CN111757374B

CN111757374B - Beam management method and device

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Publication number: CN111757374B
Application number: CN201910253174.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 罗晨; 王加庆; 杨美英; 赵铮
Original assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co Ltd
Current assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-03-29
Filing date: 2019-03-29
Publication date: 2023-05-05
Anticipated expiration: 2039-03-29
Also published as: CN111757374A

Abstract

The application discloses a beam management method and device, which are used for realizing the beam information related processing under the condition that a terminal is in a power saving state. The beam management method provided by the application comprises the following steps: determining a power saving signal for instructing the terminal to perform beam management in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) inactive period; and sending the power saving signal to the terminal.

Description

Beam management method and device

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a beam management method and apparatus.

Background

In the new wireless (NR) technology system of 5G, massive multi-antenna (massive MIMO) technology is one of the most important technical characteristics, especially for a high-frequency band (i.e. millimeter wave band) transmission channel, due to the large transmission link loss, the coverage of a base station signal can be improved by using a high-gain and adjustable shaped beam, and the interference to the periphery can be reduced by using a narrower beam. In order to achieve the above functions, the Base Station (BS) needs to implement more accurate beamforming, so that beam management and beam control are critical to massive MIMO.

In addition, since 5G supports a larger bandwidth, a higher throughput, and more complex traffic and more complex processing techniques matched thereto, power saving design of a terminal, such as a User Equipment (UE), becomes necessary. The power-saving optimization design can save the power consumption of the terminal and prolong the service life of the battery, thereby improving the experience of users, and being very important for 5G industrialization. The discontinuous reception (Discontinuous Reception, DRX) mechanism used in the 5G system can enable the terminal to monitor discontinuous downlink channels, so that the effect of reducing the power consumption of the terminal is achieved. If the base station does not have a pre-configured measurement Reference Signal (RS) and channel state information (Channel State Information, CSI) reporting resource, neither the base station nor the terminal can perform beam (beam) information update during discontinuous reception (Opportunity for DRX).

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a beam management method and device, which are used for realizing the beam information related processing under the condition that a terminal is in a power saving state.

At a network side, for example, at a base station side, a beam management method provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:

determining a power saving signal for instructing the terminal to perform beam management in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) inactive period;

and sending the power saving signal to the terminal.

By the method, a power saving signal for indicating the terminal to perform beam management in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) inactive period is determined; the power saving signal is sent to the terminal, so that the terminal can perform beam information related processing in a DRX (discontinuous reception) non-activation period (namely, under the condition that the terminal is in a power saving state), and further, the network side can acquire accurate beam information reported by the terminal in the DRX non-activation period.

Optionally, the power saving signal is specifically used to indicate one or a combination of the following:

configuration information of the measurement RS, beam reporting configuration information, transmit beam information indication, whether to deactivate periodic or semi-persistent beam measurements.

Optionally, the power saving signal is carried in at least one of the following channels/signaling:

Downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

Optionally, the power saving signal specifically carries one or a combination of the following information:

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

reporting configuration information by beam measurement;

beam information indication.

Optionally, when the power saving signal carries the reporting beam measurement configuration index, the method further includes: and transmitting preset beam measurement reporting configuration information by adopting RRC signaling.

Optionally, the beam measurement reporting configuration information specifically includes one or a combination of the following information:

the reporting type of the beam information;

reporting period of wave beam information;

reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

and measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

receiving the beam-related measurement quantity reported by a terminal;

and carrying out beam selection according to the beam-related measurement quantity reported by the terminal, and indicating a beam selection result to the terminal through the beam information indication carried by the power-saving signal.

Correspondingly, on the terminal side, the beam management method provided by the embodiment of the application comprises the following steps:

Receiving a power saving signal for indicating a terminal to perform beam management in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) inactive period;

and according to the power saving signal, carrying out beam management in the DRX inactive period.

downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

reporting configuration information by beam measurement;

beam information indication.

the reporting type of the beam information;

reporting period of wave beam information;

reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

And measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

Optionally, according to the power saving signal, beam management is performed in the DRX inactive period, which specifically includes:

based on configuration information and beam information indication of the measurement RSs carried in the power saving signals, corresponding beam measurement is carried out on different measurement RSs, and beam related measurement quantities are obtained;

and reporting the beam related measurement quantity according to the beam measurement reporting configuration information carried in the power saving signal.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

and receiving a power saving signal sent by the base station and used for indicating the beam selection result of the base station.

Optionally, when the power saving signal carries the reporting beam measurement configuration index, the method further includes: and the receiving network side adopts preset beam measurement reporting configuration information sent by RRC signaling, and determines beam measurement configuration corresponding to the index based on the preset beam measurement reporting configuration information and the reporting beam measurement configuration index carried in the power saving signal.

On the network side, the beam management device provided in the embodiment of the application includes:

a memory for storing program instructions;

and the processor is used for calling the program instructions stored in the memory and executing according to the obtained program:

and sending the power saving signal to the terminal.

downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

reporting configuration information by beam measurement;

beam information indication.

the reporting type of the beam information;

reporting period of wave beam information;

reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

and measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

Optionally, the processor is further configured to:

receiving the beam-related measurement quantity reported by a terminal;

Optionally, when the power saving signal carries a reporting beam measurement configuration index, the processor is further configured to: and transmitting preset beam measurement reporting configuration information by adopting RRC signaling.

On the terminal side, the beam management device provided in the embodiment of the application includes:

a memory for storing program instructions;

Downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

reporting configuration information by beam measurement;

beam information indication.

the reporting type of the beam information;

reporting period of wave beam information;

reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

and measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

Optionally, the processor is further configured to:

Optionally, when the power saving signal carries a reporting beam measurement configuration index, the processor is further configured to: and the receiving network side adopts preset beam measurement reporting configuration information sent by RRC signaling, and determines beam measurement configuration corresponding to the index based on the preset beam measurement reporting configuration information and the reporting beam measurement configuration index carried in the power saving signal.

On the network side, another beam management apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application includes:

a determining unit for determining a power saving signal for instructing the terminal to perform beam management in a discontinuous reception DRX inactivity period;

and the transmitting unit is used for transmitting the power saving signal to the terminal.

On the terminal side, another beam management apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application includes:

a receiving unit for receiving a power saving signal for instructing a terminal to perform beam management in a discontinuous reception DRX inactive period;

and the processing unit is used for carrying out beam management in the DRX inactive period according to the power saving signal.

Another embodiment of the present application provides a computing device including a memory for storing program instructions and a processor for invoking the program instructions stored in the memory to perform any of the methods described above in accordance with the obtained program.

Another embodiment of the present application provides a computer storage medium storing computer-executable instructions for causing the computer to perform any one of the methods described above.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings that are needed in the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a DRX mechanism provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a flow chart of a beam management method at a network side according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a flow chart of a beam management method at a terminal side according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a beam management device on a network side according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a beam management device at a terminal side according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of another beam management apparatus at a network side according to an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of another beam management apparatus at a terminal side according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The following description of the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by one of ordinary skill in the art without undue burden from the present disclosure, are within the scope of the present disclosure.

In the 5G NR system, beam management mainly includes several procedures such as beam determination, beam measurement and reporting, beam scanning, beam indication, and beam recovery.

Beam determination, i.e. which set of transmit/receive beams is selected for the base station BS and the user UE for transmission of control information and data transmission. For each transmit beam, the UE may perform a series of receive beam scans to find the optimal transmit-receive beam pair. The UE does not report the optimal receive beam to the BS but rather keeps it down for receiving data.

The beam measurement and reporting process refers to that only a measured value of a Reference Signal (RS) resource needs to be reported for each transmitting beam, and no receiving beam needs to be reported. The BS may perform beam selection according to the reported Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ), or channel state information CSI measurement results. The beam measurement and reporting may be based on synchronization signal blocks (Synchronization Signal Block, SSB) or CSI reference signals (CSI-RS). The beam reporting may be done on a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) or a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH, and the reporting format and procedure are indicated by CSI reporting.

For the beam indication procedure, the manner in which different channels are indicated is different.

For downlink beam management, when a UE initially accesses, the UE obtains an initial transmit beam of the base station by scanning SSBs. After the UE is accessed to the cell, the BS configures beam measurement and beam information reporting configuration for the UE, and the UE performs measurement according to the reference signal configured by the base station, such as SSB or CSI-RS, and performs measurement reporting according to the beam information reporting configuration. The reported measurement may be RSRP, RSRQ or CSI. The BS may perform beam selection according to the reported RSRP, RSRQ, or CSI measurement results. Beam reporting may be done on PUCCH or PUSCH. The BS may send an updated beam indication to the UE, where the beam indication of the PDSCH may be a transmission configuration indication (Transmission Configuration Indication, TCI) in the DCI, or may be a TCI state (state) in a radio resource control (Radio Resource Control, RRC) configuration control resource set (CORESET); the beam indication of the PDCCH is TCI state in RRC configuration CORESET, for which activation/deactivation by a medium access control element (MAC CE) is required.

For uplink beam management, if the UE supports uplink and downlink beam consistency, the UE's transmit beam is consistent with the downlink UE's receive beam. In addition, the BS may indicate an optimal uplink transmission beam to the UE by measuring Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resources. The PUSCH transmission beam indication may be a beam indication of SRS, or may be a spatial relationship with PUCCH indicated in DCI, and the PUCCH transmission beam indication may be RRC configuration, or RRC configuration and MAC CE combined.

In addition to the above functions, to avoid link connection failure caused by blocking or high link loss in the signal transmission process, the UE also monitors the PDCCH beam, and if the beam detection fails, a beam failure report and a new beam need to be reported. After receiving the beam failure report, the BS uses a new beam to transmit PDCCH.

In the 5G NR system, the current working states of UEs are divided into three types: the first two UEs need to monitor paging signals, namely RRC IDLE (rrc_idle), RRC Inactive (rrc_active) and RRC Connected (rrc_connected), when the UE receives the paging signals, it indicates that the network side has data to send, and the UE needs to enter into the rrc_connected state to receive downlink data. And in the rrc_connected state, the UE needs to monitor the downlink control channel PDCCH continuously to acquire the transmission information of the downlink PDSCH. Whereas packet-based data streams are typically bursty, with data transmission for a period of time, but no data transmission for a longer period of time next, continuous monitoring of the PDCCH necessarily results in rapid power consumption by the UE. Therefore, when there is no data transmission, power consumption can be reduced by stopping receiving the PDCCH (at this time, stopping PDCCH blind detection). Therefore, the 3GPP is designed to achieve the power saving purpose through the DRX (Discontinuous Reception discontinuous reception) mechanism, as shown in fig. 1. During the DRX cycle, the UE monitors the PDCCH only during the DRX active (On duration) period, and during "Opportunity for DRX", i.e., the DRX inactive period (DRX off), the UE does not receive the PDCCH to reduce power consumption, i.e., enters a sleep mode.

When the UE configures DRX, in Opportunity for DRX, if no preconfigured periodic or semi-persistent reference signal is used for beam (beam) measurement or reporting, when the position of the UE changes or encounters a blocking or link quality degradation, the UE cannot perform beam measurement reporting and subsequent beam update; if there is a pre-configured periodic or semi-persistent reference signal, the UE may make CSI measurements, but if the UE is not pre-configured at the CSI reporting time, no CSI reporting and subsequent beam updates are made. The following are listed by way of example:

if the BS's transmit Beam changes, there is no pre-RS configuration (excluding the pre-configured periodic CSI-RS case) at Opportunity for DRX, the BS can only indicate transmit Beam to the UE based on the previous UE reporting results, and the UE performs receive Beam selection based on a non-updated transmit Beam, resulting in a mismatch between the actual Channel State Information (CSI) and the transmit-receive Beam pair, which can affect data reception.

If the BS's transmitted Beam changes, only aperiodic reporting is configured if there are preconfigured periodic CSI-RS resources. The UE performs the sending beam scanning based on the pre-configured reporting configuration before, and after the optimal sending beam and the optimal receiving beam are found, the UE does not have reporting opportunity when the UE is in a Opportunity for DRX state because the non-periodic CSI reporting is only reported once, and the base station cannot obtain updated sending beam information;

If the BS's transmitted beam is unchanged, but the received beam is changed due to the change of the UE's position, and there is no RS configuration (excluding the case of the periodically configured CSI-RS), the UE cannot perform CSI measurement, i.e. cannot obtain the optimal received beam, and can only perform reception based on the previously stored beam, which may cause beam failure (failure).

The embodiment of the application provides a beam management method and device, which are used for realizing the beam information related processing under the condition that a terminal is in a power saving state. Namely, the embodiment of the application mainly aims at the existing DRX transmission mechanism and beam management mechanism, and provides a new beam management method and device, so that accurate beam information can be obtained while the terminal is in a power-saving state.

The method and the device are based on the same application, and because the principles of solving the problems by the method and the device are similar, the implementation of the device and the method can be referred to each other, and the repetition is not repeated.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the application can be suitable for various systems, in particular to a 5G system. For example, suitable systems may be global system for mobile communications (global system of mobile communication, GSM), code division multiple access (code division multiple access, CDMA), wideband code division multiple access (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA) universal packet radio service (general packet radio service, GPRS), long term evolution (long term evolution, LTE), LTE frequency division duplex (frequency division duplex, FDD), LTE time division duplex (time division duplex, TDD), universal mobile system (universal mobile telecommunication system, UMTS), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (worldwide interoperability for microwave access, wiMAX), 5G NR, and the like. Terminal devices and network devices are included in these various systems.

The terminal device according to the embodiments of the present application may be a device that provides voice and/or data connectivity to a user, a handheld device with wireless connection functionality, or other processing device connected to a wireless modem. The names of the terminal devices may also be different in different systems, for example in a 5G system, the terminal devices may be referred to as User Equipment (UE). The wireless terminal device may communicate with one or more core networks via the RAN, and may be mobile terminal devices such as mobile phones (or "cellular" phones) and computers with mobile terminal devices, e.g., portable, pocket, hand-held, computer-built-in, or vehicle-mounted mobile devices that exchange voice and/or data with the radio access network. Such as personal communication services (personal communication service, PCS) phones, cordless phones, session initiation protocol (session initiated protocol, SIP) phones, wireless local loop (wireless local loop, WLL) stations, personal digital assistants (personal digital assistant, PDAs), and the like. The wireless terminal device may also be referred to as a system, subscriber unit (subscriber unit), subscriber station (subscriber station), mobile station (mobile), remote station (remote station), access point (access point), remote terminal device (remote terminal), access terminal device (access terminal), user terminal device (user terminal), user agent (user agent), user equipment (user device), and the embodiments of the present application are not limited.

The network device according to the embodiment of the present application may be a base station, where the base station may include a plurality of cells. A base station may also be referred to as an access point, or may refer to a device in an access network that communicates over the air-interface, through one or more sectors, with wireless terminal devices, or by other names, depending on the particular application. The network device may be operable to inter-convert the received air frames with internet protocol (internet protocol, IP) packets as a router between the wireless terminal device and the rest of the access network, which may include an Internet Protocol (IP) communication network. The network device may also coordinate attribute management for the air interface. For example, the network device according to the embodiments of the present application may be a network device (base transceiver station, BTS) in a global system for mobile communications (global system for mobile communications, GSM) or code division multiple access (code division multiple access, CDMA), a network device (NodeB) in a wideband code division multiple access (wide-band code division multiple access, WCDMA), an evolved network device (evolutional node B, eNB or e-NodeB) in a long term evolution (long term evolution, LTE) system, a 5G base station in a 5G network architecture (next generation system), a home evolved base station (home evolved node B, heNB), a relay node (relay node), a home base station (femto), a pico base station (pico), and the like.

Various embodiments of the present application are described in detail below with reference to the drawings attached hereto. It should be noted that, the display sequence of the embodiments of the present application only represents the sequence of the embodiments, and does not represent the advantages or disadvantages of the technical solutions provided by the embodiments.

When DRX is introduced, the number of antennas for low frequency communication is limited, beam is relatively wide, and beam selection is not involved, or to a certain extent, a transmitting-receiving beam pair between a base station and a user is relatively stable. However, when the number of antennas increases, the beam becomes narrow, and the change of the transmitting and receiving beam between the base station and the user is relatively fast, the original DRX mechanism cannot meet the requirement, so that the beam management needs to be performed in the DRX inactive state. Therefore, the embodiment of the application proposes that the network side sends the power saving signal to trigger the terminal to carry out beam management under the DRX inactive state. The power saving signal may be carried in a trigger RS mentioned below, or may be configured through RRC signaling.

According to the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the application, the triggering RS is introduced, so that the problem that beam information cannot be updated and indicated in the Opportunity for DRX period is solved. The BS sends a trigger RS to the UE, which may be used to indicate configuration information of the measurement RS, beam reporting configuration information (which may also be referred to as CSI reporting configuration information), send a beam information indication, and whether to deactivate periodic or semi-persistent beam measurements.

Here, the trigger RS may be a new RS, for example, a power saving signal (power saving signal), or may be a signaling such as DCI, MAC CE, or RRC signaling. The triggering RS may, for example, specifically carry one or a combination of the following information:

1. an identification for indicating whether there is a measurement RS, for example: 0 denotes no measurement RS,1 denotes a measurement RS;

the measurement RS mentioned in the embodiment of the present application may be an existing RS or a newly defined RS.

2. Measuring RS information, including periodic, time-frequency resource allocation, where periodic refers to measuring RS being periodic, semi-persistent, or aperiodic; the time-frequency resource allocation refers to measuring the time-domain resource allocation and the frequency-domain resource allocation of the RS, namely measuring the time-domain position and the frequency-domain position of the RS;

both of the former two pieces of information belong to configuration information of the measurement RS.

3. Beam reports configuration information, including, for example:

a. reporting types, for example: periodic, non-persistent or non-periodic reporting of Beam information;

b. the reporting period of the Beam information is mainly aimed at the periodic/non-continuous reporting type, and the reporting period of the Beam information is indicated;

c. the reporting time of the Beam information, for example: reporting period, offset (offset), etc. of the Beam information;

d. Beam measurement types, for example: RSRP or RSRQ or CSI or others.

e. The reported number of beams or clusters was measured.

4. Beam information indicates, for example: a transmission configuration indication (Transmission configuration indication) of the Beam information.

The Beam information indication may be information related to the selected Beam after the base station performs Beam selection based on the Beam related measurement quantity reported by the terminal; in addition, the base station may not perform Beam selection based on the Beam related measurement quantity reported by the terminal, and the base station may autonomously select a Beam and notify the terminal of the Beam selection result by carrying the Beam information indication in the trigger RS.

The measured RS may be a newly introduced RS or an existing RS, for example, CSI-RS.

If the identification of the measuring RS is 1, the Beam information is the Beam information of the measuring RS;

if the identity of the measurement RS is 0, the Beam information transmits Beam information for the BS.

The configuration information reported for Beam measurement may be a parameter set preconfigured through RRC signaling, and then index indication is performed through DCI parameter set, for example, periodic or semi-persistent reporting, or consistent with the previous configuration; or may be carried by triggering RS, such as aperiodic measurement reporting.

After receiving the trigger RS, the UE carries out corresponding Beam measurement on different measurement RSs based on configuration information and Beam information indication of the measurement RS carried by the trigger RS to obtain Beam-related measurement quantity; and reporting Beam information (namely the Beam related measurement quantity) corresponding to the number of the beams or the number of the groups according to the Beam measurement reporting configuration information, wherein the Beam information is the measurement quantity required in the Beam measurement reporting configuration, and the BS performs Beam selection based on the Beam information reported by the UE. Wherein,,

the Beam measurements, for example: based on the measurement RS, corresponding beam measurement is carried out, and the measured beam related information is information such as RSRP, RSRQ, CSI and the like;

the Beam information is reported, for example: the UE reports the measurement information of the number which is optimally measured to the base station according to the number of reported beams specified in the report information configured by the base station;

the Beam information selection, for example: the BS selects, for example, the best Beam to send according to the Beam information reported by the UE.

If the BS does not require the UE to make Beam reports again, but has configured periodic or semi-persistent measurement reports, the BS deactivates periodic Beam measurements by sending a trigger RS.

Embodiment one:

the BS does not have a pre-configured periodic/non-persistent RS, e.g., periodic/non-persistent CSI-RS. A trigger RS is introduced to trigger the UE to receive an RS for beam measurement, where the trigger RS may be a new RS, such as a power saving signal (power saving signal), or may be a signaling such as DCI, MAC CE or RRC signaling. The present embodiment exemplifies a DCI-based power saving signal (DCI-based power saving signal).

The first step: when the BS determines that the current channel state of the UE changes faster, the BS may change the best beam sent by the BS, and since the UE is in Opportunity for DRX state, i.e. in the DRX inactive period, the BS does not have a preconfigured periodic/discontinuous RS, and the UE cannot measure and report the CSI of the current channel.

And a second step of: the BS sends a triggering RS and a measuring RS to the UE, wherein the content carried by the triggering RS comprises the following information:

2. measuring RS information, including periodic, time-frequency resource allocation, where periodic refers to measuring RS being periodic, semi-persistent, or aperiodic; the time-frequency resource allocation refers to measuring the time-domain resource allocation and the frequency-domain resource allocation of the RS;

3. The Beam measurement report configuration index or Beam measurement report configuration information, wherein the Beam measurement report configuration information comprises:

reporting types, for example: periodic, non-persistent or non-periodic reporting of Beam information;

the reporting period of the Beam information is mainly aimed at the periodic/non-continuous reporting type, and the reporting period of the Beam information is indicated;

the reporting time of the Beam information, for example: reporting period, offset (offset), etc. of the Beam information;

beam measurement types, for example: RSRP or RSRQ or CSI or others;

the reported number of beams or clusters was measured.

If the measurement RS is periodic or semi-persistent, and the reporting type is also periodic or semi-persistent, i.e., the BS needs to periodically obtain the beam information of the UE.

If the measurement RS is aperiodic and the reporting type is also aperiodic, the BS only needs to obtain the beam information of the UE at the moment.

If the measurement RS is periodic or semi-persistent and the reporting type is non-periodic, the BS only needs to obtain the UE's instantaneous beam information.

If the identification of the measuring RS is 1, the Beam information is the Beam information of the measuring RS; if the identity of the measurement RS is 0, the Beam information transmits Beam information for the BS.

The configuration information reported by Beam measurement can be a parameter set pre-configured by RRC signaling, and index indication is performed on the parameter set by DCI, for example, periodic or semi-continuous reporting or consistent with the configuration reported by previous measurement; or may be carried by triggering RS, such as aperiodic measurement reporting.

And a third step of: when the UE receives the trigger RS, beam measurement is performed on the designated measurement RS. If the trigger RS indicates that the beam report is periodic or semi-continuous, the UE may perform beam measurement based on the periodic or non-continuous measurement RS after receiving the trigger RS until receiving a deactivation command of the measurement report, for example, the deactivation command of the measurement report is carried by the MAC CE, and stop the beam information report. If the triggering RS indicates that the beam report is non-periodic, the UE only needs to report the beam measurement information once after receiving the triggering RS.

The RS used for Beam measurement may be a newly introduced RS or an existing RS, e.g., CSI-RS. After the UE obtains the relevant beam information, where the beam information may be RSRP, RSRQ or CSI received by the terminal UE, and reporting the beam information at the reporting time and the resource location indicated on the trigger RS.

Fourth step: the BS updates the sending beam of the UE based on the recently reported beam information of the UE and sends a sending beam indication thereof to the UE. The BS may transmit to the UE through DCI, PDCCH, or a new RS, for example power saving signal. Taking DCI-based power saving signal in this embodiment as an example, when the identifier of the measurement RS is 0, the beam information is the transmitted beam information of the BS.

Embodiment two:

the BS has pre-configured periodic/non-persistent reference signals, such as periodic/non-persistent CSI-RS, or SSB, but has not configured periodic/non-persistent CSI reporting. And introducing a triggering RS for triggering the UE to feed back the current beam information. The trigger RS may be a new RS, for example power saving signal, or may be a new DCI, MAC CE or RRC signaling, which is exemplified by DCI-based power saving signal in this embodiment.

The first step: when the BS judges that the current channel state of the UE changes quickly, the optimal sending beam of the BS may change, the UE is in a DRX-off state, the UE temporarily has no scheduling information, and the UE cannot perform CSI feedback of the current channel.

And a second step of: the BS sends a triggering RS to the UE, wherein the content carried by the triggering RS comprises the following information:

2. Measuring RS information, including periodic information and time-frequency resource information; here, periodic means that the measurement RS is periodic, semi-persistent, or aperiodic; the time-frequency resource refers to time domain resource allocation and frequency domain resource allocation of the measured RS;

3. beam measurement reporting configuration index or Beam measurement reporting configuration information, wherein the measurement reporting configuration information comprises:

beam measurement types, for example: RSRP or RSRQ or CSI or others;

the reported number of beams or clusters was measured.

If the reporting type is also periodic or semi-persistent, i.e., the BS needs to periodically obtain the beam information of the UE.

If the reporting type is aperiodic, i.e., the BS only needs to obtain the UE's instantaneous beam information.

Since the BS has preconfigured the periodic/non-persistent reference signal, here, the identity of the measurement RS is 0, and the measurement RS information and the Beam information are default.

And a third step of: when the UE receives the trigger RS, if the measurement RS information and the Beam information are found to be default, the UE performs measurement feedback based on the preconfigured RS before the reporting time; if the pre-configured RS does not exist before the reporting time, the UE feeds back based on the stored beam information. If the trigger RS indicates that the beam report is periodic or semi-persistent, the UE will stop the beam information report after receiving the trigger RS, based on the periodic or non-persistent report measurement value, until receiving a deactivation command of the measurement report, for example, carried by the MAC CE. If the trigger RS indicates that the beam report is non-periodic, the UE only needs to report the measurement information before the measurement report time after receiving the trigger RS.

The RS used for Beam measurement may be a newly introduced RS or an existing RS, such as CSI-RS or SSB. After the UE obtains the relevant beam information, where the beam information may be RSRP, RSRQ or CSI received by the terminal, and reporting the beam information at the reporting time and the resource location indicated on the trigger RS.

Embodiment III:

the BS does not have a pre-configured periodic/non-persistent RS, e.g., periodic/non-persistent CSI-RS. When the position of the UE is shifted, the information of the receiving and transmitting beam stored by the UE cannot be updated, and the UE cannot receive signals on the better receiving beam. And introducing a triggering RS for triggering the UE to update the information of the receiving beam. The trigger RS may be a new RS, for example power saving signal, or may be a new DCI, MAC CE or RRC signaling, which is exemplified by DCI-based power saving signal in this embodiment.

The first step: when the BS judges that the current channel state of the UE is poor, the BS does not change the sending beam, and no reference signal is provided for the UE to measure and update the CSI of the current channel in DRX-off.

1. Whether there is an identity of the measurement RS, for example: 0 denotes no measurement RS,1 denotes a measurement RS;

3. the Beam measurement report configuration index or Beam measurement report configuration information, wherein the measurement report configuration information comprises:

beam measurement types, for example: RSRP or RSRQ or CSI or others;

the reported number of beams or clusters was measured.

If the measurement RS is periodic or semi-persistent, i.e., the UE may periodically perform a reception beam information update based on the measurement RS.

If the measurement RS is aperiodic, i.e. the UE only needs to update the instantaneous beam information.

In this case, the reporting type and the reporting time of the beam information may be default without reporting the beam information.

If the identification of the measuring RS is 1, the Beam information is the Beam information of the measuring RS; if the identity of the measurement RS is 0, the Beam information is the BS transmitting Beam information, which may be default.

And a third step of: when the UE receives the trigger RS, beam measurement is performed on the designated measurement RS. If the measurement RS is periodic or semi-persistent, the UE will update the periodic or semi-persistent reception beam information based on the periodic or non-persistent measurement RS after receiving the trigger RS, until receiving a deactivation command reported by the measurement, for example, the deactivation command may be carried by the MAC CE, or may be carried by the trigger RS, for example, where the identity of the measurement RS is 0 and the other information fields are default. If the measurement RS indicated by the trigger RS is aperiodic, the UE only needs to update the information of the received beam once after receiving the trigger RS.

The RS used for Beam measurement may be a newly introduced RS or an existing RS, e.g., CSI-RS. After the UE obtains the relevant beam information, the beam information may be RSRP, RSRQ, or CSI received by the UE.

In summary, at the network side, for example, at the base station side, referring to fig. 2, a beam management method provided in the embodiment of the present application includes:

s101, determining a power saving signal for indicating a terminal to perform beam management in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) non-activation period;

s102, the power saving signal is sent to the terminal.

That is, the triggering RS causes the terminal to perform beam information related processing performed during the DRX inactivity period, such as configuration information of the measurement RS, beam reporting configuration information, transmission beam information indication, whether to deactivate periodic or semi-persistent beam measurement, and the like.

downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

reporting configuration information by beam measurement;

beam information indication.

The system comprises a measurement RS, a time-frequency resource information and a time-frequency resource information, wherein the measurement RS is used for indicating whether the measurement RS is identified, the periodicity information of the measurement RS and the time-frequency resource information of the measurement RS, and belongs to configuration information of the measurement RS;

the beam measurement report configuration index and the beam measurement report configuration information belong to the beam report configuration information.

the reporting type of the beam information;

Reporting period of wave beam information;

reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

and measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

receiving the beam-related measurement quantity reported by a terminal;

Optionally, when the power saving signal carries the reporting beam measurement configuration index, the method further includes: and transmitting preset beam measurement report configuration information by adopting RRC signaling, so that the terminal can determine the beam measurement report configuration based on the index.

Accordingly, on the terminal side, referring to fig. 3, a beam management method provided in the embodiment of the present application includes:

s201, receiving a power saving signal for indicating a terminal to perform beam management in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) non-activation period;

s202, according to the power saving signal, beam management is carried out in the DRX non-activation period.

That is, the terminal performs beam information related processing performed in the DRX inactivity period, such as configuration information of the measurement RS, beam report configuration information, transmission beam information indication, whether to deactivate periodic or semi-persistent beam measurement, and the like, based on the trigger RS.

downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

reporting configuration information by beam measurement;

beam information indication.

the reporting type of the beam information;

reporting period of wave beam information;

reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

and measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

It should be noted that, the beam selection result, that is, the beam information indication carried in the trigger RS, may be determined by the base station based on the beam related measurement quantity reported by the terminal, or may be determined by the base station autonomously, and is not limited to the beam related measurement quantity reported by the terminal. That is, the base station may determine the transmission beam in any manner and transmit beam information indication to the terminal by triggering the RS.

At a network side, for example, at a base station side, referring to fig. 4, a beam management apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:

a memory 520 for storing program instructions;

a processor 500 for calling program instructions stored in the memory, executing according to the obtained program:

and sending the power saving signal to the terminal.

downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

reporting configuration information by beam measurement;

Beam information indication.

the reporting type of the beam information;

reporting period of wave beam information;

reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

and measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

Optionally, the processor 500 is further configured to:

receiving the beam-related measurement quantity reported by a terminal;

Optionally, when the power saving signal carries a reporting beam measurement configuration index, the processor 500 is further configured to: and transmitting preset beam measurement reporting configuration information by adopting RRC signaling.

A transceiver 510 for receiving and transmitting data under the control of the processor 500.

Wherein in fig. 4, a bus architecture may comprise any number of interconnected buses and bridges, and in particular one or more processors represented by processor 500 and various circuits of memory represented by memory 520, linked together. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripheral devices, voltage regulators, power management circuits, etc., which are well known in the art and, therefore, will not be described further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 510 may be a number of elements, including a transmitter and a transceiver, providing a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. The processor 500 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 520 may store data used by the processor 500 in performing operations.

The processor 500 may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), an application specific integrated circuit (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC), a Field programmable gate array (Field-Programmable Gate Array, FPGA), or a complex programmable logic device (Complex Programmable Logic Device, CPLD).

On the terminal side, referring to fig. 5, a beam management apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:

a memory 620 for storing program instructions;

processor 600 for invoking program instructions stored in said memory, executing according to the obtained program:

downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

reporting configuration information by beam measurement;

beam information indication.

the reporting type of the beam information;

reporting period of wave beam information;

reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

and measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

Optionally, the processor 600 is further configured to:

Optionally, when the power saving signal carries a reporting beam measurement configuration index, the processor 600 is further configured to: and the receiving network side adopts preset beam measurement reporting configuration information sent by RRC signaling, and determines beam measurement configuration corresponding to the index based on the preset beam measurement reporting configuration information and the reporting beam measurement configuration index carried in the power saving signal.

A transceiver 610 for receiving and transmitting data under the control of the processor 600.

Wherein in fig. 5, a bus architecture may comprise any number of interconnected buses and bridges, and in particular one or more processors represented by processor 600 and various circuits of memory represented by memory 620, linked together. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripheral devices, voltage regulators, power management circuits, etc., which are well known in the art and, therefore, will not be described further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. Transceiver 610 may be a number of elements, including a transmitter and a receiver, providing a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. The user interface 630 may also be an interface capable of interfacing with an inscribed desired device for different user devices, including but not limited to a keypad, display, speaker, microphone, joystick, etc.

The processor 600 is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory 620 may store data used by the processor 600 in performing operations.

Alternatively, the processor 600 may be a CPU (Central processing Unit), ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit ), FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array, field programmable Gate array), or CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device ).

At the network side, for example, at the base station side, referring to fig. 6, another beam management apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application includes:

a determining unit 61 for determining a power saving signal for instructing the terminal to perform beam management during the discontinuous reception DRX inactivity period;

a transmitting unit 62 for transmitting the power saving signal to the terminal.

downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

reporting configuration information by beam measurement;

beam information indication.

The reporting type of the beam information;

reporting period of wave beam information;

reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

and measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

Optionally, the determining unit 61 is further configured to:

receiving the beam-related measurement quantity reported by a terminal;

Optionally, when the power saving signal carries a reporting beam measurement configuration index, the sending unit 62 is further configured to: and transmitting preset beam measurement reporting configuration information by adopting RRC signaling.

At the terminal side, referring to fig. 7, another beam management apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application includes:

a receiving unit 71 for receiving a power saving signal for instructing the terminal to perform beam management during the discontinuous reception DRX inactivity period;

and the processing unit 72 is used for carrying out beam management in the DRX inactive period according to the power saving signal.

downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

reporting configuration information by beam measurement;

beam information indication.

the reporting type of the beam information;

reporting period of wave beam information;

reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

and measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

Optionally, the receiving unit 71 is further configured to:

Optionally, when the power saving signal carries a reporting beam measurement configuration index, the receiving unit 71 is further configured to: the processing unit 72 is further configured to determine, based on the preset beam measurement reporting configuration information sent by the network side through RRC signaling and the reporting beam measurement configuration index carried in the power saving signal, a beam measurement configuration corresponding to the index.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the division of the units is schematic, which is merely a logic function division, and other division manners may be implemented in actual practice. In addition, each functional unit in each embodiment of the present application may be integrated in one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units may be integrated in one unit. The integrated units may be implemented in hardware or in software functional units.

The integrated units, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as stand-alone products, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be embodied in essence or a part contributing to the prior art or all or part of the technical solution, in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium, including several instructions to cause a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) or a processor (processor) to perform all or part of the steps of the methods described in the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a random access Memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk, or other various media capable of storing program codes.

Embodiments of the present application provide a computing device, which may be specifically a desktop computer, a portable computer, a smart phone, a tablet computer, a personal digital assistant (PersonalDigital Assistant, PDA), and the like. The computing device may include a central processing unit (Center Processing Unit, CPU), memory, input/output devices, etc., the input devices may include a keyboard, mouse, touch screen, etc., and the output devices may include a display device, such as a liquid crystal display (Liquid Crystal Display, LCD), cathode Ray Tube (CRT), etc.

The memory may include Read Only Memory (ROM) and Random Access Memory (RAM) and provides the processor with program instructions and data stored in the memory. In the embodiments of the present application, the memory may be used to store a program of any of the methods provided in the embodiments of the present application.

The processor is configured to execute any of the methods provided in the embodiments of the present application according to the obtained program instructions by calling the program instructions stored in the memory.

The present embodiments provide a computer storage medium storing computer program instructions for use with an apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present application, which includes a program for executing any one of the methods provided in the embodiments of the present application.

The computer storage media may be any available media or data storage device that can be accessed by a computer, including, but not limited to, magnetic storage (e.g., floppy disks, hard disks, magnetic tape, magneto-optical disks (MOs), etc.), optical storage (e.g., CD, DVD, BD, HVD, etc.), and semiconductor storage (e.g., ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, nonvolatile storage (NAND FLASH), solid State Disk (SSD)), etc.

The method provided by the embodiment of the application can be applied to the terminal equipment and also can be applied to the network equipment.

The Terminal device may also be referred to as a User Equipment (UE), a Mobile Station (MS), a Mobile Terminal (RAN), or the like, and may optionally be capable of communicating with one or more core networks via a radio access network (Radio Access Network, RAN), for example, the Terminal may be a Mobile phone (or "cellular" phone), or a computer with Mobile properties, or the like, for example, the Terminal may also be a portable, pocket, hand-held, computer-built-in, or vehicle-mounted Mobile device.

The network device may be a base station (e.g., an access point) that refers to a device in an access network that communicates over the air-interface, through one or more sectors, with wireless terminals. The base station may be configured to inter-convert the received air frames with IP packets as a router between the wireless terminal and the rest of the access network, which may include an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The base station may also coordinate attribute management for the air interface. For example, the base station may be a base station (BTS, base Transceiver Station) in GSM or CDMA, a base station (NodeB) in WCDMA, an evolved base station (NodeB or eNB or e-NodeB, evolutional Node B) in LTE, or a gNB in a 5G system, etc. The embodiments of the present application are not limited.

The above-described method process flow may be implemented in a software program, which may be stored in a storage medium, and which performs the above-described method steps when the stored software program is called.

In summary, the technical solution provided in the embodiments of the present application includes:

1) At Opportunity for DRX, a trigger RS is introduced for beam management.

2) The trigger RS may be used to indicate measurement RS configuration, CSI reporting configuration, send beam indication information, and periodically or semi-continuously report deactivation.

3) The triggering RS may carry the following information:

whether there is an identity of the measurement RS, for example: 0 denotes no measurement RS,1 denotes a measurement RS;

measuring RS information, including periodic, time-frequency resource allocation, where periodic refers to measuring RS being periodic, semi-persistent, or aperiodic; the time-frequency resource allocation refers to measuring the time-domain resource allocation and the frequency-domain resource allocation of the RS;

the Beam measurement reporting configuration index or reporting configuration information, wherein the measurement reporting configuration information comprises:

beam measurement types, for example: RSRP or RSRQ or CSI or others;

the reported number of beams or clusters was measured.

Beam information indicates, for example: a transmission configuration indication (Transmission configuration indication) of the Beam information.

4) The measured RS may be a newly introduced RS or an existing RS, such as CSI-RS.

5) Beam management process: in Opportunity for DRX period, the BS sends a trigger RS to the UE, carrying the measurement and reporting configuration information, and the UE performs related measurement quantity measurement on the beam where the measurement RS is located according to the trigger RS and performs beam related measurement quantity reporting based on the trigger RS. And the BS performs beam selection according to the reported measurement quantity, and finally indicates the beam selection to the UE through triggering the RS.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that embodiments of the present application may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present application may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment, or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present application may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, magnetic disk storage, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

The present application is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of the application. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present application without departing from the spirit or scope of the application. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present application fall within the scope of the claims and the equivalents thereof, the present application is intended to cover such modifications and variations.

Claims

1. A method of beam management, the method comprising:

determining a power saving signal for instructing the terminal to perform beam management in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) inactive period; wherein the power saving signal is specifically used for indicating one or a combination of the following contents:

measuring configuration information of RS, beam reporting configuration information, transmitting beam information indication, and whether to deactivate periodic or semi-persistent beam measurement;

Transmitting the power saving signal to the terminal;

receiving the beam-related measurement quantity reported by a terminal;

performing beam selection according to the beam-related measurement quantity reported by the terminal, and indicating a beam selection result to the terminal through the beam information indication carried by the power-saving signal;

and sending a power saving signal for indicating a beam selection result of the network side to the terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the power saving signal is carried in at least one of the following channels/signaling:

downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the power saving signal carries in particular one or a combination of the following information:

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

and reporting configuration information by beam measurement.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the beam measurement report configuration information specifically includes one or a combination of the following information:

the reporting type of the beam information;

reporting period of wave beam information;

Reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

and measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein when the power saving signal carries a reporting beam measurement configuration index, the method further comprises: and transmitting preset beam measurement reporting configuration information by adopting RRC signaling.

6. A method of beam management, the method comprising:

receiving a power saving signal for indicating a terminal to perform beam management in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) inactive period; wherein the power saving signal is specifically used for indicating one or a combination of the following contents:

according to the power saving signal, beam management is carried out in the DRX inactive period;

the beam management in the DRX inactivity period according to the power saving signal specifically includes:

reporting the beam related measurement quantity according to the beam measurement reporting configuration information carried in the power saving signal;

The method further comprises the steps of:

and receiving a power saving signal sent by a network side and used for indicating a beam selection result of the network side.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the power saving signal is carried in at least one of the following channels/signaling:

downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

8. The method according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that the power saving signal carries in particular one or a combination of the following information:

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

and reporting configuration information by beam measurement.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the beam measurement report configuration information specifically includes one or a combination of the following information:

the reporting type of the beam information;

reporting period of wave beam information;

reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

and measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein when the power saving signal carries a reporting beam measurement configuration index, the method further comprises: and the receiving network side adopts preset beam measurement reporting configuration information sent by RRC signaling, and determines beam measurement configuration corresponding to the index based on the preset beam measurement reporting configuration information and the reporting beam measurement configuration index carried in the power saving signal.

11. A beam management apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

a memory for storing program instructions;

transmitting the power saving signal to the terminal;

receiving the beam-related measurement quantity reported by a terminal;

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the power saving signal is carried in at least one of the following channels/signaling:

downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

Radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

13. The apparatus according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the power saving signal carries in particular one or a combination of the following information:

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

and reporting configuration information by beam measurement.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the beam measurement report configuration information specifically includes one or a combination of the following information:

the reporting type of the beam information;

reporting period of wave beam information;

reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

and measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein when the power saving signal carries a reporting beam measurement configuration index, the processor is further configured to: and transmitting preset beam measurement reporting configuration information by adopting RRC signaling.

16. A beam management apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

a memory for storing program instructions;

the processor is further configured to call the program instructions stored in the memory, and execute according to the obtained program:

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the power saving signal is carried in at least one of the following channels/signaling:

Downlink control information, DCI;

a medium access control unit (MAC CE);

radio resource control, RRC, signaling.

18. The apparatus according to claim 16 or 17, wherein the power saving signal carries in particular one or a combination of the following information:

an identity for indicating whether there is a measurement RS;

measuring the periodicity information of the RS;

measuring time-frequency resource information of the RS;

reporting configuration indexes by beam measurement;

and reporting configuration information by beam measurement.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the beam measurement report configuration information specifically comprises one or a combination of the following information:

the reporting type of the beam information;

reporting period of wave beam information;

reporting time of wave beam information;

beam measurement quantity type;

and measuring the number of reported beams or the number of groups.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein when the power saving signal carries a reporting beam measurement configuration index, the processor is further configured to: and the receiving network side adopts preset beam measurement reporting configuration information sent by RRC signaling, and determines beam measurement configuration corresponding to the index based on the preset beam measurement reporting configuration information and the reporting beam measurement configuration index carried in the power saving signal.

21. A beam management apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

a determining unit for determining a power saving signal for instructing the terminal to perform beam management in a discontinuous reception DRX inactivity period; wherein the power saving signal is specifically used for indicating one or a combination of the following contents:

a transmitting unit configured to transmit the power saving signal to the terminal;

the determining unit is further configured to:

receiving the beam-related measurement quantity reported by a terminal;

the sending unit is further configured to send a power saving signal for indicating a beam selection result on the network side to the terminal.

22. A beam management apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit for receiving a power saving signal for instructing a terminal to perform beam management in a discontinuous reception DRX inactive period; wherein the power saving signal is specifically used for indicating one or a combination of the following contents:

a processing unit, configured to perform beam management during a DRX inactivity period according to the power saving signal;

the receiving unit is further configured to receive a power saving signal sent by a network side and used for indicating a beam selection result of the network side.

23. A computing device, comprising:

a memory for storing program instructions;

a processor for invoking program instructions stored in said memory to perform the method of any of claims 1 to 10 in accordance with the obtained program.

24. A computer storage medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions for causing the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 10.