CN117998396A

CN117998396A - Communication method and communication device

Info

Publication number: CN117998396A
Application number: CN202211378357.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 东宁; 魏璟鑫; 花梦
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-11-04
Filing date: 2022-11-04
Publication date: 2024-05-07

Abstract

The application provides a communication method and a communication device, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the terminal device determines that a period in which a second period overlaps with a third period in one DRX cycle overlaps with the first period, where the second period includes one or more of a measurement interval, a period in which the PDCCH is omitted from being detected, or an uplink resource period, and the measurement interval is used to measure signal quality of a different frequency cell. The third period is a period in which the PDCCH is detected in the DRX period determined according to the network device configuration. And the terminal device detects the PDCCH in a fourth period of time within the DRX period, the fourth period of time being a period of time other than the first period of time in the third period of time. The problem of configuration conflict can be solved, and the resource utilization rate is improved.

Description

Communication method and communication device

Technical Field

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

Background

In a mobile communication system, a network device may configure a discontinuous reception (discontinuous reception, DRX) communication mode for a terminal device in a radio resource control (radio resource control, RRC) connected state, where the terminal device only needs to detect control information for a period of time when performing the DRX communication mode, and is in a sleep state for other periods of time without detecting control information. The RRC-connected terminal device also needs to complete tasks such as co-frequency signal quality measurement and inter-frequency signal quality measurement configured by the network device, and multiple tasks may conflict, so that the terminal device processes a corresponding solution.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a communication method and a communication device, which can improve the resource utilization rate.

In a first aspect, a communication method is provided, which may be performed by a terminal device or a module (e.g. a chip or a chip module) configured in (or for) the terminal device. The following description will take an example in which the terminal device executes the method.

The method comprises the following steps: the terminal device determines that a period in which the second period overlaps with a third period within one discontinuous reception DRX cycle overlaps in the first period. The second time period includes one or more of a measurement interval, a time period in which the physical downlink control channel PDCCH is omitted from detection, and an uplink resource time period, where the measurement interval is used to measure signal quality of the inter-frequency cell, and the third time period is a time period in which the PDCCH is detected in the DRX cycle determined according to the network device configuration. And the terminal device detects the PDCCH in a fourth period of time within the DRX period, the fourth period of time being a period of time other than the first period of time in the third period of time.

According to the scheme, the terminal equipment and the network equipment can achieve consensus, and resource waste caused by the fact that the network equipment transmits the PDCCH in a time period when the terminal equipment does not detect the PDCCH due to the fact that the consensus is not achieved is reduced. The resource utilization rate can be improved.

The second time period is, for example, a measurement interval, the terminal device measures the signal quality of the inter-frequency cell in the second time period. Or the second time period is a time period in which the PDCCH is omitted from being detected, and the terminal device does not detect the PDCCH in the second time period. And if the second time period is the uplink resource time period, the terminal equipment is in a signal sending state and does not receive signals in the uplink resource time period.

That is, the network device configures the priority of the task executed by the terminal device in the second period to be higher than the priority of the PDCCH detection in the DRX cycle, and the terminal device and the network device may determine which task the terminal device specifically executes in the overlapping period of the tasks according to the task priority, so as to reduce the probability that the internal logic confusion occurs in the terminal device, resulting in a crash or the like.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the method further includes: the terminal device does not detect a PDCCH for the first period of time.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the third period of time includes a first run period of a DRX timer configured by the network device. And the terminal device determining a first time period, comprising: the terminal device determines a fifth time period in which the second time period overlaps the first operating time period, the first time period including the fifth time period. And the terminal device detects the PDCCH in a fourth time period within the DRX cycle, comprising: the terminal device operates the DRX timer in a second operation period within the DRX cycle, and detects a period of PDCCH while the DRX is operated. Wherein the second operation period is a period other than the fifth period in the first operation period, and the fourth period includes the second operation period.

According to the scheme, the terminal equipment judges the time period for detecting the PDCCH in the DRX period through the operation and the stop of the maintenance timer. The terminal device detects the PDCCH in the running time period of the timer, the timer stops running, and the terminal device does not detect the PDCCH. The terminal device operates the DRX timer in a second operation time period in the DRX period to detect the PDCCH in the second operation time period. The network device determines a period of time in which the terminal device actually operates the timer, that is, a period of time in which the terminal device detects the PDCCH, in the same manner as the terminal device, and transmits the PDCCH to the terminal device in the period of time. The terminal equipment and the network equipment can agree with each other on the PDCCH detection of the terminal equipment, so that the resource waste is reduced, and the resource utilization rate is improved.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementation manners of the first aspect, the determining, by the terminal device, an operation period of the DRX timer in the DRX cycle as a second operation period includes: if the starting time of the second time period is within the first operation time period and the starting time of the second time period to the ending time of the first operation time period are smaller than the second time period, the terminal device determines that the operation time period of the DRX timer in the DRX period is the second operation time period. Or if the ending time of the second time period is within the first operation time period and the starting time of the first operation time period to the ending time of the second time period are smaller than the second time period, the terminal equipment determines that the operation time period of the DRX timer in the DRX period is the second operation time period.

According to the scheme, the terminal equipment can determine that the second running time period of the DRX timer is a continuous time period. The power consumption caused by the fact that the terminal equipment makes multiple transitions between the dormant state and the active state in the DRX period is reduced.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the DRX timer includes a first timer and/or a second timer, wherein the first operating period of the first timer is a period starting at the DRX cycle start time. The first operation period of the second timer is a period after the terminal device receives a PDCCH for indicating uplink or downlink primary transmission data.

Illustratively, the first timer may be onDurationTimer and the second timer may be drx-INACTIVITYTIMER.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the DRX timer includes the first timer, and the method further includes: and the terminal equipment determines a time period for executing the presynchronization corresponding to the DRX period according to the second running time period of the first timer.

According to the scheme, before the terminal equipment wakes up to enter the active state in one DRX period, the terminal equipment needs to be pre-synchronized with the network equipment so that the terminal equipment calibrates the synchronization with the time and frequency of the network equipment to improve the accuracy of detecting the PDCCH. The terminal equipment needs to determine a pre-synchronization time period according to the time period of actually entering the active state so as to realize time synchronization and frequency synchronization with the network equipment before detecting the PDCCH and improve the accuracy of detecting the PDCCH.

In a second aspect, a communication method is provided, which may be performed by a network device or a module (e.g. a chip or a chip module) configured in (or for) the network device. The method is described below by taking a network device as an example.

The method comprises the following steps: the network device determines that a second time period overlaps with a third time period within a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) period in the first time period, wherein the second time period comprises one or more of a measurement interval of the terminal device, a time period for omitting detection of a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and an uplink resource time period, the measurement interval is used for the terminal device to measure signal quality of a different frequency cell, and the third time period is a time period for the network device to detect the PDCCH in the DRX period configured for the terminal device. The network device transmits a PDCCH to the terminal device in a fourth period of time within the DRX period, the fourth period of time being a period of time other than the first period of time in the third period of time.

In a third aspect, a communication method is provided, which may be performed by a terminal device or a module (e.g. a chip or a chip module) arranged in (or for) the terminal device. The following description will take an example in which the terminal device executes the method.

The method comprises the following steps: the terminal device determines that the uplink resource period overlaps with a sixth period, which is a period configured by the network device for measuring a synchronization signal block of the serving cell and/or for measuring a synchronization signal block of a cell other than the serving cell, in a seventh period. The terminal device measures the signal quality of the synchronization signal block in an eighth period of time, which is a period of time other than the seventh period of time in the sixth period of time.

According to the scheme, when the uplink resource time period configured by the network device and the time period of the downlink signal (i.e. the synchronous signal block) measured by the terminal device have uplink and downlink conflicts in a seventh time period, the terminal device considers that the seventh time period is the uplink resource time period, that is, the priority of the uplink resource configuration is higher than the priority of the SMTC, so that the terminal device can determine the purpose of the configuration conflict time period, and the probability of the terminal device failure caused by the configuration conflict is reduced.

With reference to the third aspect, in certain implementations of the third aspect, the method further includes: the terminal device does not measure the signal quality of the synchronization signal block in the seventh period.

In a fourth aspect, a communications apparatus is provided, where the apparatus can include means for performing the one-to-one correspondence of the methods/operations/steps/actions described in the first aspect, where the means can be implemented by hardware circuitry, software, or a combination of hardware circuitry and software. In one design, the apparatus includes: a processing unit is configured to determine that a period of time in which the second period of time overlaps with a third period of time within one discontinuous reception DRX cycle overlaps with the first period of time. The second time period includes one or more of a measurement interval, a time period in which the physical downlink control channel PDCCH is omitted from detection, and an uplink resource time period, where the measurement interval is used to measure signal quality of the inter-frequency cell, and the third time period is a time period in which the PDCCH is detected in the DRX cycle determined according to the network device configuration. A transceiver unit, configured to receive a PDCCH in a fourth time period in the DRX cycle, where the fourth time period is a time period other than the first time period in the third time period.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some implementations of the fourth aspect, the processing unit is further configured to determine that the PDCCH is not detected during the first time period.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in certain implementations of the fourth aspect, the third period includes a first operation period of a DRX timer configured by the network device, and the processing unit is specifically configured to determine a fifth period of time for which the second period of time overlaps the first operation period of time, where the first period of time includes the fifth period of time. The processing unit is also configured to operate the DRX timer for a second operating period within the DRX cycle. The transceiver unit is specifically configured to receive a period of PDCCH during the DRX operation, where the second operation period is a period of time other than the fifth operation period in the first operation period, and the fourth operation period includes the second operation period.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some implementations of the fourth aspect, the processing unit is specifically configured to determine that an operation time period of the DRX timer in the DRX cycle is the second operation time period when a start time of the second time period is within the first operation time period and an end time of the second time period is less than the second time period. Or the processing unit is specifically configured to determine that the operation time period of the DRX timer in the DRX cycle is the second operation time period when the ending time of the second time period is within the first operation time period and the starting time of the first operation time period to the ending time of the second time period are less than the second time period.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some implementations of the fourth aspect, the DRX timer includes a first timer and/or a second timer. Wherein the first operation period of the first timer is a period of time from the DRX cycle start time. The first operation period of the second timer is a period after the terminal device receives the PDCCH for indicating the uplink primary transmission data or the downlink primary transmission data.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some implementations of the fourth aspect, the DRX timer includes the first timer, and the processing unit is further configured to determine a period of time to perform pre-synchronization corresponding to the DRX cycle according to the second running period of time of the first timer.

In a fifth aspect, a communication apparatus is provided, where the apparatus may include modules, which may be hardware circuits, software, or a combination of hardware circuits and software, for performing the methods/operations/steps/actions described in the second aspect. In one design, the apparatus includes: a processing unit, configured to determine that a second period overlaps with a third period in a discontinuous reception DRX cycle, where the second period includes one or more of a measurement interval of a terminal device, a period for omitting detection of a physical downlink control channel PDCCH, and an uplink resource period, the measurement interval is used for the terminal device to measure signal quality of a different frequency cell, and the third period is a period for the network device to detect the PDCCH in the DRX cycle configured for the terminal device. And a transceiving unit configured to transmit a PDCCH to the terminal device in a fourth period of time within the DRX cycle, the fourth period of time being a period of time other than the first period of time in the third period of time.

In a sixth aspect, a communications apparatus is provided, where the apparatus can include modules, either hardware circuitry or software, or a combination of hardware circuitry and software implementation, that perform the methods/operations/steps/actions described in the third aspect. In one design, the apparatus includes: a processing unit, configured to determine that the uplink resource period overlaps with a sixth period in a seventh period, where the sixth period is a period configured by the network device for measuring a synchronization signal block of a serving cell and/or for measuring a synchronization signal block of a cell other than the serving cell. A transceiving unit configured to receive the synchronization signal block in an eighth period of time, the eighth period of time being a period of time other than the seventh period of time in the sixth period of time. The processing unit is also used for measuring the signal quality of the synchronous signal block received by the receiving and transmitting unit.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in certain implementations of the sixth aspect, the processing unit is further configured to determine that the signal quality of the synchronization signal block is not measured during the seventh period.

In a seventh aspect, a communication device is provided that includes a processor. The processor may implement the method of the first to third aspects and any one of the possible implementations of the first to third aspects. Optionally, the communications apparatus further comprises a memory, the processor being coupled to the memory and operable to execute instructions in the memory to implement the method of the first to third aspects and any one of the possible implementations of the first to third aspects. Optionally, the communication device further comprises a communication interface, and the processor is coupled to the communication interface. In the embodiment of the present application, the communication interface may be a transceiver, a pin, a circuit, a bus, a module, or other types of communication interfaces, which are not limited.

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

In another implementation, the communication apparatus is a chip configured in a communication device (e.g., a network device or a terminal device). When the communication device is a chip configured in a communication 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 an eighth aspect, there is provided a processor comprising: input circuit, output circuit and processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive a signal via the input circuit and transmit a signal via the output circuit, such that the processor performs the method of the first to third aspects and any one of the possible implementations of the first to third 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 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 the first to third aspects and any one of the possible implementations of the first to third aspects.

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

In an eleventh aspect, a communication system is provided, comprising at least one terminal device and at least one network device as described above.

Drawings

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

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a discontinuous reception DRX mechanism provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a communication method provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of overlapping configuration times of multiple tasks provided by an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a period of detecting PDCCH by a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of overlapping DRX activation time and measurement interval according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is another schematic diagram of overlapping DRX activation time and measurement intervals according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of overlapping a DRX activation time and an uplink resource period provided by an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of overlapping a DRX activation time and Shen Lve PDCCH detection time periods according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is another schematic flow chart diagram of a communication method provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 12 is another schematic structural diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

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

In embodiments of the present application, "/" may indicate that the associated object is an "or" relationship, e.g., A/B may represent A or B; "and/or" may be used to describe that there are three relationships associated with an object, e.g., a and/or B, which may represent: there are three cases, a alone, a and B together, and B alone, wherein a, B may be singular or plural. In order to facilitate description of the technical solution of the embodiments of the present application, in the embodiments of the present application, the words "first", "second", etc. may be used to distinguish between technical features that are the same or similar in function. The terms "first," "second," and the like do not necessarily denote any order of quantity or order of execution, nor do the terms "first," "second," and the like.

The technical scheme of the embodiment of the application can be applied to various mobile communication systems, such as: the long term evolution (long term evolution, LTE) system, the 5G mobile communication system, and future mobile communication systems (such as the sixth generation (6th generation,6G) communication system), or a system in which multiple communication systems are integrated, etc., embodiments of the present application are not limited.

Fig. 1 is a schematic architecture diagram of a communication system 1000 to which an embodiment of the application applies. As shown in fig. 1, the communication system comprises a radio access network 100 and a core network 200, and optionally the communication system 1000 may further comprise the internet 300. The radio access network 100 may include at least one radio access network device (e.g., 110a and 110b in fig. 1) and may also include at least one terminal (e.g., 120a-120j in fig. 1). The terminal is connected with the wireless access network equipment in a wireless mode, and the wireless access network equipment is connected with the core network in a wireless or wired mode. The core network device and the radio access network device may be separate physical devices, or may integrate the functions of the core network device and the logic functions of the radio access network device on the same physical device, or may integrate the functions of part of the core network device and part of the radio access network device on one physical device. The terminals and the radio access network device may be connected to each other by wired or wireless means. Fig. 1 is only a schematic diagram, and other network devices may be further included in the communication system, for example, a wireless relay device and a wireless backhaul device may also be included, which are not shown in fig. 1.

The radio access network device is an access device to which the terminal accesses the communication system by wireless. The radio access network device may be a base station (base station), an evolved NodeB (eNodeB), a transmission and reception point (transmission reception point, TRP), a next generation NodeB (gNB) in a 5G mobile communication system, a next generation base station in a 6G mobile communication system, a base station in a future mobile communication system, or an access node in a WiFi system, etc.; the present application may also be a module or unit that performs a function of a base station part, for example, a Central Unit (CU) or a Distributed Unit (DU). The CU here performs the functions of the radio resource control protocol and the packet data convergence layer protocol (PACKET DATA convergence protocol, PDCP) of the base station, and may also perform the functions of the service data adaptation protocol (SERVICE DATA adaptation protocol, SDAP); the DU performs the functions of the radio link control layer and the medium access control (medium access control, MAC) layer of the base station, and may also perform the functions of a part of the physical layer or the entire physical layer, and for a detailed description of the above protocol layers, reference may be made to the relevant technical specifications of the third generation partnership project (3rd generation partnership project,3GPP). The radio access network device may be a macro base station (e.g. 110a in fig. 1), a micro base station or an indoor station (e.g. 110b in fig. 1), a relay node or a donor node, etc. The embodiment of the application does not limit the specific technology and the specific equipment form adopted by the wireless access network equipment. For convenience of description, a base station will be described below as an example of a radio access network device.

A terminal is a device having a wireless transceiving function, and can transmit a signal to a base station or receive a signal from a base station. A terminal may also be referred to as a terminal device, user Equipment (UE), mobile station, mobile terminal, etc. The terminal may be widely applied to various scenes, for example, device-to-device (D2D), vehicle-to-device (vehicle to everything, V2X) communication, machine-type communication (MTC), internet of things (internet of things, IOT), virtual reality, augmented reality, industrial control, autopilot, telemedicine, smart grid, smart furniture, smart office, smart wear, smart transportation, smart city, and the like. The terminal can be a mobile phone, a tablet personal computer, a computer with a wireless receiving and transmitting function, a wearable device, a vehicle, an airplane, a ship, a robot, a mechanical arm, intelligent household equipment and the like. The embodiment of the application does not limit the specific technology and the specific equipment form adopted by the terminal.

The base station and the terminal may be fixed in position or movable. Base stations and terminals may be deployed on land, including indoors or outdoors, hand-held or vehicle-mounted; the device can be deployed on the water surface; but also on aircraft, balloons and satellites. The embodiment of the application does not limit the application scenes of the base station and the terminal.

The roles of base station and terminal may be relative, e.g., helicopter or drone 120i in fig. 1 may be configured as a mobile base station, terminal 120i being the base station for those terminals 120j that access radio access network 100 through 120 i; but for base station 110a 120i is a terminal, i.e., communication between 110a and 120i is via a wireless air interface protocol. Of course, communication between 110a and 120i may be performed via an interface protocol between base stations, and in this case, 120i is also a base station with respect to 110 a. Thus, both the base station and the terminal may be collectively referred to as a communication device, 110a and 110b in fig. 1 may be referred to as a communication device having base station functionality, and 120a-120j in fig. 1 may be referred to as a communication device having terminal functionality.

Communication can be carried out between the base station and the terminal, between the base station and between the terminal and the terminal through the authorized spectrum, communication can be carried out through the unlicensed spectrum, and communication can also be carried out through the authorized spectrum and the unlicensed spectrum at the same time; communication can be performed through a frequency spectrum of 6 gigahertz (GHz) or less, communication can be performed through a frequency spectrum of 6GHz or more, and communication can be performed using a frequency spectrum of 6GHz or less and a frequency spectrum of 6GHz or more simultaneously. The embodiment of the application does not limit the spectrum resources used by the wireless communication.

In the embodiment of the present application, the functions of the base station may be performed by a module (such as a chip) in the base station, or may be performed by a control subsystem including the functions of the base station. The control subsystem comprising the base station function can be a control center in the application scenarios of smart power grids, industrial control, intelligent transportation, smart cities and the like. The functions of the terminal may be performed by a module (e.g., a chip or a modem) in the terminal, or by a device including the functions of the terminal.

In the application, a base station sends a downlink signal or downlink information to a terminal, and the downlink information is borne on a downlink channel; the terminal sends an uplink signal or uplink information to the base station, and the uplink information is carried on an uplink channel. In order for a terminal to communicate with a base station, it is necessary to establish a radio connection with a cell controlled by the base station. The cell with which the terminal has established a radio connection is called the serving cell of the terminal. The terminal may also be interfered by signals from neighboring cells when communicating with the serving cell.

In an embodiment of the present application, the time domain symbol may be an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM) symbol, or may be a discrete fourier transform spread-OFDM (Discrete Fourier Transform-spread-OFDM, DFT-s-OFDM) symbol. Symbols in embodiments of the present application refer to time domain symbols unless otherwise specified.

It should be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, the physical downlink shared channel (physical downlink SHARED CHANNEL, PDSCH), the physical downlink control channel (physical downlink control channel, PDCCH), and the Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) are merely examples of downlink data channels, downlink control channels, and uplink data channels, respectively, and the data channels and the control channels may have different names in different systems and different scenarios, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto.

The following is a description of related art and terms related to embodiments of the present application.

1. Connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX)

For the terminal device, the radio resource control (radio resource control, RRC) may configure the medium access control (medium access control, MAC) entity to implement CDRX function, that is, to implement discontinuous detection control of the physical downlink control channel (physical downlink control channel, PDCCH) of the terminal device, so as to achieve the goal of saving power consumption of the terminal device in the RRC connected state. In the RRC connection state, if the DRX is configured, the MAC entity performs discontinuous detection of the DRX activation maintenance control PDCCH according to a DRX timer, otherwise, performs continuous detection of the PDCCH according to a protocol.

In the DRX mechanism, two timers mainly control the terminal device to enter into the active state of DRX, which is a first timer (which may be referred to as onduration timer) and a second timer (DRX-INACTIVITYTIMER), as shown in fig. 2, where the onduration timer starts to operate at the start time of each DRX cycle, the operation duration is a period of time configured by the network device and less than the DRX cycle, the terminal device is in an awake state in an onduration timer operation period in one DRX cycle and detects the PDCCH, and may be in a dormant state in a time other than the onduration timer operation period, without detecting the PDCCH, so as to achieve the purpose of saving power consumption of the DRX mechanism. If the terminal equipment successfully receives one PDCCH for scheduling uplink primary transmission data or downlink primary transmission data in the activation time, the drx-INACTIVITYTIMER is started, and the PDCCH is continuously detected in the running time of the drx-INACTIVITYTIMER, so that the data can be continuously transmitted, and the transmission delay of service data caused by the fact that the terminal equipment enters a dormant state under the condition that the data transmission is not completed is reduced. For example, as shown in fig. 2, after the terminal device successfully detects one PDCCH for scheduling uplink or downlink primary data in the running time of onduration timer (i.e., the first timer) in the DRX cycle n, the terminal device starts DRX-INACTIVITYTIMER (i.e., the second timer), and the terminal device continues to detect the PDCCH in the running time of DRX-INACTIVITYTIMER. And the terminal device does not detect the PDCCH in the running time of the onduration timer in the DRX cycle n+1, and the terminal device may stop detecting the PDCCH to enter the sleep state after the running time of the onduration timer is ended. The primary transmission data refers to data transmitted between the terminal device and the network device for the first time, which may also be referred to as new transmission data, and if the receiving end does not successfully receive the primary transmission data, the transmitting end may send the data to the receiving end again, and the data that is sent again may be referred to as retransmission data.

2. Omitting detection PDCCH (PDCCH skip)

The network device can send control information omitting the detection of the PDCCH to the terminal device through the PDCCH, and the terminal device does not detect the PDCCH for a period of time according to the indication of the control information so as to achieve the purpose of saving power consumption.

Aiming at the situation that a plurality of tasks executed by a network device are conflicted and the execution time of the plurality of tasks is overlapped, the embodiment of the application provides that the task priority can be set, so that the terminal device and the network device can determine which task the terminal device specifically executes in the overlapped time period of the plurality of tasks according to the task priority, thereby reducing the probability of internal logic confusion of the terminal device and causing the situations of dead halt and the like. The terminal equipment and the network equipment can be agreed, and resource waste caused by the fact that the agreement is not achieved is reduced. The resource utilization rate can be improved.

Fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a communication method 300 provided by an embodiment of the present application. The communication method 300 may be performed by a terminal device or a device (e.g., a chip or a chip module) configured in the terminal device, and the terminal device is described below as an example of performing the method 300, which should be understood that the present application is not limited thereto. The method 300 includes, but is not limited to, the steps of:

S301, the terminal device determines that a second period overlaps with a third period in one DRX cycle in the first period, where the second period includes one or more of a measurement interval, a period in which the PDCCH is detected is omitted, or an uplink resource period, and the third period is a period in which the PDCCH is detected in the DRX cycle determined according to the network device configuration.

The network device configures the terminal device with a DRX communication mode through the configuration information, and the terminal device may determine a third period, which is a period of time for the network device to configure the terminal device to detect the PDCCH in the DRX cycle according to the configuration information.

The network device may further configure or instruct the terminal device with other tasks, where the second time period during which the network device configures the terminal device to perform other tasks may overlap with the third time period, i.e. multiple tasks performed by the network device configuring the terminal device may collide, and the terminal device first determines the first time period during which the second time period overlaps with the third time period. As shown in fig. 4, a third period of time for detecting the PDCCH in the DRX cycle determined by the terminal device according to the configuration of the network device overlaps with a second period of time for the network device to configure the terminal device to perform other tasks in the first period of time.

The second period may include one or more of a measurement interval, a period in which the PDCCH is detected is omitted, and an uplink resource period.

In one example, the network device configures a measurement interval (measurement gap) for the terminal device, and the second period may include the measurement interval, where the measurement interval is used for signal quality measurement of an inter-frequency cell, and the terminal device needs to measure signal quality measurement of a cell (referred to as an inter-frequency cell) other than a serving cell according to a frequency band (referred to as an inter-frequency or an inter-frequency band) other than an operating frequency band configured within the measurement interval. The measurement interval may be periodic, and illustratively the measurement interval may be 6ms and the period may be 40ms, the network device configures the terminal device to measure the signal quality of the inter-frequency cell within the first 6ms measurement interval of every 40 ms. The measurement interval configured by the network device for the terminal device may overlap with a period of time during which the terminal device detects the PDCCH in the DRX cycle determined based on the configuration of the network device.

In another example, the network device indicates to the terminal device a period of omitting to detect the PDCCH, and the second period may include the period of omitting to detect the PDCCH, that is, the period of omitting to detect the PDCCH may overlap with a third period of detecting the PDCCH in the DRX cycle determined by the terminal device according to the network device configuration.

In yet another example, the network device may configure a frame format for the terminal device, i.e., the network device configures uplink resources and downlink resources for the terminal device in a communication frame in which the network device communicates with the terminal device. The second period may include an uplink resource period, that is, the uplink resource period may overlap with a period in which the terminal device detects the PDCCH in the DRX cycle determined based on the network device configuration.

The second time period may include processing time periods of at least two tasks, and the terminal device may determine a time period in which the third time period overlaps with the at least two time periods as the first time period. It should be understood that each time period in the present application may be continuous or discontinuous, and the present application is not limited thereto.

S302, the terminal device detects the PDCCH in a fourth period of time within the DRX cycle, the fourth period of time being a period of time other than the first period of time in the third period of time.

For example, as shown in fig. 5, after determining in S301 that the second period overlaps the third period, the terminal device does not detect the PDCCH in the first period and detects the PDCCH in the fourth period that does not overlap the second period. That is, the terminal device detects the PDCCH only for the fourth period of time within the DRX cycle. Accordingly, the network device may determine the first time period, and thus the fourth time period, in the same manner as the terminal device. The network device determines that the terminal device detects the PDCCH only in the fourth period of time in the DRX cycle, and if the network device needs to send the PDCCH to the terminal device, the network device may send the PDCCH to the terminal device in the fourth period of time in the DRX cycle. The network device does not transmit the PDCCH to the terminal device for a period other than the fourth period in the DRX cycle. The terminal equipment and the network equipment can achieve consensus, and resource waste caused by the fact that the network equipment transmits the PDCCH in a time period when the terminal equipment does not detect the PDCCH due to the fact that the consensus is not achieved is reduced. The resource utilization rate can be improved.

That is, the priority of the task of the terminal device detecting the PDCCH during the DRX cycle is lower than that of other tasks, which may include, but are not limited to, one or more of measuring signal quality during a measurement interval, omitting to detect the PDCCH, or transmitting a signal on an uplink resource. When the task of detecting the PDCCH in the DRX period configured by the network equipment for the terminal equipment is overlapped with the time period for executing other tasks, the terminal equipment executes the task with high priority in the overlapped time period because the priority of the task for detecting the PDCCH in the DRX period is lower than that of the other tasks. Alternatively, the priority of the terminal device for performing the various tasks may be pre-configured by the network device or pre-defined by the protocol.

In one embodiment, the third period of time comprises an operational period of a DRX timer configured by the network device. The operation period of the DRX timer is a period in which the terminal device detects the PDCCH. The terminal device determines a first period in S401, including: the terminal device determines a fifth time period in which the second time period overlaps the first operation time period, the first time period including the fifth time period. And the terminal equipment determines the operation time period of the DRX timer in the DRX period to be a second operation time period according to the first operation time period and the fifth time period, wherein the second operation time period is a time period except the fifth time period in the first operation time period. The terminal device detects the PDCCH in a fourth time period, including: the terminal device operates the DRX timer for a second operation period within the DRX cycle, and detects a PDCCH when the DRX timer is operated.

And the terminal equipment judges the time period of detecting the PDCCH in the DRX period by maintaining the running and stopping of the timer. The terminal device detects the PDCCH in the running time period of the timer, the timer stops running, and the terminal device does not detect the PDCCH. The terminal device may determine, according to the configuration information from the network device, that the operation period of the timer configured by the network device for the terminal device is the first operation period. And the terminal device may determine a second time period for the network device to configure the terminal device to perform other tasks (e.g., one or more of inter-frequency cell measurement, omission of detection of PDCCH or uplink resource configuration), thereby determining that the second time period of the first time period of operation that does not overlap the second time period is an actual time period of operation of the timer. The terminal device operates a timer for a second operation period within the DRX cycle and detects the PDCCH when the timer is operated. And not running the timer in a time period except the second running time period in the DRX period, and when the timer stops running, not detecting the PDCCH by the terminal equipment. Wherein the fifth time period, which includes the terminal device in the first operation time period of the network device configuration, does not operate the timer. The network device determines the time period of the timer actually operated by the terminal device in the same manner as the terminal device, so that the terminal device and the network device agree on the terminal device to detect the PDCCH.

As an example and not by way of limitation, the DRX timer comprises a first timer and/or a second timer, wherein the first run time period of the first timer is a time period starting at a start time of a DRX cycle configured by the network device. The first operation period of the second timer is a period after the terminal device receives the PDCCH for indicating the uplink (a new UL transmission) or downlink (a new DL transmission), and the duration of the first operation period of the second timer is configured by the network device.

For example, as shown in fig. 6, the network device configures the terminal device to perform inter-frequency cell measurement in a second period of time, where the second period of time is a measurement interval. The measurement interval overlaps with an operation period 1 (i.e., an example of a first operation period) of a first timer (i.e., onduration timer in the foregoing) within one DRX cycle configured by the network device, the terminal device may determine that an operation period 2 (i.e., an example of a second period) where the operation period 1 and the measurement interval do not overlap is an actual operation period of the onduration timer, the terminal device operates the onduration timer in the operation period 2 within the DRX cycle, and monitors the PDCCH during operation, other periods do not detect the PDCCH within the DRX cycle, and a period during which the terminal device detects the PDCCH may be in a sleep state, which may reduce power consumption. And the terminal device measures the signal quality of the inter-frequency cell according to the configuration of the network device in the second time period.

For another example, if the terminal device does not perform other tasks in the running period 1 of the onduration timer configured by the network device, as shown in fig. 7, the terminal device runs the onduration timer in the running period 1, and if the terminal device successfully receives a PDCCH during the running of the onduration timer, the terminal device needs to start a second timer (i.e., DRX-INACTIVITYTIMER in the foregoing), and the measurement interval configured by the network device for the terminal device is in the DRX cycle, the terminal device needs to determine whether the running period 3 (i.e., another example of the first period) of the DRX-INACTIVITYTIMER configured by the network device overlaps with the measurement interval, and if so, the terminal device determines that the running period 3 of DRX-INACTIVITYTIMER does not overlap with the second period is the actual running period of DRX-INACTIVITYTIMER, i.e., the running period 4 of DRX-INACTIVITYTIMER (i.e., another example of the second running period), and the terminal device continues to detect the PDCCH during the running period 4.

For another example, if the terminal device determines that the running period 2 of the onduration timer is overlapped with the running period 1 of the onduration timer, and the terminal device successfully receives the PDCCH in the running period 2, the terminal device determines whether the running period 3 of the drx-INACTIVITYTIMER overlaps with a period (for example, the measurement interval or other task period) in which the network device configures the terminal device to perform other tasks, and if so, the terminal device determines the actual running period of the drx-INACTIVITYTIMER, that is, the running period 4.

The second period of time may also be an uplink resource period configured by the network device. As shown in fig. 8, the network device configures a frame format for the terminal device, where the frame format includes a downlink resource for carrying a downlink signal sent by the network device to the terminal device, i.e., a downlink time unit as shown in fig. 8, and an uplink resource for carrying an uplink signal sent by the terminal device to the network device, i.e., an uplink time unit as shown in fig. 8, and a special resource between the downlink resource and the uplink resource, i.e., a special time unit as shown in fig. 8, where the special time unit includes a time when the terminal device performs downlink-to-uplink conversion (i.e., the terminal device converts from a received signal state to a transmitted signal state). Illustratively, the time unit may be a time domain symbol, a slot, a subframe, or a frame. The running period of the onduration timer configured by the network device is running period 1, where the running period 1 overlaps with the uplink resource period (including 6 uplink time units) configured by the network device, the terminal device may determine that running period 2 where the running period 1 does not overlap with the uplink resource period is an actual running period of the onduration timer, and the terminal device runs the onduration timer in the running period 2 and detects the PDCCH when the onduration timer runs. Accordingly, the network device may determine, according to the frame format, an operation period 2 in which the terminal device detects the PDCCH, and if the PDCCH needs to be sent to the terminal device, the network device sends the PDCCH to the terminal device in the operation period 2. According to the scheme, after the terminal equipment is configured with the DRX mode, when the uplink resource time period configured by the network equipment is overlapped with the running time period of the onduration timer configured by the network equipment, the network equipment cannot send the PDCCH because the overlapped time period belongs to the uplink resource time period, so that the terminal equipment can not detect that the PDCCH enters the dormant state in the overlapped time period, unnecessary power consumption of the terminal equipment can be reduced, consensus can be achieved with the network equipment, and the utilization rate of communication resources can be improved.

If the terminal device onduration timer successfully receives the PDCCH from the network device in the actual running time, the terminal device needs to start drx-INACTIVITYTIMER, and the terminal device can determine whether the running time period 3 configured by drx-INACTIVITYTIMER overlaps with the uplink resource time period according to the frame structure, if so, the terminal device determines that the running time period 3 does not overlap with the uplink resource time period, for example, the running time period 4, which is the actual running time period of drx-INACTIVITYTIMER, and the terminal device detects the PDCCH in the actual running time period of drx-INACTIVITYTIMER. Accordingly, the network device may determine the operation period 4 in the same manner after transmitting the PDCCH, and the network device may transmit the PDCCH to the terminal device in the operation period 4.

The second period may also be a period indicated by the network device in which the PDCCH is detected omitted. As shown in fig. 9, the terminal device operates onduration timer in DRX cycle n, detects PDCCH when onduration timer operates, and successfully detects one PDCCH, the control information carried by the PDCCH indicates the period of time for which the terminal device omits to detect PDCCH, and the terminal device determines the period of time for which the terminal device omits to detect PDCCH as shown in fig. 9 according to the control information. And the terminal device needs to start drx-INACTIVITYTIMER after receiving the PDCCH successfully, the terminal device can determine whether the running period 3 of drx-INACTIVITYTIMER configured by the network device overlaps with a period of omitting the detection of the PDCCH, if the terminal device determines the running period 4 of the running period 3 which does not overlap with the period of omitting the detection of the PDCCH, runs drx-INACTIVITYTIMER in the running period 4, and detects the PDCCH when drx-INACTIVITYTIMER runs. The terminal device may stop running onduration timer and drx-INACTIVITYTIMER at the start time of the period of omitting the detection of PDCCH as shown in fig. 9, without detecting PDCCH in the period of omitting the detection of PDCCH. If the period of omitting the PDCCH detection overlaps with the running period of the onduration timer configured by the network device in the next DRX cycle (i.e., DRX cycle n+1), the terminal device may determine the actual running period of the onduration timer in DRX cycle n+1, and run the onduration timer in the actual running period. The network equipment adopts the same mode to determine the time period of the terminal equipment for detecting the PDCCH, so that the terminal equipment and the network equipment can achieve consensus, unnecessary power consumption is reduced, and the resource utilization rate is improved.

In one embodiment, the DRX timer includes a first timer, and the terminal device determines a period of time for performing pre-synchronization corresponding to the DRX cycle according to a second operation period of the first timer.

Before the terminal equipment wakes up to enter an active state in a DRX period, the terminal equipment needs to be pre-synchronized with the network equipment so that the terminal equipment can calibrate the synchronization of time and frequency with the network equipment to improve the accuracy of detecting the PDCCH. When the terminal device determines that the starting time of the second operation time period of the onduration timer is different from the starting time of the first operation time period of the first timer, the terminal device may determine a time period for performing pre-synchronization corresponding to the DRX cycle according to the second operation time period of the onduration timer, and after the terminal device completes pre-synchronization with the network device in the time period, detect the PDCCH in the second operation time period.

In one embodiment, the terminal device determines an operation period of the DRX timer within the DRX cycle as a second operation period, including: if the starting time of the second time period is within the first operation time period and the starting time of the second time period to the ending time of the first operation time period are smaller than the second time period, the terminal equipment determines that the operation time period of the DRX timer in the DRX period is the second operation time period.

That is, in the case where the start time of the second period is within the first operation period and the end time of the first operation period is within the second period, the terminal device determines the second operation period of the DRX timer. This causes the terminal device to determine the second operating period of the DRX timer as a continuous period.

In another embodiment, the determining, by the terminal device, the operation period of the target timer in the DRX cycle as the second operation period includes: if the ending time of the second time period is within the first operation time period and the starting time of the first operation time period to the ending time of the second time period are smaller than the second time period, the terminal equipment determines that the operation time period of the target timer in the DRX period is the second operation time period.

That is, in the case where the end time of the second period is within the first operation period and the start time of the first operation period is within the second period, the terminal device determines the second operation period of the DRX timer. The terminal device is caused to determine the second operating period of the DRX timer as a continuous period.

If the starting time of the second time period is within the first operation time period and the ending time of the first operation time period is not within the second time period, or if the ending time of the second time period is within the first operation time period and the starting time of the first operation time period is not within the second time period, the terminal device operates the DRX timer in the operation time period (i.e., the first operation time period) of the DRX timer configured by the network device.

According to the embodiment of the application, the task priority can be set, so that the terminal equipment and the network equipment can determine which task the terminal equipment specifically executes in the overlapping time period of a plurality of tasks according to the task priority, and the probability of internal logic confusion of the terminal equipment and the occurrence of dead halt and other conditions is reduced. The terminal equipment and the network equipment can reach consensus, and resource waste caused by the fact that the network equipment transmits the PDCCH in a time period when the terminal equipment does not detect the PDCCH due to the fact that the consensus is not reached is reduced. The resource utilization rate can be improved.

Fig. 10 is a schematic flowchart of a communication method 1000 provided in an embodiment of the present application, and the method 1000 is described below by taking a terminal device as an example, which should be understood that the present application is not limited thereto. The method 1000 includes, but is not limited to, the steps of:

s1001, the terminal device determines that the uplink resource period overlaps with a sixth period in a seventh period, where the sixth period is a period configured by the network device for measuring signal quality of a synchronization signal block of a serving cell and/or for measuring signal quality of a synchronization signal block of a cell other than the serving cell.

Illustratively, the synchronization signal block is a synchronization signal and physical broadcast signal block (SSB). The sixth time period may be a time period for measuring signal quality of the serving cell and/or neighbor cells determined according to the SSB measurement time configuration (SSB measurement timing configuration, SMTC).

S1002, the terminal device measures the signal quality of the synchronization signal block in an eighth period, which is a period other than the seventh period in the sixth period.

If the sixth time period overlaps with the uplink resource time period configured by the network device in the seventh time period, the terminal device considers that the seventh time period is the uplink resource time period and is not used for measuring the downlink signal from the network device, and therefore, the terminal device only measures the signal quality of the synchronization signal block in the eighth time period which does not overlap with the uplink resource time period in the sixth time period. The terminal device does not measure the signal quality of the synchronization signal block for the seventh period. According to the scheme, when the uplink resource time period configured by the network device and the time period of the downlink signal (i.e. the synchronous signal block) measured by the terminal device have uplink and downlink conflicts in a seventh time period, the terminal device considers that the seventh time period is the uplink resource time period, that is, the priority of the uplink resource configuration is higher than the priority of the SMTC, so that the terminal device can determine the purpose of the configuration conflict time period, and the probability of the terminal device failure caused by the configuration conflict is reduced.

If the terminal device is configured by the network device to perform DRX, the terminal device is in an awake state in an eighth period, and the synchronization signal block is measured in the eighth period. If the terminal device does not transmit the uplink signal in the seventh time period (i.e., the uplink resource time period), the terminal device is in the sleep state in the seventh time period. To reduce the power consumption of the terminal device. It will be appreciated that, in order to implement the functions in the above embodiments, the network device and the terminal device include corresponding hardware structures and/or software modules that perform the respective functions. Those of skill in the art will readily appreciate that the various illustrative elements and method steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as hardware or combinations of hardware and computer software. Whether a function is implemented as hardware or computer software driven hardware depends upon the particular application scenario and design constraints imposed on the solution.

Fig. 11 and 12 are schematic structural diagrams of a possible communication device according to an embodiment of the present application. These communication devices may be used to implement the functions of the terminal device or the network device in the above method embodiments, so that the beneficial effects of the above method embodiments may also be implemented. In the embodiment of the present application, the communication device may be one of the terminal devices 120a-120j shown in fig. 1, or may be the network device 110a or 110b shown in fig. 1, or may be a module (such as a chip) applied to the terminal device or the network device.

As shown in fig. 11, the communication apparatus 1100 includes a processing unit 1110 and a transceiving unit 1120. The communication device 1100 is configured to implement the functions of the terminal device or the network device in the embodiments of the methods shown in fig. 3 and 10.

When the communication apparatus 1100 is used to implement the functionality of the terminal device in the method embodiment shown in fig. 3: a processing unit 1110, configured to determine that a second period overlaps with a third period within one DRX cycle in the first period, where the second period includes one or more of a measurement interval, a period for omitting detection of a physical downlink control channel PDCCH, and an uplink resource period, where the measurement interval is used to measure signal quality of an inter-frequency cell, and the third period is a period for detecting a PDCCH in the DRX cycle determined according to a network device configuration. The transceiver unit 1120 is configured to receive a PDCCH in a fourth time period within the DRX cycle, the fourth time period being a time period other than the first time period in the third time period.

When the communication apparatus 1100 is used to implement the functionality of the network device in the method embodiment shown in fig. 3: a processing unit, configured to determine that a second period overlaps with a third period in a discontinuous reception DRX cycle, where the second period includes one or more of a measurement interval of a terminal device, a period for omitting detection of a physical downlink control channel PDCCH, and an uplink resource period, the measurement interval is used for the terminal device to measure signal quality of a different frequency cell, and the third period is a period for the network device to detect the PDCCH in the DRX cycle configured for the terminal device. And a transceiving unit configured to transmit a PDCCH to the terminal device in a fourth period of time within the DRX cycle, the fourth period of time being a period of time other than the first period of time in the third period of time.

When the communication apparatus 1100 is used to implement the functions of the terminal device in the method embodiment shown in fig. 10: a processing unit, configured to determine that the uplink resource period overlaps with a sixth period in a seventh period, where the sixth period is a period configured by the network device for measuring a synchronization signal block of a serving cell and/or for measuring a synchronization signal block of a cell other than the serving cell. A transceiving unit configured to receive the synchronization signal block in an eighth period of time, the eighth period of time being a period of time other than the seventh period of time in the sixth period of time. The processing unit is also used for measuring the signal quality of the synchronous signal block received by the receiving and transmitting unit.

For more details on the processing unit 1110 and the transceiver unit 1120, reference may be made to the relevant descriptions in the method embodiments shown in fig. 3 and fig. 10.

As shown in fig. 12, the communication device 1200 includes a processor 1210 and an interface circuit 1220. Processor 1210 and interface circuit 1220 are coupled to each other. It is understood that the interface circuit 1220 may be a transceiver or an input-output interface. Optionally, the communication device 1200 may further include a memory 1230 for storing instructions to be executed by the processor 1210 or for storing input data required by the processor 1210 to execute instructions or for storing data generated after the processor 1210 executes instructions.

When the communication device 1200 is used to implement the methods shown in fig. 3 and 10, the processor 1210 is used to implement the functions of the processing unit 1110, and the interface circuit 1220 is used to implement the functions of the transceiver unit 1120.

When the communication device is a chip applied to the terminal equipment, the terminal equipment chip realizes the functions of the terminal equipment in the embodiment of the method. The terminal device chip receives information from other modules (such as a radio frequency module or an antenna) in the terminal device, and the information is sent to the terminal device by the network device; or the terminal device chip sends information to other modules (such as radio frequency modules or antennas) in the terminal device, which is sent by the terminal device to the network device.

When the communication device is a module applied to the network device, the network device module implements the functions of the network device in the method embodiment. The network device module receives information from other modules (such as a radio frequency module or an antenna) in the network device, the information being sent to the network device by the terminal device; or the network device module transmits information to other modules in the network device (such as a radio frequency module or an antenna), which is transmitted from the network device to the terminal device. The network device module may be a baseband chip of the network device, or may be a DU or other module, where the DU may be a DU under an open radio access network (open radio access network, O-RAN) architecture.

It is to be appreciated that the Processor in embodiments of the application may be a central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, CPU), but may also be other general purpose processors, digital signal processors (DIGITAL SIGNAL processors, DSPs), application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), field programmable gate arrays (Field Programmable GATE ARRAY, FPGA) or other programmable logic devices, transistor logic devices, hardware components, or any combination thereof. The general purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but in the alternative, it may be any conventional processor.

The method steps of the embodiments of the present application may be implemented in hardware or in software instructions executable by a processor. The software instructions may be comprised of corresponding software modules that may be stored in random access memory, flash memory, read only memory, programmable read only memory, erasable programmable read only memory, electrically erasable programmable read only memory, registers, hard disk, removable disk, CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor such the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. The storage medium may be integral to the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside in an ASIC. In addition, the ASIC may reside in a network device or terminal device. The processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a network device or terminal device.

In the above embodiments, it 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 described above includes one or more computer programs or instructions. When the above-described computer program or instructions are loaded and executed on a computer, the processes or functions described in the embodiments of the present application are performed in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a computer network, a network device, a user device, or other programmable apparatus. The computer program or 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, from one website site, computer, server, or data center to another website site, computer, server, or data center by wired or wireless means. 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 integrates one or more available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium such as a floppy disk, hard disk, magnetic tape; but also optical media such as digital video discs; but also semiconductor media such as solid state disks. The computer readable storage medium may be volatile or nonvolatile storage medium, or may include both volatile and nonvolatile types of storage medium.

In various embodiments of the application, where no special description or logic conflict exists, terms and/or descriptions between the various embodiments are consistent and may reference each other, and features of the various embodiments may be combined to form new embodiments based on their inherent logic.

Claims

1. A method of communication, comprising:

The method comprises the steps that a terminal device determines that a second time period is overlapped with a third time period in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) period in a first time period, wherein the second time period comprises one or more of a measurement interval, a time period for omitting detection of a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and an uplink resource time period, the measurement interval is used for measuring signal quality of an inter-frequency cell, and the third time period is a time period for detecting the PDCCH in the DRX period determined according to network device configuration;

The terminal device detects a PDCCH in a fourth period of time within the DRX period, the fourth period of time being a period of time other than the first period of time in the third period of time.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

the terminal device does not detect a PDCCH for the first period of time.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the third period of time comprises a first run period of a DRX timer configured by a network device, and

The terminal device determines a first time period, including:

The terminal device determines a fifth time period in which the second time period overlaps with the first operation time period, wherein the first time period comprises the fifth time period;

and the terminal device detects a PDCCH in a fourth time period within the DRX cycle, comprising:

The terminal device operates the DRX timer in a second operation period within the DRX cycle, and detects a period of PDCCH at the time of the DRX operation, wherein the second operation period is a period of the first operation period other than the fifth period, and the fourth period includes the second operation period.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the terminal device determining the operating period of the DRX timer within the DRX cycle as a second operating period comprises:

If the starting time of the second time period is in the first operation time period and the starting time of the second time period to the ending time of the first operation time period are smaller than the second time period, the terminal equipment determines that the operation time period of the DRX timer in the DRX period is the second operation time period; or alternatively

If the ending time of the second time period is within the first operation time period and the starting time of the first operation time period to the ending time of the second time period are smaller than the second time period, the terminal equipment determines that the operation time period of the DRX timer in the DRX period is the second operation time period.

5. The method according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the DRX timer comprises a first timer and/or a second timer,

Wherein the first operation period of the first timer is a period of time from the DRX cycle start time;

The first operation period of the second timer is a period after the terminal device receives a PDCCH for indicating uplink or downlink primary transmission data.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the DRX timer comprises the first timer, the method further comprising:

and the terminal equipment determines a time period for executing the presynchronization corresponding to the DRX cycle according to the second running time period of the first timer.

7. A method of communication, comprising:

The network equipment determines that a second time period overlaps with a third time period in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) period in the first time period, wherein the second time period comprises one or more of a measurement interval of the terminal equipment, a time period for omitting detection of a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and an uplink resource time period, the measurement interval is used for the terminal equipment to measure the signal quality of a different frequency cell, and the third time period is a time period for the network equipment to detect the PDCCH in the DRX period configured for the terminal equipment;

the network device transmits a PDCCH to the terminal device in a fourth period of time within the DRX period, the fourth period of time being a period of time other than the first period of time in the third period of time.

8. A method of communication, comprising:

The terminal equipment determines that an uplink resource time period overlaps with a sixth time period in a seventh time period, wherein the sixth time period is configured by the network equipment and is used for measuring a synchronous signal block of a serving cell and/or is used for measuring a synchronous signal block of a cell other than the serving cell;

The terminal device measures the signal quality of the synchronization signal block in an eighth period of time, which is a period of time other than the seventh period of time in the sixth period of time.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the method further comprises:

the terminal device does not measure the signal quality of the synchronization signal block in the seventh period.

10. A communication device, comprising:

a processing unit, configured to determine that a second period overlaps with a third period within one DRX cycle, where the second period includes one or more of a measurement interval, a period for omitting detection of a physical downlink control channel PDCCH, and an uplink resource period, where the measurement interval is used to measure signal quality of an inter-frequency cell, and the third period is a period for detecting a PDCCH in the DRX cycle determined according to a network device configuration;

A transceiver unit, configured to receive a PDCCH in a fourth time period in the DRX cycle, where the fourth time period is a time period other than the first time period in the third time period.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processing unit is further configured to determine that PDCCH is not detected for the first time period.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 or 11, wherein the third time period comprises a first run time period of a DRX timer configured by a network device,

The processing unit is specifically configured to determine a fifth time period during which the second time period overlaps the first operation time period, where the first time period includes the fifth time period;

The processing unit is further configured to operate the DRX timer during a second operation period within the DRX cycle;

The transceiver unit is specifically configured to receive a period of PDCCH during the DRX operation, where the second operation period is a period of time other than the fifth period of time in the first operation period, and the fourth period of time includes the second operation period of time.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the device comprises a plurality of sensors,

The processing unit is specifically configured to determine that an operation time period of the DRX timer in the DRX cycle is the second operation time period when a start time of the second time period is in the first operation time period and an end time of the second time period is less than the second time period; or alternatively

The processing unit is specifically configured to determine that an operation time period of the DRX timer in the DRX cycle is the second operation time period when an end time of the second time period is within the first operation time period and a start time of the first operation time period to an end time of the second time period are smaller than the second time period.

14. The apparatus according to claim 12 or 13, wherein the DRX timer comprises a first timer and/or a second timer,

the first operation period of the second timer is a period after the terminal device receives the PDCCH for indicating the uplink primary transmission data or the downlink primary transmission data.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the DRX timer comprises the first timer,

The processing unit is further configured to determine, according to the second running period of the first timer, a period of time for performing pre-synchronization corresponding to the DRX cycle.

16. A communication device, comprising:

A processing unit, configured to determine that a second period of time overlaps with a third period of time within one discontinuous reception DRX cycle, where the second period of time includes one or more of a measurement interval of a terminal device, a period of time for omitting detection of a physical downlink control channel PDCCH, and an uplink resource period of time, the measurement interval is used for the terminal device to measure signal quality of a different frequency cell, and the third period of time is a period of time for a network device to detect a PDCCH in the DRX cycle configured for the terminal device;

And a transceiver unit, configured to send a PDCCH to the terminal device in a fourth time period in the DRX cycle, where the fourth time period is a time period other than the first time period in the third time period.

17. A communication device, comprising:

a processing unit, configured to determine that an uplink resource period overlaps with a sixth period in a seventh period, where the sixth period is a period configured by the network device for measuring a synchronization signal block of a serving cell and/or for measuring a synchronization signal block of a cell other than the serving cell;

a transceiving unit configured to receive the synchronization signal block in an eighth period of time, the eighth period of time being a period of time other than the seventh period of time in the sixth period of time;

the processing unit is further configured to measure a signal quality of the synchronization signal block received by the transceiver unit.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the processing unit is further configured to determine that signal quality of the synchronization signal block is not measured during the seventh time period.

19. A communication device comprising a processor and interface circuitry for receiving signals from other communication devices and transmitting signals to the processor or for sending signals from the processor to other communication devices, the processor being configured to implement the method of any one of claims 1 to 9 by logic circuitry or executing code instructions.

20. A computer readable storage medium, characterized in that the storage medium has stored therein a computer program or instructions which, when executed by a communication device, implement the method of any of claims 1 to 9.