CN116671199A

CN116671199A - Communication method and communication device

Info

Publication number: CN116671199A
Application number: CN202180089067.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 谢曦; 常俊仁; 邝奕如
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-01-14
Filing date: 2021-01-14
Publication date: 2023-08-29
Also published as: WO2022151205A1

Abstract

The application provides a communication method and a communication device. The method may include: the terminal equipment determines first information, wherein the first information comprises paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment, or the first information is used for indicating the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment; the terminal device sends the first information to a first network device. According to the method provided by the application, the network can optimize the communication about paging false alarms.

Description

Communication method and communication device

Technical Field

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

Background

The paging mechanism has the problem of paging false alarm (false alarm), i.e. after the terminal receives and decodes the paging message, it finds that the network does not actually page the terminal. The terminal may generate unnecessary power consumption in case of a paging false alarm. The scheme for reducing the paging false alarm includes grouping terminals listening to the same paging occasion into different groups (groups), however, as the terminals move continuously or the number of terminals in the network changes, the network may not know the relevant information of the paging false alarm, thereby causing communication problems.

Disclosure of Invention

The present application provides a method of communication in an effort to optimize communication with respect to paging false alarms.

In a first aspect, a method of communication is provided, the method may include: the terminal equipment determines first information, wherein the first information comprises paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment, or the first information is used for indicating the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment; the terminal device sends the first information to a first network device.

Based on the technical scheme, the first information is reported to the network equipment through the terminal equipment, so that the network equipment can determine the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment according to the first information, and the network equipment can conveniently adjust the grouping of the terminal equipment according to the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment.

The paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment may include that the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is serious or that the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is normal. The paging false alarm of the terminal device may be severe as follows: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value. The paging false alarm of the terminal equipment can normally indicate that: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is smaller than a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is smaller than a second threshold value.

The paging false alarm condition of the terminal device indicated by the first information may include: the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in at least one cell where the terminal equipment resides, the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in at least one packet where the terminal equipment belongs, or the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet where the terminal equipment belongs.

Based on the technical scheme, the terminal equipment indicates the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in at least one cell and/or group to the network equipment through the first information, so that the network equipment can determine whether the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment in the at least one cell and/or group is serious according to the first information, thereby being convenient for the network equipment to adjust and optimize the at least one (cell) group so as to avoid the paging false alarm problem possibly occurring in the follow-up.

The paging false alarm information included in the first information may include the number of times the terminal device generates a paging false alarm and/or the probability of generating the paging false alarm.

In a possible implementation manner, the first information includes paging false alarm information, and the paging false alarm information may include paging false alarm information of the terminal device in a first period, where the first period includes a period of at least one preset duration.

Based on the technical scheme, the terminal equipment indicates the paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment in the first time period to the network equipment through the first information, so that the network equipment can determine whether the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment in the first time period is serious according to the first information, and the network equipment can conveniently adjust and optimize the terminal equipment grouping in the first time period, so that the paging false alarm problem possibly occurring in the follow-up process is avoided.

In another possible implementation manner, the paging false alarm information included in the first information includes: at least one first paging false alarm information, the at least one first paging false alarm information being cell specific. The first paging false alarm condition is cell specific, and it is also understood that the first paging false alarm condition corresponds to a cell. For example, the first paging false alarm condition may be in a one-to-one correspondence with the cells, or the first paging false alarm condition may be in a many-to-1 relationship with the cells.

In yet another possible implementation, the first information includes paging false alarm information including: at least one second paging false alarm information, the at least one second paging false alarm information being packet specific (group specific). The second paging false alarm condition is packet specific, and it is also understood that the second paging false alarm condition corresponds to a packet. For example, the second paging false alarm condition may be in a one-to-one correspondence with the packet, or the second paging false alarm condition may be in a many-to-1 relationship with the packet.

In yet another possible implementation, the first information includes paging false alarm information including: at least one third paging false alarm information, the at least one third paging false alarm information being cell-packet specific (group specific in cell). The third paging false alarm condition is cell-packet specific, and it is also understood that the third paging false alarm condition corresponds to a cell-packet. For example, the third paging false alarm condition may be in a one-to-one relationship with the cell-packet, or the third paging false alarm condition may be in a many-to-1 relationship with the cell-packet.

Based on the technical scheme, the terminal equipment indicates the paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment in at least one cell and/or group to the network equipment through the first information, so that the network equipment can determine whether the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment in the at least one cell and/or group is serious according to the first information, thereby being convenient for the network equipment to adjust and optimize the at least one (cell) group so as to avoid the paging false alarm problem possibly occurring in the follow-up.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the first information further includes information of at least one cell in which the terminal device resides and/or information of at least one packet to which the terminal device belongs.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, a cell corresponding to the paging false alarm information included in the first information is a cell that satisfies the following condition: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value. The cell corresponding to the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information is a cell meeting the following conditions: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.

Based on the technical scheme, the terminal equipment only reports the paging false alarm information of the cell meeting the preset condition in the first information, so that the reporting expense of the terminal equipment can be reduced.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the first aspect, the packet corresponding to the paging false alarm information included in the first information is a packet that satisfies the following condition: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value. The packet corresponding to the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information is a packet meeting the following conditions: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.

Based on the technical scheme, the terminal equipment only reports the paging false alarm information of the grouping meeting the preset condition in the first information, so that the reporting expense of the terminal equipment can be reduced.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementation manners of the first aspect, the method may further include: the terminal device receives first indication information from the second network device, where the first indication information is used to instruct the terminal device to determine the first information.

The first network device and the second network device may be the same network device or different network devices. For example, when the terminal device resides in cell 1, the first indication information from the second network device is received, and when the terminal device sends the first information, the terminal device remains in cell 1. That is, the first network device and the second network device are network devices to which the same cell belongs, i.e. the first network device and the second network device may be the same network device. For another example, the terminal device resides in cell 2 when it receives the first indication information from the second network device and when it sends the first information. That is, the first network device and the second network device are network devices to which different cells belong, i.e. the first network device and the second network device may be different network devices.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementation manners of the first aspect, the sending, by the terminal device, the first information to the first network device includes: if the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a third threshold value and/or the probability of the paging false alarm is larger than or equal to a fourth threshold value, the terminal equipment sends the first information to the first network equipment.

Based on the technical scheme, the terminal equipment sends the first information to the network equipment under the condition that the number and/or probability of paging false alarms exceeds a given threshold value, so that the network equipment can timely sense that the paging false alarms of the terminal equipment are serious, the network equipment can conveniently and timely perform special adjustment and optimization on the grouping of the terminal equipment, and the performance of a grouping mechanism of the terminal equipment is ensured.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementation manners of the first aspect, the method may further include: the terminal equipment receives second indication information from the first network equipment, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report the first information.

Based on the technical scheme, the network equipment triggers the terminal equipment to report the first information by sending the second indication information to the terminal equipment, so that the network equipment can acquire whether the paging false alarm of each cell and/or each packet is serious, thereby being convenient for the network equipment to adjust and optimize the packets of the terminal equipment from a network or system level so as to avoid the problem of the paging false alarm possibly occurring later.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementation manners of the first aspect, the method may further include: the terminal device sends third indication information to the first network device, where the third indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device determines the first information.

In a second aspect, a method of communication is provided, the method may include: the network equipment receives first information from terminal equipment, wherein the first information comprises paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment, or the first information is used for indicating the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment; and the network equipment determines the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment according to the first information.

In another possible implementation manner, the paging false alarm information included in the first information includes: at least one first paging false alarm information, the at least one first paging false alarm information being cell specific.

In yet another possible implementation, the first information includes paging false alarm information including: at least one second paging false alarm information, the at least one second paging false alarm information being packet specific (group specific).

In yet another possible implementation, the first information includes paging false alarm information including: at least one third paging false alarm information, the at least one third paging false alarm information being cell-packet specific (group specific in cell).

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the first information further includes information of at least one cell in which the terminal device resides and/or information of at least one packet to which the terminal device belongs.

With reference to the second aspect, in some implementations of the second aspect, a cell corresponding to the paging false alarm information included in the first information is a cell that satisfies the following condition: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value. The cell corresponding to the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information is a cell meeting the following conditions: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.

According to the technical scheme, the terminal equipment only reports the paging false alarm information of the cell meeting the preset condition in the first information, so that the reporting expense of the terminal equipment can be reduced.

With reference to the second aspect, in some implementations of the second aspect, the packet corresponding to the paging false alarm information included in the first information is a packet that satisfies the following condition: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value. The packet corresponding to the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information is a packet meeting the following conditions: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the method may further include: the network device sends first indication information to the terminal device, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating the terminal device to determine the first information.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the method may further include: the network device sends second indication information to the terminal device, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating the terminal device to report the first information.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the method may further include: the network device receives third indication information from the terminal, where the third indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device determines the first information.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the method may further include: the network device adjusts the grouping of the terminal device according to the first information.

Based on the technical scheme, the network equipment adjusts the grouping of the terminal equipment according to the first information, and is beneficial to the paging false alarm probability of the terminal equipment.

In a third aspect, a communication apparatus is provided, which may be a terminal device, or a component in a terminal device. The communication device may comprise individual modules or units for performing the method of the first aspect and any one of the possible implementations of the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, a communication apparatus is provided, which may be a network device, or a component in a network device. The communication device may comprise individual modules or units for performing the method of the first aspect and any one of the possible implementations of the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, a communication device is provided that includes a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory and operable to execute instructions in the memory to implement the method of the first aspect and any one of the possible implementations of the first aspect. Optionally, the communication device further comprises a memory. Optionally, the communication device further comprises a communication interface, and the processor is coupled to the communication interface.

In one implementation, the communication device is a terminal device. When the communication device is a terminal device, the communication interface may be a transceiver, or an input/output interface.

In another implementation, the communication device is a chip configured in the terminal device. When the communication device is a chip configured in a terminal apparatus, the communication interface may be an input/output interface.

Alternatively, the transceiver may be a transceiver circuit. Alternatively, the input/output interface may be an input/output circuit.

In a sixth aspect, a communication device is provided that includes a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory and operable to execute instructions in the memory to implement the method of the second aspect and any one of the possible implementations of the second aspect. Optionally, the communication device further comprises a memory. Optionally, the communication device further comprises a communication interface, and the processor is coupled to the communication interface.

In one implementation, the communication apparatus is a network device. When the communication apparatus is a network device, the communication interface may be a transceiver, or an input/output interface.

In another implementation, the communication device is a chip configured in a network device. When the communication device is a chip configured in a network apparatus, the communication interface may be an input/output interface.

In a seventh aspect, there is provided a processor comprising: input circuit, output circuit and processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive signals via the input circuit and to transmit signals via the output circuit, such that the processor performs the method of any one of the possible implementations of the first to second aspects.

In a specific implementation process, the processor may be one or more chips, the input circuit may be an input pin, the output circuit may be an output pin, and the processing circuit may be a transistor, a gate circuit, a flip-flop, various logic circuits, and the like. The input signal received by the input circuit may be received and input by, for example and without limitation, a receiver, the output signal may be output by, for example and without limitation, a transmitter and transmitted by a transmitter, and the input circuit and the output circuit may be the same circuit, which functions as the input circuit and the output circuit, respectively, at different times. The embodiment of the application does not limit the specific implementation modes of the processor and various circuits.

In an eighth aspect, a processing device is provided that includes a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to read instructions stored in the memory and is configured to receive signals via the receiver and to transmit signals via the transmitter to perform the method of any one of the possible implementations of the first to second aspects.

Optionally, the processor is one or more, and the memory is one or more.

Alternatively, the memory may be integrated with the processor or the memory may be separate from the processor.

In a specific implementation process, the memory may be a non-transient (non-transitory) memory, for example, a Read Only Memory (ROM), which may be integrated on the same chip as the processor, or may be separately disposed on different chips.

It should be appreciated that the related data interaction process, for example, transmitting the indication information, may be a process of outputting the indication information from the processor, and the receiving the capability information may be a process of receiving the input capability information by the processor. Specifically, the data output by the processor may be output to the transmitter, and the input data received by the processor may be from the receiver. Wherein the transmitter and receiver may be collectively referred to as a transceiver.

The processing means in the eighth aspect described above may be one or more chips. The processor in the processing device may be implemented by hardware or may be implemented 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, which may be integrated in the processor, or may reside outside the processor, and exist separately.

In a ninth aspect, there is provided a computer program product comprising: a computer program (which may also be referred to as code, or instructions) which, when executed, causes a computer to perform the method of any one of the possible implementations of the first to second aspects described above.

In a tenth aspect, a computer readable storage medium is provided, storing a computer program (which may also be referred to as code, or instructions) which, when run on a computer, causes the method of any one of the possible implementations of the first to second aspects described above to be performed.

An eleventh aspect provides a communication system comprising the aforementioned terminal device and network device.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a communication system suitable for use in the method of communication provided by an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 2 is a diagram of paging occasions and paging cycles.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a wake-up signal mechanism.

Fig. 4 shows a schematic flow chart of a method of communication provided by an embodiment of the application.

Fig. 5 shows a schematic flow chart of a method of communication provided by another embodiment of the application.

Fig. 6 shows a schematic flow chart of a method of communication provided by a further embodiment of the application.

Fig. 7 shows a schematic diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 8 shows a schematic block diagram of a communication device according to another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 9 shows a schematic diagram of a chip system according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical scheme of the application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The technical scheme provided by the application can be applied to various communication systems, such as: long term evolution (long term evolution, LTE) system, LTE frequency division duplex (frequency division duplex, FDD) system, LTE time division duplex (time division duplex, TDD), universal mobile telecommunications system (universal mobile telecommunication system, UMTS), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (worldwide interoperability for microwave access, wiMAX) telecommunications system, fifth generation (5th Generation,5G) mobile telecommunications system, or new radio access technology (new radio access technology, NR). The 5G mobile communication system may include a non-independent Networking (NSA) and/or an independent networking (SA), among others.

The technical scheme provided by the application can be also applied to machine type communication (machine type communication, MTC), inter-machine communication long term evolution (long term evolution-machine, LTE-M), device-to-device (D2D) network, machine-to-machine (machine to machine, M2M) network, internet of things (internet of things, ioT) network or other networks. The IoT network may include, for example, an internet of vehicles. The communication modes in the internet of vehicles system are generally called as vehicle to other devices (V2X, X may represent anything), for example, the V2X may include: vehicle-to-vehicle (vehicle to vehicle, V2V) communication, vehicle-to-infrastructure (vehicle to infrastructure, V2I) communication, vehicle-to-pedestrian communication (vehicle to pedestrian, V2P) or vehicle-to-network (vehicle to network, V2N) communication, etc.

The technical scheme provided by the application can also be applied to future communication systems, such as a sixth generation mobile communication system and the like. The application is not limited in this regard.

In the embodiment of the application, the network device can be any device with a wireless receiving and transmitting function. The apparatus includes, but is not limited to: an evolved Node B (eNB), a radio network controller (radio network controller, RNC), a Node B (Node B, NB), a base station controller (base station controller, BSC), a base transceiver station (base transceiver station, BTS), a home base station (home evolved NodeB, or a home Node B, HNB, for example), a Base Band Unit (BBU), an Access Point (AP) in a wireless fidelity (wireless fidelity, wiFi) system, a wireless relay Node, a wireless backhaul Node, a transmission point (transmission point, TP), or a transmission reception point (transmission and reception point, TRP), etc., may also be 5G, e.g., NR, a gNB in a system, or a transmission point (TRP or TP), one or a group of base stations (including multiple antenna panels) in a 5G system, or may also be a network Node constituting a gNB or a transmission point, such as a baseband unit (BBU), or a Distributed Unit (DU), etc.

In some deployments, the gNB may include a Centralized Unit (CU) and DUs. The gNB may also include an active antenna unit (active antenna unit, AAU). The CU implements part of the functionality of the gNB and the DU implements part of the functionality of the gNB, e.g. the CU is responsible for handling non-real time protocols and services, implementing radio resource control (radio resource control, RRC), packet data convergence layer protocol (packet data convergence protocol, PDCP) layer functions. The DUs are responsible for handling physical layer protocols and real-time services, implementing the functions of the radio link control (radio link control, RLC), medium access control (medium access control, MAC) and Physical (PHY) layers. The AAU realizes part of physical layer processing function, radio frequency processing and related functions of the active antenna. Since the information of the RRC layer may eventually become information of the PHY layer or be converted from the information of the PHY layer, under this architecture, higher layer signaling, such as RRC layer signaling, may also be considered to be transmitted by the DU or by the du+aau. It is understood that the network device may be a device comprising one or more of a CU node, a DU node, an AAU node. In addition, the CU may be divided into network devices in an access network (radio access network, RAN), or may be divided into network devices in a Core Network (CN), which the present application is not limited to.

The network device provides services for the cell, and the terminal device communicates with the cell through transmission resources (e.g., frequency domain resources, or spectrum resources) configured by the network device, where the cell may belong to a macro base station (e.g., macro eNB or macro gNB, etc.), or may belong to a base station corresponding to a small cell (small cell), where the small cell may include: urban cells (metro cells), micro cells (micro cells), pico cells (pico cells), femto cells (femto cells) and the like, and the small cells have the characteristics of small coverage area and low transmitting power and are suitable for providing high-rate data transmission services.

In the embodiment of the present application, the terminal device may also be referred to as a User Equipment (UE), an access terminal, a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, a mobile station, a remote terminal, a mobile device, a user terminal, a wireless communication device, a user agent, or a user equipment.

The terminal device may be a device providing voice/data connectivity to a user, e.g., a handheld device with wireless connectivity, an in-vehicle device, etc. Currently, some examples of terminals may be: a mobile phone (mobile phone), a tablet (pad), a computer with wireless transceiver function (e.g., a notebook, a palm, etc.), a mobile internet device (mobile internet device, MID), a Virtual Reality (VR) device, an augmented reality (augmented reality, AR) device, a wireless terminal in an industrial control (industrial control), a wireless terminal in an unmanned (self-drive), a wireless terminal in a telemedicine (remote medical), a wireless terminal in a smart grid (smart grid), a wireless terminal in a transportation security (transportation safety), a wireless terminal in a smart city (smart city), a wireless terminal in a smart home (smart home), a cellular phone, a cordless phone, a session initiation protocol (session initiation protocol, SIP) phone, a wireless local loop (wireless local loop, WLL) station, a personal digital assistant (personal digital assistant, PDA), a handheld device with wireless communication function, a computing device or other processing device connected to a wireless modem, a wireless terminal in a wearable device, a land-based device, a future-mobile terminal in a smart city (smart city), a public network (35G) or a future mobile communication device, etc.

The wearable device can also be called as a wearable intelligent device, and is a generic name for intelligently designing daily wearing and developing wearable devices by applying a wearable technology, such as glasses, gloves, watches, clothes, shoes and the like. The wearable device is a portable device that is worn directly on the body or integrated into the clothing or accessories of the user. The wearable device is not only a hardware device, but also can realize a powerful function through software support, data interaction and cloud interaction. The generalized wearable intelligent device includes full functionality, large size, and may not rely on the smart phone to implement complete or partial functionality, such as: smart watches or smart glasses, etc., and focus on only certain types of application functions, and need to be used in combination with other devices, such as smart phones, for example, various smart bracelets, smart jewelry, etc. for physical sign monitoring.

Furthermore, the terminal device may also be a terminal device in an internet of things (internet of things, ioT) system. IoT is an important component of future information technology development, and its main technical feature is to connect an item with a network through a communication technology, so as to implement man-machine interconnection and an intelligent network for object interconnection. IoT technology may enable massive connectivity, deep coverage, and terminal power saving through, for example, narrowband (NB) technology.

In addition, the terminal device may further include sensors such as an intelligent printer, a train detector, and a gas station, and the main functions include collecting data (part of the terminal device), receiving control information and downlink data of the network device, and transmitting electromagnetic waves to transmit uplink data to the network device.

To facilitate understanding of the embodiments of the present application, a communication system suitable for the communication method provided in the embodiment of the present application will be described in detail with reference to fig. 1. Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a communication system 100 suitable for use in the method provided by an embodiment of the application. As shown, the communication system 100 may include at least one network device, such as network device 101 shown in fig. 1; the communication system 100 may also comprise at least one terminal device, such as the terminal devices 102 to 107 shown in fig. 1. Wherein the terminal devices 102 to 107 may be mobile or stationary. One or more of network device 101 and terminal devices 102-107 may each communicate over a wireless link. Each network device may provide communication coverage for a particular geographic area and may communicate with terminal devices located within the coverage area. For example, the network device may send configuration information to the terminal device, and the terminal device may send uplink data to the network device based on the configuration information; as another example, the network device may send downstream data to the terminal device. Thus, the network device 101 and the terminal devices 102 to 107 in fig. 1 constitute one communication system.

Alternatively, the terminal devices may communicate directly with each other. Direct communication between the terminal devices may be achieved, for example, using D2D technology or the like. As shown in the figure, communication may be directly performed between the terminal devices 105 and 106 and between the terminal devices 105 and 107 using D2D technology. Terminal device 106 and terminal device 107 may communicate with terminal device 105 separately or simultaneously.

Terminal devices 105 to 107 may also communicate with network device 101, respectively. For example, may communicate directly with network device 101, as terminal devices 105 and 106 in the figures may communicate directly with network device 101; or indirectly with the network device 101, as in the figure the terminal device 107 communicates with the network device 101 via the terminal device 105.

It should be appreciated that fig. 1 illustrates schematically one network device and a plurality of terminal devices, as well as communication links between the communication devices. Alternatively, the communication system 100 may include a plurality of network devices, and the coverage area of each network device may include other numbers of terminal devices, such as more or fewer terminal devices. The application is not limited in this regard.

Each of the above-described communication apparatuses, such as the network apparatus 101 and the terminal apparatuses 102 to 107 in fig. 1, may be configured with a plurality of antennas. The plurality of antennas may include at least one transmitting antenna for transmitting signals and at least one receiving antenna for receiving signals. In addition, each communication device may additionally include a transmitter chain and a receiver chain, each of which may include a plurality of components (e.g., processors, modulators, multiplexers, demodulators, demultiplexers, antennas, etc.) associated with the transmission and reception of signals, as will be appreciated by one skilled in the art. Thus, communication between the network device and the terminal device may be via multiple antenna technology.

Optionally, the wireless communication system 100 may further include a network controller, a mobility management entity, and other network entities, which are not limited thereto according to the embodiments of the present application.

The following is a brief description of the terminology involved in the present application.

1. Dwell (camp):

the UE camps on a certain cell, meaning that the UE has completed the cell selection/reselection procedure and has selected a cell on which it can monitor system information (system information, SI) and in most cases paging (paging) information.

2. Paging: the network may notify the UE in RRC IDLE state (rrc_idle) or RRC deactivated state (rrc_inactive) to receive a paging message (paging message) through paging, or the network may send a short message (short message) to the UE in rrc_idle/rrc_inactive/RRC CONNECTED state (rrc_connected) through paging to indicate SI update or earthquake tsunami warning (earthquake and tsunami warning system, ETWS)/commercial mobile warning (commercial mobile alert service, CAMS).

As shown in fig. 2, a UE in an RRC idle state or an RRC deactivated state listens to one own Paging Occasion (PO) in each paging cycle (paging cycle) to determine whether the network is paged.

The UE calculates the PO position according to the UE identification information and paging related parameters according to a calculation formula specified by the protocol, the calculated PO positions of different UEs may be the same, i.e. a plurality of UEs can monitor the same PO.

The basic flow of paging is as follows:

(1) The network selects a certain paging range and sends paging downlink control information (downlink control information, DCI) in the PO.

Wherein:

the paging range is the area where the network sends pages. The area is determined by the network, for example, for RRC idle state UE, the network may use a Tracking Area (TA) to which the UE belongs as a paging range; for an RRC deactivated state UE, the network may take the RAN announcement area (RAN notification area, RNA) to which the UE belongs as a paging range.

The paging DCI may include scheduling information (including time-frequency domain information of resources for scheduling paging messages and other scheduling information) of paging messages and/or short messages, and the specific contents are shown in table 1:

TABLE 1

(2) After receiving paging DCI sent by a network, the UE determines subsequent operations according to the content of the paging DCI, wherein the subsequent operations are specifically as follows:

if the paging DCI contains the scheduling information of the paging message, the UE receives and decodes the paging message on a physical downlink shared channel (physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH) according to the scheduling information, and then determines the subsequent operation according to the content of the paging message. Wherein the paging message contains UE identification information of one or more UEs paged by the network and/or access type information of the paged UEs. After decoding the paging message, the UE determines whether the paging message contains its own UE identity:

If the paging message does not contain the own UE identification information, the UE ignores the paging message;

if the paging message contains own UE identification information, the UE determines subsequent operation according to other contents in the paging message.

If the paging DCI contains the short message, the UE receives updated system information and/or earthquake tsunami warning/commercial mobile warning according to the indication of the short message.

If the paging DCI comprises the scheduling information of the paging message, namely the short message, the UE respectively receives the paging message, updated system information and/or earthquake tsunami warning/commercial mobile warning according to a specified flow.

Paging can be classified into: core Network (CN) triggered CN paging; RAN triggered RAN paging. The network may initiate CN paging for UEs in the RRC idle state, and may initiate CN paging or RAN paging for UEs in the RRC deactivated state.

3. Wake Up Signal (WUS) mechanism:

the power saving signal (power saving signal) is a signal introduced for the purpose of power saving of the UE, and WUS belongs to one of the power saving signals. The WUS may be of various types including DCI, physical layer signal/sequence (sequence), MAC Control Element (CE), RRC signaling, etc. As shown in fig. 3, for the paging procedure, the network may send WUS before or on the PO, indicating whether the UE needs to monitor the PO or receive paging messages next, to the effect of avoiding unnecessary paging by the UE.

4. Paging false alarm:

the problem with the existing paging mechanism is that the paging false alarm (false alarm) is that after the UE receives and decodes the paging message, it finds that the network does not actually page the UE. It can also be said that the UE receives a paging message that does not belong to itself, and the UE is considered to have a paging false alarm.

The main reasons for the generation of the paging false alarm are as follows: when a plurality of UE monitors the same PO, according to the existing mechanism, the UE only obtains the scheduling information of the paging message when receiving the paging DCI, but cannot distinguish whether the paging message is for the paging message of the UE, and the UE only can judge whether the paging is for the UE according to the UE identification in the paging message after the paging message on the PDSCH is received and decoded later. Thus, for UEs that are not actually paged, there is unnecessary decoding of PDSCH reception, thereby resulting in unnecessary UE power consumption.

5. UE packet (UE grouping):

UE grouping is one of schemes for reducing paging false alarms. The basic idea and flow of the scheme are as follows:

UEs (listening to the same PO) are grouped, i.e. UEs (on the same PO) are grouped into different groups. One simple example: assuming that UE1, UE2, UE3, UE4 and UE5 monitor the same PO1, these UEs may be grouped into 3 groups, group1 containing UE1 and UE2, group2 containing UE3 and UE4, group3 containing UE5;

The network indicates the group related information of the UE to which the paging belongs when paging, wherein the group related information can be a group identifier and the like; the group related information may be carried in paging DCI or a power saving signal (e.g., WUS). One simple example: if the paging is specific to UE1, the network indicates the relevant information of group1 during paging; if the paging is specific to UE1 and UE5, the network indicates the related information of group1 and group3 during paging;

when receiving paging, the UE can judge whether the paging is directed at the group to which the UE belongs according to the related group indication information. If the paging message is aimed at the group to which the UE belongs, the UE receives and decodes the paging message according to the original mechanism; otherwise, if not for the group to which the UE belongs, the UE will not receive and decode the paging message any more.

Therefore, the scheme of UE grouping may reduce the probability that the UE unnecessarily receives and decodes the paging message, and thus may reduce additional power consumption of the UE.

The schemes for realizing the UE grouping are as follows:

mode 1: the network (e.g., base station) transmits/broadcasts parameters related to the UE packets (e.g., total number of packets); the UE calculates its own group, for example, its own group number, based on the parameters related to the UE group.

Mode 2: the network implementation assigns packets to the UE. For example, the network transmits a packet group number to which the UE belongs to the UE in the RRC-connected state, and the UE uses the group number obtained in the RRC-connected state after entering the RRC-idle state or the RRC-inactive state; alternatively, the network may send or update the packet group number to which the UE belongs to the UE in the RRC idle state or the RRC inactive state through paging, tracking area update (tracking area update, TAU), RAN-based notification area update (RAN-based notification area update, RNAU), or the like.

The embodiment of the application provides a communication method for optimizing communication about paging false alarms. The following describes a method of communication provided by an embodiment of the present application with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 4 shows a schematic flow chart of a method of communication provided by an embodiment of the application. As shown in fig. 4, the method 400 may include S410 to S430, and the respective steps are described in detail below.

S410, the terminal equipment determines first information.

The terminal device may be a terminal device in a non-connected state, for example, the terminal device may be a terminal device in an RRC idle state or a terminal device in an RRC inactive state.

In one possible implementation, the first information may include paging false alarm information of the terminal device. The paging false alarm information may include at least one of: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment and the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment. The number of times the terminal device generates a paging false alarm, i.e. the number of times the terminal device receives and decodes the paging message, but is not actually paged. Probability of paging false alarm = number of paging false alarms +.total number of paged.

The embodiment of the application does not limit the granularity of the paging false alarm information.

As one example, the paging false alarm information may include at least one first paging false alarm information that is cell specific (cell specific). That is, the paging false alarm information is counted with the cell as granularity. I.e. the first paging false alarm information may be counted for a cell in which the terminal device resides when the cell resides. In this case, the first paging false alarm information may include: the number of times the terminal device generates a paging false alarm in the resident cell and/or the probability that the terminal device generates a paging false alarm in the resident cell.

The at least one first paging false alarm information is cell specific, and it is also understood that the at least one first paging false alarm information corresponds to a cell. For example, the at least one first paging false alarm information may be in a one-to-one correspondence with the cells, or the at least one first paging false alarm information may be in a many-to-1 relationship with the cells.

For example, if the terminal device camps in cell 1, cell 2, and cell 3, the paging false alarm information may include three first paging false alarm information corresponding to the three cells respectively. I.e., paging false alarm information may include: the first paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 1, the first paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 2 and the first paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 3. Taking the first paging false alarm information when the terminal device resides in the cell 1 as an example, the first paging false alarm information when the terminal device resides in the cell 1 may include the number of times the terminal device generates a paging false alarm in the cell 1 and/or the probability of generating the paging false alarm.

For another example, the terminal device resides in all of the cells 1, 2 and 3, taking the example that the terminal device only counts the number of times of paging false alarms when counting paging false alarm information, if the number of times of paging false alarms generated by the terminal device in the cell 1 is the same as the number of times of paging false alarms generated by the terminal device in the cell 2, the number of times of paging false alarms generated by the terminal device in the cell 3 is different from the number of times of paging false alarms generated by the terminal device in the cell 1/2, the paging false alarm information may include two pieces of first paging false alarm information, wherein one piece of first paging false alarm information corresponds to the cell 1 and the cell 2, and the other piece of first paging false alarm information corresponds to the cell 3.

As yet another example, the paging false alarm information may include at least one second paging false alarm information that is packet specific (group specific). That is, paging false alarm information is counted with packet granularity. As described above, to reduce the probability of a terminal device to generate a paging false alarm, terminal devices (listening to the same PO) may be grouped. In the case that the network groups the terminal devices, the terminal devices may count paging false alarm information with the grouping as granularity. I.e. the second paging false alarm information may be counted for a packet when the terminal device belongs to the packet, in which case the second paging false alarm information may comprise: the number of times the terminal device has a paging false alarm within the packet and/or the probability that the terminal device has a paging false alarm within the packet.

The at least one second paging false alarm information is packet specific, and it is also understood that the at least one second paging false alarm information corresponds to a packet. For example, the at least one second paging false alarm information may be in a one-to-one relationship with the packet, or the at least one second paging false alarm information may be in a many-to-one relationship with the packet.

For example, if the packets to which the terminal device belongs include packet 1, packet 2, and packet 3, the paging false alarm information may include three second paging false alarm information corresponding to the three packets, respectively. I.e., paging false alarm information may include: the second paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment belongs to the group 1, the second paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment belongs to the group 2 and the second paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment belongs to the group 3. Taking the second paging false alarm information when the terminal device belongs to the packet 1 as an example, the second paging false alarm information when the terminal device belongs to the packet 1 may include the number of times of paging false alarms and/or the probability of paging false alarms when the terminal device belongs to the packet 1.

For another example, the packets to which the terminal device belongs include a packet 1, a packet 2, and a packet 3, taking the case that the terminal device only counts the number of times of paging false alarms when counting paging false alarm information, if the number of times of paging false alarms generated by the terminal device in the packet 1 is the same as the number of times of paging false alarms generated by the terminal device in the packet 2, the number of times of paging false alarms generated by the terminal device in the packet 3 is different from the number of times of paging false alarms generated by the terminal device in the packet 1/packet 2, the paging false alarm information may include two second paging false alarm information, where one second paging false alarm information corresponds to the packet 1 and the packet 2, and the other second paging false alarm information corresponds to the packet 3.

As another example, the paging false alarm information may include at least one third paging false alarm information that is cell-packet specific (group specific in cell). That is, the third paging false alarm information is counted with the packet in the cell as granularity. That is, the third paging false alarm information may be counted for a packet to which the terminal device belongs in a cell when the terminal device resides in the cell.

The at least one third paging false alarm information is cell-packet specific, and it is also understood that the at least one third paging false alarm information corresponds to a cell-packet. For example, the at least one third paging false alarm information may be in a one-to-one correspondence with the cell-packet, or the at least one third paging false alarm information may be in a many-to-1 relationship with the cell-packet.

For example, the terminal device camps on both cell 1 and cell 2, and the terminal device belongs to group 1 of cell 1 and group 2 of cell 1 when cell 1 camps on, and the terminal device belongs to group 1 of cell 2 when cell 2 camps on, the paging false alarm information may include: the third paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the group 1, the third paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the group 2, and the third paging false alarm information when the terminal resides in the cell 2 and belongs to the group 1.

For another example, the terminal device resides in both cell 1 and cell 2, and the terminal device belongs to the packet 1 of cell 1 and the packet 2 of cell 1 when the terminal device resides in cell 1, the terminal device belongs to the packet 1 of cell 2 when the terminal device resides in cell 2, taking the case that the number of times of paging false alarms is counted only when the terminal device counts paging false alarm information, if the number of times of paging false alarms generated by the terminal device in the packet 1 of cell 1 is the same as the number of times of paging false alarms generated by the packet 1 of cell 2, the number of times of paging false alarms generated by the terminal device in the packet 2 of cell 1 is different from the number of times of paging false alarms generated by the packet 2 of cell 1/the packet 2 of cell 2, the paging false alarm information may include two third paging false alarm information, wherein one third paging false alarm information corresponds to the packet 1 of cell 1 and the packet 1 of cell 2, and the other first paging false alarm information corresponds to the packet 2 of cell 1.

As yet another example, the paging false alarm information may include paging false alarm information of the terminal device within a first time period, the first time period including a time period of at least one preset duration. For example, the first time period may include time period 1 and time period 2, and the paging false alarm information may include: paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment in the time period 1 and paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment in the time period 2. The preset duration may depend on implementation of the terminal device, or the preset duration may be configured by the network device for the terminal device, or the preset duration may be defined by a protocol, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

Further, the paging false alarm information in the first period of time may include at least one first paging false alarm information, at least one second paging false alarm information, or at least one third paging false alarm information. For example, in the period 1, the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and the cell 2, and the paging false alarm information in the period 1 may include: the first paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 1 in the time period 1 and the first paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 2 in the time period 1. For another example, in the period 1, the packet to which the terminal device belongs includes the packet 1 and the packet 2, and the paging false alarm information in the period 1 may include: the second paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment belongs to the group 1 in the time period 1 and the second paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment belongs to the group 2 in the time period 1. For another example, in the period 1, the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and the cell 2, and the terminal device belongs to the group 1 and the group 2 when the terminal device belongs to the group 1 when the terminal device belongs to the group 2, the paging false alarm information in the period 1 may include: the third paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment in the packet 1 of the cell 1 in the time period 1, the third paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment in the packet 2 of the cell 1 in the time period 1, and the third paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment in the packet 1 of the cell 2 in the time period 1.

It may be understood that, if the terminal device may reside in a plurality of cells, the paging false alarm information included in the first information may include paging false alarm information corresponding to the plurality of cells, or the paging false alarm information included in the first information may include paging false alarm information corresponding to a part of cells in the plurality of cells. Or, the packet to which the terminal device belongs may include a plurality of packets, and the paging false alarm information included in the first information may include paging false alarm information corresponding to the plurality of packets, or the paging false alarm information included in the first information may include paging false alarm information corresponding to a part of packets in the plurality of packets.

As an example, the paging false alarm information included in the first information corresponds to a cell and/or a packet to which the terminal device camps after receiving the indication information #1 (i.e., the first indication information). The instruction information #1 is transmitted from the network device #2 (i.e., the second network device) to the terminal device, and the instruction information #1 is used to instruct the terminal device to determine the first information. It will be appreciated that if the terminal device does not receive the indication information #1, the terminal device does not determine the first information. The indication information #1 may be transmitted by the network device #2 in a broadcast manner, or may be transmitted by the network device #2 to the terminal device in a unicast manner.

For example, the terminal device resides in cell 1, cell 2 and cell 3 in succession. If the terminal device resides in the cell 2 and receives the indication information #1 from the network device #2, the paging false alarm information included in the first information may include: first paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment resides in cell 2, and first paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment resides in cell 3.

For another example, the terminal devices belong to group 1, group 2 and group 3 in succession. If the terminal device receives the indication information #1 from the network device #2 when the terminal device belongs to the packet 1, the paging false alarm information included in the first information may include: the second paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment belongs to the group 1, the second paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment belongs to the group 2 and the second paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment belongs to the group 3.

For another example, the terminal device resides in cell 1 and then cell 2. The terminal device belongs to the group 1 and the group 2 in sequence when residing in the cell 1, the terminal device belongs to the group 1 when residing in the cell 2, if the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the group 2, the indication information #1 from the network device #2 is received, and the paging false alarm information included in the first information may include: the third paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the group 2, and the third paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 2 and belongs to the group 1.

Alternatively, the indication information #1 is used to indicate whether the terminal device determines the first information. If the indication information #1 is used for indicating the terminal equipment to determine the first information, the terminal equipment determines the first information after receiving the indication information # 1; if the indication information #1 is used for indicating that the terminal device does not determine the first information, the terminal device does not determine the first information after receiving the indication information # 1. For example, the indication information #1 may be 1-bit information, and if the indication information #1 is "0", the indication information #1 instructs the terminal device to determine the first information; if the instruction information #1 is "1", the instruction information #1 instructs the terminal device to determine the first information. Or if the indication information #1 is "1", the indication information #1 indicates the terminal device to determine the first information; if the instruction information #1 is "0", the instruction information #1 instructs the terminal device not to determine the first information.

As another example, the paging false alarm information included in the first information corresponds to a cell and/or a packet to which the terminal device camps when receiving the indication information # 1.

For example, the terminal device resides in cell 1, cell 2 and cell 3 in succession. If the terminal device does not receive the indication information #1 when camping on the cell 1 and the cell 3, and the terminal device receives the indication information #1 from the network device #2 when camping on the cell 2, the paging false alarm information included in the first information may include: first paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment resides in cell 2.

For another example, the terminal devices belong to group 1, group 2 and group 3 in succession. If the terminal device belongs to the indication information #1 received from the network device #2 when belonging to the packet 1, and the terminal device does not receive the indication information #1 when belonging to the packet 2 and the packet 3, the paging false alarm information included in the first information may include: the terminal device belongs to the second paging false alarm information when the packet 1.

For another example, the terminal device resides in cell 1 and cell 2 sequentially, the terminal device resides in cell 1 in group 1 and in group 2 sequentially, and the terminal device resides in cell 2 in group 1. If the terminal device receives the indication information #1 from the network device #2 when the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the packet 2, and the terminal device does not receive the indication information #1 when the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the packet 1, the paging false alarm information included in the first information may include: the terminal equipment resides in cell 1 and belongs to the third paging false alarm information when packet 2.

As yet another example, the cell corresponding to the paging false alarm information included in the first information is a cell satisfying the following condition: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.

For example, the terminal device resides in cell 1, cell 2 and cell 3 in succession. If the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment in the cell 1 is greater than or equal to the first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm is greater than the second threshold value, the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment in the cell 2 and the cell 3 is less than the first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm is less than the second threshold value, the paging false alarm information included in the first information may include: first paging false alarm information when the terminal equipment resides in cell 1.

As yet another example, the packet corresponding to the paging false alarm information included in the first information is a packet satisfying the following condition: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.

For example, the terminal device belongs to group 1, group 2 and group 3 in succession. If the number of times of paging false alarms is greater than a first threshold when the terminal device belongs to the packet 1, and/or the probability of paging false alarms is greater than a second threshold when the terminal device belongs to the packet 2 and the packet 3, the number of times of paging false alarms is less than the first threshold, and/or the probability of paging false alarms is less than the second threshold, the paging false alarm information included in the first information may include: the terminal device belongs to the second paging false alarm information when the packet 1.

For another example, the terminal device resides in cell 1 and cell 2 sequentially, the terminal device resides in cell 1 in group 1 and in group 2 sequentially, and the terminal device resides in cell 2 in group 1. If the number of times of paging false alarms is greater than the first threshold when the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the packet 2, and/or the probability of paging false alarms is greater than the second threshold when the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the packet 1, and the number of times of paging false alarms is less than the first threshold when the terminal device resides in the cell 2 and belongs to the packet 1, and/or the probability of paging false alarms is less than the second threshold, and the indication information #1 is not received, the paging false alarm information included in the first information may include: the terminal equipment resides in cell 1 and belongs to the third paging false alarm information when packet 2.

In one possible implementation, the first information may be used to indicate a paging false alarm condition of the terminal device. Paging false alarm conditions may include severe paging false alarms or normal paging false alarms. The paging false alarm severity may indicate: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value. The paging false alarm may normally indicate: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is smaller than a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is smaller than a second threshold value.

The embodiment of the application does not limit the mode of the first information indicating the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment.

As an example, the first information may be used to indicate that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is severe. For example, the first information may include information of at least one cell and/or at least one packet to which the terminal device resides, to indicate that paging false alarms of the terminal device in the at least one cell and/or the at least one packet are serious. For example, the first information may include information of the cell 1 to indicate that the paging false alarm of the terminal device in the cell 1 is serious.

As yet another example, the first information may be used to indicate whether the terminal device pages severely for false alarms. For example, the first information may be 1-bit information, and if the first information is "0", the first information indicates that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is serious; if the first information is "1", the first information indicates that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is normal. Or if the first information is "1", the first information indicates that the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is serious; if the first information is "0", the first information indicates that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is normal.

The embodiment of the application does not limit the granularity of the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information.

As an example, the paging false alarm condition may include a first paging false alarm condition of the terminal device in at least one cell in which the terminal device resides. That is, the first paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may be cell specific.

The first paging false alarm condition is cell specific, and it is also understood that the first paging false alarm condition corresponds to a cell. For example, the first paging false alarm condition may be in a one-to-one correspondence with the cells, or the first paging false alarm condition may be in a many-to-1 relationship with the cells.

For example, the terminal device has camping on cell 1, cell 2 and cell 3. The paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include first paging false alarm conditions corresponding to the three cells, respectively. I.e. the first information may be used to indicate: the first paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the cell 1, the first paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the cell 2 and the first paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the cell 3. Taking the first paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the cell 1 as an example, the first paging false alarm condition of the cell 1 is determined according to the number of times of paging false alarms of the terminal equipment in the cell 1 and/or the probability of paging false alarms. If the number of times that the terminal equipment generates the paging false alarm in the cell 1 is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability that the terminal equipment generates the paging false alarm in the cell 1 is greater than or equal to a second threshold value, the first paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the cell 1 is that the paging false alarm is serious. If the number of times that the terminal equipment generates the paging false alarm in the cell 1 is smaller than a first threshold value, and/or if the probability that the terminal equipment generates the paging false alarm in the cell 1 is smaller than a second threshold value, the first paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the cell 1 is that the paging false alarm is normal.

For another example, the terminal device resides in all of the cells 1, 2 and 3, and takes the case that the terminal device determines the paging false alarm condition according to the number of times of paging false alarms, if the number of times of paging false alarms respectively generated by the terminal device in the cells 1 and 2 is greater than or equal to a first threshold, and the number of times of paging false alarms generated by the terminal device in the cell 3 is less than the first threshold, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include two first paging false alarm conditions, where one first paging false alarm condition corresponds to the cells 1 and 2, and the other first paging false alarm condition corresponds to the cell 3.

As yet another example, the paging false alarm condition may include a second paging false alarm condition of the terminal device at the at least one packet to which the terminal device belongs. That is, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may be packet specific.

The second paging false alarm condition is packet specific, and it is also understood that the second paging false alarm condition corresponds to a packet. For example, the second paging false alarm condition may be in a one-to-one correspondence with the packet, or the second paging false alarm condition may be in a many-to-1 relationship with the packet.

For example, the packets to which the terminal device belongs include packet 1, packet 2, and packet 3, and the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include three second paging false alarm conditions corresponding to the three packets, respectively. I.e. the first information may be used to indicate: the second paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 1, the second paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 2 and the second paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 3. Taking the second paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 1 as an example, the second paging false alarm condition of the packet 1 is determined according to the number of times of paging false alarms of the terminal equipment in the packet 1 and/or the probability of paging false alarms. If the number of times that the terminal equipment generates the paging false alarm in the packet 1 is greater than or equal to the first threshold value, and/or the probability that the terminal equipment generates the paging false alarm in the packet 1 is greater than or equal to the second threshold value, the second paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 1 is that the paging false alarm is serious. If the number of times that the terminal equipment generates the paging false alarm in the packet 1 is smaller than the first threshold value, and/or if the probability that the terminal equipment generates the paging false alarm in the packet 1 is smaller than the second threshold value, the second paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 1 is that the paging false alarm is normal.

For example, if the number of times that the terminal device generates the paging false alarm in the packet 1 and the packet 2 is greater than or equal to the first threshold, and the number of times that the terminal device generates the paging false alarm in the packet 3 is less than the first threshold, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include two second paging false alarm conditions, where one second paging false alarm condition corresponds to the packet 1 and the packet 2, and the other second paging false alarm condition corresponds to the packet 3.

As yet another example, the paging false alarm condition may include a third paging false alarm condition of a packet to which the terminal device belongs in at least one cell. That is, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may be cell-packet specific.

The third paging false alarm condition is cell-packet specific, and it is also understood that the third paging false alarm condition corresponds to a cell-packet. For example, the third paging false alarm condition may be in a one-to-one relationship with the cell-packet, or the third paging false alarm condition may be in a many-to-1 relationship with the cell-packet.

For example, the terminal device resides in both cell 1 and cell 2, and the terminal device belongs to group 1 of cell 1 and group 2 of cell 1 when cell 1 resides, and the terminal device belongs to group 1 of cell 2 when cell 2 resides, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include: the third paging false alarm condition when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the group 1, the third paging false alarm condition when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the group 2, and the third paging false alarm condition when the terminal resides in the cell 2 and belongs to the group 1.

For another example, the terminal device has camping on both cell 1 and cell 2, and the terminal device belongs to group 1 of cell 1 and group 2 of cell 1 when cell 1 camps on cell 2, and the terminal device belongs to group 1 of cell 2 when cell 2 camps on cell 2. Taking the example that the terminal equipment determines the paging false alarm condition according to the number of times of paging false alarms, if the number of times of paging false alarms which occur in the cell 1 and belong to the packet 1 and the number of times of paging false alarms which occur in the cell 2 and belong to the packet 1 are both greater than or equal to a first threshold, and the number of times of paging false alarms which occur in the cell 1 and belong to the packet 2 of the terminal equipment is smaller than the first threshold, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include two third paging false alarm conditions, wherein one third paging false alarm condition corresponds to the packet 1 of the cell 1 and the packet 1 of the cell 2, and the other third paging false alarm condition corresponds to the packet 2 of the cell 1.

As yet another example, the paging false alarm condition may include a paging false alarm condition of the terminal device within a first time period, the first time period including a time period of at least one preset duration. For example, the first time period may include time period 1 and time period 2, and the first information indicating the paging false alarm condition may include: the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the time period 1 and the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the time period 2. The preset duration may depend on implementation of the terminal device, or the preset duration may be configured by the network device for the terminal device, or the preset duration may be defined by a protocol, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

Further, the paging false alarm condition within the first period of time may include at least one first paging false alarm condition, at least one second paging false alarm condition, or at least one third paging false alarm condition. For example, in the period 1, the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and the cell 2, and the paging false alarm condition in the period 1 may include: the first paging false alarm condition when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 1 in the time period 1, and the first paging false alarm condition when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 2 in the time period 1. For another example, in the period 1, the packet to which the terminal device belongs includes the packet 1 and the packet 2, and the paging false alarm condition in the period 1 may include: the second paging false alarm condition when the terminal equipment belongs to the group 1 in the time period 1, and the second paging false alarm condition when the terminal equipment belongs to the group 2 in the time period 1. For another example, in the period 1, the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and the cell 2, and the terminal device belongs to the group 1 and the group 2 when the terminal device belongs to the group 1 when the terminal device belongs to the group 2, then the paging false alarm condition in the period 1 may include: the third paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 1 of the cell 1 in the time period 1, the third paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 2 of the cell 1 in the time period 1, and the third paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 1 of the cell 2 in the time period 1.

It may be understood that, if the terminal device may reside in a plurality of cells, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include paging false alarm conditions corresponding to the plurality of cells, or the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include paging false alarm conditions corresponding to some cells in the plurality of cells. Or, the packet to which the terminal device belongs may include a plurality of packets, and the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include paging false alarm conditions corresponding to the plurality of packets, or the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include paging false alarm conditions corresponding to a part of packets in the plurality of packets.

As an example, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information corresponds to a cell and/or a packet to which the terminal device resides after receiving the indication information # 1. The instruction information #1 is transmitted from the network device #2 to the terminal device, and the instruction information #1 is used to instruct the terminal device to determine the first information. It will be appreciated that if the terminal device does not receive the indication information #1, the terminal device does not determine the first information.

For example, the terminal device resides in cell 1, cell 2 and cell 3 in succession. If the terminal device is camping in the cell 2 and receives the indication information #1 from the network device #2, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include: the first paging false alarm condition when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 2 and the first paging false alarm condition when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 3.

For another example, the terminal devices belong to group 1, group 2 and group 3 in succession. If the terminal device receives the indication information #1 from the network device #2 when the terminal device belongs to the packet 1, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include: the second paging false alarm condition when the terminal equipment belongs to the group 1, the second paging false alarm condition when the terminal equipment belongs to the group 2 and the second paging false alarm condition when the terminal equipment belongs to the group 3.

For another example, the terminal device resides in cell 1 and then cell 2. The terminal device belongs to the group 1 and the group 2 in sequence when residing in the cell 1, the terminal device belongs to the group 1 when residing in the cell 2, if the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the group 2, the terminal device receives the indication information #1 from the network device #2, and the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include: the third paging false alarm condition when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the group 2, and the third paging false alarm condition when the terminal equipment resides in the cell 2 and belongs to the group 1.

Alternatively, the indication information #1 is used to indicate whether the terminal device determines the first information. If the indication information #1 is used for indicating the terminal equipment to determine the first information, the terminal equipment determines the first information after receiving the indication information # 1; if the indication information #1 is used for indicating that the terminal device does not determine the first information, the terminal device does not determine the first information after receiving the indication information # 1. For example, the indication information #1 may be 1-bit information, and if the indication information #1 is "0", the indication information #1 instructs the terminal device to determine the first information; if the instruction information #1 is "1", the instruction information #1 instructs the terminal device to determine the first information. Or if the indication information #1 is "1", the indication information #1 indicates that the terminal device does not need to determine the first information; if the instruction information #1 is "0", the instruction information #1 instructs the terminal device to determine the first information.

As another example, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information corresponds to a cell and/or a packet to which the terminal device resides when receiving the indication information # 1.

For example, the terminal device resides in cell 1, cell 2 and cell 3 in succession. If the terminal device does not receive the indication information #1 when camping on the cell 1 and the cell 3, and the terminal device receives the indication information #1 from the network device #2 when camping on the cell 2, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include: first paging false alarm condition when terminal equipment resides in cell 2.

For another example, the terminal devices belong to group 1, group 2 and group 3 in succession. If the terminal device belongs to the indication information #1 received from the network device #2 when belonging to the packet 1, and the terminal device does not receive the indication information #1 when belonging to the packet 2 and the packet 3, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include: the terminal device belongs to the second paging false alarm condition when the packet 1.

For another example, the terminal device resides in cell 1 and cell 2 sequentially, the terminal device resides in cell 1 in group 1 and in group 2 sequentially, and the terminal device resides in cell 2 in group 1. If the terminal device receives the indication information #1 from the network device #2 when the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the packet 2, and the terminal device does not receive the indication information #1 when the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the packet 1, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include: the terminal equipment resides in cell 1 and belongs to the third paging false alarm condition when packet 2.

As yet another example, the cell corresponding to the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information is a cell satisfying the following conditions: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.

For example, the terminal device resides in cell 1, cell 2 and cell 3 in succession. If the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal device in the cell 1 is greater than or equal to the first threshold, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm is greater than the second threshold, the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal device in the cell 2 and the cell 3 is less than the first threshold, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm is less than the second threshold, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include: first paging false alarm condition when terminal equipment resides in cell 1.

As yet another example, the packet corresponding to the paging false alarm condition included in the first information is a packet satisfying the following condition: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.

For example, the terminal device belongs to group 1, group 2 and group 3 in succession. If the number of times of paging false alarms is greater than a first threshold when the terminal device belongs to the packet 1, and/or the probability of paging false alarms is greater than a second threshold when the terminal device belongs to the packet 2 and the packet 3, the number of times of paging false alarms is less than the first threshold, and/or the probability of paging false alarms is less than the second threshold, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include: the terminal device belongs to the second paging false alarm condition when the packet 1.

For another example, the terminal device resides in cell 1 and cell 2 sequentially, the terminal device resides in cell 1 in group 1 and in group 2 sequentially, and the terminal device resides in cell 2 in group 1. If the number of times of paging false alarms is greater than the first threshold when the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the packet 2, and/or the probability of paging false alarms is greater than the second threshold when the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the packet 1, and the number of times of paging false alarms is less than the first threshold when the terminal device resides in the cell 2 and belongs to the packet 1, and/or the probability of paging false alarms is less than the second threshold, and the indication information #1 is not received, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information may include: the terminal equipment resides in cell 1 and belongs to the third paging false alarm condition when packet 2.

Optionally, the first information may further include information of at least one cell in which the terminal device resides and/or information of at least one packet to which the terminal device belongs. The information of the cell may include at least one of: physical cell identity (physical cell identifier, PCI), cell global identity (cell global identifier, CGI), public land mobile network (public land mobile network, PLMN) to which the cell belongs. The information of the packet may include a group number of the packet.

Specifically, the first information may include information of a cell corresponding to the paging false alarm information included in the first information, or the first information may include information of a cell corresponding to the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information. For example, the paging false alarm information included in the first information includes: the first paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment in the cell 1 and the first paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment in the cell 2 may include the information of the cell 1 and the cell 2.

Alternatively, the first information may include information of a packet corresponding to paging false alarm information included in the first information, or the first information may include information of a packet corresponding to paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information. For example, the paging false alarm information included in the first information includes: the first information may include information of the packet 1 and the packet 2 if the terminal device is in the second paging false alarm information of the packet 1 and the terminal device is in the second paging false alarm information of the packet 2.

Alternatively, the first information may include cell-packet information corresponding to paging false alarm information included in the first information, or the first information may include cell-packet information corresponding to paging false alarm conditions indicated by the first information. For example, the paging false alarm information included in the first information includes: the first information may include information of the packet 1 of the cell 1 and the packet 1 of the cell 2 if the terminal device is in the third paging false alarm information of the packet 1 of the cell 1 and the third paging false alarm information of the terminal device is in the cell 2. It will be appreciated that the information of group 1 of cell 1 includes information of cell 1 and information of group 1. The information of the packet 1 of the cell 1 includes the information of the cell 2 and the information of the packet 1.

Optionally, in some specific cases, the terminal device does not determine the first information. For example, if the total number of packets (under a certain cell) has reached a maximum value, the terminal device does not determine the first information.

S420, the terminal equipment sends the first information. Accordingly, in S420, the network device #1 (i.e., the first network device) receives the first information.

The network device #1 may be the same network device as the network device #2 described in S410 above, or may be a different network device. For example, when the terminal device resides in cell 1, the indication information #1 from the network device #2 is received, and when the terminal device transmits the first information, it remains in cell 1. That is, network device #1 and network device #2 are network devices to which the same cell belongs, i.e., network device #1 and network device #2 may be the same network device. For another example, when the terminal device resides in cell 1, the terminal device receives the indication information #1 from the network device #2, and when the terminal device transmits the first information, it resides in cell 2. That is, network device #1 and network device #2 are network devices to which different cells belong, i.e., network device #1 and network device #2 may be different network devices.

The triggering condition of the terminal device sending the first information to the network device #1 is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

As one example, the terminal device transmits the first information to the network device #1 upon receiving the instruction information #2 (i.e., the second instruction information) from the network device # 1. The indication information #2 may be transmitted by the network device #1 in a broadcast manner, or may be transmitted by the network device #1 to the terminal device in a unicast manner.

The indication information #2 is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report the first information. If the terminal device receives the instruction information #2, the first information is transmitted to the network device # 1. If the terminal device does not receive the instruction information #2, the first information is not transmitted to the network device # 1.

Optionally, the indication information #2 may also be used to indicate whether the terminal device reports the first information. If the indication information #2 is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report the first information, the terminal equipment sends the first information to the network equipment #1 after receiving the indication information # 2; if the indication information #2 is used for indicating that the terminal device does not report the first information, the terminal device does not send the first information to the network device #1 after receiving the indication information # 2. For example, the indication information #2 may be 1-bit information, and if the indication information #2 is "0", the indication information #2 indicates that the terminal device reports the first information; if the indication information #2 is "1", the indication information #2 indicates that the terminal device does not report the first information. Or if the indication information #2 is "1", the indication information #2 indicates the terminal device to report the first information; if the indication information #2 is "0", the indication information #2 indicates that the terminal device does not report the first information.

As another example, the terminal device transmits the first information if the number of times the paging false alarm occurs is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or if the probability of the paging false alarm occurs is greater than or equal to a second threshold value.

Specifically, the terminal device may send the first information to the network device #1 when the number of times of occurrence of the paging false alarm in a certain cell is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of occurrence of the paging false alarm is greater than or equal to a second threshold value. For example, when the terminal device resides in the cell 1, the number of times of occurrence of the paging false alarm is smaller than the first threshold value, and/or the probability of occurrence of the paging false alarm is smaller than the second threshold value, the terminal device does not send the first information to the network device # 1. When the terminal equipment resides in the cell 2, the number of times of paging false alarms is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of paging false alarms is greater than or equal to a second threshold value, and the terminal equipment sends first information to the network equipment # 1. The first information sent by the terminal device to the network device #1 may include first paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the cell 2, or the first information may include first paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the cell 1 and first paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the cell 2. Or, the first information is used for indicating the first paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the cell 2, or the first information is used for indicating the first paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the cell 1 and the first paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the cell 2.

Alternatively, the terminal device may send the first information to the network device #1 when the number of times that the paging false alarm occurs for a certain packet is greater than or equal to the first threshold value, and/or the probability that the paging false alarm occurs is greater than or equal to the second threshold value. For example, when the terminal device belongs to the packet 1, the number of times of occurrence of the paging false alarm is smaller than the first threshold value, and/or the probability of occurrence of the paging false alarm is smaller than the second threshold value, the terminal device does not send the first information to the network device # 1. When the terminal equipment belongs to the group 2, the number of times of paging false alarms is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of paging false alarms is larger than or equal to a second threshold value, the terminal equipment sends first information to the network equipment # 1. The first information sent by the terminal device to the network device #1 may include second paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the packet 2, or the first information may include second paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the packet 1 and second paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the packet 2. Or, the first information is used for indicating the second paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 2, or the first information is used for indicating the second paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 1 and the second paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 2.

Alternatively, the terminal device may send the first information to the network device #1 when the number of times of occurrence of the paging false alarm for the packet of a certain cell is greater than or equal to the first threshold value, and/or the probability of occurrence of the paging false alarm is greater than or equal to the second threshold value. For example, when the terminal device resides in the cell 1 and belongs to the packet 1, the number of times of occurrence of the paging false alarm is smaller than the first threshold value, and/or the probability of occurrence of the paging false alarm is smaller than the second threshold value, the terminal device does not send the first information to the network device # 1. When the terminal equipment resides in the cell 2 and belongs to the packet 1, the number of times of paging false alarms is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of paging false alarms is greater than or equal to a second threshold value, and the terminal equipment sends first information to the network equipment # 1. The first information sent by the terminal device to the network device #1 may include third paging false alarm information of the packet 1 of the terminal device in the cell 2, or the first information may include third paging false alarm information of the packet 1 of the terminal device in the cell 1 and third paging false alarm information of the packet 1 of the terminal device in the cell 2. Or, the first information is used for indicating the third paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 1 of the cell 2, or the first information is used for indicating the third paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 1 of the cell 1 and the third paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the packet 1 of the cell 2.

The embodiment of the application does not limit the mode of sending the first information by the terminal equipment. For example, the terminal device may transmit the first information to the network device #1 through a random access procedure. For example, the terminal device may indicate the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device to the network device #1 through a specific random access preamble (preamble), or the terminal device may indicate the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device to the network device #1 through transmitting the random access preamble on a specific random access resource, or the terminal device may include the first information in an RRC message and transmit the RRC message to the network. As another example, the terminal device may send the network device #1 with the first information included in a newly defined signal or signaling. It should be appreciated that the inclusion of the first information in the signal or signaling may be understood as: the signal or signaling includes the first information or is the first information. The signal or information is a first information representation: the signal or signaling includes paging false alarm information of the terminal device, or the signal or information is used to indicate paging false alarm condition of the terminal device.

Taking the case that the terminal equipment indicates the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment through the specific random access preamble as an example, the terminal equipment can indicate that the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is normal through the specific random access preamble. If the network device #1 receives the specific random access preamble sent by the terminal device, the network device #1 may determine that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is normal. The terminal device may also indicate that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is severe through a specific random access preamble. If the network device #1 receives the specific random access preamble sent by the terminal device, the network device #1 determines that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is serious.

Taking the case that the terminal equipment indicates the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment by sending the random access preamble code on the specific random access resource as an example, the terminal equipment can indicate that the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is normal by sending the random access preamble code on the specific random access resource. If the network device #1 receives the random access preamble sent by the terminal device on the specific random access resource, the network device #1 may determine that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is normal. The terminal device may also indicate that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is severe by transmitting a random access preamble on a specific random access resource. If the network device #1 receives the random access preamble transmitted by the terminal device on the specific random access resource, the network device #1 determines that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is serious.

Alternatively, before the terminal device transmits the first information to the network device #1, the terminal device may also transmit indication information #3 (i.e., third indication information) to the network device #1, where the indication information #3 is used to indicate that the terminal device determines the first information. The indication information #3 may be carried in an RRC message, physical uplink control information (uplink control information, UCI), physical layer signal/sequence (sequence), or medium access control (medium access control, MAC) Control Element (CE), which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

Optionally, in some specific cases, the terminal device does not report the first information. For example, if the total number of packets (under a certain cell) has reached a maximum value, the terminal device does not report the first information.

And S430, the network device #1 determines the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device according to the first information.

As described above, the first information may include paging false alarm information of the terminal device, and after the network device #1 receives the first information from the terminal device, the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device may be determined according to the paging false alarm information included in the first information. For example, if the first information includes first paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the cell 1, the network device #1 may determine the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device in the cell 1 according to the first paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the cell 1. For example, if the number of paging false alarms included in the first paging false alarm information of the cell 1 by the terminal device is greater than or equal to the first threshold, the network device #1 may determine that the paging false alarm of the terminal device in the cell 1 is serious.

The first information may also be used to indicate a paging false alarm condition of the terminal device, and after the network device #1 receives the first information from the terminal device, the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device may be determined according to the first information. For example, the first information is used to indicate that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is serious, and the network device #1 may determine that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is serious once receiving the first information. If the first information further includes information of the packet 1, the network device #1 may determine that the paging false alarm of the terminal device in the packet 1 is serious. For another example, the first information is used to indicate whether the terminal device pages the false alarm seriously, if the first information is "0", the network device #1 determines that the terminal device pages the false alarm seriously; if the first information is "1", the network device #1 determines that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is normal. Or if the first information is "1", the network device #1 determines that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is serious; if the first information is "0", the network device #1 determines that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is normal.

It should be appreciated that in S430, the network device #1 may determine a paging false alarm condition of the terminal device in a cell and/or a packet attributed to the network device #1 according to the first information.

For example, the paging false alarm information included in the first information includes first paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the cell 1 and paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the cell 2, where the cell 1 belongs to the network device #1 and the cell 2 does not belong to the network device #1, and the network device #1 may determine the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device in the cell 1 according to the first paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the cell 1. For another example, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information includes a third paging false alarm condition of the terminal device in the packet 1 of the cell 1 and a third paging false alarm condition of the terminal device in the packet 1 of the cell 2, where the cell 1 belongs to the network device #1 and the cell 2 does not belong to the network device #1, and the network device #1 may determine the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device in the packet 1 of the cell 1 according to the third paging false alarm condition of the terminal device in the packet 1 of the cell 1.

If there is a cell and/or packet not belonging to the network device #1 in the cell and/or packet corresponding to the paging false alarm information or the indicated paging false alarm condition included in the first information, the network device #1 may send the paging false alarm information and/or the paging false alarm condition corresponding to the cell and/or the packet not belonging to the network device #1 to other corresponding network devices, and the other corresponding network devices determine the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device. For example, the paging false alarm information included in the first information includes paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the cell 2, where the cell 2 is not attributed to the network device #1, and the network device #1 may send the first paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the cell 2 to the network device to which the cell 2 belongs, and the network device to which the cell 2 belongs determines the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device in the cell 2. For another example, the paging false alarm condition indicated by the first information includes a third paging false alarm condition of the packet 1 of the terminal device in the cell 2, where the cell 2 is not attributed to the network device #1, and the network device #1 may send the third paging false alarm condition of the packet 1 of the terminal device in the cell 1 to the network device to which the cell 2 is attributed, where the network device to which the cell 2 is attributed determines the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device in the cell 2.

Or, the network device #1 may send the paging false alarm information and/or the paging false alarm condition corresponding to the cell and/or the packet which are not attributed to the network device #1 to the control center, and then the control center sends the paging false alarm information and/or the paging false alarm condition corresponding to the cell and/or the packet which are not attributed to the network device #1 to other corresponding network devices, or the control center determines the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device according to the information sent by the network device #1 and then notifies the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device to the corresponding network device. Wherein the control center may be in communication with a plurality of network devices. For example, the network device #1 may send the first paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the cell 2 to the control center, where the control center sends the first paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the cell 2 to the network device to which the cell 2 belongs, or after the control center determines that the terminal device is in the paging false alarm condition of the cell 2, the network device to which the cell 2 belongs is notified of the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device in the cell 2.

Optionally, the control center may notify the responding network device of the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device when it is determined that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is serious. For example, if the control center determines that the paging false alarm of the terminal device in the cell 2 is serious according to the first paging false alarm information of the terminal device in the cell 2, the control center notifies the network device to which the cell 2 belongs that the paging false alarm of the terminal device in the cell 2 is serious.

Optionally, in the case where the network device #1 determines that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is serious, the method 400 may further include: s440, the network device #1 adjusts the packet of the terminal device.

As described above, the purpose of grouping terminal devices is to reduce the probability of the terminal devices to generate paging false alarms. If the network device #1 determines that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is serious according to the first information from the terminal device, it indicates that the current packet of the terminal device is not reasonable, so the network device #1 can adjust the packet of the terminal device.

For example, if the network device #1 determines, according to the first information from one or more terminal devices, that the paging false alarm is serious in a certain packet in a certain cell, the network device #1 may increase the number of packets in the cell, so that the terminal devices residing in the cell are dispersed to more packets, thereby reducing the paging false alarm probability of the whole cell. As another example, network device #1 may adjust for packets with severe paging false alarms. For example, network device #1 may reduce the number of terminal devices in the packet or avoid subsequently dropping new terminal devices into the packet, so that the number of terminal devices within the packet is relatively reasonable, reducing the overall paging false alarm probability for the packet.

For another example, the network device #1 may learn and infer the overall situation of the network based on the first information from one or more terminal devices in combination with the time information. For example, if the network device #1 may determine that the paging false alarm is serious in a certain period, the network device #1 may fix to increase the number of packets of the terminal device in the period, so as to reduce the problem that the paging false alarm may occur later as much as possible.

As described above, in S430, the network device #1 may determine a paging false alarm condition of the terminal device in the cell and/or the packet attributed to the network device #1 according to the first information, and accordingly, in S440, the network device #1 may adjust the packet (within the cell) attributed to the network device # 1.

Similarly, if the other network device determines that the paging false alarm of the terminal device is serious according to the information from the network device #1 or the control center, the other network device may adjust the packet (within the cell) attributed to itself.

In the embodiment of the application, the first information is reported to the network equipment through the terminal equipment, so that the network equipment can determine the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment according to the first information, thereby being convenient for the network equipment to adjust the grouping of the terminal equipment according to the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment. In addition, the terminal equipment sends the first information to the network equipment under the condition that the number and/or probability of paging false alarms exceeds a given threshold value, so that the network equipment can timely sense that the paging false alarms of the terminal equipment are serious, the network equipment can conveniently and timely perform special adjustment and optimization on the grouping of the terminal equipment, and the performance of a grouping mechanism of the terminal equipment is ensured.

Fig. 5 shows a schematic flow chart of a method of communication proposed by another embodiment of the application. As shown in fig. 5, method 500 may include S510 through S570, each of which is described in detail below.

S510, the terminal equipment determines first information, wherein the first information comprises paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment, or the first information is used for indicating paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment.

The terminal device determines the first information in the case of receiving the instruction information #1. For example, when the terminal device resides in cell 1 and does not receive the indication information #1, the terminal device does not determine the first information. When the terminal equipment resides in the cell 2 and receives the indication information #1, the terminal equipment determines the first information. In this case, the first information determined by the terminal device may include the first paging false alarm information of the cell 2, but not the first paging false alarm information of the cell 1. Alternatively, the first information is used to indicate the first paging false alarm condition of cell 2, but not cell 1.

Further description about the terminal device determining the first information may be referred to the description in S410 above.

Optionally, before the terminal device determines the first information, the method 500 may further include S520, where the network device #2 transmits the indication information #1. Accordingly, in S520, the terminal device receives the indication information #1.

The instruction information #1 is used to instruct the terminal device to determine the first information. Specifically, more description about the indication information #1 may refer to the description in S410 above.

If the method 500 performs S520, the terminal device may determine the first information in case of receiving the indication information # 1. For example, when the terminal device resides in cell 1 and does not receive the indication information #1, the terminal device does not determine the first information. When the terminal equipment resides in the cell 2 and receives the indication information #1, the terminal equipment determines the first information.

S530, the network device #1 transmits the instruction information #2. Accordingly, in S530, the terminal device receives the indication information #2.

The indication information #2 is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report the first information. Specifically, more description about the indication information #1 may refer to the description in S420 above.

Optionally, before the network device #1 transmits the indication information #2, the method 500 may further include S540: the terminal device transmits to the network device #1 indication information #3 for indicating that the terminal device has determined the first information. If the method 500 performs S540, the network device #1 may transmit the indication information #2 to the terminal device after receiving the indication information # 3.

S550, the terminal equipment sends the first information. Accordingly, in S550, the network device #1 receives the first information.

The terminal device transmits the first information to the network device #1 upon receiving the instruction information # 2. Further description about the terminal device transmitting the first information may refer to the description in S420 above.

S560 to S570 are the same as S430 to S440 in the method 400 and are not described in detail here for brevity.

Fig. 6 shows a schematic flow chart of a method of communication proposed by another embodiment of the application. As shown in fig. 6, the method 600 may include S610 to S650, and the respective steps are described in detail below.

The terminal device determines the first information, where the first information includes paging false alarm information of the terminal device, or the first information is used to indicate paging false alarm condition of the terminal device.

Optionally, before the terminal device determines the first information, the method 600 may further include S620, where the network device #2 transmits the indication information #1. Accordingly, in S620, the terminal device receives the indication information #1.

If the method 600 performs S620, the terminal device may determine the first information in case of receiving the indication information # 1. For example, when the terminal device resides in cell 1 and does not receive the indication information #1, the terminal device does not determine the first information. When the terminal equipment resides in the cell 2 and receives the indication information #1, the terminal equipment determines the first information.

S630, the terminal device sends the first information. Accordingly, in S630, the network device #1 receives the first information.

The terminal device may send the first information to the network device #1 in a case where the number of times of occurrence of the paging false alarm is greater than or equal to the first threshold value and/or the probability of occurrence of the paging false alarm is greater than or equal to the second threshold value. Further description about the terminal device transmitting the first information may refer to the description in S420 above.

S640 to S650 are the same as S430 to S440 in the method 400, and are not described in detail here for brevity.

It should be understood that in the above embodiments, the terminal device and/or the network device may perform some or all of the steps in the embodiments. These steps or operations are merely examples, and embodiments of the present application may perform other operations or variations of the various operations. Furthermore, the various steps may be performed in a different order than presented in the various embodiments, and it is possible that not all of the operations in the embodiments of the application may be performed. The sequence number of each step does not mean the sequence of execution sequence, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by its function and internal logic, and should not be limited in any way to the implementation process of the embodiment of the present application.

The method of communication provided by the embodiment of the present application is described in detail above with reference to fig. 2 to 6. The following describes in detail the communication device provided in the embodiment of the present application with reference to fig. 7 to 9.

Fig. 7 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device provided by an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 7, the communication apparatus 1000 may include a processing unit 1100 and a transceiving unit 1200.

In one possible design, the communication device 1000 may correspond to the terminal device in the above method embodiment, for example, may be a terminal device, or a component (such as a chip or a chip system) configured in the terminal device.

It is to be understood that the communication apparatus 1000 may correspond to the terminal device in the methods 400 to 600 according to the embodiments of the present application, and the communication apparatus 1000 may include means for performing the method 400 in fig. 4, the method 500 in fig. 5 or the method performed by the terminal device in the method 600 in fig. 6. And, each unit in the communication device 1000 and the other operations and/or functions described above are respectively for implementing the corresponding flow of the method 400 in fig. 4, the method 500 in fig. 5, or the method 600 in fig. 6. It should be understood that the specific process of each unit performing the corresponding steps has been described in detail in the above method embodiments, and is not described herein for brevity.

It should also be understood that, when the communication device 1000 is a chip configured in a terminal device, the transceiver unit 1200 in the communication device 1000 may be implemented through an input/output interface, and the processing unit 1100 in the communication device 1000 may be implemented through a processor, a microprocessor, an integrated circuit, or the like integrated on the chip or the chip system.

In another possible design, the communication apparatus 1000 may correspond to the network device in the above method embodiment, for example, may be a network device, or a component (such as a chip or a chip system) configured in the network device.

It is to be understood that the communication apparatus 1000 may correspond to the network device #1 in the methods 400 to 600 according to the embodiment of the present application, and the communication apparatus 1000 may include units for performing the method 400 in fig. 4, the method 500 in fig. 5, or the method performed by the network device #1 in the method 600 in fig. 6. And, each unit in the communication device 1000 and the other operations and/or functions described above are respectively for implementing the corresponding flow of the method 400 in fig. 4, the method 500 in fig. 5, or the method 600 in fig. 6. It should be understood that the specific process of each unit performing the corresponding steps has been described in detail in the above method embodiments, and is not described herein for brevity.

It is to be understood that the communication apparatus 1000 may correspond to the network device #2 in the methods 400 to 600 according to the embodiment of the present application, and the communication apparatus 1000 may include units for performing the method 400 in fig. 4, the method 500 in fig. 5, or the method performed by the network device #2 in the method 600 in fig. 6. And, each unit in the communication device 1000 and the other operations and/or functions described above are respectively for implementing the corresponding flow of the method 400 in fig. 4, the method 500 in fig. 5, or the method 600 in fig. 6. It should be understood that the specific process of each unit performing the corresponding steps has been described in detail in the above method embodiments, and is not described herein for brevity.

It should also be understood that, when the communication apparatus 1000 is a chip configured in a network device, the transceiver unit 1200 in the communication apparatus 1000 may be implemented through an input/output interface, and the processing unit 1100 in the communication apparatus 1000 may be implemented through a processor, a microprocessor, an integrated circuit, or the like integrated on the chip or the chip system.

Fig. 8 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device of another embodiment of the present application. The communication apparatus 2000 shown in fig. 8 may include: memory 2100, processor 2200, and communication interface 2300. The memory 2100 and the processor 2200 are connected through an internal connection path, the memory 2100 is used for storing instructions, and the processor 2200 is used for executing the instructions stored in the memory 2100 to control the input/output interface to receive/transmit messages. Alternatively, the memory 2100 may be coupled to the processor 2200 through an interface or may be integrated with the processor 2200.

Note that the communication interface 2300 described above uses a transceiver device such as, but not limited to, a transceiver to realize communication between the communication device 2000 and other devices or communication networks. The communication interface 2300 may also include an input/output interface (input/output interface).

In implementation, the steps of the above method may be performed by integrated logic circuitry in hardware or instructions in software in the processor 2200. The method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be directly embodied as a hardware processor executing or may be executed by a combination of hardware and software modules in the processor. The software modules may be located in a random access memory, flash memory, read only memory, programmable read only memory, or electrically erasable programmable memory, registers, etc. as well known in the art. Which is located in the memory 2100, the processor 2200 reads the information in the memory 2100 and, in combination with its hardware, performs the steps of the method described above. To avoid repetition, a detailed description is not provided herein.

It should be appreciated that in embodiments of the present application, the processor may be a central processing unit (central processing unit, CPU), the processor may also be other general purpose processors, digital signal processors (digital signal processor, DSP), application specific integrated circuits (application specific integrated circuit, ASIC), off-the-shelf programmable gate arrays (field programmable gate array, FPGA) or other programmable logic devices, discrete gate or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components, or the like. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like.

It should also be appreciated that in embodiments of the present application, the memory may include read only memory and random access memory, and provide instructions and data to the processor. A portion of the processor may also include nonvolatile random access memory. The processor may also store information of the device type, for example.

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of a chip system according to an embodiment of the application. The chip system here can also be a system of circuits. The chip system 3000 shown in fig. 9 includes: logic 3100 and input/output interface 3200, which is configured to couple with an input interface through which data (e.g., first indication information) is transmitted to perform the methods described in fig. 4-6.

The embodiment of the application also provides a processing device, which comprises a processor and an interface; the processor is configured to perform the method of any of the method embodiments described above.

It should be understood that the processing means described above may be one or more chips. For example, the processing device may be a field programmable gate array (field programmable gate array, FPGA), an application specific integrated chip (application specific integrated circuit, ASIC), a system on chip (SoC), a central processing unit (central processor unit, CPU), a network processor (network processor, NP), a digital signal processing circuit (digital signal processor, DSP), a microcontroller (micro controller unit, MCU), a programmable controller (programmable logic device, PLD) or other integrated chip.

In implementation, the steps of the above method may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or by instructions in the form of software. The steps of a method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be embodied directly in a hardware processor for execution, or in a combination of hardware and software modules in the processor for execution. The software modules may be located in a random access memory, flash memory, read only memory, programmable read only memory, or electrically erasable programmable memory, registers, etc. as well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and the processor reads the information in the memory and, in combination with its hardware, performs the steps of the above method. To avoid repetition, a detailed description is not provided herein.

It should be noted that the processor in the embodiments of the present application may be an integrated circuit chip with signal processing capability. In implementation, the steps of the above method embodiments may be implemented by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or instructions in software form. The processor may be a general purpose processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, or discrete hardware components. The disclosed methods, steps, and logic blocks in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be embodied directly in the execution of a hardware decoding processor, or in the execution of a combination of hardware and software modules in a decoding processor. The software modules may be located in a random access memory, flash memory, read only memory, programmable read only memory, or electrically erasable programmable memory, registers, etc. as well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and the processor reads the information in the memory and, in combination with its hardware, performs the steps of the above method.

It will be appreciated that the memory in embodiments of the application may be volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or 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) which acts as an external cache. By way of example, and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), synchronous DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct memory bus RAM (DR RAM). It should be noted that the memory of the systems and methods described herein is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

According to a method provided by an embodiment of the present application, the present application also provides a computer program product, including: computer program code which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method performed by the terminal device or network device (network device #1 and/or network device # 2) in the embodiments shown in fig. 4 to 6.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the present application further provides a computer readable storage medium storing program code, which when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method performed by the terminal device or the network device (network device #1 and/or network device # 2) in the embodiments shown in fig. 4 to 6.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the application, the application further provides a system which comprises one or more terminal devices and/or network devices (network device #1 and/or network device # 2) as described above.

The terminal device in the above respective apparatus embodiments and the terminal device in the method embodiments correspond completely, and the respective steps are performed by respective modules or units, for example, the transceiver unit (transceiver) performs the steps of receiving or transmitting in the method embodiments, and other steps than transmitting and receiving may be performed by the processing unit (processor). Reference may be made to corresponding method embodiments for the function of a specific unit. Wherein the processor may be one or more.

As used in this specification, the terms "component," "module," "system," and the like are intended to refer to a computer-related entity, either hardware, firmware, a combination of hardware and software, or software in execution. For example, a component may be, but is not limited to being, a process running on a processor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program, and/or a computer. By way of illustration, both an application running on a computing device and the computing device can be a component. One or more components may reside within a process and/or thread of execution and a component may be localized on one computer and/or distributed between 2 or more computers. Furthermore, these components can execute from various computer readable media having various data structures stored thereon. The components may communicate by way of local and/or remote processes such as in accordance with a signal having one or more data packets (e.g., data from two components interacting with one another in a local system, distributed system, and/or across a network such as the internet with other systems by way of the signal).

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative logical blocks (illustrative logical block) and steps (steps) described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein can 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 solution. 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 will be clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, specific working procedures of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to corresponding procedures in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not repeated herein.

In the several embodiments provided by the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed systems, devices, and methods may be implemented in other manners. For example, the apparatus embodiments described above are merely illustrative, e.g., the division of the units is merely a logical function division, and there may be additional divisions when actually implemented, e.g., multiple units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted or not performed. Alternatively, the coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed with each other may be an indirect coupling or communication connection via some interfaces, devices or units, which may be in electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate units may or may not be physically separate, and units shown 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 may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of this embodiment.

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

In the above-described embodiments, the functions of the respective functional units may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions (programs). When the computer program instructions (program) are loaded and executed on a computer, the processes or functions according to the embodiments of the present application are fully or partially produced. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable apparatus. 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 a wired (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, digital subscriber line (digital subscriber line, DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer readable storage medium may 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 an integration of one or more available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., a high-density digital video disc (digital video disc, DVD)), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., a Solid State Disk (SSD)), or the like.

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. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be essentially contributing or part of the technical solution may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium, comprising several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to perform all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (random access memory, RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk, or other various media capable of storing program codes.

The foregoing is merely illustrative of the present application, and the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art will readily recognize that variations or substitutions are within 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

A method of communication, comprising:

the method comprises the steps that terminal equipment determines first information, wherein the first information comprises paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment, or the first information is used for indicating paging false alarm conditions of the terminal equipment;

the terminal device sends the first information to a first network device.
The method of claim 1, the paging false alarm information comprising a number of times the terminal device generates a paging false alarm and/or a probability of generating a paging false alarm.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first information further comprises information of at least one cell in which the terminal device resides and/or information of at least one packet to which the terminal device belongs.
A method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the paging false alarm information of the terminal device comprises paging false alarm information of the terminal device within a first time period comprising a time period of at least one preset duration.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the paging false alarm information of the terminal device comprises: at least one first paging false alarm information, at least one second paging false alarm information, or at least one third paging false alarm information, the at least one first paging false alarm information being cell-specific, the at least one second paging false alarm information being packet-specific, the at least one third paging false alarm information being cell-packet specific.
The method of claim 5, wherein the cell is a cell that satisfies the following condition: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.
The method according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the packet is a packet satisfying the following condition: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.
The method according to any of claims 1 to 7, wherein the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device comprises: the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in at least one resident cell, the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in at least one affiliated packet or the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the affiliated packet of the at least one cell.
The method of any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the method further comprises:

the terminal equipment receives first indication information from second network equipment, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to determine the first information.
The method according to any of claims 1 to 9, wherein the terminal device sending the first information to the first network device comprises:

and if the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is greater than or equal to a third threshold value and/or the probability of the paging false alarm is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold value, the terminal equipment sends the first information to the first network equipment.
The method of any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the method further comprises:

the terminal equipment receives second indication information from the first network equipment, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report the first information.
The method of any one of claims 1 to 11, wherein the method further comprises:

the terminal equipment sends third indication information to the first network equipment, wherein the third indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to determine the first information.
A method of communication, comprising:

the network equipment receives first information from terminal equipment, wherein the first information comprises paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment, or the first information is used for indicating the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment;

And the network equipment determines the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment according to the first information.
The method of claim 13, in which the paging false alarm information comprises a number of paging false alarms and/or a probability of paging false alarms occurring for the terminal device.
The method according to claim 13 or 14, wherein the first information further comprises information of at least one cell in which the terminal device resides and/or information of at least one packet to which the terminal device belongs.
The method of any of claims 13 to 15, wherein the paging false alarm information of the terminal device comprises paging false alarm information of the terminal device within a first time period, the first time period comprising a time period of at least one preset duration.
The method according to any of claims 13 to 16, wherein the paging false alarm information of the terminal device comprises: at least one first paging false alarm information, at least one second paging false alarm information, or at least one third paging false alarm information, the at least one first paging false alarm information being cell-specific, the second paging false alarm information being packet-specific, the at least one third paging false alarm information being cell-packet specific.
The method of claim 17, wherein the cell is a cell that satisfies the following condition: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.
The method according to claim 17 or 18, wherein the packet is a packet satisfying the following condition: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.
The method according to any of claims 13 to 19, wherein the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device comprises: the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in at least one resident cell, the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in at least one affiliated packet or the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the affiliated packet of the at least one cell.
The method of any one of claims 13 to 20, wherein the method further comprises:

the network device sends first indication information to the terminal device, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating the terminal device to determine the first information.
The method of any one of claims 13 to 21, wherein the method further comprises:

the network device sends second indication information to the terminal device, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating the terminal device to report the first information.
The method of any one of claims 13 to 22, wherein the method further comprises:

the network device receives third indication information from the terminal, wherein the third indication information is used for indicating the terminal device to determine the first information.
The method of any one of claims 13 to 23, wherein the method further comprises:

and the network equipment adjusts the grouping of the terminal equipment according to the first information.
A communication device, comprising:

the processing unit is used for determining first information, wherein the first information comprises paging false alarm information of the device, or the first information is used for indicating the paging false alarm condition of the device;

and the receiving and transmitting unit is used for transmitting the first information to the first network equipment.
The apparatus of claim 25, the paging false alarm information comprising a number of times the apparatus has a paging false alarm and/or a probability of a paging false alarm.
The apparatus according to claim 25 or 26, wherein the first information further comprises information of at least one cell in which the apparatus resides and/or information of at least one packet to which the apparatus belongs.
The apparatus of any one of claims 25 to 27, wherein the paging false alarm information for the apparatus comprises paging false alarm information for the apparatus over a first time period, the first time period comprising a time period of at least one preset duration.
The apparatus of any one of claims 25 to 28, wherein the paging false alarm information for the apparatus comprises: at least one first paging false alarm information, at least one second paging false alarm information, or at least one third paging false alarm information, the at least one first paging false alarm information being cell-specific, the at least one second paging false alarm information being packet-specific, the at least one third paging false alarm information being cell-packet specific.
The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the cell is a cell that satisfies the following condition: the number of times the device generates the paging false alarm is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability that the device generates the paging false alarm is greater than or equal to a second threshold value.
The apparatus of claim 29 or 30, wherein the packet is a packet that satisfies the following condition: the number of times the device generates the paging false alarm is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability that the device generates the paging false alarm is greater than or equal to a second threshold value.
The apparatus of any of claims 25 to 31, wherein the paging false alarm condition of the apparatus comprises: the device is in the paging false alarm condition of at least one cell where the device resides, the device is in the paging false alarm condition of at least one packet where the device belongs or the device is in the paging false alarm condition of the packet where the at least one cell belongs.
The apparatus of any one of claims 25 to 32, wherein the processing unit is further to: first indication information from a second network device is received, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating the device to determine the first information.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 25 to 33, wherein the transceiver unit is specifically configured to:

and if the number of times of the paging false alarm generated by the device is greater than or equal to a third threshold value and/or the probability of the paging false alarm generated by the device is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold value, the first information is sent to the first network equipment.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 25 to 33, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to receive second indication information from the first network device, the second indication information being configured to instruct the apparatus to report the first information.
The apparatus according to any of claims 25 to 35, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to send third indication information to the first network device, the third indication information being configured to indicate that the apparatus determines the first information.
A communication device, comprising:

the receiving and transmitting unit is used for receiving first information from terminal equipment, wherein the first information comprises paging false alarm information of the terminal equipment, or the first information is used for indicating the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment;

and the processing unit is used for determining the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment according to the first information.
The apparatus of claim 37, in which the paging false alarm information comprises a number of paging false alarms that occur and/or a probability of paging false alarms that occur for the terminal device.
The apparatus according to claim 37 or 38, wherein the first information further comprises information of at least one cell in which the terminal device resides and/or information of at least one packet to which the terminal device belongs.
The apparatus of any one of claims 37 to 39, wherein the paging false alarm information for the terminal device comprises paging false alarm information for the terminal device over a first time period, the first time period comprising a time period of at least one preset duration.
The apparatus of any one of claims 37 to 40, wherein the paging false alarm information of the terminal device comprises: at least one first paging false alarm information, at least one second paging false alarm information, or at least one third paging false alarm information, the at least one first paging false alarm information being cell-specific, the second paging false alarm information being packet-specific, the at least one third paging false alarm information being cell-packet specific.
The apparatus of claim 41, wherein the cell is a cell that satisfies the following condition: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.
The apparatus of claim 41 or 42, wherein the packet is a packet satisfying the following condition: the number of times of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a first threshold value, and/or the probability of the paging false alarm of the terminal equipment is larger than or equal to a second threshold value.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 37 to 43, wherein the paging false alarm condition of the terminal device comprises: the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in at least one resident cell, the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in at least one affiliated packet or the paging false alarm condition of the terminal equipment in the affiliated packet of the at least one cell.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 37 to 44, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to send first indication information to the terminal device, the first indication information being configured to instruct the terminal device to determine the first information.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 37 to 45, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to send second indication information to the terminal device, the second indication information being configured to instruct the terminal device to report the first information.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 37 to 46, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to receive third indication information from the terminal, the third indication information being configured to indicate that the terminal device determines the first information.
The apparatus of any one of claims 37 to 47, wherein the processing unit is further configured to adjust the grouping of the terminal devices based on the first information.
A communication device, comprising:

a communication interface for inputting and/or outputting information;

a processor for executing a computer program to cause the apparatus to implement the method of any one of claims 1 to 24.
A communication device, comprising:

a memory for storing a computer program;

a processor for invoking and executing the computer program from the memory to cause the apparatus to implement the method of any of claims 1 to 24.
A computer readable storage medium comprising a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 24.
A computer program product, characterized in that the computer program product comprises a computer program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method according to any one of claims 1 to 24.
A communication system comprising an apparatus as claimed in any one of claims 25 to 36 and an apparatus as claimed in any one of claims 37 to 48.