Control channel monitoring method and device, terminal, base station and storage medium
View Patent ↗Provided are a control channel monitoring method and device, a terminal, a base station and a storage medium. The method includes: determining a monitoring slot group for control channel monitoring, and the monitoring slot group is used for characterizing a slot group capable of sharing control channel monitoring capability under a specified slot condition; determining a search space of the monitoring slot group; and monitoring control channels indicated by the search space. Therefore, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, control channels are monitored by taking a monitoring slot group as a unit, and a problem that a terminal is unable to complete the process of receiving and configuring control signaling in a corresponding time slot due to the increase in an SCS is avoided, and the complexity of the terminal to monitor control channels is also reduced.
1 . A method for monitoring control channels, performed by a terminal, comprising:
determining a monitoring slot group for control channel monitoring, wherein the monitoring slot group is used for characterizing a slot group capable of sharing, under a specified slot condition, control channel monitoring capability, and the control channel monitoring capability shared by the slot group comprises a maximum number of control channel candidates corresponding to the slot group or a maximum number of control channel elements (CCEs) corresponding to the slot group;
determining a search space of the monitoring slot group; and
monitoring control channels indicated by the search space.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the specified slot condition comprises that a sub-carrier spacing (SCS) of each control channel is greater than 120 KHz; and the sharing control channel monitoring capability is used for characterizing a control channel monitoring capability corresponding to more than one slots.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining a monitoring slot group for control channel monitoring comprises:
determining first configuration information for the monitoring slot group according to an interface protocol between a first node and a second node, and determining the monitoring slot group according to the first configuration information; or
receiving the first configuration information indicated by a base station, and determining the monitoring slot group according to the first configuration information.
4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the first configuration information comprises at least one of:
a number of slots included in the monitoring slot group;
a maximum number of control channel candidates in the monitoring slot group; or
a maximum number of control channel elements (CCEs) in the monitoring slot group.
5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the first configuration information further satisfies at least one of:
the number of slots is associated with the SCS;
the maximum number of control channel candidates is associated with the SCS; or
the maximum number of CCEs is associated with the SCS;
wherein the number of slots is 4 in case that the SCS is 480 KHz; and the number of slots is 8 in case that the SCS is 960 KHz;
the maximum number of candidate control channels increases as SCS increases, or the maximum candidate control channel number remains unchanged as SCS increases;
the maximum number of CCEs increases as SCS increases, or the maximum number of CCEs remains unchanged as SCS increases.
6 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the number of slots is determined based on a ratio of the SCS to a preset reference SCS.
7 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the monitoring control channels indicated by the search space comprises:
monitoring control channels indicated by the search space when a number of control channels to be monitored is not greater than the maximum number of control channel candidates.
8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining the search space of the monitoring slot group comprises:
determining second configuration information for the search space according to an interface protocol between a first node and a second node, and determining the search space according to the second configuration information; or
receiving the second configuration information indicated by a base station, and determining the search space according to the second configuration information.
9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the second configuration information comprises:
first indication information, used for indicating a monitoring slot group with a control channel monitoring occasion;
second indication information, used for indicating that the control channel monitoring occasion is at a designated position in the monitoring slot group, wherein the designated position comprises one designated slot or a plurality of designated slots in the monitoring slot group, and a symbol of value 1 in a string monitoringslotWithinSlotgroupBITSTRING indicates the designated slot; and
an offset of start position of the monitoring slot group, wherein the offset of start position is used for indicating respective slots included in the monitoring slot group.
10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the monitoring control channels indicated by the search space comprises:
monitoring the control channels at one designated slot or the plurality of designated slots in the monitoring slot group.
11 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving or transmitting a shared data channel according to one or more monitored control information after the control channel monitoring within all search spaces in the monitoring slot group has been completed.
12 . A method for monitoring control channels, performed by a base station, comprising:
determining a monitoring slot group for control channel monitoring, wherein the monitoring slot group is used for characterizing a slot group capable of sharing, under a specified slot condition, control channel monitoring capability, and the control channel monitoring capability shared by the slot group comprises a maximum number of control channel candidates corresponding to the slot group or a maximum number of control channel elements (CCEs) corresponding to the slot group;
determining a search space of the monitoring slot group; and
transmitting control channels indicated by the search space for indicating a terminal to monitor the control channels indicated by the search space.
13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the specified slot condition comprises that a sub-carrier spacing (SCS) of each control channel is greater than 120 KHz; and
the sharing control channel monitoring capability is used for characterizing a control channel monitoring capability corresponding to more than one slots.
14 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the determining a monitoring slot group for control channel monitoring comprises:
determining first configuration information for the monitoring slot group according to an interface protocol between a first node and a second node, and
determining the monitoring slot group according to the first configuration information.
15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the first configuration information comprises at least one of:
a number of slots included in the monitoring slot group;
a maximum number of control channel candidates in the monitoring slot group; or
a maximum number of control channel elements (CCEs) in the monitoring slot group;
the number of slots is 4 in case that the SCS is 480 KHz; and the number of slots is 8 in case that the SCS is 960 KHz;
the maximum number of candidate control channels increases as SCS increases, or the maximum candidate control channel number remains unchanged as SCS increases;
the maximum number of CCEs increases as SCS increases, or the maximum number of CCEs remains unchanged as SCS increases.
16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the number of slots is determined based on a ratio of the SCS to a preset reference SCS.
17 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the determining the search space of the monitoring slot group comprises:
determining second configuration information for the search space according to an interface protocol between a first node and a second node; and
determining the search space according to the second configuration information;
wherein the second configuration information comprises:
first indication information, used for indicating a monitoring slot group with a control channel monitoring occasion;
second indication information, used for indicating that the control channel monitoring occasion is at a designated position in the monitoring slot group, wherein the designated position comprises one designated slot or a plurality of designated slots in the monitoring slot group, and a symbol of value 1 in a string monitoringslotWithinSlotgroupBITSTRING indicates the designated slot;
an offset of start position of the monitoring slot group, wherein the offset of start position is used for indicating respective slots included in the monitoring slot group;
wherein the transmitting the control channels indicated by the search space comprises:
transmitting the control channels at one designated slot or the plurality of designated slots in the monitoring slot group.
18 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the transmitting the control channels indicated by the search space comprises:
transmitting control information within one or more search spaces in the monitoring slot group for indicating the terminal to receive or transmit a shared data channel according to the one or more monitored control information after the control channel monitoring within all search spaces in the monitoring slot group has been completed.
19 . A terminal, comprising a processor and a memory storing a program that is executable by the processor, wherein the program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform the following steps:
determining a monitoring slot group for control channel monitoring, wherein the monitoring slot group is used for characterizing a slot group capable of sharing, under a specified slot condition, control channel monitoring capability, and the control channel monitoring capability shared by the slot group comprises a maximum number of control channel candidates corresponding to the slot group or a maximum number of control channel elements (CCEs) corresponding to the slot group;
determining a search space of the monitoring slot group; and
monitoring control channels indicated by the search space.
20 . A base station, comprising a memory, a processor and a memory storing a program that is executable by the processor, wherein the program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform the steps of claim 12 .