CN111294903B

CN111294903B - Receiving method and device of energy-saving signal, storage medium and terminal

Info

Publication number: CN111294903B
Application number: CN201910635553.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 雷珍珠
Original assignee: Spreadtrum Semiconductor Nanjing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Spreadtrum Semiconductor Nanjing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-07-15
Filing date: 2019-07-15
Publication date: 2022-10-18
Anticipated expiration: 2039-07-15
Also published as: CN111294903A

Abstract

A receiving method and device, storage medium and terminal of energy-saving signal, the receiving method includes: judging whether the first energy-saving signal monitoring position and the measurement gap are overlapped; receiving a power saving signal at the first power saving signal monitoring location if the first power saving signal monitoring location overlaps the measurement gap, or receiving the power saving signal at a second power saving signal monitoring location when there is a second power saving signal monitoring location different from the first power saving signal monitoring location. Through the technical scheme provided by the invention, a feasible solution can be provided for at least partially overlapped energy-saving signals and measurement gaps.

Description

Method and device for receiving energy-saving signal, storage medium and terminal

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for receiving an energy saving signal, a storage medium, and a terminal.

Background

In a New Radio (NR) system of The Fifth Generation mobile communication (5G for short), a power saving signal (power saving signal) or a power saving channel (power saving channel) is introduced for a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mechanism in a connection mode of a User Equipment (UE for short).

The power saving signal/power saving Channel is used to indicate whether the UE needs to wake up for Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) monitoring in a current DRX active period (ON-duration), for example, the UE enters a sleep state by skipping the current DRX ON-duration, so as to achieve a target of power saving for the UE.

When the energy-saving signal is applied, the problem of collision between the energy-saving signal and other non-energy-saving signals needs to be considered.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention solves the technical problem of how to solve the problem of overlapping of energy-saving signals and measurement gaps.

To solve the foregoing technical problem, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for receiving an energy saving signal, including: judging whether the first energy-saving signal monitoring position and the measurement gap are overlapped; receiving a power saving signal at the first power saving signal monitoring location if the first power saving signal monitoring location overlaps the measurement gap, or receiving the power saving signal at a second power saving signal monitoring location when there is a second power saving signal monitoring location different from the first power saving signal monitoring location.

Optionally, the receiving method further includes: and when the second energy-saving signal monitoring position does not exist, prolonging the measurement period of the user equipment.

Optionally, the extended measurement period is N times of the measurement period of the non-extended ue, and N is determined by using the following formula:

wherein, T _drx Indicating the cycle duration, T, of DRX _mgrp Representing the measurement gap period.

Optionally, the second power saving signal monitoring position is preconfigured.

Optionally, a time interval between the first power saving signal monitoring position and the second power saving signal monitoring position exceeds a duration of the measurement gap.

Optionally, in the first power saving signal monitoring location and the second power saving signal monitoring location, a time interval between a power saving signal monitoring location closer to a starting location of a DRX active period and the starting location of the DRX active period is constant.

Optionally, before determining whether the first power saving signal monitoring position and the measurement gap overlap, the receiving method further includes: determining the position of a DRX active period and the position of the measurement gap; if the DRX active period overlaps with the measurement gap, keeping a sleep state during the DRX active period.

Optionally, the receiving method further includes: and if the first energy-saving signal monitoring position and the second energy-saving signal monitoring position exist and neither the first energy-saving signal monitoring position nor the second energy-saving signal monitoring position is overlapped with the measurement gap, receiving the energy-saving signal at the first energy-saving signal monitoring position or the second energy-saving signal monitoring position.

Optionally, the receiving method further includes: and when the energy-saving signal indicates that the user equipment receives the PDCCH in the DRX active period, receiving the PDCCH in the DRX active period.

To solve the above technical problem, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an apparatus for receiving an energy saving signal, including: the judging module is used for judging whether the first energy-saving signal monitoring position and the measurement gap are overlapped; a first receiving module, configured to receive an energy saving signal at the first energy saving signal monitoring location if the first energy saving signal monitoring location overlaps with the measurement gap, or receive the energy saving signal at a second energy saving signal monitoring location when a second energy saving signal monitoring location different from the first energy saving signal monitoring location exists.

To solve the above technical problem, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions, where the computer instructions execute the steps of the above method when executed.

In order to solve the foregoing technical problem, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, including a memory and a processor, where the memory stores computer instructions executable on the processor, and the processor executes the computer instructions to perform the steps of the foregoing method.

Compared with the prior art, the technical scheme of the embodiment of the invention has the following beneficial effects:

the embodiment of the invention provides a method for receiving an energy-saving signal, which comprises the following steps: judging whether the first energy-saving signal monitoring position and the measurement gap are overlapped; receiving a power saving signal at the first power saving signal monitoring location if the first power saving signal monitoring location overlaps the measurement gap, or receiving the power saving signal at a second power saving signal monitoring location when there is a second power saving signal monitoring location different from the first power saving signal monitoring location. When the energy-saving signal and the measurement gap are partially or completely overlapped, the embodiment of the invention provides two feasible technical schemes, and firstly, the terminal abandons the measurement gap to receive the energy-saving signal so as to save the energy consumption of the terminal; and secondly, the energy-saving signal emission times are increased by increasing the energy-saving signal monitoring position so as to solve the problem of overlapping of the energy-saving signal and the measurement gap, thereby saving the energy consumption of the terminal.

Further, still include: and when the second energy-saving signal monitoring position does not exist, prolonging the measurement period of the user equipment. By prolonging the measurement period, the terminal has more opportunities to measure in the measurement gap, and the condition that the measurement precision is sacrificed due to the reception of the energy-saving signal can be avoided.

Further, the time interval between the first and second power saving signal monitoring positions exceeds the duration of the measurement gap. The time interval provided by the embodiment of the invention exceeds the duration of the measurement gap, so that when two energy-saving signal monitoring positions (the first energy-saving signal monitoring position and the second energy-saving signal monitoring position) are provided, at least one energy-saving signal monitoring position and the measurement gap are staggered with each other, and the UE can receive the energy-saving signals and can perform measurement based on the measurement gap.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a diagram of a DRX cycle in the prior art in fig. 1;

fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a method for receiving an energy-saving signal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a further method for receiving an energy-saving signal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic flowchart of another method for receiving an energy-saving signal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for receiving a power saving signal according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for receiving an energy-saving signal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

As background, in the prior art, the power saving signal may collide with other signals.

In communication systems, packet-based data streams are typically bursty. There is data transmission for a period of time, but no data transmission for the next longer period of time. When no data is transmitted, the power consumption can be reduced by stopping receiving the PDCCH (at the moment, the PDCCH blind detection is stopped), so that the service time of the battery is prolonged. This is the origin of DRX.

The basic mechanism of DRX is to configure a DRX cycle (cycle) for a UE in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) CONNECTED state (CONNECTED).

Fig. 1 is a diagram of a DRX cycle in the prior art. Referring to fig. 1, the DRX cycle consists of a DRX active period (ON-duration) and a DRX occasion (Opportunity for DRX): in the DRX ON-duration time, the UE is in an active period, and the UE monitors and receives a PDCCH; within a DRX occasion, the UE is in a sleep period and does not receive the PDCCH to reduce power consumption. As can be seen from fig. 1, in the time domain, time is divided into successive DRX cycles.

The DRX cycle selection needs to take into account the balance between battery saving and delay. On the one hand, a long DRX cycle is beneficial to extend the battery usage time of the UE; for example, in the process of browsing web pages, when the user is reading a web page that has been downloaded, it is a waste of resources that the UE continuously receives downlink data. On the other hand, when there is a new data transmission, a shorter DRX cycle is beneficial to increase the response speed, for example, it may increase the user's request for another web page or make a VoIP call.

To meet the above requirements, each UE may configure two DRX cycles: short DRX Cycle (shortDRX-Cycle) and long DRX Cycle (longDRX-Cycle). If the UE configures a short DRX cycle, the long DRX cycle is typically configured as a multiple of the short DRX cycle. But at any one time the UE can only use one of the configurations.

Wherein the parameter DRX start offset (drxStartOffset) specifies the start subframe of the DRX Cycle, the parameter longDRX-Cycle specifies the number of consecutive subframes occupied by the long DRX Cycle, both parameters being determined by the parameter longDRX-CycleStartOffset field. The on duration timer (onDurationTimer) specifies the number of consecutive "PDCCH subframe numbers" that need to monitor the PDCCH from the start subframe of the DRX cycle.

In a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Wake-Up Signal (WUS) in the prior art, a Wake-Up Signal is associated with each Paging Occasion (PO). Since PO is time-divided, WUS is also time-varying. The position of the WUS is a fixed non-zero length time interval before the PO, with the start of the time interval being the end of the configured maximum WUS duration (duration). The actually transmitted WUS is not fixed in length, a single subframe is used as a basic unit from the starting position of the configured maximum WUS duration, the transmission is repeated or expanded into a plurality of subframes, the configured maximum WUS duration cannot be exceeded, and the UE needs to monitor the actually transmitted WUS according to a power-of-2 subframe.

Considering that people have higher and higher power saving requirements for 5G terminals and power consumption used for blind PDCCH accounts for most of the power consumption of terminals, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3 GPP) working group passes through a standing item in the 80 th conference (RAN # 80) of the Radio Access Network working group 1 (Radio Access Network networking group, RAN for short), and needs to research a power saving mechanism of an Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) terminal facing to the future NR 16 (Release 16, rel-16) version to improve user experience.

UE battery life is an important metric for measuring user experience, which will affect the wide application of 5G handsets and/or services. The UE power consumption of Rel-16 is studied to ensure that the UE power efficiency of the 5G NR is at least not worse than LTE, and it is crucial to identify and adopt relevant improved techniques and designs.

Because NR systems may be able to support high speed data transmission, it is expected that user data tends to be bursty and served for very short durations. Therefore, in the prior art, the UE is triggered to switch from the power efficient mode to the network access process, so as to save the UE power. Specifically, unless the network informs the UE of access through the UE power saving framework, the UE will remain in a power efficient mode (e.g., microsleep or off periods in long DRX cycles). Alternatively, the network may assist the UE in switching from a "network access" mode to a "power efficient" mode when there is no traffic to be communicated, e.g., by dynamically instructing the UE to transition to a sleep state via a network assistance signal.

In addition to minimizing UE power consumption through a new wake/sleep mechanism, it is also important to reduce power consumption during network access in RRC connected mode. More than half of the power consumption in LTE occurs in UE access mode. Existing major power saving schemes should also focus on minimizing power consumption during network access. For example, handling aggregate bandwidth, validating the number of RF chains and the effective receive/transmit time, and dynamically transitioning to a power efficient mode, etc.

For Rel-16, traffic dynamics adaptation in different dimensions, such as carrier, antenna, beamforming and bandwidth, can also be studied. Further, methods of enhancing transitions between "network access" mode and power saving mode also require further investigation. For the UE energy saving mechanism, network assisted and UE assisted methods may be considered.

Further, the UE also consumes a large amount of power for Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurements. Specifically, the UE would need to track the channel before DRX on to prepare for RRM measurements. While some RRM measurements are not necessary, they consume a large amount of UE power, e.g., low mobility terminals may not have to measure as frequently as high mobility terminals. The network may provide signaling to help the UE reduce power consumption caused by unnecessary RRM measurements. Furthermore, additional UE assistance, which is also useful for the network, can reduce the RRM measurement power consumption of the UE, such as UE status information, etc.

In the RRM Measurement mechanism of the 5G NR system, the network configures a Measurement gap (Measurement gap) for each UE (Per-UE) or each Frequency band (Per-Frequency Range, or Per-FR) to meet the Measurement requirements of inter-Frequency Measurement and other Measurement types requiring Measurement gaps. The UE determines the measurement period by measuring the period of the gap, the period of the measurement timing configuration (SMTC for short) of the synchronization signal block, discontinuous reception, and the measured frequency number.

Currently, the existing mechanism is to configure an energy-saving signal before DRX ON-duration, and the UE determines whether the next DRX ON-duration wakes up for PDCCH monitoring by monitoring the energy-saving signal. When the energy-saving signal indicates that the UE can skip the DRX ON-duration to enter a sleep state, the UE does not need to wake up for PDCCH monitoring. The power saving signal monitoring occasion is fixed and periodic (the period is DRX). In the RRM measurement mechanism of the 5G NR system, the network configures a measurement gap for each UE or each frequency band to meet the measurement requirement of inter-frequency measurement and other types of measurement requiring the measurement gap.

During the measurement gap, the UE does not perform other data or signal reception and transmission except for receiving the corresponding sounding reference signal. When the energy-saving signal monitoring position is overlapped with the measurement gap, the UE cannot monitor the energy-saving signal according to the existing protocol standard, which will seriously affect the energy-saving gain of the UE and also limit the application range of the energy-saving signal.

To solve the foregoing technical problem, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for receiving an energy saving signal, including: judging whether the first energy-saving signal monitoring position and the measurement gap are overlapped; and if the first energy saving signal monitoring position is overlapped with the measurement gap, receiving an energy saving signal at the first energy saving signal monitoring position, or when a second energy saving signal monitoring position different from the first energy saving signal monitoring position exists, receiving the energy saving signal at the second energy saving signal monitoring position.

The embodiment of the invention provides two feasible technical schemes when the energy-saving signal and the measurement gap are partially overlapped or completely overlapped, and firstly, the terminal abandons the measurement gap to receive the energy-saving signal so as to save the energy consumption of the terminal; and secondly, the energy-saving signal emission times are increased by increasing the energy-saving signal monitoring position so as to solve the problem of overlapping of energy-saving signals and measurement gaps, thereby saving the energy consumption of the terminal.

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for receiving an energy saving signal according to an embodiment of the present invention. The receiving method may be performed by a terminal, for example, by a 5G terminal. Specifically, the receiving method may include the steps of:

step S101, judging whether the first energy-saving signal monitoring position and the measurement gap are overlapped;

step S102, if the first energy saving signal monitoring position overlaps with the measurement gap, receiving an energy saving signal at the first energy saving signal monitoring position, or, when a second energy saving signal monitoring position different from the first energy saving signal monitoring position exists, receiving the energy saving signal at the second energy saving signal monitoring position.

More specifically, the terminal may determine a location of a DRX active period (ON-duration) and a location of the measurement gap. Thereafter, if the DRX active period is found to partially or completely overlap with the measurement gap, the terminal may remain in a sleep state during the DRX active period to save power consumption.

In step S101, the terminal may determine a power saving signal monitoring location (e.g., a first power saving signal monitoring location). In practical applications, the power saving signal monitoring position may refer to a power saving signal monitoring position in the prior art. The terminal may also know the location of the measurement gap. The measurement gap may refer to a measurement gap configured by the network for the terminal or a frequency band related to the terminal.

Further, the terminal may determine whether the first power saving signal monitoring position and the measurement gap overlap. The overlap may refer to partial overlap or complete overlap.

In step S102, if only the first power saving signal monitoring position exists and the first power saving signal monitoring position partially overlaps or completely overlaps with the measurement gap, the terminal may receive a power saving signal at the first power saving signal monitoring position.

In a specific implementation, the measurement period of the ue may be extended, so that the terminal may obtain a sufficient measurement gap to meet the measurement requirement.

In one non-limiting example, the extended measurement period may be N times the measurement period of the non-extended ue, and N may be determined using the following formula:

wherein, T _drx Indicating the cycle duration, T, of DRX _mgrp Representing the measurement gap period. The measurement period of the non-extended user equipment refers to a measurement period specified by a current protocol.

As a variation, if there are the first power saving signal monitoring location and a second power saving signal monitoring location different from the first power saving signal monitoring location, the power saving signal may be received at the second power saving signal monitoring location when the terminal predicts that the first power saving signal monitoring location overlaps with the measurement gap. The second power saving signal monitoring position may be a power saving signal monitoring position that does not overlap with the measurement gap.

Or, if the first power saving signal monitoring location and a second power saving signal monitoring location different from the first power saving signal monitoring location exist, the power saving signal may be received at the first power saving signal monitoring location when the terminal predicts that the second power saving signal monitoring location overlaps with a measurement gap. At this time, the first power saving signal monitoring position may not overlap with the measurement gap.

In a specific implementation, the second power saving signal monitoring location is preconfigured. The terminal may know the first power saving signal monitoring position and the second power saving signal monitoring position in advance.

In a specific implementation, a time interval between the first power saving signal monitoring location and the second power saving signal monitoring location may exceed a duration of the measurement gap, so that the measurement gap of the terminal is not overlapped with at least one of the power saving signal monitoring locations, which is convenient for the terminal to receive the power saving signal.

In a specific implementation, in the first power saving signal monitoring location and the second power saving signal monitoring location, a time interval between a power saving signal monitoring location closer to a starting location of a DRX active period and the starting location of the DRX active period may be a constant value and is a constant.

Further, when the first and second power saving signal monitoring positions exist, if neither the first power saving signal monitoring position nor the second power saving signal monitoring position overlaps the measurement gap, the terminal may receive the power saving signal at the first power saving signal monitoring position or the second power saving signal monitoring position.

Further, when the measurement gap completely overlaps with the DRX ON-duration, it is not necessary for the UE to monitor the power saving signal/power saving channel, and extra power consumption is brought.

The following takes UE as an example to describe the specific embodiments of the present invention in detail.

Example 1: UE priority monitoring energy-saving signal

When the energy-saving signal monitoring position (namely the energy-saving signal transmission position) is overlapped with the measurement gap, the UE and the network both default that the current measurement gap is invalid, namely the data receiving and sending of the UE and the network are not limited by the current measurement gap, and the UE can normally monitor the energy-saving signal.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a further method for receiving an energy-saving signal according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 3, when the power saving signal monitoring position overlaps with the measurement gap, the UE needs to monitor the power saving signal, and the current measurement gap is invalid (indicated as a invalid measurement gap in the figure).

Specifically, the power saving signal monitoring position is located before the DRX ON-duration and has a fixed time interval (offset) between the DRX ON-duration and the DRX ON-duration.

Since the measurement gap UE overlapping with the power saving signal monitoring position cannot be used to perform measurement, the measurement period may be extended appropriately in order to ensure the RRM measurement performance of the UE.

In order to ensure the RRM measurement performance of the UE, the measurement period may be increased by Ps times based on the current protocol. The extended proportionality factor (Ps) may be determined from the current measurement gap period (T) _mgrp ) And DRX cycle duration (T) _drx ) Specifically, it can be determined by the formula Ps = 1/(1-, (1 —) (T _mgrp /T _drx ) ) is determined.

Furthermore, when the DRX ON-duration and the measurement gap completely overlap, the UE by default does not need to wake up, stay in sleep state, and does not need to monitor the power saving signal/channel at the next DRX ON-duration.

Example 2: when the energy-saving signal monitoring position overlaps with the measurement gap, the UE wakes up by default during the DRXON-duration

Fig. 4 is a flowchart illustrating another method for receiving an energy saving signal according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 4, when the energy saving signal monitoring position overlaps with the measurement gap, the UE does not monitor the energy saving signal during the measurement gap (indicated by the disabling energy saving signal in the figure), and the UE needs to wake up by default at the next DRX ON-duration to monitor the PDCCH.

Specifically, when the energy saving signal monitoring position overlaps with the measurement gap, the network may also configure a set of default energy saving parameters for the energy saving signal monitoring position overlapping with the measurement gap, and when the energy saving signal monitoring position overlaps with the measurement gap, the UE may perform other functions according to the energy saving parameters configured by the network.

When the DRX ON-duration and the measurement gap completely overlap, the UE defaults to not wake up at the next DRX ON-duration, remains in a sleep state, and does not need to monitor the power saving signal.

Example 3: configuring two power saving signal monitoring locations before DRX ON-duration

Fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a further method for receiving an energy-saving signal according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 5, two power saving signal monitoring positions are configured before DRX ON-duration, the distance between the two power saving signal monitoring positions is larger than the current measurement gap length, and the power saving signal monitoring position close to DRX ON-duration has a fixed offset (offset) from DRX ON-duration. And when the energy-saving signal monitoring position is overlapped with the measurement gap, the UE does not monitor the energy-saving signal overlapped with the measurement gap according to the existing protocol standard. The UE can monitor another energy-saving signal monitoring position which does not overlap with the measurement gap before the DRX ON-duration.

When the DRX ON-duration and the measurement gap completely overlap, the UE defaults to not wake up at the next DRX ON-duration, remains in sleep, and does not need to monitor the power saving signal/channel.

It should be noted that, if neither the first energy saving signal monitoring location nor the second energy saving signal monitoring location overlaps with the measurement gap, the UE may select one energy saving signal monitoring location from the first energy saving signal monitoring location and the second energy saving signal monitoring location to receive the energy saving signal.

As can be seen from the above, the embodiment of the present invention provides two feasible technical solutions for the energy saving signal and the measurement gap that are overlapped, and firstly, the terminal abandons the measurement gap to receive the energy saving signal, so as to save the energy consumption of the terminal; and secondly, the energy-saving signal transmitting times are increased by increasing the energy-saving signal monitoring position so as to avoid the energy-saving signal and the measurement gap from overlapping as much as possible, thereby saving the energy consumption of the terminal.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for receiving an energy-saving signal according to an embodiment of the present invention. The receiving apparatus 6 for the energy saving signal (hereinafter, referred to as the receiving apparatus 6) may implement the technical solution of the receiving method described in any one of fig. 2 to fig. 5, and be executed by a terminal.

Specifically, the receiving apparatus 6 may include: the judging module 61 is used for judging whether the first energy-saving signal monitoring position and the measurement gap are overlapped; a first receiving module 62, wherein if the first power saving signal monitoring position overlaps with the measurement gap, the first receiving module 62 is configured to receive a power saving signal at the first power saving signal monitoring position, or, when a second power saving signal monitoring position different from the first power saving signal monitoring position exists, receive the power saving signal at the second power saving signal monitoring position.

In a specific implementation, the receiving device 6 may further include: and an extension module 63, configured to extend a measurement period of the ue when the second power saving signal monitoring location does not exist.

In a specific implementation, the extended measurement period is N times of the measurement period of the non-extended ue, where N is determined by the following formula:

In a specific implementation, the second power saving signal monitoring position may be pre-configured.

In a specific implementation, the time interval between the first and second power saving signal monitoring positions may exceed the duration of the measurement gap.

In a specific implementation, in the first power saving signal monitoring location and the second power saving signal monitoring location, a time interval between a power saving signal monitoring location closer to a starting location of a DRX active period and the starting location of the DRX active period is constant.

In a specific implementation, the receiving device 6 may further include: a determining module 64, configured to determine a location of a DRX active period and a location of a measurement gap before determining whether the first power saving signal monitoring location and the measurement gap overlap; a keeping module 65 for keeping a sleep state during the DRX active period if the DRX active period overlaps with the measurement gap.

In a specific implementation, the receiving device 6 may further include: a second receiving module 66. If the first and second power saving signal monitoring positions exist and neither of the first and second power saving signal monitoring positions overlaps with the measurement gap, the second receiving module 66 is configured to receive the power saving signal at the first or second power saving signal monitoring position.

In a specific implementation, the receiving device 6 may further include: a third receiving module 67, configured to receive the PDCCH in a DRX active period when the energy saving signal indicates that the ue receives the PDCCH in the DRX active period.

For more details of the operation principle and the operation mode of the receiving apparatus 6, reference may be made to the description of the technical solutions in fig. 2 to fig. 5, which is not described herein again.

Further, the embodiment of the present invention further discloses a storage medium, on which computer instructions are stored, and when the computer instructions are executed, the method technical solutions described in the embodiments shown in fig. 2 to fig. 5 are executed. Preferably, the storage medium may include a computer-readable storage medium such as a non-volatile (non-volatile) memory or a non-transitory (non-transient) memory. The computer readable storage medium may include ROM, RAM, magnetic or optical disks, and the like.

Further, an embodiment of the present invention further discloses a terminal, which includes a memory and a processor, where the memory stores a computer instruction capable of being executed on the processor, and the processor executes the method technical solution described in the embodiments shown in fig. 2 to 5 when executing the computer instruction. Preferably, the terminal may be a 5G terminal.

Although the present invention is disclosed above, the present invention is not limited thereto. Various changes and modifications may be effected by one skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, as defined in the appended claims.

Claims

1. A method for receiving a power saving signal, comprising:

judging whether the first energy-saving signal monitoring position and the measurement gap are overlapped;

receiving a power saving signal at the first power saving signal monitoring location if the first power saving signal monitoring location overlaps the measurement gap, or receiving the power saving signal at a second power saving signal monitoring location when there is a second power saving signal monitoring location different from the first power saving signal monitoring location.

2. The receiving method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising: and when the second energy-saving signal monitoring position does not exist, prolonging the measurement period of the user equipment.

3. The receiving method according to claim 2, characterized in that the extended measurement period is N times the measurement period of the non-extended user equipment, N being determined by the following formula:

wherein, T _drx Indicating the cycle duration, T, of DRX _mgrp Indicating the measurement gap period.

4. The receiving method of claim 1, wherein the second power saving signal monitoring location is pre-configured.

5. The receiving method of claim 1, wherein the time interval between the first power save signal monitoring location and the second power save signal monitoring location exceeds the duration of the measurement gap.

6. The receiving method according to claim 1, 4 or 5, wherein, in the first power saving signal monitoring location and the second power saving signal monitoring location, a time interval between a power saving signal monitoring location closer to a starting location of a DRX active period and the starting location of the DRX active period is constant.

7. The receiving method according to claim 1, 4 or 5, wherein before determining whether the first power saving signal monitoring position and the measurement gap overlap, the receiving method further comprises:

determining a location of a DRX activation period and a location of the measurement gap;

if the DRX active period overlaps with the measurement gap, keeping a sleep state during the DRX active period.

8. The receiving method according to claim 1, 4 or 5, characterized in that it further comprises:

and if the first energy-saving signal monitoring position and the second energy-saving signal monitoring position exist and neither the first energy-saving signal monitoring position nor the second energy-saving signal monitoring position is overlapped with the measurement gap, receiving the energy-saving signal at the first energy-saving signal monitoring position or the second energy-saving signal monitoring position.

9. The receiving method according to claim 1, 4 or 5, characterized by further comprising:

and when the energy-saving signal indicates that the user equipment receives the PDCCH in a DRX activation period, receiving the PDCCH in the DRX activation period.

10. An apparatus for receiving a power saving signal, comprising:

the judging module is used for judging whether the first energy-saving signal monitoring position and the measurement gap are overlapped;

a first receiving module, configured to receive a power saving signal at the first power saving signal monitoring location if the first power saving signal monitoring location overlaps with the measurement gap, or receive the power saving signal at a second power saving signal monitoring location when a second power saving signal monitoring location different from the first power saving signal monitoring location exists.

11. A storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions, which when executed by a processor, perform the steps of the method of any one of claims 1 to 9.

12. A terminal comprising a memory and a processor, the memory having stored thereon computer instructions executable on the processor, wherein the processor, when executing the computer instructions, performs the steps of the method of any one of claims 1 to 9.