Link management method, wake-up signal detection method, terminal device and network device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12101718-B2
Application number	US-202117556526-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 20, 2021
Priority date	Jun 27, 2019
Publication date	Sep 24, 2024
Grant date	Sep 24, 2024

Abstract

This application discloses a link management method, applied to a terminal device. The method includes: receiving transmission configuration indicator TCI information, where the TCI information is used to indicate M TCI states of a wake-up signal WUS, and M is a positive integer; and in the case that the terminal device is in an inactive-time of connected mode discontinuous reception DRX, performing a link management operation based on the M TCI states, where the link management operation includes at least one of a beam failure detection operation and a radio link failure detection operation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A link management method, applied to a terminal device, wherein the method comprises:
receiving transmission configuration indicator TCI information, wherein the TCI information is used to indicate M TCI states of a wake-up signal WUS, and M is a positive integer; and
in the case that the terminal device is in an inactive-time of connected mode discontinuous reception DRX, performing a link management operation based on the M TCI states, wherein the link management operation comprises at least one of a beam failure detection operation and a radio link failure detection operation,
wherein a value of M is less than or equal to a total number of reference signals in a full set of beam recovery reference signals or a universe of radio link monitoring reference signals corresponding to the M TCI states.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein
any two TCI states of the M TCI states correspond to a same control resource set CORESET configuration, a same search space SS configuration, and different slot-related configurations; or
any two TCI states of the M TCI states correspond to a same CORESET configuration and different SS configurations, and each SS configuration has a separate slot-related configuration, wherein
the slot-related configuration comprises one of the following:
a slot-level period configuration and a slot offset configuration; or
a slot-level period configuration, a slot offset configuration, and an in-slot symbol offset configuration.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein WUS sending moments corresponding to the M TCI states are concentrated in a period less than or equal to a preset time length.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the performing a link management operation based on the M TCI states comprises:
monitoring signal quality of a reference signal related to the WUS; and
if a signal quality monitoring result meets a target trigger event, performing a link management operation related to the target trigger event.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the method further comprises:
if the signal quality monitoring result does not meet the target trigger event, decoding the WUS detected based on the M TCI states; and
in the case that the WUS is successfully decoded and a decoding result indicates to enter an On duration of the DRX, performing an operation of entering the On duration; or
in the case that the WUS is successfully decoded and a decoding result indicates to stay in the inactive-time, performing an operation of continuing to stay in the inactive-time.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the performing a link management operation based on the M TCI states comprises:
decoding the WUS detected based on the M TCI states;
in the case that the WUS is successfully decoded and a decoding result indicates to stay in the inactive-time, monitoring signal quality of a reference signal related to the WUS; and
if a signal quality monitoring result meets a target trigger event, performing a link management operation related to the target trigger event.

7. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the reference signal related to the WUS comprises a demodulation reference signal DMRS in a CORESET corresponding to the M TCI states, and the DMRS is quasi co-located with a synchronization signal block SSB or a channel state information CSI reference signal used to represent broadband beam information; and
the monitoring signal quality of a reference signal related to the WUS comprises:
monitoring the signal quality on a bandwidth part BWP corresponding to the WUS.

8. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the reference signal related to the WUS comprises M target reference signals corresponding to the M TCI states, and the M target reference signals are quasi co-located with the WUS.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein each of the target reference signals comprises one of the following:
one of a beam failure detection reference signal BFD-RS and a radio link monitoring reference signal RLM-RS; or
another reference signal that is quasi co-located with the BFD-RS or the RLM-RS, wherein the target trigger condition comprises one of the following:
a physical layer of the terminal device reports an out-of-synchronization indication to a radio resource control RRC layer, and a first timer is started;
a number counted by a beam failure counter of a media access control MAC layer of the terminal device is greater than or equal to a preset number of times;
a reference signal received power RSRP is continuously less than a first threshold within a first time period, wherein the first threshold is configured by a network device or determined based on a first preset condition;
a target channel quality parameter is continuously less than a second threshold within a first time period, wherein the target channel quality parameter comprises a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio SINR or a channel quality indicator CQI, and the second threshold is configured by a network device or determined based on a second preset condition;
reference signal received quality RSRQ is less than a third threshold; or
a block error rate BLER is greater than a third rate.

10. The method according to claim 8 , wherein each of the target reference signals comprises one of the following:
a BFD-RS and a beam failure recovery reference signal BFR-RS;
the BFD-RS, the BFR-RS, and an RLM-RS; or
another reference signal that is quasi co-located with the BFD-RS, RLM-RS, or the BFR-RS.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the performing a link management operation based on the M TCI states comprises:
decoding the WUS detected based on the M TCI states;
in the case that the WUS is successfully decoded, a decoding result indicates to stay in the inactive-time, and there is a candidate recovery beam set meeting a beam recovery condition, if a beam failure is determined through the beam failure detection, skipping performing a beam recovery operation; or
in the case that the WUS fails to be decoded or the WUS is successfully decoded and a decoding result indicates to enter an On duration of the DRX, if a beam failure is determined through the beam failure detection, performing a beam recovery operation based on the candidate recovery beam set meeting the beam recovery condition.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein
in the case that the universe of beam recovery reference signals or the universe of radio link monitoring reference signals comprises at least one of a BFD-RS and an RLM-RS, the candidate recovery beam set is determined based on an identifier of a demodulation reference signal DMRS in a CORESET configuration, SS configuration, or SS periodicity configuration other than a CORESET configuration and SS configuration corresponding to the M TCI states, and the identifier is configured by a network device through an RRC message; or
in the case that the universe of beam recovery reference signals or the universe of radio link monitoring reference signals comprises a BFR-RS and a BFD-RS, or in the case that the universe of beam recovery reference signals or the universe of radio link monitoring reference signals comprises a BFR-RS, a BFD-RS, and an RLM-RS, the candidate recovery beam set is determined based on the BFR-RS, a reference signal that is quasi co-located with the BFR-RS, or a DMRS in a CORESET corresponding to a target TCI state, wherein the target TCI state is a TCI state, corresponding to the BFR-RS, of the M TCI states.

13. A wake-up signal detection method, applied to a terminal device, wherein the method comprises:
monitoring signal quality c

Assignees

• Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sun Yanliang
• Wu Kai
• Shen Xiaodong
• Jiang Dajie
• Sun Peng

Classifications

• H04B7/06964

  Re-selection of one or more beams after beam failure · CPC title

• H04L1/203

  Details of error rate determination, e.g. BER, FER or WER · CPC title

• H04W76/19

  Connection re-establishment · CPC title

• H04L5/0053 Primary

  Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals · CPC title

• H04B17/336

  Signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR] · CPC title