EP-4738981-A1 - METHOD FOR DETERMINING EFFECTIVE TIME, AND TERMINAL, NETWORK DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM

EP4738981A1EP 4738981 A1EP4738981 A1EP 4738981A1EP-4738981-A1

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method for determining an effective time, and a terminal, a network device and a storage medium. The method comprises: a terminal receiving first information sent by a network device, wherein the first information is used for instructing to activate or deactivate a discontinuous transmission/reception mode of one or more carriers; and the terminal determining an effective time of the first information according to a first time-domain unit where the first information is located. In the method of the present disclosure, a terminal receives first information sent by a network device, and can determine an effective time of the first information according to a time-domain unit where the first information is located, such that an occasion when a discontinuous transmission/reception mode of a corresponding carrier is activated or deactivated can be learned of in a timely manner, thereby being conducive to adaptively adjusting a transmission/reception behavior of the terminal itself in view of performing an adjustment in the discontinuous transmission/reception mode.

Inventors

FU, TING

Assignees

Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.

Dates

Publication Date: 20260506
Application Date: 20230627

Claims (20)

A method for determining an effective time, comprising: receiving, by a terminal, first information sent by a network device, wherein the first information indicates activation or deactivation of a discontinuous transmission/reception pattern of one or more carriers; and determining, by the terminal, an effective time of the first information according to a first time domain unit in which the first information is located.
The method of claim 1, wherein the effective time is after an end position of the first time domain unit.
The method of claim 2, wherein the effective time is spaced from the end position by a first duration, and the first duration is greater than or equal to 0.
The method of claim 2, wherein the effective time is a start time of a first discontinuous transmission/reception period of the discontinuous transmission/reception pattern after a second duration from the end position, and the second duration is greater than or equal to 0.
The method of claim 2, wherein the effective time is an end time of a discontinuous transmission/reception period of the discontinuous transmission/reception pattern in which a third duration after the end position is located, and the third duration is greater than or equal to 0.
The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the first information indicates to deactivate the discontinuous transmission/reception pattern of the one or more carriers, and the effective time is an end time of a first time period in a discontinuous transmission/reception period of the discontinuous transmission/reception pattern in which the first time domain unit is located; and the first time period is a time period in which the network device sends downlink information or receives uplink information in the discontinuous transmission/reception period.
The method of any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the discontinuous transmission/reception period of the discontinuous transmission/reception pattern comprises a first time period and a second time period, a start time of the discontinuous transmission/reception period is a start time of the first time period or a start time of the second time period, and an end time of the discontinuous transmission/reception period is an end time of the second time period or an end time of the first time period; and the first time period is a time period in which the network device sends downlink information or receives uplink information in the discontinuous transmission/reception period, and the second time period is a time period in which the network device is not able to send part of the downlink information or receive part of the uplink information.
The method of any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein receiving, by the terminal, the first information sent by the network device comprises: receiving, by the terminal on a first carrier, the first information sent by the network device; wherein a plurality of carriers have different subcarrier spacings (SCSs), and the plurality of carriers comprise the first carrier.
The method of claim 8, further comprising: determining, by the terminal according to a minimum SCS among the SCSs of the plurality of carriers, an end position of a first time domain unit corresponding to each carrier.
The method of claim 8, further comprising: determining, by the terminal according to an SCS of the first carrier, an end position of a first time domain unit corresponding to a second carrier, wherein the plurality of carriers comprise the second carrier.
The method of claim 10, wherein the second carrier is any one of the plurality of carriers, or an SCS of the second carrier is greater than or equal to the SCS of the first carrier.
The method of claim 8, further comprising: determining, by the terminal according to an SCS of a second carrier, an end position of a first time domain unit corresponding to the second carrier, wherein the SCS of the second carrier is less than an SCS of the first carrier.
The method of any one of claims 1 to 12, wherein the discontinuous transmission/reception pattern comprises any of: a discontinuous transmission (DTX) pattern; or a discontinuous reception (DRX) pattern.
A method for determining an effective time, comprising: sending, by a network device, first information to a terminal, wherein the first information indicates activation or deactivation of a discontinuous transmission/reception pattern of one or more carriers; and determining, by the network device, an effective time of the first information according to a first time domain unit in which the first information is located.
The method of claim 14, wherein the effective time is after an end position of the first time domain unit.
The method of claim 15, wherein the effective time is spaced from the end position by a first duration, and the first duration is greater than or equal to 0.
The method of claim 15, wherein the effective time is a start time of a first discontinuous transmission/reception period of the discontinuous transmission/reception pattern after a second duration from the end position, and the second duration is greater than or equal to 0.
The method of claim 15, wherein the effective time is an end time of a discontinuous transmission/reception period of the discontinuous transmission/reception pattern in which a third duration after the end position is located, and the third duration is greater than or equal to 0.
The method of claim 14 or 15, wherein the first information indicates to deactivate the discontinuous transmission/reception pattern of the one or more carriers, and the effective time is an end time of a first time period in a discontinuous transmission/reception period of the discontinuous transmission/reception pattern in which the first time domain unit is located; and the first time period is a time period in which the network device sends downlink information or receives uplink information in the discontinuous transmission/reception period.
The method of any one of claims 14 to 19, wherein the discontinuous transmission/reception period of the discontinuous transmission/reception pattern comprises a first time period and a second time period, a start time of the discontinuous transmission/reception period is a start time of the first time period or a start time of the second time period, and an end time of the discontinuous transmission/reception period is an end time of the second time period or an end time of the first time period; and the first time period is a time period in which the network device sends downlink information or receives uplink information in the discontinuous transmission/reception period, and the second time period is a time period in which the network device is not able to send part of the downlink information or receive part of the uplink information.

Description

FIELD The present disclosure relates to the field of communication technologies, and in particular relates to a method for determining an effective time, a terminal, a network device and a storage medium. BACKGROUND A network energy saving project aims to study technologies to reduce energy consumption of a network device. A possible network energy saving method is a discontinuous transmission (DTX) pattern or a discontinuous reception (DRX) pattern of a cell base station. SUMMARY A base station may send to a terminal an instruction for activating or deactivating discontinuous transmission (DTX) or discontinuous reception (DRX), and it is needed to determine when the instruction takes effect. The present disclosure provides a method for determining an effective time, a terminal, a network device and a storage medium. According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for determining an effective time. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, first information sent by a network device, in which the first information indicates activation or deactivation of a discontinuous transmission/reception pattern of one or more carriers; anddetermining, by the terminal, an effective time of the first information according to a first time domain unit in which the first information is located. In the method of the present disclosure, the terminal receives the first information sent by the network device, and may determine the effective time of the first information according to the time domain unit in which the first information is located, such that an opportunity of activation or deactivation of the discontinuous transmission/reception pattern of the corresponding carrier may be obtained in time, which is beneficial for adaptively adjusting its own transmission/reception behavior in conjunction with the discontinuous transmission/reception pattern. According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for determining an effective time. The method includes: sending, by a network device, first information to a terminal, in which the first information indicates activation or deactivation of a discontinuous transmission/reception pattern of one or more carriers; anddetermining, by the network device, an effective time of the first information according to a first time domain unit in which the first information is located. In the method of the present disclosure, the network device sends the first information to the terminal, and may determine the effective time of the first information according to the time domain unit in which the first information is located, such that the network device and the terminal may determine the same effective time according to the first information, to enable the network device and the terminal to adaptively adjust their own transmission/reception behavior. According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a terminal. The terminal includes: a transceiver module configured to receive first information sent by a network device, in which the first information indicates activation or deactivation of a discontinuous transmission/reception pattern of one or more carriers; anda processing module configured to determine an effective time of the first information according to a first time domain unit that in which the first information is received. According to a fourth aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a network device. The network device includes: a transceiver module configured to send first information to a terminal, in which the first information indicates activation or deactivation of a discontinuous transmission/reception pattern of one or more carriers; anda processing module configured to determine an effective time of the first information according to a first time domain unit in which the first information is located. According to a fifth aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a terminal. The terminal includes: one or more processors,in which the terminal is configured to perform the method described in the first aspect. According to a sixth aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a network device. The network device includes: one or more processors,in which the network device is configured to perform the method described in the second aspect. According to a seventh aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a communication system. The communication system includes a network device and a terminal, in which, the terminal is configured to implement the method described in the first aspect; and the network device is configured to implement the method described in the second aspect. According to an eighth aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a storage medium storing instructions that, when running on a communication device, enable the communication device to perform the method described in the first aspect or the second aspect. BRIEF DESCRIPTI