WO2023160547A1 - Information response method, information sending method, terminal, and network side device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present application relates to the technical field of communications, and discloses an information response method, an information sending method, a terminal, and a network side device. The information response method of embodiments of the present application comprises: the terminal acquires target information sent by the network side device, the target information comprising indication information and/or mode information, the indication information being used for indicating information of at least one of beams turned on and beams turned off by the network side device, and the mode information being used for indicating a working mode of the network side device; and the terminal executes a target operation according to the target information.

Description

Information response method, information sending method, terminal and network side equipment

Cross References to Related Applications

This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202210176486.9 filed in China on February 25, 2022, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.

technical field

The present application belongs to the technical field of communication, and specifically relates to an information response method, an information sending method, a terminal and a network side device.

Background technique

Network-side devices transmit data through beams, but the more beams are turned on, the greater the power consumption. When the network side equipment is idle and under low load, the transmission capacity is redundant, resulting in waste of power consumption; when the network side equipment resumes high load, it needs higher transmission capacity and needs to open more beams to Meet the needs.

In order to meet the above requirements, the network-side device can turn on and/or turn off the beam. However, after the network-side device turns on and/or turns off the beam, it may affect the communication of the terminal, thereby affecting the reliability of data transmission. is an urgent problem to be solved.

Contents of the invention

Embodiments of the present application provide an information response method, an information sending method, a terminal, and a network-side device, which can solve the problem that the network-side device affects the communication of the terminal after the beam is turned on and/or off, thereby affecting the reliability of data transmission. question.

In the first aspect, an information response method is provided, and the method includes:

The terminal obtains the target information sent by the network-side device, where the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to indicate information about at least one of beams that are turned on and beams that are turned off by the network-side device. The mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device;

The terminal executes a target operation according to the target information.

In the second aspect, a method for sending information is provided, including:

The network side device performs beam opening and/or closing operations;

The network side device sends target information, where the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to indicate at least one of beams turned on and beams turned off by the network side device, the The mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device.

In a third aspect, an information response device is provided, including:

An acquisition module, configured to acquire target information sent by the network-side device, the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to indicate at least one of beams turned on and beams turned off by the network-side device information, the mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device;

An executing module, configured to execute a target operation according to the target information.

In a fourth aspect, an information sending device is provided, including:

An execution module, configured to perform beam opening and/or closing operations;

A sending module, configured to send target information, where the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, where the indication information is used to indicate information about at least one of beams turned on and beams turned off by the network side device, the The mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device.

In a fifth aspect, a terminal is provided, the terminal includes a processor and a memory, the memory stores programs or instructions that can run on the processor, and when the programs or instructions are executed by the processor, the following The steps of the method in one aspect.

According to a sixth aspect, a terminal is provided, including a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used to obtain target information sent by a network side device, the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication The information is used to indicate at least one of the beams turned on and the beams turned off by the network side device, the mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device; the processor is used to execute the target according to the target information operate.

According to the seventh aspect, there is provided a network side device, the terminal includes a processor and a memory, the memory stores programs or instructions that can run on the processor, and the programs or instructions are implemented when executed by the processor The steps of the method as described in the second aspect.

In an eighth aspect, a network side device is provided, including a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is used to send target information, the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used for Instructing the network side device to at least one of the turned on beam and the turned off beam information, the mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device; the processor is used to perform beam turning on and/or turning off operations.

A ninth aspect provides a communication system, including: a terminal and a network-side device, the terminal can be used to perform the steps of the information response method described in the first aspect, and the network-side device can be used to perform the steps of the information response method described in the second aspect The steps of the information sending method.

In a tenth aspect, a readable storage medium is provided, and a program or an instruction is stored on the readable storage medium, and when the program or instruction is executed by a processor, the steps of the method described in the first aspect are implemented, or the steps of the method as described in the first aspect are implemented, or the The steps of the method described in the second aspect.

In an eleventh aspect, a chip is provided, the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is used to run a program or an instruction to implement the method described in the first aspect. method, or the steps to implement the method as described in the second aspect.

A twelfth aspect provides a computer program/program product, the computer program/program product is stored in a storage medium, and the computer program/program product is executed by at least one processor to implement the The steps of the method described in the two aspects.

In this embodiment of the present application, the terminal obtains the target information sent by the network side device, the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to indicate that the network side device turns on beams and turns off beams At least one item of information, the mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device; the terminal executes a target operation according to the target information. After the network side device closes and/or opens the beam, it can instruct the terminal through the target information, so that the terminal can perform corresponding target operations based on the target information, for example, instruct the terminal to adjust the beam measurement, transmission, monitoring and other behaviors, so that the terminal according to the target The information selects the appropriate beam for data transmission to ensure the reliability of data transmission.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which an embodiment of the present application is applicable;

Fig. 2 is one of the flowcharts of the information response method provided by the embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 3 is the second flow chart of the information sending method provided by the embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 4a-Fig. 4e schematic diagrams of turning on or off the beam provided by the embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 5 is one of the structural diagrams of the information response device provided by the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is the second structural diagram of the information sending device provided by the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a structural diagram of a communication device provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a structural diagram of a terminal provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a structural diagram of a network side device provided by an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed ways

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly described below in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are part of the embodiments of the present application, but not all of them. All other embodiments obtained by persons of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments in this application belong to the protection scope of this application.

The terms "first", "second" and the like in the specification and claims of the present application are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not used to describe a specific sequence or sequence. It is to be understood that the terms so used are interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein and that "first" and "second" distinguish objects. It is usually one category, and the number of objects is not limited. For example, there may be one or more first objects. In addition, "and/or" in the description and claims means at least one of the connected objects, and the character "/" generally means that the related objects are an "or" relationship.

It is worth pointing out that the technology described in the embodiment of this application is not limited to the Long Term Evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE)/LTE-Advanced (LTE-Advanced, LTE-A) system, and can also be used in other wireless communication systems, such as code Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, OFDMA), Single-carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (Single-carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access, SC-FDMA) and other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in the embodiments of the present application are often used interchangeably, and the described technology can be used for the above-mentioned system and radio technology, and can also be used for other systems and radio technologies. The following description describes the New Radio (NR) system for illustrative purposes, and uses NR terminology in most of the following descriptions, but these techniques can also be applied to applications other than NR system applications, such as the 6th generation (6 ^th Generation, 6G) communication system.

Fig. 1 shows a block diagram of a wireless communication system to which the embodiment of the present application is applicable. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network side device 12 . Wherein, the terminal 11 can be a mobile phone, a tablet computer (Tablet Personal Computer), a laptop computer (Laptop Computer) or a notebook computer, a personal digital assistant (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA), a palmtop computer, a netbook, a super mobile personal computer (ultra-mobile personal computer, UMPC), mobile Internet device (Mobile Internet Device, MID), augmented reality (augmented reality, AR) / virtual reality (virtual reality, VR) equipment, robot, wearable device (Wearable Device) , Vehicle User Equipment (VUE), Pedestrian User Equipment (PUE), smart home (home equipment with wireless communication functions, such as refrigerators, TVs, washing machines or furniture, etc.), game consoles, personal computers (personal computer, PC), teller machine or self-service machine and other terminal side devices, wearable devices include: smart watches, smart bracelets, smart headphones, smart glasses, smart jewelry (smart bracelets, smart bracelets, smart rings, smart necklaces, smart feet bracelets, smart anklets, etc.), smart wristbands, smart clothing, etc. It should be noted that, the embodiment of the present application does not limit the specific type of the terminal 11 . The network side device 12 may include an access network device or a core network device, where the access network device 12 may also be called a radio access network device, a radio access network (Radio Access Network, RAN), a radio access network function, or Wireless access network unit. The access network device 12 may include a base station, a wireless local area network (Wireless Local Area Network, WLAN) access point or a WiFi node, etc., and the base station may be called a node B, an evolved node B (Evolved Node B, eNB), an access point, Base Transceiver Station (BTS), Radio Base Station, Radio Transceiver, Basic Service Set (BSS), Extended Service Set (ESS), Home Node B, Home Evolved Node B , Transmitting Receiving Point (Transmitting Receiving Point, TRP) or some other suitable term in the field, as long as the same technical effect is achieved, the base station is not limited to a specific technical vocabulary. It should be noted that in the embodiment of this application The base station in the NR system is only used as an example for introduction, and the specific type of the base station is not limited. The information response method provided by the embodiment of the present application will be described in detail below through some embodiments and application scenarios with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in Figure 2, the embodiment of the present application provides an information response method, including the following steps:

Step 201, the terminal obtains the target information sent by the network side device, the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to indicate the beams and Information about at least one item of closed beams, where the mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device.

The target information may include at least one of indication information and mode information. The mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network-side device. The working mode can be energy-saving mode or non-power-saving mode, etc. For example, the network-side device turns off part of the beams in idle state and low load to reduce power consumption waste , when the network-side device turns off some beams, it can be regarded as an energy-saving mode; when the network-side device needs to restore high load, it needs higher transmission capacity, and when the previously closed beam is turned on again, it can be seen as The network-side device is in a non-energy-saving mode. That is to say, the energy-saving mode corresponds to a mode in which the beam can be turned off, and in the non-energy-saving mode, the network side device does not turn off the beam.

The energy-saving mode and the non-energy-saving mode may also be defined in other manners, the above are only examples, and are not limited here.

The working mode of the network-side device is associated with the opening and/or closing of the beam by the network-side device. For example, when the network-side device is in the energy-saving mode, the first beam is turned on and the second beam is turned off; the network-side device is in the non-energy-saving mode. , corresponding to the first beam being turned on, and the second beam being turned on.

The indication information can also be understood as being used to indicate beams or reference signals with or without measurement restriction to the terminal. For the beams turned on by the network-side device, the terminal has no measurement restrictions on the beams; for the beams turned off by the network-side device, the terminal has measurement restrictions on the beams.

It should be noted that in this application, opening can be understood as activation, and closing can be understood as deactivation.

Step 202, the terminal performs a target operation according to the target information.

In this embodiment, the terminal obtains the target information sent by the network side device, the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to indicate at least one of the beams that are turned on and the beams that are turned off by the network side device Item information, the mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device; the terminal executes the target operation according to the target information. After the network-side device closes and/or opens the beam, it can inform the terminal through the target information, so that the terminal can perform corresponding target operations based on the target information, for example, instruct the terminal to adjust the beam measurement, transmission, monitoring and other behaviors, so that the terminal according to the target The information selects the appropriate beam for data transmission to ensure the reliability of data transmission.

In the above, the indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

at least one beam turned on and/or turned off;

at least one beamset turned on and/or turned off;

The initial beam and the number of beams that are turned on and/or off, for example, turning off/on counts from the beam ID of the initial beam, and the beam ID is decremented or incremented by n beams, where n is the number of beams;

A signal corresponding to at least one beam that is turned on and/or turned off, for example, a synchronization signal block (Synchronization Signal and PBCH block, SSB) corresponding to at least one beam, or a reference signal (Reference Signal, RS);

A signal corresponding to at least one beam group that is turned on and/or turned off;

at least one Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) status that is turned on and/or turned off;

at least one TCI state group of on and/or off;

Duration of beam on and/or off;

The mode in which the beam is turned on and/or off;

New TCI status based on beams turned on;

New TCI state groups based on beams turned on;

No beams are turned off.

The bearing mode of the indication information can be one of the following:

Radio Resource Control (Radio Resource Control, RRC), for example, broadcast or dedicated (dedicated) RRC for carrying indication information;

Downlink Control Information (DCI), for example, group common or UE-specific DCI (group common or UE-specific DCI);

Media Access Control Control Element (Medium Access Control Control Element, MAC CE).

In one embodiment of the present application, the terminal obtains the target information sent by the network side device, including:

When the target information includes the indication information, the terminal performs monitoring based on a preset period or based on an event trigger, so as to obtain the indication information sent by the network side device.

Said event includes one of the following:

(1) The terminal measures that the beam link quality corresponding to at least one beam group is less than the first threshold Values, such as Layer 1 Reference Signal Received Power (Layer 1 Reference Signal Received Power, L1-RSRP), Layer 1 Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (Layer 1 Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio, L1-SINR) of each beam link, The weighted average or sum of throughput etc. is lower than the first threshold value, and the first threshold value can be set according to the actual situation;

(2) The change value of the two beam link quality measurement results of the serving beam where the terminal is located is greater than the second threshold value, and the two beam link quality measurement results can be the last two consecutive times, or a preset time period The two times with the longest interval time are not limited here, and the first threshold value can be set according to actual conditions.

In an embodiment of the present application, before the terminal obtains the indication information, the method further includes:

The terminal receives configuration information, where the configuration information includes beam-related information. The configuration information includes at least one of the following:

(1) The global number of each beam, such as global index (Global index), beam group index (beam group index);

(2) The correlation between each beam and the channel state information (Channel State Information, CSI) measurement;

(3) The relationship between each beam and the control resource set (Control resource set, CORESET);

(4) The relationship between each beam and uplink transmission, uplink transmission includes configuration grant (Configured Grant, CG) transmission, sounding reference signal (Sounding Reference Signal, SRS), physical uplink control channel (Physical Uplink Control Channel, PUCCH) ), at least one of Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), Physical Random Access Channel (Physical Random Access Channel, PRACH) and Scheduling Request (Scheduling Request, SR);

(5) The association relationship between each beam and the downlink transmission, the downlink transmission includes at least one of a physical downlink control channel (Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH) and a physical downlink shared channel (Physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH);

(6) The default TCI state when the network side device is in the target mode, wherein the beam associated with the default TCI state is not closed in the target mode, and the target mode can be an energy-saving mode Mode.

In an embodiment of the present application, the beam associated with the default TCI state is one of the following:

After the first beam is turned off, the remaining minimum SSB identifies a corresponding beam, and the first beam is a beam turned off by the network side device;

the beam associated with CORESET 0 after said first beam is turned off;

After said first beam is turned off, the beam associated with the smallest CORESET identifier;

The beam configured by the network side device.

In an embodiment of the present application, the terminal performs target operations according to the indication information, including:

The terminal executes the target operation according to the indication information and the configuration information, and the target operation includes at least one of an uplink transmission operation, a downlink transmission operation, a monitoring operation, and a measurement operation.

In the above, the downlink transmission operation includes at least one of the following:

(1) performing downlink reception according to quasi co-location (Quasi co-location, QCL) information indicated by the default TCI state;

(2) In the case of receiving the PDSCH, do not skip the resource corresponding to the second beam for rate matching, the second beam is the beam indicated by the indication information to be closed;

(3) Perform downlink reception according to the QCL information indicated by the new TCI state, where the new TCI state is indicated by the indication information;

(4) Within a preset time, perform downlink reception according to receiving the QCL information of the PDCCH or PDSCH corresponding to the configuration information, and the turned on and/or turned off beams indicated by the indication information will take effect after the preset time.

The uplink transmission operation includes at least one of the following:

(1) When the beam corresponding to the PUCCH spatial relationship information (spatialRelationshipInfo) is turned off, no uplink control information (Uplink Control Information, UCI) is sent;

(2) When the beam corresponding to the PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, use the QCL information of the beam indicated by the default TCI state to send the PUCCH;

(3) When the beam corresponding to the PUCCH spatial relationship information is closed, replace the PUCCH resource configuration with the target PUCCH resource configuration, and the target PUCCH resource configuration is the same as that of the unclosed The beams are associated, and the target PUCCH resource configuration can be a separately set PUCCH resource configuration in the energy-saving mode;

(4) When the beam corresponding to the PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, update the PUCCH spatial relationship information, and use the updated PUCCH spatial relationship information for uplink transmission;

(5) Do not send PUSCH;

(6) Sending PUSCH by using the QCL information of the beam indicated by the default TCI state;

(7) When the beam corresponding to the spatial relationship information in the SRS configuration is turned off, no SRS is sent;

(8) When the beam corresponding to the spatial relationship information in the SRS configuration is turned off, replace the SRS configuration with the target SRS configuration, the target SRS configuration is associated with an unclosed beam, and the target SRS configuration can be set separately during energy saving SRS configuration in mode;

(9) When the beam corresponding to the spatial relationship information in the SRS configuration is turned off, update the spatial relationship information in the SRS configuration, and use the updated spatial relationship information for uplink transmission.

In one embodiment of the present application, the measurement operation includes at least one of the following:

Canceling the CSI measurement on the resource corresponding to the closed beam indicated by the indication information;

Take CSI measurements in a specific direction;

Make L1-RSRP measurements in a specific direction;

Signal-to-noise And Interference Ratio (SINR) measurement in a specific direction;

Wherein, the specific direction is a direction corresponding to beams other than the beams indicated by the indication information to be turned off.

After performing the above measurement, the terminal may report the measurement result, and the measurement result includes the new candidate beam.

In one embodiment of the present application, the monitoring operation includes:

Canceling the indication information indicates that the closed beam corresponds to PDCCH monitoring on the CORESET resource.

In an embodiment of the present application, in the case where the indication information is used to indicate to close the beam corresponding to at least one SSB, the resources corresponding to the closed beam include at least one of the following:

The indication information indicates the closed SSB;

Using the indication information to indicate that the closed SSB is the signal or channel of the QCL source;

and / or,

In the case where the indication information is used to indicate to close the beam corresponding to at least one RS, the resources corresponding to the closed beam include at least one of the following:

The indication information indicates a closed reference signal RS;

Use the indication information to indicate that the closed RS is the signal or channel of the QCL source;

and / or,

In the case where the indication information is used to indicate that at least one TCI state is closed, the resource corresponding to the closed beam includes at least one of the following:

The indication information indicates the QCL source SSB or RS of the closed TCI state;

Using the indication information to indicate that the QCL source SSB of the closed TCI state is the signal or channel of the QCL source;

The QCL source RS whose TCI state is indicated to be closed by the indication information is the signal or channel of the QCL source.

In an embodiment of the present application, in a case where the indication information is used to indicate the information of the beam enabled by the network side device, the target operation includes: resume measuring the RS corresponding to the enabled beam.

The UE does not expect network-side devices to trigger uplink and downlink transmissions on specific beams through dynamic grants, such as CSI measurement, PDSCH reception, PUSCH transmission, PUCCH transmission, etc. A transmission is associated with a resource corresponding to a particular beam.

As shown in Figure 3, the embodiment of the present application provides a method for sending information, including the following steps:

In step 301, the network side device performs beam opening and/or closing operations. The network side device may perform a beam closing operation according to a preset rule. Wherein, the preset rules include at least one of the following:

(1) Reduce the number of times the SSB is sent, or reduce the number of times the beam corresponding to the SSB is sent during the period when the network side device is in the target mode, and the target mode may be an energy-saving mode;

(2) When the network side device is in the target mode, turn off the SSB or beam corresponding to the first preset mode, for example, predefine one or more patterns corresponding to the SSB or beam, When the network side device enters the energy-saving mode, it can turn off the SSB or beam according to the preset mode instruction;

(3) Do not close the beam corresponding to the cell-defining SSB, that is, the network side device is not allowed to close the beam corresponding to the cell-defining SSB SSB;

(4) Turn off the beam corresponding to the non-cell-defining SSB, that is, the network side device is allowed to turn off the beam corresponding to the non-cell-defining SSB;

(5) Turn off the beam corresponding to the channel state information reference signal (Channel State Information Reference Signal, CSI-RS) for L1-RSRP or SINR measurement;

(6) For the CSI-RS of a single transmission, the beam is turned off according to a second preset mode, and the second preset mode includes the correspondence between the CSI-RS of the single transmission and the beam. For example, for a single transmission beam or CSI-RS, that is, "repetition=off", the corresponding beam can be turned off according to the established pattern, and the pattern can be based on a code division multiplexing (Code Division Multiplexing, CDM) group or port number to set.

(7) If the repeated transmission CSI-RS included in the resource set (ResourceSet) is all turned off, then turn off the beam in the direction corresponding to the repeated transmission CSI-RS;

(8) If one of the repeatedly transmitted CSI-RS included in the resource set is turned off, turn off the beam in the direction corresponding to the repeatedly transmitted CSI-RS, and the unsent CSI-RS among the repeatedly transmitted CSI-RS RS is no longer sent.

Step 302, the network-side device sends target information, the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to indicate information about at least one of beams that are turned on and beams that are turned off by the network-side device, so The mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device.

In this embodiment, the network-side device performs beam opening and/or closing operations; the network-side device sends target information, the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to instruct the network-side device to turn on Information about at least one of beams that are active and beams that are closed, the mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device. After the network-side device closes and/or opens the beam, it notifies the terminal through the target information, so that the terminal can perform corresponding target operations based on the target information, for example, instruct the terminal to adjust the beam measurement, transmission, monitoring and other behaviors, so that the terminal according to the target information Select the appropriate beam for data transmission to ensure the reliability of data transmission.

In an embodiment of the present application, the indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

at least one beam turned on and/or turned off;

at least one beamset turned on and/or turned off;

The starting beam and number of beams to turn on and/or off;

signals corresponding to at least one beam that is turned on and/or turned off;

A signal corresponding to at least one beam group that is turned on and/or turned off;

at least one transmission configuration that is turned on and/or turned off indicates a TCI state;

at least one TCI state group of on and/or off;

Duration of beam on and/or off;

The mode in which the beam is turned on and/or off;

New TCI status based on beams turned on;

New TCI state groups based on beams turned on;

No beams are turned off.

In an embodiment of the present application, before the network side device sends target information to the terminal, the method further includes:

The network-side device sends configuration information to the terminal, where the configuration information includes beam-related information.

Wherein, the configuration information includes at least one of the following:

Global numbering for each beam;

The association relationship between each beam and the channel state information CSI measurement;

The association relationship between each beam and the control resource set CORESET;

The association relationship between each beam and uplink transmission;

The association relationship between each beam and downlink transmission;

The default TCI state when the network side device is in target mode;

Wherein, the beam associated with the default TCI state is not turned off in the target mode.

In an embodiment of the present application, the beam associated with the default TCI state is one of the following:

After the first beam is turned off, the remaining minimum synchronization signal block SSB identifies the corresponding beam, and the first beam is a beam turned off by the network side device;

the beam associated with CORESET 0 after said first beam is turned off;

After said first beam is turned off, the beam associated with the smallest CORESET identifier;

The beam configured by the network side device.

The information sending method performed by the network side device is the same as the information response method performed by the terminal For the technical features, please refer to the description in the embodiment of the terminal for details, and details are not repeated here.

The method provided by the present application is illustrated as follows.

Embodiment one:

As shown in Table 1, the possible QCL relationship (part) between the reference signals specified in the protocol:

Table 1

As shown in Table 2, this application adds a default TCI state (or called default TCI state () configuration, and the beam corresponding to the default TCI state will not be turned off in the energy-saving mode.

Table 2

The TCI state of the CSI-RS for beam management configured by the network side device to the terminal is 2 (see Table 1), which means that the terminal can refer to the TRS to obtain the QCL-TypeA related information, and refer to the QCL-TypeD related information of CSI-RS for beam management for downlink PDSCH reception, the beam corresponding to CSI-RS for beam management is turned off, and the new beam takes effect after the preset time; within the preset time , the UE may perform downlink reception according to a default TCI state configuration (TCI state configuration) corresponding to receiving the first configuration information.

Embodiment two:

There are multiple beams on the network side device, after entering the energy-saving mode:

Step 1: The network side device sends an energy-saving mode indication, and indicates the closed transmission beam (Tx beam) through DCI, or the number corresponding to the reference signal associated with the closed Tx beam;

Step 2: The terminal receives the energy-saving mode indication, and learns the number of the closed beam and the closing time.

If the closed beam is prepared for data transmission by the terminal (PDSCH reception/PUSCH transmission transmission, etc.), the terminal cancels the L1-RSRP, Block Error Rate (Block Error Rate, BLER), SINR and other detection behaviors of the beam within the corresponding time, and performs beam switching and beam failure detection (Beam Failure) Detection, BFD), beam failure recovery (Beam failure recovery, BFR) and other operations, before the beam switching is completed, the UE can determine the QCL information of the PDCCH or PDSCH according to the received configuration information for downlink reception;

If the closed beam does not affect behaviors such as data transmission of the UE, no further operation is required.

Embodiment three:

As shown in Figure 4a, there are multiple CSI-RS beams on the network side device, and after entering the energy-saving mode:

Step 1: The network-side device sends indication information, and indicates the closed Tx beam through DCI, or the number corresponding to the reference signal associated with the closed Tx beam. If the closed Tx beam is beam 2, the network-side device does not send CSI-RS 2, As shown in Figure 4b, the dotted line in the figure indicates that it is closed;

Step 2: The UE receives the indication information, knows the number of the closed beam and the closing time, and cancels the CSI measurement and uplink transmission of the beam 2 direction;

Step 3: The network side device sends CSI-RS 2 in the direction of beam 1 to refine the downlink Tx beam of beam 1;

Step 4: As shown in Figure 4b, the UE side increases the measurement of CSI, L1-RSRP, SINR, etc. in the direction of beam 1, and optionally, the measurement results (the index of the CSI resource corresponding to the beam, that is, CSI- The RS resource indicator (CSI-RS resource indicator, CRI)/SSB resource indicator (SSB resource indicator, SSBRI)) is reported to the network side.

Embodiment four:

The network-side device predefines one or more CSI-RS (beam) patterns in energy-saving mode. If the CSI-RS (beam) of the network-side device follows the Code Division Multiplexing (CDM) type as fd- CDM2 is divided into 4 groups of CDM groups, among which, CSI-RS 1 and CSI-RS 3 are a group, which is recorded as CDM group 1. When the network side device instructs the UE to enter the energy-saving mode, it closes the correspondence of CDM group 1 according to the preset rules. the beam.

Fig. 4c is a schematic diagram of a beam in a non-energy-saving mode, and Fig. 4d is a beam pattern (beam pattern) of a CSI-RS of a network side device in an energy-saving mode.

After entering the energy-saving mode, the network side device sends indication information to the UE to indicate the pattern of the energy-saving mode, that is, the beam pattern in Figure 4d is used to send the CSI-RS; if the closed CDM group 1 CSI-RS for CSI (CSI-RS for CSI) or CSI-RS for L1-RSRP calculation (CSI-RS for L1-RSRP calculation), the UE cancels the CSI and L1 on these two beams -RSRP, SINR and other related measurements and PDCCH monitoring;

Embodiment five:

The network side equipment pre-defines the beams corresponding to CSI-RS 0 and CSI-RS 1, CSI-RS 2 and CSI-RS 3, CSI-RS 4 and CSI-RS 5, CSI-RS 6 and CSI-RS 7 respectively as Four beam groups. The network-side device sends configuration information to the UE, specifying the global index of each beam. The network side device sends indication information to the UE, indicating the closed beam, and the indication information can be:

(1) Group-based beam indication, indicating 4 beam groups, each group includes 2 beams (TCI or beam identification), for example, "0100" indicates the second beam group, as shown in Figure 4e, that is, CSI- The beams corresponding to RS 2 and CSI-RS 3 are turned off;

(2) Non-grouping-based beam indication, which can indicate 8 beams (TCI or beam identification), for example, "00110000" indicates that the third and fourth beams are closed, as shown in Figure 4e, that is, CSI-RS2 and CSI - The beam corresponding to RS 3 is turned off.

After the network-side device enters the energy-saving mode, it stops sending a specific beam or RS (SSB, CSI-RS) in the time domain, and the network side uses MAC CE or DCI to directly deactivate (deactivate) the measurement behavior of the UE until the network sends an activation (activate) ) and then start the measurement.

Embodiment six:

After the network-side device enters the energy-saving mode, it stops sending a specific beam or RS (SSB, CSI-RS) in the time domain, and the network-side device uses MAC CE or DCI to directly deactivate the measurement behavior of the terminal until the network-side device sends an activation beam start the measurement after the measurement information.

The information sending method of the present application can realize the energy saving of the equipment on the network side by dynamically closing and/or opening a certain number of beams, and at the same time instruct the relevant behavior on the UE side to reduce or increase the measurement, transmission and monitoring on the closed beams, etc. Behaviors can also bring certain gains to the UE side.

The information response method provided in the embodiment of the present application may be executed by an information response device. In the embodiment of the present application, the information response device provided in the embodiment of the present application is described by taking the information response device executing the information response method as an example.

As shown in Figure 5, the embodiment of the present application provides an information response device, and the information response device 500 includes:

The obtaining module 501 is configured to obtain target information sent by the network side device, the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to indicate at least one of the beams that are turned on and the beams that are turned off by the network side device Item information, the mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device;

The execution module 502 is configured to execute a target operation according to the target information.

Optionally, the indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

at least one beam turned on and/or turned off;

at least one beamset turned on and/or turned off;

The starting beam and number of beams to turn on and/or off;

signals corresponding to at least one beam that is turned on and/or turned off;

A signal corresponding to at least one beam group that is turned on and/or turned off;

at least one transmission configuration that is turned on and/or turned off indicates a TCI state;

at least one TCI state group of on and/or off;

Duration of beam on and/or off;

The mode in which the beam is turned on and/or off;

New TCI status based on beams turned on;

New TCI state groups based on beams turned on;

No beams are turned off.

Optionally, the acquiring module is configured to monitor based on a preset period or based on an event trigger to acquire the indication information sent by the network side device when the target information includes the indication information.

Optionally, the event includes one of the following:

The terminal measures that the beam link quality corresponding to at least one beam group is less than a first threshold;

A change value of two beam link quality measurement results of the serving beam where the terminal is located is greater than a second threshold.

Optionally, the apparatus further includes a receiving module, configured to receive configuration information, where the configuration information includes beam-related information.

Optionally, the configuration information includes at least one of the following:

Global numbering for each beam;

The association relationship between each beam and the channel state information CSI measurement;

The association relationship between each beam and the control resource set CORESET;

The association relationship between each beam and uplink transmission;

The association relationship between each beam and downlink transmission;

The default TCI state when the network side device is in target mode;

Wherein, the beam associated with the default TCI state is not turned off in the target mode.

Optionally, the beam associated with the default TCI state is one of the following:

After the first beam is turned off, the remaining minimum synchronization signal block SSB identifies the corresponding beam, and the first beam is a beam turned off by the network side device;

the beam associated with CORESET 0 after said first beam is turned off;

After said first beam is turned off, the beam associated with the smallest CORESET identifier;

The beam configured by the network side device.

Optionally, the executing module 502 is configured to execute the target operation according to the indication information and the configuration information, where the target operation includes at least one of an uplink transmission operation, a downlink transmission operation, a monitoring operation, and a measurement operation one item.

Optionally, the downlink transmission operation includes at least one of the following:

performing downlink reception according to the quasi-co-located QCL information indicated by the default TCI state;

In the case of receiving the physical downlink shared channel PDSCH, do not skip the resources corresponding to the second beam for rate matching, the second beam is the beam indicated by the indication information to be closed;

Perform downlink reception according to the QCL information indicated by the new TCI state, where the new TCI state is indicated by the indication information;

Within a preset time, perform downlink reception according to receiving the QCL information of the physical downlink control channel PDCCH or PDSCH corresponding to the configuration information, and the turned on and/or turned off beams indicated by the indication information take effect after the preset time.

Optionally, the uplink transmission operation includes at least one of the following:

When the beam corresponding to the physical uplink control channel PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, the uplink control information UCI is not sent;

In the case that the beam corresponding to the PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, the PUCCH is sent by using the QCL information of the beam indicated by the default TCI state;

In the case that the beam corresponding to the PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, the PUCCH resource configuration is replaced with a target PUCCH resource configuration, and the target PUCCH resource configuration is associated with an unclosed beam;

When the beam corresponding to the PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, update the PUCCH spatial relationship information, and use the updated PUCCH spatial relationship information for uplink transmission;

Do not send PUSCH;

sending the physical uplink shared channel PUSCH by using the QCL information of the beam indicated by the default TCI state;

When the beam corresponding to the spatial relationship information in the sounding reference signal SRS configuration is turned off, no SRS is sent;

In the case that the beam corresponding to the spatial relationship information in the SRS configuration is turned off, the SRS configuration is replaced with a target SRS configuration, and the target SRS configuration is associated with an unclosed beam;

In the case that the beam corresponding to the spatial relationship information in the SRS configuration is turned off, the spatial relationship information in the SRS configuration is updated, and the updated spatial relationship information is used for uplink transmission.

Optionally, the measurement operation includes at least one of the following:

Canceling the CSI measurement on the resource corresponding to the closed beam indicated by the indication information;

Take CSI measurements in a specific direction;

Perform layer 1 reference signal received power L1-RSRP measurement in a specific direction;

Measurement of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) in a specific direction;

Wherein, the specific direction is a direction corresponding to beams other than the beams indicated by the indication information to be turned off.

Optionally, the monitoring operation includes:

Canceling the indication information indicates that the closed beam corresponds to PDCCH monitoring on the CORESET resource.

Optionally, in the case where the indication information is used to indicate to close the beam corresponding to at least one SSB, the resources corresponding to the closed beam include at least one of the following:

The indication information indicates the closed SSB;

Using the indication information to indicate that the closed SSB is the signal or channel of the QCL source;

and / or,

In the case where the indication information is used to indicate to close the beam corresponding to at least one reference signal RS, the resources corresponding to the closed beam include at least one of the following:

The indication information indicates a closed RS;

Use the indication information to indicate that the closed RS is the signal or channel of the QCL source;

and / or,

In the case where the indication information is used to indicate that at least one TCI state is closed, the resource corresponding to the closed beam includes at least one of the following:

The indication information indicates the QCL source SSB or RS of the closed TCI state;

Using the indication information to indicate that the QCL source SSB of the closed TCI state is the signal or channel of the QCL source;

The QCL source RS whose TCI state is indicated to be closed by the indication information is the signal or channel of the QCL source.

Optionally, in a case where the indication information is used to indicate the information of the beam enabled by the network side device, the target operation includes: resume measuring the RS corresponding to the enabled beam.

The information response device 500 provided by the embodiment of the present application can realize each process realized by the method embodiment in FIG. 2 and achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

The information response apparatus 500 in the embodiment of the present application may be an electronic device, such as an electronic device with an operating system, or a component of the electronic device, such as an integrated circuit or a chip. The electronic device may be a terminal, or other devices other than the terminal. Exemplarily, the terminal may include, but not limited to, the types of terminal 11 listed above, and other devices may be servers, Network Attached Storage (NAS), etc., which are not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present application.

As shown in FIG. 6, an embodiment of the present application provides an information sending device, and the information sending device 600 includes:

Executing module 601, configured to perform beam opening and/or closing operations;

The first sending module 602 is configured to send target information, where the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to indicate information of at least one of beams turned on and beams turned off by the network side device , the mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device.

Optionally, the indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

at least one beam turned on and/or turned off;

at least one beamset turned on and/or turned off;

The starting beam and number of beams to turn on and/or off;

signals corresponding to at least one beam that is turned on and/or turned off;

A signal corresponding to at least one beam group that is turned on and/or turned off;

at least one transmission configuration that is turned on and/or turned off indicates a TCI state;

at least one TCI state group of on and/or off;

Duration of beam on and/or off;

The mode in which the beam is turned on and/or off;

New TCI status based on beams turned on;

New TCI state groups based on beams turned on;

No beams are turned off.

Optionally, the device 600 also includes:

The second sending module is configured to send configuration information to the terminal, where the configuration information includes beam-related information.

Optionally, the configuration information includes at least one of the following:

Global numbering for each beam;

The association relationship between each beam and the channel state information CSI measurement;

The association relationship between each beam and the control resource set CORESET;

The association relationship between each beam and uplink transmission;

The association relationship between each beam and downlink transmission;

The default TCI state when the network side device is in target mode;

Wherein, the beam associated with the default TCI state is not turned off in the target mode.

Optionally, the beam associated with the default TCI state is one of the following:

After the first beam is turned off, the remaining minimum synchronization signal block SSB identifies the corresponding beam, and the first beam is a beam turned off by the network side device;

the beam associated with CORESET 0 after said first beam is turned off;

After said first beam is turned off, the beam associated with the smallest CORESET identifier;

The beam configured by the network side device.

Optionally, the executing module 601 is configured to execute a beam closing operation according to a preset rule.

Optionally, the preset rules include at least one of the following:

reducing the number of times the SSB is sent, or reducing the number of times the beam corresponding to the SSB is sent during the period when the network side device is in the target mode;

When the network side device is in the target mode, turn off the SSB or beam corresponding to the preset mode;

Do not close the beam corresponding to the cell definition SSB;

Turn off the beam corresponding to the non-cell defined SSB;

Turn off the beam corresponding to the channel state information reference signal CSI-RS used for layer 1 reference signal received power L1-RSRP or signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR measurement;

For the CSI-RS of a single transmission, the beam is turned off according to a preset mode, and the preset mode includes the correspondence between the CSI-RS of the single transmission and the beam;

If the CSI-RS for repeated transmission included in the resource set is all turned off, turn off the beam in the direction corresponding to the CSI-RS for repeated transmission;

If one of the repeatedly transmitted CSI-RS included in the resource set is turned off, turn off the beam in the direction corresponding to the repeatedly transmitted CSI-RS.

The information sending device 600 provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement various processes implemented in the method embodiment in FIG. 3 and achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

As shown in Figure 7, the embodiment of the present application also provides a communication device 700, including a processor 701 and a memory 702, and the memory 702 stores programs or instructions that can run on the processor 701, for example, the communication device When 700 is a terminal, when the program or instruction is executed by the processor 701, each step of the embodiment of the information response method shown in FIG. 2 is implemented, and the same technical effect can be achieved. When the communication device 700 is a network-side device, when the program or instruction is executed by the processor 701, the various steps of the information sending method embodiment shown in FIG. 3 above can be achieved, and the same technical effect can be achieved. To avoid repetition, the Let me repeat.

The embodiment of the present application also provides a terminal, including a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is used to obtain the target information sent by the network side device, the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used The information indicating at least one of the beams turned on and beams turned off by the network side device, the mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device; the processor is used to execute a target operation according to the target information. This terminal embodiment is implemented with the above-mentioned terminal side method Corresponding to the embodiment, each implementation process and implementation manner of the above method embodiment can be applied to the terminal embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect. Specifically, FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The terminal 800 includes but not limited to: a radio frequency unit 801, a network module 802, an audio output unit 803, an input unit 804, a sensor 805, a display unit 806, a user input unit 807, an interface unit 808, a memory 809, and a processor 810, etc. At least some parts.

Those skilled in the art can understand that the terminal 800 may also include a power supply (such as a battery) for supplying power to various components, and the power supply may be logically connected to the processor 810 through the power management system, so as to manage charging, discharging, and power consumption through the power management system. Management and other functions. The terminal structure shown in FIG. 8 does not constitute a limitation on the terminal, and the terminal may include more or fewer components than shown in the figure, or combine some components, or arrange different components, which will not be repeated here.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the input unit 804 may include a graphics processing unit (Graphics Processing Unit, GPU) 8041 and a microphone 8042, and the graphics processor 8041 is used in a video capture mode or an image capture mode by an image capture device ( Such as the image data of the still picture or video obtained by the camera) for processing. The display unit 806 may include a display panel 8061, and the display panel 8061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 807 includes at least one of a touch panel 8071 and other input devices 8072 . The touch panel 8071 is also called a touch screen. The touch panel 8071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 8072 may include, but are not limited to, physical keyboards, function keys (such as volume control buttons, switch buttons, etc.), trackballs, mice, and joysticks, which will not be repeated here.

In the embodiment of the present application, the radio frequency unit 801 may transmit the downlink data from the network side device to the processor 810 for processing after receiving the downlink data; in addition, the radio frequency unit 801 may send uplink data to the network side device. Generally, the radio frequency unit 801 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, an amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like.

The memory 809 can be used to store software programs or instructions as well as various data. The memory 809 may mainly include a first storage area for storing programs or instructions and a second storage area for storing data, wherein the first storage area may store an operating system, an application program or instructions required by at least one function (such as a sound playing function, image playback function, etc.), etc. Furthermore, memory 809 may include volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or, memory 809 may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. Wherein, the non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (Read-Only Memory, ROM), a programmable read-only memory (Programmable ROM, PROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (Erasable PROM, EPROM), an electronically programmable Erase Programmable Read-Only Memory (Electrically EPROM, EEPROM) or Flash. Volatile memory can be random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), static random access memory (Static RAM, SRAM), dynamic random access memory (Dynamic RAM, DRAM), synchronous dynamic random access memory (Synchronous DRAM, SDRAM), double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (Double Data Rate SDRAM, DDRSDRAM), enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory (Enhanced SDRAM, ESDRAM), synchronous connection dynamic random access memory (Synch link DRAM , SLDRAM) and Direct Memory Bus Random Access Memory (Direct Rambus RAM, DRRAM). The memory 809 in the embodiment of the present application includes but is not limited to these and any other suitable types of memory.

The processor 810 may include one or more processing units; optionally, the processor 810 integrates an application processor and a modem processor, wherein the application processor mainly handles operations related to the operating system, user interface, and application programs, etc., Modem processors mainly process wireless communication signals, such as baseband processors. It can be understood that the foregoing modem processor may not be integrated into the processor 810 .

Wherein, the radio frequency unit 801 is configured to obtain the target information sent by the network side device, the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to indicate that the network side equipment turns on beams and turns off beams at least one item of information, the mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device;

The processor 810 is configured to execute a target operation according to the target information.

Optionally, the indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following:

at least one beam turned on and/or turned off;

at least one beamset turned on and/or turned off;

The starting beam and number of beams to turn on and/or off;

signals corresponding to at least one beam that is turned on and/or turned off;

A signal corresponding to at least one beam group that is turned on and/or turned off;

at least one transmission configuration that is turned on and/or turned off indicates a TCI state;

at least one TCI state group of on and/or off;

Duration of beam on and/or off;

The mode in which the beam is turned on and/or off;

New TCI status based on beams turned on;

New TCI state groups based on beams turned on;

No beams are turned off.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 801 is configured to, when the target information includes the indication information, monitor based on a preset period or based on an event trigger, so as to obtain the indication information sent by the network side device.

Optionally, the event includes one of the following:

The terminal measures that the beam link quality corresponding to at least one beam group is less than a first threshold;

A change value of two beam link quality measurement results of the serving beam where the terminal is located is greater than a second threshold.

Optionally, the radio frequency unit 801 is configured to receive configuration information, where the configuration information includes beam-related information.

Optionally, the configuration information includes at least one of the following:

Global numbering for each beam;

The association relationship between each beam and the channel state information CSI measurement;

The association relationship between each beam and the control resource set CORESET;

The association relationship between each beam and uplink transmission;

The association relationship between each beam and downlink transmission;

The default TCI state when the network side device is in target mode;

Wherein, the beam associated with the default TCI state is not turned off in the target mode.

Optionally, the beam associated with the default TCI state is one of the following:

After the first beam is turned off, the remaining minimum synchronization signal block SSB identifies the corresponding beam, and the first beam is a beam turned off by the network side device;

the beam associated with CORESET 0 after said first beam is turned off;

After said first beam is turned off, the beam associated with the smallest CORESET identifier;

The beam configured by the network side device.

Optionally, the processor 810 is configured to execute the target operation according to the indication information and the configuration information, where the target operation includes an uplink transmission operation, a downlink transmission operation, a monitoring operation, At least one of the measurement operations.

Optionally, the downlink transmission operation includes at least one of the following:

performing downlink reception according to the quasi-co-located QCL information indicated by the default TCI state;

In the case of receiving the physical downlink shared channel PDSCH, do not skip the resources corresponding to the second beam for rate matching, the second beam is the beam indicated by the indication information to be closed;

Perform downlink reception according to the QCL information indicated by the new TCI state, where the new TCI state is indicated by the indication information;

Within a preset time, perform downlink reception according to receiving the QCL information of the physical downlink control channel PDCCH or PDSCH corresponding to the configuration information, and the turned on and/or turned off beams indicated by the indication information take effect after the preset time.

Optionally, the uplink transmission operation includes at least one of the following:

When the beam corresponding to the physical uplink control channel PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, the uplink control information UCI is not sent;

In the case that the beam corresponding to the PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, the PUCCH is sent by using the QCL information of the beam indicated by the default TCI state;

In the case that the beam corresponding to the PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, the PUCCH resource configuration is replaced with a target PUCCH resource configuration, and the target PUCCH resource configuration is associated with an unclosed beam;

When the beam corresponding to the PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, update the PUCCH spatial relationship information, and use the updated PUCCH spatial relationship information for uplink transmission;

Do not send PUSCH;

sending the physical uplink shared channel PUSCH by using the QCL information of the beam indicated by the default TCI state;

When the beam corresponding to the spatial relationship information in the sounding reference signal SRS configuration is turned off, no SRS is sent;

In the case that the beam corresponding to the spatial relationship information in the SRS configuration is turned off, the SRS configuration is replaced with a target SRS configuration, and the target SRS configuration is associated with an unclosed beam;

In the case that the beam corresponding to the spatial relationship information in the SRS configuration is turned off, the spatial relationship information in the SRS configuration is updated, and the updated spatial relationship information is used for uplink transmission.

Optionally, the measurement operation includes at least one of the following:

Canceling the CSI measurement on the resource corresponding to the closed beam indicated by the indication information;

Take CSI measurements in a specific direction;

Perform layer 1 reference signal received power L1-RSRP measurement in a specific direction;

Measurement of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) in a specific direction;

Wherein, the specific direction is a direction corresponding to beams other than the beams indicated by the indication information to be turned off.

Optionally, the monitoring operation includes:

Canceling the indication information indicates that the closed beam corresponds to PDCCH monitoring on the CORESET resource.

Optionally, in the case where the indication information is used to indicate to close the beam corresponding to at least one SSB, the resources corresponding to the closed beam include at least one of the following:

The indication information indicates the closed SSB;

Using the indication information to indicate that the closed SSB is the signal or channel of the QCL source;

and / or,

In the case where the indication information is used to indicate to close the beam corresponding to at least one reference signal RS, the resources corresponding to the closed beam include at least one of the following:

The indication information indicates a closed RS;

Use the indication information to indicate that the closed RS is the signal or channel of the QCL source;

and / or,

In the case where the indication information is used to indicate that at least one TCI state is closed, the resource corresponding to the closed beam includes at least one of the following:

The indication information indicates the QCL source SSB or RS of the closed TCI state;

Using the indication information to indicate that the QCL source SSB of the closed TCI state is the signal or channel of the QCL source;

The QCL source RS whose TCI state is indicated to be closed by the indication information is the signal or channel of the QCL source.

Optionally, in a case where the indication information is used to indicate the information of the beam enabled by the network side device, the target operation includes: resume measuring the RS corresponding to the enabled beam.

The embodiment of the present application also provides a network side device, including a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is used to send target information, the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to indicate the Information about at least one of beams turned on and beams turned off by the network side device, the mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device; the processor is used to perform beam turning on and/or turning off operations. The network-side device embodiment corresponds to the above-mentioned network-side device method embodiment, and each implementation process and implementation mode of the above-mentioned method embodiment can be applied to this network-side device embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect.

Specifically, the embodiment of the present application also provides a network side device. As shown in FIG. 9 , the network side device 900 includes: an antenna 91 , a radio frequency device 92 , a baseband device 93 , a processor 94 and a memory 95 . The antenna 91 is connected to a radio frequency device 92 . In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 92 receives information through the antenna 91, and sends the received information to the baseband device 93 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 93 processes the information to be sent and sends it to the radio frequency device 92 , and the radio frequency device 92 processes the received information and sends it out through the antenna 91 .

The method performed by the network side device in the above embodiments may be implemented in the baseband device 93, where the baseband device 93 includes a baseband processor.

The baseband device 93 can include at least one baseband board, for example, a plurality of chips are arranged on the baseband board, as shown in FIG. The program executes the network device operations shown in the above method embodiments.

The network side device may also include a network interface 96, such as a common public radio interface (common public radio interface, CPRI).

Specifically, the network side device 900 in this embodiment of the present invention further includes: instructions or programs stored in the memory 95 and executable on the processor 94, and the processor 94 invokes the instructions or programs in the memory 95 to execute the various programs shown in FIG. The method of module execution achieves the same technical effect, so in order to avoid repetition, it is not repeated here.

The embodiment of the present application also provides a readable storage medium, the readable storage medium may be nonvolatile or volatile, the readable storage medium stores programs or instructions, and the programs or instructions are stored in When executed by the processor, each process of the method embodiment shown in FIG. 2 or FIG. 3 can be realized, and the same technical effect can be achieved. To avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

Wherein, the processor is the processor in the terminal described in the foregoing embodiments. The readable memory The storage medium includes a computer-readable storage medium, such as a computer read-only memory ROM, a random access memory RAM, a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and the like.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is used to run programs or instructions to implement the above-mentioned Figure 2 or Figure 3. Each process of the method embodiment shown can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

It should be understood that the chip mentioned in the embodiment of the present application may also be called a system-on-chip, a system-on-chip, a system-on-a-chip, or a system-on-a-chip.

Embodiments of the present application further provide a computer program/program product, the computer program/program product is stored in a storage medium, and the computer program/program product is executed by at least one processor to implement each of the above method embodiments. process, and can achieve the same technical effect, in order to avoid repetition, it will not be repeated here.

The embodiment of the present application also provides a communication system, including: a terminal and a network-side device, the terminal can be used to execute the steps of the information response method in the embodiment shown in Figure 2 above, and the network-side device can be used to execute the steps shown in Figure 3 above The steps of the information sending method of the embodiment are shown.

It should be noted that, in this document, the term "comprising", "comprising" or any other variation thereof is intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion such that a process, method, article or apparatus comprising a set of elements includes not only those elements, It also includes other elements not expressly listed, or elements inherent in the process, method, article, or device. Without further limitations, an element defined by the phrase "comprising a ..." does not preclude the presence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus comprising that element. In addition, it should be pointed out that the scope of the methods and devices in the embodiments of the present application is not limited to performing functions in the order shown or discussed, and may also include performing functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in reverse order according to the functions involved. Functions are performed, for example, the described methods may be performed in an order different from that described, and various steps may also be added, omitted, or combined. Additionally, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the methods of the above embodiments can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general-purpose hardware platform, and of course also by hardware, but in many cases the former is better implementation. Based on this understanding, the application The essence of the technical solution or the part that contributes to the existing technology can be embodied in the form of computer software products, which are stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and include several instructions It is used to make a terminal (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device, etc.) execute the methods described in various embodiments of the present application.

The embodiments of the present application have been described above in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, but the present application is not limited to the above-mentioned specific implementations. The above-mentioned specific implementations are only illustrative and not restrictive. Those of ordinary skill in the art will Under the inspiration of this application, without departing from the purpose of this application and the scope of protection of the claims, many forms can also be made, all of which belong to the protection of this application.

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A method of responding to information, comprising: The terminal obtains the target information sent by the network-side device, where the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to indicate information about at least one of beams that are turned on and beams that are turned off by the network-side device. The mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device; The terminal executes a target operation according to the target information. The method according to claim 1, wherein the indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following: at least one beam turned on and/or turned off; at least one beamset turned on and/or turned off; The starting beam and number of beams to turn on and/or off; signals corresponding to at least one beam that is turned on and/or turned off; A signal corresponding to at least one beam group that is turned on and/or turned off; at least one transmission configuration that is turned on and/or turned off indicates a TCI state; at least one TCI state group of on and/or off; Duration of beam on and/or off; The mode in which the beam is turned on and/or off; New TCI status based on beams turned on; New TCI state groups based on beams turned on; No beams are turned off. The method according to claim 1, wherein the terminal obtaining the target information sent by the network side device comprises: When the target information includes the indication information, the terminal performs monitoring based on a preset period or based on an event trigger, so as to obtain the indication information sent by the network side device. The method according to claim 3, wherein said event comprises one of the following: The terminal measures that the beam link quality corresponding to at least one beam group is less than a first threshold; A change value of two beam link quality measurement results of the serving beam where the terminal is located is greater than a second threshold. The method according to claim 1, wherein, before the terminal obtains the indication information, the method further comprises: The terminal receives configuration information, where the configuration information includes beam-related information. The method according to claim 5, wherein the configuration information includes at least one of the following: Global numbering for each beam; The association relationship between each beam and the channel state information CSI measurement; The association relationship between each beam and the control resource set CORESET; The association relationship between each beam and uplink transmission; The association relationship between each beam and downlink transmission; The default TCI state when the network side device is in target mode; Wherein, the beam associated with the default TCI state is not turned off in the target mode. The method according to claim 6, wherein the beam associated with the default TCI state is one of the following: After the first beam is turned off, the remaining minimum synchronization signal block SSB identifies the corresponding beam, and the first beam is a beam turned off by the network side device; the beam associated with CORESET 0 after said first beam is turned off; After said first beam is turned off, the beam associated with the smallest CORESET identifier; The beam configured by the network side device. The method according to claim 6, wherein the terminal performs a target operation according to the indication information, comprising: The terminal executes the target operation according to the indication information and the configuration information, and the target operation includes at least one of an uplink transmission operation, a downlink transmission operation, a monitoring operation, and a measurement operation. The method according to claim 8, wherein the downlink transmission operation includes at least one of the following: performing downlink reception according to the quasi-co-located QCL information indicated by the default TCI state; In the case of receiving the physical downlink shared channel PDSCH, do not skip the resources corresponding to the second beam for rate matching, the second beam is the beam indicated by the indication information to be closed; Perform downlink reception according to the QCL information indicated by the new TCI state, the new TCI state The state is indicated through the indication information; Within a preset time, perform downlink reception according to receiving the QCL information of the physical downlink control channel PDCCH or PDSCH corresponding to the configuration information, and the turned on and/or turned off beams indicated by the indication information take effect after the preset time. The method according to claim 8, wherein the uplink transmission operation includes at least one of the following: When the beam corresponding to the physical uplink control channel PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, the uplink control information UCI is not sent; In the case that the beam corresponding to the PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, the PUCCH is sent by using the QCL information of the beam indicated by the default TCI state; In the case that the beam corresponding to the PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, the PUCCH resource configuration is replaced with a target PUCCH resource configuration, and the target PUCCH resource configuration is associated with an unclosed beam; When the beam corresponding to the PUCCH spatial relationship information is turned off, update the PUCCH spatial relationship information, and use the updated PUCCH spatial relationship information for uplink transmission; Do not send PUSCH; sending the physical uplink shared channel PUSCH by using the QCL information of the beam indicated by the default TCI state; When the beam corresponding to the spatial relationship information in the sounding reference signal SRS configuration is turned off, no SRS is sent; In the case that the beam corresponding to the spatial relationship information in the SRS configuration is turned off, the SRS configuration is replaced with a target SRS configuration, and the target SRS configuration is associated with an unclosed beam; In the case that the beam corresponding to the spatial relationship information in the SRS configuration is turned off, the spatial relationship information in the SRS configuration is updated, and the updated spatial relationship information is used for uplink transmission. The method according to claim 8, wherein said measuring operation comprises at least one of the following: Canceling the CSI measurement on the resource corresponding to the closed beam indicated by the indication information; Take CSI measurements in a specific direction; Perform layer 1 reference signal received power L1-RSRP measurement in a specific direction; Measurement of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) in a specific direction; Wherein, the specific direction is a direction corresponding to beams other than the beams indicated by the indication information to be turned off. The method according to claim 8, wherein the monitoring operation comprises: Canceling the indication information indicates that the closed beam corresponds to PDCCH monitoring on the CORESET resource. The method according to claim 9 or 11, wherein, when the indication information is used to indicate that at least one beam corresponding to the SSB is closed, the resource corresponding to the closed beam includes at least one of the following: The indication information indicates the closed SSB; Using the indication information to indicate that the closed SSB is the signal or channel of the QCL source; and / or, In the case where the indication information is used to indicate to close the beam corresponding to at least one reference signal RS, the resources corresponding to the closed beam include at least one of the following: The indication information indicates a closed RS; Use the indication information to indicate that the closed RS is the signal or channel of the QCL source; and / or, In the case where the indication information is used to indicate that at least one TCI state is closed, the resource corresponding to the closed beam includes at least one of the following: The indication information indicates the QCL source SSB or RS of the closed TCI state; Using the indication information to indicate that the QCL source SSB of the closed TCI state is the signal or channel of the QCL source; The QCL source RS whose TCI state is indicated to be closed by the indication information is the signal or channel of the QCL source. The method according to claim 1, wherein, when the indication information is used to indicate the information of the beam turned on by the network side device, the target operation comprises: resume measuring the RS corresponding to the turned on beam. A method for sending information, comprising: The network side device performs beam opening and/or closing operations; The network side device sends target information, where the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, and the indication information is used to indicate at least one of beams turned on and beams turned off by the network side device, the The mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device. The method according to claim 15, wherein the indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following: at least one beam turned on and/or turned off; at least one beamset turned on and/or turned off; The starting beam and number of beams to turn on and/or off; signals corresponding to at least one beam that is turned on and/or turned off; A signal corresponding to at least one beam group that is turned on and/or turned off; at least one transmission configuration that is turned on and/or turned off indicates a TCI state; at least one TCI state group of on and/or off; Duration of beam on and/or off; The mode in which the beam is turned on and/or off; New TCI status based on beams turned on; New TCI state groups based on beams turned on; No beams are turned off. The method according to claim 15, wherein, before the network side device sends the target information to the terminal, the method further comprises: The network-side device sends configuration information to the terminal, where the configuration information includes beam-related information. The method according to claim 17, wherein the configuration information includes at least one of the following: Global numbering for each beam; The association relationship between each beam and the channel state information CSI measurement; The association relationship between each beam and the control resource set CORESET; The association relationship between each beam and uplink transmission; The association relationship between each beam and downlink transmission; The default TCI state when the network side device is in target mode; Wherein, the beam associated with the default TCI state is not turned off in the target mode. The method according to claim 18, wherein the beam associated with the default TCI state is one of the following: After the first beam is turned off, the remaining minimum synchronization signal block SSB identifies the corresponding beam, and the first beam is a beam turned off by the network side device; the beam associated with CORESET 0 after said first beam is turned off; After said first beam is turned off, the beam associated with the smallest CORESET identifier; The beam configured by the network side device. The method according to claim 15, wherein the network-side device performs beam opening and/or closing operations, comprising: The network-side device performs a beam closing operation according to a preset rule. The method according to claim 20, wherein the preset rules include at least one of the following: reducing the number of times the SSB is sent, or reducing the number of times the beam corresponding to the SSB is sent during the period when the network side device is in the target mode; When the network side device is in the target mode, turn off the SSB or beam corresponding to the first preset mode; Do not close the beam corresponding to the cell definition SSB; Turn off the beam corresponding to the non-cell defined SSB; Turn off the beam corresponding to the channel state information reference signal CSI-RS used for layer 1 reference signal received power L1-RSRP or signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR measurement; For the CSI-RS of a single transmission, turn off the beam according to a second preset mode, the second preset mode includes the correspondence between the CSI-RS of the single transmission and the beam; If the CSI-RS for repeated transmission included in the resource set is all turned off, turn off the beam in the direction corresponding to the CSI-RS for repeated transmission; If one of the repeatedly transmitted CSI-RS included in the resource set is turned off, turn off the beam in the direction corresponding to the repeatedly transmitted CSI-RS. An information response device, comprising: An acquisition module, configured to acquire target information sent by the network side device, the target information including indication information and/or mode information, the indication information is used to indicate at least one of the beams turned on and beams turned off by the network side device, and the mode information is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device; An executing module, configured to execute a target operation according to the target information. The device according to claim 22, wherein the indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following: at least one beam turned on and/or turned off; at least one beamset turned on and/or turned off; The starting beam and number of beams to turn on and/or off; signals corresponding to at least one beam that is turned on and/or turned off; A signal corresponding to at least one beam group that is turned on and/or turned off; at least one transmission configuration that is turned on and/or turned off indicates a TCI state; at least one TCI state group of on and/or off; Duration of beam on and/or off; The mode in which the beam is turned on and/or off; New TCI status based on beams turned on; New TCI state groups based on beams turned on; No beams are turned off. An information sending device, comprising: An execution module, configured to perform beam opening and/or closing operations; A sending module, configured to send target information, where the target information includes indication information and/or mode information, where the indication information is used to indicate information about at least one of beams turned on and beams turned off by the network side device, and the mode information It is used to indicate the working mode of the network side device. The device according to claim 24, wherein the indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following: at least one beam turned on and/or turned off; at least one beamset turned on and/or turned off; The starting beam and number of beams to turn on and/or off; signals corresponding to at least one beam that is turned on and/or turned off; A signal corresponding to at least one beam group that is turned on and/or turned off; at least one transmission configuration that is turned on and/or turned off indicates a TCI state; at least one TCI state group of on and/or off; Duration of beam on and/or off; The mode in which the beam is turned on and/or off; New TCI status based on beams turned on; New TCI state groups based on beams turned on; No beams are turned off. A terminal, comprising a processor and a memory, the memory stores programs or instructions that can run on the processor, and when the programs or instructions are executed by the processor, any one of claims 1 to 14 is implemented The steps of the information response method. A network-side device, comprising a processor and a memory, the memory stores programs or instructions that can run on the processor, and when the programs or instructions are executed by the processor, any of claims 15 to 21 can be implemented. Steps in one of the information sending methods. A readable storage medium, storing programs or instructions on the readable storage medium, and implementing the steps of the information response method according to any one of claims 1-14 when the programs or instructions are executed by the processor, or , realizing the steps of the information sending method according to any one of claims 15-21.