Information sending and receiving method and communications device for reducing energy consumption of a terminal device
Embodiments of this application provide an information sending and receiving method and a communications device. The method includes: A network device configures first information. The first information includes a first field and/or a second field, the first field includes information indicating an energy saving state of a terminal device, and the second field includes information indicating a time length in which the terminal device maintains the energy saving state. Then, the network device sends the first information to the terminal device. In addition, the method includes: The terminal device receives the first information sent by the network device. Then, the terminal device reads the first field and/or the second field, and adjusts the energy saving state of the terminal device based on information obtained through reading. The technical solution provided in the embodiments of this application can reduce energy consumption of the terminal device to some extent.
1. An information sending method, comprising:
configuring, by a network device, first information, wherein
the first information comprises:
a first field, and
a second field, wherein
the first field includes information indicating an energy saving state of a terminal device and the information included in the first field enables the terminal device to adjust the energy saving state to a wake-up state or a sleep state, and
the second field includes information indicating a time length in which the terminal device maintains the energy saving state; and
sending, by the network device, the first information to the terminal device, wherein
the first information is in downlink control information format 2-2,
content of the second field is determined based on a time period in which the network device sends data to the terminal device, and
the content of the second field is determined based on the time period in which the network device stops sending data to the terminal device.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein
the first field is a frequency domain resource allocation field in the first information.
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein
the second field is a frequency domain resource allocation field in the first information.
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the time length information includes:
one or more slots;
one or more subframes;
one or more pieces of on duration; or
one or more physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasions.
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first information further comprises at least:
a bandwidth part indicator field, a sounding reference signal request field, a transmit power control command for a preset physical uplink shared channel field, and an antenna port(s) field.
6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the network device, offset duration offset information sent by the terminal device, wherein the offset duration offset information indicates information about a time length between a receiving moment at which the terminal device receives the first information and a preset moment, and the preset moment is the first slot or the first subframe in which the terminal device enters on duration in a discontinuous reception state.
7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the network device, capability information sent by the terminal device, wherein the capability information is used to indicate whether the terminal device has an energy saving working mode.
8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
sending, by the network device, second information to the terminal device, wherein the second information is used to indicate whether the terminal device switches to an energy saving working mode.
9. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
sending, by the network device, third information to the terminal device, wherein the third information is associated with the terminal device being in the sleep state or the wake-up state.
10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the third information includes at least one of a radio resource control (RRC) message, a media access control control element (MAC CE) message, and downlink control information (DCI).
11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first information is downlink control information (DCI).
12. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein all or some values of the first field are used to indicate the energy saving state information of the terminal device; or
wherein all or some bits of the second field are used to indicate the information about the time length in which the terminal device maintains the energy saving state.
13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein all or some values of the second field are used to indicate the information about the time length in which the terminal device maintains the energy saving state.
14. An information receiving method, comprising:
receiving, by a terminal device, first information sent by a network device, wherein
the first information comprises:
a first field, and
a second field, wherein
the first field includes information indicating an energy saving state of the terminal device,
the second field includes information indicating a time length in which the terminal device maintains the energy saving state,
content of the second field is determined based on a time period in which the network device sends data to the terminal device, and
the content of the second field is determined based on the time period in which the network device stops sending data to the terminal device;
obtaining, by the terminal device, at least one of the energy saving state information and the time length information based on the first information; and
adjusting, by the terminal device, the energy saving state of the terminal device, to a wake-up state or a sleep state, based on the at least one of the energy saving state information and the time length information.
15. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the first field includes:
a frequency domain resource allocation field in the first information; or
a downlink control information format (DCI) format 2-2.
16. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the second field includes:
a frequency domain resource allocation field in the first information; or
the first information is in a downlink control information (DCI) format 2-2.
17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium configured to store computer readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to provide execution comprising:
configuring first information, wherein
the first information comprises:
a first field, and
a second field, wherein
the first field includes information indicating an energy saving state of a terminal device and the information included in the first field enables the terminal device to adjust the energy saving state to a wake-up state or a sleep state,
the second field includes information indicating a time length in which the terminal device maintains the energy saving state,
content of the second field is determined based on a time period in which a network device sends data to the terminal device, and
the content of the second field is determined based on the time period in which the network device stops sending data to the terminal device; and
sending the first information to the terminal device.
18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 17 , wherein
the first information is in a downlink control information format (DCI) format 2-2.