CN115413034A

CN115413034A - Communication method and device

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Publication number: CN115413034A
Application number: CN202110594400.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 宣一荻; 谢信乾; 郭志恒
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-05-28
Filing date: 2021-05-28
Publication date: 2022-11-29
Also published as: WO2022247888A1

Abstract

The application relates to a communication method and device. The method comprises the steps that terminal equipment determines available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, wherein the first time period comprises a plurality of time units; and sending first indication information to network equipment, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating the available uplink transmission energy. Therefore, the terminal equipment sends the available uplink sending energy in the first time period to the network equipment, so that the problem that the network equipment schedules the terminal equipment with insufficient available uplink sending energy is avoided, and on one hand, the uplink resource waste caused by unnecessary terminal equipment scheduling by the network equipment can be reduced; on the other hand, the situation that the transmission of the uplink signal fails due to insufficient energy of the terminal equipment can be reduced, and the uplink coverage and the uplink rate of the terminal equipment are improved.

Description

Communication method and device

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of wireless communication technologies, and in particular, to a communication method and apparatus.

Background

Currently, wireless communication systems are widely deployed to provide various types of communication such as voice services, data services, and so on. In some scenarios, for example, scenarios such as drone, 4K high definition live, etc., there are requirements for uplink coverage and transmission rate. In uplink transmission, uplink power control is a technique that can achieve better coverage and transmission rate. For example, for terminal devices (or called edge users) farther from the base station, the path loss of the terminal devices is larger, and the edge users can use larger transmission power than the terminal devices (or called center users) closer to the base station, so as to compensate the path loss caused by long-distance transmission, and enable the edge users to obtain better uplink coverage and transmission rate performance.

In order to improve uplink coverage and transmission rate, the terminal device configured with a high-power amplifier (or called power amplifier) can send a signal at the maximum transmission power specified by the standard in a short time, so that the transmission rate of the terminal device is improved when the terminal device is located at the edge of a cell or a large data packet exists for transmission through instantaneous high-power sending, and further the user experience is improved. However, after the terminal device transmits with the instantaneous high power for a period of time, the energy available for uplink transmission by the terminal device may be insufficient, and when the network device continues to schedule the terminal device to transmit an uplink signal, a situation that the terminal device fails to transmit the uplink signal due to the insufficient energy of the uplink transmission may occur, which affects uplink coverage and uplink transmission rate.

Therefore, how to further improve the uplink coverage and transmission rate still needs further research.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a communication method and a communication device, which are used for improving uplink coverage and transmission rate.

In a first aspect, a communication method is provided, which is applied to a terminal device or a chip inside the terminal device. In the method, a terminal device determines available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, wherein the first time period comprises a plurality of time units; and sending first indication information to the network equipment, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating available uplink transmission energy.

Therefore, the terminal equipment can send the available uplink sending energy in the first time period to the network equipment, so that the problem that the network equipment schedules the terminal equipment with insufficient available uplink sending energy is avoided, and on one hand, the uplink resource waste caused by unnecessary terminal equipment scheduling by the network equipment can be reduced; on the other hand, the situation that the transmission of the uplink signal fails due to insufficient energy of the terminal equipment can be reduced, and the uplink coverage and the uplink rate of the terminal equipment are improved.

In one possible implementation, the available uplink transmission energy is energy used for uplink signal transmission in a first time period of a time window; wherein,

the time window is a time period when the average value of the transmitting power of the terminal equipment does not exceed a first threshold value, and the average value of the transmitting power is the average value of the transmitting power of each time unit in the time window; and/or the presence of a gas in the atmosphere,

the time window is a time period in which the terminal equipment can use the uplink signal transmitted by the transmission power higher than the preset maximum transmission power; and/or the presence of a gas in the atmosphere,

and in the time window, the energy used by the terminal equipment for transmitting the uplink signal does not exceed a second threshold value.

In one possible implementation, the first threshold may be a protocol preset; alternatively, the network device may be configured according to higher layer signaling, where the higher layer signaling may be a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message, a media access control element (MAC CE), or Downlink Control Information (DCI).

In one possible implementation, the preset maximum transmit power may be the maximum transmit power of the terminal device specified in the standard, for example 23dBm, 26dBm, or 14dBm.

In a possible implementation manner, the first indication information is available uplink transmission energy, or an index of the available uplink transmission energy, or an average transmission power of the uplink signal transmitted in the first time period, or an index of the average transmission power of the uplink signal transmitted in the first time period.

In a possible implementation manner, the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period is a ratio of the available uplink transmission energy to the number of all time units included in the first time period, or the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period is an average value of the transmission powers for transmitting the uplink signal in all time units included in the first time period.

In this way, the available uplink transmission energy or the average transmission power of the uplink transmission signal in the first time period is indicated in an index manner, thereby reducing signaling overhead.

In a possible implementation manner, when the first indication information is an index of available uplink transmission energy, the method further includes:

determining an index of available uplink transmission energy according to the available uplink transmission energy and a first corresponding relation, wherein the first corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the available uplink transmission energy and the index of the available uplink transmission energy;

when the first indication information is an index of average transmission power of the uplink signal sent in the first time period, the method further includes:

and determining an index of the average transmitting power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period according to the available uplink transmitting energy and a second corresponding relation, wherein the second corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the average transmitting power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period and the index of the average transmitting power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period.

In a possible implementation manner, the first corresponding relationship and/or the second corresponding relationship may be protocol preset; or, the network device may be configured according to higher layer signaling, where the higher layer signaling may be a radio resource control RRC message, or a MAC CE.

In a possible implementation manner, the first indication information is carried in a MAC CE; alternatively, the first indication information is Uplink Control Information (UCI).

In one possible implementation, the MAC CE includes a first field and a second field, wherein,

the first field is reserved bits, and the second field indicates first indication information; or,

when the first field is a first state value, the second field indicates first indication information, and when the first field is a second state value, the second field indicates a power headroom level; or,

the first field indicates a power headroom level, and the second field indicates first indication information.

In a possible implementation manner, the MAC sub-header corresponding to the MAC CE includes a Logical Channel Identifier (LCID), where the LCID is a preset value, and the preset value is used to indicate that the MAC CE is used to report the first indication information.

In one possible implementation, the length of the first indication information is 6 bits, or 7 bits, or 8 bits.

In one possible implementation, the UCI is carried on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) or a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).

In one possible implementation, the method further includes:

receiving indication information of physical uplink channel resources from network equipment;

sending first indication information to the network device, including: sending first indication information to the network equipment on the physical uplink channel resource; and the physical uplink channel resources are Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resources and/or Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources.

In a possible implementation manner, a starting time unit of the first time period is a time unit for the terminal device to send the first indication information; or the starting time unit of the first time period is k time units after the time unit of the third indication information from the network equipment is received, the third indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report the first indication information, wherein k is a natural number; or,

the starting time unit of the first time period is determined according to configuration information sent by the network equipment.

In a possible implementation manner, the ending time unit of the first time period is a time unit corresponding to the ending position of the time window; alternatively, the expiration time unit of the first time period is determined according to configuration information transmitted by the network device.

In one possible implementation, the method further includes: configuration information is received from the network device, the configuration information including location information for the first time period and/or location information for the time window.

In one possible implementation, the method further includes: triggering the reporting process of the first indication information according to at least one of the following first trigger events:

the configured timer used for triggering the reporting of the first indication information is overtime;

the configured first report prohibiting timer is overtime, and the first report prohibiting timer is used for prohibiting the report of the first indication information during the timing period of the first report prohibiting timer;

the available uplink transmission energy in the first time period is less than a third threshold;

the interval between the current time unit and the time unit of the last transmission of the first indication information is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold value.

In a possible implementation manner, at least one of the timer for triggering reporting of the first indication information, the first report prohibition timer, the third threshold, and the fourth threshold may be configured by the network device through an RRC message.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication method, which is applied to a network device or may also be applied to a chip inside the network device. In the method, network equipment sends indication information of physical uplink channel resources to terminal equipment; receiving first indication information from a terminal device on a physical uplink channel resource, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating that the terminal device can use uplink transmission energy in a first time period, and the first time period comprises a plurality of time units; and the physical uplink channel resources are Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resources and/or Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources.

the time window is a time period when the average value of the transmitting power of the terminal equipment does not exceed a first threshold value, and the average value of the transmitting power is the average value of the transmitting power of each time unit in the time window; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

the time window is a time period in which the terminal equipment can use the uplink signal transmitted by the transmission power higher than the preset maximum transmission power; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

and the energy used by the terminal equipment for sending the uplink signal in the time window does not exceed a second threshold value.

In one possible implementation, the first threshold may be a protocol preset; or, the network device may be configured according to higher layer signaling, where the higher layer signaling may be RRC message, or MAC CE.

In a possible implementation manner, the first indication information is available uplink transmission energy, or an index of the available uplink transmission energy, or an average transmission power of an uplink signal transmitted in the first time period, or an index of the average transmission power of the uplink signal transmitted in the first time period.

and determining the available uplink transmission energy according to the index of the available uplink transmission energy and a first corresponding relation, wherein the first corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the available uplink transmission energy and the index of the available uplink transmission energy.

and determining the available uplink transmission energy according to the index of the average transmission power of the uplink signals transmitted in the first time period and a second corresponding relation, wherein the second corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the average transmission power of the uplink signals transmitted in the first time period and the index of the average transmission power of the uplink signals transmitted in the first time period.

In a possible implementation manner, the terminal device determines the average transmission power of the uplink signal sent in the first time period according to the index of the average transmission power of the uplink signal sent in the first time period and the second corresponding relationship; and determining the available uplink transmission energy according to the determined average transmission power and the number of all time units included in the first time period.

In a possible implementation manner, the first time period is sent to the network device by the terminal device, or the first time period is determined by the network device itself.

Therefore, the network device can directly or indirectly obtain the available uplink transmission energy of the terminal device according to the first indication information, so that the terminal device with insufficient scheduling energy is avoided, and resource waste caused by unnecessary scheduling of the terminal device is reduced.

In a possible implementation manner, the first indication information is carried in a MAC CE; or, the first indication information is uplink control information UCI.

the first field is reserved bits, and the second field indicates the first indication information; or,

a first field indicates a power headroom level and a second field indicates the first indication information.

In one possible implementation, the UCI is carried on a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH or a physical uplink control channel PUCCH.

In one possible implementation, the method further includes:

determining target resources in a first time period according to the first indication information, wherein the target resources are used for sending uplink signals by the terminal equipment; or, according to the first indication information, determining that the resource in the first time period is not used for the terminal equipment to send the uplink signal.

Therefore, the network device can determine whether to schedule the terminal device in the first time period and target resources when the terminal device is scheduled according to the first indication information, so that the network device is prevented from scheduling the terminal device with insufficient available uplink transmission energy, and the waste of network device resources can be reduced.

With regard to the technical effects brought about by the partially optional embodiments of the second aspect, reference may be made to the introduction of the technical effects of the first aspect or the respective embodiments of the first aspect.

In a third aspect, a communication method is provided, which is applied to a terminal device or may also be applied to a chip inside the terminal device. In the method, terminal equipment determines the length of available uplink transmission time; sending second indication information to the network equipment, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating the available uplink sending time length; the available uplink transmission time length is the number of time units capable of transmitting uplink signals, which is determined by the terminal device based on available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, the first time period includes a plurality of time units, and the available uplink transmission energy is energy used for uplink signal transmission.

Therefore, the terminal equipment can send the available uplink time length to the network equipment so as to indicate the network equipment to set available uplink sending energy by the terminal equipment, and the scheduling of the terminal equipment with insufficient available uplink sending energy by the network equipment is avoided, so that on one hand, the uplink resource waste caused by the scheduling of unnecessary terminal equipment by the network equipment can be reduced; on the other hand, the situation that the transmission of the uplink signal fails due to insufficient energy of the terminal equipment can be reduced, and the uplink coverage and the uplink rate of the terminal equipment are improved.

In one possible implementation, the available uplink transmission energy is energy used for uplink signal transmission in a first time period of a time window, wherein,

the time window is a time period in which the terminal equipment can use the uplink signal transmitted by the transmission power higher than the preset maximum transmission power; and/or the energy used by the terminal device for uplink signal transmission in the time window does not exceed the second threshold.

In a possible implementation manner, the second indication information is an available uplink transmission time length, or an index of the available uplink transmission time length, or a ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to a preset time period length, or an index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time period length.

Therefore, the available uplink transmission time length is indicated or the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length is indicated in an index mode, and therefore signaling overhead is reduced.

In one possible implementation, the preset time period is a time window; or, the preset time period is a first time period in the time window.

In one possible implementation manner, the available uplink transmission time length is the number of time units capable of transmitting the uplink signal at the first preset power based on the available uplink transmission energy in the first time period.

In one possible implementation, the first preset power value may be a maximum transmission power of the terminal device specified in the standard, for example, 23dBm, 26dBm, or 14dBm.

In a possible implementation manner, when the second indication information is an index of an available uplink transmission time length, the method further includes: determining an index of the available uplink transmission time length according to the available uplink transmission time length and a third corresponding relation, wherein the third corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the available uplink transmission time length and the index of the available uplink transmission time length; when the second indication information is an index of a ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length, the method further includes: and determining an index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length according to the available uplink transmission time length and a fourth corresponding relationship, wherein the fourth corresponding relationship is the corresponding relationship between the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length and the index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length.

In a possible implementation manner, the third corresponding relationship and/or the fourth corresponding relationship may be preset by a protocol; or, the network device may be configured according to higher layer signaling, where the higher layer signaling may be a radio resource control RRC message, or a MAC CE.

In a possible implementation manner, the second indication information is carried in the mac unit; or, the second indication information is uplink control information UCI.

In one possible implementation, the MAC CE includes a third field and a fourth field, wherein,

the third field is reserved bits, and the fourth field indicates second indication information; or,

when the third field is the first state value, the fourth field indicates second indication information; when the third field is a second state value, the fourth field indicates the power headroom level; or,

the third field indicates a power headroom level, and the fourth field indicates second indication information.

In a possible implementation manner, the MAC subheader corresponding to the MAC CE includes a Logical Channel Identifier (LCID), where the LCID is a preset value, and the preset value is used to indicate that the MAC CE is used to report the second indication information.

In one possible implementation, the length of the second indication information is 6 bits, or 7 bits or 8 bits.

In one possible implementation, the method further includes:

sending second indication information to the network device, including: sending second indication information to the network equipment on the physical uplink channel resource; and the physical uplink channel resources are Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resources and/or Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources.

In a possible implementation manner, the starting time unit of the first time period is a time unit for sending the second indication information by the terminal device; or the starting time unit of the first time period is m time units after the time unit of the fifth indication information from the network equipment is received, the fifth indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report the second indication information, wherein m is a natural number; alternatively, the starting time unit of the first time period is determined according to configuration information sent by the network device.

In one possible implementation, the method further includes: and triggering the reporting process of the second indication information according to at least one second triggering event as follows:

the configured timer used for triggering the report of the second indication information is overtime;

the configured second report prohibiting timer is overtime, and the second report prohibiting timer is used for prohibiting the report of the second indication information during the timing period of the second report prohibiting timer;

the length of the available uplink transmission time in the first time period is less than a fifth threshold;

the interval between the current time unit and the time unit at which the second indication information was last transmitted is greater than or equal to a sixth threshold.

In a possible implementation manner, at least one of the timer for triggering reporting of the second indication information, the second report prohibition timer, the fifth threshold, and the sixth threshold may be configured by the network device through an RRC message.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a communication method, which is applied to a network device or may also be applied to a chip inside the network device. In the method, network equipment sends indication information of physical uplink channel resources to terminal equipment;

receiving second indication information sent by the terminal equipment on the physical uplink channel resource, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating the available uplink sending time length; the available uplink transmission time length is the number of time units which can transmit uplink signals and are determined by the terminal device based on available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, the first time period comprises a plurality of time units, the available uplink transmission energy is energy used for transmitting the uplink signals, and the physical uplink channel resources are Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resources and/or Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources.

In a possible implementation manner, the second indication information is the available uplink sending time length, or an index of the available uplink sending time length, or a ratio of the available uplink sending time length to a preset time period, or an index of a ratio of the available uplink sending time length to a preset time period.

In a possible implementation manner, when the second indication information is an index of an available uplink transmission time length, the method further includes: determining the available uplink transmission time length according to the index of the available uplink transmission time length and a third corresponding relation, wherein the third corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the available uplink transmission time length and the index of the available uplink transmission time length; when the second indication information is an index of a ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length, the method further includes: and determining the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length according to the index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length and a fourth corresponding relationship, wherein the fourth corresponding relationship is the corresponding relationship between the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length and the index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length.

when the third field is the first state value, the fourth field indicates second indication information; when the first field is a second state value, the fourth field indicates the power headroom level; or,

In one possible implementation, the method further includes:

determining target resources in the first time period according to the second indication information, wherein the target resources are used for sending uplink signals by the terminal equipment; or, according to the second indication information, determining that the resource in the first time period is not used for the terminal equipment to send the uplink signal.

Therefore, the network device can determine whether to schedule the terminal device in the first time period and target resources when the terminal device is scheduled according to the second indication information, so that the network device is prevented from scheduling the terminal device with insufficient available uplink transmission energy, and the waste of network device resources can be reduced.

With regard to the fourth aspect or various alternative embodiments and technical effects of the fourth aspect, reference may be made to the above description of the technical effects of the respective embodiments with regard to the third aspect.

In a fifth aspect, a communication apparatus is provided, where the communication apparatus may be a terminal device or a chip disposed inside the terminal device. In the apparatus, comprising:

a processing unit, configured to determine available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, where the first time period includes multiple time units;

and the transceiver unit is used for sending first indication information to the network equipment, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating the available uplink transmission energy.

In a possible implementation manner, the processing unit is further configured to, when the first indication information is an index of available uplink transmission energy, determine an index of the available uplink transmission energy according to the available uplink transmission energy and a first corresponding relationship, where the first corresponding relationship is a corresponding relationship between the available uplink transmission energy and the index of the available uplink transmission energy;

when the first indication information is an index of the average transmission power of the uplink signal transmitted in the first time period,

In one possible implementation manner, the length of the first indication information is 6 bits, or 7 bits, or 8 bits.

In a possible implementation manner, the transceiver unit is further configured to receive indication information of physical uplink channel resources from the network device;

the transceiver unit is specifically configured to send first indication information to the network device on the physical uplink channel resource; and the physical uplink channel resources are Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resources and/or Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources.

In a possible implementation manner, a starting time unit of the first time period is a time unit for sending the first indication information by the terminal device; or the starting time unit of the first time period is k time units after the time unit of the third indication information from the network equipment is received, the third indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report the first indication information, wherein k is a natural number; or,

In a possible implementation manner, the transceiving unit is further configured to receive configuration information from the network device, where the configuration information includes location information of the first time period and/or location information of the time window.

In a possible implementation manner, the processing unit is further configured to trigger a reporting process of the first indication information according to at least one of the following first trigger events:

With regard to the fifth aspect or various alternative embodiments and technical effects of the fifth aspect, reference may be made to the above description of the technical effects of the respective embodiments with regard to the first aspect.

In a sixth aspect, a communication apparatus is provided, where the communication apparatus may be a network device or a chip disposed inside the network device. In the apparatus, comprising:

a receiving and sending unit, configured to send indication information of physical uplink channel resources to a terminal device;

the transceiver unit is further configured to receive first indication information from the terminal device on the physical uplink channel resource, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device may use uplink transmission energy in a first time period, and the first time period includes multiple time units; and the physical uplink channel resources are Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resources and/or Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources.

In a possible implementation manner, the processing unit is configured to determine, according to an index of average transmission power for sending the uplink signal in the first time period and the second correspondence, the average transmission power for sending the uplink signal in the first time period; and determining the available uplink transmission energy according to the determined average transmission power and the number of all time units included in the first time period.

In a possible implementation, the apparatus further comprises a processing unit,

the processing unit is configured to determine the available uplink transmission energy according to the index of the available uplink transmission energy and a first corresponding relationship when the first indication information is the index of the available uplink transmission energy, where the first corresponding relationship is a corresponding relationship between the available uplink transmission energy and the index of the available uplink transmission energy.

The processing unit is further configured to, when the first indication information is an index of average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period, determine available uplink transmission energy according to the index of average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period and a second corresponding relationship, where the second corresponding relationship is a corresponding relationship between the index of average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period and the index of average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period.

In a possible implementation manner, the first corresponding relationship and/or the second corresponding relationship may be protocol preset; or, the network device may be configured according to higher layer signaling, wherein the higher layer signaling may be a radio resource control RRC message, or a MAC CE.

In a possible implementation manner, the MAC subheader corresponding to the MAC CE includes a Logical Channel Identifier (LCID), where the LCID is a preset value, and the preset value is used to indicate that the MAC CE is used to report the first indication information.

In a possible implementation manner, the processing unit is further configured to determine, according to the first indication information, a target resource in a first time period, where the target resource is used for the terminal device to send an uplink signal; or, according to the first indication information, determining that the resource in the first time period is not used for the terminal equipment to send the uplink signal.

With regard to the sixth aspect or various alternative embodiments and technical effects of the sixth aspect, reference may be made to the above description of the technical effects of the respective embodiments with regard to the second aspect.

In a seventh aspect, a communication apparatus is provided, where the communication apparatus may be a terminal device or a chip disposed inside the terminal device. In the apparatus, comprising:

the processing unit is used for determining the length of the available uplink transmission time;

the receiving and sending unit is used for sending second indication information to the network equipment, and the second indication information is used for indicating the available uplink sending time length;

the available uplink transmission time length is the number of time units capable of transmitting uplink signals, which is determined by the terminal device based on available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, the first time period includes a plurality of time units, and the available uplink transmission energy is energy used for uplink signal transmission.

In a possible implementation manner, the second indication information is the available uplink transmission time length, or an index of the available uplink transmission time length, or a ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to a preset time period length, or an index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time period length.

In a possible implementation manner, the processing unit is further configured to, when the second indication information is an index of the available uplink transmission time length, determine the index of the available uplink transmission time length according to the available uplink transmission time length and a third corresponding relationship, where the third corresponding relationship is a corresponding relationship between the available uplink transmission time length and the index of the available uplink transmission time length;

and when the second indication information is an index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length, determining an index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length according to the available uplink transmission time length and a fourth corresponding relationship, wherein the fourth corresponding relationship is the corresponding relationship between the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length and the index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length.

In a possible implementation manner, the third corresponding relationship and/or the fourth corresponding relationship may be preset by a protocol; or, the network device may be configured according to higher layer signaling, wherein the higher layer signaling may be a radio resource control RRC message, or a MAC CE.

In a possible implementation manner, the transceiver unit is further configured to receive indication information of physical uplink channel resources from the network device; sending second indication information to the network equipment on the physical uplink channel resource;

the physical uplink channel resource is a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resource and/or a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource.

In a possible implementation manner, the starting time unit of the first time period is a time unit for sending the second indication information by the terminal device; or the starting time unit of the first time period is m time units after the time unit of the fifth indication information from the network equipment is received, the fifth indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report the second indication information, wherein m is a natural number; or,

In one possible implementation, the processing unit is further configured to,

and triggering the reporting process of the second indication information according to at least one second triggering event as follows:

With regard to various alternative embodiments and technical effects of the seventh aspect or the seventh aspect, reference may be made to the above description of the technical effects of the respective embodiments with regard to the third aspect.

In an eighth aspect, a communication apparatus is provided, where the communication apparatus may be a network device or a chip disposed inside the network device. In the apparatus, comprising:

a receiving and transmitting unit, which sends the indication information of the physical uplink channel resource to the terminal equipment;

the receiving and sending unit is further configured to receive second indication information sent by the terminal device on the physical uplink channel resource, where the second indication information is used to indicate an available uplink sending time length;

the available uplink transmission time length is the number of time units which can transmit uplink signals and are determined by the terminal device based on available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, the first time period comprises a plurality of time units, the available uplink transmission energy is energy used for transmitting the uplink signals, and the physical uplink channel resources are Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resources and/or Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources.

In a possible implementation manner, the second indication information is the available uplink sending time length, or an index of the available uplink sending time length, or a ratio of the available uplink sending time length to a preset time length, or an index of a ratio of the available uplink sending time length to the preset time length.

In one possible implementation manner, the available uplink transmission time length is the number of time units in which the uplink signal can be transmitted at the first preset power based on the available uplink transmission energy in the first time period.

the processing unit is configured to, when the second indication information is an index of the available uplink transmission time length, determine the available uplink transmission time length according to the index of the available uplink transmission time length and a third corresponding relationship, where the third corresponding relationship is a corresponding relationship between the available uplink transmission time length and the index of the available uplink transmission time length;

and when the second indication information is an index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time period length, determining the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time period length according to the index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time period length and a fourth corresponding relationship, wherein the fourth corresponding relationship is the corresponding relationship between the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time period length and the index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time period length.

In a possible implementation manner, the processing unit is further configured to determine, according to the second indication information, a target resource in the first time period, where the target resource is used for the terminal device to send the uplink signal; or, according to the second indication information, determining that the resource in the first time period is not used for the terminal equipment to send the uplink signal.

With regard to the eighth aspect or various alternative embodiments and technical effects of the eighth aspect, reference may be made to the above description of the technical effects of the respective embodiments with regard to the fourth aspect.

In a ninth aspect, a communications apparatus is provided that includes a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory and is operable to execute the instructions in the memory to cause the apparatus to perform the method of any of the above aspects or any possible implementation of the aspect. Optionally, the apparatus further comprises a memory. Optionally, the apparatus further comprises an interface circuit, the processor being coupled to the interface circuit.

In a tenth aspect, a processor is provided, comprising: input circuit, output circuit and processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive a signal via the input circuit and transmit a signal via the output circuit, such that the processor performs the method of any one of the above aspects or any possible implementation of the aspect.

In a specific implementation process, the processor may be a chip, the input circuit may be an input pin, the output circuit may be an output pin, and the processing circuit may be a transistor, a gate circuit, a flip-flop, various logic circuits, and the like. The input signal received by the input circuit may be received and input by, for example and without limitation, a receiver, the signal output by the output circuit may be output to and transmitted by a transmitter, for example and without limitation, and the input circuit and the output circuit may be the same circuit that functions as the input circuit and the output circuit, respectively, at different times. The embodiment of the present application does not limit the specific implementation manner of the processor and various circuits.

In an eleventh aspect, a communications apparatus is provided that includes a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to read instructions stored in the memory and may receive signals via the receiver and transmit signals via the transmitter to perform the method of any of the above aspects or any possible implementation of the aspect.

Optionally, the number of the processors is one or more, and the number of the memories is one or more.

Alternatively, the memory may be integral to the processor or provided separately from the processor.

In a specific implementation process, the memory may be a non-transient memory, such as a Read Only Memory (ROM), which may be integrated on the same chip as the processor, or may be separately disposed on different chips.

The processing device in the above eleventh aspect may be a chip, the processor may be implemented by hardware or may be implemented by software, and when implemented by hardware, the processor may be a logic circuit, an integrated circuit, or the like; when implemented in software, the processor may be a general-purpose processor implemented by reading software code stored in a memory, which may be integrated with the processor, located external to the processor, or stand-alone.

In a twelfth aspect, there is provided a computer program product comprising: a computer program (also referred to as code, or instructions), which when executed, causes a computer to perform any of the aspects described above or the methods in any of the possible implementations of the aspects.

In a thirteenth aspect, a computer-readable medium is provided, which stores a computer program (which may also be referred to as code, or instructions) that, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform any of the aspects described above or the methods in any of the possible implementations of that aspect.

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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a network architecture suitable for use in the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of another network architecture suitable for use in embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of another network architecture suitable for use in embodiments of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a terminal device adopting instantaneous high-power transmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6a is a schematic diagram of a MAC CE format according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6b is a schematic diagram of another MAC CE format according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6c is a schematic diagram of another MAC CE format according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a further communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a flowchart illustrating another communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8a is a schematic diagram of a related time window provided by an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a flowchart illustrating another communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic block diagram of a communication device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 is a schematic block diagram of a terminal device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a schematic block diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The techniques provided by the embodiments of the present application may be applied to the communication system 10 shown in fig. 1, where the communication system 10 includes one or more communication apparatuses 30 (e.g., terminal devices) connected to one or more core network devices via one or more access network devices 20 to implement communication between a plurality of communication devices. The communication system may be, for example, a communication system supporting 2g,3g,4g, or 5G (also sometimes referred to as new radio, NR) access technology, a wireless fidelity (WiFi) system, a third generation partnership project (3rd generation partnership project, 3gpp) -related cellular system, a communication system supporting convergence of multiple radio technologies, or a future-oriented evolution system.

In the present application, the terminal device is a device having a wireless transceiving function, and may be a fixed device, a mobile device, a handheld device (e.g., a mobile phone), a wearable device, a vehicle-mounted device, or a wireless apparatus (e.g., a communication module, a modem, or a chip system) built in the above-mentioned device. The terminal device is used for connecting people, objects, machines and the like, and can be widely used in various scenes, such as but not limited to the following scenes: cellular communication, device-to-device communication (D2D), vehicle-to-all (V2X), machine-to-machine/machine-type communication (M2M/MTC), internet of things (IoT), virtual Reality (VR), augmented Reality (AR), industrial control (industrial control), unmanned driving (self driving), remote medical (remote medical), smart grid (smart grid), smart furniture, smart office, smart wear, smart traffic, smart city (smart city), unmanned aerial vehicle, robot, etc. scenarios. The terminal device may be sometimes referred to as a User Equipment (UE), a terminal, an access station, a UE station, a remote station, a wireless communication device, or a user equipment, and for convenience of description, the terminal device is described by taking the UE as an example in this application.

The network device in the present application includes, for example, an access network (RAN) device and/or a Core Network (CN) device. The access network equipment is equipment with a wireless transceiving function and is used for communicating with the terminal equipment. The access network device includes, but is not limited to, a base station (BTS, node B, eNodeB/eNB, or gbnodeb/gNB), a Transmission Reception Point (TRP), a base station for subsequent evolution in 3GPP, an access Node, a wireless relay Node, a wireless backhaul Node, and the like in the above communication system. The base station may be: macro base stations, micro base stations, pico base stations, small stations, relay stations, etc. Multiple base stations may support the same access technology network as mentioned above, or may support different access technologies networks as mentioned above. A base station may include one or more co-sited or non-co-sited transmission receiving points. The network device may also be a wireless controller, a Centralized Unit (CU), and/or a Distributed Unit (DU) in a Cloud Radio Access Network (CRAN) scenario. The network device may also be a server, a wearable device, or a vehicle mounted device, etc. For example, the network device in V2X technology may be a Road Side Unit (RSU). The following description will take the access network device as a base station as an example. The multiple network devices in the communication system may be base stations of the same type or different types. The base station may communicate with the terminal device, and may also communicate with the terminal device through the relay station. A terminal device may communicate with multiple base stations in different access technologies. The core network equipment is used for realizing the functions of mobile management, data processing, session management, policy, charging and the like. The names of devices implementing the core network function in systems with different access technologies may be different, and this application does not limit this. Taking a 5G system as an example, the core network device includes: an access and mobility management function (AMF), a Session Management Function (SMF), or a User Plane Function (UPF), etc.

In the embodiment of the present application, the communication device for implementing the function of the network device may be a network device, or may be a device capable of supporting the network device to implement the function, for example, a system on chip, and the device may be installed in the network device. In the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application, a device for implementing a function of a network device is taken as an example, and the technical solution provided in the embodiment of the present application is described.

In the embodiments of the present application, the number of nouns means "singular nouns or plural nouns" i.e., "one or more" unless otherwise specified. "at least one" means one or more, "a plurality" means two or more. "and/or" describes the association relationship of the associated objects, meaning that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, which may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone, wherein A and B can be singular or plural. The character "/" generally indicates that the former and latter associated objects are in an "or" relationship. For example, A/B, represents: a or B. "at least one of the following" or similar expressions refer to any combination of these items, including any combination of the singular or plural items. For example, at least one (one) of a, b, or c, represents: a, b, c, a and b, a and c, b and c, or a and b and c, wherein a, b and c can be single or multiple.

In the embodiments of the present application, the ordinal numbers such as "first", "second", and the like are used to distinguish a plurality of objects, and are not used to limit the size, content, order, timing, priority, importance, or the like of the plurality of objects. For example, the first field and the second field may be the same field or different fields, and such names do not indicate the difference in size, content, sequence, timing, priority, or importance of the two periods.

Fig. 2 illustrates another communication network architecture in the communication system 10 provided herein. As shown in fig. 2, the communication system includes a Core Network (CN) and a Radio Access Network (RAN). Wherein the network equipment (e.g., base stations) in the RAN includes baseband devices and radio frequency devices. The baseband device may be implemented by one or more nodes, and the radio frequency device may be implemented independently as a remote device, integrated into the baseband device, or partially integrated into the baseband device. Network devices in a RAN may include Centralized Units (CUs) and Distributed Units (DUs), which may be centrally controlled by one CU. The CU and the DU may be divided according to the functions of the protocol layers of the radio network provided therein, for example, the functions of the PDCP layer and the above protocol layers are provided in the CU, and the functions of the protocol layers below the PDCP layer, for example, the functions of the RLC layer and the MAC layer, are provided in the DU. It should be noted that this protocol layer division is only an example, and may be divided at other protocol layers. The radio frequency device may be remote, not placed in the DU, or integrated in the DU, or partially remote and partially integrated in the DU, which is not limited in this application.

Fig. 3 illustrates another communication network architecture in the communication system 10 provided herein. With respect to the architecture shown in fig. 2, the Control Plane (CP) and the User Plane (UP) of a CU may also be separated and implemented as separate entities, respectively a control plane CU entity (CU-CP entity) and a user plane CU entity (CU-UP entity). In the network architecture, the signaling generated by the CU may be sent to the UE through the DU, or the signaling generated by the UE may be sent to the CU through the DU. The DU may pass through the UE or CU directly through protocol layer encapsulation without parsing the signaling. In the network architecture, the CUs may be divided into network devices on the RAN side and the CUs may be divided into network devices on the CN side, which is not limited in the present application.

In order to improve uplink coverage, a possible implementation manner is that a terminal device configured with a high-power amplifier (or called power amplifier) may support sending a signal with a maximum transmission power (for example, 23 dBm) higher than that specified by a standard within a certain time, so that through instantaneous high-power sending, when the terminal device is located at a cell edge or a large data packet exists for transmission, the transmission rate of the terminal device is increased, and further, the user experience is improved. However, long-term use of high-power transmission signals may cause the total power of the terminal equipment to not meet the requirements of regulations or cause radiation to human bodies. Therefore, the average transmit power of the terminal device or the total energy used by the terminal device for signal transmission over a period of time needs to satisfy a condition that does not exceed a certain threshold.

For example, as shown in fig. 4, during a time period with a length T (hereinafter referred to as time period T), the terminal device may transmit an uplink signal with a maximum transmission power higher than the maximum transmission power specified in the standard (hereinafter referred to as instantaneous high power); however, in a time period with a length L (hereinafter referred to as a time window), the average power of the terminal device does not exceed the maximum transmission power of the terminal device specified in the standard, wherein the time period T is within the time window, and the length of the time period T is smaller than or equal to the time window. In other words, in this scenario, the energy used by the terminal device for uplink transmission is constant within the time window, and the terminal device can transmit the uplink signal with instantaneous high power within a certain time period. When the terminal device transmits with the instantaneous high power for a period of time, it may cause that the energy available for uplink transmission by the terminal device is insufficient (or called energy overdraft), and even the energy available for uplink transmission is zero, at this time, if the network device still schedules the terminal device to transmit an uplink signal, it may cause that the transmission of the uplink signal by the terminal device fails due to the insufficient energy of uplink transmission, and affect the uplink coverage and the uplink transmission rate.

Based on this, embodiments of the present application provide a communication method and a communication apparatus, so as to improve uplink coverage and uplink transmission rate.

Referring to fig. 5, an embodiment of a communication method provided by the present application includes:

s501, the terminal device determines available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, wherein the first time period comprises a plurality of time units.

The available uplink transmission energy is used for transmitting an uplink signal, and may also be referred to as available uplink transmission energy, or referred to as energy available for uplink transmission, or referred to as Residual Transmit Energy (RTE), or other names. The available uplink transmission energy in the first time period refers to energy available for transmitting an uplink signal in the first time period.

The uplink signal may be at least one of the following: uplink data, uplink control signaling, or uplink reference signals. Specifically, the uplink data may be uplink service data; the uplink control signaling may be a Scheduling Request (SR), a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), an Acknowledgement (ACK), or a negative acknowledgement (negative acknowledgement); the uplink reference signal may be an uplink demodulation reference signal (DMRS), a channel sounding signal (SRS), a preamble, or the like.

Optionally, the available uplink transmission energy is energy used for uplink signal transmission (or energy available for uplink transmission) in the first time period of the time window; the time window is a time period when the average transmitting power of the terminal equipment does not exceed a certain threshold; or, the time window is a time period during which the terminal device can transmit the uplink signal with a maximum transmission power (hereinafter referred to as instantaneous high power) higher than the maximum transmission power specified in the standard; or, the time window is a time period for the terminal device to evaluate available uplink transmission energy; or the energy used by the terminal device for uplink signal transmission in the time window does not exceed the second threshold.

It will be appreciated that the terminal device may transmit the uplink signal at an instantaneous high power during the time window, but that the average transmit power of the terminal device during the time window does not exceed the maximum transmit power of the terminal device as specified in the standard. Alternatively, it can be understood that the terminal device can transmit the uplink signal with an instantaneous high power within a time window, but the energy of the terminal device for uplink transmission does not exceed the second threshold value within the time window. Optionally, the second threshold may be a product of a maximum transmission power of the terminal device and a length of the time window.

Optionally, the position of the first time period may be represented in various ways, for example, it may be represented by a start time unit of the first time period and an end time unit of the first time period; alternatively, it may be represented by a start time unit of the first period and a time length of the first period. Correspondingly, the terminal device may determine the corresponding time domain resource of the first time period according to the start time unit of the first time period and the end time unit of the first time period; alternatively, the terminal device may determine the position of the first period of time from a start time unit of the first period of time and a time length of the first period of time.

Optionally, the starting time unit of the first time period is a time unit for sending first indication information by the terminal device; or the starting time unit of the first time period is the kth time unit after the time unit of the third indication information from the network equipment is received, the third indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report the first indication information, and k is a natural number; alternatively, the starting time unit of the first time period is determined according to configuration information sent by the network device.

Optionally, the available uplink transmission energy is energy available for uplink transmission from the start time unit to the end of the end time unit; wherein, the termination time unit is a time unit corresponding to the end position of the time window; or, the termination time unit is determined according to configuration information sent by the network device. Optionally, the configuration information includes at least one of: a time length of the first period, information of a start time unit of the first period, or information of an end time of the first period.

Further, the information of the start time unit of the first time period is an index of the start time unit of the first time period.

Further, the information of the ending time unit of the first time period is an index of the ending time unit of the first time period.

Further, the index of the start time unit and the index of the end time unit of the first time period may be indexes corresponding to an offset (or referred to as offset position) with respect to the start position of the time window; alternatively, the two indexes may also be position indexes relative to a certain time reference point, where the position of the time reference point may be a boundary of a certain radio frame (e.g., an upper boundary or a lower boundary of the radio frame) and/or a boundary of a certain radio subframe (e.g., an upper boundary of the radio subframe and a lower boundary of the radio subframe), which is not limited in this application. Furthermore, the location of the time reference point may be protocol preset or network device indicated.

Alternatively, the offset may be in units of time units; the value of the offset may be a natural number, for example, the offset is 0, 1, or 2, and the application is not limited thereto.

Optionally, the configuration information may be carried in a radio resource control RRC message.

Alternatively, the time units may be subframes, slots, symbols, or time units of other granularity.

Optionally, the value of k may be preset by a protocol or an indication of a network device, which is not limited in this application.

Optionally, the method further comprises: the terminal equipment receives third indication information from the network equipment, wherein the third indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report the first indication information; or the third indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to send the first indication information.

Optionally, the third indication information is carried in a radio resource control RRC message, or a PDCCH or a MAC CE.

Alternatively, the location of the time window may be a protocol preset; alternatively, the location of the time window is determined from location information of the time window from the network device.

Further, the time window may be a preset time unit, or a preset plurality of time units that are consecutive in the time domain. It can be understood that the uplink transmission energy of the terminal device does not exceed a certain threshold in a preset time unit or a preset plurality of time units that are consecutive in the time domain. Here, the time unit may be a radio frame, a subframe, a slot, a symbol, or a time unit of other granularity.

For example, the time window may be one radio frame, or the time window may be a plurality of preset radio frames that are consecutive in the time domain; it can be understood that the uplink transmission energy of the terminal device does not exceed a certain threshold in a predetermined radio frame or a predetermined plurality of radio frames consecutive in the time domain. In a possible implementation, the time window may be a radio frame M (or referred to as a radio frame with sequence number M), where M is a positive integer, and a value of M may range from 0 to 1023, for example, M is 10, 100, or 500. In another possible implementation, the time window may be N radio frames starting at radio frame M and consecutive in the time domain, where M and N are positive integers.

Further, there are various ways of representing the position information of the time window, for example, the position information of the time window may be represented by a parameter related to a period, or the position information of the time window may be represented by a parameter related to a timer, as described in the following ways a1 and a2:

mode a1: the position information of the time window is represented by the cycle-dependent parameter information.

In this manner, the time window occurs periodically, and the position information of the time window may include at least one of: a first period, a first starting location, a first offset, or a first duration.

For example, the time window includes a first period T, a first offset, and a first duration. Accordingly, the terminal device may determine the first starting position according to the System Frame Number (SFN) and the first period T, further determine the starting position of the time window according to the first starting position and the first offset, and determine the duration of the time window (or the length of the time window) according to the first duration.

The system frame number at which the first start position is located may satisfy one of the following equations: SFN mod T =0; SFN mod T = offset; (SFN + offset) mod T =0.

Optionally, the first offset takes a natural number.

Further, when the first offset value is 0, the first offset value with a value of 0 may be carried in the position information of the time window; alternatively, the first offset may not be carried in the position information of the time window, in other words, if the first offset is not included in the position information of the time window, the first offset may be set to 0 by default.

Mode a2: the position information of the time window is represented by a timer-related parameter.

In this manner, the position information of the time window includes: and a first timer, wherein the terminal device can determine the time window according to the first timer.

For example, the terminal device starts (restarts) a first timer, and before the first timer expires, the terminal device determines the corresponding time as the time of the time window; and restarting the first timer if the first timer is overtime.

Optionally, the time when the terminal device starts the first timer may be preset by a protocol or indicated by the network device.

Optionally, the position information of the time window may be carried in a radio resource control RRC message, or a PDCCH or a MAC CE.

Optionally, there are various ways for the terminal device to determine the available uplink transmission energy in the first time period, and the following description is made in a way b1:

mode b1: the terminal equipment determines the available uplink transmission energy in the first time period according to the first energy value of the terminal equipment in the time window and the uplink transmission energy which is used by the terminal equipment before the starting time corresponding to the first time period of the time window.

In this way, the terminal device determines the available uplink transmission energy in the first time period according to the first energy value of the terminal device in the time window and the uplink transmission energy already used by the terminal device.

Alternatively, the first energy value may be a maximum value of energy that the terminal device is configured to use for uplink signal transmission.

Alternatively, the first energy value may be preset or determined according to the maximum transmission power of the terminal device and the length of the time window specified in the standard.

Further, the first energy value is equal to a product between a maximum transmission power of the terminal device specified in the standard and a length of the time window.

Further, the maximum transmission power of the terminal device specified in the standard may be 23dBm, 26dBm, or 14dBm. It should be noted that, in this embodiment, if the terminal device determines that the value of the available uplink transmission energy in the first time period is not an integer, the value may be corrected by rounding up or rounding down, which is not limited in this application.

S502, the terminal equipment sends first indication information, and the first indication information is used for indicating the available uplink sending energy.

Accordingly, the network equipment receives the first indication information sent by the terminal equipment.

Optionally, the first indication information is at least one of: the uplink transmission power may be an available uplink transmission energy, an index of the available uplink transmission energy, an average transmission power of the uplink signal transmitted in the first time period, or an index of the average transmission power of the uplink signal transmitted in the first time period.

Optionally, the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period is a ratio of the available uplink transmission energy to the number of all time units included in the first time period, or the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period is an average value of the transmission powers for transmitting the uplink signal in all time units included in the first time period.

It should be noted that, the average value is obtained by assuming that the terminal device transmits signals in each time unit included in the first time period, so that the terminal device calculates the average transmission power for transmitting uplink signals in the first time period according to the transmission power used by each time unit for transmitting uplink signals in the first time period.

It should be noted that, the first time period is known by both the network device and the terminal device, and it can be understood that the network device and the terminal device have the same understanding of the first time period, so that both devices can determine the same available uplink transmission energy according to the first indication information based on the same understanding of the first time period. In one possible design, the first time period may be determined by the terminal device based on configuration information of the network device, or may be determined by the terminal device itself; optionally, the terminal device may send the first time period determined by itself to the network device through a high-level signaling; here, the higher layer signaling may be RRC message, or MAC CE, which is not limited in this application.

For example, if the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period is the ratio of the available uplink transmission energy to the number of all time units included in the first time period, the terminal device determines, through S501, that the available uplink transmission energy value in the first time period is x, and the number of all time units included in the first time period is y, then the terminal device determines that the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period is x/y.

For another example, if the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period is the average value of the transmission powers for transmitting the uplink signals in all time units included in the first time period, and the terminal device determines that the transmission power used for transmitting the uplink signal in each time unit included in the first time period is z1, z2, z3, z4, and z5, respectively, then the terminal device determines that the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period is (z 1+ z2+ z3+ z4+ z 5)/5.

Further, when the first indication information is an index of available uplink transmission energy, the method further includes:

determining an index of uplink transmission energy according to the available uplink transmission energy and a first corresponding relation, wherein the first corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the available uplink transmission energy and the index of the uplink transmission energy; or,

further, when the first indication information is an index of the average transmission power of the uplink signal transmitted in the first time period, the method further includes:

and determining an index of the average transmitting power according to the available uplink transmitting energy and a second corresponding relation, wherein the second corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the average transmitting power for transmitting the uplink signals in the first time period and the index of the average transmitting power for transmitting the uplink signals in the first time period.

Optionally, the first corresponding relationship may be expressed in various ways, for example, by a table.

In one example, the first corresponding relationship is represented by a table, and the table may include a corresponding relationship between an index of the uplink transmission energy and a range of the uplink transmission energy value (or RTE). As shown in table 1, an example of the first corresponding relationship is represented by a table, in which each index corresponds to a range of the uplink transmission energy value.

Table 1: uplink transmission energy index table

Index value	Range (unit) of uplink transmission energy
		0	RTE<-32
1	-32≤RTE＜-30
		2	-30≤RTE＜-28
3	-28≤RTE＜-26
		…	…
60	32≤RTE＜34
		61	34≤RTE＜36
62	36≤RTE＜38
		63	RTE≥38

Alternatively, the unit of the range of the uplink transmission energy in this application may be joule, or kilojoule, or milliwatt × millisecond (mW × ms), or watt × millisecond (W × ms), or kilowatt × millisecond (kW × ms), or watt × second (W × s), which is not limited in this application.

It is understood that the terminal device may determine the index of the available uplink transmission energy, that is, determine the first indication information, according to which range in table 1 the available uplink transmission energy is located in the first time period determined in S501.

For example, if the terminal device determines that the available uplink transmission energy value in the first time period is 35 through S501, it can be known from table 1 that the index value of the uplink transmission energy value corresponding to 35 is 61, that is, the first indication information is 61.

It should be noted that table 1 is only an example, and the table size of the corresponding relationship between the uplink transmission energy index and the uplink transmission energy value, the size of the numerical value (or called numerical range) in the table, and the unit of the numerical value in the table are not limited in the present invention.

In another example, the first corresponding relationship is represented by two tables, specifically, one table may include a corresponding relationship between an index of uplink transmission energy and an uplink transmission energy level, and the other table may include a corresponding relationship between an uplink transmission energy level and a range of an uplink transmission energy value (or RTE). As shown in table 2 and table 3, an example of the first corresponding relationship is represented by two tables, where each index in table 2 corresponds to one uplink transmission energy level, and each uplink transmission energy level in table 3 corresponds to a range of uplink transmission energy values.

Table 2: example of correspondence between index of uplink transmission energy and energy level

Index value	Energy level
			0	RTE_0
1	RTE_1
		2	RTE_2
3	RTE_3
		…
60	RTE_60
		61	RTE_61
62	RTE_62
		63	RTE_63

Table 3: example of correspondence between energy level and energy value range

It can be understood that the terminal device may determine the energy level according to which range in table 3 the available uplink transmission energy in the first time period determined in S501 is located; and determining an index of available uplink transmission energy according to the determined energy level and the table 2, namely determining first indication information.

For example, if the terminal device determines that the available uplink transmission energy value in the first time period is 33 through S501, it can be known from table 3 that the energy level corresponding to 33 is RTE _60, and it can be known from table 2 that the index value of the uplink transmission energy value corresponding to energy level RTE _60 is 60, that is, the first indication information is 60.

It should be noted that, as shown in table 2 and table 3 above are only examples, the table size of the correspondence between the uplink transmission energy index and the uplink transmission energy level, the correspondence between the uplink transmission energy level and the uplink transmission energy value (or called energy range), the value size in each table, and the unit of the value in the table are not limited in the present invention. However, in the same application scenario, the table sizes corresponding to table 2 and table 3 are the same.

Optionally, the second correspondence may be represented in various ways, for example, by a table.

In one example, the second corresponding relationship is represented by a table, and the table may include a corresponding relationship between an index of Average Transmit Power (ATP) and an average transmit power of an uplink signal transmitted in the first time period. As shown in table 4, an example of the second correspondence relationship is represented by a table, in which each index corresponds to an average transmission power.

Table 4: index table of average transmitting power

Index value	Uplink average transmit power (dBm)
		0	ATP<-32
1	-32≤ATP＜-30
		2	-30≤ATP＜-28
3	-28≤ATP＜-26
		…	…
60	32≤ATP＜34
		61	34≤ATP＜36
62	36≤ATP＜38
		63	ATP≥38

It can be understood that the terminal device may determine, according to the available uplink transmission energy in the first time period determined in S501, an average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period according to the available uplink transmission energy; according to the determined average transmission power and table 4, which range the average transmission power is located in table 4 is determined, and an index value of the average transmission power, that is, the first indication information is determined.

For example, if the terminal device determines that the available uplink transmission energy value in the first time period is 96 through S501, and determines that the average transmission power value in the first time period is 32, it can be known from table 4 that the index value of the uplink average transmission power corresponding to 32 is 60, that is, the first indication information is 60.

It should be noted that table 4 is only an example, and the table size of the correspondence between the uplink average transmission power index and the uplink average transmission power and the value (or the value range) in the table are not limited in the present invention.

In another example, the second corresponding relationship is represented by two tables, specifically, one table may include a corresponding relationship between an index of the uplink average transmission power and the uplink average transmission power level, and the other table may include a corresponding relationship between the uplink average transmission power level and a range of the uplink average transmission power (or ATP). As shown in table 5 and table 6, an example of the second correspondence relationship is represented by two tables, where each index in table 5 corresponds to an uplink average transmission power level, and each uplink average transmission power level in table 6 corresponds to a range of uplink average transmission power values.

Table 5: example of correspondence relationship between index of average transmission power value and level of average transmission power value

Index value	Average transmission power level
		0	ATP_0
1	ATP_1
		2	ATP_2
3	ATP_3
		…
60	ATP_60
		61	ATP_61
62	ATP_62
		63	ATP_63

Table 6: example of correspondence relationship between average transmission power value level and average transmission power value range

It can be understood that the terminal device may determine, according to the average transmission power corresponding to the available uplink transmission energy in the first time period determined in S501, an average transmission power level according to which range in table 6 the average transmission power is located; according to the determined average transmission power level and table 5, an index of the average transmission power level, i.e., the first indication information is determined.

For example, if the terminal device determines that the available uplink transmission energy value in the first time period is 96 through S501, and determines that the average transmission power value in the first time period is 32, it can be known from table 6 that the level of the uplink average transmission power corresponding to 32 is ATP _60, and the index value of the uplink average transmission power corresponding to ATP _60is 60 according to table 5, that is, the first indication information is 60.

It should be noted that, as shown in table 5 and table 6 above are only examples, the table size of the correspondence between the index of the uplink average transmission power and the uplink average transmission power level, the correspondence between the uplink average transmission power level and the uplink average transmission power value (or called energy range), the value size in each table, and the value unit in each table, which is not limited in the present invention. However, in the same application scenario, the table sizes corresponding to table 5 and table 6 are the same.

Optionally, at least one of the first corresponding relationship and the second corresponding relationship is preset by a protocol or configured by a network device. Further, the network device may configure the above correspondence relationship through an RRC message or a broadcast message.

Optionally, the first indication information is carried in a MAC CE, or the first indication information is uplink control information UCI.

Further, UCI is carried on a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH or a physical uplink control channel PUCCH.

Further, when the UCI is carried on the PUSCH, the UCI is modulated and encoded in the same manner as the PUSCH. Resource Elements (REs) corresponding to the UCI and used for carrying the UCI may be determined based on a code rate compensation factor corresponding to the UCI, where the code rate compensation factor is indicated by DCI or configured for a higher layer parameter (e.g., RRC signaling or a parameter in RRC signaling). Optionally, the UCI may be carried on a data symbol after a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) of the PUSCH; or, the UCI may be carried after a data symbol of the PUSCH for carrying hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information; alternatively, the UCI may be carried after a data symbol used by the PUSCH to carry part or all of Channel State Information (CSI) information.

Further, the UCI may adopt a new UCI format, where the UCI format may refer to a type of information carried in the UCI and/or a size of information carried by the UCI. That is, the information carried by the UCI is information indicating available uplink transmission energy, and/or the size of the UCI is a first numerical value. The first value may be 6, 7 or 8, i.e., the size of the information carried by the UCI is 6, 7 or 8 bits.

Further, the first indication information is carried in a MAC CE, the MAC CE includes a first field and a second field, where:

case 1: the first field is reserved bits, the second field indicates the first indication information, and the first field and the second field can be carried in the same byte; or,

case 2: when the first field is a first state value, the information indicated by the second field is first indication information, and when the first field is a second state value, the information of the second field is a power headroom level; or,

case 3: the first field is a power headroom level, and the second field is the first indication information.

Further, the MAC CE further includes at least one of: a fifth field, a sixth field, or a seventh field; wherein the fifth field is used for indicating whether a Maximum Permissible Exposure (MPE) value is reported in the MAC CE, the sixth field is used for indicating an MPE value, and the seventh field is used for indicating P for calculating the power headroom level _Cmax . It should be noted that, in case 1, the MAC CE may not include a field for indicating whether MPE is reported in the MAC CE, a field for indicating an MPE value, and P for indicating calculation of the power headroom level _Cmax A field.

Further, the length of the first indication information is 6 bits, or 7 bits, or 8 bits, or other bits, which is not limited in the present invention.

Further, the MAC subheader corresponding to the MAC CE includes a Logical Channel Identifier (LCID), where the LCID is a preset value, and the preset value indicates that the MAC CE is used to report the first indication information.

Further, the LCID value may reuse the LCID of the existing power headroom report MAC CE, in other words, the LCID value may be the same as the LCID corresponding to the power headroom report MAC CE. For example, the LCID value may be 54, or 56 or 57.

Further, the LCID value may be different from the LCID of the power headroom report MAC CE. For example, the LCID value may be any one of 35-44.

For example, as shown in fig. 6a, the MAC CE includes information in which every 8 bits is 1 byte.

Reserving a bit: namely, reserved bit length 2 bits;

the first indication information: the length is 6 bits.

In this example, the LCID corresponding to the MAC CE may be any value of 35-44.

For another example, as shown in fig. 6b, the MAC CE includes information in which every 8 bits is 1 byte.

A fifth field: the MPE value is used for indicating whether to report the MPE value in the MAC CE, and the length is 1 bit; specifically, if the third field is set to "1", the MPE value is reported in the MAC CE, otherwise, if the fifth field is set to "0", the MPE value is reported in the MAC CE, and the position of the MPE value is a reserved bit;

a first field: when the first field is a first state value, the information indicated by the second field is the first indication information, when the first field is a second state value, the information of the second field is a power headroom level, and the length of the first field is 1 bit; it is understood that, when the first state value is 1, the second state value is 0; or when the first state value is 0, the second state value is 1;

a second field: indicating first indication information or a power margin value, wherein the length of the first indication information or the power margin value is 6 bits;

maximum allowed exposure value MPE or reserved bits: the length is 2 bits;

a seventh field: indicating P for calculating the power headroom level _Cmax This field is 6 bits long.

For another example, as shown in fig. 6c, the MAC CE includes the following information:

a fifth field: the MPE value is used for indicating whether to report the MPE value in the MAC CE, and the length is 1 bit; specifically, if the fifth field is set to "1", the MPE value is reported in the MAC CE, otherwise, if the fifth field is set to "0", the MPE value is reported in the MAC CE, and the position of the MPE value is a reserved bit;

a first field: is set to be 0;

power margin value: an index value indicating a power headroom, the length being 6 bits;

maximum allowed exposure value MPE or reserved bits: the length is 2 bits;

Reserving a bit: the length is 2 bits;

the first indication information: the length is 6 bits.

Optionally, the method further comprises: the terminal equipment receives the indication information of the physical uplink channel resource from the network equipment.

The terminal equipment sends first indication information to the network equipment, and the first indication information comprises the following steps: the terminal device may send the first indication information on a physical uplink channel resource, where the physical uplink channel resource is a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resource and/or a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource.

Alternatively, the physical uplink channel resource may be configured through an RRC message or scheduled through DCI.

Optionally, the physical uplink channel resource may be a dynamic grant (or a configured grant), or may be a configured grant; the configured grant includes a configured grant type1 (configurable grant type 1) and the configured grant includes a configured grant type2 (configurable grant type 2), wherein:

for the configured authorization type1, the network device configures to the terminal device through the RRC message, and when the terminal device has an uplink signal to be sent, the type of resource can be used, so that the time delay caused by dynamically requesting the network device to send a dynamic authorization is saved;

for the configured authorization type2, the network device configures to the terminal device through the RRC message, and dynamically activates or deactivates the configured authorization type2 resource through the DCI, in other words, the network device sends the configured authorization type2 resource to the terminal device through the RRC message in advance, and dynamically controls the use of the resource through the DCI. It can be understood that when the terminal device has an uplink signal to transmit, if there is an activated configured grant type2 resource, the type resource can be used; on the contrary, if the network device configures the grant type2 resource to the terminal device through the RRC message, but does not activate the resource through the DCI, the terminal device cannot transmit the uplink signal using the resource.

Alternatively, the physical uplink channel resource may be a Supplemental Uplink (SUL) resource.

Optionally, the network device may determine, according to the first indication information from the terminal device, a target frequency domain resource within a first time period, where a resource group corresponding to the target frequency domain resource is used for the terminal device to send the uplink signal; or; and determining target time domain resources in the first time period according to the first indication information, wherein the resource group corresponding to the target time domain resources is not used for the terminal equipment to send uplink signals. It should be understood that how the network device processes the first indication information and what action to take according to the first indication information depends on the network device implementation, and the application is not limited thereto.

Therefore, the terminal equipment sends the available uplink sending energy in the first time period to the network equipment, so that the problem that the network equipment schedules the terminal equipment with insufficient available uplink sending energy is avoided, and on one hand, the uplink resource waste caused by unnecessary terminal equipment scheduling by the network equipment can be reduced; on the other hand, the situation that the transmission of the uplink signal fails due to insufficient energy of the terminal equipment can be reduced, and the uplink coverage and the uplink rate of the terminal equipment are improved.

Based on the above, fig. 7 exemplarily shows an embodiment of another communication method provided in the embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 7, the method is added with S701 to S704 on the basis of fig. 5:

s701, as an optional step, the network device sends fourth indication information to the terminal device, and accordingly, the terminal device receives the fourth indication information sent by the network device.

The fourth indication information is used to instruct the network device to support the terminal device to transmit the uplink signal with a maximum transmission power (hereinafter referred to as instantaneous high power) higher than the maximum transmission power specified in the standard, or instruct the network device to allow the terminal device to transmit the uplink signal with the instantaneous high power.

Optionally, the network device sends the fourth indication information to the terminal device through a broadcast message.

S702, as an optional step, the terminal device sends capability information to the network device, and accordingly, the network device receives the capability information sent by the terminal device.

The capability information is used to indicate that the terminal device supports transmitting the uplink signal with a maximum transmission power (hereinafter referred to as instantaneous high power) higher than that specified in the standard, or indicate that the terminal device has a capability of transmitting the uplink signal with instantaneous high power, or indicate that the terminal device transmits the uplink signal with instantaneous high power.

Optionally, the capability information includes an upper limit of the instantaneous high power, or a maximum value of the instantaneous high power.

Optionally, the specific implementation of the capability information is various. As a possible implementation manner, the capability information may include one or more bits (bits), and may be indicated by different values of the bits. Taking the case that the capability information occupies 1 bit as an example, if the value of the bit is "1", the terminal device may be instructed to support the transmission of the uplink signal with the maximum transmission power (hereinafter referred to as instantaneous high power) higher than the maximum transmission power specified in the standard, or the terminal device may be instructed to have the capability of transmitting the uplink signal with the instantaneous high power; if the bit takes a value of "0", it may indicate that the terminal device does not support transmitting uplink signals with a maximum transmission power higher than that specified in the standard (hereinafter referred to as instantaneous high power), or that the terminal device does not have the capability of transmitting uplink signals with instantaneous high power.

As another possible implementation, the capability information may include 1 or more fields, and then the capability information is indicated by the presence or absence of the 1 or more fields. Taking the case that the capability information occupies 1 field, if the terminal device sends the capability information, it indicates that the terminal device supports sending uplink signals with a maximum transmission power (hereinafter referred to as instantaneous high power) higher than the maximum transmission power specified in the standard, or indicates that the terminal device has the capability of sending uplink signals with instantaneous high power; if the terminal device does not transmit the capability information, it indicates that the terminal device does not support transmitting the uplink signal with a maximum transmission power (hereinafter referred to as instantaneous high power) higher than that specified in the standard, or indicates that the terminal device does not have the capability of transmitting the uplink signal with instantaneous high power.

Optionally, the capability information may be carried in a radio resource control, RRC, message.

S703, as an optional step, the network device sends configuration information to the terminal device, and accordingly, the terminal device receives the configuration information sent by the network device.

The configuration information includes position information of the first time period and/or position information of the time window, it is understood that the position information of the first time period is used for determining the position of the first time period, and the position information of the time window is used for determining the position of the time window, where:

the location information of the first time period includes: information of a start time unit of the first time period and/or information of an end time unit of the first time period;

the position information of the time window includes at least one of: a first period, a first starting position, a first offset, or a first duration; alternatively, the position information of the time window includes: a first timer;

it should be noted that, for the description of the position information of the time window in S703, reference may be made to the description of S501, and details are not described herein again.

Optionally, the configuration information is carried in an RRC message or a broadcast message. Further, the configuration information may be carried in an RRC reconfiguration (RRCReconfiguration) message.

It should be noted that S703 may be performed after S701, or S703 and S701 may also be performed simultaneously, and the sequence of S703 and S701 is not limited in this embodiment.

S704, as an optional step, the terminal device determines to trigger the first procedure.

In this embodiment, in a possible implementation manner, the process in which the terminal device may send the first indication information to the network device may be referred to as a first process, or may be referred to as an available uplink transmission energy reporting process, or a remaining energy reporting process, or may be referred to as a reporting process of the first indication information, or may also be referred to by another name.

For the sake of convenience of subsequent citation, the term "first trigger event" is temporarily referred to in this application, and the term does not have other limiting meanings.

The terminal device determines that the first procedure is triggered, and may initiate the first procedure. When an uplink signal sending condition is met, for example, when available uplink physical channel resources exist, sending first indication information to network equipment; it will be appreciated that the triggering event needs to be satisfied before the first indication is sent to the network device.

Optionally, the first process is triggered according to at least one first trigger event as follows:

For example, if the third threshold is-28, the available uplink transmission energy of the terminal device in the first time period is-30, and since-30 is less than-28, the above condition is satisfied, and therefore, the terminal device determines to trigger the first procedure, and may send the first indication information to the network device.

Optionally, at least one of the timer for triggering reporting of the first indication information, the first report prohibition timer, the third threshold, or the fourth threshold may be that the network device sends the configuration information to the terminal device.

It should be noted that, for the description of the configuration information of S704, reference may be made to the description of S703, which is not described herein again.

S705, the terminal device determines available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, where the first time period includes multiple time units.

It should be noted that, for the description of S705, reference may be made to the description of S501, and details are not described herein.

S706, the terminal device sends first indication information, and the first indication information is used for indicating available uplink sending energy.

It should be noted that, for the description of S706, reference may be made to the description of S502, which is not described herein again.

Therefore, the network device can send the fourth indication information and/or the configuration information to the terminal device to inform the terminal device of support for sending the uplink signal with instantaneous high power, and accordingly, the terminal device can send the first indication information according to the fourth indication information and/or the configuration information.

Referring to fig. 8, an embodiment of a communication method provided by the present application includes:

s801, the terminal equipment determines the available uplink transmission time length.

It can be understood that the terminal device may send the uplink signal within the time corresponding to the available uplink sending time length, it should be understood that there may be only a corresponding relationship between the times corresponding to the available uplink sending time lengths, that is, the terminal device may only send the uplink signal within the time period whose length is the available uplink time length, and the available uplink sending time length may also be referred to as an available uplink transmission time length, or referred to as a time length available for uplink sending, or referred to as a Remaining Transmission Time (RTT) length, or other names.

The uplink signal may be at least one of the following: uplink data, uplink control signaling, or uplink reference signals. Specifically, the uplink data may be uplink service data; the uplink control signaling may be a Scheduling Request (SR), a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), an Acknowledgement (ACK), or a negative acknowledgement (negative acknowledgement); the uplink reference signal may be an uplink demodulation reference signal (DMRS), a channel sounding signal (SRS), or a preamble.

Optionally, the available uplink transmission time length is a time length used for uplink signal transmission (or a time length available for uplink transmission) in the first time period of the time window.

Optionally, the available uplink transmission time length is the number of time units capable of transmitting the uplink signal, which is determined by the terminal device based on the available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, where the first time period includes multiple time units, and the available uplink transmission energy is energy used for uplink signal transmission.

Optionally, the available uplink transmission time length is the number of time units capable of transmitting the uplink signal with a first preset power in a first time period, where the first time period includes multiple time units; optionally, the first preset power is a maximum transmission power of the terminal device.

It should be noted that, the description of the available uplink transmission energy and the time window may be referred to in S501, and the application is not limited thereto.

S802, the terminal equipment sends second indication information, and the second indication information is used for indicating the length of the available uplink sending time.

Accordingly, the network device receives the second indication information sent by the terminal device.

Optionally, the second indication information is at least one of the following: the uplink transmission time length may be used, or an index of the uplink transmission time length may be used, or a ratio of the uplink transmission time length to a preset time period may be used, or an index of a ratio of the uplink transmission time length to a preset time period may be used.

Optionally, the preset time period is a time window; or, the preset time period is a first time period in the time window.

Optionally, the available uplink transmission time length is the number of time units in which the terminal device can transmit the uplink signal with the first preset power based on the available uplink energy in the first time period.

It should be noted that, here, the description of the available uplink energy in the first time period may refer to the related description in S501, and the application does not limit this.

Optionally, the position of the first time period may be represented in various ways, for example, it may be represented by a start time unit of the first time period and an end time unit of the first time period; alternatively, it may be represented by a start time unit of the first period and a time length of the first period. Accordingly, the terminal device may determine the location of the first time period according to the start time unit and the end time unit of the first time period; alternatively, the terminal device may determine the position of the first period of time from a start time unit of the first period of time and a time length of the first period of time.

Optionally, the starting time unit of the first time period is a time unit for the terminal device to send the second indication information; or the starting time unit of the first time period is the mth time unit after the time unit of the fifth indication information from the network equipment is received, the fifth indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report the second indication information, and m is a natural number; alternatively, the starting time unit of the first time period is determined according to configuration information sent by the network device.

Optionally, the available uplink transmission time length is a time length that can be used for uplink transmission from the start time unit to the end of the end time unit; the ending time unit is a time unit corresponding to the ending position of the time window; alternatively, the expiration time unit is determined based on configuration information sent by the network device.

Optionally, the configuration information includes at least one of: the time length of the first period, information of a start time unit of the first period, or information of an end time of the first period.

Optionally, the offset may be a unit of time unit, and a value of the offset may be a natural number, for example, the offset is 0, or 1, or 2, and the like, which is not limited in this application.

Optionally, the value of m may be a protocol preset or a network device indication, which is not limited in this application.

Optionally, the method further comprises: the terminal equipment receives fifth indication information from the network equipment, wherein the fifth indication information is used for indicating the terminal equipment to report second indication information;

optionally, the fifth indication information is carried in a radio resource control RRC message, or a PDCCH or a MAC CE.

It should be noted that there are various ways to represent the position information of the time window, and for example, reference may be made to the description of the time window in S501, which is not described herein again.

Optionally, there are various ways for the terminal device to determine the available uplink transmission time length, which is described as follows in a way c1:

mode c1: the terminal device determines the number of time units in a first time period in which the available uplink transmission time length is a time window, wherein the terminal device can use a first preset power value to transmit an uplink signal based on the available uplink transmission energy.

In this way, the terminal device determines, according to the available uplink transmission energy in the first time period and the first preset power value, the number of time units in the first time period of the time window, where the terminal device can transmit the uplink signal using the first preset power value.

Alternatively, the determination of the available uplink transmission energy may be performed in the same manner as the determination of the available uplink transmission energy in step S501.

Further, the length of the available uplink transmission time is equal to a ratio between the available uplink transmission energy in the first time period and the first preset power value.

Alternatively, the first preset power value may be a maximum transmission power of the terminal device specified in the standard.

Alternatively, the maximum transmission power of the terminal device specified in the standard may be 23dBm, 26dBm, or 14dBm.

Alternatively, the time units may be subframes, slots, symbols, or time units of other granularity. For example, as shown in fig. 8a, the terminal device has 10 time units in total in the time window, which are numbered from 0 to 9, and the terminal device determines that the time during which the available uplink transmission energy can support signal transmission at the first preset power in the first time period is 3 time units, and thus determines that the available uplink transmission time length is 3 time units.

It should be noted that, if the ratio between the available uplink transmission energy and the first preset power value in the first time period is not a time unit of an integral multiple, the value may be corrected by rounding up or rounding down, which is not limited in this application. For example, if the terminal device determines that the ratio between the available uplink transmission energy and the first preset power value in the first time period is 3.7 time units, if rounding up is adopted, the available uplink transmission time length is 4 time units; if rounding-down is adopted, the available uplink transmission time length is 3 time units.

Optionally, when the second indication information is an index of an available uplink transmission time length, the method further includes:

determining an index of the available uplink transmission time length according to the available uplink transmission time length and a third corresponding relation, wherein the third corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the available uplink transmission time length and the index of the available uplink transmission time length;

when the second indication information is an index of a ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length, the method further includes:

and determining an index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length according to the available uplink transmission time length and a fourth corresponding relationship, wherein the fourth corresponding relationship is the corresponding relationship between the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length and the index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length.

Optionally, there are multiple ways to represent the third correspondence, in an example, the third correspondence is represented by a table, where the table may include an index of the number of time units and a correspondence between the number of time units, in the first time period of the time window, when the terminal device transmits the uplink signal by using the first preset power value, as shown in table 7, each index in the table corresponds to the number of time units.

Table 7: time unit number index table

Index value	Number of time units
		0	0
1	1
		2	2
3	3
		…
60	60
		61	61
62	62
		63	63

It can be understood that the terminal device determines an index of the number of time units, that is, determines the second indication information according to which range in table 7 the number of time units of the uplink signal transmitted by the terminal device using the first preset power value in the first time period of the time window determined in S701 is located.

For example, if the terminal device determines that the number of time units for transmitting the uplink signal using the first preset power value in the first time period of the time window is 3 through S701, it can be known from table 7 that the index value corresponding to 3 is 3, that is, the second indication information is 3.

It should be noted that table 7 is only an example, and the table size of the correspondence between the index of the time unit number and the time unit number, and the size of the value (or the range of the value) in the table are not limited in the present invention.

Optionally, there are multiple ways to represent the fourth correspondence, in an example, the fourth correspondence is represented by a table, where the table may include a correspondence between a ratio between the number of time units used by the terminal device to transmit the uplink signal using the first preset power value in the first time period of the time window and the number of all time units included in the preset time period, and an index value, as shown in table 8, each index in the table corresponds to a ratio, quantization is performed at intervals of 2% in the table, quantization may be performed by using table 8 as an index table including 50 ratios of the number of time units and 14 reserved entries, and accordingly, the length of the second indication information is 6 bits.

Table 8: time unit quantity ratio index table

Index value	Ratio of number of time units
		0	0
1	0.02
		2	0.04
3	0.06
		…	…
29	0.3
		…	…
48	0.98
		49	1
50-63	Reservation

It can be understood that, according to the ratio between the number of time units, in the first time period of the time window determined in S701, of the uplink signal sent by the terminal device using the first preset power value and the number of all time units included in the preset time period, the terminal device determines the corresponding index value according to which range the ratio is located in table 8.

For example, if the terminal device determines that the ratio between the number of time units, in which the terminal device sends the uplink signal by using the first preset power value, in the first time period of the time window and the number of all time units included in the preset time period is 0.3, it can be known from table 8 that the index value corresponding to 0.3 is 29, that is, the second indication information is 29.

For another example, if the terminal device determines that the ratio between the number of time units, in which the terminal device sends the uplink signal using the first preset power value, in the first time period of the time window and the number of all time units included in the preset time period is 0.05, as can be seen from table 8, the index value corresponding to 0.05 is 3, that is, the second indication information is 3.

It should be noted that, as the above table 8 is only an example, the table size of the time unit quantity ratio index table, and the value size in the table (for example, how many intervals the values are quantized) are not limited in this regard.

Optionally, at least one of the third corresponding relationship and the fourth corresponding relationship is preset by a protocol or configured by a network device. Further, the network device may configure the above correspondence relationship through an RRC message or a broadcast message.

Optionally, the second indication information is carried in a MAC CE, or the second indication information is uplink control information UCI. Further, the UCI is carried on a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH or a physical uplink control channel PUCCH.

Further, when the UCI is carried on the PUSCH, the UCI has the same modulation and coding scheme as the PUSCH. Resource Elements (REs) corresponding to the UCI and used for carrying the UCI may be determined based on a code rate compensation factor corresponding to the UCI, where the code rate compensation factor is indicated by DCI or configured for a higher layer parameter (e.g., RRC signaling or a parameter in RRC signaling). Optionally, the UCI may be carried on a data symbol after a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) of the PUSCH; or, the UCI may be carried after a data symbol of the PUSCH for carrying hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information; alternatively, the UCI may be carried after a data symbol used by the PUSCH to carry part or all of Channel State Information (CSI) information.

Further, the UCI may adopt a new UCI format, where the UCI may refer to a type of information carried in the UCI and/or a size of information carried by the UCI. That is, the information carried by the UCI is information for indicating available uplink transmission energy, and/or the size of the UCI is a first value, and the first value may be 6, 7, or 8, that is, the UCI includes 6, 7, or 8 bits.

Further, when the second indication information is carried in the MAC CE, the MAC CE includes a third field and a fourth field, where:

a third field is reserved bits, and a fourth field indicates the second indication information; or,

when the third field is the first state value, the fourth field indicates the second indication information; when the third field is a second state value, the fourth field indicates the power headroom level; or,

a third field indicates a power headroom level and a fourth field indicates the second indication information.

The format of the MAC CE is designed as the MAC CE format in S502, and it should be noted that if the MAC CE format is used to carry the second indication information, the "first indication information" in the MAC CE format in S502 is replaced by the "second indication information", that is, the MAC CE format carrying the second indication information can be obtained, and other descriptions may refer to S502, which is not described herein again.

The terminal equipment sends second indication information to the network equipment, and the second indication information comprises the following steps: the terminal device may send the second indication information on a physical uplink channel resource, where the physical uplink channel resource is a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH resource and/or a physical uplink control channel PUCCH resource.

Optionally, the physical uplink channel resource may be configured through an RRC message or scheduled through DCI;

for the configured authorization type1, the network device configures to the terminal device through the RRC message, and when the terminal device has an uplink signal to be sent, the network device may use the type of resource without dynamically requesting the network device to send a dynamic authorization, thereby saving the time delay for scheduling the physical uplink resource;

for the configured authorization type2, the network device configures to the terminal device through the RRC message, and dynamically activates or deactivates the configured authorization type2 resource through the DCI, in other words, the network device sends the configured authorization type2 resource to the terminal device through the RRC message in advance, and dynamically controls the use of the resource through the DCI. It can be understood that when the terminal device has an uplink signal to transmit, if there is an activated configured grant type2 resource, the type resource can be used.

Optionally, the network device determines a target resource in the first time period according to the second indication information from the terminal device, where the target resource is used for the terminal device to send an uplink signal; or determining that the resources in the first time period are not used for the terminal equipment to send the uplink signal according to the second indication information.

Therefore, the terminal equipment sends the available uplink sending time length in the first time period to the network equipment, so that the situation that the network equipment schedules the terminal equipment with insufficient available uplink sending energy is avoided, and on one hand, the uplink resource waste caused by unnecessary terminal equipment scheduling by the network equipment can be reduced; on the other hand, the situation that the transmission of the uplink signal fails due to insufficient energy of the terminal equipment can be reduced, and the uplink coverage and the uplink rate of the terminal equipment are improved.

Based on the above, fig. 9 exemplarily shows an embodiment of another communication method provided in the embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 9, the method is added with S901 to S904 on the basis of fig. 8:

s901, as an optional step, sending, by the network device, fourth indication information to the terminal device, and correspondingly, receiving, by the terminal device, the fourth indication information sent by the network device.

The fourth indication information is used for indicating the network device to support the terminal device to transmit the uplink signal with the maximum transmission power (hereinafter referred to as instantaneous high power) higher than the maximum transmission power specified in the standard, or indicating the network device to allow the terminal device to transmit the uplink signal with the instantaneous high power.

S902, as an optional step, the terminal device sends capability information to the network device, and accordingly, the network device receives the capability information sent by the terminal device.

The capability information is used to indicate that the terminal device supports transmitting uplink signals with a maximum transmission power (hereinafter referred to as instantaneous high power) higher than that specified in the standard, or indicate that the terminal device has a capability of transmitting uplink signals with instantaneous high power, or indicate that the terminal device transmits uplink signals with instantaneous high power.

It should be noted that, for the description of the capability information in S902, reference may be made to the description in S702, and details are not described herein.

S903, the network device sends the configuration information to the terminal device, and correspondingly, the terminal device receives the configuration information sent by the network device.

The configuration information comprises position information of the first time period and/or position information of the time window, it is understood that the position information of the first time period is used for determining the position of the first time period, and the position information of the time window is used for determining the position of the time window, wherein:

it should be noted that, for the description about the position information of the time window in S903, reference may be made to the description of S501, and details are not repeated here.

Optionally, the configuration information is carried in an RRC message. Further, the configuration information is carried in an RRC reconfiguration (RRCReconfiguration) message.

It should be noted that S903 may be after S901, or S903 and S901 may also be executed simultaneously, and the sequence of S903 and S901 is not limited in this embodiment.

S904, the terminal device determines to trigger the second procedure.

In this embodiment, in a possible implementation manner, the process in which the terminal device may send the second indication information to the network device may be referred to as a second process, or referred to as an available uplink sending time length reporting process, or a remaining time reporting process, or referred to as a second indication information reporting process, or may also be referred to by another name, and for convenience of subsequent citation, this application is referred to as the second process.

For the sake of convenience of subsequent citation, the term "second trigger event" is temporarily referred to in this application, and the term does not have other limiting meanings.

The terminal device determines that the second procedure is triggered, and may initiate the second procedure. When the uplink signal sending condition is met, for example, when available uplink physical channel resources exist, sending second indication information to the network equipment; it will be appreciated that the triggering event needs to be satisfied before the second indication information is sent to the network device.

Optionally, the second process is triggered according to at least one second trigger event as follows:

the configured second report prohibition timer is overtime and is used for prohibiting the report of the second indication information during the timing period of the second report prohibition timer;

For example, if the fifth threshold is 4, the terminal device determines that the available uplink transmission time length is 3 time lengths, and since 3 is smaller than the fifth threshold and meets the above condition, the terminal device determines to trigger the second process and may send the fourth indication information to the network device.

Optionally, at least one of the timer for triggering reporting of the second indication information, the second report prohibition timer, the fifth threshold, or the sixth threshold may be sent to the terminal device by the network device through the configuration information.

It should be noted that, for the description about the configuration information of S904, reference may be made to description about S903, and details are not repeated herein.

S905, the terminal device determines the available uplink transmission time length.

It should be noted that, for the description of S905, reference may be made to the description of S801, and details are not described herein.

S906, the terminal equipment sends second indication information, and the second indication information is used for indicating the length of the available uplink sending time.

It should be noted that, for the description of S906, reference may be made to the description of S802, which is not described herein again.

Therefore, the network device can send the fourth indication information and/or the configuration information to the terminal device to inform the terminal device of support for sending the uplink signal by adopting the instantaneous high power, and correspondingly, the terminal device can send the second indication information according to the fourth indication information and/or the configuration information.

It should be noted that (1) the embodiments corresponding to fig. 5, fig. 7, fig. 8, and fig. 9 may be implemented individually or may be combined with each other; or, different aspects related to different embodiments may be implemented in combination (for example, all or part of the aspects related in fig. 7 may be combined with the embodiment corresponding to fig. 8), and are not limited in particular.

(2) The step numbers of the flowcharts (such as fig. 5, 7, 8, and 9) described in this embodiment are only one example of an execution flow, and do not limit the execution sequence of the steps, and there is no strict execution sequence between the steps that have no time sequence dependency relationship with each other in this embodiment.

Fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application. The communications device 1000 includes one or more processors 1001. The processor 1001 may also be referred to as a processing unit and may implement certain control functions. The processor 1001 may be a general-purpose processor or a special-purpose processor, etc. For example, it includes: a baseband processor, a central processing unit, an application processor, a modem processor, a graphics processor, an image signal processor, a digital signal processor, a video codec processor, a controller, a memory, and/or a neural network processor, among others. The baseband processor may be used to process communication protocols as well as communication data. The central processor may be used to control the communication device 1000, execute software programs, and/or process data. The different processors may be separate devices or may be integrated in one or more processors, e.g., on one or more application specific integrated circuits.

Optionally, one or more memories 1002 are included in the communications device 1000 to store instructions 1004 that can be executed on the processor to cause the communications device 1000 to perform the methods described in the method embodiments above. Optionally, the memory 1002 may further store data. The processor and the memory may be provided separately or integrated together.

Optionally, the communication device 1000 may include instructions 1003 (which may also be referred to as code or program), and the instructions 1003 may be executed on the processor, so that the communication device 1000 performs the method described in the above embodiments. Data may be stored in the processor 1001.

Optionally, the communication device 1000 may also include a transceiver 1005 and an antenna 1006. The transceiver 1005 may be referred to as a transceiver unit, a transceiver, a transceiving circuit, a transceiver, an input/output interface, etc. for implementing transceiving functions of the communication device 1000 through the antenna 1006.

Optionally, the communication device 1000 may further include one or more of the following components: the wireless communication module, the audio module, the external memory interface, the internal memory, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, the power management module, the antenna, the speaker, the microphone, the input/output module, the sensor module, the motor, the camera, or the display screen. It is understood that in some embodiments, the UE 1000 may include more or fewer components, or some components integrated, or some components disassembled. These components may be hardware, software, or a combination of software and hardware implementations.

The processor 1001 and the transceiver 1005 described herein may be implemented on an Integrated Circuit (IC), an analog IC, a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFID), a mixed signal IC, an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), an electronic device, or the like. The communication apparatus implementing the present description may be a standalone device (e.g., a standalone integrated circuit, a mobile phone, etc.), or may be a part of a larger device (e.g., a module that can be embedded in other devices), and may refer to the foregoing description about the terminal device and the network device, which is not described herein again.

Fig. 11 shows a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present application.

As shown in fig. 11, the terminal device 1100 includes a processor, a memory, a control circuit, an antenna, and an input-output means. The processor is mainly used to process a communication protocol and communication data, control the entire terminal device 1100, execute a software program, and process data of the software program. The memory is primarily used for storing software programs and data. The control circuit is mainly used for converting baseband signals and radio frequency signals and processing the radio frequency signals. The antenna is mainly used for receiving and transmitting radio frequency signals in the form of electromagnetic waves. Input and output devices, such as touch screens, display screens, microphones, keyboards, etc., are mainly used for receiving data input by users and outputting data to users.

Taking the terminal device 1100 as a mobile phone as an example, when the terminal device 1100 is powered on, the processor may read the software program in the storage unit, interpret and execute the instructions of the software program, and process the data of the software program. When data needs to be sent wirelessly, the processor performs baseband processing on the data to be sent and outputs baseband signals to the control circuit, and the control circuit performs radio frequency processing on the baseband signals and sends the radio frequency signals to the outside in the form of electromagnetic waves through the antenna. When data is transmitted to the terminal device 1100, the control circuit receives a radio frequency signal through the antenna, converts the radio frequency signal into a baseband signal, and outputs the baseband signal to the processor, and the processor converts the baseband signal into data and processes the data.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that fig. 11 shows only one memory and processor for ease of illustration. In some embodiments, terminal device 1100 can include multiple processors and memories. The memory may also be referred to as a storage medium or a storage device, and the like, which is not limited in this respect in the embodiment of the present invention.

As an alternative implementation manner, the processor may include a baseband processor and a central processing unit, the baseband processor is mainly used for processing the communication protocol and the communication data, and the central processing unit is mainly used for controlling the whole terminal device 1100, executing the software program, and processing the data of the software program. The processor in fig. 11 integrates the functions of the baseband processor and the central processing unit, and those skilled in the art will understand that the baseband processor and the central processing unit may also be independent processors, and are interconnected through a bus or the like. Terminal device 1100 can include multiple baseband processors to accommodate different network formats, terminal device 1100 can include multiple central processors to enhance its processing capabilities, and various components of terminal device 1100 can be connected by various buses. The baseband processor can also be expressed as a baseband processing circuit or a baseband processing chip. The central processing unit can also be expressed as a central processing circuit or a central processing chip. The function of processing the communication protocol and the communication data may be built in the processor, or may be stored in the storage unit in the form of a software program, and the software program is executed by the processor to realize the baseband processing function.

In one example, the antenna and the control circuit having the transceiving function can be regarded as the transceiving unit 1110 of the terminal device 1100, and the processor having the processing function can be regarded as the processing unit 1120 of the terminal device 1100. As shown in fig. 11, the terminal device 1100 includes a transceiving unit 1110 and a processing unit 1120. A transceiver unit may also be referred to as a transceiver, a transceiving device, etc. Optionally, a device in the transceiver 1110 for implementing a receiving function may be regarded as a receiving unit, and a device in the transceiver 1110 for implementing a transmitting function may be regarded as a transmitting unit, that is, the transceiver 1110 includes a receiving unit and a transmitting unit. For example, the receiving unit may also be referred to as a receiver, a receiving circuit, etc., and the sending unit may be referred to as a transmitter, a transmitting circuit, etc.

Fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 12, the network device 20 may function as a first network device for one or some UEs, or may function as a second network device for one or some UEs. The network device includes: baseband device 201, radio frequency device 202, antenna 203. In the uplink direction, rf apparatus 202 receives information transmitted by the terminal device through antenna 203, and transmits the information transmitted by the terminal device to baseband apparatus 201 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 201 processes the information of the terminal device and sends the information to the radio frequency device 202, and the radio frequency device 202 processes the information of the terminal device and sends the information to the terminal device through the antenna 201.

The baseband device 201 includes one or more processing units 2011, a storage unit 2012, and an interface 2013. Wherein the processing unit 2011 is configured to support the network device to perform the functions of the network device in the above method embodiments. The storage unit 2012 stores software programs and/or data. Interface 2013 is used for exchanging information with RF device 202 and includes interface circuitry for the input and output of information. In one implementation, the processing unit is an integrated circuit, such as one or more ASICs, or one or more DSPs, or one or more FPGAs, or a combination of these types of integrated circuits. These integrated circuits may be integrated together to form a chip. The memory unit 2012 and the processing unit 2011 may be located in the same chip, i.e., on-chip memory devices. Alternatively, the memory unit 2012 and the processing unit 2011 can be on a different chip than the processing unit 2011, i.e., an off-chip memory device. The storage unit 2012 may be a single memory or a combination of multiple memories or storage elements.

A network device may implement some or all of the steps in the above-described method embodiments in the form of one or more processing unit schedulers. For example, to implement the corresponding functions of the network devices of fig. 5-9. The one or more processing units may support wireless access technologies of the same system, and may also support wireless access systems of different systems.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative elements and steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present application. Furthermore, it should be understood that the methods and steps described in the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented by one or more functional units (or functional modules), which may be located in the same device or different devices.

In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described device embodiments are merely illustrative, for example, the division of the units is only one logical functional division, the units illustrated as separate components may or may not be physically separate, and the components displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present application or portions thereof that substantially contribute to the prior art may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the methods described in the embodiments of the present application. The computer readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer. Taking this as an example but not limiting: a computer-readable medium may include a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable PROM (EEPROM), a compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), a universal serial bus flash disk (universal serial bus flash disk), a removable hard disk, or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage media, or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer. In addition, by way of illustration and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), synchlink DRAM (SLDRAM), or direct rambus RAM (DR RAM).

Claims

1. A communication method, wherein the method is applied to a terminal device, and comprises:

determining available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, wherein the first time period comprises a plurality of time units;

and sending first indication information to network equipment, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating the available uplink transmission energy.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the available uplink transmission energy is energy used for uplink signal transmission in a first time period of a time window; wherein,

the time window is a time period in which the terminal equipment can use the uplink signal with the transmission power higher than the preset maximum transmission power; and/or the energy used by the terminal equipment for uplink signal transmission in the time window does not exceed a second threshold value.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first indication information is an index of the available uplink transmission energy or an index of an average transmission power of uplink signals transmitted in the first time period;

and the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period is the ratio of the available uplink transmission energy to the number of all time units included in the first time period.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein when the first indication information is an index of the available uplink transmission energy, the method further comprises:

determining an index of the available uplink transmission energy according to the available uplink transmission energy and a first corresponding relationship, wherein the first corresponding relationship is a corresponding relationship between the available uplink transmission energy and the index of the available uplink transmission energy;

when the first indication information is an index of the average transmission power of the uplink signal sent in the first time period, the method further includes:

and determining an index of the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period according to the available uplink transmission energy and a second corresponding relation, wherein the second corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period and the index of the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period.

5. The method according to any of claims 1-4, wherein the first indication information is carried in a media access control element, MAC CE; or, the first indication information is uplink control information UCI.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the MAC CE comprises a first field and a second field, and wherein:

when the first field is a first state value, the second field indicates the first indication information, and when the first field is a second state value, the second field indicates a power headroom level; or,

the first field indicates a power headroom level, and the second field indicates the first indication information.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the UCI is carried on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) or a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).

8. A communication method, wherein the method is applied to a network device, and comprises:

sending indication information of physical uplink channel resources to terminal equipment;

receiving first indication information from the terminal equipment on the physical uplink channel resource, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating that the terminal equipment can use uplink transmission energy in a first time period;

wherein the first time period comprises a plurality of time units; and the physical uplink channel resource is a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resource and/or a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the available uplink transmission energy is energy used for uplink signal transmission in a first time period of a time window; wherein,

the time window is a time period within which the terminal equipment can use the uplink signal with the transmission power higher than the preset maximum transmission power; and/or the energy used by the terminal equipment for uplink signal transmission in the time window does not exceed a second threshold value.

10. The method according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the first indication information is an index of the available uplink transmission energy or an index of an average transmission power of uplink signals transmitted in the first time period;

11. The method of claim 10, wherein when the first indication information is an index of the available uplink transmission energy, the method further comprises:

determining the available uplink transmission energy according to the index of the available uplink transmission energy and a first corresponding relation, wherein the first corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the available uplink transmission energy and the index of the available uplink transmission energy;

and determining the available uplink transmission energy according to the index of the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period and a second corresponding relation, wherein the second corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period and the index of the average transmission power for transmitting the uplink signal in the first time period.

12. The method according to any of claims 8-11, wherein the first indication information is carried in a medium access control element, MAC CE; or, the first indication information is uplink control information UCI.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the MAC CE comprises a first field and a second field, and wherein:

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the UCI is carried on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) or a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).

15. The method according to any one of claims 8-14, further comprising:

determining a target resource in the first time period according to the first indication information, wherein the target resource is used for the terminal equipment to send an uplink signal; or, according to the first indication information, determining that the resource in the first time period is not used for the terminal device to send the uplink signal.

16. A communication method, wherein the method is applied to a terminal device, and comprises:

determining the length of available uplink transmission time;

sending second indication information to network equipment, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating the length of the available uplink sending time;

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the available uplink transmission energy is energy used for uplink signal transmission in a first time period of a time window, and wherein:

18. The method according to claim 16 or 17, wherein the second indication information is the available uplink transmission time length, or an index of the available uplink transmission time length, or a ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to a preset time period length, or an index of a ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to a preset time period length.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the preset time period is a time window; or, the preset time period is a first time period in a time window.

20. The method according to any one of claims 16 to 19,

the available uplink transmission time length is the number of time units capable of transmitting uplink signals with a first preset power based on the available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, wherein the first preset power is the maximum transmission power of the terminal device.

21. The method according to any of claims 18-20, wherein when the second indication information is an index of the available uplink transmission time length, the method further comprises:

when the second indication information is an index of a ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to a preset time length, the method further includes:

and determining an index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length according to the available uplink transmission time length and a fourth corresponding relation, wherein the fourth corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length and the index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length.

22. The method according to any of claims 16-21, wherein the second indication information is carried in a medium access control element; or, the second indication information is uplink control information UCI.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the MAC CE comprises a third field and a fourth field, and wherein:

the third field is reserved bits, and the fourth field indicates the second indication information; or,

when the third field is a first state value, the fourth field indicates the second indication information; when the third field is a second state value, the fourth field indicates a power headroom level; or,

the third field indicates a power headroom level, and the fourth field indicates the second indication information.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the UCI is carried on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) or a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).

25. A communication method, wherein the method is applied to a network device, and comprises:

receiving second indication information sent by the terminal equipment on the physical uplink channel resource, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating the length of the available uplink sending time;

the available uplink transmission time length is the number of time units which can transmit uplink signals and are determined by the terminal device based on available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, the first time period comprises a plurality of time units, the available uplink transmission energy is energy used for uplink signal transmission, and the physical uplink channel resources are Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resources and/or Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the available uplink transmission energy is energy used for uplink signal transmission in a first time period of a time window, wherein,

27. The method according to claim 25 or 26, wherein the second indication information is the available uplink transmission time length, or an index of the available uplink transmission time length, or a ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to a preset time period length, or an index of a ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to a preset time period length.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the predetermined period of time is a time window; or, the preset time period is a first time period in a time window.

29. The method of any one of claims 25-28,

the available uplink transmission time length is the number of time units capable of transmitting uplink signals with a first preset power based on available uplink transmission energy in a first time period, wherein the first preset power is the maximum transmission power of the terminal device.

30. The method according to any of claims 27-29, wherein when the second indication information is an index of an available uplink transmission time length, the method further comprises:

determining the available uplink transmission time length according to the index of the available uplink transmission time length and a third corresponding relation, wherein the third corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between the available uplink transmission time length and the index of the available uplink transmission time length;

and determining the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length according to the index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length and a fourth corresponding relationship, wherein the fourth corresponding relationship is the corresponding relationship between the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length and the index of the ratio of the available uplink transmission time length to the preset time length.

31. The method according to any of claims 25-30, wherein said second indication information is carried in a medium access control element; or, the second indication information is uplink control information UCI.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the MAC CE comprises a third field and a fourth field, wherein,

when the third field is a first state value, the fourth field indicates the second indication information; when the first field is a second state value, the fourth field indicates a power headroom level; or,

33. The method of claim 31, wherein the UCI is carried on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) or a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).

34. The method according to any one of claims 25-33, further comprising:

determining a target resource in the first time period according to the second indication information, wherein the target resource is used for the terminal equipment to send an uplink signal; or, according to the second indication information, determining that the resource in the first time period is not used for the terminal device to send the uplink signal.

35. A communications apparatus comprising at least one processor and memory having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any of claims 1-7 or 16-24.

36. A communications apparatus comprising at least one processor and memory having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any of claims 8-15 or 25-34.

37. A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1-7 or 16-24.

38. A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 8-15 or 25-34.

39. A computer program product, which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1-7 or 16-24.

40. A computer program product, which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 8-15 or 25-34.