Paging indication method, paging indication apparatus, terminal, and readable storage medium

1 . A paging indication method, comprising:

obtaining, by a terminal, paging early indication information carried by downlink control information (DCI), wherein the paging early indication information indicates first content; and

determining, by the terminal, the first content based on the paging early indication information; wherein

the first content comprises: a monitoring behavior in N paging occasions subsequent to the paging early indication information, and whether a first signal is available, the first signal being a tracking reference signal/channel state information reference signal (TRS/CSI-RS); wherein:

N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1,

the DCI comprises N+1 information blocks, and the N+1 information blocks comprise N information blocks corresponding to monitoring behaviors in the N paging occasions respectively and one information block indicating whether the first signal is available, and

indication fields for indicating the first content in the paging early indication information are arranged in a preset arrangement order; wherein the preset arrangement order comprises at least one of the following: being arranged based on paging occasions associated with the paging early indication information, being arranged based on content type of the first content, or being arranged in ascending or descending order of values of N.

2 . The paging indication method according to claim 1 , wherein:

each of the N paging occasions is associated with W paging terminal groups;

wherein W is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, and

the N information blocks in the DCI indicate, by means of a bitmap, monitoring behaviors for N×W paging terminal groups in the N paging occasions.

3 . The paging indication method according to claim 2 , wherein:

the monitoring behavior comprises at least one of the following: whether to monitor a paging physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of a paging terminal group associated with the terminal, whether to monitor paging of the paging terminal group associated with the terminal, and whether to monitor a system information update of the paging terminal group associated with the terminal; and

the paging terminal group associated with the terminal is at least one of paging terminal groups that are associated with at least one of the N paging occasions.

4 . The paging indication method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

obtaining, by the terminal, first configuration information related to the N paging occasions from the paging early indication information, wherein the paging early indication information further indicates the first configuration information, or

obtaining, by the terminal, second configuration information, wherein the second configuration information is configured by a network side and/or specified by a protocol; and

obtaining, by the terminal, the first configuration information from the second configuration information;

wherein the second configuration information comprises at least one of the following: a minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and a second paging occasion of the N paging occasions, a time-domain position of the paging early indication information, a frequency-domain position of the paging early indication information, the value of N, a candidate value of N, a value of the number W of paging terminal groups associated with the paging occasion, and an indication relationship between the paging early indication information and the paging occasion.

5 . The paging indication method according to claim 4 , wherein the first configuration information comprises at least one of the following: a minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and a first paging occasion of the N paging occasions, a value of N, and indexes of the N paging occasions.

6 . The paging indication method according to claim 4 , wherein the time-domain position of the paging early indication information satisfies at least one of the following:

the time-domain position of the paging early indication information is prior to the N paging occasions and satisfies the minimum time interval;

a start time point of the time-domain position of the paging early indication information is a time-domain end time point of a synchronization signal block; and

an end time point of the time-domain position of the paging early indication information is a time-domain start time point of a synchronization signal block.

7 . The paging indication method according to claim 4 , wherein:

the indication relationship comprises any one of the following: each paging early indication information indicates at least one paging occasion and paging occasions indicated by different paging early indication information are at least partially same, or a same paging occasion is able to be indicated only by same paging early indication information; and

the first content indicated by the same paging early indication information is the same.

8 . The paging indication method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

in a case that a plurality of pieces of paging early indication information with inconsistent first content are received, determining, by the terminal, that the paging early indication information is invalid;

wherein the plurality of pieces of paging early indication information with inconsistent first content indicate the same N paging occasions.

9 . The paging indication method according to claim 1 , wherein an indication manner of the first content comprises at least one of the following: a bitmap or a bit string.

10 . A terminal, comprising:

at least one hardware processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and capable of running on the at least one hardware processor that, when executed, direct the at least one hardware processor to implement:

obtaining, by the terminal, paging early indication information carried by downlink control information (DCI), wherein the paging early indication information indicates first content; and

determining, by the terminal, the first content based on the paging early indication information; wherein

the first content comprises: a monitoring behavior in N paging occasions subsequent to the paging early indication information, and whether a first signal is available, the first signal being a tracking reference signal/channel state information reference signal (TRS/CSI-RS); wherein:

N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1,

the DCI comprises N+1 information blocks, and the N+1 information blocks comprise N information blocks corresponding to monitoring behaviors in the N paging occasions respectively and one information block indicating whether the first signal is available, and

indication fields for indicating the first content in the paging early indication information are arranged in a preset arrangement order; wherein the preset arrangement order comprises at least one of the following: being arranged based on paging occasions associated with the paging early indication information, being arranged based on content type of the first content, or being arranged in ascending or descending order of values of N.

11 . The terminal according to claim 10 , wherein:

each of the N paging occasions is associated with W paging terminal groups; wherein W is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, and

the N information blocks in the DCI indicate, by means of a bitmap, monitoring behaviors for N×W paging terminal groups in the N paging occasions.

12 . The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein:

the monitoring behavior comprises at least one of the following: whether to monitor a paging PDCCH of a paging terminal group associated with the terminal, whether to monitor paging of the paging terminal group associated with the terminal, and whether to monitor a system information update of the paging terminal group associated with the terminal; and

the paging terminal group associated with the terminal is at least one of paging terminal groups that are associated with at least one of the N paging occasions.

13 . The terminal according to claim 10 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further directed to implement:

obtaining, by the terminal, first configuration information related to the N paging occasions from the paging early indication information, wherein the paging early indication information further indicates the first configuration information, or

obtaining, by the terminal, second configuration information, wherein the second configuration information is configured by a network side and/or specified by a protocol; and obtaining, by the terminal, the first configuration information from the second configuration information; wherein

the second configuration information comprises at least one of the following: a minimum time interval between the paging early indication information and a second paging occasion of the N paging occasions, a time-domain position of the paging early indication information, a frequency-domain position of the paging early indication information, the value of N, a candidate value of N, a value of the number W of paging terminal groups associated with the paging occasion, and an indication relationship between the paging early indication information and the paging occasion.

14 . The terminal according to claim 10 , wherein an indication manner of the first content comprises at least one of the following: a bitmap or a bit string.

15 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program or instructions executable by at least one hardware processor that, when executed, direct the at least one hardware processor to implement:

obtaining, by a terminal, paging early indication information carried by downlink control information (DCI), wherein the paging early indication information indicates first content; and

determining, by the terminal, the first content based on the paging early indication information; wherein

the first content comprises: a monitoring behavior in N paging occasions subsequent to the paging early indication information, and whether a first signal is available, the first signal being a tracking reference signal/channel state information reference signal TRS/CSI-RS); wherein:

N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1,

the DCI comprises N+1 information blocks, and the N+1 information blocks comprise N information blocks corresponding to monitoring behaviors in the N paging occasions respectively and one information block indicating whether the first signal is available, and

indication fields for indicating the first content in the paging early indication information are arranged in a preset arrangement order; wherein the preset arrangement order comprises at least one of the following: being arranged based on paging occasions associated with the paging early indication information, being arranged based on content type of the first content, or being arranged in ascending or descending order of values of N.

16 . The paging indication method according to claim 5 , wherein:

the minimum time interval in the first configuration information is greater than or equal to a transmission period of K synchronization signal blocks, wherein K is a positive integer greater than 0; or

the minimum time interval in the first configuration information is related to at least one of channel quality of a serving cell, signal strength, coverage performance, terminal location, and terminal moving rate.