CN116567831A

CN116567831A - Paging method, paging device, terminal and wireless access network equipment

Info

Publication number: CN116567831A
Application number: CN202210102096.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 鲍炜
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-01-27
Filing date: 2022-01-27
Publication date: 2023-08-08

Abstract

The application discloses a paging method, a paging device, a terminal, a wireless access network device and a readable storage medium, which belong to the field of communication, wherein the paging method executed by the terminal in the embodiment of the application comprises the following steps: the terminal receives configuration information, wherein the configuration information comprises: bandwidth portions BWP corresponding to the different terminal types respectively; the terminal receives paging information on the BWP corresponding to the first terminal type; the first terminal type is a terminal type of a terminal.

Description

Paging method, paging device, terminal and wireless access network equipment

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to a paging method, a paging device, a paging terminal, wireless access network equipment and a readable storage medium.

Background

In a future mobile communication network, there may be multiple types of terminals with capabilities, since the maximum system bandwidths supported by the different types of terminals may be different, if all types of terminals configure only one bandwidth part (BWP) for receiving paging information (e.g., configure only one initial downlink bandwidth (initial downlink BWP)), the configured bandwidth may exceed the maximum system bandwidth supported by the low-capability terminal, thereby causing the low-capability terminal to fail to receive paging.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a paging method, a paging device, a paging terminal, network side equipment and a readable storage medium, which can avoid the problem that a low-capacity terminal cannot receive paging.

In a first aspect, a paging method is provided, the method comprising: the terminal receives configuration information, wherein the configuration information comprises: bandwidth portions BWP corresponding to the different terminal types respectively; the terminal receives paging information on BWP corresponding to the first terminal type; the first terminal type is the terminal type of the terminal.

In a second aspect, another paging method is provided, the method comprising: the first radio access network device sends configuration information, wherein the configuration information comprises: BWP corresponding to each different terminal type; the first wireless access network equipment acquires the terminal type of a terminal; and the first wireless access network equipment sends paging information of the terminal on BWP corresponding to a first terminal type, wherein the first terminal type is the terminal type of the terminal.

In a third aspect, there is provided a paging apparatus comprising: the receiving module is used for receiving configuration information, and the configuration information comprises: bandwidth portions BWP corresponding to the different terminal types respectively; the receiving module is further configured to receive paging information on a BWP corresponding to the first terminal type; the first terminal type is the terminal type of the terminal.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided another paging apparatus, comprising: the sending module is used for sending configuration information, and the configuration information comprises: BWP corresponding to each different terminal type; the acquisition module is used for acquiring the terminal type of the terminal; the sending module is further configured to send paging information of the terminal on a BWP corresponding to a first terminal type, where the first terminal type is a terminal type of the terminal.

In a fifth aspect, there is provided a terminal comprising a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the method as described in the first aspect.

In a sixth aspect, a terminal is provided, including a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is configured to receive configuration information, and the configuration information includes: bandwidth portions BWP corresponding to the different terminal types respectively; the communication interface is further configured to receive paging information on a BWP corresponding to the first terminal type; the first terminal type is the terminal type of the terminal.

In a seventh aspect, there is provided a radio access network device comprising a processor and a memory storing programs or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor implement the steps of the method as described in the second aspect.

An eighth aspect provides a radio access network device, including a processor and a communication interface, where the processor is configured to obtain a terminal type of a terminal; the communication interface is configured to send configuration information, where the configuration information includes: and the BWPs corresponding to different terminal types are also used for sending paging information of the terminal on the BWPs corresponding to the first terminal type, wherein the first terminal type is the terminal type of the terminal.

In a ninth aspect, there is provided a readable storage medium having stored thereon a program or instructions which when executed by a processor, performs the steps of the method according to the first aspect or performs the steps of the method according to the second aspect.

In a tenth aspect, there is provided a chip comprising a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface and the processor being coupled, the processor being for running a program or instructions to implement the method according to the first aspect or to implement the method according to the second aspect.

In an eleventh aspect, there is provided a computer program/program product stored in a non-volatile storage medium, the program/program product being executable by at least one processor to implement the steps of the paging method as described in the first aspect, or to implement the steps of the paging method as described in the second aspect.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal is configured with the BWP corresponding to each different terminal type and receives the paging information on the BWP corresponding to the terminal type of the terminal, so that the terminal can receive the paging information on the BWP with the terminal type being adapted, and the situation that the paging cannot be received by low capability can be avoided.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which embodiments of the present application are applicable;

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

fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart of another paging method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 shows a schematic structural diagram of a paging device according to an embodiment of the present application;

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

fig. 6 shows a schematic structural diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 shows a schematic hardware structure of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 shows a schematic hardware structure of a radio access network device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

Technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments in the present application are within the scope of the protection of the present application.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims, are used for distinguishing between similar objects and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the terms so used are interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein, and that the terms "first" and "second" are generally intended to be used in a generic sense and not to limit the number of objects, for example, the first object may be one or more. Furthermore, in the description and claims, "and/or" means at least one of the connected objects, and the character "/" generally means a relationship in which the associated object is an "or" before and after.

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

Fig. 1 shows a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which embodiments of the present application are applicable. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network device 12. The terminal 11 may be a mobile phone, a tablet (Tablet Personal Computer), a Laptop (Laptop Computer) or a terminal-side Device called a notebook, a personal digital assistant (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA), a palm top, a netbook, an ultra-mobile personal Computer (ultra-mobile personal Computer, UMPC), a mobile internet appliance (Mobile Internet Device, MID), an augmented reality (augmented reality, AR)/Virtual Reality (VR) Device, a robot, a Wearable Device (weather Device), a vehicle-mounted Device (VUE), a pedestrian terminal (PUE), a smart home (home Device with a wireless communication function, such as a refrigerator, a television, a washing machine, or a furniture), a game machine, a personal Computer (personal Computer, PC), a teller machine, or a self-service machine, and the Wearable Device includes: intelligent wrist-watch, intelligent bracelet, intelligent earphone, intelligent glasses, intelligent ornament (intelligent bracelet, intelligent ring, intelligent necklace, intelligent anklet, intelligent foot chain etc.), intelligent wrist strap, intelligent clothing etc.. Note that, the specific type of the terminal 11 is not limited in the embodiment of the present application. The network-side device 12 may comprise an access network device or a core network device, wherein the access network device 12 may also be referred to as a radio access network device, a radio access network (Radio Access Network, RAN), a radio access network function or a radio access network element. Access network device 12 may include a base station, a WLAN access point, a WiFi node, or the like, which may be referred to as a node B, an evolved node B (eNB), an access point, a base transceiver station (Base Transceiver Station, BTS), a radio base station, a radio transceiver, a basic service set (Basic Service Set, BSS), an extended service set (Extended Service Set, ESS), a home node B, a home evolved node B, a transmission and reception point (Transmitting Receiving Point, TRP), or some other suitable terminology in the art, and the base station is not limited to a particular technical vocabulary so long as the same technical effect is achieved, and it should be noted that in the embodiments of the present application, only a base station in an NR system is described as an example, and the specific type of the base station is not limited. The core network device may include, but is not limited to, at least one of: core network nodes, core network functions, mobility management entities (Mobility Management Entity, MME), access mobility management functions (Access and Mobility Management Function, AMF), session management functions (Session Management Function, SMF), user plane functions (User Plane Function, UPF), policy control functions (Policy Control Function, PCF), policy and charging rules function units (Policy and Charging Rules Function, PCRF), edge application service discovery functions (Edge Application Server Discovery Function, EASDF), unified data management (Unified Data Management, UDM), unified data repository (Unified Data Repository, UDR), home subscriber server (Home Subscriber Server, HSS), centralized network configuration (Centralized network configuration, CNC), network storage functions (Network Repository Function, NRF), network opening functions (Network Exposure Function, NEF), local NEF (or L-NEF), binding support functions (Binding Support Function, BSF), application functions (Application Function, AF), and the like. In the embodiment of the present application, only the core network device in the NR system is described as an example, and the specific type of the core network device is not limited.

The paging method, the paging device, the paging terminal, the paging network side equipment and the paging network side equipment are described in detail through some embodiments and application scenes of the embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a flowchart of a paging method provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the method is performed by a terminal, as shown in fig. 2, and the method includes the following steps:

step 21: the terminal receives the configuration information. Wherein the configuration information includes: the different terminal types each correspond to a bandwidth portion BWP.

As an alternative embodiment, the terminal type includes: reduced capability RedCap terminals or Non-reduced capability Non-RedCap terminals. It is understood that the terminal type indicates a RedCap terminal or a Non-RedCap terminal. It should be noted that a RedCap terminal is a low-complexity and low-cost terminal, and has a capability lower than that of a non-RedCap terminal, and is a low-capability terminal. For example, the maximum system bandwidth supported by the RedCAP terminal is 20MHz, and the maximum system bandwidth supported by the non-RedCAP terminal (e.g., 40 MHz) is higher than that of the RedCAP terminal.

Optionally, the RedCap terminal includes at least one of:

a RedCap terminal (1 rx RedCap terminal) having one receiving antenna;

A RedCap terminal (2 rx RedCap terminal) having two receiving antennas;

other terminals, which refer to terminals where the radio access network device can prohibit camping by broadcasting messages, in addition to the RedCap terminal having one or two receive antennas.

Alternatively, the terminal may receive configuration information from a radio access network device (e.g., a base station), through which the BWP corresponding to each of the different terminal types may be acquired. For example, the configuration information may include BWP1 corresponding to the RedCap terminal and BWP2 corresponding to the Non-RedCap terminal.

As an alternative embodiment, the configuration information may include a correspondence between the RedCap terminal and the BWP1 and a correspondence between the Non-RedCap terminal and the BWP2.

As an alternative embodiment, the terminal type may include: terminals that support reception of multicast broadcast services (Multicast and Broadcast Service, MBS) or terminals that do not support reception of MBS. The configuration information may include BWP3 corresponding to a terminal supporting the reception of the MBS and BWP4 corresponding to a terminal not supporting the reception of the MBS.

It should be noted that the BWP corresponding to each of the different terminal types may be the same or different. The present embodiment is not limited.

Optionally, the BWP is an initial downlink BWP (initial downlink BWP). That is, the configuration information received by the terminal includes initial downlink BWP corresponding to each of the different terminal types. For example, the configuration information may include initial downlink BWP corresponding to the RedCAP terminal and initial downlink BWP corresponding to the Non-RedCAP terminal. For another example, initial downlink BWP corresponding to terminals supporting MBS reception and initial downlink BWP corresponding to terminals not supporting MBS reception may be included in the configuration information.

Alternatively, the configuration information may be carried by a broadcast message, for example, the configuration information may be carried by SIB 1.

Optionally, the configuration information includes: configuration information of the cell in which the terminal resides

Step 22: and the terminal receives the paging message on the BWP corresponding to the first terminal type, wherein the first terminal type is the terminal type of the terminal.

As an alternative embodiment, if the terminal type of the terminal is a RedCap terminal, paging information is received on BWP1 corresponding to the RedCap terminal, and if the terminal type of the terminal is a Non-RedCap terminal, paging information is received on BWP2 corresponding to the Non-RedCap terminal.

Optionally, the paging information includes at least one of: page DCI (Paging DCI) and page PDSCH (Paging PDSCH). Note that, the paging DCI may be DCI transmitted by scheduling paging message (paging message), i.e., P-RNTI scrambled DCI. The Paging PDSCH may be a Paging message.

Optionally, the method further comprises: the terminal sends one or more of the following to the service core network and/or the service cell:

wireless access capability of the terminal;

terminal type of the terminal.

Wherein the radio access capability or the terminal type comprises one or more of the following:

a reduced capability RedCap terminal;

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

It should be noted that, the terminal may transparently transmit the radio access capability of the terminal and/or the terminal type of the terminal to the core network, or may first send the radio access capability and/or the terminal type of the terminal to the base station, and then the base station sends the radio access capability and/or the terminal type of the terminal to the core network, where the embodiment is not specifically limited.

The serving core network may be a core network device of a serving terminal, for example, may be an AMF or MME. The serving cell may be a cell or a base station serving the terminal.

In the embodiment of the application, the terminal is configured with the BWP corresponding to each of the different terminal types and receives the paging information on the BWP corresponding to the terminal type of the terminal, so that the terminal can receive the paging information on the BWP with the terminal type being adapted, and the situation that the low-capability terminal (such as a RedCap terminal and a terminal which does not support MBS reception) cannot receive the paging can be avoided.

Referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 is a flowchart of a paging method provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the method is performed by a radio access network device. As shown in fig. 3, the method comprises the steps of:

step 31: the first radio access network device sends configuration information, wherein the configuration information comprises: and the different terminal types respectively correspond to BWP.

Optionally, the terminal type includes: reduced capability RedCap terminals or Non-reduced capability Non-RedCap terminals.

It should be noted that, the RedCap terminal is a low-complexity and low-cost terminal, and its capability is lower than that of a non-RedCap terminal, for example, the maximum system bandwidth supported by the RedCap terminal is 20MHz, and the maximum system bandwidth supported by the non-RedCap terminal (for example, 40 MHz) may be higher than that of the RedCap terminal.

Optionally, the RedCap terminal includes at least one of:

a RedCap terminal (1 rx RedCap terminal) having one receiving antenna;

a RedCap terminal (2 rx RedCap terminal) having two receiving antennas;

Optionally, the first radio access network device may send configuration information to the terminal, so that the terminal may obtain the BWP corresponding to each of the different terminal types through the configuration information. For example, the configuration information may include BWP1 corresponding to the RedCap terminal and BWP2 corresponding to the Non-RedCap terminal.

Alternatively, the first radio access network device may be a base station to which the cell in which the terminal resides belongs. The configuration information may be configuration information of a cell in which the terminal resides.

As an alternative embodiment, the terminal type may include: terminals that support reception of multicast broadcast services (Multicast and Broadcast Service, MBS) or terminals that do not support reception of MBS.

Optionally, the BWP is an initial downlink BWP. That is, initial downlink BWP corresponding to each of the different terminal types may be included in the configuration information. For example, the configuration information may include initial downlink BWP corresponding to the RedCAP terminal and initial downlink BWP corresponding to the Non-RedCAP terminal. For another example, initial downlink BWP corresponding to terminals supporting MBS reception and initial downlink BWP corresponding to terminals not supporting MBS reception may be included in the configuration information.

Alternatively, the configuration information may be transmitted to the terminal by a broadcast message, for example, the configuration information may be transmitted by system information block 1 (System Information Block, sib1).

Step 32: the method comprises the steps that first wireless access network equipment obtains a terminal type of a terminal;

optionally, the acquiring, by the first radio access network device, the terminal type of the terminal includes:

the first radio access network device receives first information from a core network device or a second radio access network device, the first information being used to indicate at least one of: the wireless access capability of the terminal and the terminal type of the terminal;

and the first wireless access network equipment acquires the terminal type of the terminal according to the first information.

It should be noted that, the second radio access network device may be an anchor base station of the terminal, and the second radio access network device may send an Xn paging message to the first radio access network device through an Xn port, where the Xn paging message carries first information, so that the first radio access network device may obtain, through the first information, a terminal type of the terminal, and may determine, based on the obtained terminal type, on which BWP to send the air interface paging.

It should be noted that, the core network device may send an NG paging message to the first radio access network device through the NG port, where the NG paging message carries the first information, so that the first radio access network device may obtain, through the first information, a terminal type of the terminal, and may determine, based on the obtained terminal type, on which BWP to send the air interface paging.

Optionally, the radio access capability or the terminal type includes one or more of the following:

a reduced capability RedCap terminal;

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

The embodiment of the present application is not limited to the execution sequence of the steps, and for example, step 32 may be executed first and then step 31 may be executed.

Step 33: and the first wireless access network equipment sends paging information of the terminal on BWP corresponding to a first terminal type, wherein the first terminal type is the terminal type of the terminal.

Optionally, the paging information includes at least one of: paging DCI and paging PDSCH. Note that, the paging DCI may be DCI transmitted by scheduling paging message (paging message), i.e., P-RNTI scrambled DCI. The Paging PDSCH may be a Paging message.

In the embodiment of the application, by configuring the BWP corresponding to each of the different terminal types and sending the paging information on the BWP corresponding to the terminal type, the terminal can receive the paging message on the BWP adapted to the terminal type, so that the situation that the low-capability terminal (such as the RedCap terminal and the terminal which does not support MBS reception) cannot receive the paging can be avoided.

The paging device provided in the embodiment of the present application is described by taking the paging device as an example of executing the paging method.

Referring to fig. 4, fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a paging device provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the paging device 40 is applied to a terminal, as shown in fig. 4, and includes:

a receiving module 41, configured to receive configuration information, where the configuration information includes: bandwidth portions BWP corresponding to the different terminal types respectively;

the receiving module 41 is further configured to receive paging information on a BWP corresponding to the first terminal type; the first terminal type is the terminal type of the terminal.

Optionally, the terminal further includes a determining module, where the determining module is configured to determine a terminal type of the terminal.

Optionally, the RedCap terminal includes at least one of:

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

Optionally, the BWP is an initial downlink BWP.

Optionally, the configuration information includes: and the configuration information of the cell where the terminal resides.

Optionally, the paging device 40 further includes: a sending module, configured to send one or more of the following to a core network and/or a serving cell:

wireless access capability of the terminal;

terminal type of the terminal.

a RedCap terminal;

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

Optionally, the paging information includes at least one of: paging DCI and paging PDSCH.

The paging device 40 provided in this embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiment of fig. 2, and achieve the same technical effects, and for avoiding repetition, a detailed description is omitted herein.

Referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a paging apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application, where the paging apparatus 50 includes:

a sending module 51, configured to send configuration information, where the configuration information includes: BWP corresponding to each different terminal type;

an acquisition module 52, configured to acquire a terminal type of a terminal;

the sending module 51 is further configured to send paging information of the terminal on a BWP corresponding to a first terminal type, where the first terminal type is a terminal type of the terminal.

Optionally, the terminal type includes: a reduced capability RedCap terminal or a Non-reduced capability RedCap terminal;

optionally, the RedCap terminal includes at least one of:

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

Optionally, the BWP is an initial downlink BWP.

Optionally, the paging device 50 further includes: a receiving module, configured to receive first information from a core network device or a second radio access network device, where the first information is used to indicate at least one of: the wireless access capability of the terminal and the terminal type of the terminal;

the acquiring module 52 is configured to acquire a terminal type of the terminal according to the first information.

a reduced capability RedCap terminal;

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

The resource control device 50 provided in this embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiment of fig. 3, and achieve the same technical effects, and for avoiding repetition, a detailed description is omitted herein.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 6, the embodiment of the present application further provides a communication device 60, including a processor 61 and a memory 62, where the memory 62 stores a program or instructions that can be executed on the processor 61, for example, when the communication device 60 is a terminal, the program or instructions implement the steps of the embodiment shown in fig. 2 when executed by the processor 61, and achieve the same technical effects. When the communication device 60 is a radio access network device, the program or the instructions when executed by the processor 61 implement the steps of the embodiment shown in fig. 3, and achieve the same technical effects, and are not repeated here.

The embodiment of the application also provides a terminal, which comprises a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used for receiving configuration information, and the configuration information comprises: bandwidth portions BWP corresponding to the different terminal types respectively; the communication interface is further configured to receive paging information on a BWP corresponding to the first terminal type; the first terminal type is the terminal type of the terminal. The terminal embodiment corresponds to the terminal-side method embodiment, and each implementation process and implementation manner of the method embodiment can be applied to the terminal embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved. Specifically, fig. 7 is a schematic hardware structure of a terminal for implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The terminal 700 includes, but is not limited to: at least some of the components of the radio frequency unit 701, the network module 702, the audio output unit 703, the input unit 704, the sensor 705, the display unit 706, the user input unit 707, the interface unit 708, the memory 709, and the processor 710.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal 700 may further include a power source (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, and that the power source may be logically coupled to the processor 710 via a power management system so as to perform functions such as managing charging, discharging, and power consumption via the power management system. The terminal structure shown in fig. 7 does not constitute a limitation of the terminal, and the terminal may include more or less components than shown, or may combine certain components, or may be arranged in different components, which will not be described in detail herein.

It should be appreciated that in embodiments of the present application, the input unit 704 may include a graphics processing unit (Graphics Processing Unit, GPU) 7041 and a microphone 7042, with the graphics processor 7041 processing image data of still pictures or video obtained by an image capturing device (e.g., a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The display unit 706 may include a display panel 7061, and the display panel 7061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 707 includes at least one of a touch panel 7071 and other input devices 7072. The touch panel 7071 is also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 7071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 7072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, and so forth, which are not described in detail herein.

In this embodiment, after receiving downlink data from the network side device, the radio frequency unit 701 may transmit the downlink data to the processor 710 for processing; in addition, the radio frequency unit 701 may send uplink data to the network side device. Typically, the radio unit 701 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, an amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like.

The memory 709 may be used to store software programs or instructions and various data. The memory 709 may mainly include a first storage area storing programs or instructions and a second storage area storing data, wherein the first storage area may store an operating system, application programs or instructions (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.) required for at least one function, and the like. Further, the memory 709 may include volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or the memory 709 may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile 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. The volatile memory may be random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), static RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double Data Rate SDRAM (ddr SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (Enhanced SDRAM), synchronous DRAM (SLDRAM), and Direct RAM (DRRAM). Memory 709 in embodiments of the present application includes, but is not limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

Processor 710 may include one or more processing units; optionally, processor 710 integrates an application processor that primarily processes operations involving an operating system, user interface, application programs, and the like, and a modem processor that primarily processes wireless communication signals, such as a baseband processor. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 710.

The radio frequency unit 701 is configured to receive configuration information, where the configuration information includes: bandwidth portions BWP corresponding to the different terminal types respectively;

the radio frequency unit 701 is further configured to receive paging information on a BWP corresponding to the first terminal type; the first terminal type is the terminal type of the terminal.

Optionally, the RedCap terminal includes at least one of:

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

Optionally, the BWP is an initial downlink BWP.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 701 is further configured to send one or more of the following to the core network and/or the serving cell:

wireless access capability of the terminal;

terminal type of the terminal.

a RedCap terminal;

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

The embodiment of the application also provides a wireless access network device. As shown in fig. 8, the radio access network apparatus 800 includes: an antenna 801, a radio frequency device 802, a baseband device 803, a processor 804, and a memory 805. The antenna 801 is connected to a radio frequency device 802. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 802 receives information via the antenna 801, and transmits the received information to the baseband device 803 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 803 processes information to be transmitted, and transmits the processed information to the radio frequency device 802, and the radio frequency device 802 processes the received information and transmits the processed information through the antenna 801.

The method performed by the first node or the second node in the above embodiments may be implemented in a baseband apparatus 803, where the baseband apparatus 803 includes a baseband processor.

The baseband device 803 may, for example, comprise at least one baseband board, on which a plurality of chips are disposed, as shown in fig. 8, where one chip, for example, a baseband processor, is connected to the memory 805 through a bus interface, so as to invoke a program in the memory 805 to perform the network device operation shown in the above method embodiment.

The radio access network device may also include a network interface 806, such as a common public radio interface (common public radio interface, CPRI).

Specifically, the radio access network device 800 of the embodiment of the present invention further includes: instructions or programs stored in the memory 805 and executable on the processor 804, the processor 804 invokes the instructions or programs in the memory 805 to perform the methods performed by the modules shown in fig. 5 and achieve the same technical effects, and are not described herein in detail to avoid repetition.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a readable storage medium, where a program or an instruction is stored, and when the program or the instruction is executed by a processor, the program or the instruction implement each process of the method embodiment shown in fig. 2 or fig. 3, and the same technical effects can be achieved, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

Wherein the processor is a processor in the terminal described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes computer readable storage medium such as computer readable memory ROM, random access memory RAM, magnetic or optical disk, etc.

The embodiment of the application further provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to run a program or instructions, to implement each process of the method embodiment shown in fig. 2 or fig. 3, and to achieve the same technical effect, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

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

The embodiments of the present application further provide a computer program/program product, which is stored in a storage medium, and executed by at least one processor to implement the respective processes of the method embodiments shown in fig. 2 or fig. 3, and achieve the same technical effects, and are not repeated herein.

The embodiment of the application also provides a wireless communication system, which comprises: a terminal operable to perform the steps of the paging method as described in fig. 2, and a first radio access network device operable to perform the steps of the Gap information transmission method as described in fig. 3.

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

From the above description of the embodiments, it will be clear to those skilled in the art that the above-described embodiment method may be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, but of course may also be implemented by means of hardware, but in many cases the former is a preferred embodiment. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present application may be embodied essentially or in a part contributing to the prior art in the form of a computer software product stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk), comprising several instructions for causing a terminal (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device, etc.) to perform the method described in the embodiments of the present application.

The embodiments of the present application have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present application is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which are merely illustrative and not restrictive, and many forms may be made by those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit of the present application and the scope of the claims, which are also within the protection of the present application.

Claims

1. A paging method, comprising:

the terminal receives configuration information, wherein the configuration information comprises: bandwidth portions BWP corresponding to the different terminal types respectively;

the terminal receives paging information on BWP corresponding to the first terminal type; the first terminal type is the terminal type of the terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the terminal type comprises: reduced capability RedCap terminals or Non-reduced capability Non-RedCap terminals.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the method further comprises: the terminal sends one or more of the following to a serving core network and/or a serving cell:

wireless access capability of the terminal;

Terminal type of the terminal.

4. A method according to claim 3, characterized in that the radio access capability or the terminal type comprises one or more of the following:

a RedCap terminal;

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the RedCap terminal comprises at least one of:

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the BWP is an initial downstream BWP.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the paging information comprises at least one of: paging DCI and paging PDSCH.

8. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the configuration information comprises: and the configuration information of the cell where the terminal resides.

9. A paging method, comprising:

the first radio access network device sends configuration information, wherein the configuration information comprises: BWP corresponding to each different terminal type;

the first wireless access network equipment acquires the terminal type of a terminal;

and the first wireless access network equipment sends paging information of the terminal on BWP corresponding to a first terminal type, wherein the first terminal type is the terminal type of the terminal.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the terminal type comprises: reduced capability RedCap terminals or Non-reduced capability Non-RedCap terminals.

11. The method according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the first radio access network device obtaining a terminal type of a terminal comprises:

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the radio access capability or the terminal type comprises one or more of:

a reduced capability RedCap terminal;

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the RedCap terminal comprises at least one of:

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

14. The method according to any one of claims 9 to 13, wherein the BWP is an initial downstream BWP.

15. The method according to any of claims 9 to 13, wherein the paging information comprises at least one of: paging DCI and paging PDSCH.

16. The method according to any one of claims 9 to 13, wherein the configuration information comprises: and the configuration information of the cell where the terminal resides.

17. A paging device, comprising:

the receiving module is used for receiving configuration information, and the configuration information comprises: bandwidth portions BWP corresponding to the different terminal types respectively;

the receiving module is further configured to receive paging information on a BWP corresponding to the first terminal type;

the first terminal type is the terminal type of the terminal.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the device comprises a plurality of sensors,

the terminal type includes: reduced capability RedCap terminals or Non-reduced capability Non-RedCap terminals.

19. The apparatus according to claim 17 or 18, characterized in that the apparatus further comprises:

the sending module is used for sending one or more of the following to the service core network and/or the service cell:

wireless access capability of the terminal;

terminal type of the terminal.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the radio access capability or the terminal type comprises one or more of:

a RedCap terminal;

A RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

21. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the RedCap terminal comprises at least one of:

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

22. The device according to any one of claims 17 to 21, wherein the BWP is an initial downstream BWP.

23. The apparatus according to any one of claims 17 to 21, wherein the paging information comprises at least one of: paging DCI and paging PDSCH.

24. The apparatus according to any one of claims 17 to 21, wherein the configuration information comprises: and the configuration information of the cell where the terminal resides.

25. A paging device, the device comprising:

The sending module is used for sending configuration information, and the configuration information comprises: BWP corresponding to each different terminal type;

the acquisition module is used for acquiring the terminal type of the terminal;

the sending module is further configured to send paging information of the terminal on a BWP corresponding to a first terminal type, where the first terminal type is a terminal type of the terminal.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the device comprises a plurality of sensors,

the terminal type includes: a reduced capability RedCap terminal or a Non-reduced capability RedCap terminal;

27. the apparatus according to claim 25 or 26, characterized in that the apparatus further comprises:

a receiving module, configured to receive first information from a core network device or a second radio access network device, where the first information is used to indicate at least one of: the wireless access capability of the terminal and the terminal type of the terminal;

the acquisition module is used for acquiring the terminal type of the terminal according to the first information.

28. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the radio access capability or the terminal type comprises one or more of:

a reduced capability RedCap terminal;

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

A RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

29. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the RedCap terminal comprises at least one of:

a RedCap terminal having a receive antenna;

a RedCap terminal having two receive antennas;

30. The device according to any one of claims 25 to 29, wherein the BWP is an initial downstream BWP.

31. The apparatus according to any one of claims 25 to 29, wherein the paging information comprises at least one of: paging DCI and paging PDSCH.

32. The apparatus according to any one of claims 25 to 29, wherein the configuration information comprises: and the configuration information of the cell where the terminal resides.

33. A terminal comprising a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the paging method of any one of claims 1 to 8.

34. A radio access network device comprising a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the paging method of any one of claims 9 to 16.

35. A readable storage medium, characterized in that the readable storage medium stores thereon a program or instructions, which when executed by a processor, implements the paging method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, or the steps of the paging method according to any one of claims 9 to 16.