terminal equipment requests the access network equipment to change the allocated resources can be provided, so that the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal equipment is more flexibly improved, the power consumption of the terminal equipment is saved, and the service quality of a user is improved (including reducing the packet transmission delay and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

It should be noted that the above description of various transmission energy efficiency information is only a feasible example, and the specific type of transmission energy efficiency information in practical application is not limited to the above description.

In some possible embodiments, the transmission energy efficiency information may be contained (carried) in one or more of the following items: qoS parameter information, PDU Session (PDU Session) related signaling, terminal assistance information, non-access stratum signaling, user subscription information, UE capability information, RRC layer information, media access stratum information, or physical layer signaling. For example, as shown in table 16, the transmission energy efficiency requirement may be included in the parameters corresponding to 5QI or QCI (QoS class identifier) indicating the QoS parameter information. It can be understood that when the terminal device sends the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network device, the transmission energy efficiency information may be carried by a plurality of information, and the application does not limit the carrying manner of the transmission energy efficiency information.

It should be noted that the terminal device may send the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network device according to an actual situation. For example, in the PDU Session establishment process, the terminal device may send transmission efficiency information to the access network device, where the transmission efficiency information may be sent to the access network device and/or the core network device along with a 5QI value in the PDU Session establishment information. Therefore, when the access network allocates the terminal equipment resources, the access network can allocate the resources to the terminal equipment according to the transmission energy efficiency information, and the service quality of the terminal equipment is ensured. For another example, the terminal device may send transmission energy efficiency information to the access network device when the terminal device is overheated, where the transmission energy efficiency information may be carried in the terminal auxiliary information to request the access network device to improve the resource scheduling ratio, so as to reduce energy consumption of the terminal device.

It should be noted that the above "resource allocated to the terminal device" may be replaced by "resource allocated to the terminal device". The transmission energy efficiency information may be used to determine resources allocated to the terminal device.

In some possible embodiments, in step S501, the obtaining of the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device may include: and acquiring the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal equipment from the terminal equipment or the core network equipment. The manner of obtaining the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device from the terminal device or the core network device may refer to the following S601 and S701, which is not described herein again.

It should be understood that, by acquiring the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device from the terminal device or the core network device, even if the access network device does not parse the transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal device and forwards the information to the core network device, or the access network device does not receive the transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal device, the information can be sent to the access network device by the core network device, so that the access network device can effectively acquire the transmission energy efficiency information.

In another embodiment of the transmission energy efficiency information, the transmission energy efficiency information may be a ratio of one value to another value, for example, the transmission energy efficiency information may be a ratio of a to B. Of course, the form of the ratio is not limited in the present application, and the transmission energy efficiency information may be a/B or B/a.

And S502, the access network equipment determines the second resource distributed by the terminal equipment according to the transmission energy efficiency information.

The second resource allocated to the terminal device may include one or more of the following: the second resource scheduled by the terminal device, the second resource activated by the terminal device, and the second resource configured by the terminal device.

It should be noted that the first resource differs from the second resource in the embodiment of the present application in that: the first resource may be a resource currently allocated by the terminal device or a resource desired to be allocated by the terminal device, and the second resource may be a resource allocated by the access network device to the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device. The determined time of the first resource is temporally prior to the second resource.

In some possible embodiments, in S502, determining the resource allocated to the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information may include the following several implementation manners:

and in the mode 1, the second resource allocated to the terminal equipment is determined according to the resource scheduling ratio.

Specifically, when the resource scheduling ratio is the desired resource scheduling ratio, the access network device may determine the size of one or more of the scheduled second resource, the activated second resource, and the configured second resource of the terminal device according to the desired resource scheduling ratio, so as to determine the second resource allocated to the terminal device, where the resource scheduling ratio of the second resource allocated to the terminal device coincides with the desired resource scheduling ratio. The agreement here can be understood as: the resource scheduling ratio of the second resource allocated to the terminal device may be greater than or equal to (or greater than) the expected resource scheduling ratio, or the difference between the resource scheduling ratio of the second resource allocated to the terminal device and the expected resource scheduling ratio may not exceed a preset value (e.g., 5%), which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

In an aspect, the access network device may determine that a ratio of a second resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a second resource size activated by the terminal device is greater than or equal to (or greater than) the desired resource scheduling ratio according to the desired resource scheduling ratio.

Continuing with table 12 as an example, in the application scenario shown in table 12, the currently activated resource size of the terminal device is 324 RBs, the currently scheduled resource size of the terminal device is 101 RBs, and the desired resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is 100%. In order to achieve the above object, the access network device may increase the size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device, or decrease the size of the resource activated by the terminal device, or both increase the size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device and decrease the size of the resource activated by the terminal device, so that the resource scheduling ratio of the second resource allocated to the terminal device is 100%.

For example, the access network device may determine: the size of the resource scheduled by the end device BWP1_1 is 273 RBs, in other words, the access network device may determine the size of the resource BWP1_1 scheduled to the end device to be 273 RBs, so that the ratio of the size of the scheduled second resource to the size of the activated second resource is 100%. Alternatively, the activated resource size of the terminal device may be determined to be 51 RBs, for example, BWP1_4 is activated.

For another example, when the technical solution of the present application is not implemented, a possible resource utilization condition of the terminal device is shown in table 17. Therein, the terminal device is configured with 2 carriers, CC1 and CC2. Assume that CC1 is configured with 4 BWPs, including: BWP1_1, BWP1_2, BWP1_3 and BWP1_4, CC2 configures 2 BWPs, including: BWP2_1 and BWP2_2. The carrier CC1 of the terminal equipment is activated, the carrier CC2 is not activated, the BWP activated by the carrier CC1 is BWP1_2, and the scheduled resource size of BWP1 \/2 is 30RBs. At this time, the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal is 30/96=31.2%. The resource scheduling ratio here is determined in the following manner: the ratio of the size of the resource for which the terminal device is scheduled to the size of the resource for which the terminal device is activated.

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If the resource scheduling ratio desired by the terminal device is greater than or equal to 50%, to achieve the above object, the access network device may increase the size of the scheduled resource of the terminal device, or decrease the size of the activated resource of the terminal device, or both increase the size of the scheduled resource of the terminal device and decrease the size of the activated resource of the terminal device, so that the resource scheduling ratio of the second resource allocated to the terminal device is greater than or equal to 50%.

Referring to table 17, for example, the access network device may determine: the terminal device is scheduled with resource size BWP1_1 greater than or equal to 48RBs, or in other words, the access network device may determine that the size of resource BWP1_1 scheduled to the terminal device is 48RBs, such that the ratio of the scheduled second resource size to the activated second resource size is greater than or equal to 50%. Alternatively, BWP1_3 is activated and BWP1_3 has a size of 48RBs and the scheduled resource has a size of 30RBs, such that the resource scheduling ratio is greater than or equal to 50%. Alternatively, both BWP1_3 is activated such that the activated resource size of the end device is reduced to 48RBs and the scheduled resource size of the end device is determined to be 40RBs such that the resource scheduling ratio of the second resource allocated to the end device is greater than or equal to 50%.

On the other hand, the access network device may also determine, according to the desired resource scheduling ratio, that a ratio of the second resource size scheduled by the terminal device to the second resource size configured by the terminal device may be greater than or equal to the desired resource scheduling ratio.

Exemplarily, assuming that the resource currently configured by the terminal device is as described in table 17, the scheduled resource size is 30 RBs, and at this time, the current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is 30/96=31.2% (ratio of the scheduled resource size of the terminal device to the configured resource size of the terminal device). If the expected resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is 50%, in order to achieve the above object, the access network device may increase the size of the scheduled resource of the terminal device, or decrease the size of the resource configured for the terminal device, or both increase the size of the scheduled resource of the terminal device and decrease the size of the resource configured for the terminal device, so that the resource scheduling ratio of the second resource allocated to the terminal device is greater than or equal to 50%.

For example, the access network device may determine: the size of the scheduled resource of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to 48 RBs, so that the ratio of the size of the scheduled second resource to the size of the configured second resource is larger than or equal to 50%. Correspondingly, the resource size configured by the terminal device is determined to be less than or equal to 96 RBs, or the resource size scheduled by the terminal device is determined to be greater than or equal to 48 RBs and the resource size configured by the terminal device is determined to be less than or equal to 96 RBs.

If the resource configured by the terminal device is reduced to be less than or equal to 96 RBs, the access network device may configure the bandwidth of CC1 to be less than or equal to 96 RBs, or configure the bandwidth of all BWPs of CC1 to be less than 96 RBs, for example, adjust the size of BWP1_2 to 95 RBs.

And 2, determining the scheduled second resource of the terminal equipment according to the size of the scheduled resource of the terminal equipment expected by the terminal equipment.

For example, the difference between the scheduled second resource size of the terminal device and the scheduled resource size of the terminal device that is expected by the terminal device may be not greater than a preset value (e.g., 4 RBs), or the scheduled second resource size of the terminal device is greater than or equal to (or greater than) the scheduled resource size of the terminal device that is expected by the terminal device, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Specifically, the access network device may determine, according to the scheduled resource size of the terminal device desired by the terminal device, that the scheduled second resource size of the terminal device may be greater than or equal to (or greater than) the scheduled resource size of the terminal device desired by the terminal device.

Illustratively, if the terminal device's desired terminal device scheduled resource size is 24 RBs, the access network device may determine that the terminal device's scheduled second resource size is ≧ 24 RBs, or in other words, the access network device may determine that the resource size scheduled to the terminal device is ≧ 24 RBs.

And in the mode 3, the activated second resource of the terminal equipment is determined according to the activated resource size of the terminal equipment expected by the terminal equipment.

For example, the difference between the activated second resource size of the terminal device and the activated resource size of the terminal device that is desired by the terminal device may be not more than a preset value (for example, 8 RBs), or the activated second resource of the terminal device is smaller than or equal to (or smaller than) the activated resource size of the terminal device that is desired by the terminal device, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Specifically, the access network device may determine, according to the activated resource size of the terminal device desired by the terminal device, that the activated second resource size of the terminal device may be smaller than or equal to (or smaller than) the activated resource size of the terminal device desired by the terminal device.

Illustratively, if the resource size of the terminal device desired by the terminal device to be activated is 24 RBs, the access network device may determine that the second resource size of the terminal device to be activated is less than or equal to 24 RBs, or in other words, the access network device may determine that the resource size of the terminal device to be activated is less than or equal to 24 RBs, for example, the bandwidth of the activated carrier is less than or equal to 24 RBs, or the bandwidth of the activated BWP is less than or equal to 24 RBs.

And 4, determining the configured second resource of the terminal device according to the configured resource size of the terminal device expected by the terminal device.

For example, the difference between the second resource size configured by the terminal device and the resource size configured by the terminal device expected by the terminal device may be not more than a preset value (e.g., 16 RBs), or the second resource size configured by the terminal device is smaller than or equal to (or smaller than) the resource size configured by the terminal device expected by the terminal device, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

Specifically, the access network device may determine, according to the resource size of the terminal device desired by the terminal device, that the second resource size configured by the terminal device may be smaller than or equal to (or smaller than) the resource size of the terminal device desired by the terminal device.

Illustratively, if the terminal device's desired resource size allocated to the terminal device is 24 RBs, the access network device may determine that the second resource size allocated to the terminal device is less than or equal to 24 RBs, or in other words, the access network device may determine that the resource size allocated to the terminal device is less than or equal to 24 RBs.

As can be seen from the foregoing modes 1 to 4, a ratio of the second resource size scheduled by the terminal device to the second resource size activated by the terminal device may be greater than or equal to the desired resource scheduling ratio. Alternatively, the ratio of the second resource size scheduled by the terminal device to the second resource size configured by the terminal device may be greater than or equal to the desired resource scheduling ratio. Alternatively, the second resource size scheduled by the terminal device may be greater than or equal to the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device. Or, the activated second resource size of the terminal device may be smaller than or equal to the activated first resource size of the terminal device that is expected by the terminal device. Alternatively, the second resource size configured by the terminal device may be smaller than or equal to the first resource size configured by the terminal device. The expected resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size expected by the terminal device and scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of a first resource size expected by the terminal device and scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device.

By sending the resource scheduling ratio to the access network device, the terminal device can request the access network device to change the allocated resources, so that the access network device can modify the allocated resources of the terminal device according to the request of the terminal device, thereby improving the resource scheduling ratio. And, in addition to sending the resource scheduling ratio to the access network device, the resource allocated for the terminal device to request the access network device to change may further include: the scheduled resources, the activated resources and the configured resources can provide various modes that the terminal equipment requests the access network equipment to determine the allocated resources according to the transmission energy efficiency information, so that the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal equipment is more flexibly improved, the power consumption of the terminal equipment is saved, and the service quality of a user is improved (including reducing the packet transmission delay and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

It should be noted that the above-mentioned "desired (or reference or expected)" may be replaced by "target (or" Recommended) ". The "resource size (size)" may be replaced with "resource size", or with "number of resources", or with "length of resources", or with "bandwidth". For example, taking the expression of resources in the long term evolution and new air interface of the third generation partnership project as an example, for frequency domain resources, "resource size" may be expressed as "the number of RBs", transmission resources allocated to a terminal device may be expressed as "the total number of RBs", and resources activated by the terminal device, for example, the size of a bandwidth part, may also be expressed as "the size of active BWP".

It is to be understood that the above-mentioned desired resource scheduling ratio refers to a utilization rate of resources desired to be allocated by the terminal device. Since the "resource scheduling ratio" and the "utilization rate of allocated resources" can be replaced with each other, the above-mentioned desired resource scheduling ratio can also be interpreted as the utilization rate of the resources desired to be allocated.

It can be understood that the above-mentioned transmission energy efficiency level desired by the terminal device may be used to indicate the ratio of the data resource actually used for transmission to the allocated resource by the terminal device. For example, the ratio of the size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device to the size of the resource activated by the terminal device, or the ratio of the size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device to the size of the resource configured by the terminal device. The transmission energy efficiency level desired by the terminal device may also be expressed as a service level desired by the terminal device, or a resource scheduling level desired by the terminal device. I.e., the resource scheduling level, the service level, and the transmission energy efficiency level, may be replaced with each other.

It is also understood that, in conjunction with the above brief introduction of the technical term "resource scheduling ratio", it can be seen that: if the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is adjusted, the size of the resource (scheduled resource) actually used for transmitting data and/or the size of the activated resource and/or the size of the configured resource may be adjusted. For example, when the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device needs to be increased, the size of the scheduled resource may be increased, and/or the size of the activated resource may be decreased, and/or the size of the configured resource may be decreased.

Mode 5, the second resource allocated to the terminal device is determined according to the transmission capability ratio.

For ease of understanding, the ratio of the transmission capacity used by the terminal device to the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device is denoted as B1, and when the transmission capacity ratio is: when the terminal device expects B1, the access network device may determine, according to the transmission capability ratio, a second resource allocated to the terminal device, where B1 of the second resource allocated to the terminal device is greater than or equal to B1 expected by the terminal device.

Taking the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3 and table 4 as an example, it is assumed that the current resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, and the current B1 of the terminal device is 33.3%. In order to improve the transmission capability ratio, the terminal device sends the transmission capability ratio to the access network device as follows: the terminal device expects B1 to be 100%, that is, the terminal device requests the access network device to adjust the transmission capability of the terminal device from 33.3% to 100%. In order to make B1 of the second resource allocated to the terminal device greater than or equal to B1 expected by the terminal device, the access network device may determine that the resource scheduling manner shown in C or D in fig. 3 meets the requirement of the terminal device, for example, the access network device may determine that the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is the resource scheduling manner shown in C in fig. 3, that is, it may determine that the second resource allocated to the terminal device includes: the activated frequency domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 144RB, the activated space domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 4 layers, and the activated time domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 2 time slots.

In other words, when the transmission capability ratio is higher than the data expected to be achieved by the terminal device, the transmission capability ratio sent by the terminal device may instruct the access network device to increase the ratio of the transmission capability size used by the terminal device to the maximum transmission capability size of the terminal device, and specific manners may include one or more of reducing the resource size activated by the terminal device, reducing the resource size configured by the terminal device, and increasing the resource size scheduled by the terminal device, so as to increase the utilization ratio of the transmission capability of the terminal device, so that the transmission capability ratio of the adjusted terminal device meets the requirement of the terminal device, thereby saving the power consumption of the terminal device, and increasing the quality of service for the user (including reducing the packet transmission delay and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

When the transmission capability ratio is B1 in the first time period, the access network device may determine the second resource allocated to the terminal device according to the transmission capability ratio, where B1 of the second resource allocated to the terminal device is greater than or equal to B1 in the first time period. Wherein, B1 in the first time period may also be referred to as current B1 of the terminal device.

Taking the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3 and table 4 as examples, it is assumed that the current resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, and the current B1 of the terminal device is 33.3%. When the access network device receives the current B1 of the terminal device, in order to improve the energy efficiency of the terminal device and save the energy consumption of the terminal device, it may be determined that the resource scheduling manner shown in C or D in fig. 3 meets the requirement of the terminal device, for example, the access network device may determine that the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is the resource scheduling manner shown in C in fig. 3, that is, it may be determined that the second resource allocated by the terminal device includes: the activated frequency domain resource of the terminal equipment is 144RB, the activated space domain resource of the terminal equipment is 4 layers, and the activated time domain resource of the terminal equipment is 2 time slots.

In other words, when the transmission capability is higher than the data actually collected for the terminal device, the access network device may increase the ratio of the transmission capability used by the terminal device to the maximum transmission capability of the terminal device according to the transmission capability ratio, and specific manners may include one or more of reducing the size of the resource activated by the terminal device, reducing the size of the resource configured by the terminal device, and increasing the size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device, so as to increase the utilization rate of the transmission capability of the terminal device, save the power consumption of the terminal device, and improve the quality of user service (including reducing the packet transmission delay and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

And 6, determining the second resource allocated to the terminal device according to the first energy efficiency ratio.

And the first energy efficiency ratio of the second resource allocated to the terminal equipment is greater than or equal to the current first energy efficiency ratio of the terminal equipment.

Illustratively, the first energy efficiency ratio is data that the terminal device desires to achieve (which may also be referred to as a desired first energy efficiency ratio) when the transmission capacity ratio is a resource scheduling ratio desired by the terminal device over data that the terminal device desires to achieve. Under this condition, taking the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3 and table 4 as an example, it is assumed that the current resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, the current B1 of the terminal device is 33.3%, and the current resource scheduling ratio =80/660 ≈ 12.1%, that is, the current first energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device is 33.3% × 12.1% ≈ 4.0%. In order to improve the first energy efficiency ratio, the terminal device sends the desired first energy efficiency ratio to the access network device as follows: 100%, that is, the terminal device requests the access network device to adjust the current first energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device from 4.0% to 100%. In order to enable the first energy efficiency ratio of the second resource allocated to the terminal device to be greater than or equal to the current first energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device, the access network device may determine that the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is the resource scheduling manner shown in D in fig. 3, that is, may determine that the second resource allocated to the terminal device includes: the activated frequency domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 96RB, the activated space domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 4 layers, and the activated time domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 2 time slots.

In other words, when the first energy efficiency ratio sent by the terminal device is the expected first energy efficiency ratio, the expected first energy efficiency ratio may indicate the access network device, improve a ratio of transmission capacity used by the terminal device to the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device, and improve a ratio of scheduled resources of the terminal device to activated resources of the terminal device, and the specific manner may include reducing the size of activated resources of the terminal device, reducing the size of configured resources of the terminal device, and increasing one or more of the sizes of scheduled resources of the terminal device, thereby improving the first energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device, so that the adjusted first energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device meets the requirement of the terminal device, thereby saving power consumption of the terminal device, and improving user service quality (including reducing packet transmission delay, and/or increasing packet transmission rate).

When the transmission capacity ratio is B1 in the first time period and the resource scheduling ratio is the current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device, the first energy efficiency ratio is the current data of the terminal device (which may also be referred to as the current first energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device). Under this condition, taking the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3 and table 4 as an example, it is assumed that the current resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, the current B1 of the terminal device is 33.3%, and the current resource scheduling ratio =80/660 ≈ 12.1%, that is, the current first energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device is 33.3% × 12.1% ≈ 4.0%. When the access network device receives the current first energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device, in order to improve the energy efficiency of the terminal device and save the energy consumption of the terminal device, it may be determined that the resource scheduling manner shown in C or D in fig. 3 meets the requirement of the terminal device, for example, the access network device may determine that the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is the resource scheduling manner shown in C in fig. 3, that is, it may be determined that the second resource allocated by the terminal device includes: the activated frequency domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 144RB, the activated space domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 4 layers, and the activated time domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 2 time slots.

In other words, when the first energy efficiency ratio sent by the terminal device is the current first energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device, the access network device may improve, according to the current first energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device, a ratio of transmission capacity used by the terminal device to a maximum transmission capacity of the terminal device, and a ratio of scheduled resources of the terminal device to activated resources of the terminal device, where a specific manner may include one or more of reducing the size of activated resources of the terminal device, reducing the size of configured resources of the terminal device, and increasing the size of scheduled resources of the terminal device, so as to improve the first energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device, save power consumption of the terminal device, and improve user service quality (including reducing packet transmission delay, and/or increasing packet transmission rate).

And 7, determining the second resource allocated to the terminal device according to the second energy efficiency ratio.

For convenience of understanding, a ratio of the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling manner to the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner is denoted as B2. When the second energy efficiency ratio is B2 expected by the terminal device, the access network device may determine, according to the second energy efficiency ratio, a second resource allocated to the terminal device, where B2 of the second resource allocated to the terminal device is greater than or equal to B2 expected by the terminal device.

Taking the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3 and table 7 as examples, it is assumed that the current resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, and the current B2 of the terminal device is 26.2%. In order to improve the second energy efficiency ratio, the terminal device sends the second energy efficiency ratio to the access network device as follows: the terminal device expects B2 to be 100%, that is, the terminal device requests the access network device to adjust the second energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device from 26.2% to 100%. In order to make B2 of the second resource allocated to the terminal device greater than or equal to B2 expected by the terminal device, the access network device may determine that the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is the resource scheduling manner shown in D in fig. 3, that is, may determine that the second resource allocated to the terminal device includes: the activated frequency domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 96RB, the activated space domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 4 layers, and the activated time domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 2 time slots.

In other words, when the second energy efficiency ratio sent by the terminal device is data that the terminal device expects to reach, the second energy efficiency ratio may indicate the access network device, and reduce energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner, and the specific manner may include one or more of reducing the size of the resource activated by the terminal device, reducing the size of the resource configured by the terminal device, and increasing the size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device, so as to improve the utilization rate of the energy consumption of the terminal device, make the adjusted second energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device meet the requirement of the terminal device, further save the power consumption of the terminal device, and improve the user service quality (including reducing packet transmission delay and/or increasing packet transmission rate).

When the second energy efficiency ratio is B2 in the second time period, the access network device may determine, according to the second energy efficiency ratio, the second resource allocated to the terminal device, where B2 of the second resource allocated to the terminal device is greater than or equal to B2 in the second time period. Wherein, B2 in the second time period may also be referred to as current B2 of the terminal device.

Taking the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3 and table 7 as examples, it is assumed that the current resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, and the current B2 of the terminal device is 26.2%. When the access network device receives the current B2 of the terminal device, in order to improve the energy efficiency of the terminal device and save the energy consumption of the terminal device, it may be determined that the resource scheduling manner shown in C or D in fig. 3 meets the requirement of the terminal device, for example, the access network device may determine that the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is the resource scheduling manner shown in C in fig. 3, that is, it may be determined that the second resource allocated by the terminal device includes: the activated frequency domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 144RB, the activated space domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 4 layers, and the activated time domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 2 time slots.

In other words, when the second energy efficiency ratio is data actually acquired by the terminal device, the access network device may reduce energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling manner according to the second energy efficiency ratio, and the specific manner may include one or more of reducing the size of the activated resource of the terminal device, reducing the size of the resource configured by the terminal device, and increasing the size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device, so as to improve the utilization rate of the energy consumption of the terminal device, save the power consumption of the terminal device, and improve the user service quality (including reducing packet transmission delay and/or increasing packet transmission rate).

And 8, determining the second resource allocated to the terminal device according to the third energy efficiency ratio.

For convenience of understanding, a ratio of the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner to the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner is denoted as B3. When the third energy efficiency ratio is B3 expected by the terminal device, the access network device may determine, according to the third energy efficiency ratio, the second resource allocated to the terminal device, where B3 of the second resource allocated to the terminal device is greater than or equal to B3 expected by the terminal device.

Taking the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3 and table 8 as examples, it is assumed that the current resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, and the current B3 of the terminal device is 22.2%. In order to improve the current third energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device, the third energy efficiency ratio sent to the access network device by the terminal device is: the terminal device expects B3 to be 100%, that is, the terminal device requests the access network device to adjust the current second energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device from 22.2% to 100%. In order to make B3 of the second resource allocated to the terminal device greater than or equal to B3 expected by the terminal device, the access network device may satisfy the requirement of the terminal device in a resource scheduling manner shown in B or D in fig. 3, for example, the access network device may determine that the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is the resource scheduling manner shown in B in fig. 3, that is, may determine that the second resource allocated to the terminal device includes: the activated frequency domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 24RB, the activated space domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 4 layers, and the activated time domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 8 time slots.

In other words, when the third energy efficiency ratio sent by the terminal device is data that the terminal device expects to reach, the third energy efficiency ratio may indicate the access network device, and improve the ratio of the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling manner to the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling manner, where a specific manner may include one or more of reducing the activated resource size of the terminal device, reducing the resource size configured for the terminal device, and increasing the resource size scheduled for the terminal device, so as to improve the utilization rate of the resource of the terminal device, so that the adjusted third energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device meets the requirement of the terminal device, thereby saving the power consumption of the terminal device, and improving the user service quality (including reducing packet transmission and/or increasing packet transmission rate).

When the second energy efficiency ratio is B3 in the third time period, the access network device may determine, according to the second energy efficiency ratio, the second resource allocated to the terminal device, where B3 of the second resource allocated to the terminal device is greater than or equal to B3 in the third time period. Wherein, B3 in the third time period may also be referred to as current B3 of the terminal device.

Taking the four resource scheduling manners shown in fig. 3 and table 8 as examples, it is assumed that the current resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is a in fig. 3, and the current B3 of the terminal device is 22.2%. When the access network device receives the current B3 of the terminal device, in order to improve the energy efficiency of the terminal device and save the energy consumption of the terminal device, it may be determined that the resource scheduling manner of the terminal device is the resource scheduling manner shown in D in fig. 3, that is, it may be determined that the second resource allocated to the terminal device includes: the activated frequency domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 144RB, the activated space domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 4 layers, and the activated time domain resource size of the terminal equipment is 2 time slots.

In other words, when the third energy efficiency ratio is data actually acquired by the terminal device, the access network device may increase, according to the third energy efficiency ratio, a ratio of the size of the resource corresponding to the first scheduling manner to the size of the resource corresponding to the second scheduling manner, so as to increase a utilization rate of the resource of the terminal device, where the specific manner may include one or more of reducing the size of the activated resource of the terminal device, reducing the size of the resource configured by the terminal device, and increasing the size of the resource scheduled by the terminal device, so as to save power consumption of the terminal device, and improve user service quality (including reducing packet transmission delay and/or increasing packet transmission rate).

Based on the foregoing modes 1 to 8, there may be multiple specific forms of the transmission energy efficiency information, and the terminal device may request the access network device to change the allocated resource through the transmission energy efficiency information, so as to implement a change of the transmission energy efficiency of the terminal device, where the change may include: the transmission energy efficiency is increased or reduced or maintained.

It should be noted that, as time, service, and operation environment (e.g., channel environment) change, the size of the resource actually used for transmitting data required by the terminal device may change, so that, in the foregoing manner 1 to manner 8, the terminal device may request the access network device to adjust one or more of the scheduled resource, the activated resource, the configured resource, the transmission capability ratio, the resource scheduling ratio, the first energy efficiency ratio, the second energy efficiency ratio, and the third energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information required by the terminal device, so as to make the resource allocated by the terminal device meet the requirement of the terminal device, for example, the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device may instruct the access network device to increase the ratio of the scheduled resource of the terminal device to the activated resource of the terminal device, thereby increasing the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device, saving the power consumption of the terminal device, and improving the user service quality (including reducing packet transmission delay, and/or increasing packet transmission rate).

It should be understood that, according to the above modes 1 to 8, the access network device may determine, within an optional range, the resource allocated to the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information. That is, the access network device may flexibly adjust the resource allocated to the terminal device in the selectable range according to the current resource allocated to the terminal device and the remaining unallocated resource. In this way, the access network device can more flexibly adjust the resource allocated to the terminal device, thereby more flexibly adjusting one or more of the scheduled resource, the activated resource, the configured resource, the transmission capability ratio, the resource scheduling ratio, the first energy efficiency ratio, the second energy efficiency ratio, and the third energy efficiency ratio, so as to save the power consumption of the terminal device, and improve the user service quality (including reducing the packet transmission delay, and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

In addition, as can be seen from the foregoing modes 1 to 8, the embodiment of the present application does not limit the type of the resource, and therefore, in some possible implementations, the second resource may include one or more of the following: frequency domain resources, time domain resources, space domain resources, code domain resources, or orbital angular momentum. Therefore, the transmission energy efficiency information may be used to determine one or more of frequency domain resources, time domain resources, spatial domain resources, code domain resources, or orbital angular momentum allocated to the terminal device. In other words, the access network device may determine a plurality of allocated resources of the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information. In this way, various ways for the terminal device to request the access network device to change the allocated resource may be provided, so as to more flexibly adjust one or more of the scheduled resource, the activated resource, the configured resource, the transmission capability ratio, the resource scheduling ratio, the first energy efficiency ratio, the second energy efficiency ratio, and the third energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device, so as to save the power consumption of the terminal device, and improve the user service quality (including reducing the packet transmission delay, and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

S503, the access network equipment sends the first information to the terminal equipment, and the terminal equipment receives the first information from the access network equipment.

The first information is used for indicating the second resource. The access network device may send the first information to the terminal device through an air interface between the access network device and the terminal device, and it can be understood that the application does not limit an interaction manner between the access network device and the terminal device.

In some possible cases, the name of the first information provided herein may be different in different scenarios, e.g., scheduling information; as another example, scheduling configuration information; for example, the first information is used as an example for the description of the deployment information, and does not represent a limitation to the present application.

It can be understood that, before the access network device sends the first information to the terminal device, the first information may also be determined according to the second resource allocated to the terminal device.

Illustratively, continuing with table 17, taking the resource as the frequency domain resource as an example, if the desired resource scheduling ratio is 50% and the current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device is 31%, in order to make the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device be greater than or equal to the desired resource scheduling ratio, the access network device may determine that the scheduled resource size of the terminal device is 48 RBs, and generate corresponding first information, where the first information is the frequency domain resource size of the data channel. For another example, the size of the resource that is desirably activated is taken as the resource and the transmission energy efficiency information. If the size of the resource desired to be activated is 2 (i.e. the number of MIMO layers desired to be activated is 2) and the size of the resource currently activated by the terminal device is 4 (i.e. the number of currently activated MIMO layers is 4), the access network device may determine that the size of the resource activated is 2, i.e. determine that the number of layers of the current BWP is 2, and generate corresponding first information, where the first information is the number of MIMO layers configured for BWP.

For another example, the resource is taken as a time domain resource. If the expected resource scheduling ratio is 50%, that is, the expected time domain resource scheduling ratio is 50%, and the time domain resource scheduling ratio of the current resource is 25%, the access network device may adjust the DRX parameter according to the above formula R3= t2/t1, for example, reduce the duration of the active period, reduce the duration of the inactive timer, and increase the DRX cycle length, thereby achieving that the time domain resource scheduling ratio is greater than or equal to 50%, and generate corresponding first information, where the first information is a configuration parameter of DRX.

In some possible embodiments, the communication method shown in fig. 5 may further include: and the access network equipment sends the reported transmission energy efficiency information to the terminal equipment. And reporting the transmission energy efficiency information to indicate the terminal equipment to send the transmission energy efficiency information. Therefore, the access network equipment can request the terminal equipment to feed back the transmission energy efficiency information, so that the access network equipment can adjust the mode of the resource distributed by the terminal equipment according to the transmission energy efficiency information fed back by the terminal equipment, the power consumption of the terminal equipment can be saved more flexibly, and the user service quality is improved (including reducing the packet transmission delay and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

Based on the method shown in fig. 5, the access network device may determine, according to the transmission energy efficiency information provided by the terminal device, the second resource allocated to the terminal device, and send the first information to the terminal device. Thus, the terminal device may request the access network device to adjust one or more of the scheduled resource, the activated resource, the configured resource, the transmission capability ratio, the resource scheduling ratio, the first energy efficiency ratio, the second energy efficiency ratio, and the third energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information required by the terminal device, for example, the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device may instruct the access network device to increase the proportion of the scheduled resource of the terminal device to the activated resource of the terminal device, thereby increasing the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device, further saving the power consumption of the terminal device, and improving the user service quality (including reducing the packet transmission delay, and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

The method shown in fig. 5 above introduces that the access network device may send the first information to the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information provided by the terminal device. The following describes a specific implementation manner of the access network device acquiring the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device in detail with reference to fig. 6 to 8.

Fig. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a second communication method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The communication method may be applied to communication between the terminal device and the access network device shown in fig. 4. As shown in fig. 6, the communication method may include the steps of:

s601, the terminal equipment sends transmission energy efficiency information to the access network equipment, and the access network equipment receives the transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal equipment.

For example, the access network device may receive the transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal device through an air interface transmission with the terminal device.

Wherein the transmission energy efficiency information may be included in one or more of: qoS parameter information, PDU Session (PDU Session) related signaling, terminal assistance information, non-access stratum signaling, user subscription information, UE capability information, RRC layer information, media access stratum information, or physical layer signaling.

In this way, the access network device may obtain the transmission energy efficiency information from one or more of: qoS parameter information, signaling included in a PDU session, terminal assistance information, non-access stratum signaling, user subscription information, UE capability information, RRC layer information, media access stratum information, or physical layer signaling.

For example, referring to table 16, the QoS parameter of the terminal device includes transmission efficiency information, the QoS parameter is indexed by 5QI or QCI, and the terminal device indicates the transmission efficiency information by 5QI or QCI when the PDU session is established. For example, the terminal device may send the transmission energy efficiency information in the UE capability information when accessing the network. For example, the transmission energy efficiency information may be sent in the UE assistance information when the terminal device is in an overheated state. For another example, when the terminal device needs to save power, the energy efficiency information may be transmitted through physical layer signaling, so that the energy efficiency information may be quickly acquired by the access network device, and thus the energy efficiency information is quickly effective.

It can be understood that, in the present application, a data transmission mode between the access network device and the terminal device, and between the access network device and the core network device is not limited.

In some possible embodiments, before the terminal device sends the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network device, the transmission energy efficiency information may also be determined.

The method for determining the transmission energy efficiency information by the terminal device may include: the transmission energy efficiency information is determined according to one or more of the type of the terminal device, the operation state of the terminal device, the user subscription information of the terminal device, the service of the terminal device, the type of the access network, the service applicable to the terminal user, the carrier wave to be transmitted, the frequency band combination to be transmitted, the frequency range to be transmitted, and the type of the link to be transmitted (including a downlink, an uplink or a sidelink).

The types of the terminal devices may include one or more of the following: the system comprises a wireless broadband access terminal, a low-delay and high-reliability terminal, a massive Internet of things terminal, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a low-energy terminal and the like. Exemplarily, when the terminal device is a massive internet of things terminal or a low-energy terminal, determining that the transmission energy efficiency level expected by the terminal device is one level; and when the terminal equipment is a vehicle-mounted terminal and a low-delay high-reliability terminal, determining that the transmission energy efficiency grade expected by the terminal equipment is three grades.

The operation state of the terminal device may include one or more of the following: remaining power, battery temperature, or power state (e.g., whether external power is provided, whether battery is provided). Exemplarily, if the remaining power of the terminal device is less than 20%, determining that the transmission energy efficiency level expected by the terminal device is one level; and if the residual capacity of the terminal equipment is more than 80%, determining that the transmission energy efficiency level expected by the terminal equipment is three levels. Or if the battery temperature of the terminal equipment is higher than 60 ℃, determining the transmission energy efficiency grade expected by the terminal equipment to be one grade; and if the battery temperature of the terminal equipment is less than 30 ℃, determining that the transmission energy efficiency grade expected by the terminal equipment is three-grade. Or if the power supply state of the terminal equipment is an external power supply, determining that the expected transmission energy efficiency grade of the terminal equipment is three-grade; and if the power supply state of the terminal equipment is battery power supply, determining that the transmission energy efficiency grade expected by the terminal equipment is one grade.

The operation state of the terminal device may further include one or more of the following: an idle state, an inactive state, a connected state. For example, if the terminal device is in the connected state, it is determined that the transmission energy efficiency level expected by the terminal device is high energy efficiency (i.e., the transmission energy efficiency is high energy efficiency). And if the terminal equipment is in the inactive state, determining that the transmission energy efficiency level expected by the terminal equipment is low energy efficiency (namely the transmission energy efficiency is not limited).

The user subscription information of the terminal device may be a package used by the user. Illustratively, referring to Table 18 below, assume that the package used by the user includes a total of three packages, A, B, and C, respectively. When the package used by the user is A, the terminal equipment determines that the expected resource scheduling ratio can be any value; when the package used by the user is B, the terminal equipment determines that the expected resource scheduling ratio is greater than or equal to 50%; when the package used by the user is C, the terminal device determines that the expected resource scheduling ratio is greater than or equal to 75%.

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Set meal for user	Desired resource scheduling ratio
		A	Is not limited
B	Greater than or equal to 50%
		C	Greater than or equal to 75 percent

The service of the terminal device may include one or more of the following: voice traffic, video traffic, game traffic, etc., the traffic type may be indicated by 5QI (applicable to 5G system) or QCI (applicable to 4G system), wherein the traffic having the same 5QI or QCI may be classified as a type of traffic. The terminal device may determine the transmission energy efficiency information according to a service of the terminal device. For example, the terminal device may determine that a service with a high priority has a high transmission energy efficiency, and a service with a low priority has a low transmission energy efficiency. For another example, the terminal device may determine that the voice service has higher transmission energy efficiency and determine that the game service has lower transmission energy efficiency. The terminal device may also determine transmission energy efficiency information according to the established PDU session, for example, services of the same PDU session have the same transmission energy efficiency information.

The access network type may include one or more of: a 3G network, a 4G network, a 5G network, or a 6G network. Exemplarily, when the access network type is a 3G network, the expected scheduling ratio is determined to be 50%; when the type of the access network is a 4G network, determining that the expected scheduling ratio is 80%; when the access network type is a 5G network, it is determined that the expected scheduling ratio is 90%.

The services applicable to the end user may include one or more of the following: a navigation application, a WeChat application, or a video application, etc. Exemplarily, when the service applicable to the terminal user is a navigation application, determining that the transmission energy efficiency level expected by the terminal device is high energy efficiency (that is, the transmission energy efficiency is high energy efficiency); the desired level of transmission energy efficiency of the terminal device is determined to be low energy efficient (i.e., transmission energy efficiency is not limited).

The terminal device may further determine the transmission energy efficiency information according to one or more of currently configured carrier, frequency band combination, and frequency range. For example, if the currently configured carrier is a single carrier, it is determined that the transmission energy efficiency level expected by the terminal device is low energy efficiency (i.e., the transmission energy efficiency is not limited), and if the currently configured carrier is a multi-carrier, it is determined that the transmission energy efficiency level expected by the terminal device is high energy efficiency (i.e., the transmission energy efficiency is high energy efficiency). For another example, the transmission energy efficiency level expected by the terminal device corresponding to the carrier in the frequency range 1 is determined to be low energy efficiency, or the transmission energy efficiency level expected by the terminal device corresponding to the frequency range 2 is determined to be high energy efficiency.

The terminal device may also determine the transmission efficiency according to the type of the transmission link. For example, the desired resource scheduling ratio for the downlink is determined to be 100%, or the desired resource scheduling ratio for the uplink is determined to be 50%.

Further, the terminal device may also determine the desired scheduling ratio according to the current resource scheduling ratio. For example, the terminal device may count a first average value of activated resource sizes within 5 minutes and a second average value of scheduled resource sizes, determine a ratio of the first average value to the second average value as a current resource scheduling ratio of the terminal device, and finally determine an expected resource scheduling ratio based on the current resource scheduling ratio and reference information (type of the terminal device, operating state of the terminal device, user subscription information of the terminal device, service of the terminal device, and the like). That is, when generating the transmission energy efficiency information, the terminal device may determine the desired resource scheduling ratio by counting an average value of the sizes of the allocated resources in the time period.

Accordingly, the above-mentioned statistical time period may be determined by predefined rules or by means of negotiation among the terminal device, the access network device and the core network device.

S602, the access network equipment determines the second resource distributed by the terminal equipment according to the transmission energy efficiency information.

It is understood that S602 may refer to S502 described above, and will not be described herein.

In this embodiment, after S602, the access network device may determine first information according to the second resource allocated to the terminal device, where the first information may be used to indicate the second resource allocated to the terminal device, and includes one or more of a scheduled second resource of the terminal device, an activated second resource of the terminal device, and a configured second resource of the terminal device. The second resource may include one or more of a frequency domain resource, a time domain resource, a spatial domain resource, a code domain resource, or an orbital angular momentum. The transmission energy efficiency information may be used to determine one or more of frequency domain resources, time domain resources, space domain resources, code domain resources, or orbital angular momentum allocated to the terminal device. In other words, the access network device may determine a plurality of allocated resources of the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information. Therefore, various modes that the terminal equipment requests the access network equipment to change the allocated resources can be provided, so that the resource scheduling ratio of the terminal equipment is more flexibly improved, the power consumption of the terminal equipment is saved, and the service quality of a user is improved (including reducing the packet transmission delay and/or increasing the packet transmission rate).

The first information may be various signaling of the access network device in allocating resources for the terminal device, and may be used to indicate the second resources determined by the transmission energy efficiency information. For example, downlink control signaling or uplink control signaling carried in the PDCCH.

The access network device determines the first information according to the transmission energy efficiency information, and for a specific implementation method, reference may be made to S503, which is not described herein again.

S603, the access network equipment sends the first information to the terminal equipment, and the terminal equipment receives the first information from the access network equipment.

In some possible embodiments, the access network device may further receive the transmission energy efficiency information through the core network device. Specifically, please refer to fig. 7. The communication method may be applied to communication among the terminal device, the access network device, and the core network device shown in fig. 4. As shown in fig. 7, the communication may comprise the steps of:

s701, the terminal equipment sends transmission energy efficiency information to the core network equipment, and the core network equipment receives the transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal equipment.

For example, in the process of establishing the PDU Session, the terminal device may send the transmission energy efficiency information to the core network device through a corresponding interface between the terminal device and the core network device and through the QoS parameter indicator 5QI or QCI.

S702, the core network equipment sends transmission energy efficiency information to the access network equipment, and the access network equipment receives the transmission energy efficiency information from the core network equipment.

And S703, the access network equipment determines first information of the second resource allocated to the terminal equipment according to the transmission energy efficiency information.

It is understood that S704 may refer to S502 described above, and will not be described herein again.

S704, the access network equipment sends the first information to the terminal equipment, and the terminal equipment receives the first information from the access network equipment.

It is understood that S705 may refer to S503, which is not described herein.

In some possible embodiments, the access network device may further determine, by the core network device, the transmission energy efficiency information. Specifically, please refer to fig. 8. The communication method may be applied to communication among the terminal device, the access network device, and the core network device shown in fig. 4. As shown in fig. 8, the communication may comprise the steps of:

s801, the terminal device may further send subscription information of the user to the core network device.

Optionally, the core network device may also obtain the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device directly from its user subscription information base, without performing S801.

And S802, determining transmission energy efficiency information according to the subscription information of the terminal equipment.

For example, the transmission energy efficiency information may be determined by referring to the correspondence relationship between the subscription information and the desired resource scheduling ratio shown in table 18. The detailed description of the embodiments can refer to the description in table 18, which is not repeated herein.

And S803, the core network equipment sends the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network equipment, and the access network equipment receives the transmission energy efficiency information from the core network equipment.

S804, the access network equipment determines first information according to the transmission energy efficiency information.

For the implementation of S804, reference may be made to the related description of S502 described above, and details are not described herein again.

S805, the access network device sends the first information to the terminal device, and the terminal device receives the first information from the access network device.

For the implementation of S805, reference may be made to the above description of S503, and details are not repeated here.

With reference to the method embodiments shown in fig. 7 and fig. 8, the access network device may receive the transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal device, or may receive the transmission energy efficiency information from the core network device, in other words, the access network device may obtain the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device. Therefore, in some possible embodiments, the obtaining transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device may include: and acquiring the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal equipment from the terminal equipment or the core network equipment.

In the method embodiment shown in fig. 7, when the core network receives the transmission energy efficiency from the terminal device, since the transmission energy efficiency information may be carried in the nas signaling, at this time, the access network device cannot directly obtain the transmission energy efficiency of the terminal device from the nas signaling. By the method embodiment shown in fig. 7, a situation that the access network device cannot acquire the transmission energy efficiency information can be avoided. In addition, the core network device may also determine the transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device according to the subscription information of the terminal device, that is, the method embodiment shown in fig. 8 is configured to send the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network device according to the transmission energy efficiency information to determine the resource allocated to the terminal device.

Therefore, if the access network device receives the transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal device, the information is not analyzed and is forwarded to the core network device, or if the access network device does not receive the transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal device, the information can be sent to the access network device by the core network device, so that the access network device can effectively acquire the transmission energy efficiency information.

As a possible implementation manner, after receiving the first information from the access network device, the terminal device may use the second resource indicated by the first information according to the first information, so as to achieve the purpose of requesting the access network device to adjust one or more of the scheduled resource, the activated resource, the configured resource, the transmission capability ratio, the resource scheduling ratio, the first energy efficiency ratio, the second energy efficiency ratio, and the third energy efficiency ratio of the terminal device according to the transmission energy efficiency information required by the terminal device, thereby saving power consumption of the terminal device, and improving user service quality (including reducing packet transmission delay, and/or increasing packet transmission rate).

The communication method provided by the embodiment of the present application is described in detail above with reference to fig. 5 to 8. A communication apparatus for performing the communication method provided by the embodiments of the present application is described in detail below with reference to fig. 9 to 10.

Exemplarily, fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 9, the communication apparatus 900 includes: a processing module 901 and a transceiver module 902. For convenience of explanation, fig. 9 shows only the main components of the communication apparatus.

In some embodiments, the communications apparatus 900 may be adapted in the communications system shown in fig. 4 to perform the functions of the access network device in the communications methods shown in fig. 5-8.

Specifically, the transceiver module 902 is configured to implement a transceiver function of the access network device, such as performing the above S501, S503, S601, S603, S702, S704, S803, S805, and the like.

The processing module 901 may be configured to process data related to transmission energy efficiency information, for example, execute the above S502, S602, S703, S804, and the like. As to the specific implementation processes of the processing module 901 and the transceiver module 902, reference may be made to relevant contents in the method embodiment shown in any one of fig. 5 to fig. 8, and details are not described here again.

In some embodiments, the communication apparatus 900 may be applied in the communication system shown in fig. 4 to perform the functions of the terminal device in the communication methods shown in fig. 5 to 8.

Specifically, the transceiving module 902 is configured to implement transceiving functions of the terminal device, such as performing the above S503, S601, S603, S701, S704, S801, S805, and the like.

The processing module 901 may be configured to process data related to transmission energy efficiency information, for example, determine the transmission energy efficiency information according to one or more of a type of the terminal device, an operating state of the terminal device, user subscription information of the terminal device, a service of the terminal device, an access network type, a service applicable to the terminal user, a carrier wave for transmission, a frequency band combination for transmission, a frequency range for transmission, and a link type for transmission. As to specific implementation manners of the processing module 901 and the transceiver module 902, reference may be made to relevant contents in the method embodiment shown in any one of fig. 5 to fig. 8, and details are not described here again.

In some embodiments, the communications apparatus 900 may be adapted in the communications system shown in fig. 4 to perform the functions of the core network device in the communications methods shown in fig. 7 to 8.

Specifically, the transceiver module 902 is configured to implement a transceiver function of the core network device, such as executing the above S701, S702, S801, S803, and the like.

The processing module 901 may be configured to process data related to transmission energy efficiency information, such as performing the above S802. As to specific implementation manners of the processing module 901 and the transceiver module 902, reference may be made to relevant contents in the method embodiment shown in any one of fig. 7 and fig. 8, and details are not described here again.

Optionally, the transceiver module 902 may include a receiving module and a transmitting module (not shown in fig. 9). The transmitting module is used for implementing a transmitting function of the communication device 900, and the receiving module is used for implementing a receiving function of the communication device 900.

Optionally, the communication device 900 may also include a storage module (not shown in fig. 9) that stores programs or instructions. The program or instructions, when executed by the processing module 901, enable the communication apparatus 900 to perform the functions of the core network device in the communication method illustrated in any one of fig. 5 to 8.

It is to be understood that the processing module 901 involved in the communication device 900 may be implemented by a processor or a processor-related circuit component, and may be a processor or a processing unit; the transceiver module 902 may be implemented by a transceiver or transceiver-related circuit components, and may be a transceiver or a transceiver unit.

It should be noted that the communication apparatus 900 may be an access network device, a terminal device, or a core network device, or may be a chip (system) or other component or assembly disposed on the terminal device, the access network device, or the core network device, or an apparatus including the terminal device, the access network device, or the core network device, which is not limited in this application. The access network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner in fig. 5 to 8, the terminal device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner in fig. 5 to 8, and the core network device is configured to execute the communication method described in any possible implementation manner in fig. 7 to 8.

In addition, the technical effect of the communication apparatus 900 may refer to the technical effect of the communication method shown in any one of fig. 5 to 8, and is not described herein again.

Exemplarily, fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application. The communication device may be a terminal device, an access network device, or a core network device, or may be a chip (system) or other component or assembly that may be disposed in the terminal device, the access network device, or the core network device. As shown in fig. 10, the communication device 1000 may include a processor 1001. Optionally, the communication device 1000 may also include a memory 1002 and/or a transceiver 1003. Where the processor 1001 is coupled to the memory 1002 and the transceiver 1003, such as may be connected by a communications bus.

The following specifically describes each constituent element of the communication apparatus 1000 with reference to fig. 10:

the processor 1001 is a control center of the communication apparatus 1000, and may be a single processor or a collective name of a plurality of processing elements. For example, the processor 1001 is one or more Central Processing Units (CPUs), or may be an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), or one or more integrated circuits configured to implement the embodiments of the present application, such as: one or more microprocessors (digital signal processors, DSPs), or one or more Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).

Alternatively, the processor 1001 may perform various functions of the communication device 1000 by running or executing software programs stored in the memory 1002, and calling data stored in the memory 1002.

In a particular implementation, processor 1001 may include one or more CPUs, such as CPU0 and CPU1 shown in fig. 10, as one embodiment.

In one implementation, the communications apparatus 1000 may also include a plurality of processors, such as the processor 1101 and the processor 1104 shown in fig. 10, as an example. Each of these processors may be a single-Core Processor (CPU) or a multi-Core Processor (CPU). A processor herein may refer to one or more devices, circuits, and/or processing cores that process data (e.g., computer program instructions).

The memory 1102 is configured to store a software program for executing the scheme of the present application, and is controlled by the processor 1101 to execute the software program.

Alternatively, memory 1002 may be, but is not limited to, a read-only memory (ROM) or other type of static storage device that may store static information and instructions, a Random Access Memory (RAM) or other type of dynamic storage device that may store information and instructions, an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), a compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) or other optical disk storage, optical disk storage (including compact disc, laser disc, optical disc, digital versatile disc, blu-ray disc, etc.), magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer. The memory 1002 may be integrated with the processor 1001, or may be independent of the processor, and is coupled to the processor 1001 through an interface circuit (not shown in fig. 10) of the communication device 1000, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present application.

A transceiver 1003 for communication with other communication devices. For example, the communication apparatus 1000 is a terminal device, and the transceiver 1003 may be used for communication with a network device or another terminal device. Also for example, where the communications apparatus 1000 is an access network device, the transceiver 1003 may be used to communicate with a terminal device, or with another access network device, or a core network device.

Alternatively, the transceiver 1003 may include a receiver and a transmitter (not separately shown in fig. 10). Wherein the receiver is configured to perform a receiving function and the transmitter is configured to perform a transmitting function.

Alternatively, the transceiver 1003 may be integrated with the processor 1001, or may be independent and coupled to the processor 1001 through an interface circuit (not shown in fig. 10) of the communication device 1000, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

It should be noted that the structure of the communication device 1000 shown in fig. 10 does not constitute a limitation of the communication device, and an actual communication device may include more or less components than those shown, or combine some components, or arrange different components.

In addition, for technical effects of the communication apparatus 1000, reference may be made to the technical effects of the communication method described in the foregoing method embodiment, and details are not repeated here.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a chip system, including: a processor coupled to a memory, the memory for storing a program or instructions, which when executed by the processor, causes the system-on-chip to implement the method in any of the method embodiments described above.

Optionally, the system on a chip may have one or more processors. The processor may be implemented by hardware or by software. When implemented in hardware, the processor may be a logic circuit, an integrated circuit, or the like. When implemented in software, the processor may be a general-purpose processor implemented by reading software code stored in a memory.

Optionally, the memory in the system-on-chip may also be one or more. The memory may be integrated with the processor or may be separate from the processor, which is not limited in this application. For example, the memory may be a non-transitory processor, such as a read only memory ROM, which may be integrated with the processor on the same chip or separately disposed on different chips, and the type of the memory and the arrangement of the memory and the processor are not particularly limited in this application.

The system-on-chip may be, for example, a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a system on chip (SoC), a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Network Processor (NP), a digital signal processing circuit (DSP), a Microcontroller (MCU), a Programmable Logic Device (PLD), or other integrated chips.

The embodiment of the application provides a communication system. The communication system includes one or more terminal devices and one or more access network devices. The terminal device and the access network device may be combined to execute the above method embodiment, and specific execution processes may refer to the above method embodiment, which is not described herein again.

Optionally, the communication system may further include: one or more core network devices. The terminal device, the access network device, and the core network device may be combined to execute the method embodiment, and specific execution processes may refer to the method embodiment and are not described herein again.

It should be understood that the processor in the embodiments of the present application may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), and the processor may also be other general purpose processors, digital Signal Processors (DSPs), application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) or other programmable logic devices, discrete gate or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components, and the like. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like.

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

The above embodiments may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware (e.g., circuitry), firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, the above-described embodiments may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product comprises one or more computer instructions or computer programs. The procedures or functions described in accordance with the embodiments of the present application are produced in whole or in part when the computer instructions or the computer program are loaded or executed on a computer. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a network of computers, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored in a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another computer readable storage medium, for example, the computer instructions may be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center by wire (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device such as a server, data center, etc. that contains one or more collections of available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy disk, hard disk, magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., DVD), or a semiconductor medium. The semiconductor medium may be a solid state disk.

It should be understood that the term "and/or" herein is only one kind of association relationship describing the association object, and means that there may be three kinds of relationships, for example, a and/or B, and may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone, wherein A and B can be singular or plural. In addition, the "/" in this document generally indicates that the former and latter associated objects are in an "or" relationship, but may also indicate an "and/or" relationship, which may be understood with particular reference to the former and latter text.

In the present application, "at least one" means one or more, "a plurality" means two or more. "at least one of the following" or similar expressions refer to any combination of these items, including any combination of the singular or plural items. For example, at least one (one) of a, b, or c, may represent: a, b, c, a-b, a-c, b-c, or a-b-c, wherein a, b, c may be single or multiple.

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

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

It can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art that, for convenience and simplicity of description, the specific working processes of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not described herein again.

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

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

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

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

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

Claims

1. A method of communication, the method comprising:

acquiring transmission energy efficiency information of terminal equipment;

wherein the transmission energy efficiency information includes one or more of: a transmission capacity ratio, a resource scheduling ratio, a first energy efficiency ratio, a second energy efficiency ratio and a third energy efficiency ratio;

the transmission capability ratio is a ratio of a transmission capability size used by the terminal device to a maximum transmission capability size of the terminal device;

the resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device;

the first energy efficiency ratio is a product of the resource scheduling ratio and the transmission capacity ratio;

The second energy efficiency ratio is a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to a first scheduling mode to energy consumption corresponding to a second scheduling mode, the first scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode with minimum energy consumption in all resource scheduling modes of the terminal equipment, and the second scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode used by the terminal equipment in all resource scheduling modes;

the third energy efficiency ratio is the ratio of the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode;

determining a second resource allocated to the terminal equipment according to the transmission energy efficiency information;

and sending first information to the terminal equipment, wherein the first information is used for indicating the second resource.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission capability is greater than a ratio of a desired transmission capability size for the terminal device to a maximum transmission capability size of the terminal device; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

the resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size expected by the terminal device and scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device, or a ratio of a first resource size expected by the terminal device and scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

The second energy efficiency ratio is the ratio of the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode expected by the terminal equipment to the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling mode; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

the third energy efficiency ratio is a ratio of a resource size corresponding to the first scheduling mode expected by the terminal device to a resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode.

3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that said transmission capability ratio is a ratio of a transmission capability size used by said terminal device within a first time period to a maximum transmission capability size of said terminal device; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

the resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device in a second time period, or the ratio of the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device in the second time period; alternatively, the first and second liquid crystal display panels may be,

the second energy efficiency ratio is the ratio of the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling mode in a third time period; alternatively, the first and second liquid crystal display panels may be,

the third energy efficiency ratio is a ratio of the resource size corresponding to the first scheduling mode to the resource size corresponding to the second scheduling mode in a fourth time period.

4. A method according to any of claims 1-3, characterised in that the transmission capabilities used by the terminal device are sized to be: the time length of the first data transmitted by the allocated resource of the terminal equipment;

the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal equipment is as follows: and the terminal equipment adopts the resource corresponding to the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal equipment to transmit the duration of the first data.

5. The method according to any of claims 1-4, characterized in that the transmission capabilities used by the terminal device are sized to be: the size of the frequency domain resource and/or space domain resource activated by the terminal equipment;

the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal equipment is as follows: the size of the frequency domain resource and/or the maximum available spatial domain resource that the terminal device can maximally use.

6. The method according to any of claims 1-5, wherein the transmission energy efficiency information further comprises one or more of: the terminal device is scheduled according to a first resource size, the terminal device is activated according to the first resource size, the terminal device is configured according to the first resource size, the terminal device transmission energy efficiency level, the terminal device service level, and the terminal device transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1-6, further comprising:

and sending reported transmission energy efficiency information to the terminal equipment, wherein the reported transmission energy efficiency information indicates the terminal equipment to send the transmission energy efficiency information.

8. A method of communication, the method comprising:

transmitting transmission energy efficiency information to access network equipment or core network equipment;

the transmission capacity ratio is a ratio of the size of the transmission capacity used by the terminal equipment to the size of the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal equipment;

the second energy efficiency ratio is a ratio of energy consumption corresponding to a first scheduling mode to energy consumption corresponding to a second scheduling mode, the first scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode with the minimum energy consumption in all resource scheduling modes of the terminal equipment, and the second scheduling mode is a resource scheduling mode used by the terminal equipment in all resource scheduling modes;

first information is received from the access network equipment, and the first information is used for indicating second resources.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the transmission capability is greater than a ratio of a desired transmission capability size for the terminal device to a maximum transmission capability size of the terminal device; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the transmission capability ratio is a ratio of a transmission capability size used by the terminal device in a first time period to a maximum transmission capability size of the terminal device; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

the resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size activated by the terminal device in a second time period, or a ratio of the first resource size scheduled by the terminal device to a first resource size configured by the terminal device in the second time period; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

11. The method according to any of claims 8-10, characterized in that the transmission capabilities used by the terminal device are of the size: the time length of the first data transmitted by the allocated resource of the terminal equipment;

12. The method according to any of claims 8-11, characterised in that the transmission capabilities used by the terminal device are sized to be: the size of the frequency domain resource and/or space domain resource activated by the terminal equipment;

the maximum transmission capacity of the terminal equipment is as follows: the size of the maximum available frequency domain resource and/or the maximum available spatial domain resource of the terminal device.

13. The method according to any of claims 8-12, wherein the transmission energy efficiency information further comprises one or more of: the terminal device is scheduled according to a first resource size, the terminal device is activated according to the first resource size, the terminal device is configured according to the first resource size, the terminal device transmission energy efficiency level, the terminal device service level, and the terminal device transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount.

14. The method according to any one of claims 8-13, further comprising:

receiving reported transmission energy efficiency information from access network equipment, wherein the reported transmission energy efficiency information indicates the terminal equipment to send the transmission energy efficiency information;

and sending the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network equipment.

15. A method of communication, comprising:

acquiring transmission energy efficiency information of terminal equipment;

wherein the transmission energy efficiency information includes one or more of: the energy efficiency ratio comprises a transmission capacity ratio, a resource scheduling ratio, a first energy efficiency ratio, a second energy efficiency ratio and a third energy efficiency ratio;

and sending the transmission energy efficiency information to access network equipment.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the obtaining transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal device includes:

receiving the transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal equipment; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

and determining the transmission energy efficiency information according to the subscription information of the terminal equipment.

17. A communications apparatus, comprising: the device comprises a receiving and sending module and a processing module; wherein, the first and the second end of the pipe are connected with each other,

the transceiver module is used for acquiring transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal equipment;

the transmission capability ratio is a ratio of a size of a transmission capability used by the terminal device to a size of a maximum transmission capability of the terminal device;

the processing module is configured to determine, according to the transmission energy efficiency information, a second resource allocated to the terminal device;

the transceiver module is further configured to send first information to the terminal device, where the first information is used to indicate the second resource.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the transmission capability is greater than a ratio of a desired transmission capability size for the terminal device to a maximum transmission capability size of the terminal device; alternatively, the first and second liquid crystal display panels may be,

The second energy efficiency ratio is the ratio of the energy consumption corresponding to the first scheduling mode expected by the terminal equipment to the energy consumption corresponding to the second scheduling mode; alternatively, the first and second liquid crystal display panels may be,

19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the transmission capability ratio is a ratio of a size of a transmission capability used by the terminal device for a first time period to a size of a maximum transmission capability of the terminal device; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

20. The arrangement according to any of claims 17-19, characterised in that the transmission capabilities used by the terminal device are sized to be: the duration of the first data transmission of the allocated resources of the terminal equipment;

21. The apparatus according to any of claims 17-20, wherein the transmission capabilities used by the terminal device are of the size: the size of the frequency domain resource and/or space domain resource activated by the terminal equipment;

22. The apparatus according to any of claims 17-21, wherein the transmission energy efficiency information further comprises one or more of: the scheduled first resource size of the terminal device, the activated first resource size of the terminal device, the configured first resource size of the terminal device, the transmission energy efficiency grade of the terminal device, the service grade of the terminal device, and the transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount of the terminal device.

23. The apparatus according to any one of claims 17 to 22, wherein the transceiver module is further configured to send, to the terminal device, reported transmission energy efficiency information, where the reported transmission energy efficiency information indicates that the terminal device sends the transmission energy efficiency information.

24. A communications apparatus, comprising: a transceiver module; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the transceiver module is used for sending transmission energy efficiency information to access network equipment or core network equipment;

the transceiver module is further configured to receive first information from the access network device, where the first information is used to indicate a second resource.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the transmission capability is greater than a ratio of a desired transmission capability size for the terminal device to a maximum transmission capability size of the terminal device; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

the resource scheduling ratio is a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device being scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device being activated, or a ratio of a first resource size, expected by the terminal device, of the terminal device being scheduled to a first resource size of the terminal device being configured; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

26. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the transmission capability ratio is a ratio of a size of a transmission capability used by the terminal device for a first time period to a size of a maximum transmission capability of the terminal device; alternatively, the first and second liquid crystal display panels may be,

27. The arrangement according to any of the claims 24-26, characterised in that the transmission capacity used by the terminal device is of the size: the time length of the first data transmitted by the allocated resource of the terminal equipment;

28. The apparatus according to any of claims 24-27, wherein the transmission capabilities used by the terminal device are of the size: the size of the frequency domain resource and/or space domain resource activated by the terminal equipment;

29. The apparatus according to any of claims 24-28, wherein the transmission energy efficiency information further comprises one or more of: the terminal device is scheduled according to a first resource size, the terminal device is activated according to the first resource size, the terminal device is configured according to the first resource size, the terminal device transmission energy efficiency level, the terminal device service level, and the terminal device transmission energy efficiency adjustment amount.

30. The apparatus according to any one of claims 24 to 29, wherein the transceiver module is further configured to receive reported transmission energy efficiency information from an access network device, where the reported transmission energy efficiency information indicates that the terminal device sends the transmission energy efficiency information;

the transceiver module is further configured to send the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network device.

31. A communications apparatus, comprising: a transceiver module and a processing module; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the processing module is used for acquiring transmission energy efficiency information of the terminal equipment;

the transmission capability ratio is a ratio of a transmission capability size used by a terminal device to a maximum transmission capability size of the terminal device;

and the transceiver module is used for sending the transmission energy efficiency information to the access network equipment.

32. The apparatus according to claim 31, wherein the processing module is further configured to control the transceiver module to receive the transmission energy efficiency information from the terminal device; alternatively, the first and second liquid crystal display panels may be,

the processing module is further configured to determine the transmission energy efficiency information according to subscription information of the terminal device.

33. A communications apparatus comprising a processor and a storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the method of any one of claims 1-16 to be implemented.

34. A computer-readable storage medium, comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the method of any of claims 1-16 to be implemented.

35. A computer program product, characterized in that it comprises instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the method of any of claims 1-16 to be implemented.