System information processing method and apparatus, and communications system

• US 10,064,134 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2016
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhu, Song, Guo, Xiaolong
• Primary Examiner(s): Lin, Kenny S
• Application Number:
  US15/197,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20160316431A1
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/10 using broadcasted information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0216 using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/00 Synchronisation arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/001 Synchronization between nodes
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system information processing method. The method in the present invention includes: receiving a first synchronization signal; and identifying whether configuration information of the first synchronization signal is configured as an indication for a system information change; and if it is identified that the configuration information of the first synchronization signal is configured as the indication for a system information change, receiving broadcast system information; and updating a mapping relationship between a current synchronization signal and the system information according to the first synchronization signal and the received broadcast system information. The embodiments of the present invention may effectively reduce power consumption of UE and implement that the UE may quickly learn that the system information changes in a case of low power consumption.

Claims

1. A system information processing method comprising:

receiving a first synchronization signal; and

identifying whether configuration information of the first synchronization signal is configured as an indication for a system information change; and

if it is identified that the configuration information of the first synchronization signal is configured as the indication for a system information change, receiving broadcast system information, and updating a mapping relationship between a current synchronization signal and the system information according to the first synchronization signal and the received broadcast system information.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identifying whether configuration information of the first synchronization signal is configured as an indication for a system information change;

and if it is identified that the configuration information of the first synchronization signal is configured as the indication for a system information change, receiving broadcast system information, and updating a mapping relationship between a current synchronization signal and the system information according to the first synchronization signal and the received broadcast system information comprises;

comparing the configuration information of the first synchronization signal with configuration information of the synchronization signal in the mapping relationship between the current synchronization signal and the system information; and

if the configuration information of the first synchronization signal is different from the configuration information of the synchronization signal in the mapping relationship between the current synchronization signal and the system information, receiving broadcasted first system information and storing a mapping relationship between the first synchronization signal and the first system information in the mapping relationship between the synchronization signal and the system information.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the method comprises:

if the first system information comprises a second synchronization signal, and configuration information of the second synchronization signal is configured as an indication that preset broadcast information starts, acquiring the preset broadcast information, and saving the preset broadcast information.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the receiving a first synchronization signal, the method further comprises:

receiving and saving a third synchronization signal; and

receiving broadcast third system information, and establishing the mapping relationship between the current synchronization signal and the system information according to the third synchronization signal and the third system information.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the third synchronization signal comprises N groups of configuration information, the third system information comprises N parts of system information, and a i^th group of configuration information corresponds to a i^th part of system information and is used to indicate whether the i^th part of system information changes, wherein both i and N are positive integers, and i is less than or equal to N.

6. A system information processing method comprising:

performing change processing on configuration information of a broadcast synchronization signal when system information changes; and

broadcasting a first system information and a first synchronization signal generated after the change processing to UE for identifying, after receiving the first synchronization signal, whether configuration information of the first synchronization signal is configured as an indication for the system information change; and

if it is identified that the configuration information of the first synchronization signal is configured as the indication for the system information change, receiving the broadcast changed system information, and updating a mapping relationship between a current synchronization signal and the system information according to the first synchronization signal and the broadcast changed system information.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the first system information comprises a second synchronization signal, and configuration information of the second synchronization signal is configured as an indication that preset broadcast information starts, so that after receiving the broadcast first system information, the UE acquires the preset broadcast information, and saves the preset broadcast information.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

broadcasting a third synchronization signal; and

broadcasting third system information, so that after receiving the third synchronization signal and the third system information, the UE establishes the mapping relationship between the current synchronization signal and the system information.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

dividing configuration information of a synchronization signal in the mapping relationship between the current synchronization signal and the system information into N groups, and dividing system information corresponding to the synchronization signal into N groups, so that a i^th group of configuration information corresponds to a i^th part of system information and is used to indicate whether the i^th part of system information changes;

wherein the performing change processing on configuration information of a broadcast synchronization signal when system information changes comprises;

performing change processing on the i^th group of configuration information of the broadcast synchronization signal when the i^th part of system information of the system information changes, wherein both i and N are positive integers, and i is less than or equal to N.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the third system information comprises:

a synchronization signal parameter, so that the UE receives, according to the synchronization signal parameter, the first synchronization signal matched with the synchronization signal parameter.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the configuration information of the first synchronization signal, the configuration information of the second synchronization signal, and/or configuration information of the third synchronization signal comprise:

different synchronize sequences, different shifts of a synchronize sequence, a preset time-frequency position of a synchronize sequence, the different synchronize sequences and the preset time-frequency position of the synchronize sequence, or the different shifts of the synchronize sequence and the preset time-frequency position of the synchronize sequence.

12. A system information processing apparatus, comprising:

a receiver, configured to receive a first synchronization signal;

a processor, configured to identity whether configuration information of the first synchronization signal is configured as an indication for a system information change;

the receiver is further configured to receive a broadcasted system information if the processor identifies that the configuration information of the first synchronization signal is configured as the indication for a system information change; and

the processor, configured to update a mapping relationship between a current synchronization signal and the system information according to the first synchronization signal and the received broadcasted system information.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the processor is specifically configured to compare the configuration information of the first synchronization signal with configuration information of a synchronization signal in the mapping relationship between the current synchronization signal and the system information;

the receiver is specifically configured to receive broadcasted first system information, when the configuration information of the first synchronization signal is different from the configuration information of the synchronization signal in the mapping relationship between the current synchronization signal and the system information; and

the processor is specifically configured to store a mapping relationship between the first synchronization signal and the first system information in the mapping relationship between the synchronization signal and the system information.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the receiver is further configured to acquire a preset broadcast information, if the first system information comprises a second synchronization signal, and configuration information of the second synchronization signal is configured as an indication that preset broadcast information starts;

and the processor, configured to save the preset broadcast information.

15. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the receiver is further configured to receive a third synchronization signal;

the processor, configured to save the third synchronization signal;

the receiver is further configured to receive broadcast third system information; and

the processor is further configured to establish the mapping relationship between the current synchronization signal and the system information according to the third synchronization signal and the third system information.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the processor is specifically configured to identify whether the configuration information of the first synchronization signal is configured as an indication for a system information change, when the third synchronization signal comprises N groups of configuration information, the third system information comprises N parts of system information, and a i^th group of configuration information corresponds to a i^th part of system information and is used to indicate whether the i^th part of system information changes;

and the receiver is specifically configured to receive an i^th part of the broadcasted system information, if it is identified that the i^th group of configuration information of the first synchronization signal is configured as an indication for a change of the i^th part of system information; and

the processor is specifically configured to update the first synchronization signal and the first system information in the mapping relationship between the current synchronization signal and the system information according to the i^th group of configuration information and the i^th part of system information; and

wherein both i and N are positive integers, and i is less than or equal to N.

17. A system information processing apparatus, comprising:

a processor, configured to perform change processing on configuration information of a broadcast synchronization signal when system information changes; and

a transmitter, configured to broadcast a first system information and a first synchronization signal generated after the change processing, for UE identifying, after receiving the first synchronization signal, whether configuration information of the first synchronization signal is configured as an indication for the first system information change.

18. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the transmitter is further configured to broadcast the first system information for UE acquiring a preset broadcast information, and saving the preset broadcast information, wherein the first system information comprises a second synchronization signal, and configuration information of the second synchronization signal is configured as an indication that preset broadcast information starts.

19. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the transmitter is further configured to broadcast a third synchronization signal;

and broadcast third system information for UE establishing a mapping relationship between a current synchronization signal and the system information, after receiving the third synchronization signal and the third system information.